Simple Slav
Slavic person living in the EU, attempting to blend in by being grumpy.
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- Microsoft bet everything on AI, and by extension OpenAI. If OpenAI cannot fulfill its spending obligations on Microsoft Azure, a segment representing 40% of Microsoft’s revenue (and the majority of its capital expenditures), that's 8-10% of its revenue gone. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
- Reposted by Simple SlavAnother datapoint that indicates how a Downing Street operation overseen by Sue Gray might have avoided some of the blunders that Morgan McSweeney has charged straight into www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Fact: There is not a single person with an IQ over 90 or, if they’re above 90, who is not a sociopath, in any conservative political party, globally.
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- Reposted by Simple Slav"I don’t know how other people react when they get bullied, but I don’t back down when I get bullied. I fight harder. Everyone I see out here is like, What do you think—we’re gonna quit? We live here." AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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- Why would it generate positive good will abroad? _Who_ would be impressed by a pin at this point?
- European leaders having a "stance on a strategic russian defeat" is a bit of a giveaway there. The only thing I ever heard from them was "We must not let Ukraine lose".
- And there’s honestly people out there who claim that Tito’s regime in Yugoslavia was oppressive. And people who think he opposed russia and the soviet bloc because of different views on how communist economies should work or some shit like that. UDBA had plenty of bored & harmful idiots, but geez.
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- Reposted by Simple SlavI’m very happy that the CBC is on the story and published this Evan Dyer piece. Now is the time to take the Trump admin’s destabilization tactics seriously. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
- Reposted by Simple SlavHe’s going to destroy both companies hell yes
- Reposted by Simple SlavIt's funny watching Chomsky get "Stalin-image-airbrushed" out of far-left narratives and spaces right now.
- Europe be like “Don’t call it a ‘war’! It’s hybrid and stuff!”
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- Reposted by Simple SlavNow the real question is whether Russia will turn to Lukashenko for help, asking to integrate the Belarusian “alternative” now that Starlink is causing such serious trouble.
- Reposted by Simple Slavtoday has been an amazing day for refreshing webpages
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- Reposted by Simple SlavWell, we're not the ones shooting people in the streets right now.
- Reposted by Simple SlavWhen you're so coked up and stupid you put the scope on backwards:
- Reposted by Simple SlavIt’s the Cambridge Spies, or Profumo, or [insert scandal] x 1,000. In itself. And because it fits into a wider pattern of failure over decades - driven by greed, fear and naivety, exploited by hostile actors - which has brought us to a point of acute national and international danger. /28.
- "such a level of carelessness, or astounding naivety, is" par for the course for a really concerning number of current Western politicians. If their actions wouldn’t be affecting so many, in such dangerous ways, it would have been funny, in a slapstick kind of way. But they do, and it’s not.
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- Reposted by Simple SlavQuacking Treason Public profiles of Jeffrey Epstein going back 20+ years present a near perfect description of a massive, hostile foreign intelligence operation directed at the USA and NATO and other allies. Why was this so widely ignored? What was Mandelson’s involvement? What next? A 🧵 /1.
- Reposted by Simple SlavRussia finally got a winter cold enough, and the US reducing support for air defense enough, that mass attacks on Ukraine’s power grid have created widespread civilian suffering. But with Trump, Ukraine can’t get credible guarantees Russia won’t pause then attack again, so they can’t deal either.
- Reposted by Simple SlavThe morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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- Reposted by Simple SlavThere’s literally past ministers and Tory MPs standing next to you.
- Reposted by Simple SlavThis week I watched a screening of the new documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, about how the Russian state has transformed schools into indoctrination centres over the past four years. The most disturbing part for me was knowing that the 🇺🇸regime is starting to make the same efforts.
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- Reposted by Simple SlavI grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.
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- Reposted by Simple SlavStarmer finding that place in a Venn Diagram where he manages to annoy allies without defeating enemies
- Reposted by Simple Slavthis is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...
- Reposted by Simple SlavKind of ironic that so far looks like Epstein files won't sink a p-grabbing US president who was buddies with Epsztajn but will likely torpedo a *checks notes* Labour UK PM who never met the guy in his life.
- Austria is governed by idiots and has been for 2+ decades now. Fact. orf.at/av/video/onD...
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- Reposted by Simple Slavone of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- Reposted by Simple SlavCrazy story coming out of Bulgaria. A triple, execution-style murder in a mountain chalet has the Prosecutor General claiming on day one of the investigation that the victims ran a pedophile ring, while the Mayor of Sofia says he knows them well and they ran a conservationist NGO. The third..
- Reposted by Simple SlavOnce again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.
- Reposted by Simple Slavthis is a great point and to that end: why isn't Anthropic building a salesforce competitor or whatever? Surely they could with the magic of Claude Code based on all the crap I've read
- This is why we can be angry about Trump and the US not “handling” him (as long as we’re also angry about putin). but we are never going to be in a position to point and laugh at America for it. Because putin is our Trump, and we’ve been fucking it up longer, and with more people dead as a result.
- Reposted by Simple SlavMake no mistake. For Europe Russia's war against Ukraine was always a choice. At anytime since Putin came to power Europe could have limited Russia's aggression, but it chose not to. At anytime after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 Europe could have helped Ukraine to win, but it chose not to.
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- Reposted by Simple SlavRutte in Kyiv: „As soon as there is peace, aircraft, the navy, and troops will contribute to the protection of Ukraine.“ Oh God, that's so pathetic, so ridiculous, so cowardly. The Ukrainians need protection NOW.
- Reposted by Simple SlavI wish I lived in a country where our elected officials in Congress had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, or the Epstein survivors.
- Does it really, tho?
- The revelations that Musk sought an invite to Epstein’s island add risk to his plans to merge SpaceX with xAI, and then take the combined company public, experts say. Read more from @andyjayhawk.bsky.social:
- Reposted by Simple SlavBankrolling the propaganda film Melania while at the same time slashing international reporting pretty much sums up why we are where we are.
- Reposted by Simple Slav“This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
- People who still stay at the WaPo are the same kind as those who work for Facebook, X, Tesla, etc al in 2026.
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- Loyalty is important in post-soviet russia. 🤷♂️
- At the beginning of 2026 it’s good to see that there are still parts of the America we wanted to be when we grow up left. This feels like it will, down the line, be the type of thing that people will wear like a badge for decades, similar to our grandparents who fought as partisans/resistance/G.I.s
- Reposted by Simple SlavEstonia's Unit-K has detained the container ship Baltic Spirit on its way to Russia, for an inspection on suspicion of smuggling maritime-executive.com/article/esto...
- Reposted by Simple Slav"European security officials believe two Russian space vehicles have intercepted the communications of at least a dozen key satellites over the continent."
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- Reposted by Simple SlavGarry Kasparov: “There is a strong negative proof for 🇷🇺 Russian intelligence involvement as well, since as far as can be seen, there are no Russian targets mentioned in the files despite extensive Russian involvement and discussion. They were the hunters, not the hunted.” 🔗 x.com/Kasparov63/s...
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