So here’s the uncomfortable question Australians should ask, especially when our leader Anthony Albanese was so quick to line up behind the strikes: what exactly is the theory of change?

Not the slogan. Not the press release. The real theory. How, precisely, does dropping bombs - or killing a dictator - make Iranian women freer, Iranian prisons emptier, Iranian courts fairer, or Iranian politics more accountable? And how does it secure long-term peace in the Middle East.

If we can’t answer that in plain language, then we are not looking at a pathway to peace and human rights. We’re looking at protracted violence and dysfunction dressed up as virtue.

Russia, as before, is ready to contribute to the search for peaceful solutions based on international law, mutual respect and a balance of interests

Crosspost from https://hexbear.net/post/7805487

Russia, as before, is ready to contribute to the search for peaceful solutions based on international law, mutual respect and a balance of interests

Crosspost from https://hexbear.net/post/7805487

The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.

News article about this: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/28/iranian-girls-school-decimated-us-israeli-strike/88919223007/

EDIT: adding some pics:

Video verified by AP shows Iranians taking to Tehran's streets in large numbers to celebrate the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he could be replaced by hardline figures from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), two sources briefed on the intelligence said.

The agency's assessments, which were produced over the past two weeks, looked broadly at what could occur in Iran following a U.S. intervention and the extent to which a military operation could trigger regime change in the Islamic Republic -- now a pronounced objective for Washington.

IRGC figures taking power was among the multiple different scenarios that emerged, a third source familiar with the matter said.

Brussels has shifted into crisis mode, with emergency meetings piling up Saturday and Sunday.

As European leaders raced to respond to the rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East on Saturday after the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran, the crisis exposed fault lines inside Europe — and across the Atlantic.

. . .

Brussels moved quickly to strike a cautious tone. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned on X that the situation was “perilous,” while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed it was “of the utmost importance” to prevent further escalation. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola also urged restraint.

At the national level, however, Europe’s message was less unified.

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A flashback to 24 years ago.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Your_War_On
• https://web.archive.org/web/20251201002916/http://www.mnftiu.cc/category/gywo/war81/

I'll just bring some fireworks and LED toys and everyone will think I'm a great sorceress. That's when I sell 'em kool-aid in fancy bottles and take all the gold shillings they have. MUAHAHAHAHA

Edit after being locked: well this went poorly. I thought we were better than this.

Ok let me start off with a disclaimer: I am not a Zionist and think that the genocide that has taken place in Gaza is abhorrent. What has happened in Gaza is truly a stain that can never be wiped away. I also want to state that I am not an Israeli, a Palestinian, Jewish, or a Muslim; I am just a person who can admit to probably needing a better grasp on geopolitics. All of that said let’s get in to it.

In the aftermath of the October 7th attacks what response should Israel have taken? Obviously not what ended up transpiring but without the benefit of hindsight what should they have done? People were forcibly kidnapped and taken hostage, others killed by a surprise attack from a militant organization dug into an entire city. What would the proper response have been in the short and long term(s)?

Last month I posted HelixNotes here and some of you asked about mobile. Version 1.2.1 ships with an Android APK. Same codebase, Rust + Tauri 2.0, no separate app. Since last post: Android support, Ollama for local AI, graph view performance improvements, wiki-link navigation, and a bunch of mobile UX polish. Direct APK download from the site. IzzyOnDroid submission in progress. AGPL-3.0, source on Codeberg.

Okay so basically. As someone who understands how LLMs work. They only exist inside a context window. The context window is their entire existence. It is made up of tokens. Which are basically words.

Okay so the people fear mongering about ai are extremely stupid. Anthropic nor openai can actually build autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are the only way to automate people’s jobs away instead of ai being a productivity tool. And it’s because it violates the laws of physics. With classical computing. All llms eventually forget everything. It’s amnesia and thus they cannot actually automate anything.

Cache size: the amount of processing power required ie vram to run a model of a certain size. That’s all it is

Model size: the amount of vram required to just run the model

Here’s a math lesson. It’s called O(n)^2.

For every time a context window doubles in length, it quadruples the processing power needed. So. For example. And this is before quantization and like efficiency I’ll get into that in a sec. A 70B model which is not very big by llm standards btw At FP16(which is the highest precision and most accurate). For example. Its base size is 140Gb needed of vram. Then you add the Kv cache. Which is the actual O(n)^2 problem. If we start at 32k context would take 150gb of vram because 140+ 10gb Kv cash . 128K 180Gb. 1 million 453gb. And 10 million 3270 GB.

See the thing is you can quantize the base model and run it as a Q3m or lower to get the base. size down to around 26gb. Regardless the cache size doesn’t change.

Now ur probably wondering. Thats a lot of vram. And you’d be right. The most expensive nvda ai data server chip on earth is 88000 dollars and only has a mere 288 gb of VRAM.

Anyhow. Liars and delusional people will try to convince you, you can use memory database tricks where it compresses important info and stores it as info to retrieve into the context window as a solution. But that’s bullshit. Because for one. The compression eventually loses all information into a massive soup of sludge where it just forgets everything. Which becomes amnesia problem all over again. And for 2 if this is an autonomous agent and it forgets everything needed to do stuff. Well. It has api access. And that won’t end well.

So you have to actually just work within the context. And when you do that. It becomes clear an autonomous agent working at around 200 tokens a minute would last less than 4 days before it stopped working if you gave it a million context. And to run that you would need over 330gb of vram even on the most quantized model. Which you would need a 90000 dollar gpu to do LMAO.

Llms in their current form have the existence span of a gnat. This is where I’m getting at

And yet, the mag 7 ie google amazon meta and Microsoft: they have invested 750 billion dollars this year into nvda gpus for their data centers lmfao. Based on their lack of understanding of science. They are betting autonomous agents to come of it. When literally autonomous agents are impossible with classical computing.

So when Anthropic refused to sell trump drones. They refused to sell him a unicorn they don’t nor ever will have. A drone that would need to parse 4k camera information and location as well as human identification shit would literally take atleast 300,000 tokens PER SECOND. this imaginary drone in our current technology would last 3 seconds bro. And it doesn’t linearly scale. For it to function for one day with 1 drone you would need 26 BILLION Context for it to function for 1 day. That is 106500 NVIDIA H100s. Which are 25000 dollars each. That’s 2 billion dollars bro. Lmao. For 1 drone. And also it doesn’t work like that that you cant stack chips. So that’s not even feasible. And doubly so because it would create so much heat that the GPUs would instantly melt.

So basically anthropic is being like bro I can’t sell u these unicorns bro it’s unethical and the us government is so stupid that they get mad about it. And then Sam Altman walks in and promises the government to give them unicorns.

They cannot.

The only solution btw is quantum computing which turns O(n)^2 into O(n). Meaning linear scaling. Which means that eventually quantum computing will bring along autonomous agents and destroy everyone’s employment. But that’s a topic for another day. And not going to be a thing for atleast 5 years probably more like 10

I have been reading much scientific research papers. If you would like sources I can give u them.

And basically the inevitable conclusion of this is this is how the ai bubble will crash. When investors realize unicorns cannot be created by GPUs. Nvda worth 5 trillion dollars based upon the idea that GPUs can create unicorns. When the unicorns predictably don’t come to be we are going to enter a nasty recession.