nuclear weapons, foreign policy, antiquity, cocktails
Words: Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NK News, US Institute of Peace, New Republic, elsewhere
seniores tollunt omnia
John Carl Baker
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Would expand this to media coverage generally. If people were just manipulated by bad reporting and commentary (as some have claimed about 2024), we wouldn’t have today’s upsurge in opposition - because it’s not like the coverage has improved.
Peter Thiel thinks AI regulation is the antichrist - meanwhile there’s a soon-to-be trillionaire who’s intervening in global politics by inciting racist pogroms
Pay no attention to the ascendant nobility behind the curtain!
I'm misaligned and I'm free
This is a great version - gin and orgeat is such an underrated combo. I used Ford's for the gin. punchdrink.com/recipes/cane...
"The evidence is growing that the nuclear weapon states are sidelining, and even walking away from, their disarmament commitments and are instead flexing their nuclear muscles...states are creating new risks and fueling arms-race dynamics." breakingdefense.com/2026/06/macr...
Kim Yo Jong: "The DPRK's status as a nuclear weapons state is the line of no retreat, and it is a stark reality whether anyone recognizes it or not." en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...
Related: South Korean President Lee understands that while disarming the DPRK is off the table for the foreseeable future, there are plenty of ways to slow or freeze their progress through diplomacy. en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...
I love this whole section of the film because, as always, it shows such great kindness to Arthur, a provincial who's way late to the party even back home. He arrives just in time for the Death of Glitter concert pretty much, but the Flaming Creatures accept him and make him feel like one of them.
