kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Советский анекдот:

Учительница зачитывает сочинение Вовочки:

> СССР первым запустил космический корабль, человека в космос и сельское хозяйство.

Передай папе, что у нас сажают не только картошку.

As funny as it sounds, it seems like egocentric jerks on both the right and on the left are obsessively scared of pretty much the same: other people...

"The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State" (Davidson, Rees-Mogg)

"The Population Bomb" (Ehrlich)

Also waiting for this one impatiently - "Mr Jones" (2019) about Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, one of the first one to document and publish in the West the Soviet famine in '30s.

His story was symbolic and in many aspects repeats today. Jones traveled to Donetsk to watch people literally starving to death under famine that was both caused and denied by the Communist Party. His reports then faced fierce denial of both Soviet authorities and Western intellectuals.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/samuel-goldwyn-films-north-american-rights-mr-jones-1203310267/

Now Rambler goes after Twitch too https://kanobu.ru/news/twitch-vrossii-hotyat-zablokirovat-rambler-trebuet-otkompanii-180-mlrd-rublej-419801/

Linux: privilege escalation via io_uring offload of sendmsg() onto kernel thread with kernel creds. As I understand, this is only in 5.3+, fixed in 5.3.15 and 5.4.2

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1975

New Russian series "Эпидемия" (Epidemic, 2019) - a good action dystopia like Mad Max, just in winter. Plus my favourite actor Kirill Käro.

Did anyone notice this stunning similarity between Noah Cross, one of the main characters of "Chinatown" (1974) and Donald Trump? And not only visual...

Cuban government has been cleverly manipulating their national income data reported to UN to make it 3x higher than the actual Cubans have at their disposal. From $21k per capita PPP it goes down to actually $7.5k. #cuba

https://www.erikjennische.com/latinamerika/world-bank-statistics-and-cuban-excellence

An US tort-law firm is publishing misleading ads about an effective #hiv drug on Facebook to lure its users to file lawsuits against its manufacturer. This extremely cynical sector of business was also behind the anti-vaccine and anti-GMO propaganda out there.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/14/facebook-prep-anti-hiv-drug-misinformation

"«Ботаникам» не мешали копаться в своих компьютерах, и в итоге они сделали в России телеком-революцию и создали одни из самых успешных в мире интернет-компаний. По аналогии можно представить себе, какой была бы страна, если и в другие сферы жизни не входили бы «силовые предприниматели» разного рода. Теперь у уважаемых людей наступило прозрение: «ботаников» можно грабить, причем счет пойдет на сотни миллионов долларов." #nginx https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2019/12/14/83164-gosudarstvo-eto-my

"The role of the network today is to carry clients to services only. The job of the clients is not to talk to the other clients, but talk to services"

Geoff Huston "The Death of Transit and Beyond"

https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/106/