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«Si uno tuviera una sola mirada para dar al mundo, debería contemplar Estambul», Alphose De Lamartine.
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the latest popular AI word I've started to notice everywhere is "quietly"
Gurwinder@G_S_Bhogal
A common sign of AI writing is that it’ll frequently signpost its own sentences: “this highlights”, “this underscores”, “here’s the kicker”, “now for the plot twist”, “the bottom line”, “the key takeaway”, “here’s why this matters”.
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Baza reports that cucumber prices in Russia have jumped to 700 rubles per kg ($9.10). Seasonal swings are normal, but this is off the scale. Even the low end now starts around 500 rubles ($6.50), with vendors warning prices could rise further.
Farmers cite New Year demand, a cold winter driving up greenhouse energy costs, and higher prices for seeds and fertilisers. Antimonopoly authorities are now looking into it.
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Greatest geopolitical thinker of the last 30 years imo
Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov
Applebaum: A Russian victory in Ukraine would endanger not only countries on Russia’s borders, but all of Europe. Putin has said that anywhere a Russian soldier has ever been could be Russian again. That is not only Warsaw or Riga. That also means Berlin. 1/
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@berlin_bridge says NATO propagandist who's paid by who is who of military industrial complex. The irony
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@StuartHumphryes Enjoying your work a lot. Here is my great-grand mother Antonina in 1927. Thank you and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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I've been watching some YouTube videos where historical figures had their paintings re-rendered by Ai as contemporary photos, and the connection it creates with the subject is quite profund. So I tried it on some Victorian photos such as the shot below of Sir John Herschel from 1867. The potential it offers family historians is considerable, and so I thought, as a fun little Christmas present to you, I would offer the service freely to my followers during this week. So if you want to post a shot of an ancestor I will, in turn, reply with a re-rendered version for you, re-imagining them as if taken by modern photography. But just single shots (not groups or couples) and they need to be of clear enough resolution that we can clearly see their faces and not have to guess at their features.
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Footage showing 8 consecutive Russian Geran-2 drone strikes on the Slavutych 330 kV electrical substation, as well as 1 strike on the 110 kV substation, in Kyiv Oblast.
The footage shows strikes on:
The machine hall
2 power transformers
The oil storage
The switchgear field
330 kV coordinates: 51.52377, 30.70779
110 kV coordinates: 51.52682, 30.66776
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Which one of these ̶t̶e̶r̶r̶o̶r̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ brothers from another mother will stay in power longer: Zelensky or Julani?
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Many in the Russia diaspora are circulating this 40-year-old editorial by Sergey Dovlatov in the New American. It does touch a raw nerve. Dovlatov speaks against those in the diaspora who transformed into toxic anti-communists and Russia-bashers after living a life of a conformist or outright collaborationist back in the USSR. He also points at various features in American society that feel painfully familiar for anyone with Soviet experience:
“Because totalitarianism is you. Totalitarianism is censorship, the lack of transparency, monopolisation of the market, spy mania, conservative language, putting brakes on real talent. Totalitarianism is directive, order, reprimand. Totalitarianism is servility, national loyalty and self-humiliation”.
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The biggest failure of the past week wasn’t about Trump or Putin, it’s about Europe. Europe must decide what we’re willing to do to secure our continent. That starts with Ukraine. Until we do that and act accordingly, Putin and Trump will determine the direction of this war.
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@IslingtonChap Times reader did a three sound steps and then on fourth strait down in a muck, oh well...
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Here’s what I’m stepping for:
Step one: Tikka Masala.
Step two: A cuppa.
Step three: The NHS.
Step four: Support for Ukraine.
Step five: Our Lionesses.
The whole time, I’m clapping.
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BREAKING: A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, about 150 km southeast of the local capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The quake occurred 17 km beneath the seafloor. Residents reported heavy shaking, power outages, and damage to buildings.
Japan has issued a tsunami alert due to the offshore epicenter. Kamchatka is adjacent to the Pacific 'ring of fire' and such events are pretty routine.
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@jschripsema @RnaudBertrand don't know, but you gave a very good definition of luck actually
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What's with billionaires' psychological need to mythologize about the virtues of suffering and deprivation? Such a weird phenomenon.
Probably a mix between self-guilt, survivor's bias and strategic gatekeeping.
Self-guilt because deep down they ought to know their success isn't purely meritocratic, if anything luck played a big role.
Survivor's bias because they genuinely can't process that suffering is common while billionaire success is not - they think the correlation proves causation.
Strategic gatekeeping because mythologizing struggle serves to dismiss inequality as a character issue rather than a structural one.
One thing is sure, it just isn't true. It's particularly funny to see Schmidt justify Google's success on the account of its frugality given that Google's model - under his tenure - relied on creating the most expensive, perk-laden work environment possible to attract top talent away from competitors.
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@Anvoro I actually used to be at one point ranked as the 4th richest person in Switzerland under 40 👇, so I guess the answer is yes, kind of 🤷
blick.ch/wirtschaft/u40…
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@NinaByzantina Do you think geniuses in Brussels have a secret message here for us (see image in Step 5)
etias.com/etias-requirem…
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Is anyone really surprised that Perfidious Albion is alleged to be behind the attacks on civilian trains in Russia?
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@BohuslavskaKate @kenashimame said ukrainian propagandist, oh the irony ...
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@kenashimame She is propagandist. They are unaware by default
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It was Russia who started the unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine.
It was Russia who rolled mobile crematoriums into our control at the beginning of the invasion in hopes of capturing our country quickly, murdering everyone who disagrees, and burning the evidence.
It is Russia who bombs our hospitals, churches, apartment buildings, and playgrounds, murdering children and burning entire families in their beds.
It is Russia who regularly and proudly executes Ukrainian prisoners of war on camera and posts it online.
It is Russia who abducted up to 30,000 Ukrainian children.
It is Russia who destroyed the Kakhovka Dam, flooding an entire region, drowning people and their homes, and destroying the ecosystem.
Fuck you, Sasha. It is Russia!
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@maria_avdv Wow, Maria, you're going to enlighten us what did remaining 34% say? I'm holding my breath
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Telling numbers on how Ukrainians see Russia’s war aims:
• 66% say Russia wants to destroy Ukraine and its people.
• Of them, 28% say it seeks genocide, and 38% believe it wants to seize most or all of Ukraine’s territory and erase its statehood
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@NinaByzantina Schadenfreude meter is not just off the scale it started to spin :)
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Anyone else experiencing the enjoyable feeling of Schadenfreude after reading this lengthy piece of EU-Baltic whining as their lackey, rather than “equal partner,” status is dawning on them?
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Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹@GLandsbergis
Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we now have to do about it:🧵1/17
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