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Generations of Soviet Politburo members groan in their Kremlin graves realizing there was no need to do arms race with the US, because one Elon Musk was enough to dismantle the whole US government!

Don't you just love it when gifs don't work? Anyway, here it is in its full glory:

French TV channel France 2: Orbán has been found to own an undeclared luxurious Austro-Hungarian-era palace worth €45 million. Trying to emulate his idol - Putin?

An RN rating carries a young girl along a cluttered dock in Greenock, Scotland, March 1, 1945. This famous image, and the story behind it, epitomise naval purpose: protect the high seas; safeguard civilians. This is the story of the Sørøya Island rescue. #maritimehistory #navalhistory #WW2 🧵1/29

Solid reporting by @briankrebs.bsky.social expanding on @wired.com work that links one of the Musk DOGE protégés rifling through federal networks to a cybercrime social network known as The Com, whose members engage in nastiness including DDoS attacks and swatting. Krebs himself is among victims.

Good advice from the Sumerians

More than one third of the entire Russian shadow fleet comes from European shipping companies. The European companies earned billions selling their old rust buckets to Russia who in return can fund their invasion of Ukraine on sanctions evading tankers. #shadowfleersecrets

1. BREAKING Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

Some more archiving...

Absolutely fantastic news as sickle cell gene therapy is to be rolled out for sickle cell academia with a one off treatment curing 97% of patients 🧪

You remember that science communication channel that just commented on studies with “in mice”? We need one that does this about late antique and early medieval history that says “in Gibbon”.

Gregory of Tours describing a historical event ▶️🔘───────── 00:07 Gregory of Tours about that one guy miraculously healed from hiccups, St Martin be praised ▶️🔘───────── 7:35:12

Just finished off the well-written new memoir from the most recent U.S. ambassador to Russia, which concluded with four clear lessons: 1) Putin views the U.S. not simply as an adversary, but as an enemy. "Putin genuinely believes he is at war with the United States and NATO in Ukraine."

Hahaha… attn. E*lon!

US Dept of Justice forbids US assistant attorney to go through with planned talk on ”Complicity of lawyers in creation of the Nazi state” on Holocaust remembrance day. Dark.

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This video is 5 months old www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDyP...

Today we remember the victims of the Nazi persecutions (Jews, Romas and Gypsies, disabled people, political opponents, and our own siblings: LGBT+ people), as well as those of other genocidal horrors committed since. For a better future. Lest we forget

Once again... spent lockdown illustrating on a important book about the true story of the rise of Nazism in 1938 seen through the eyes of a real family. Please read uk.bookshop.org/a/11494/9780... and always speak up against fascism & Nazism.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Hey, while we're talking about erasing history: In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun." The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen. So they refused to announce a winner🤡

Our team at Frontelligence Insight is looking for dedicated volunteers to support our growing investigations and research projects. As our workload expands, we need more hands to manage an already complex process that involves cross-source verification, peer review, and multi-regional analysis:

Similar cancellations happened at the Army War College in Carlisle PA. Canx history courses about Black Soldiers and Women in Combat.

This is ... extra ... messed up.

A call to arms leftists and right wingers alike should be able to take to heart?

As someone who has edited Wikipedia for years now, the biggest issue facing the platform isn't external, but internal; and, specifically, the lack of barriers to editing Wikipedia. It is far too easy for outside sources to make edits to pages, quietly removing information in a way that few notice.

An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

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