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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!

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

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?

submitted 13 days ago • 87 comments

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

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

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.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Good advice from the Sumerians

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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

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

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.

submitted 20 days ago • 316 comments

Some more archiving...

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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 🧪

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

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”.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 101 days ago • 13 comments

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."

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Hahaha… attn. E*lon!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

DeepSeek jailbreak

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

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

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

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.

submitted 27 days ago • 505 comments

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🤡

submitted 27 days ago • 586 comments

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:

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 28 days ago • 30 comments

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

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

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

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

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.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 33 days ago • 208 comments

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. “

submitted 344 days ago • 101 comments

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submitted 41 days ago • 14 comments