I don’t think Egypt as being in the western camp so much as walking a tightrope.

This sale helped Chinese soft power as much as its defense industry

The current ftc doing something constructive?

Most likely situation is that this will not happen now, or years from now

It’s really weird reading about such an evil place before it is functional, almost like there is an opportunity to stop it but everyone is scared to try

My theory is that Reddit is being run incompetently, without good strategy. The problem is it’s too big to fail so whatever it does seems mysterious only

CNN was never good, has argued for war before. But since it changed owners it’s worse

Nothing is stopping the AI summaries from using social media as the primary source

It’s about at this point where I stop being snarky and stare in fascination

Ok kids, what did we learn here? Use obfuscation in your kill switches, and place it by leaving vulnerabilities that are “accidental”.

Secondary lesson: don’t web surf on corporate laptops

Word press code, and plugins, do not sanitize out of the box. You have to call an additional function, each time, that is not provided automatically. Many home made plugins miss that; many popular plugins used to be home made ones

He will be back for the next bug

The irony

Sounds like the nyt cherry picked some influencers to reinforce an opinion that may not be widely shared: that a viable strategy is to give up and do useless politics.

The article vaguely criticizes other movements without giving alternatives.