Scott Rose
@rprose.bsky.social
News product at Bloomberg. Before that, was in Moscow for 15 years with @bloomberg.com & @themoscowtimes.com. Still one eye on Russia. Chess fan. Views are mine
A lot of people who had the good sense to leave Twitter before the Grok shit still have Meta apps on their phones. What else do you need to know before you start deleting the Zuckaverse
Tim Marchman@timmarchman.bsky.social · 4h agoNEW: Dozens of ads running on Meta platforms, some as recently as yesterday, contained AI-generated child sexual abuse material. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the story, which is, it should be noted, distressing:
NEW: DHS wants to hire bounty hunters to find immigrants who already left the US in an ostensible attempt to make them pay fines DHS imposed on people in the US without documentation. @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
wired.com
Iranian cleric honestly a little let down to discover the United States is actually an Indecisive and Middling at Best Satan.
Bradbury, "There Will Come Soft Rains" 1950. A short story about nuclear war in his future, our now... users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do... Such things that we have left undone...
Jason Scott@textfiles.com · 17h ago
why yes I am a patron of the arts the arts: www.youtube.com/@bobbyfinger...
Bobby Fingers
I make beautiful things, then see them buried. A bit like God. x You can buy me a coffee here if you like. https://ko-fi.com/bobbyfingers Or become a Patron so i can quit my job as a Butcher and do ...
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"Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government" cool, cool. yeah that's good. you, uh, you got any thing else
You ever stare at your dog like I can't believe this is free. He could easily charge for this
Fifty years ago, Rybakov and fellow dissident artist Oleg Volkov painted the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress with a phrase that became a powerful symbol of resistance to Soviet rule: “You may crucify freedom, but the human soul knows no shackles.”
‘Art Always Tells the Truth’: Yuly Rybakov on Soviet Protests, Repressions and Russia’s Future - The Moscow Times
Yuly Rybakov is a Soviet-era dissident artist, human rights activist and former Russian lawmaker whose life has been shaped by his country’s history.
themoscowtimes.com
🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"
Hundreds of people have died trying to climb Mount Everest. The guy who lives up there must be amazing
excited for another election season. in one corner we have a party full of terrible politicians. in the other, terrible people
I cannot win this against maximum strength engine, anyone have guidance? lichess.org/analysis/8/4...
cashier today told me he knew me from twitter and said him and his partner still use “the butter’s penthouse” 😭
NEW EPISODE of Masters and Matches! The Short But Sensational Chess Career of Asia's First Grandmaster: Sultan Khan open.spotify.com/episode/6JAV...
The Short But Sensational Chess Career of Asia's First Grandmaster: Sultan Khan
Masters and Matches: A History of Chess · Episode
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Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.
Sing, O Muse, of the rage of a scholar, translator of the ancients, who saw her beloved adopted into a widely liked piece of popular entertainment
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
switzerland is a great place for a world championship match. good timezone, very pretty, easy to get to. also the flag is a big plus
Paying $5 for the petting zoo just to feel something (a goat)
imo the ideal Odysseus would've been Gene Wilder, but we would never have deserved that movie.
It's cool how they continue to deny their products are responsible and they tried and failed to orchestrate a fake bankruptcy to get out of paying damages. Alex Jones ass company
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last wk.The drugmaker has announced an agreement to pay about 76,000 people with claims that its talcum powder caused ovarian cancer, marking a win for J&J, which proposed an $8.9bn settlement in 2023. ft.trib.al/eh1Ds2H
