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Map Is Not the War
How the war in Ukraine is actually fought, and why a kilometre of territory says little without the price paid for it.
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Cause Is Not Justification
How Russia and Ukraine moved from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the invasion of 24 February 2022.
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A Ceasefire Is Not Peace
What would actually have to be resolved for the war in Ukraine to end.
Justice & lawAnalysis
Running out of money to buy is not operational cover
GIBS described the production of pervitin when a police officer ran out of money to buy it. The court imposed two years with a thirty-month suspension. The headline wrote that it sent him to prison. Three sentences do not add up.
Justice & lawAnalysis
"Up to five years" is not the sentence imposed. A suspended sentence is not an acquittal.
A statutory range, a headline, a suspended sentence, a ban on activity and dismissal from the corps do not add up to one bowl of justice. The law keeps them apart — and in a prosecution there is not yet anything to compare.
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Pervitin is not one thing. Brand, clandestine lab, dose, file and death do not add up to a single fate.
The evidence lets a pharmaceutical name, a detected clandestine lab, lifetime experience, high-risk injecting, a seizure and a death be kept apart. It does not let them be assembled into one Czech fate, nor into a method for making the substance.
Justice & lawAnalysis
Three grams off duty are not the same as leaking a patrol
The district court in Rychnov punished the procurement of pervitin and information about patrols in one aggregate: eighteen months suspended for four years, sixty thousand crowns, a five-year ban from the corps. The two acts do not add up into the sentence that a police officer takes.
Technology & AIAnalysis
A faster HTTP server is not the same as responsibility for a production system.
An assistant shortens some programming tasks and, in other well-known codebases, slowed experienced people in an RCT. Neither measures occupational replacement, nor who will bear an outage.
Justice & lawAnalysis
Three licences, three prices of error. A benchmark is not a signature.
A language model can speed up a draft contract, a receipt, or a translation. In the Czech Republic a legal service, a statutory audit, and a court interpreting act may be performed only by a person who holds the authorisation, and responsibility for the advice stays with that person.
Technology & AIAnalysis
The phone does not know “everything”. Different layers know — and each has a different controller.
A smartphone does not assemble one all-knowing profile. It is separate layers: operating system, apps, account, network, backup, sensors and an advertising identifier. Each layer knows something different, and we ask a different controller about it.
Technology & AIAnalysis
A missing stamp is not proof of authenticity. A blood-in-the-pixel detector is not a lock.
For an image or a video you can check a provenance signature and a laboratory artefact, not the truth of the scene. Czech law punishes certain handling of a false likeness, not the file itself.
Technology & AIAnalysis
The detector measures a statistic. It does not decide who wrote the text.
A detector score is a similarity statistic against a training distribution, not a seal of origin. After paraphrasing, translation, and with non-native English, that statistic breaks.