This is what bezdorizhzhya (Ukr)/rasputitsa (Rus) season does to the frontline trenches. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian troops are experiencing this right now.
RT @operativno_ZSU@twitter.com
‼️Реальність передової!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/operativno_ZSU/status/1596456200815902722
RT @UA_Institute@twitter.com
As the Holodomor Remembrance Day approaches in Ukraine, we want to share the story of Gareth Jones - the man, who told the world about the Holodomor.
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/UA_Institute/status/1596200974838018048
It's perfectly reasonable and possible for *both* of these statements to be true:
* it is better here than on Twitter
* this better *isn't good enough*
Federation and decentralization *as currently and inconsistently and idiosyncratically practiced* while better, are not good enough.
Digging in and saying that decentralization and federation *is* good enough is really, really unhelpful.
Also, the potential for better does not mean the practical experience is better.
If you need a break from everything here is an #audiobook recommendation:
P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1 narrated by Stephen Fry (who is on mastodon btw at @stephenfry)
I **absolutely love** Jeeves stories and this is my favorite narration.
@ChrisO_wiki this story is both completely nuts and completely unsurprising coming from Russia.
*NEW* Geopolitics Decanted episode is out!
I talk to @danny about Russian cyber attack successes and failures in Ukraine, why a conflict with China over Taiwan might see a very different cyber campaign, the scary vulnerabilities of highly networked US weapons platforms like the F35, why Russia has not yet used cyber to retaliate against the West for sanctions, and much more!
Available now on the usual podcast platforms.
https://podcast.silverado.org/episodes/russias-cyber-game-what-worked-and-what-didnt
Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
in honor of this toot
https://mastodon.scot/@jonreed/109400665716703959
#FavoriteMusic 14/
Try reading this without being moved by these descriptions of not only what life was like under Russian occupation in Kherson but what it is like to be from there and to have been cut off from the city without word for months. https://on.ft.com/3AMfyQe
I’m very happy to see my friend & top Ukraine journo @berdynskykh_k@twitter.com with a great, deeply personal Kherson dispatch in @FT@twitter.com. “My hometown hadn’t changed in appearance, but the atmosphere was completely different, with scars and injuries, yet at the same time strong and courageous.”
RT @berdynskykh_k@twitter.com
My article about Kherson #Ukraine #Kherson https://www.ft.com/content/edebcc74-ea99-4227-9917-3c055548ae5a
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/berdynskykh_k/status/1596212202985226240
>§#Ukraine's leaders will have to be "far-sighted" to secure peace, #Pope Francis said on Friday, suggesting that #Kyiv would have to make concessions to end the war with #Russia.
Maybe missing it, but why are these calls always directed at Kyiv? Russia could put on their big boy pants and be far sighted and offer concessions to end the war too, you know
Why do folks always talk about Russia like its an inanimate force of nature like a hurricane? They have agency too.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-needs-be-far-sighted-secure-peace-pope-says-2022-11-25/
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips
@grammargirl yes, I am also hoping some smart people can figure it out. I think it should be one of the priorities for Mastodon but I have no idea if it actually is.
@grammargirl I don't think that approach can solve the verification issue. first, many who need verification will not have resources or desire to set up their own servers: small news orgs and local governments for example. Also, may individuals who really need verification. More to the point, the chief issue with verification is impersonation and various entities running their own servers won't solve that as it will still be hard for the users to say who is who.
@grammargirl I agree in principle and I've been trying to mostly post here and not on twitter (haven't tried Post yet) but ultimately people will go where there is better user experience and where there is more content. There are big issues that Mastodon can't easily solve because of how it's set up but competing commercial platforms can. to name just one: verification. News orgs, government entities etc will absolutely want it and will be very reluctant to join Mastodon without it. then there is money (of course), moderation, compliance with various legal thing etc.
Zelenskyy's statement reveals the politics around the oil price cap - Poland&Baltic countries are pushing for a 30 USD/barrel cap that would decimate Russia's oil profits, while unnamed other countries are too afraid of any disruption to the flow of oil.
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/zalezhnist-yevropi-vid-rosijskih-energoresursiv-pochala-zmen-79425
@freemo will LaTeX rendering be fixed too? that would be great.
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