A visual example of the density of FPV drones in Pokrovsk.
A visual example of the density of FPV drones in Pokrovsk.
It's embarrassing really. The Soviet empire collapses. Countries like Estonia & Czechia get to work and build functioning democracies with higher living standards, while Russia sinks in a swamp of its own making. And rather than looking what went wrong, the Russians whine "buhuhu we lost our empire"
Die YB-Frauen holen den Meistertitel! Iman Beney verwertete den entscheidenden Elfer im Penaltyschiessen gegen GC.
Letβs start with digital feudalism. In medieval feudalism, peasants worked land they didnβt own, under rules they didnβt choose, for lords who profited from their labour.
Today, we work for attention, on platforms we donβt own, governed by algorithms we donβt control.
βWe have learned that if we fight the Russians, we die in thousands. If we give in to the Russians, we die in millions.β
cepa.org/article/symp...
Zuckerberg 2012: Move Fast and Break Things
Zuckerberg 2024: Move Fast and Take Things
58 missiles and 194 drones fired on Ukraine last night.
That's how Russia "wants peace" while Trump keeps twisting Ukraine's arms.
United 24 oder @wartranslated.bsky.social
Authoritarians exploit frustration with stagnant institutions, while disinformation fuels cynicism and disengagement. A stronger democracy isnβt just about defending itβitβs about making it work. That means tackling corruption, increasing transparency, and ensuring public input leads to real change.
Luxury hotels are redefining the Swiss Alps.
www.nzz.ch/english/luxu...
FearNonelnc @RayInsideOut. Here's a list of techies on the ground helping Musk gaining and using access to the US Treasury payment system. Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran Elon Musk @elonmusk. You have committed a crime.
Same reply by Musk, but showing the original post was removed as a violation of Twitter rules
an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine
identifying the lackeys: illegal
"Liberalism has always been able to count on its enemies turning their belligerence on each other."
American and European populism donβt mix
www.ft.com/content/4c82...
DeepSeek jailbreak
π Hotter nights are disrupting sleep and hurting economic decisions
Today on VoxDev, Michelle Escobar CarΓas, David Johnston, Rachel Knott and Rohan Sweeney explore the impacts of elevated night-time temperatures in Indonesia: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Our Daily Data Insight today β the world has passed βpeak child.β
TGIF!
Irre Geschichte! Schauspielerin Blake Lively wehrt sich gegen die Γbergriffe eines Regisseurs, der sich als Feminist feiern lΓ€sst.
Er engagiert eine PR-Firma, um undercover ihren Ruf zu ruinieren.
Doch sie wehrt sich wieder.
Chapeau!
The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Wir hatten intern wieder mal eine BΓΌrorochade. Und was soll ich sagen, das ist meine neue Aussicht.
One thing we have to be careful of is if we're going to tell young people the truth matters, and show them how to find the truth, we also need to make sure there's an impact from that, because otherwise it'll just drive the same cynicism and distrust that leads to conspiratorial thinking.