Sasha

Designing apps and dreams

[Sasha @dvoretskyi]

At Apple Park. Dream come true. #WWDC25

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Throttling Starshield during the peace talks is a crystal-clear attempt to pressure Ukraine into accepting unfavorable deals, I hope everyone understands this.

​I hope it is also clear that Ukraine is the only side the U.S. chooses to pressure: the victim, not the aggressor.

[Guilherme Rambo @_inside]

Real-life Siri

[CNN @CNN]

Footage exclusively obtained from Ukrainian authorities and analyzed by CNN reveals new details of how Russia struck an underground shelter and aid hub in southeastern Ukraine with a massive bunker-busting bomb.

Russia, which consistently denies targeting civilians, has not commented on the strike itself. In a statement to state media, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had attacked Ukrainian military units in the area that day. https://t.co/BEzSR8u40h

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

According to the report, Elon Musk called in a false collision report to stall the American satellite for 40 hours so the Russian one could approach it. 4/

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Russia's demands BEFORE A PEACE AGREEMENT are for Ukraine to withdraw from its own territory in Donetsk & Luhansk, territory they hasn't been able to conquer in 12 years, which would leave Ukraine vulnerable to a new invasion, and then MAYBE after that Russia will discuss peace.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

The fact that pro-Ukrainian accounts on X are being restricted or silenced is a problem I am experiencing firsthand.

I find it alarming that a platform of this scale could increasingly contribute to the manipulation of public opinion.

It was a historic mistake for the United States to allow one of the world’s most significant media outlets to fall into the hands of an oligarch with a highly questionable political stance. The consequences are grave.

Democracy requires the free formation of opinion—not algorithmic manipulation or the one-sided suppression of voices.

[EUvsDisinfo @EUvsDisinfo]

15 October: The Kremlin accuses Ukraine of undermining peace efforts by striking Russian oil facilities.

28 October: Kyiv says it had paused refinery strikes for three days. Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure continue.

An inconvenient chronology for the Kremlin narrative.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ceding Ukrainian land for peace is just abstract words. It’s not only about reality, even more about philosophy. Putin was talking about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy Kyiv, our capital. His words were about Donbas, but the reality was about Kyiv. He kept saying he was defending Russian-speaking people and then tortured hundreds and thousands to death in Bucha and other places. So that wasn’t about Russian-speaking people.

This is why when Americans asked, “Can you exchange Donbas for security?” I said right there, “Can you tell me what it means? What security? NATO?”

“Not NATO, but similar to NATO.”

“Similar? But you don't want the answer about Donbas to be ‘similar.’ You want a clear answer about Donbas. This is your goal. And this is Putin’s goal, for today. What will you do if we have security guarantees but not NATO?”

They took our nuclear weapons. I'm not a fan of nuclear weapons. I think the world would be a better place without them. But the Russians took our nuclear weapons, didn’t they? They did. Then they stopped our integration into Europe, then prevented us from being in NATO. And in the end they occupied us. This is why it’s an abstract question. Nobody trusts Putin to stop if we leave Donbas. He will pause. Then he will come back in one year, two years, or five years. And who will be guilty?

From an interview with DR Nyheder. (2/3)

[✙ Constantine ✙ @Teoyaomiquu]

after matching everything Ukraine has gotten 2x, russia managed to take 2% of Ukraine's territory since 2022 at the cost of 400k KIA.

Seems like Ukraine can win strategy to me, considering russian history of sudden collapses.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Hey look. Regular people and not Epstein Class Billionares.

[† lucia scarlet 🩸 @luciascarlet]

God I fucking LOVE the iPhone Duo like straight up even after using it daily and outdoors for a bit over two weeks this is easily my favourite phone I’ve ever owned or tried

it’s just genuinely so fun to use in a way I don’t think I’ve really felt since the X or even my first iPhone (the 4S) and far more comfortable and versatile than any other iPhone to date because of all the different ways it offers to use it (folded and unfolded, portrait and landscape, “book” and “tent” and “laptop” mode, split view)

I absolutely do not ever want to go back

yes I’m glazing but LET ME BE HAPPY OKAY like honestly it’s not common at this point for me to just straight up end up LOVING modern tech products to the extent that I adore this thing

[Sasha @dvoretskyi]

@matteodotsui @benjitaylor This would be so good!

[Alexandre 🇺🇦 @Toriadus]

One of the most horrific war crimes of the 21st century. And yes, it was committed by a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

And this is called GENOCIDE

[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @front_ukrainian]

❗️Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski stated that Elon Musk bought Twitter (now X) with the help of Russian money, after which content controls on the platform were weakened and the number of bots and hate speech increased significantly. He emphasized that Russia uses Western social networks to wage an information war against Western societies, and the platforms allow this because they profit from it. Sikorski believes social networks should be held responsible for the spread of illegal content and must remove, in particular, calls for violence, and he advocated for the creation of a European alternative to X.

[Ryan O'Leary @RyanO_ChosenCoy]

I love how the administration somehow can’t understand or willingly ignores who the aggressor is.

It’s fairly straightforward: russia is the aggressor in this war. russia is to blame for the countless dead and wounded, destroyed cities, heightened tension/escalatory actions and dissolved relations in the eurosphere vs russia.

Also why does every post russian meeting press release contain absurd amounts of russian talking points. It’s almost like russia hands them a paper, they translate it and then add a few ridiculous words to puff it up and then release it as their own statement.

[Sasha @dvoretskyi]

So cool!

[juan @juanbuis]

i love the glowing apple logo on the new macbook pro

so i made it dance to your music and blink when claude needs you

https://t.co/WZTWMq5yAf

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Serial killer with a gun demands potential targets give up their bulletproof vests to advance peace deal.

[Marek Magierowski @mmagierowski]

Martin Bormann, quoting Adolf Hitler during an event at the White House, and presenting a gift to Eleanor Roosevelt. November 1942.