#NEWS OF THE DAY
205 #UKRAINIAN #POWS AND 528 BODIES OF FALLEN DEFENDERS RETURN HOME: On May 15, Russia and Ukraine swapped 205 prisoners of war each, as part of the three-day ceasefire agreement brokered by Trump.
Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in #ukrainian hands.
A new #film about #Putin which paints a controversial picture of the dictator, just came out in the #US
In 2005, Oleh met Putin in the #kremlin and watched his mask slip as soon as the conversation turned to #ukraine . https://open.substack.com/pub/counteroffensive/p/what-putins-really-like-in-private?r=7a4iis&utm_medium=ios
This is a very good, if disturbing, read.
Let that sink in. Even one of the loud and vocal AI proponents such as @simon admits
“I no longer have a firm mental model of what they can do and how they work, which means each additional feature becomes harder to reason about, eventually leading me to lose the ability to make confident decisions about where to go next.”
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/
Not afraid of many things AI can inflict on my life, but I’m personally very much afraid of acquired helplessness such as this.
Tim Mak
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