I was born in USSR. There were no votes in USSR. I remember Perestroika. When I was just a teen, my parents were seriously discussing going off the grid to sit out the civil war if the 1991 KGB putsch against Gorbachev succeeded. Everybody was surprised when it failed. What followed was very confusing time, people had no idea how democracy is supposed to work, including the people who somehow made it work anyway, for a few years.
@kravietz @wolf480pl @sofia @mithrandir @cjd This analogy seems apropos: https://mastodon.social/@angdraug/104689683830610638
RT @HarleyShah@twitter.com
Cheating the taxpayer is only a crime if you live on a council estate or have to pick between food and heating. When some toff in a suit steals 10 billion of our money to give to his friends, he keeps his job as health secretary
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HarleyShah/status/1363522478413406212
I didn't realize but there's actually open-source house construction
RT @internetarchive@twitter.com
🙌 Announcing: a new portal for the #Decentralized Web. If you've ever wondered how to find allies, partners, resources, events & writings about the DWeb, this new website is designed just for you.
Connect the dots in the DWeb:
https://getdweb.net/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1362418758556348416
On Revolutionary dialectics https://write.as/arcadian/on-revolutionary-dialectics
You're e-mailing a document that most people will just read, but you know one or two will want the editable version. Did you know you can send a PDF that has the source document embedded within?
https://meshedinsights.com/2021/02/18/schrodingers-document/
Brezhnev's talks with Giscard d'Estaing (1977), complaining that people who criticise #ussr are "well paid".
Technically, Brezhnev is right: in 80's Poland average salary was like $20 per month, which was probably 1/100-1/10 of what people in the West earned at the time, so literally anyone there was indeed "well paid", including those few who talked badly about USSR.
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RT @pickwick@twitter.com
We're calling GB News Britbart, right?
@Wetrix
Now would be a really clever time for the EU to come in with all of the regulation it wants to do to FB.
WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-whatsapp-privacy-idUSL4N2KP0XY
Facebook is gambling Australia can't live without it. Imagine if we prove them wrong.
Пока весь мир поздравляет NASA с успешной посадкой марсохода, 57-летний Дима Рогозин публикует в твиттере глупые картинки (которые потом удаляет):
https://t.co/FKpxDRUOuR https://t.co/Nu9a8E8yit
Источник: https://twitter.com/varlamov/status/1363054184325644289
Origin of life: Did Darwinian evolution begin before life itself?
This is so meta… Yesterday I tooted about finishing Snowden's book, and today YouTube is *suddenly* recommending me an interview with him. This never happened before, for any of the topics I toot here…
The only thing that changed, of course, is that a few days ago I started cross-posting my toots to Twitter. This is just a tad beyond my willingness to believe coincidences :-) Hey, #surveillancecapitalism, go F yourself!
(Considering shutting down cross-posting.)
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.