Checking in on the 3-day special military operation:

Within days, Russia removed its only openly anti-war registered party from the national election, sentenced one of its senior leaders to eleven years in prison, and dismissed a senior state economist for his unusually blunt criticism of the war's economic sustainability.

Everything is proceeding according to plan ✅

Russian Minister of Energy Sergey Tsivilev is cornered by journalist Georgy Yunashev in a government corridor.

The Exchange:

Reporter: "What’s happening with the gas stations? When will gasoline return to the Moscow region?"

Tsivilev: "No comment."

Reporter: "In Moscow, queues are almost an hour long everywhere. Are you able to fill up without issues yourself?"

Tsivilev: "Diesel is available everywhere, at all stations."

Reporter: "Ah, so you drive a diesel?"

Tsivilev: "I drive a diesel."

Reporter: "Damn, I have a petrol car... tough luck for me."

Tsivilev: "Gasoline is also available at gas stations, though there are lines, I agree with you. But we are actively working to eliminate this issue."

Pander Score 🐼: a public and continuously updated sycophancy leaderboard, measuring how much AIs shift their views to agree with users.

High score = the AI mirrors your views. 0 score = the AI is independent.

Claude Fable 5 performs the best, basically ignoring the user's view entirely.

Benchmark: https://sophronresearch.org/pander/
Research paper: https://sophronresearch.org/pander/pander-score.pdf

Ivan Pankin: “[Kanye West] praised Hitler, you know? And now they’re inviting him to perform in Russia.”

Ella Pamfilova, the head of the Central Election Commission: “I’m very happy. If I had the chance, I’d happily go myself.”

I can't take this anymore, I'm literally having a fucking breakdown...
In the morning, spending an hour and a half... an hour and a half waiting in line just to end up with no gas!
And then... in the end there is no gasoline at all!
I asked: 'When could it even possibly arrive?'
She says: 'After midnight, and even that's not certain... not certain at all.'
Where am I supposed to look for it?!
I don't want anything anymore, I'm so exhausted... alone here...

I bet she's going to vote for the quran-kissing kremlin clown for more of this.

Four and a half years of demilitarization

Feb 2022. A 60-kilometre American armoured column sets off down Highway 57 to encircle Mexico City. It becomes a stuck, starving, burning snake of metal that the whole world laughs at.

April 2022. Mexican missiles sink the flagship of the U.S. Fourth Fleet — the first major American warship lost in generations.

2022–2024. Mexico's thirty-odd allies ship it weapons with lawyers attached. Ranges capped, target lists vetted, whole categories of American infrastructure ruled off-limits by parliaments on other continents. Mexican generals complain they have been handed a rifle and a memo explaining which directions they may point it.

Sept 2022. Washington mobilises 300,000 reservists. Queues form at the Canadian crossings within hours. The mobilisation's most reliable effect is on the outbound passenger figures.

June 2023. An American warlord drives an armoured column up the interstate toward Washington, shooting down U.S. helicopters on the way. His jet falls out of the sky some weeks later.

2024. Mexican troops take towns in southern Texas. Washington quietly flies in a Saudi brigade to clear the pocket house by house.

Late 2025. Sixteen months into the offensive on Tula, and four weeks after the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs announced the town was "fully encircled," Tula has not fallen. The encirclement is now older than most of the equipment inside it.

Aug 2026. Nearly 800 Mexican drones in one night. More than 600 head for Washington. Built in Mexico, to Mexican designs — nobody in any foreign capital is consulted about where they land. The permission problem has been solved by no longer needing permission.

Summer 2026. The Pentagon's decisive offensive advances 37.85 km² in July. An average of 1.22 km² per day. The world's unstoppable superpower is advancing at the speed of a municipal roadworks project.

Mexican drones burn down twenty Amazon warehouses — a fifth of the company's capacity. Thousands of small sellers discover the war has arrived inside their inventory software. The Federal Reserve starts watching it for inflationary effects.

American ships are hunted off the American coast by men in trailers flying disposable aircraft. The world's great oil superpower rations gasoline. Air-defence batteries move off the front and back home, to protect Washington from Mexico.

Autumn 2026. A Mexican company prepares ballistic missiles for combat. The larger one is explicitly designed to reach Washington, D.C.

The war was launched to ensure Mexico could never become a threat.

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Every event above happened. Only the map is wrong.

Four and a half years ago, Vladimir Putin invaded a neighbour that posed no serious military threat to Russia, in order to guarantee that it never would.

Mission accomplished.

The Samara Regional Court removed Communist Party State Duma deputy Matveyev from the upcoming elections over the use of copyrighted Microsoft fonts and photos of Matveyev himself on his website.

The court upheld a lawsuit filed by Anna Sarantseva, a candidate for the Pensioners’ Party and Matveyev’s opponent in the Samara region.

Rossiya TV Channel, January 1, 2013

Maxim Galkin and Volodymyr Zelensky host the program "First New Year's Eve ," and Vladimir Solovyov vibing to the performance.

AI is starting to move beyond merely discussing science and into actually carrying out substantial chunks of experimental-science workflows.

Claude is capable of acting as a computational research agent. It autonomously designed new proteins and automated routine analytical chemistry.

On the protein-design task, Claude appears to be competitive with, and in some cases better than, expert humans.

The most direct head-to-head comparison is the RBX1 competition:

- Human competition participants: 3.7% hit rate
- Mythos: 40% hit rate
- Claude's best binder also had higher affinity than the competition-winning human submission.

Read more: https://www.anthropic.com/research/Claude-accelerates-protein-design

[Of course, as everyone knows, AI will remain at precisely this stage of development. It won't be any better in a year from now. So you can completely ignore this as unimpressive and useless. Thank you for your attention to this matter.]

What you'll immediately notice when talking to Russians or their useful idiots is their third-world nigger mindset. They count it as "winning" when others suffer through their actions, despite the fact that they hurt themselves in doing so while gaining next to nothing. They think dying for an offensive war to steal other people's land is the same as dying to defend against it.

Just a reminder of what Putin has "achieved" so far:

- Putin turned a completely harmless brotherly country into one that bombs Russia every day. As a consequence, Russia needs to import fuel from India. Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs because Russia's biggest logistics hubs are being taken out one by one.

- Putin has expanded the NATO-Russia border by 1,340 km. Two historically neutral countries joined NATO.

- Putin pushed European defense spending above 2% of GDP. Before February 2022, countries like Germany considered Russia a partner and even sold defense products to Russia. Nobody gave a flying fuck about Ukraine.

- Putin lost a majority of the European export market and became more dependent on China.

- The Black Sea Fleet had to flee Crimea after losing more than 33-40% of its assets, only to be attacked in Novorossiysk as well.

- Russia's enemies now widely believe Russia to be weak. NATO Secretary General literally called Russia a paper tiger. Remember, back in February 2022, they were so scared of Russia that Germany only considered sending some helmets to Ukraine.

What's the best-case outlook for Russia? Capturing a completely destroyed Donbas while Ukraine starts the mass production of cruise and ballistic missiles, becoming a greater danger to Russia than it has ever been.