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01 The automotive designers of the rebooted Volga series got a tongue-lashing from Russia’s recently reappointed prime minister today at an expo in Nizhny Novgorod. Watch Mishustin bitch and moan about the Chinese parts in the car. Broh, embrace your geopolitical BFFs already.
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02 The Lia Zaurbekova case is something else. A 19-year-old woman flees her abusive family in Chechnya and then leaves Moscow for abroad after her father tracks her down. The cops even helped her get out.https://holod.media/2024/05/17/z-blogery-podderzhali/As the father and Chechen officials vow to bring her home in the end, a bizarre coalition of human rights activists and z-blogger chauvinists (the latter is mostly interested in hating on Chechen Islamists) has emerged to generate public attention and sympathy for Zaurbekova. Strange bedfellows indeed.
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03 This is pathetic. Pro-Kremlin TV network Tsargrad now promotes links to pirated copies of Hollywood films. This embrace of decadent American culture is justified as a presentation of “trophy films,” a Soviet term for movies brought to the USSR after WWII. https://meduza.io/feature/2024/05/16/na-sayte-telekanala-tsargrad-obnaruzhili-razdel-trofeynye-filmy-eto-onlayn-kinoteatr-zarubezhnogo-kino-v-tom-chisle-ofitsialno-ne-vyhodivshego-v-rossii
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04 Ilya Krasilshchik’s Helpdesk Media project is shutting down for a lack of funding. The fatigue from the invasion of Ukraine has definitely ended an era of independent Russian media trends. The exiled outlets are on their own now like never before.
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05 Was his second choice Douglas Rain?
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06 It’s incredible how stupid the Big Tech gurus are. Also, has Altman actually seen “Her”? It’s not exactly an inspiring tale about AI...
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07 Folks, I'd like to boost my Mastodon feed. What are some of your favorite active accounts? Not just Russia or world affairs related. Anything! I'm a sucker for consumer tech, but I'll consider all suggestions.
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08 who did this
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09 ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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10 WSJ says Euro investigators believe Russia is carrying out hybrid ops (eg using civilians & commercial vessels for survey work & possibly attacks) against railways & maritime facilities, but Europe’s high evidence standards have prevented prosecutions. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-sees-signs-of-russian-sabotage-but-hesitates-to-blame-kremlin-72598d4b
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11 "The United States and Europe are coalescing around a plan to use interest earned on frozen Russian central bank assets to provide Ukraine with a loan to be used for military and economic assistance."https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/us/politics/russian-assets-help-ukraine.html"However, using the interest as the basis for a loan could provide Ukraine with a much larger amount of money — potentially as much as $50 billion — up front. [...] It also remains unclear how the loan would be repaid if the war ended before the bond matured or if interest rates fell, making the proceeds on the assets insufficient to repay the loan."
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12 Attacks today in Ukraine's Kharkiv region killed at least six and injured 27 people. Meanwhile, attacks in Russia’s Belgorod region injured 12, including four minors. https://t.me/meduzalive/106177
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13 lol, former President Dmitry Medvedev is asking the Yandex voice assistant questions about Ukraine and claiming that inconsistencies reveal the ideological impurity of its developers. Maybe it's time to blacklist them as "foreign agents," he says... https://t.me/medvedev_telegram/496
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14 A new charge has been added to the case against Soviet and now Russia dissident Alexander Skobov: participating in a terrorist group. This is apparently how the authorities are qualifying his decision to Skype into a session during the opposition-in-exile's Free Russia Forum in Feb. 2023. https://www.facebook.com/alexander.skobov/posts/7797308226996989
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15 On this week’s Naked Pravda, I spoke to political scientist David Szakonyi about his new research on corruption and co-optation in Russia’s autocracy. His work comes just as the Kremlin’s “anti-corruption” tactics are brought to bear against senior Defense Ministry officials. https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2024/05/18/corruption-and-co-optation-in-russia-s-autocracy
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16 A good point about an alarming claim published in the NYT, which doesn’t explicitly identify Article 5 as what would “obligate [the USA] under the alliance’s treaty to aid in the defense of any attack on the trainers,” but it does seem like that’s the (incorrect) suggestion.
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17 The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has said a NATO deployment of trainers to Ukraine appears to be inevitable. “We’ll get there eventually, over time,” he said, though it’s unclear if he sees this presence as part of a post-war initiative or something that might happen while Russian missiles are still falling.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/politics/nato-ukraine.htmlMeanwhile, America’s NATO allies in France and the Baltics seem keen to put their trainers potentially in harm’s way, which would trigger treaty obligations and “potentially drag America into the war,” says the NYT. I wonder what The Donald would say if it came to this...
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18 This is hardly the Belgorod story that the Kremlin wants Russians to hear: thousands of apartments and homes have been destroyed in Ukrainian shelling, which now hits the region 300–400 times a month.https://verstka.media/belgorodskaya-oblast-poteryala-iz-za-voiniA tanked local economy as skilled workers and affluent consumers flee, and employers struggle without enough help from the govt, which is more interested in funding more bombs to hurl at Ukraine.
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19 The Netflix adaptation of Three Body's Panama Canal wire scene is so tasteless that only the Game of Thrones show runners could have concocted its grisly, child-harm gore. What a disappointment. I sure do love the books though.
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20 If I were Putin in Beijing today, my first words to Xi would have been, "Those Netflix bastards."
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21 ho ho ... oh https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112452804424680438
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22 Ties between Russia and China have become so close that their respective leaders don't even bother wearing theirs anymore.
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23 Anything from Michael Kofman and Rob Lee is a must-read. Here, we get an excellent overview of “Moscow’s window of opportunity” as Kyiv tries to rebound from delayed U.S. aid and Ukraine’s own policy choices that caused a deficit of manpower. Ukraine is not out of men, they stress. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/russia-ukraine-kharkiv.html
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24 the fact that the Russian intelligentsia in exile continues to use Facebook as a key platform for debate and sharing opinions probably says a lot
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25 Shoigu is seated right beside Putin during the president’s meetings in China today. Not so put-out-to-pasture after all, perhaps.
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26 Thoroughly brutal comments to Plushev about the post-Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation from Boris Zimin, once the org’s biggest sponsor (he even paid for Navalny’s evac to Germany).https://youtu.be/An_GeTohO4A?si=Ma3aTenWaTMZwL1YZimin is very steamed about the “Traitors” miniseries, but he’s also lost hope in anti-corruption work generally.
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27 I wonder how helpful this gesture is, given that Georgian lawmakers claim to be confronting foreign influence on the country’s political process.
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28 if you ask chatgpt to respond to things that require it to speak English and Russian, and then click the text-to-speech button, it will speak Russian but with an American accent
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29 A nice quote in Pertsev’s report on the latest cabinet/admin appointments: when asked how long officials will remain in these positions, one source said it might feel long-term to normal people, but it’s only temporary for Putin. “He experiences time differently; he lives in a history textbook.” https://meduza.io/feature/2024/05/14/patrusheva-nazyvali-samym-vliyatelnym-silovikom-rossii-a-teper-on-pomoschnik-putina-po-korablestroeniyu-pohozhuyu-dolzhnost-poluchil-dyumin-hotya-emu-prochili-post-ministra-oborony-chto-vse-eto-znachit
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30 Say hello to the newly appointed lieutenant governor of Russia’s Vologda region. Or maybe don’t. (It’s former professional heavyweight boxing champion Alexander Povetkin.) The UK’s Anthony Joshua kicked his ass in 2018.
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31 FSB director Bortnikov confirms that Russian forces are withdrawing from Armenia’s demarcation line with Azerbaijan and closing their Zvartnots Int’l Airport checkpoint, but FSB will remain at Armenia’s borders with Turkey and Iran (at Yerevan’s request). https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/664361499a79471e577817e0
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32 Poor booze tycoon Yevhen Cherniak can’t catch a break. After being prosecuted in Russia for “financing terrorism” for his donations to Ukraine’s army and accused of “supporting Russian aggression” in Ukraine by keeping his Global Spirits liquor biz in Russia, the Russian GenPro is now suing to nationalize his assets. I guess it would at least solve his legal probs back home...https://www.rbc.ru/business/14/05/2024/664255f09a7947315b4faa24
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33 i upgraded to ChatGPT 4o and it won’t even sing to me like a sexy little kitty cat, what gives
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34 Earlier today, hours before Ukraine instituted nationwide rolling blackouts due to Russian airstrikes & unseasonably cold weather raising heating demands, US Secretary of State Blinken parachuted into Kyiv for an electric performance of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.”
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35 Ukraine’s power grid operator announces nationwide “controlled emergency shutdowns” between 9 p.m. and midnight tonight, due to power deficits caused by Russian shelling and increased consumption due to colder weather. https://t.me/Ukrenergo/2833
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36 Some curious info: Masha Baronova writes that Kononenko spent the last six months of his life in penury when work dried up after he carelessly reposted a joke involving/mocking separatist Vladimir Zhoga’s surname. https://t.me/Baronova/37952Long story short, former Yukos VP (now set for life) Roman Khomenko joked, “In Russia, all important matters are resolved through Zhoga,” with Zhoga’s name taking the place of “zhopa,” which roughly translates to “are resolved ass-backwards.”DPR leader Denis Pushilin posthumously awarded Zhoga the title Hero of the Donetsk People’s Republic, while Putin awarded Zhoga the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. No joking matter, zhogaholes!
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37 to be clear, i don’t know how much of the sock he managed to fill, but this outfit undeniably exudes BDE
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38 you won’t believe it, but that cock-in-a-sock rapper from Nastya Ivleeva’s “Almost Naked” party last year has reportedly left Russia to evade conscription. some reports claim that Vacio (Nikolai Vasiliev) has even reached the US of A. https://www.starhit.ru/exclusive/byla-povestka-na-13-maya-reper-vacio-kotoryi-dolzhen-byl-poiti-v-armiyu-posle-goloi-vecherinki-sbezhal-iz-rf-5662574/
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39 time is a loop
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40 write a catchy song with a subtext that denounces the foundations of modern American life but give it a patriotic-sounding title and refrain, and you can be sure that U.S. politicians on both sides of the aisle will perform it and play it at public events for years to come
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The automotive designers of the rebooted Volga series got a tongue-lashing from Russia’s recently reappointed prime minister today at an expo in Nizhny Novgorod. Watch Mishustin bitch and moan about the Chinese parts in the car. Broh, embrace your geopolitical BFFs already.
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Attached: 1 video The automotive designers of the rebooted Volga series got a tongue-lashing from Russia’s recently reappointed prime minister today at an expo in Nizhny Novgorod. Watch Mishustin bitch and moan about the Chinese parts in the car. Broh, embrace your geopolitical BFFs already.
The Lia Zaurbekova case is something else. A 19-year-old woman flees her abusive family in Chechnya and then leaves Moscow for abroad after her father tracks her down. The cops even helped her get out.https://holod.media/2024/05/17/z-blogery-podderzhali/As the father and Chechen officials vow to bring her home in the end, a bizarre coalition of human rights activists and z-blogger chauvinists (the latter is mostly interested in hating on Chechen Islamists) has emerged to generate public attention and sympathy for Zaurbekova. Strange bedfellows indeed.
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Z-блогеры поддержали сбежавшую из России чеченку
Они выступили против консервативных традиций и за объединение «патриотов» и оппозиции для борьбы с ними
This is pathetic. Pro-Kremlin TV network Tsargrad now promotes links to pirated copies of Hollywood films. This embrace of decadent American culture is justified as a presentation of “trophy films,” a Soviet term for movies brought to the USSR after WWII. https://meduza.io/feature/2024/05/16/na-sayte-telekanala-tsargrad-obnaruzhili-razdel-trofeynye-filmy-eto-onlayn-kinoteatr-zarubezhnogo-kino-v-tom-chisle-ofitsialno-ne-vyhodivshego-v-rossii
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На сайте телеканала «Царьград» обнаружили раздел «Трофейные фильмы». Это онлайн-кинотеатр зарубежного кино — в том числе официально не выходившего в России
На сайте телеканала «Царьград» есть ссылка на пиратский онлайн-кинотеатр с зарубежными фильмами — в том числе с теми, которые официально не выходили в российский прокат. Внимание на это в соцсети икс 15 мая обратил пользователь @andrew_chsh.
Ilya Krasilshchik’s Helpdesk Media project is shutting down for a lack of funding. The fatigue from the invasion of Ukraine has definitely ended an era of independent Russian media trends. The exiled outlets are on their own now like never before.
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Attached: 2 images Ilya Krasilshchik’s Helpdesk Media project is shutting down for a lack of funding. The fatigue from the invasion of Ukraine has definitely ended an era of independent Russian media trends. The exiled outlets are on their own now like never before.
It’s incredible how stupid the Big Tech gurus are. Also, has Altman actually seen “Her”? It’s not exactly an inspiring tale about AI...
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Attached: 1 image It’s incredible how stupid the Big Tech gurus are. Also, has Altman actually seen “Her”? It’s not exactly an inspiring tale about AI...
Folks, I'd like to boost my Mastodon feed. What are some of your favorite active accounts? Not just Russia or world affairs related. Anything! I'm a sucker for consumer tech, but I'll consider all suggestions.
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Folks, I'd like to boost my Mastodon feed. What are some of your favorite active accounts? Not just Russia or world affairs related. Anything! I'm a sucker for consumer tech, but I'll consider all suggestions.
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WSJ says Euro investigators believe Russia is carrying out hybrid ops (eg using civilians & commercial vessels for survey work & possibly attacks) against railways & maritime facilities, but Europe’s high evidence standards have prevented prosecutions. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-sees-signs-of-russian-sabotage-but-hesitates-to-blame-kremlin-72598d4b
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Exclusive | Europe Sees Signs of Russian Sabotage but Hesitates to Blame Kremlin
Alleged hybrid assault is a challenge to European democracies that have a high bar for evidence of culpability