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@maolesen @sojourner_blanc Some light reading... nature.com/articles/s4138… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… cleveland.com/news/2022/10/i… link.springer.com/article/10.100… nature.com/articles/s4138…

When I travel outside of Ukraine, I get daily intelligence updates online. This morning, I was briefed that U.S. military facilities in the Middle East and the Gulf region were photographed by Russian satellites in the interests of Iran. On March 24th, they imaged the U.S.–UK joint military facility on Diego Garcia located in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. They also captured pictures of Kuwait International Airport and parts of the infrastructure of the Greater Burgan oil field. On March 25th, they took pictures of the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The Shaybah oil and gas field in Saudi Arabia, İncirlik Air Base in Türkiye, and Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar were all imaged on March 26th. There are no Ukrainian facilities on this list. But who is helping whom when sanctions are lifted from an aggressor that earns daily revenue and provides intelligence for strikes against American, Middle Eastern, UK, and U.S.–UK bases and so on? When surveillance is carried out over facilities in Ukraine, we always understand that they must be protected, since plans are in motion to destroy them – energy and water infrastructure, military facilities, and so on. Everyone knows that repeated reconnaissance indicates preparations for strikes. How can sanctions be eased if this is what the Russians are doing? There must be pressure on the aggressor. And lifting sanctions is certainly not pressure. It looks strange. Sanctions are being lifted, while the aggressor is providing intelligence to strike facilities, including those of the countries that are discussing or have already lifted sanctions. From my conversation with journalists (3/3).

Stop pretending that you do not understand the difference between voter ID and a proof of citizenship document, Elon.

@EpicNewsroom Gfys

Information on today's layoffs epicgames.com/site/en-US/new…

@evankinney I'm never playing that trash game again. The greed is sickening and they continue to pander to cheats. It's a complete waste of time and energy that deserves its fate. Sorry about your loss. I'm sure you'll find something more rewarding soon.

guess who got laid off today! 🫠 i am genuinely so confused and bewildered like, i spent the past week debugging the rivalry system while recovering from pneumonia and just in the past few days i’ve had multiple directors tell me how much they appreciate everything i do

@DiscussingFilm Greed

Epic Games has laid off over 1,000 employees & announced that 3 Fortnite modes will be going offline permanently. Rocket Racing - October Ballsitic - April 16 Festival Battle Stage - April 16

I don’t think people realize how much healthcare costs are driving big companies to fire and not hire. It costs them $30k per family, per year for premiums and care. Most of that goes to the massive, vertically integrated insurance companies that send weekly bills that no one reviews in details. And it doesn’t include the company overhead to deal with it all. It’s usually the 2nd largest expense after payroll. Which is insane It’s far easier to blame AI than it is to blame Healthcare costs. Want to increase jobs, wages and improve affordability for every American ? Break up the biggest insurance companies. Make divest non insurance companies. They don’t need thousands of subsidiaries. That’s how they game and abuse the system and increase costs for all of us. Call your senator and tell them to support the BreakUp Big Medicine Bill by @HawleyMO and @SenWarren.

GM Anna Muzychuk is headed to the Candidates! 👏

I started studying chess seriously in college and I could literally see the difference in how fast I was able to study & retain information

@grok Well played.

@Kasparov63 I doubt he can hear you with his buttcheeks all wrapped up around his ears and whatnot.

Senator Murphy, as someone with first-hand experience in authoritarianism and media consolidation, I can tell you that this kind of power is being accumulated rapidly under one political roof precisely to guarantee that political control will never be lost.

I am old enough to remember when we used to mock people for recording videos vertically. They were misunderstood, true pioneers of content creation.

Congrats to Bodhana Sivanandan on joining Judit Polgar as the only two girls ever in chess history to cross 2300 at age 10! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Like Judit, I believe Bodhana has also crossed 2350 at age 10 too! echecs.asso.fr/Resultats.aspx… 📷: Mark Livshitz

The world's latest FIDE Master: 10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan 👏🤯

The longest streak on widgets below gets a year of 💎 on us! 🔥

Without telling me your age. What is the first video game you played? GIFS ONLY!!!

FYI the entire Russian force that invaded ukraine has been destroyed like 4 times over

Want to know the craziest part about insurance company Pre Authorization Denials ? The insurance company defines the network of providers the patient can use When they deny care, they are effectively saying "we don't trust the judgement of the doctors we require you to use" 🤯🤯🤯

Chess giveth, chess taketh.