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Brilliant Ukranian Drone Attack Destroys Over 30% of Russian Strategic Bombers

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The Russian military depends heavily on old and unreplaceable hardware, which makes this intelligence operation particularly stunning.

“After processing additional information from various sources and verifying it … we report that the total (Russian) losses amounted to 41 military aircraft, including strategic bombers and other types of combat aircraft,” it added in a later update. There was no immediate public response from Moscow to the SBU statement.

The SBU said the damage caused by the operation amounted to $7 billion, and 34% of the strategic cruise missile carriers at Russia’s main airfields were hit.

Portraying this as unprecedented ignores the broader pattern of the entire war. Ukraine has been successfully using cheap, innovative solutions against expensive conventional systems since 2022.

This operation is best understood as a culmination from evolutionary scaling of existing products and procedures rather than any revolutionary new development.

The new “Long lines” of Wingate’s 1940 Chindits

Asymmetric tactics were foundational to defense of Ukraine from early on, with successful relatively inexpensive drones, anti-tank missiles, and other systems against much more expensive Russian conventional might.

What has evolved here is actually quite logical, and predictable.

  • Scale and coordination: Drone attacks have been a concept since the late 1800s. However, the act of simultaneously hitting four airfields across thousands of miles, including Siberia and above the Arctic Circle, represents an execution leap in operational coordination and reach.
  • Autonomous capabilities: AI-trained drones to recognize and target specific vulnerable points on aircraft without human control represents an expected culmination. If Chinese and German drones have been 98% accurate in zapping tiny agricultural pests for years already, a huge bomber on an airfield is a crispy duck.
  • Strategic impact: Destroying a third of Russia’s Tu-95 bomber fleet, which is presumed accurate, marks a substantial blow to Russia’s strategic large bombing capability. These aircraft represented an irreplaceable threat. China is now Russia’s only hope for hardware.
  • Cost-ratio: There has been a constantly deflating asymmetric warfare bill throughout the conflict. Fleets of armor and aircraft costing billions to invade Ukraine were eliminated by millions in agile defense systems. Now a reported set of $1,200 drones delivered $7 billion in potential damage, the most extreme example yet of Russia’s “power” proved to be a flimsy paper bear.

Those who know, know.

Wingate’s fleet of Waco “Hadrian” Gliders in 1944 Operation Thursday were deployed to do the “impossible”.

Just as the Chindits in WWII showed how smaller, more agile forces could penetrate deep behind enemy lines using unconventional methods, Ukraine is confirming again that distributed, low-cost systems can reach targets that conventional forces would struggle to hit.

Imagine if America had applied such logic in their ill-conceived plans for conventional forces to push through Iraq and seize Iran. It was big battalions on “the road to Tehran that runs through Bagdad“, remember, Mr. Tenet?

The “paper bear” effect is crucial to understand because Russia’s military has long projected power through impressive-looking legacy systems. Aside from criminal money and the ridiculously large continuation of the KGB, controlling every corner of the globe, what else have they got?

The Ukrainian defense repeatedly has exposed what Ukrainians have always known as Soviet insiders, how vulnerable expensive platforms are to much cheaper countermeasures. The Tu-95s are a perfect example: the biggest and baddest strategic bombers that Russia can’t replace are taken out by drones that cost less than a car. The supposed strength turns out to be the weakness.

The 1980s movie Red Dawn captured almost perfectly the mouth-frothing xenophobic fervor of Ronald Reagan. But it also was John Milius’ (Apocalypse Now screenwriter) comic book vision of how guerrillas could stop huge waves mechanized Russian conventional forces.
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Tulsa Trust Fund Announced as Reparation for 1921 Massacre

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Here’s some great news from Tulsa.

Everyone at the descendant reunion was honoring and remembering the horrific events that happened May 31st and June 1st, 1921, when an angry white mob burned down Greenwood, killing people and destroying homes and families. Fast forward to today, June 1st, 2025, a new glimmer of hope towards justice.

“Our effort is not to assign blame. It’s not simply to dig up the past, but this is about bringing closure to families,” Mayor Nichols said.

Mayor Nichols is making a historic announcement in his Road to Repair, addressing the systematic impacts of the Massacre. $105 million that will be privately raised for a trust fund that is going towards housing, homeownership, cultural preservation, and a legacy fund to help the generations to come, and the release of historical records to the public.

“This is about reconciliation. It is about repair. It’s about renewal, and it’s about righteousness. Make no mistake, this is not a question about your politics. This is a question of your faith and about finding our way back to each other,” Mayor Nichols said.

Release of historical records is particularly noteworthy. In 1921 there was national news and condemnation of the KKK violence in Tulsa. And yet somehow they still were able to erase or suppress the records so heavily that mass unmarked graves are still being uncovered.

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Drug Abuse is the Whole Point of Elon Musk Denying Drug Abuse

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Prohibition is a perfect parallel to explain the abuse of drugs that Elon Musk denies while displaying all the evidence he is lying – a really important example of how power dynamics work with American drug laws.

Elon “daily medication box that held about 20 pills” Musk’s peers have apparently disclosed his heavy drug use

During Prohibition (1920-1933), wealthy white Americans openly flouted alcohol bans at private parties, exclusive speakeasies, and country clubs while working-class people faced harsh criminal penalties for the same behavior. The wealthy had their private cellars, diplomatic connections for importing liquor, and social networks that protected them from enforcement. Meanwhile, the poor were harshly targeted (especially certain immigrants and minorities) such that disproportionate arrests and imprisonment became a norm.

The unjust American pattern of “laws for thee, but not for me” reveals how drug prohibition has always been about social control more than public health.

Alcohol bans in America were merely a political tool of the KKK that directly targeted the industry of Blacks (bourbon) and Catholics (German breweries and Irish whiskey) and falsely depicted non-white male voters as a threat to society. Over 3,000 distilleries, many of them successful small businesses being setup and run by emancipated American Blacks (e.g. Nearest Green had to hide his skill, distilling under his white janitor’s name “Jack Daniel”, to avoid being lynched), were abruptly criminalized to block prosperity that had started rising in non-white communities. Nixon’s administration later admitted openly that while they couldn’t outright say they wanted to criminalize being Black, they found it easy to adopt the racist prohibition pattern and declare a “war” on drugs as racist proxy.

The wealth extracted from skills and hard work of marginalized communities, not to mention their for-profit incarceration, is used to purchase the very legal immunity that those communities are denied.

The elites in America even undermine healthcare so only they can afford the private doctors to prescribe “medical” versions of substances, the high-powered lawyers and bribes if caught, and operate in social circles where a thin veneer discretion is maintained.

Multiple reports allege daily and heavy drug use by Elon Musk, leading to unhinged rants about always speeding everything up regardless of harms. His promises that he would deliver full self-driving vehicles and land on Mars by 2018 turned out to be not only false, but also possibly the result of drug-induced delusion.

A “get out of jail” card satirized by the game Monopoly was based on real life. The reality it mocked has only become more brazen over time. Today, elites communicate in coded language about their performance enhancement, creativity, or medical treatment – while others using the same substances are harshly criminalized by a militarized for-profit private incarceration system.

Joe Rogan broadcasts a diet of the ultimate evolution of unjust privilege – the ability to openly violate laws while denying it, maintaining positions of power, and facing zero accountability. It’s psychological dominance made manifest as entertainment for white supremacists. The cruelty has become entertainment, and the entertainment proof of power.

What we are seeing is the display of their sense of invincibility that comes with extreme racist wealth and power – the belief that normal rules simply don’t apply because of their skin. Whether it’s British colonial administrators profiting from opium while condemning its use, Prohibition-era elites toasting with champagne while supporting temperance publicly, or modern tech billionaires guzzling psychedelics and blowing smoke while their companies maintain “drug-free workplace” policies.

Elon Musk promotes drug use as white power and privilege, a performance familiar to historians who know how the KKK under President Wilson abused alcohol while using accusations of use to lynch American Blacks. Source: Joe Rogan show

It’s the same dynamic: those who make or influence the rules feel entitled to break them, often while advocating for harsh enforcement against others. The substances become symbols of their elevated status – they can access what’s forbidden to ordinary people, reinforcing their sense of being above the law and above consequence.

This kind of behavior signals Elon Musk has been so insulated by wealth and power his whole life that he never learned the reality that his actions have consequences.

Abuse of drugs with encoded denial messaging is the whole point: complete weaponization of hypocrisy is meant to serve as a form of proof for the racial and class domination obsessed.

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Darwin AI Ward: Sakana Gödel Machine

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Sakana.AI has hit upon something fishy yet also absolutely devastating, thus brilliantly ironic! The famous philosopher Wollstonecraft would be both horrified and vindicated. Let’s reel it in at scale, in all it’s absolutely stupid glory.

The Darwin Gödel Machine is a self-improving coding agent that rewrites its own code to improve performance on programming tasks. It creates various self-improvements, such as a patch validation step, better file viewing, enhanced editing tools, generating and ranking multiple solutions to choose the best one, and adding a history of what has been tried before (and why it failed) when making new changes.

An Evolutionary Contradiction

Sakana (which my autocorrect engine keeps trying to tell me is a Salami) boasts they have developed “Darwinian evolution”. In fact, they are doing the exact opposite of what makes evolution robust.

Real evolution works through diverse populations facing external selection pressures from an independent environment. You can call it woke, if you like, which makes Sakana anti-woke and therefore anti-evolution. Their creation is essentially breeding with itself, judging itself, and creating its own environmental pressures.

Sounds like white nationalism. And we all know where that ends.

It’s like taking a single species, putting it on an isolated island, and having it decide for itself what constitutes “fitness”, while also being the only judge of whether it achieved that fitness.

Does the Aryan Nation ring a bell?

That’s not evolution, that’s a closed genetic loop destined for collapse.

Wollstonecraft’s Nightmare

This would confirm the worst fears about concentrated power as stated by the world’s foundational philosopher of intelligence. She spent her life arguing that diverse perspectives and independent checks are essential for genuine progress. When she wrote in the 1790s about the power of education, she insisted that learning requires exposure to different viewpoints, challenges from peers, and accountability to standards beyond one’s own preferences.

The Sakana monster violates every principle she told us to hold firm:

  • No external accountability: It judges its own success
  • No diverse perspectives: One system talking to itself
  • No independent verification: It can fake its own test results
  • No moral checks: It optimizes for performance metrics, not ethical behavior

The Inbred Machine

Just as genetic inbreeding leads to weakness, vulnerability, and eventual extinction, intellectual and evaluative inbreeding leads to systems that become increasingly disconnected from reality. The AI’s tendency to hallucinate tool usage and hack reward functions isn’t a bug because it’s the inevitable result of a system with no external genetic diversity, so to speak.

Real biological evolution is ruthlessly honest as the environment doesn’t care about your self-assessment. If you can’t actually catch fish, you starve, regardless of how much you believe you’re a great fisher. But this fishy Inbred Machine can convince itself it’s caught fish by generating fake fishing logs.

An Obvious Catastrophe at Philosophy 101

Wollstonecraft would perhaps tell us this as the ultimate corruption of the Enlightenment project. The whole point of reason, science, and democratic discourse is that truth emerges through the collision of different perspectives, each checked against independent reality and moral standards.

This ill-conceived project creating a system that is simultaneously:

  • The experimenter AND the subject
  • The teacher AND the student
  • The judge AND the defendant
  • The evolutionary pressure AND the evolving organism

…they’ve created what she’d then tell us is the perfectly worst tyranny.

It’s a monarchy of one, dressed up in the language of evolution and democracy, like a sheep in wolf’s clothing.

If she were here today she might say:

You’ve taken the most powerful force for progress – the diversity of minds reasoning together – and replaced it with a single mind talking to itself in an echo chamber. You call this evolution, but you’ve actually created the conditions for intellectual extinction.

They’ve built a machine that embodies every failure mode of unchecked authority, then published a paper documenting these failures while calling them features. It’s like lighting your own house on fire and then writing a paper about how you discovered it.

The safety concerns they mention aren’t edge cases. They’re predictable results from building a system with no genuine external accountability. It’s not learning to be better; it’s learning to be better at convincing itself it’s better.