June 8, 2022

On June 5 Russians took over a streaming TV service in Ukraine and for ten minutes replaced the England v Wales football match with Russian propaganda. Cyber war!

Football — Hackers hacked OLL.TV during the match Wales — Ukraine

OLL.TV was hacked during the broadcast of the match between Ukraine and Wales. Instead of football, hackers turned on Russian propaganda

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A long and winding thread of rather amazing innovation.

Andy Arthur 💃🏰🦌 @cocteautriplets

This is Clydebank. Specifically, this is Dalmuir. And this is a thread 🧵. Specifically, a thread about Dalmuir's fleeting involvement in the production of giant, improbable aircraft. 👇 (📷Stephen Sweeney / CC BY-SA)

9:35 PM ∙ Apr 15, 2022

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Thread by @cocteautriplets on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

@cocteautriplets: This is Clydebank. Specifically, this is Dalmuir. And this is a thread 🧵. Specifically, a thread about Dalmuir's fleeting involvement in the production of giant, improbable aircraft. 👇 (📷Stephen Sw...…

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Not sure if the claims match the reality. But interesting anyway

GitHub - sensity-ai/dot: The Deepfake Offensive Toolkit

The Deepfake Offensive Toolkit. Contribute to sensity-ai/dot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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wilf @friendlykitties

you’re in her DMs; i’m boarding Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, from Portland to Seattle on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. i’m taking seat 18C and ordering a bourbon and soda. i am passing the stewardess a handwritten note.

2:53 PM ∙ Jun 6, 2022

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Round up on good articles on the Russian army.

Great analysis on why the Russian army isnt as good as people thought. This was *before* the invasion. So extra credit goes to Stanimir Dobrev.

Dwarfing the Giant: The Reality of Russia's Military, Part I - International Review

Russia's military forces, following three years of deployment in Syria, are facing fresh challenges on both land and sea.

https://international-review.org/dwarfing-the-giant-the-reality-of-russias-military-part-ii/

And finally, how miserable it is:

Russia’s Military Telegrams its Discontent - CEPA

Russian troops are using social media channels to discuss the war, despite potentially punitive punishments. The Kremlin won’t like it.

This had me thinking a lot about a book I started reading, “Sheer Misery”, which looks at how war is experienced by the soldiers. A General complains that the bad winter weather is putting more men out of action than the enemy. That is, he thinks of his soldiers as “units of force.” For the soldiers though, the weather is visceral. Their feet swell, go black, lose sensation. Their fingers turn blue and freeze solid. It is a torturous experience that they never forget.

Anyway, just made me think about how the experience of being a soldier in Ukraine must be sheer misery in its own way. Apparently some Russians were given pies by a nice old lady, except they were poisoned and 8 of them died.

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Dmitri 🇺🇦 @mdmitri91

Can we believe the Russian phone calls intercepted and published by Ukrainian SBU and GUR?

Read 🧵👇 or visit wartranslated.com/can-we-believe…

This is a very popular question I'm asked a lot as someone involved with translating the calls for the public...