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His focus on winning over Trump was a departure from his long-held view that the path to influence in Washington ran through American voters. Netanyahu was a frequent guest on cable news, arguing Israel’s case directly to the public.

This time, he has taken an unusual back-seat role in driving the public rhetoric in the U.S. Netanyahu has emphasized Trump’s central role in the war and credited the president with key decisions, portraying him as the driving force behind the effort against Iran. In television interviews and public statements, Netanyahu has stressed that Trump acts in America’s interests and makes his own decisions.

That approach is playing to Trump’s instincts. “He has figured out how to persuade and partner with and flatter Trump in ways that have been extremely effective in advancing his goals,” said Daniel Shapiro, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-finally-got-what-he-wanted-on-iran-by-appealing-to-an-audience-of-one-a0d39c7b

Россия ударила беспилотниками рядом со служебным автобусом одного из предприятий в Павлоградском районе, сообщил глава Днепропетровской области Александр Ганжа. По данным энергетической компании ДТЭК, которой принадлежал автобус, погибли по меньшей мере 12 человек, еще 16 получили ранения.

Операторы с территории России 100% видели и распознавали цель как гражданскую, видели, что это не военные, и приняли сознательное решение об атаке.

В воскресенье в результате удара российского дрона также пострадал роддом в Запорожье, сообщили местные власти.
Отдел Би-би-си по верификации информации BBC Verify подтвердил, что эти кадры были действительно сделаны в роддоме № 3Ю, который находится на улице Бочарова, в восточной части Запорожья.

https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/cd0y8lpk244o
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Впрочем нигде не могу найти видео начала конфликта: везде показывают, как он сопротивляется повалившим его полицейским.

Но некоторые СМИ утверждают, что есть какие-то видео, где он якобы подходит к ним не с пистолетом, а телефоном.

https://xaxam.dreamwidth.org/1333814.html?thread=8634422#cmt8634422

Я так поняла, что они задерживали нелегала, а этот чудик решил зачем-то вмешаться.
Ну и получил, как пелось в той песне маслину.

А тот, кого они пытались задержать - удрал.
То есть мужик жизнь потерял из-за какого-то нелегального криминала.
Чистая премия Дарвина.
Да.

https://julinona.dreamwidth.org/494833.html?thread=5830385#cmt5830385

В ночь на 9 января российские войска нанесли массированный удар по Киеву, после которого ситуация с теплом, светом и водоснабжением в городе резко ухудшилась. В тот же день мэр украинской столицы Виталий Кличко заявил, что без тепла осталась почти половина многоквартирных домов — около шести тысяч — и призвал тех киевлян, у кого есть такая возможность, уехать из города.

https://meduza.io/feature/2026/01/15/v-kieve-posle-rossiyskih-udarov-sotni-mnogoetazhek-ostayutsya-bez-tepla-i-sveta

Your Key Survival Skill for 2026: Critical Ignoring

A pioneering 2021 study found that just 30 minutes of phone scrolling tires us out psychologically, actually reducing our ability to exercise. One 2022 paper concluded that a half-hour of social-media use before training caused enough mental fatigue to affect the hand-eye coordination of elite volleyball players.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/critical-ignoring-social-media-7e236f52

I think it’s not a coincidence, for instance, that so many kids really want to do music and sports, even though we all say, “No, learn how to code. That’s the thing that will actually be helpful to you.” Because music and sports are among the few examples where we actually do this kind of apprenticeship. You do the thing, you get feedback, you try and do the thing again.

One of the things I say is, imagine if we tried to teach baseball the way that we teach science. How do we teach science? What we would do is, we would tell everybody about great baseball games when they were little. Maybe when they were in high school, they could throw the ball a lot to second base. When they were in college, they could reproduce great baseball plays, but they wouldn’t actually get to play the game until they were in graduate school. If you taught baseball that way, you wouldn’t think that people would be as good at baseball.
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I think the current way that we do schooling is a good example of Goodhart’s law. We teach kids — because kids are so good at wanting to be skilled — we teach them how to be good at school, which we think is going to be correlated with the ability to do a wide range of things as an adult. Then it ends up being a separate kind of skill.

...we know and we just take for granted that little kids like two-year-olds — we say that they don’t pay attention, but what we really mean is that they don’t not pay attention. They’re paying attention to everything at once. That’s why two-year-olds are really distractible.

Then, as we get older, we get this more and more focused kind of attention. People vary in how much they end up within that state of focused attention. I think there’re lots of reasons to believe that an industrial schooled society really pushes people in the direction of having very focused attention. We really want people to have very focused attention.

What Nagel has discovered is a fascinating architectural feature of the human mind: We are beings who can representationally distance ourselves from ourselves and make this fact globally avail- able through conscious experience.

-- Thomas Metzinger, Being No One. 2004