Wednesday, June 21, 2023

21: Ukraine



Trump Seems to Be Afraid, Very Afraid That was the big revelation of his interview with Fox’s Bret Baier. .

China hits out at US after Joe Biden calls Xi Jinping a ‘dictator’
Ukraine war: Zelensky admits slow progress but says offensive is not a movie Mr Zelensky said the military push was not going easily because 200,000 sq km (77,220 sq miles) of Ukrainian territory had been mined by Russian forces...... Ukraine's economy shrank by 29.2% in 2022 and earlier this year the World Bank estimated the cost of reconstruction and recovery at $411bn (£339bn). ....... he made clear that "victories on the battlefield are necessary" and that Ukraine would never sit down, whoever was president in Moscow, if Russia remained on Ukraine's territory........ "No matter how far we advance in our counter-offensive, we will not agree to a frozen conflict because that is war, that is a prospectless development for Ukraine." ...... Russia announced a few days ago that it had moved tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus and

President Joe Biden has warned that the threat of Vladimir Putin using them is real.

.......... "He will talk about the use of nuclear weapons, I don't think he is ready to do it because he is scared for his life, he loves it a lot. But there is no way I could say for sure, especially about a person with no ties to reality, who in the 21st Century, launched a full-scale war against their neighbour." ........ "It's like he doesn't fully understand his words. Apologies, but it's like he is the second king of antisemitism after Hitler. ........... "This is a president speaking. A civilised world cannot speak that way. But it was important for me to hear the reaction of the world and I am grateful for the support."

US-China tensions: Biden calls Xi a dictator a day after Beijing talks China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning called Mr Biden's remarks "extremely absurd and irresponsible". Speaking at a regularly scheduled press conference on Wednesday, she said that the comments were "an open political provocation" that violated diplomatic etiquette. ........ Mr Xi said some progress had been made in Beijing, while Mr Blinken indicated both sides were open to more talks. Major differences, however, remain between the two countries. Relations have plummeted in the wake of a Trump-era trade war, Beijing's assertive claims over Taiwan and the shooting down of the alleged spy balloon.

Could Russia really play nuclear roulette in Ukraine? "I worry about Putin using tactical nuclear weapons," the US president said this week. He believes the danger is "real". ......... In order to "break the West's will", Russia "will have to make nuclear deterrence a convincing argument again by lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons". ........... "The enemy must know that we are ready to deliver a pre-emptive strike in retaliation for all of its current and past acts of aggression in order to prevent a slide into global thermonuclear war. ........... "But what if they do not back down? In this case, we will have to hit a bunch of targets in a number of countries in order to bring those who have lost their mind to reason." ....... President Putin has confirmed that Russia has already stationed a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a move the Russian leader says is designed to remind anyone "thinking of inflicting a strategic defeat on us". .......... arguing the pluses of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the West? That's a whole new level. ........... Penned by another group of Moscow-based foreign and defence policy experts, the Kommersant article explains why they believe Sergei Karaganov has got it wrong. Dangerously wrong. ......... Mr Karaganov's proposal for a pre-emptive nuclear strike was so shocking that other Russian academics felt they just couldn't stay silent............ Or it may be that this whole debate is designed to grab the West's attention, to make President Putin look like good cop to Mr Karaganov's bad cop. After all, the Kremlin leader himself hasn't called for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the West. And so - the argument goes - better sit down and make peace with him, before hardliner Karaganovites win the day and press the nuclear button.

8 ChatGPT Prompts To Finish Hours Of Work In Seconds



Russia Sends Out Dire Ukraine Warning as Preparations Made to Evacuate—Kyiv .Ukraine's armed forces have said Russian occupiers in a city in the southern Kherson region are telling locals where to evacuate in the event of a breakthrough by Kyiv.

AMERICA IS DANGEROUSLY LONELY. The film follows the perfectly named Theodore Twombley (played by Joaquin Phoenix), a sad-sack introvert with a submerged streak of narcissism, as he falls in love with an A.I. named Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), who begins as his personal assistant, becomes his friend and muse, turns into his lover and companion and then — well, I don’t want to ruin it. .......

These systems are going to upend our relationships long before they remake our economies.

The magic of large language models is that they can talk about anything, in the style of anyone, for as long as you might want to converse with them. The problem is that they make things up. ........ You can already procure an A.I. companion, complete with a sexy avatar, from Replika. Inflection AI just released Pi, a chatbot designed for emotional support and connection. This isn’t coming; it’s here......... this technology will come in a particular context: America is lonely. ......... “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.” From 1990 to 2021, the number of Americans who said they have five or more close friends fell by 25 percentage points. Young adults report being even lonelier than the elderly. America is, by any historical standard, unimaginably rich and powerful, and yet we’ve lost what matters most: community and connection. ........... We worry about 12-year-olds today because they don’t see enough of their friends in person. ............ “Her” ends abruptly, in a reverse deus ex machina. The A.I.s leave us behind to form a community with one another. .



China hits back after Biden calls Xi a 'dictator' Biden also said Tuesday China "has real economic difficulties". ........ Biden as president has previously referred to China as "essentially" a dictatorship and "a place for the autocrat, the dictator," while saying no other world leader wants to be Xi. But Tuesday's remarks were some of his most direct on how he sees the Chinese leader. ......... China's previous explanation that the passage of the balloon through U.S. airspace had been unintended and caused by circumstances beyond its control. ........... "And the Chinese will not want to blow this out of proportion, ruining the prospect of a process leading to Xi’s bilateral summit with Biden in November." ...... Xi told Biden during a November 2022 meeting that China has "Chinese-style democracy" ......... Biden said later on Tuesday that U.S. climate envoy John Kerry may go to China soon. ........... Other world leaders seemed reluctant to get involved. Asked repeatedly about the situation, the spokesperson of German chancellor Olaf Scholz said only: "The Federal Government has taken note of the American President's statement." .

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