The Flydubai injured pilot has given his incredible account of the nearly fatal terrorist attack by his Omani copilot: -Initially the copilot asked to pray 5 minutes before the attack began the Pilot thought this was unusual but thought nothing of it, 5 minutes later he was struck viciously in the back of the head. -The pilot vision blurred and was unable to defend himself momentarily, a brutal fight then ensued between him and the co pilot who was using a cabin axe to stab him repeatedly, at one point he managed to open the door and scream for help but the copilot managed to shut and lock the door. -The pilot severely injured now at this point lying on the floor then noticed the plane dramatically dip in altitude with the copilot pointing its nose down, and people outside the cabin door banging and screaming. -In a last ditch effort the pilot manages to fight his way past the copilot and unlock the cabin door once again, allowing the crew and passengers outside to burst in and subdue to copilot as well as stabilise the plane.

OMG - this is impossible

Russian doctrine is to attack infra, medical, water, sewage, schools. Now they have better missiles and drones, they are implementing this. Russians are ruthless. They completely destroyed Grozny (1990s) and Aleppo, Syria (2010s), and won.

Econ Journal Watch has dropped the PDF of Gregory Clark’s new book on how genetics mostly determines social status: econjwatch.org/file_download…

A recurring theme in coverage of illegal immigration is that both left-wing media outlets (like the NYT below) and European/US government officials will readily characterize these incursions as weaponized migration with malign intent—but only if it suits their political agenda

Pakistan airstrikes on Afghanistan. I love the irony. Pakistan was a safe haven for Islamist terrorists to attack Afghanistan. Now, Afghanistan is a safe haven for jihadist terrorists to attack Pakistan. Jihadism keeps winning!

Superb talk. Concise. Race: The Social and Genetic | Razib Khan | Heterodox 2026 piped.video/watch?v=aMQgBOrB…

ok gang definitely Russian joke time after Stalin's death, a Jew was overheard making a political joke in a bread line a KGB agent overheard him and snarled "we used to shoot people for that" the Jew says to his wife "see, now they've even run of bullets"

This is crazy important; read.

The situation is becoming quite critical in France Student protests in France are heating up into larger "urban violence" per govt (which just set up a crisis cell): 1000+ taken in by police across 350+ schools Wednesday and Tuesday, 500 reported this morning alone -30 universities blocked -several schools/buses in flames -public transportation suspended in Marseille/Strasbourg -several incidents with makeshift mortar fire, a headmaster doused with petrol, several more injured -air in Reims is "unbreathable" because of tear gas Intel source says far-left orgs behind it, including La France Insoumise "and its proxies". No immediate end in sight The burning school below cost around 70 million to build. Last urban riots in 2023 had cost an estimate 1bn euros in repaires

Beginning of the formal process to put me in jail I've been advised that I need a criminal lawyer

🧵We have run a version of the AI experiment before, with the printing press. In the 1540s, 3 of 4 English title pages spelled it "churche." By the 1590s, 9 of 10 wrote "church." In this thread: using 788,295 European titles: where print standardized fast, where it never did, and what that predicts for AI.

you can't conclude that from those two graphs. the first one has a distribution, and from there you can fairly say the difference is very large, d= 1.5 or 2. the second graph only has point estimates, and I'd be surprised if the difference was much bigger than d=.6