What’s more stressful than organising your PhD defence? Organising your partner’s PhD defence.

This looks awesome 🤩

Oh wow, apparently I was nearly under first half a million!

Or Springer!

THEN PERISH

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OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.

This is violent, Haley.

Sometimes, the world is just too much to take in

A new report from Olesya Gerasimenko describes how Russia’s military abducts conscientious objectors called up for mobilization (or ordered back into combat) and is now sending them into the trenches with hands literally bound to join assault brigades. At gunpoint. verstka.media/mobilizovannih-s…

Yaaaas!!

There isn't much that Ukraine could do to stop or prevent that. Under the same reasoning, Russia, with its much stronger long-range capabilities, would have destroyed Ukraine's critical railway junctures long ago. But this just does not make much sense because of how easily this can be restored.