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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

> be melon
> buy an internet forum for billions because you didn't like the mods
> replace fact-checking with community notes
> nurture sycophants on your internet forum
> burn more billions on spicy autocomplete
> be mad about your spicy autocomplete app not being popular
> lash out like a man-baby
> get fact-checked in community notes on your own sycophantic internet forum
> get fact-checked by your own spicy autocomplete on your own internet forum

Frisk Aug 12, 2025

@rysiek absolutely love creatures asking LLM to not be biased/to not hallucinate. Like... No, it won't work like that lol.

Maksim Elistratov Aug 12, 2025

@rysiek in the end this is... just sad.

Aaron Aug 12, 2025

@0crash @rysiek And, IMHO, sad billionaires are funny. You could buy anything in the world ... but you're sad.

Nicole Parsons Aug 13, 2025

Oligarch Infighting doesn't end well.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-oligarchs-are-fighting

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/roman-starovoit-russia-deaths-mystery-circumstances-putin-b2784555.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/22/oligarchs-visible-more-vulnerable

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-mysterious-death-oil-yukos-oligarch-rogachev-window-cancer-suicide-1972000

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/trump-musk-oligarchy-russia-far-right

https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/putins-deadly-revenge-on-prigozhin

https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/lapdogs-of-war-a-guide-to-russias-wartime-oligarchs/

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/24/russia-putin-yevgeny-prigozhin-wagner/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/19/saudi-accounts-emerge-of-ritz-carlton-night-of-the-beating

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/22/1087654279/how-shock-therapy-created-russian-oligarchs-and-paved-the-path-for-putin

https://theconversation.com/yevgeny-prigozhin-wagner-group-boss-joins-long-list-of-those-who-challenged-vladimir-putin-and-paid-the-price-212181

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/01/22/report-says-saudi-prince-mbss-whatsapp-account-personally-sent-jeff-bezos-malware-used-to-access-his-phone/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-russians-fall-windows-putin-ukraine-war-1781790

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361135815_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ruling_Oligarchs_Fighting_Political_Corruption_in_China

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%932019_Saudi_Arabian_purge

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/how-saudi-royal-crushed-his-rivals-shakedown-ritz-carlton-n930396

The Oligarchs Are Fighting

Does the Trump-Musk breakup resemble an ancient Greek myth or a Godzilla movie? Either way, mere mortals will likely get trampled.

The New Yorker

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Aug 13, 2025

@Npars01 oh no doubt about that. Still, we can enjoy the schadenfreude here.