Boris Guts' film "Deaf Lovers" is planned to be shown in the main program of @TallinnBNFF (PÖFF).
That's how culture becomes a tool to whitewash Russian aggression and reinforce the propagandistic narratives. Here's why 👇
#NoStageForRussia
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@t2hen2rija Ma kujutan ette, et kui sa oled nii pikalt borrelioosis olnud, et krooniliseks saab kutsuda ja antibiots pole aidanud siis kõiksugu soolapuhujad hakkavad õlekõrte pakkujatena seksikaks vaikselt muutuma.
17. #vatniksoupEE. Tutvustan teile Aleksandr Tšaplõginit, kes on tuntud pikaaegse venekeelse linnameedia peatoimetaja ning keskerakondlasest riigikogu liikmena.
Vaatleme klassikalist inimtüüpi, keda ajab kõige rohkem närvi küsimus “Kellele kuulub Krimm?”
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@jaanus Psühholoog kasutab ainult temale sobivat statistikat. Kasutagu neid fakte ka, mis venemaa ja kõikide naaberriikide vahelistest kokkulepetest on saanud
Learn whatever you feel compelled to learn. Nobody tells the wildebeest to eat the green grass and nobody can tell a hacker what ancient tomes of lore to read. A good hacker is a dancer of thought, you are not slogging through a curriculum like an accountant.
This is so profound and scary at the same time. In 1995 the President of Ichkeria (Chechnya), Dzhokhar Dudayev, predicted everything that is happening today! He was assassinated by russia the next year.
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This city is not in Italy, France, or Germany.
It's in China and it's less than ten years old.
This is Huawei's R&D Headquarters, where 25,000 people work, and it might just be the most interesting office building(s) in the world...
Today we, the Baltic States 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 and Czechia 🇨🇿 come to this Council to address the entire international community with a very simple message:
For all our sakes, wake up. 🧵
I thought @elonmusk’s interview with @andrewrsorkin was one of the great interviews ever. Musk is a free speech absolutist which I respect. I think he is entirely correct that he and @X are treated unfairly and inconsistently by advertisers.
@tiktok_us@instagram@facebook and others have enormous amounts of problematic content, antisemitic and otherwise, but the advertisers don’t boycott those platforms.
Musk is targeted because the other media organizations view @X as a competitor and any time his name is in an article about controversies, it draws clicks. MSM is incentivized to attack him as it actually drives attention to their sites and therefore more revenues. It is these attack articles by other media organizations that put pressure on the @Disney’s of the world to stop advertising on X.
If Bob Iger would carefully examine the facts, he would likely continue to advertise on X, but Disney caves to public pressure rather than do the right thing. Meanwhile Disney invests heavily on TikTok, likely alongside videos of kids teaching other teenagers to be anorexic and worse. I am sure Nelson Peltz can fix this when he joins the Disney board.
X presents the opportunity for advertisers to access an incredible global audience that is not available elsewhere. And it is cheap compared to other alternatives because of current circumstances.
On Musk and antisemitism:
After examining the facts, it was clear to me that Musk did not have antisemitic intent when he responded with the ‘actual truth’ tweet, and further clarified thereafter.
I thought he made what he meant extremely clear in the @andrewrsorkin interview, namely, that Jews are drawn to support ‘oppressed’ groups and causes through various non-profits due to our history of being an oppressed minority.
Musk points out correctly that a number of these organizations and their members support Hamas. And he is correct in saying that Jews should rethink support for organizations that seek their elimination.
Many Jews are doing that right now.
To use a Muskism, Earth is fortunate that @X is owned by an individual that is largely insulated from financial and other influence. That said, perhaps some form of very carefully governed trust would be a better forever owner than any individual.
@PershingSqFdn invested in the Twitter privatization in support of free speech. Whether we make a profit on our investment is not important to us as we never intend to sell our interest.
I am more inclined to like and support companies that advertise on the platform because I appreciate their support for free speech. I have actually bought products I learned about from ads on @X. I can’t think of another example of my responding to direct advertising other than on X.
Unfortunately, recent (and society’s long-term experience) with non-profit governance, see @OpenAI, certain private universities etc. should not give anyone confidence that a traditional non-profit would be a better owner of X than Musk.
Perhaps some day the ownership of X should be distributed to each American, one share for each American during their lives and one for each person born, with a charter which permanently vests the free speech principles by which it operates.
Until then, we all should be grateful that X is owned by Musk.