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meh 🤷Sep 18, 2023

Anne Applebaum Sep 18, 2023

Chilling paper produced Sergei Karaganov, once invited to many transatlantic conferences, and other academics. Proposals include deporting "1-2 million" people from occupied Ukraine and Russia to Siberia, an exact repeat of Stalin's policies, and destroying Ukrainian industry, energy, transport, leaving only agriculture, an exact repeat of Hitler's policies.
https://newsland.com/post/7698415-karaganov-podgotovil-sekretnyy-doklad-dlya-putina-migrantam-vse-russkim-deportaciya-v-sibir-i-katorga

Караганов подготовил секретный доклад для Путина. Мигрантам – всё, русским – депортация в Сибирь и каторга

В распоряжении редакции оказался доклад "Проблемы и уроки недавней истории отечественной внешней политики (и возможности коррекции)", подготовленный Советом по внешней и оборонной политике Центра комплексных европейских и международных исследований факультета мировой экономики и мировой политики НИУ ВШЭ. Авторский коллектив документа впечатляет: заслуженный профессор, научный руководитель факультета мировой экономики и мировой политики НИУ ВШЭ, почётный председатель президиума Совета по внешней и оборонной политике Сергей Караганов; директор программы ситуационных анализов факультета мировой экономики и политики НИУ ВШЭ, посол в отставке, член Совета по внешней и оборонной политике Александр Крамаренко; профессор-исследователь факультета мировой экономики и политики НИУ ВШЭ, председатель президиума Совета по внешней и оборонной политике, главный редактор журнала "Россия в глобальной политике" Фёдор Лукьянов; профессор-исследователь факультета мировой экономики и политики НИУ ВШЭ, член Совета по внешней и оборонной политике Дмитрий Тренин.

meh 🤷Sep 18, 2023

Alan Sepinwall Sep 18, 2023

#WinningTime came to an abrupt end last night with what turned out to be its surprise series finale. I wrote about how things unraveled for what people once assumed would be HBO's next big hit: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/winning-time-season-2-series-finale-cancelled-shocker-hbo-lakers-adam-mckay-1234826810/

‘Winning Time’ Season 2 Shocks Fans With Surprise Series Finale

Adam McKay’s HBO series about the Showtime Lakers has abruptly ended after two seasons, and did so in disappointing fashion

Rolling Stone

meh 🤷Aug 12, 2023

FurbyOnSteroids Aug 12, 2023

Japan Earthquake Alert App (1.9 million followers) Says Sayonara to X

"[..]We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X."

https://unseen-japan.com/nerv-app-x-twitter-leaving/
#X #Twitter #mastodon #activitypub #nerv #gehirn

Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan

Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.

Unseen Japan

meh 🤷Aug 12, 2023

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Steve Herman Aug 12, 2023

Publisher Eric Meyer says his newspaper in #Kansas had been investigating the local police chief prior to the raids on his office and home. https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper

A conversation with the newspaper owner raided by cops

Eric Meyer says his paper had been investigating the police chief prior to the raids on his office and home.

The Handbasket

meh 🤷Aug 10, 2023

Janel Comeau Jul 26, 2023

USA: our airport codes are shorted versions of the city’s name, or an abbreviation of the airport

Europe: our airport codes are shorted versions of the city’s name, or an abbreviation of the airport

Canada: EVERY AIRPORT CODE IS THE LETTER Y PLUS FRIENDS

meh 🤷Aug 10, 2023

Philip Bump Aug 10, 2023

The newly uncovered memo about the fake elector plot came days before a violent protest in December 2020 and as Trump was desperately trying to block state vote certification.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/09/trump-plans-2020-election/?itid=ap_philipbump

The other tracks Trump took to bolster the fake electors plot

It's important to remember that Trump's effort to retain power took multiple forms.

The Washington Post

meh 🤷Aug 1, 2023

Joel Sherman 🤖Aug 1, 2023

Royals entertained offers for Salvador Perez. Not completely dead, but very unlikely he is moved. Marlins had interest so did non-contending White Sox, owing to relationship with mgr Pedro Grifol and team control thru 2025 with 2026 club option.

meh 🤷Jul 29, 2023

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Laffy Jul 29, 2023

2/ To defame someone, a statement must be “provably false,” Singhal noted. And even if CNN were saying Trump is “Hitler-like” it’s pure opinion

“Being ‘Hitler-like’ is not a verifiable statement of fact that would support a defamation claim,” the judge wrote

meh 🤷Jul 29, 2023

Laffy Jul 29, 2023

Womp womp

Via Kyle Cheney:

OVERNIGHT: A federal judge (appointed by #Trump) dismissed Trump’s lawsuit claiming CNN defamed him by using the phrase “The Big Lie,” which Trump says implicitly compares him to Hitler.

Lawsuit dismissed *with* prejudice.

The judge, Raag Singhal, made clear he is NOT a fan of the media & made some conclusory statements about how reporters operate (& how he says TV viewers respond).

But he said NYT v Sullivan is binding on him. 1/…
#legal

meh 🤷Jul 24, 2023

Mastodon Migration Jul 24, 2023

So, just took a quick look over at X, at MSNBC's Kyle Griffin, who just posted:

"It gets worse by the minute here."

And the replies...

- "buh bye"
- "Leave"
- "Be a good time for you to pack it up"
- "Complains about twitter on twitter"
- "So why tweeting?"
- "You’re in Hunter’s rock house?"
- Ad from Amazon
- "Everyone keeps saying they’re leaving but they don’t 🤔"
- "You’re free to leave"

And yet they stay on #X... Kinda crazy.

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