US & EU step up pressure on Turkey to crack down on Russian sanctions evasion, "focusing on Turkish banks that have integrated into Mir, Russia’s domestic payments system," amid concerns that Turkey's banking sector is a potential backdoor for illicit finance
https://www.ft.com/content/95243a73-22c8-447e-bbae-a10a206d7e9e
Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over Threads
in November, Elon Musk mocked laid off Twitter employees, saying “their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere”
well, apparently some went to Meta to build Threads & Musk now has a problem with that
Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).
In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.
The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.
...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.
Carlson gets an invite to move to Russia from a top Kremlin propagandist (who, btw, has appeared in Wagner PMC recruitment videos): "We'll happily offer you a job," the oligarch, Vladimir Solovyov, said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-to-tucker-carlson-run-for-president-visit-moscow-2023-4
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