The US Cities Whose Workers Are Most Exposed to AI
Silicon Valley, the place that did more than any other to pioneer artificial intelligence, is the most exposed to its ability to automate work. That’s according to an analysis by researchers at the Brookings Institution, a think tank, which matched the tasks that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 could do with the jobs that are most common in different US cities. From a report: The result … ⌘ Read more

How the British Broke Their Own Economy
Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, now suffers from its opposite: profound energy shortages and deep affordability crises

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org i appreciate you updating this with that info. been in the weeds at work so haven’t been tracking the conversation here much. let me sit on this for a bit because often times the edits are within seconds of first post so maybe maybe i just allow them within a certain time frame or do away with them all together. i really only do it because it bugs me once i notice the typo :)

Waiting For the Paperback? Good Luck.
U.S. publishers are increasingly abandoning paperback editions of nonfiction books, eliminating a traditional second chance for authors to reach readers with lower-priced versions of their work. New adult nonfiction paperback titles plummeted 42% between 2019 and 2024

Graduates From Top MBA Programs Are Struggling To Land Jobs
Job placement rates have declined at all top U.S. business schools

@prologic@twtxt.net sure thing!
What about discussing it in https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev ?
The only con I see is that everyone would need to create an account there to participate.

a few async ideas for later

The editing process needs a lot of consideration and compromises.

From one side, editing and deleting it’s necessary IMO. People will do it anyway, and personally I like to edit my texts, so I’d put some effort on make it work.
Should we keep a history of edits? Should we hash every edit to avoid abuse? Should we mark internally a twt as deleted, but keeping the replies?

I think that’s part of a more complete ‘thread’ extension, although I’d say it’s worth to agree on something reflecting the real usage in the wild, along with what people usually do on other platforms.

yep! Enjoy your rest, let’s discuss it later

Nvidia and Broadcom Testing Chips on Intel Manufacturing Process
Nvidia and Broadcom are conducting manufacturing tests using Intel’s advanced 18A chip production process, according to Reuters, signaling potential confidence in the struggling chipmaker’s contract manufacturing ambitions. The previously unreported tests could lead to significant manufacturing contracts for Intel, whose foundry business has suffered d … ⌘ Read more

Apple’s Software Quality Crisis
Article URL: https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-02-apple-quality

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075

Points: 501

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Lenovo’s ThinkBook Flip Puts an Extra-Tall Folding Display On a Laptop
Lenovo unveiled its ThinkBook “codename Flip” AI PC Concept at Mobile World Congress on Monday, featuring a flexible 18.1-inch OLED display that can transform between three configurations: a traditional 13.1-inch clamshell, a folded 12.9-inch tablet, or a laptop with an extra-tall vertical screen.

Unlike the motorized ThinkBook Plus G … ⌘ Read more

looks good to me!

About alice’s hash, using SHA256, I get 96473b4f or 96473B4F for the last 8 characters. I’ll add it as an implementation example.
The idea of including it besides the follow URL is to avoid calculating it every time we load the file (assuming the client did that correctly), and helps to track replies across the file with a simple search.

Also, watching your example I’m thinking now that instead of {url=96473B4F,id=1} which is ambiguous of which URL we are referring to, it could be something like:
{reply_to=[URL_HASH]_[TWT_ID]} / {reply_to=96473B4F_1}
That way, the ‘full twt ID’ could be 96473B4F_1.

How Many Episodes Should You Watch Before Quitting a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis
Daniel Parris: Some TV shows take a while to “get good.” Modern classics like Breaking Bad, The Wire, Community, and Bojack Horseman are notorious for “starting slow” and are often recommended with a disclaimer like “Give it a few episodes; I promise it gets good!”

At the same time, some shows neve … ⌘ Read more

China May Be Ready To Use Nuclear Fusion for Power by 2050
China aims to commercialize nuclear fusion technology for use in emissions-free power generation by 2050, according to the countryâ™s state-owned atomic company. From a report: China National Nuclear Corp., which runs an experimental device dubbed the ‘artificial sun,’ could start commercial operation of its first power generation project about five years afte … ⌘ Read more

hi! I hope you can see this message

As in https://eapl.me/timeline/post/s7gv6zq
I changed my URL to experiment on this exact situation, and deleted the symlink on my server, so now tw.txt is the only way to get the file, although I could bring it back, what does everyone say?

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Wildlife Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/03/wildlife.html #programming #project #devjournal

‘Why Can’t We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices?’
Apple users noticed a change in 2023, “when streaming platforms like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and the Criterion Channel imposed a quiet embargo on the screenshot,” noted the film blog Screen Slate:

At first, there were workarounds: users could continue to screenshot by using the browser Brave or by downloading extension … ⌘ Read more

That’s pretty darn neat, the little indie movie (‘Flow’) made in Blender beat out some Disney/Pixar heavyweights. I actually watched it a month or so ago, nice little movie. It’s not the highest detailed animation or anything, but it has a style that it makes work.

Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues?
“TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for memory safety issues that have hindered the C and C++ languages,” reports InfoWorld.
But also being developed is a compiler named trapc “intended to be implemented as a cybersecurity compiler for C and C++ code, said developer Robin Rowe…”

Due by the end of this year, trapc will be a free, open so … ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me There are several points that I like, but I want to highlight number 7. https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version #twtxt

@prologic@twtxt.net No edits anymore! \o/

I really like the proposal and your ideas. I have been reading your articles and several points seem very interesting to me.

I show you the website of Baldo, my little black cat (the pocket panther).
Website: https://baldo.cat/
Twtxt: https://baldo.cat/twtxt.txt
#catsoftwtxt

Blender-Rendered Movie ‘Flow’ Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar
It’s a feature-length film “rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender,” reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks.

In January Blender.org called Flow “the manifestation of Blender’s mission, … ⌘ Read more

interesting.. my pod was looking for him as https://eapl.me/twtxt.txt but the correct path is https://eapl.me/tw.txt

Linux’s Marketshare Drops in Monthly Steam Survey
What’s Linux’s marketshare on Steam? The Steam Survey numbers tell this story:

11/24: 2.03%
12/24: 2.29%
01/25: 2.06%
02:25: 1.45%

“The February numbers show a staggering 0.61% drop to Linux use…” reports Phoronix. But they attribute this to an sampling error:
According to the survey, it shows 50% of Steam users using the Simplified Chinese language pack [a 20% increase … ⌘ Read more

I think @movq@www.uninformativ.de removed support for it in jenny. 🫠

@prologic@twtxt.net eapl.me comes up not found for me.

2025-03-02T13:20:00-07:00 (#<fmgas3a https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt?t=2025-03-02T10:12:13Z>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> its hard to change by consensus. Some things are won in implementation.

Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237273

Points: 506

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True. Though if the idea turns out to be better.. then community will adopt it.

if you look at the subject for that twt you will see that it uses the extended hash format to include a URL address.

A SMART TOILET ON THE ROOF!

Hey everyone!

About the idea of improving the “thread” extension, what if we set aside March 2025 to gather proposals and thoughts from everyone? We could then vote on them at the end of the month to see if the change and migration are worth it.

The voting could include client maintainers (and maybe even users too). That way, we get a good mix of perspectives before taking a decision in a decent timelapse.

What do you think? If this sounds good, we can start agreeing on this. Let me know your thoughts!

Lenovo Teases Solar-Powered and Foldable-Screen Laptops in Latest Concepts
Lenovo demonstrated “a laptop with a foldable screen and one that can get extra battery life from solar power,” reports CNBC, emphasizing that “These laptops are just concepts, meaning they are not commercially available.”
But “Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC maker, has a history of showing off imaginative concepts with some … ⌘ Read more

Trump Names Cryptocurrencies for ‘Digital Asset Stockpile’ in Social Media Post
Despite a January announcement that America would explore the idea of a national digital asset stockpile, the exact cryptocurrecies weren’t specified. Today on social media the president posted that it would include bitcoin, ether, XRP, Solana’s SOL token and Cardano’s ADA, reports CNBC — prompting a Sunday rally in cr … ⌘ Read more

‘Exponential Spin-up’ In Geothermal Energy Projects Brings Hope for Green Power
Earth’s core “burns with an estimated forty-four trillion watts of power,” the New Yorker reminds us — enough to “satisfy the entire world’s energy needs” with a power source that’s carbon-free, ubiquitous — and unlimited. (Besides running 24 hours a day, one of geothermal energy’s key advantages is “it can be used … ⌘ Read more

I hate to say it .. but we as a species have peaked at this moment. It’s all down hill from here.

@prologic@twtxt.net its hard to change by consensus. Some things are won in implementation.

How Buildings Are Staying Cool and Saving Money - with Batteries Made of Ice
“Thousands of buildings across the United States are staying cool with the help of cutting-edge batteries made from one of the world’s simplest materials,” reports the Washington Post — ice.

When electricity is cheap, the batteries freeze water. When energy costs go up, building managers turn off their pricey chillers … ⌘ Read more

What Happened When Conspiracy Theorists Talked to OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo?
A “decision science partner” at a seed-stage venture fund (who is also a cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player) explored what happens when GPT-4 Turbo converses with conspiracy theorists:

Researchers have struggled for decades to develop techniques to weaken the grip of conspiracy theories and cult ideo … ⌘ Read more

Ask Slashdot: Would You Accept a Free Ride Into Space?
How confident are we about the safety of commercial space tourism? Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
It’s one thing for Microsoft to boast that they dare to use Outlook instead of Gmail. But it took a whole other level of commitment for Jeff Bezos to join his brother Mark aboard Blue Origin’s first passenger-carrying mission in July 2021.

So, while Bezos i … ⌘ Read more

Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office
Article URL: https://twitter.com/EthanEvansVP/status/1895845734177452369

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43232255

Points: 500

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Fast New 3D Printing Technique Shines Holograms into Resin
Can a new 3D-printing technique shorten 3D printing times to just seconds? A team of researchers in Europe has modified Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, which can “create entire objects in one shot by shining light patterns into liquid resin,” according to the 3D Printing Industry blog. (The liquid resin then solidifies when the light inten … ⌘ Read more

First Petawatt Electron Beam Arrives, Ready To Rip Apart Matter and Space
Petawatt lasers have already allowed scientists to “manipulate materials in new ways, emulate the conditions inside planets, and even split atoms,” reports Science magazine. “Now, accelerator physicists have matched that feat, producing petawatt pulses of electrons that could also have spectacular applications…”

Described … ⌘ Read more

It has been interesting to see so many reflecting at the same time about the current state and the possible future of web browsers - even if it was fired up by some bad news from @mozillaofficial@mozillaofficial.

Still, it is important to acknowledge what is and has been going on - how a web browser currently became a lot more than just a piece of software implementing a number of open standards, how they are all basically based over one of two existing browser agents (Gecko and Webkit) with the emergence of two upcoming ones (Servo and LibWeb); the difficulties of creating or maintaining a new web browser, or how dependent are all firefox forks (or older, harder derivatives like SeaMonkey) of Mozilla (both Firefox and Gecko).

I’m not trying to get to any point with this text, but rather to highlight that now is the time to have a few conversations around open standards, and in particular web standards. And as it happens, the “annual day” to have discussions of that sort is around the corner: @dff@dff’s Document Freedom Day 2025 is already in the 26th of this month. So why aren’t there more events on the map? How is your community, user group, etc. going to mark and celebrate this day?

Organize something, and put it on the events map, right this way: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd

Malicious PyPI Package Exploited Deezer’s API, Orchestrates a Distributed Piracy Operation
A malicious PyPi package effectively turned its users’ systems “into an illicit network for facilitating bulk music downloads,” writes The Hacker News.

Though the package has been removed from PyPI, researchers at security platform Socket.dev say it enabled “coordinated, unauthorized music download … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, the ground was wet here, too. Some sections of esp. smaller paths had turned into mud holes. There are a few notorious spots. Oh well, you just have to press on. :-)

Forest animals also have to do the laundry, they even have a proper clotheshorse! See: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-zu-den-schurrenhoffuechsen-2021-05-15/07.jpg :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, stimmt! :-D

@bmallred@staystrong.run I forgot one more effect of edits. If clients remember the read status of massages by hash, an edit will mark the updated message as unread again. To some degree that is even the right behavior, because the message was updated, so the user might want to have a look at the updated version. On the other hand, if it’s just a small typo fix, it’s maybe not worth to tell the user about. But the client doesn’t know, at least not with additional logic.

Having said that, it appears that this only affects me personally, noone else. I don’t know of any other client that saves read statuses. But don’t worry about me, all good. Just keep doing what you’ve done so far. I wanted to mention that only for the sake of completeness. :-)

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I’ve commented on the ticket: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/14#issuecomment-19142

In all reality, though, I don’t see that our community will come to an agreement. Some folks just don’t want to give up on the content-based addressing scheme.

Watch ‘Blue Ghost’ Attempt Its Landing on the Moon
Watch the “Blue Ghost” lunar lander attempt its moon landing.

The actual landing is scheduled to happen at 3:34 a.m. Eastern time, according to CNN, while “The first images from the mission should be delivered about a half hour after…”
Success is not guaranteed…

You can check bitcoin by curl rate.sx

@prologic@twtxt.net I formed my opinion about this before reading/watching any additional media coverage. And yes, this is extremely bad. These two have no place on the “world stage”. They are deciding on our future. (And I am well aware that my country is heading into a similar direction – unless we stop it.)

27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next?
Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They’d spotted a Reddit post “detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in Python … ⌘ Read more

(Updated) Olimex Launches POEv3 Add-On for ESP32-P4 Development Board
Espressif Systems announced the ESP32-P4 over a year ago. While the chip is not yet available for retail, a prototype development board featuring the chip was recently showcased by Olimex. This board includes multiple interfaces, such as an Ethernet connector and a camera connector, demonstrating its versatile capabilities. The ESP32-P4, initially announced last year, features

ASUS NUC 15 Pro+ Starts at $810 with Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
ASUS has just provided pricing details for the ASUS NUC 15 Pro+, a compact computing system powered by Intel Core Ultra Processors (Series 2), offering up to 99 TOPS of AI acceleration and an 18% increase in performance compared to the previous generation.   As of now, the product page indicates that the ASUS NUC

I like this syntax, you have my vote, although I’d change it a bit like
#<Alice https://example.com/twtxt.com#2024-12-18T14:18:26+01:00>

Hashes are not a problem on PHP, I dont know why it’s slow to calculate them from your side, but I agree with your points.

BTW, did you have the chance to read my proposal on twtxt 2.0? I shared a few ideas about possible improvements to discuss:
https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version
https://text.eapl.mx/reply-to-lyse-about-twtxt

Utah Could Become America’s First State To Ban Fluoride In Public Water
NBC News reports that Utah could make history as America’s first state to ban fluoride in public water systems — even though major medical associations supporting water fluoridation:

If signed into law

Microsoft Outage Leaves Tens of Thousands Unable to Access Email and Other Apps
“Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon,” reports CNBC:

“We’re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,” Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X…

Th … ⌘ Read more

I come here always to check bitcoin’s price

AMD Reveals RDNA 4 GPU Architecture Powering Next Gen Radeon RX 9070 Cards
Long-time Slashdot reader MojoKid writes: AMD took the wraps of its next gen RDNA 4 consumer graphics architecture Friday, which was designed to enhance efficiency over the previous generation, while also optimizing performance for today’s more taxing ray-traced gaming and AI workloads. RDNA 4 features next generation Ray Tracing en … ⌘ Read more

I always visit this hole when I’m burrowing. Great stuff. I also love the Internet Archive front-end.

A Letter to the American People
Article URL: https://18f.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224350

Points: 587

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@prologic@twtxt.net I wonder if we watched the same video.

Mozilla Revises Firefox’s Terms of Use, Clarifies That They Don’t Own Your Data
“We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible,” Mozilla explained Wednesday in a clarification a recent Terms of Use update. “Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything … ⌘ Read more

Daniel 11:40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Here is my two pennies concerning a prophecy . Problem with prophecies is understanding them, after the prophecy is past we can look back and understand perhaps?

What if the king of the north of Israel is Russia and the king of the South of Israel is the USA?

What does the Bible say of these two super powers over the Holy Lands of Israel?

Dunno, just my two pennies for those who wish to hurt their brains today. Shalom

TWTxt can’t handle long posts can it?

What it you are a writer? Some of my posts on my forum takes hours to make and minutes to read.

Shalom

Zelenskyy can yell all he wants in the White House, but his game is up. Ukraine was never an independent player in this war—it was a pawn. A pawn used by Deep State actors in Washington to weaken Russia. And now that the war is lost, that pawn is being abandoned.

So when Trump tells Zelenskyy “you don’t have the cards,” he’s not just talking about negotiations—he’s exposing the truth. And why would Trump do this if Zelenskyy is a Western puppet or, worse still, intelligence asset? Because that would mean he’s a puppet or agent of the Deep State—the same Deep State who have tried to destroy Trump since he was first elected in 2016. Perhaps President Trump wants payback, perhaps he wants justice, or perhaps he just wants peace and an end to this pointless war.

The war in Ukraine didn’t need to happen. It was deliberately provoked. And it’s time for the world to wake up to that reality.

Until next time, God bless you, your family and nation.

Take care,

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James and I were discussing this meltdown last night. I got this email today. :)

Kolomoisky, conveniently, owned Ukraine’s largest oil and gas company and bank. And when Zelenskyy took power, his first priority wasn’t fighting corruption—it was ensuring Western financial houses like BlackRock took over Ukraine’s economy.

We now know that Zelenskyy funneled millions of dollars into offshore accounts—money that could have gone to his people. He allegedly used it to buy:

    A $34 million mansion in Miami

    A seaside home for his parents in Israel

    A $3.8 million luxury apartment in London

This is the man the media calls a hero.

And once he was installed, his real job began: provoking war with Russia on behalf of the West.
The War the West Wanted

By 2022, NATO had armed Ukraine to the teeth, and Kiev had massed forces near the Donbass. Russia had a choice—let the ethnic Russian people in Donbass face an ethnic cleansing, and then let NATO turn Ukraine into a de facto launchpad for war, or step in. They stepped in.

The media screamed that it was an “unprovoked invasion.” But it was provoked. NATO expansion, the 2014 coup, eight years of war on Donbass—this war was manufactured in Washington and, if the allegations around Zelenskyy being a MI6 asset are right, also in London.

Time to Wake Up

part 8

Since 2020, he has surrounded himself with British—not Ukrainian—security guards. When Zelenskyy visited the Vatican in May 2023, he snubbed Pope Francis and instead spent his time with British Bishop Paul Gallagher. His handler, Sir Richard Moore, was also present.

Are we really supposed to believe this is all coincidence?

And if Zelenskyy is an intelligence asset, then his entire presidency—his entire persona—is an illusion crafted for Western audiences. And that brings us to his rise to power.
Hollywood Presidency: How Zelenskyy Was Manufactured

Before he was president, Zelenskyy was a comedian—a TV actor in a scripted Ukrainian drama called Servant of the People, where he played a humble teacher who miraculously becomes president. It was pure political fiction.

And then, suddenly, it became real life. His campaign was managed by Western PR specialists—including an Obama speechwriter—and heavily financed by Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, one of the most corrupt men in Ukraine.

part 7

The War in Donbass: Ukraine’s War on Its Own People

The people of Donetsk and Luhansk (also known as the Donbass) didn’t recognise the new, Western-backed regime in Kiev. They held referendums and voted to break away. Crimea, home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, also held a vote—with over 90% choosing to rejoin Russia.

The response from Kiev? Brutal war.

Instead of letting the Donbass go, Ukraine launched a military assault. For eight years, the people of Donetsk and Luhansk endured shelling, airstrikes, and blockades. Thousands of civilians died. Where was the Western outrage? Nowhere—because the media ignored it.

Ukraine even used Nazi-linked militias like Azov to wage war on these civilians. These groups wore SS symbols, celebrated Nazi war criminals, and committed atrocities. And yet, the West armed them, trained them, and lied about their existence.
Zelenskyy: A Western Intelligence Puppet?

In 2013, the left-wing Covert Action magazine published an explosive revelation about Zelenskyy that should shock anyone who still believes the mainstream narrative. In October 2020, long before Russia’s military operation, Zelenskyy secretly met with Sir Richard Moore, the head of MI6. Not the British Prime Minister. The head of British intelligence. Diplomatically, that makes no sense. But if Zelenskyy was an MI6 asset, it makes perfect sense.

According to Andriy Mishin, a former employee of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, this meeting signified that Zelenskyy was a professional intelligence agent and that Moore was his direct handler, telling him what to do.

part 6

But the real turning point came in 2014, when Washington orchestrated an outright coup.

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The 2014 Coup: How the West Installed a Puppet Regime in Ukraine

Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s democratically elected president, wanted to balance Ukraine between East and West. He rejected a terrible EU trade deal that would have gutted Ukraine’s industry and instead sought closer ties with Russia. That was unacceptable to Washington.

What followed was the Maidan coup—not a “people’s revolution,” but a Western-backed takeover.

US officials, including Victoria Nuland and John McCain, openly supported the protests. Nuland was caught on a leaked call choosing Ukraine’s next leaders before Yanukovych was even removed. The violent street protests were driven by neo-Nazi groups like the Azov Battalion and Right Sector—groups that openly admire Hitler’s collaborators in Ukraine.

Yanukovych fled, and Washington’s hand-picked government took over. One of its first moves? Banning the Russian language in official settings—a direct attack on the millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the east.

And that’s when Donbass and Crimea said enough.

Part 5

After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine became independent. But Washington didn’t see Ukraine as just another new country—it saw it as a tool to weaken Russia.

The US and NATO promised Mikhail Gorbachev that they wouldn’t expand “one inch eastward.” That was a lie. NATO quickly swallowed up Poland, the Baltic States, and much of Eastern Europe, bringing its military presence right up to Russia’s borders.

Ukraine was the big prize. If NATO could pull Ukraine into its orbit, it would deal a devastating blow to Russia’s security. Moscow made it clear—Ukraine joining NATO was a red line. But the West didn’t care.

Instead of letting Ukraine develop as a neutral state between Russia and the West, Washington started pouring billions of dollars into the country, funding pro-Western political groups, media outlets, and NGOs. Their goal? To turn Ukraine against Russia and bring it fully into the Western camp.

In 2004, the CIA and State Department backed the so-called “Orange Revolution,” a Western-funded uprising that overturned an election result that had favoured a Russia-friendly candidate. That was their first attempt to hijack Ukraine’s government.

part 4

In 1654, the Ukrainian Cossacks, seeking protection from Polish rule, chose to join Russia in 1654 under the Treaty of Pereyaslav. This wasn’t some act of conquest—the Ukraine’s own leaders asked to be under Russian rule. And why wouldn’t have they; they were practically from the same ethnic stock.

For centuries afterward, the Ukraine was an integral part of the Russian Empire, contributing to its military, economy, and culture. Even during the Soviet period, Ukraine, now a nation, wasn’t occupied—it was central to the USSR, producing its leadership, its industry, and its agriculture. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader who gave Crimea to Ukraine in 1954, was himself Ukrainian.

So when Western politicians and media talk about Ukraine as a permanently oppressed nation under Russian rule, they ignore the fact that for most of its history, the Ukraine was a key part of the Russian world. The real division started not because of Russian oppression, but because of Western interference.
The West’s Long War Against Russia

part 3

And now, as Ukraine’s battlefield losses mount, as conscripts are dragged off the streets to fight, as the tide of public opinion in the West shifts—Zelenskyy is panicking.

And why wouldn’t he be? He was never the real power in this war. The real architects of this disaster have been sitting in Washington, Brussels, and London, playing their geopolitical games. The war in Ukraine was never about protecting democracy, and it certainly wasn’t “unprovoked.” It was engineered—deliberately—by the West.

But to understand that, you need to know the real history of Ukraine and Russia—history the mainstream media will never tell you.
The Deep Ties Between Ukraine and Russia

The Ukraine and Russia have been bound together for over a thousand years. Kyiv, the modern capital of the Ukraine nation, was once the heart of Kievan Rus, the first great Slavic state, which laid the foundations for Russian civilization itself. When the Mongols destroyed Kievan Rus in the 13th century, Moscow eventually rose to prominence, but the connection between Russians and Ukrainians never disappeared.

By the 17th century, the Ukraine was a contested frontier between Poland and Russia. Notice I am saying “the Ukraine”. This is important. The nation of Ukraine is a modern invention. The Ukraine was always considered as being part of greater Russia. In fact, the name Ukraine derives from the Old East Slavic word “ukraina” meaning “borderland” by which they mean the borderlands of Russia. Except, for some time, it was under the control of foreign invaders… and the locals revolted.

part 2

Zelenskyy’s Meltdown & a History Lesson

Many would have been shocked to see this—Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the so-called hero of democracy, in an outright shouting match with Donald Trump and JD Vance in the White House. For years, the media painted Zelenskyy as a courageous leader, a beacon of freedom, standing up to Russian “aggression.” But yesterday, the mask slipped.

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    Zelenskyy’s mask slipped during a fiery confrontation with Trump and JD Vance in the White House, proving he is not a grateful ally but a desperate puppet.

    Ukraine has always been historically tied to Russia, and its so-called independence was only ever made possible by Western interference.

    The US and NATO deliberately orchestrated Ukraine’s turn against Russia, using coups and propaganda to install a puppet regime that serves their interests.

    Zelenskyy is possibly a Western intelligence asset, propped up by globalist elites while enriching himself at the expense of his own people.

    The war in Ukraine was never about democracy—it was a Western-provoked disaster meant to weaken Russia, and now that it has failed, Zelenskyy is being cast aside.

When Vance asked a simple question—why isn’t Ukraine showing gratitude for the billions of dollars in aid—it triggered an outburst. Zelenskyy, instead of thanking the US for bankrolling his war effort, accused America of not understanding what’s coming. Trump, never one to back down, reminded him exactly where he stands: “You don’t have the cards right now.” And he’s right.

Zelenskyy has never been in control of this war. He isn’t some heroic leader calling the shots. He’s a desperate man clinging to power in a crumbling regime, propped up by Western money, Western weapons, and Western propaganda.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Lalala, ich höre nix. 🙉

Aber total unrealistisch. Die „Fokuszeit“ hätte überbucht sein müssen durch ein anderes, wichtiges Meeting. Sonst war ja kein Platz mehr dafür.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Looks like a nice day. 😊 I tried to go on a quick walk, but it was really cold. And everything’s wet at the moment. Bah.

Clothespins in the woods, who would have thunk? 🥴

New Research Suggests Ancient Ocean on Mars
Hidden layers of rock below the surface of Mars “strongly suggest” the presence of an ancient ocean, according to an international team of scientists including researchers at Penn State.

From the university’s announcement:

The new research offers the clearest evidence yet that the planet once contained a significant body of water and a more habitable environment for life, according … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org What do you think about this? https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/14

@bmallred@staystrong.run Not an issue if you’re the doctor working there. :-)

@bmallred@staystrong.run Any edit automatically changes the twt hash, because the hash is built over the hash URL, message timestamp and message text. https://twtxt.dev/exts/twt-hash.html So, it is only a problem, if somebody replied to your original message with the old hash. The original message suddenly doesn’t exist anymore and the reply becomes detached, orphaned, whatever you wanna call it. Threading doesn’t break, though, if nobody replied to your message.

Perl’s CPAN Security Group is Now a CNA, Can Assign CVEs
Active since 1995, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN) hosts 221,742 Perl modules written by 14,548 authors. This week they announced that the CPAN Security Group “was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)” to assign and manage CVE vulnerability identifications for Perl and CPAN Modules.

“This is great news!” posted L … ⌘ Read more

How do you edit? What steps do you follow?

Es gibt Tage, da kommt’s mir auch so vor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUkkyrHc8so

Anti-Aging Pill for Dogs Clears Key FDA Hurdle
San Francisco-based biotech startup Loyal says a drug it developed to increase dogs’ lifespan “has passed a significant milestone on the way to regulatory approval,” reports the Washington Post:

The Food and Drug Administration certified the daily pill as having a “reasonable expectation of effectiveness” at extending senior dogs’ lifespans. The regulator’s Center for Veterinar … ⌘ Read more

We went up our backyard mountain again right after lunch. The sun peaked through the clouds sometimes. The 6°C felt much, much cooler with the northeast wind. We got lucky, though, it was dead calm at the summit. At least on the southwestern side, which is a few meters lower than the very top to the east. That was shielded absolutely perfectly from the wind (we were extremely surprised), so we sat down on a bench and could really enjoy the sun heating us up. Apart from the haze, the view was really nice.

There were even patches of snow left up top, that was unexpected. Also, somebody created a cool rock art piece on a tree stump. That one rock absolutely looked like a face. Crazy!

Image

Enjoy: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-01/

Magnus Carlsen Auctions Jeans, Admits He Can’t Beat Chess Engines
Magnus Carlsen “announced this week that he is auctioning off the Italian luxury brand jeans that started a dress code dispute at December’s World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships,” reports the Associated Press. (“Condition: Pre-owned,” says the listing on eBay, where by Friday night bidding on the charitable auction was up to $14,100.)

But C … ⌘ Read more

Sitting in urgent care for two hours… Doesn’t seem too urgent :-)