Mihkel Ronk
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Mihkel Ronk
@koosolek
disainer, illustraator, wannabe muusik ja kirjutaja. mu spotify pleilistid on paremad kui sul. tehniliselt millennial.
Tallinn, EE Katılım Ocak 2009
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So the EU wants to ban teens from social media — except for LGBTQ+ content? What a nuanced way to “protect children” online.
POLITICOEurope@POLITICOEurope
🚨 BREAKING: Hungary violated EU law when it banned children from accessing LGBTQ+ content, the Court of Justice of the EU has ruled. Read the full story: politico.eu/article/eu-top…
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Everyone rejecting @TuckerCarlson's apology for backing Trump - what the fuck else do you want? If you don't think it's good enough that he rejected Trump and joined anti-war, anti-genocide side, you're a bit of an asshole. You don't speak for any of us who'd like to end the war.
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@roovlind Mulle käibki veits närvidele et meil on suva. Mul oli üks sakslasest kolleeg, kes aegajalt eestlasi täis ruumi sisenedes ütles "Hello, peasants!" Ja no see oli tegelt hea must huumor. Aga no kujuta ette mingit puuvillafarmi nalja kuskil USAs. Imelikud topeltstandardid.
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kui eestlased oleks pisut tumedama nahavärviga siis oleks selline väljaütlemine pehmelt öeldes skandaalne, aga no me ei ole – kas see ongi see white privilege?
Kraut@The_Davos_Man
Thank you for the clip. For anyone else who may be searching:
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The Brusselian steamroller is already in motion. Our patriotic government protected Hungarian children from aggressive LGBTQ propaganda. Now the Brusselian empire strikes back. We will not give up the fight for the soul of Europe!
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
Unprecedented ruling finds Hungary's anti-LGBTQ laws in breach of EU values bbc.in/3QdBvSZ
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Ma pole eesti kunstiringkondadest kuulnud piuksugi tiblade ja sõja teemal viimasel ajal. See on koht kus kunst saaks olla terav ja ühiskonnas kaasa rääkida. Aga null mõtet ja väljaütlemist.
Meenutagem siinkohal seda arhiiv.kuldmuna.ee/work/nominee/r… – see oli erakordselt hea.
Kate from Kharkiv@BohuslavskaKate
KALLAS: While Russia bombs museums, destroys churches, and seeks to erase Ukrainian culture, it should not be allowed to exhibit its own. Russia's return to the Venice Biennale is morally wrong, and also EU intends to cut its funding.
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see nunnu kuidas ajalugu kordub – kõik og bolševikud lasti maha ja samamoodi läheb maga tillidega
Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽@JoshEakle
Tucker Carlson is a sly opportunist, and always has been. He was in on Trump from the beginning, his most effective propagandist for years, and he knew exactly what Trump's character and administration were. Now, after being "cast out" as close Trump loyalists inevitably are, facing the prospect of investigation, and sensing the shift in public opinion, he's executing an about-face to salvage whatever political future he imagines for himself. Don't accept the rehabilitation tour. Tucker Carlson is, by far, one of the most pernicious forces in American public life. All he's doing here is laying the groundwork for his next attempt to accumulate power.
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@AmbBridgetBrink @IAPonomarenko oh god so many ruski pidor bois crying in the comments
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April 21, 2025 was my last day as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.
I was the first female Ambassador to serve in a war zone and I am proud of our work to fight back against Russia's aggression and protect democracy.
But when Trump kept appeasing Putin, I had to resign and speak out.
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lol @sashameetsrus that your place?
Natalka@NatalkaKyiv
No more “Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich”… Now it’s “Dear Pope Robert Francis XIV.” 😂😂😂 After losing all hope in the local authorities, the residents of Boriskino village in the Chishminsky District of Bashkortostan decided to appeal to the Pope...
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@The_Davos_Man Soviet citizens across USSR were equal. There was no "subjugation" under the "Russian boot"
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This is one hell of a cope. Let's just ignore that 49% of the Soviet population wasn't Russian and condemn them forever more to subjugation under a Russian boot because "muh vibes" or something.
Arthur 📚🔰🚩🍉🔆@artisanrocky
I would much prefer a timeline where the Soviet Union adopted more democratic reforms vs the timeline that gave us Putin’s Russia.
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I love having a divine experience and it’s just bread butter cheese and coffee
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@halbkass @Martinlaineolen mumst see järjekordne sõjaga seotud teema millega ei tohi äärmustesse minna – jube keeruliseks läheb muidu nendest asjadest rääkimine (mis on vajalik) ja esmajärjekorras töötab tiblade huvides just see et me omavahel kiskleme
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@Martinlaineolen Sulle ei meeldi aga tegelikult on Terrasel õigus. UA teeb taktikalist vene propa võimendust, liigutades seda narratiivi endale sobivasse suunda. RU narratiivi Balti riigid next vt Solovjovi saatest. Hea materjal ühe loo kirjutamiseks, kui sellesse süveneda.
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Mõistan, et meile siin ei meeldi, kui ukrainlased hirmutavad Euroopat, võimendades väidetavaid ohte Balti riikide ümber.
Aga Eesti poliitikud... nimetada Zelenskõi (!) öeldut "Kremli narratiiviks" on ju täielik nonsenss?!
Riho Terras@RihoTerras
Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa) is amplifying Kremlin narratives by portraying the Baltic states as weak. We have sacrificed a significant share of our defence for 🇺🇦. Undermining @NATO while depending on it at the same time is a strategic mistake. @EP_Defence @EPPGroup @politico
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Just in: Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO of Apple. I wish Trump would also step down.
Of course, I’m comparing apples to oranges.
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@ChurchillFella wondering how many fake flower factories have been built in china just to provide for the ruski pidor graves
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This Russian girl says that the vandals are looting graves of "SVO veterans".
Note the endless rows of graves near the small town.
"Kyiv in three days" operation is going according to plan...
Inglorious bastards.
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its easy, i have fairly modest leftist views across the board and im stubborn, so if they want to oppose everything i do - they inevitably find themselves aligning with right wing forces
It's politics@uspolitics1111
Someone needs to study how personal vendettas against Hasan Piker turn liberals into literal right wing dipshits
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@MultipolarA @P_Kallioniemi ahahhhaahahahahahaahahah, sry, ok pidorov
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@P_Kallioniemi People immigrated because the West made Russia unliveable in the early 2000s. Not because the west is better
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Funny how these people always prefer to live in the “decadent west” instead of Russia
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Mihkel Ronk retweetledi
Palantir vient de publier son manifeste. Lisez-le.
Pas pour ce qu'il dit sur la tech. Pour ce qu'il dit sur le politique. Sur l'idéologie de Karp et Thiel. Sur la guerre. Sur vous.
Quand une entreprise privée se donne pour mission de définir qui doit être surveillé, ciblé, prédit, neutralisé, et qu'elle publie simultanément un texte expliquant pourquoi contester cela serait de la faiblesse civilisationnelle, on n'est plus dans la stratégie d'entreprise. On est dans la privatisation du souverain. Le droit de décider de l'ennemi, qui fut toujours le geste politique fondateur des États, est en train d'être racheté par une entreprise cotée au Nasdaq.
Ce manifeste repose sur un seul tour de passe-passe, répété sous vingt formes différentes : rendre l'inévitable ce qui est en réalité un choix. Les armes à IA ? Elles seront construites de toute façon, alors autant que ce soit nous.
La surveillance algorithmique ? La réalité géopolitique l'exige.
Le réarmement de l'Occident, la hiérarchie des cultures, la disqualification du pluralisme comme naïveté dangereuse ? Simple lucidité face au monde tel qu'il est.
C'est le geste idéologique par excellence : ne pas interdire la question, mais la rendre indécente.
Ce que Palantir appelle réalisme est en fait une décision philosophique radicale : le conflit est la vérité permanente du monde, la délibération démocratique est une fragilité que l'adversaire exploitera, et une élite technologique privée est mieux placée qu'un peuple pour tirer les conséquences de cette vérité.
C'est du schmittisme en hoodie. C'est littéralement la structure de leur pensée.
Le danger n'est pas qu'ils soient fous. Le danger est qu'ils soient riches, cohérents, et déjà à l'intérieur des États. Palantir ne frappe pas à la porte des gouvernements pour vendre un outil. Elle arrive avec une cosmologie complète : voici comment fonctionne le monde, voici vos ennemis, voici pourquoi vous ne pouvez pas vous permettre de débattre, et voici notre contrat.
Palantir est l'ennemie des peuples et de la démocratie. Ce qu'ils construisent, c'est un pouvoir technocratique que personne n'a élu et que personne ne pourra destituer.
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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