kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

"Two critical numbers in the X-rays of the front cover, of 462 years and 442 years, accurately represent cycles of Venus and Saturn respectively. When observed from Earth, the plants’ cycles sometimes reverse their motions against the stars. Experts must track these cycles over long time-periods to predict their positions. "

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/ucl-team-solves-antikythera-mechanism-mystery/

Most of their comments have used Unicode HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS (U+2026) which is a single … character instead of ... (three ASCII dots) which you would normally type in a comment field.

A working theory is that they were writing these comments in Word for accounting 😂

TBH I suspect it might be also a some mobile OS with auto-type feature, because I saw comments using U+2026 that clearly weren't from that group.

A funny case study with Internet trolls: a Polish company selling a Signal clone sued security researchers who pointed out some security issues. The company also led very aggressive PR campaign, with dozens of YT influencers, hundreds of fake "this app is great" comments under articles.

People promptly noticed all their comments can be easily identified by an unique feature...

Göbekli Tepe monoliths in Turkey 🇹🇷 dated 9'500 BC, which means they are... 7'000 years older than Stonehenge 🤷

Mark Galeotti: "The sustained effort to denigrate the Sputnik V vaccine by some in the West is not only a depressing spectacle, it is a terrible blunder in both political and epidemiological terms."

Galeotti is the last person who could be described as friend of Putin, and Putin by his usual campaign of lies and propaganda had hurt Sputnik V more than anyone else.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/03/17/moral-panic-about-russian-vaccine-diplomacy-is-a-western-blunder-a73264

Polish political scene 🇵🇱 by AnaOpp & David Klemperer

“We need energy that does not add CO2 to the atmosphere [...]. The least emissions-intensive those are wind and nuclear, but if we want energy that’s independent of external conditions, then we’re left with nuclear,” Malinowski explains.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/03/15/poland-bets-on-nuclear-as-it-seeks-to-reduce-reliance-on-coal/

Fascinating history of Lithuanian 🇱🇹 smugglers of... books 📖

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lithuanian-book-smugglers

Chechen police whistleblower describing mass-scale extrajudicial killings in the Russian republic

https://www.currenttime.tv/a/byvshii-policeiski-rasskazal-o-vnesudebnyh-kaznyah-v-chechne/31152312.html

It's always good when media exemplify things they're writing about:

"There's an indication of widespread disinformation regarding A-Z vaccine"

"Blood clots in a patient vaccinated in Spain"