J. Baumanis
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Ostensibly a writer. Not Latvian enough.
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David Mitchell 
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“People are so afraid of paying taxes, but then expect to receive great services. Maybe we should pay higher taxes to properly fund things”
Crazy thought that sometimes you get what you pay for 🤷♂️ 😉
Ère républicaineAujourd'hui, nous sommes le primidi 11 floréal, de l'année CCXXXI du calendrier républicain, jour de la rhubarbe.
Watched the first episode of this last night. It's hard to overstate how riveting. I'd put it up there with the classic Vietnam documentary Hearts and Minds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke600MgW1F0
TraumaZone Part 1 1985 to 1989 (2022) by Adam Curtis
Wonder of ScienceThis is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.
Credit: NASA Johnson
More details: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38985/sarychev-peak-eruption-kuril-islands
Kevin RothrockThank you.
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Sberbank bans generation of Putin nudes in Kandinsky neural network
https://theins.ru/en/news/261321
https://twitter.com/InsiderEng/status/1651564482559201282
Sberbank bans generation of Putin nudes in Kandinsky neural network
State Duma deputy Sergei Mironov has called on Russia’s Prosecutor-General to investigate a neural network created by Sberbank for allegedly showing the wrong colors of the national flag. The network’s developers soon changed its algorithms, leaving images with the Russian flag unchanged, and instead banning images of a naked Vladimir Putin, which the software had allowed until recently.
Eastern Border PodcastComrades...folks...I wish I was joking. But today I found out that Russian mobilized are LITERALLY being SOLD OFF to Wagner group to be used as cannon fodder in their meat assaults. Because Russian officers want money, Prigozhin wants success. Serfdom 2.0!
I have an interview tonight, 6PM UK time, with a Russian oligarch who's making a charity dinner or Ukraine in Jurmala, Latvia on the 21st. Entry cost is 10,000eur. It'll be in Russian, so i'll have to translate but that's the next ep while Anete edits.