RFE/RL - The Ukrainian military has begun recruiting 18- to 24-year-olds on a voluntary basis as the armed forces face a dire shortage of manpower to hold off the invading Russian troops. https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-recruitment-military-manpower-shortage/33334948.html
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Linda McMahon has been confirmed as Trump's secretary of education https://www.npr.org/2025/03/03/nx-s1-5307078/trump-cabinet-linda-mcmahon-confirmed-education?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Tomasz Oryński boosted
In every single interview I’ve done since Friday, I have been asked some version of: “But couldn’t this perhaps somehow *not* be what it looks like if we stipulate that Trump and Vance are not who they have repeatedly proven they are?”
I really wish we could stop doing this.
Jack Yan (甄爵恩) boosted
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (gasps for breath) ha ha ha!
"Elon Musk shared a post on his social network stating that [Mexican billionaire Carlos] Slim could have ties to criminal groups, and five minutes later, ... Slim canceled all business collaborations with Starlink in Latin America, which made Musk lose 7 billion US dollars.
"An hour later, Slim announced that he would transfer his projects for the next 5 years with Starlink, an investment of 22 billion dollars, to companies in China and Europe.
"More than money, Musk lost his main partner in 25 countries...."
https://mexicodailypost.com/2025/02/24/carlos-slim-orders-to-cancel-his-collaboration-with-elon-musks-starlink/
At this rate, it seems Canada will be a EU member before the 51st US state. (Is '51st US state' the same as '48th Russian oblast' these days? Asking for a friend.)
Dow drops nearly 650 as worries build about the economy following Trump’s latest tariff announcement https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-3-3-2025?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#00000195-5de1-d9ec-a795-ddf52b410000
King Charles III welcomes Canada’s Trudeau for talks overshadowed by Trump’s annexation comments https://apnews.com/article/king-charles-trudeau-canada-trump-a475587880917f210c8aa40d252e790d?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Head of FBI New York office says he's retired from the bureau after being ordered to do so
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-new-york-trump-patel-dennehy-9841ba3a5a17735fea4f8bcb6dc5eb52
The sound you're about to hear is the economy seizing up, grinding people and companies into the ground as Trump-mandated uncertainty about...well, everything becomes the central reality.
We'll be lucky if it's only a bad recession.
Javier Pérez Belmonte boosted
Hoy un compañero de trabajo le ha puesto una transparencia en LaTeX a ChatGPT para ver si arreglaba una historia de numeración. El código sugerido eran el resto de texto de la presentación, que sólo había subido anteriormente a Overleaf de forma privada. Esto se suma a las evidencias de que ChatGPT se alimenta de repositorios privados de github.
Ahora mismo cualquier cosa en la nube de cualquier tipo es susceptible de haberse vendido a una IA generativa.
Para que lo tengáis en cuenta.