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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 3h

thinking about this & about the fact that he was killed almost two years ago in a precision strike and that his eldest daughter was then killed five months later with her husband and newborn

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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 3h

I’m fairly certain it *is* Obama.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 7h

Air raid sirens howling in a completely dark city is some kind of cinematic horror. It’s mornings like this when it’s remarkably hard to believe in any possible better future, I just feel like we’re alone and this is it

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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 3h

No no an honest mistake, I actually think the ICJ would be a better choice.

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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 3h

You mean the ICC?

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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 1d

"The most devastating shortcoming of LLMs is that however many things they appear to know about the world, and however smoothly they express these things, they don’t actually know that there is a world." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

James Meek · Computers that want things

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 21h

An extremely proud day for Hungarians. I just really hope Orbán’s proxies won’t launch a smear campaign, since Krasznahorkai is an outspoken critic of contemporary fascism, far-right politics, and Viktor Orbán himself.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 1d

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 1d

AI destroys institutions.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 2d

The 20,000 children "stolen by Putin" - brainwashed, tortured and sexually abused. A fascist war crime in the name of making good young Russians.

The 20,000 kids 'stolen by Putin' - brainwashed, tortured and sexually abused

'This is not collateral damage. It is deliberate - and it is a war crime,' warns Helen Pattinson, CEO of War Child UK.

www.express.co.uk

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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 2d

Yves Saint Laurent is outright criminal.

Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking of this chart

Chart showing the evolution of brands' logos from being distinct in shape, font, and styling to adopting the same flat sans-serif looking font with almost zero visual distinction.

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Maria @mariasergiivna.bsky.social · 3d

President of Ukrainian PEN Volodymyr Yermolenko wrote a post about Yulia Navalny's recent column for The Economist and made a full description of the policies of the Russian opposition.
I translated this post into English and would like you to read it.
#UkrainianView
telegra.ph/Yulia-Navaln...

Yulia Navalnaya, The Economist and Russian opposition

Yulia Navalnaya wrote a column in The Economist. It contains everything we are used to — that one must not equate Russia with Putin, that one must not hate all Russians, that there is Putin and ther...

telegra.ph

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

Italian journalist abducted from the flotilla describes how Israeli prison guards unleashed dogs into cells, poured bleach on mattresses, and overcrowded cells
such that it was impossible to lie down.

x.com/paolomossett...

That night the guards were even more violent. The consul had just left, having gathered more deportation signatures, when special forces burst in. They stormed the cells, pointed rifles at us with laser sights, and called roll. In some cells, they unleashed dogs. In one, they found the word “Palestine” spelled out using scraps of pepper and water. To erase it, they poured bleach on the floor — prisoners slept on mattresses soaked with it.

That night, as punishment, they overcrowded the cells: from ten people to fifteen, leaving no space to lie down. We turned the mattresses sideways so we could all rest our heads. In my cell were Maso Notarianni and a Lombardy Democratic Party councilor, Paolo Romano.

I had the feeling I was in a truly barbaric place, and hoped this barbarity would soon end.

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 4d

US-style neoliberalism interpellates everyone as a customer, which means consumer agency replaces any other form of political agency.

👇Here I’m being congratulated for successfully booking a passport appointment. Like, no need for that. Literally just exercising my rights here.

Email from US Visa Scheduling

Appointment Confirmation

Congratulations, you have successfully scheduled an appointment. Your appointment details are below.

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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 4d

Wait it’s not? Why looking like a cookie then? So confusing

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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 4d

Horse be like: why u so smol

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 5d

I remember being told that this whole fake Brexit referendum is just a strategic move to ensure that the ultra-right wing of Tories and Farage will disappear from the mainstream of shaping British politics for a generation, if not two. Some of the people who told me that still have six-digit jobs.

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 5d

@robfordmancs.bsky.social in fine Goth mode this morning

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 6d

Russian State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi openly called for infiltrating US institutions, buying American politicians, interfering in elections, and intensifying propaganda operations in Europe and America.

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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 7d

For all the haters; the current Dutch cabinet is just a keeper. After the coalition collapsed, they merely take care of the country before the new government is formed. And by constitutional custom, they are not allowed to make any major decisions or policy changes. Hence this announcement.

The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 7d

🇳🇱❗️🇺🇦🇲🇩 The Netherlands is against proposal, which would allow Ukraine and Moldova to open the first chapter of the negotiations on accession to the EU, bypassing the Hungarian veto, — Dutch PM

The Netherlands refuses to change the principle of unanimity for the opening of the negotiating blocs.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 8d

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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 8d

I think that’s an excellent point. It also raises a question of the standard of goodness in these two different contexts and how it is established. And sure, there are many more variables involved here beyond the actual composition of our diets.

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Kostia Gorobets @kostiagorobets.bsky.social · 8d

To me, this is similar to electric cars. Cars with combustion engines should still be available; in many circumstances they are preferable or even non-optional. But there are strong policy reasons to promote more environmentally friendly option, even if overall it is suboptimal.

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