The support that the "coalition of more than 50 nations" have been providing to Ukraine has been remarkably scant and inadequate. Compare to e.g. support the Soviet Union received from western nations during World War II!
With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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TFW it took some days to find out some seemingly innocuous aggregation function happens to call .sort() on an array passed to it (causing bewildering behavior in a React app).
Also, this really is not how you compare arrays in JavaScript: `arrVar1 !== arrVar2`..
Mom passed away this evening at age 84. She'd been mostly bedridden for years already, so it wasn't unexpected at this point. She was the most temperate person, I don't ever recall her being angry. She was all heart, empathetic & caring, especially towards children and animals.
Thread 1/ This is a thread on pro-Russian propaganda & #disinformation. I analysed the hashtags "i stand with Putin" & "i stand with Russia'. I analysed around 20,000 Twitter interactions involving 9600 unique accounts
Bots ✔️
Engagement Farming ✔️
#UkraineRussianWar#Ukraine
Disappointing as ****. In Finland, we were down to 20 weekly confirmed cases in mid-July, and now we are at 1700+ and rising fast.
#CovidTrends#NordicCountries
@raganwald As an aside, are you aware of https://t.co/EiZL3f4Az0 ? I haven't watched them yet myself, but it sure looks like an impressive indie production.