1/16 A thread on air policing, by which we mean the use of interceptor aircraft in peacetime to maintain the integrity of our airspace (as opposed to ‘air superiority’ or ‘intercepting’ or some of the other loosely related terms that are used). @IRLDeptDefence @BerryCathal @DFPRB

2/16 So, what does that really mean? It means using military assets to maintain the safety of our airspace from interference or other disruption. The crucial factor, however, is this is a peacetime function. @BerryCathal @GCraughwell @CharlieFlanagan @nealerichmond @lichamber

3/16 Fighter aircraft are used in the interceptor role because, in the same way that peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers but only soldiers can do it, only fighter aircraft have the requisite capabilities... @SorcaClarke_TD @GaryGannonTD @lawlessj @donlav @LauraMcGonigle @yfg

4/16 ...in terms of physical performance and onboard sensors to carry out this duty practically.

Let’s see what that might actually mean in practice for Ireland 👇
@Fiona_Kildare @davidstantontd @MattShanahanTD @mickthehack @Edward__Burke @KennethMcDonagh @jjsalmo @tchukstr

5/15 Taking the example of Russian (it’s usually Russian in this locale) military aircraft flying through the Shannon FIR (or Flight Information Region) off the west coast and all the international air traffic that that automatically involves. @ahernegerald @PeterOHalloran1

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China is aging so rapidly that it urgently needs to address the problem of a rapidly declining work force in a slowly declining population. To give an idea of relative population changes among the three most populous countries, today

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are 4.3 Chinese for every American and 4.7 Chinese of working age (ages 15-64), while there is just over 1 Chinese for every Indian and 1.1 Chinese of working age.

By the end of the century, however, there are expected to be 2.5 Chinese for every American and...

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just 2.4 Chinese of working age, while there will be 1.4 Indians for every Chinese and 1.5 Indians of working age. Over the rest of this century, in other words, while China’s population declines quite rapidly relative to that of the two other most populous countries, it...

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also switches from having a much better dependency ratio than either to having a worse one than either, with far more of its dependents being the elderly rather than children. In effect its working age population will drop by half relative to those of the other two.

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This is going to be a very tough problem to resolve, although to the extent China succeeds, it will be very useful as an example for other countries. I am not sure they are going about it the right way, however. Making seniors make better use of smart technology sounds...

Let's have a look at some art. Why are children being sacrificed and to whom? These are real pieces of art. Why do they even exist. Some hundreds of years old

Some preliminary thoughts and questions about policing. All thoughts welcome, but especially thoughts from professional police officers, criminologists, sociologists, and people who've studied policing around the world:

I take as given that we need the police and will need them so long as the human species remains recognizably human. For any population x, some percentage will be dangerous predators, and without the police, we'll all be the prey.

We need the police. In principle, everyone should feel grateful to the men and women who do the difficult and dangerous work of finding and apprehending predators and bringing them before a court of law.

Yet in practice, it seems there's an immense public uneasiness with the police that it by no means confined to the US. The attacks on the police yesterday in France shocked and disgusted me. There's no possible justification for it.

Yet it's important to understand what the perpetrators were telling themselves about why they sought to kill the men who in principle protect them. The scenes represented a breakdown of some kind in both public trust and public discipline.

My attempt to map the research *doctrines* of various groups working on Artificial General Intelligence.

Although one might see names of individuals here as well as organizations, take it just as identification of the organization behind the person and a very narrow slice of their overall research portfolio.

Here is a @swardley map that captures the relationship of doctrine with other individual and organizational processes.

We can capture a party's doctrine by either an explicitly stated agenda or an aggregation of the kind of approach that is pursued. A doctrine is an invariant property of the overall behavior of a party.

In this map one can see the conflict between different parties (compare @garymarcus with the deep learning folks).

Google translate:
“It’s not w/o a certain irony that exactly at the moment when the public-provided they have a Netflix subscription-is once again shown the considerable messiness of the Brit monarchy (namely in the TV drama "#TheCrown") also revealed IRL”

“Last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, the New York Times published a remarkable essay by Meghan, #DuchessOfSussex, a native of the United States, married to #PrinceHarry, number six in the British line of succession.”

“Then the Duchess takes up a common thread again, a leitmotif that signaled her emancipation from the British royal family as early as 2019. It is the demand for the most human thing that people can offer one another - empathy. "Are you ok?"”

“The essay is cleverly composed, in its...combination of personal experience, social analysis & appellative gesture.The feminist Sussex turns pvt matters politically & thus the physical & mental pain of her miscarriage into a weapon against the permanent danger of speechlessness“

“The majority of the serious reactions to the article are positive. Women who perceive the silence about miscarriages as a further trauma after the trauma, midwives and aid organizations praise the Duchess for her courage to expose herself to this very taboo topic.”

1) Diebold, eventually purchased by Dominion, at one point produced and sold voting machines are other ostensibly secure machines such as ATMs. It charged with fraud by the DOJ after it paid bribes to foreign governments to secure contracts. Sounds like some of the Ga allegations

2) Here's the DOJ case, as resolved by a $25 million fine. Bribes were paid to all the right suspects: China, Russia, Indonesia.

3) In 2006, before Dominion purchased Diebold, CNN reported massive security issues inherent in Diebold voting machines. Oddly, it was leftists and Dems who were afraid of the systems enabling a Bush victory in his last term.

4) After inspecting a Diebold voting machine, a computer science professor stated: "What Felten found wasn't a bug in the software," he says. "It was a deliberate feature that comes from the need to be able to update the machines quickly."

5) This allowed the relatively simple manipulation of vote counts.

Who would be using someone in Germany to switch votes in elections

The Govt, the Opposition, and the real Opposition. Some thoughts on Govt, Labour and the ERG/CRG.

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This is a Govt which is interested in the pursuit, and retention, of power (see this blog). It aims for short-term popularity, and is acutely sensitive to the public mood.

Its policies on the 2 big issues of the day - Brexit and COVID-19 - have not been successful.

We have not secured an easy trade deal with the UK and are facing a very hard Brexit, deal or no deal.

Both deaths and the economic damage from the virus are world-beating. 3/

What is (to me) interesting, and I think unusual, is that the loudest voices against the Govt's position, come not from the Labour party and other opposition parties; but from the fringes of the Conservative party (backed by many in the media). 4/

The possibly emerging deal with the EU is attacked not for the economic damage it will cause and the barriers it will create for people and business, but on the grounds that it represents an unconscionable imposition on the UK's sovereignty. 5/

Aryavart To Bharat, and Now India. Heritage of Rishis and Maharishis keeps falling down to a mere Landmass. Losing even our actual names and being called by the names given by those who destroyed us, is something beyond tolerance. Hence, ancient names call to be reclaimed.

UP Cheif Minister Sanyasi Yogi Adityanath Ji has appealed to rename Hyderabad back to Bhagyanagar. He is rightfully in saying so since Haidar has nothing to do with the city of Chalukyas. A city, called by the name of those who plundered it, is a clear insult to its heritage.

Islamic Invaders, Colonists and foreign powers renamed the Bhartiya cities, to boast their dominance. Every time we utter their names, we repeat in our minds, the fact of still being a slave. It's a subversion, which now has to be worked on.

This thread is a compilation of all such Cities. Those were named after Invaders & Foreign rulers. Which now should be changed. Every Hindu, need to know these names forced upon us along with their history, which has to be revived. For us to walk proudly holding our heads high.

Karnavati was ruled by Great Hindu Kings Like Karandev 1 and later Vaghela Dynasty in the 13th Century. Faced many invasions since the 14th Century. And was named Ahmedabad by Sultan Ahmed Shah in 1411 A.D.

I'm sitting in bed waiting for this last recipe to drop from a balloon in Animal Crossing & I'm thinking.

I've been sick the past couple of days with what I assume (and hopefully is) the bi-/tri-yearly changing of the seasons infection I always get. This year obviously is 1/

Very different. I know that most, of not every hospital around me is full in the ICU & is taking people out of the state, if there is even room there. My rural town's hospital is nowhere equipped to handle this. The workers there are amazing. My husband is best friends with 2/

One of the nurses since high school. They are exhausted & being obviously treated by shit by half our town & heroes by the other half. I cannot imagine anything more jarring than that other than that; other than losing patients daily to a disease that they don't believe in. 3/

I'm not worried for my health, but my mother-in-law's health. We live in a multi-generational home & she is in her 70s. No one in our family goes out. We all order groceries online & cook for every meal. It's been like this since March for me & her. A little later for my 4/

Husband after his work went from 'essential' to being laid off.

With all of these variables & circumstances, daily I wake up, see what is going on via @jimbuctwit & calculate in my head the risks of the day. It's something that I started doing around April to calm my anxiety 5/

THAT Kashmir is an
 internationally recognized dispute Is an UNDENIABLE
 historical fact.
 AS THINGS STAND AT THE MOMENT, India’s mighty
 military power can’t change it.
 No movement loses
 its legitimacy because of sham elections being held in Kashmir.

India even did not consider Kashmir's PM Sheikh Abdullah as legitimate leader which is why Indian govt.toppled his govt .in a military coup in 1953.He had become after 1st controversial elections held in 1951 India didn't stop here. It kept him in jail for 22 long years

The @dailymaverick asked me to do a piece on the trans woman in sport issue. It’s necessarily short and high level, but here it is. Writing it made me realize there are some key questions everyone who wades into the debate upfront should answer. Wanted to share them here (1/_)

The first question, before any other “shots are fired”, should be:

“If there is ZERO evidence for what happens to performance and/or biology in trans women undergoing treatment, what should happen for sport? Would you allow inclusion, or would you exclude until it exists?” (2/)

This is so important because it reveals a “value system” and understanding of women’s sport. If you believe in inclusion in the absence of evidence, you’re saying that women’s sport should be OPEN to self-ID, and then evidence must be provided to prove unfairness or risk. (3/)

On the other hand, if you say exclusion until evidence exists, you’re stating that women’s sport should remain CLOSED unless evidence can be provided to assure its participants that it is fair and safe to open it to athletes who have benefited from T during development (4/)

Once you’ve answered this first question, then you move to number 2, which is:

“The current policies for inclusion require suppression of T for 12 months, in order to allow participation without unfairness or harm. How strong is the evidence that this is actually achieved?” (5/)

Today's Section 230 thread examines what is probably the biggest misconception about the law (and that's saying a lot): whether there is a distinction between "publishers" and "platforms." The short answer is no. The longer answer is No, absolutely not! I explain:

The argument goes like this: websites only receive Section 230 protections if they are "neutral platforms." If they begin to moderate/block/curate user content, they become "publishers" and lose their Section 230 protections. Because 230 only applies to "neutral platforms."

Before deconstructing why this argument is incorrect, it is important to note that we don't know exactly where it has come from. It really only surfaced in the public debate 1-2 yrs ago.

But many lawyers for platforms have been making this mistake since 230 was passed, and have advised their clients to not moderate, lest they lose 230 protections. I think this terrible advice has led to a lot of the garbage we're dealing with online today.

Here's why the "publisher/platform" distinction just isn't a thing under Section 230. A main reason that Congress passed 230 was in response to a badly reasoned 1995 NY state court opinion that found that Prodigy was liable for all of its users' posts because it moderated.

The key to teaching division to young students who have only been introduced recently to more complicated mathematics forms is to make the student feel involved with the process, while finding it pleasant at the same time.

Mathematics worksheets are effective, but there are other ways in which mathematics can effectively teach. This is practically the generic form of teaching that demonstrates being more effective among children and young people.

No matter how many times make the child complete a division worksheet, or produces division assignments, there is no promise that this child can deliver continuously with the ability to perform successful division problems.

#BigDickAnon's CIA Fren Update: Wait For The President's National Address Edition.

https://t.co/cENBAvE1g3