Ukraine COVID-19 Update
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and spread of the disease throughout the country has spiraled out of control. No one can’t be absolutely...
Ukraine's Wacko Zones
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and increasingly apparent that something is horribly wrong. So, they’ve decided to chop the country up into...
Zelensky and Shevchenko
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and President Volodymyr Zelensky has officially introduced Kyrylo Shevchenko as National Bank of Ukraine...
They Will All Be Dragons Again
In other news, the scene kids are back in Kyiv. In what could be a sign that nature is healing, a twenty-year old dressed only in his underwear and carrying...
Ukraine's Blueticked Banking Racket
You can’t help but admire someone who has a well developed, deep sense of humility. That’s why decorating your personal website with flattering portraits is...
The Children of Soros in Ukraine
KYIV. On July 13, about a dozen young employees of the National Bank of Ukraine called for the central bank to remain independent in a YouTube message...
Ukraine: Random Notes
The cloud of confusion hanging over Kyiv has become so thick that it’s become increasingly difficult for Falun Gong disciples to perform their Cultivation of...
A Delicate Issue
These are the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 4 during a working visit to Odesa region. He was speaking the day after National Bank...
National Bank of Ukraine is Kaput
(Yakiv Smolii in front of the National Bank of Ukraine building in Kyiv) Students of macroeconomic theory and practice in Ukraine were treated this week to...
Left in the Lurch
Expectations relate to expectations and the prevailing bias can validate itself almost indefinitely. This is apropos of expectations of the future exchange...
Ukraine's Three-Ring Circus
A court is not the place to prove your innocence. A defendant has the right to remain silent and never has to prove innocence. One of the reasons Ukraine has...
Ukraine: COVID-19 Disaster
(Health Ministry’s COVID-19 info page) It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and the weekly number of patients admitted to the nation’s hospitals...
Ineffable Communication Failures
A nationwide poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) in May found that two of three Ukrainians believe the coronavirus...
No Grounds For Emergency Measures
(Photo: president.gov.ua) It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s Covid-19 disaster and the incidence of disease spread has picked up to well over 1,000 a day. The...
operation y (cont'd)
i am not a fan of former prime minister oleksiy honcharuk or the government he headed under supreme ruler ze. but i remain interested in why and how he was...
The Zelensky-Trump Ticket
(Photo courtesy of President’s Office) Volodymyr Zelensky is alone, tired and frightened. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is raging across Ukraine, which...
Ukraine's COVID-19 Disaster
The general problem with bending norms of logic and evidence for a special occasion is that they stay bent. And whoever was granted leniency on logic and...
Alone, Tired and Frightened
President Volodymyr Zelensky is finding it enormously difficult to draw a distinction between Ukraine’s objective situation and the way he feels about it. No...
COVID-19 Mitigation in Ukraine Fails
Invoking the least cool philosopher Rudolph Carnap, we can say the classical conception of probability, represented chiefly by Jacob Bernoulli and Laplace,...
Pandemic Report: Ukraine
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disaster and it’s only getting worse. In a nutshell, the positive dynamics of morbidity over...
Warm Bath Alternative to P-Value
Due to the strong overreliance on p-values in political reporting some Ukraine experts have argued that op-eds should be abandoned or banned, and that we...
The Precautionary Principle
(Kazimir Malevich, Sportsmen) The working group on mathematical modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus epidemic in Ukraine on May 28, 2020 announced during...
Cut Off All U.S. Assistance Immediately
There are no good reasons for hardworking American taxpayers to shore up the current regime in Kyiv. None. Ukraine’s president reminds us of someone who is...
Botched Assassination in Kyiv
Novopecherski Lipky has got to be one of the worst places in Kyiv, maybe in the whole of Europe, to assassinate your rival. The prestigious residential...
Unspecified Ukraine Worrying
No one who uses monotonic logics in ultra-competitive Ukraine-style politics is ever allowed to take something back. Once you’ve said something, that’s it....
Ukraine's Age of Stupidity
Can You Spot Harry? On May 21, one of Ukraine’s most watched programs, The Right to Power, aired on 1+1 TV. A half a dozen guests participated in the...
Morbidity Dynamics in Ukraine
This is an updated post from May 21, cf. Rudolph Carnap’s criterion of cognitive significance, w/ intro quote by William W. Rozenboom, St. Olaf College,...
Ze Faces Retaliation for Shit-Talking
Appealing to far-fetched scenarios with little to no detail or context and stating your conclusion can be, at best, unpersuasive and, at worst,...
What Makes Soup Soup?
What is Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster, and how can we measure the spread of the virus correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but top Ukrainian...
Destroying Ukraine as Intended
It was a pathetic performance, one of Volodymyr Zelensky’s worst. There were few difficult questions during the hours-long ordeal, marked by long diatribes....
A Year of Bad Thinking
There is no theory of epistemology that prioritizes “truth over facts” in ultra-competitive Ukraine-style politics, unless we get metaphysical, eat a bunch...
Cataplectic Non-Cognitivism?
Another subtitle could have been A Year of Bad Thinking, but I’m saving that for after the press conference on Wednesday. As I noted the other day, it’s...
Embracing Change
Every subculture has a sort of blasé disdain for obvious beginner arguments even if they are solid points. Like how Ukraine experts are like oh you think us...
The Bright Side of Shame
(Clockwise from top left: Atlantic Council Deputy Director Melinda Haring, Atlantic Council Eurasia Center Senior Fellow Andrian Karatnycky, Atlantic Council...
Logic Isn't Normative
The common sense worship of lemmings must be resisted for the ideology-prone conservative laziness that it is. It’s analytic philosophy’s equivalent of the...
Kyiv Pandemic Update
U.S. Chargés d’affaires ad interim to Ukraine Kristina A. Kvien published a bizarre message on Facebook on Thursday, two days after Ukraine eased COVID-19...
Ze!Team's Replication Crisis
Reproducibility: The ability of a researcher to repeat their own work or the work of another researcher (replication) Almost all models, in fact, involve...
Нарисуй мне "плато"
Ukraine does not have a “downward trajectory of positive tests” or a “downward trajectory of documented cases” of coronavirus over two weeks, while...
Ugly Little COVID-19 Secrets
In an ideal world people with idiosyncratic ideas don’t get listened to, or they don’t get jobs. It’s not like anyone is banning them, but they’re just...
Magical Epidemic Thinking
Information from Ukraine’s Health Ministry about COVID-19 infections in conjunction with a neural network to determine the efficacy of quarantine measures is...
Ze's Covid Clowns
(illustration by Oleh Smal) It’s too bad western journalists who write about Ukraine have difficulty understanding Russian, much less Ukrainian. That ability...
Thug Life
More six years since the start of the revolution of dignity, Ukraine remains a sham democracy. It is a primitive post-soviet feudal autocracy. Democracy here...
Sick of Ze's bullshit
President Volodymyr Zelensky has emerged from the current stage of the epidemic as the popular paragon of political sloppiness and goonery. If we enter the...
Ukraine's Human Sacrifice Experiment
(Illustration by Mykhailo Aleksandrov for Mysl) It’s difficult to establish exactly the moment during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ten months as president...
Amateurs Imitate, Professionals Steal
This has been kicking around here for awhile, but having just read Aslund’s fawning blowjob for Saakashvili (that sound you hear is the knees of Atlantic...
Drag Queen on Poppers
The justification for supporting Mikheil Saakashvili’s appointment to Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister in charge of economic reforms is apparently to preserve...
What's That Stuck to Zelensky's Ass?
Ex-public servant Maksym NefyodovA song. It begins with a person speaking is-this-mic-on phrases such as check, check one and testing one two three and...
Law and Disorder
Gosh, thickest Spring. It’s nice right now: Herselves, Balusha and I are swimming backstroke in a big big pool of quiet. And Netflix. The Chornobyl exclusion...
Ukraine's Irredeemable Health Ministry
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and something has gone terribly wrong. The country’s response to the epidemic should probably be managed by...
'Ze' May Call it Quits
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could resign on his own volition, Dnipro native Hennadiy Korban has said. “It seems to me that, maybe in a year, he...