You can soon self-host your data
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080334/bluesky-self-hosting-servers-data-federated
Threads is the new Facebook.
It’s Nostr or Blueskye if you’re looking for decentralised social media.
”Drivers of vehicles with Russian license plates must apply for Lithuanian registration, or leave the country "and the entire territory of the European Union" by March 11.
Beyond the deadline, drivers of vehicles with Russian registration are subject to a fine and confiscation of the car.”
”Western countries only need to allocate 0.25 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) to Ukraine to allow it to win the war…
The reality is that things get worse before they get better. Then they get even worse. And then they suddenly go completely crazy. And only then do they slowly get better. Today we are somewhere between bad and getting worse”
https://news.err.ee/1609269600/salm-europe-must-play-a-bigger-stronger-role-in-supporting-ukraine
“The East Air Command confirms the downing of a Su-34 fighter-bomber. Unfortunately, it was only one,” the Air Force wrote on Telegram.
Ukraine now has "tools" to destroy planes "at quite long distances," explaining the recent uptick.
Russia's total losses during the all-out war amount to about 670 aircraft — 345 planes and 325 helicopters”
https://kyivindependent.com/air-force-ukraine-downs-another-russian-su-34-jet/
”Russia considers itself at war with the West. Within the mental framework of this undeclared war, all relations between Russia and the West must be zero sum. Anything that harms the West helps Russia, without limit to location or scope…
Russia does not accept the West’s basic idea that human rights matter. For Russia, only power matters.”
”Czechia said it had received commitments from Canada, Denmark, and other countries that do not wish to be identified. Belgium has also allocated 200 million euros ($216 million) to the initiative, while the Netherlands pledged 250 million euros ($271 million).”
#ukraine #eu
Warpcaster is not open-source?
New Clippy is the AGI!
https://www.wired.com/story/wild-claim-at-the-heart-of-elon-musks-openai-lawsuit/
”Europe could someday be competing against three autocracies: “Russia, China, and the United States.” When he said that, it was my turn to shake my head, not because I didn’t believe him, but because it was so hard to hear.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/one-global-issue-trump-cares-about/677592/
”The company is working with a limited number of partners including social tools like Sprinklr, Sprout Social, Social News Desk, Hootsuite, tech news board Techmeme, and a few other developers.”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/threads-says-it-will-make-its-api-broadly-available-by-june/
”Wirecard, the German equivalent to PayPal…with a valuation of $28 billion…
COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian spy.”
The UK offered solutions to Berlin’s resistance to sending them, including a swap deal that would see Britain supply Kyiv with more of its own Storm Shadow missiles, and Germany then restock the UK with replacement long-range missiles.
Time to start winning instead of losing?
”Germany, home to 133 active pro-Kremlin voices across business, media, diasporas, and fringe political movements. Before the invasion, many mainstream German groups also openly backed Moscow”
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/02/29/russias-propaganda-war-how-putin-bought-germany/?swcfpc=1
”American singer LP’s concert in Lithuania was canceled after she posed in a Russian flag hoodie. The event organizers said…
With this decision, we want to draw LP’s attention, as well as other artists planning events in Lithuania, that we will not tolerate messages supporting the aggressor country”
“The most important thing is people who are close to Putin: his friends, associates and keepers of mafia money. You and all of us must fight [against] the criminal gang,” Navalnaya said.
Navalnaya added that the West should aim for “investigations into the financial mechanism, not statements of concern but a search for mafia associates in your countries.”
”At the RRC gala event held in Moscow, the Russian Red Cross was praised as the nation’s oldest humanitarian organization. The event would have been ordinary had Avangard not been an arms factory under the ownership of the sanctioned, state-owned Almaz-Antey Group”
https://vsquare.org/kremlin-leaks-putin-red-cross-propaganda-war/
Sorry - I was not referring to your site but more in general.
”North Korean munitions factories are operating at full capacity to supply weapons to Russia in exchange for much-needed food and other necessities…
North Korea is estimated to have shipped around 6,700 containers to Russia since the summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in September, he said. The amount is enough to accommodate approximately 3 million rounds of 152 mm artillery shells or 500,000 of 122 mm artillery shells.”