Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12h agoUkrainian drones struck three Yandex data centres in Russia, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport and cloud infrastructure, following Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Agreed. Citizens United needs to end, among other remedies. PS - there’s chatter among the political class on the AI-replaces-jobs problem…but no serious push among legislators. WAY behind the power curve (much less on IP theft)
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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youtu.be/s93KC4AGKnY?... the only wise move is not play the AI game
Wargames Ending
YouTube video by Techno947
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they do say that ft is the only news to read if you want to understand what’s actually going on in the world www.ft.com/content/7c71...
How Chicago became America’s most surprising beach city
The FT’s architecture critic finds the city’s long lakefront a masterclass in urban planning, with sandy shorelines and remarkable buildings
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He pays more to fight a wealth tax than he pays in taxes. He pays more to fight a wealth tax than any of us would earn in 10 lifetimes.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is how you know we need a wealth tax
“This second-rate charlatan doesn’t know the first goddamn thing about my plans to bring widespread doom,” said the Beast
Antichrist Rolls Eyes Throughout Peter Thiel Lecture
ROME—In addition to crossing his arms and shaking his head as he listened to the tech billionaire spread blatant misinformation about the End Times, the Antichrist reportedly rolled his eyes Monday th...
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9mo agowe're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.
Apocalyptic ravings of mad man Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel … he is looney tunes
Baz@braymeo.bsky.social · last yr.Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Smooth segue from gambling to the pope." Scott Van Pelt with a transition you don't hear a lot on Monday Night Countdown.
The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms and basements as explosions ring out overhead.
What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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📄 NEW: The Trump-Musk conflict represents a much larger set of interests that runs from Kyiv to Los Angeles, and will become a major issue as Russia struggles to achieve its strategic war goals. My latest. america2.news/the-trump-mu...
The Trump-Musk Conflict Runs Through Los Angeles – and Ukraine
The Kremlin is becoming increasingly unhappy with Donald Trump as it struggles to realize its war plans. Will he fall in line?
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President #Zelenskyy congratulated #Ukrainians on Vyshyvanka Day. "Every pattern in a Ukrainian vyshyvanka holds the strength of our lineage, our traditions, our history. The strength of many people, thanks to whom all of us are alive."
Really good night for Dems. Rs passed the WI voter ID amendment, but it didn't - as they hoped - transform turnout for Schimel. Ds hold WI court, hold WI superintendent of public instruction, flip a number of mayoral offices in IL. Rs hold FL House seats but margin down by half since 2024.
This was aired on Russia TV on Jan 28, 2025, before Ka$$ Patel(fBI), Pam Bondi (US Atty General), Tulsi Gabbard (DNI) were confirmed by the US Senate. Patel is referred to as their "boy", who will come together as a pair with Bondi. Tulsi is their "girl". meidasnews.com/news/russian...
Russian State T.V. Host Calls Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Russia's "Boy" and "Girl"
Putin propagandists can't hide their excitement at the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel
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After the onset of Russia’s full-scale war in 2022, negative and misleading narratives about Ukraine have gained momentum in right-leaning U.S. alternative media. As traditional news consumption reaches historic lows, a new frontier of media consumption has taken the lead.
How US right-wing podcasters shape pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine sentiments
Listening to right-leaning alternative media in the U.S., one might come away with the impression — albeit without evidence — that Ukraine is irredeemably corrupt, President Volodymyr Zelensky is a di...
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