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[greg @justgregb]

Some design decisions behind it: https://t.co/GD2h3Ml5Yv

[greg @justgregb]

For @glazeapp awards, I built a daily note for every day and anchored it in the calendar:

https://t.co/fiQpBvXz1B

[greg @justgregb]

@glazeapp Some decisions behind it:

https://t.co/GD2h3Ml5Yv

[greg @justgregb]

@glazeapp I built a daily note for every day and anchored it in the calendar: https://t.co/fiQpBvXz1B

Good luck to everyone!

[greg @justgregb]

@peduarte https://t.co/BgKpwd0pmC

[greg @justgregb]

@glazeapp @zehf @resend Pushed the final update out just in time for the awards. It should actually work now, lol. I also updated the icon.

Good luck to everyone!

https://t.co/bWDhhllLSr

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

As a fluent Russian speaker whose father was a senior Soviet official, Kaja Kallas knows exactly who this really hits. It's not the security elites because they haven’t been allowed to set foot in the West for years. 👇

Nor is it the business barons who glide through terminals on second passports.

Rather it’s the small, stubbornly pro-Western slice of Russian society that takes the blow here. The kids who still look to Western Europe with something like admiration and who scrape together the money for a Schengen visa because they want to see the world with their own eyes. Along with those who have family members living in the EU due to inter-marriage or migration (some of it political).

But somehow Brussels has decided they are the expendable ones. If the next generation of Russians can’t even look across the fence, how are they meant to feel any bond to it? Moscow’s elite won’t feel a thing, and the few who will be encumbered by this measure can just as happily spend their money in Dubai, Singapore or Bangkok. The only people who will be cut adrift are the ones Brussels claims it wants to reach.

Kallas knows this is a strategic own goal but she's so invested in seeking performative vengeance for local historical grievances that she doesn't care.

She's also fully aware that Moscow has loosened entry rules for EU citizens in recent years to help sell a simple story: this time it’s the West that’s building the new Iron Curtain. Measures like this make the EU look like a rattled bloc in decline shutting the blinds.

[greg @justgregb]

@emubrigadier https://t.co/x0bXJB0FBX

[Полковник РВСН @Pravonapadenie]

I’ve known people who protested over much smaller issues, fully aware they’d be hounded by Russian cops for "extremism," risking jail and even having their family members persecuted (which is a reality in Russia). So what are Americans willing to do about a full-on fascist coup?

[Emu Brigadier @emubrigadier]

Russians, we do not care that you have a despotic regime or that many of you protested. Prepare for collective punishment!

And by the way, our democratically elected president openly colluding with yours and facing no protests from us does not actually represent us.

[greg @justgregb]

@sult Это Present Continuous

[Emu Brigadier @emubrigadier]

"But if millions took to the streets," you kept saying, "Putin would have to listen! Where are those millions?"

Well, mates, take a hard look at yourselves. You’re living in a country with a solid history of free speech, and your personal freedom isn’t even on the line.

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[greg @justgregb]

@entrpswn Take a look at https://t.co/dpv8WYbtp5 or https://t.co/rP6CmKXkfE maybe

https://t.co/hSmPA6oCks for newsletters

[Maria Pevchikh @pevchikh]

1/21 Did you know corporations like Apple sometimes help authoritarian regimes survive? Not by accident—by choice. Dictators rely on their complicity to impose censorship and tighten their grip on power. The Apple you know is not the Apple we see in Russia. THREAD 🧵

[greg @justgregb]

@samuelkraft Is it possible to add a line break somehow and put the cursor on the next line right away?

I tried a couple of things, but failed.

[greg @justgregb]

Note to the US from a Russian living abroad:

This is exactly how you miss the rise of authoritarianism and other nazi shit in your own country. And don't you dare tell me that we didn't fight.

[Janis Kluge @jakluge]

Radio Free Europe was once created to break Soviet censorship. Industrialists like Ford and Rockefeller were co-founders. It is paid for by the US Congress.

Now, Apple is blocking Radio Free Europe in Russia at the request of the Kremlin.

https://t.co/7Q3ygJg8ta

[greg @justgregb]

@eatingleader @zavtracast https://t.co/k9XbN5KMMT

[Alexandra Prokopenko @amenka]

#stripe blocked a possibility for @ru_thebell to receive payments, writes @osetinskayaliza. first you are pounded by Putin and Roskomnadzor; and when you are in exile, on the other hand, because… because that’s why and f*ck you

[Tsarathustra @tsarnick]

Geoffrey Hinton says he is particularly proud that one of his students fired Sam Altman because Sam is much less concerned with AI safety than with profits