Overnight a Russian missile destroyed a maternity hospital ward in Vilnyansky, Zaporizhia Oblast, killing a newborn baby and injuring two doctors.
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"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
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Seems like any stray ball would be awkward to recover with this setup
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An answer to the question "why didn't Twitter go down?"
Short answer: automation.
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TFW the new mayor gutted the Fire Department but the town still runs just fine!
An important thread for all of us who have been infused by the Russian narrative of events since 2014 in western media.
It was never about NATO expansion. It was about Ukrainians wanting a (European) perspective for their country, separate from Russia.
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Exactly 9 years ago today, I was in a pub with my uni pals when we heard the news that then-president Yanukovych would not sign the association agreement with the EU, crushing Ukraine's European hopes and locking us to Russia.
We were not buying it.
Here's what happened next 
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Putin's reputation as a national saviour was earnt by *breaking* a peace treaty. Treaty is shameful = breaking it is seen an act of national redemption. Same will happen this time, too. After all, as Sergey Kirienko pointed out, "Russian state is not based on treaties". The end
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From this, it's pretty clear that Russia's invasions are at least partly due to Ukrainians' successful attempts to clean up their government.
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It’s 9 years since the beginning of the Maidan revolution, which began as a protest led mainly by students and journalists, and ended up changing the fate of our country. This is what the early days felt and looked like: November drizzle, ironic posters and earnest students.
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You can't stop people from saying bad things about you. All you can do is make them liars.
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The great sheep mystery! Hundreds of sheep walk in a circle for over 10 days in N China's Inner Mongolia. The sheep are healthy and the reason for the weird behavior is still a mystery.
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Hyvää isänpäivää / Happy Father’s Day to all Finnish dads as well as to us fathers of Finnish kids �?��?
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3. Winter War 1939-40
Moscow invaded Finland & eventually grabbed ~10% of its territory, but only after suffering horrendous losses that debilitated its armed forces and, according to many historians, encouraged Hitler to invade the USSR shortly after
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Something to tickle the minds of spatial interaction designers. Another argument for why physical affordances for virtual hand-based input are important... Physical surfaces, clips, thimbles, rings
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If Moscow was hoping the U.S. midterm elections would sway military aid to Ukraine, it’s likely to be disappointed.
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I once slept at the office at R/GA but that was only because I had free access to a now-defunct Verizon streaming gaming service, and I had played Hitman until 4 in the morning.
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I have been making software professionally for 30 years, at companies of all sizes and growth trajectories. I have never once slept in the office. There is no reason to do this unless your data center is literal on fire. Please don't buy into hustle culture bullshit.
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I have been hearing the idea from some Republicans that Ukrainian resistance comes at a cost to Americans. Nothing could be more wrong. Ukrainian resistance provides extraordinary security benefits to Americans. 1/
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I said goodbye to a patient a few years ago. She didn’t die, she just got old. I treat patients to age 21 and they move on. When they do, I joke, “well, I did my job! I kept you alive until adulthood!�?
With this kid, it was not a joke. 1/
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I am never deleting this godforsaken app
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Orbán's position on the ratification of the Finnish NATO membership is again topical. Let's go through what has happened already, and what's likely to happen.
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Training data should absolutely be under control of the creator / owner of the IP, and AI trained with stolen IP should itself be considered stolen.
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Why would anybody do this?
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You can fit the entirety of Poland into Texas and still be able to drive around it.
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She also makes the excellent point that Russia's targeting civilian infrastructure can be justified by the earlier anti-Ukraine report
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So. I've browsed @amnesty 's Twitter page once more and there are next to none mentions of the Russian attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure, or if there are, the wording is so vague that it may be difficult to a person outside the context to understand what happened at all
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I know it's fashionable to leave twitter these days. That's so stupid. There's so much potential here. You still have the freedom to write something positive, uplifting and truthful. isn't stopping you from contributing to a better world. It starts with you! Much love�?��?
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Now - Activists deface priceless art at Gotham Museum
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My condolences to the people of Itaewon
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Officials in Seoul said that at least 120 people were dead and 100 others were injured after a stampede in the South Korean capital's popular Itaewon district, where crowds had gathered to celebrate Halloween. nytimes.com/live/2022/10/2
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russia has proposed replacing Ukrainian grain on world markets with…stolen Ukrainian grain.
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In a kind of "spaceship room" at Mars 2112 🚀
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What’s the wildest place you had sex at?
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I’m going to reinvent this one rather familiar stock photo trope completely
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INBOX: "The Congressional Progressive Caucus hereby withdraws its recent letter to the White House regarding Ukraine."
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14/x Putin is losing the war, so he has to try to threaten nuclear holocausts in order to extract concessions that his military cannot achieve.
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2/x You should not say "we need diplomacy to avoid nuclear war."
Why? Because Putin is the only one making nuclear threats, and he's doing it to to scare you into accepting concessions to Ukrainian sovereignty and providing legitimacy for his conquests.
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