Erlend Torgnes🇺🇦

Co-founder @Optimeering & @OptimeeringAqua. Tweets on the unique/strange combo of analytics, aquaculture, power and startups!

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv.

I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information.

All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality.

Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity.

There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus.

Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us.

One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is embarrassing, Delete it, President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ - unless you want everyone to think you’ve lost your marbles.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

🧵 Sec. Hegseth: If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on earth, we will hunt you down, without apology and without hesitation, and we will kill you.*

* Except Russia. Putin has carte blanche to threaten and kill Americans with impunity (see below)

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

The moral collapse of OpenAI in one repost.

[Under Secretary of War Emil Michael @USWREMichael]

Anthropic is lying. The @DeptofWar doesn’t do mass surveillance as that is already illegal. What we are talking about is allowing our warfighters to use AI without having to call @DarioAmodei for permission to shoot down an enemy drone swarms that would kill Americans. #CallDario

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Sam Altman is such an incredible backstabber, liar and traitor.

While your competitor is taking a heroic and principled stand, you swoop in to make your deal. Imagine working for this guy - is there a greater shame?

This should lead to a mass exodus from OpenAI.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

And not even an hour later a Russian guided bomb takes out the power in the Ukrainian city of Slovyansk.

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

Just one more of Elon's false claims about me: I never funded anyone for Tesla protests.

I don’t condone violence. But it's clear Americans are angry at him – it’s easier to explain away their anger, than to accept that actions have consequences.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, all day long, work continued in the city of Dobropillya, the Donetsk region, following a Russian strike. It was one of the most brutal attacks, a combined strike carefully planned to cause maximum damage. Missiles, along with Shahed drones, targeted the central part of the city. Nine residential buildings, a shopping center, and stores were hit.

Unfortunately, eleven people have died—my condolences to their families and loved ones. Among the victims was a State Emergency Service worker. The second strike came while rescuers were already working. Fifty people were injured, all have received the necessary assistance. Among the wounded are seven children, with the youngest being a 10-year-old girl.

There were also other attacks today in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, and southern regions. In Kherson, FPV drones once again targeted civilians.

Russia continues to prove with its cruelty, day after day, that nothing has changed for them in Moscow – they are not thinking about how to end the war, but how to destroy and capture more while the world allows them to continue. Of course, we are doing everything we can to protect lives.

I am grateful to all the leaders, diplomats from partner countries, and civil society figures who support Ukraine, who condemned these Russian strikes, and who call things by their true names.

It’s important that we continue to coordinate all our efforts with our partners, ensuring effective defense and doing everything possible to bring peace closer.

[Andreas Thon Aasheim @AndreasAasheim]

Prøver igjen, jeg!

Skal til Bergen til uken, onsdag/torsdag hadde det vært spennende å møte noen jeg ikke kjenner så godt, og diskutere stort, lite, smått eller enormt. Du velger!

Det kan være over en øl eller en brus, og jeg spanderer.

[Erlend Torgnes🇺🇦 @ETorgnes]

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[Erlend Torgnes🇺🇦 @ETorgnes]

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[Erlend Torgnes🇺🇦 @ETorgnes]

To those who say that what Trump says is a bit extreme, but not so important, it is what he does that matters:

[Erlend Torgnes🇺🇦 @ETorgnes]

@AslakBerge1 @iLaksno Ser ut til å ha vært en ganske stor overreaksjon. Ser de er ned 1.8% nå denne uken...

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Started/Going

[James Connor @toJamesConnor]

🧵I’ve read through the evidence section—the first 85 pages—of Jack Smith filing on Trump’s private criminal efforts to stay in power despite knowing that he’d lost the election.

The evidence is stunning. It’s clear why Trump did not want the public to see this testimony.

13 things jumped out to me on Trump’s attempt to defraud the American people and steal the 2020 election.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

The Russian Empire ethnically cleansed upwards of 97% of the total population of my Circassian Muslim ancestors.

In 2014, Putin built Olympic stadiums over their mass graves in Sochi while refusing to recognize a genocide had ever happened, calling it a "migration."

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

BREAKING: Eyewitness tells BBC that he informed police, Secret Service about a suspicious man on a roof with a rifle.

He was ignored.

https://t.co/Cvfb7znZtZ

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Kharkiv, now.

A city of 2,000,000 is without electricity, water anf heat after 20 Russian missles struck power plants.