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Computational Physics 🤝 Data Science

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

List of accounts that are partly trustworthy and partly useful, and that post highly valuable content related to the Russo-Ukrainian War.
I began compiling this list in April 2021, when the Russian military buildup on the Ukrainian border started.

https://t.co/wD4If5uVgS

[Erik Kannike @erikkannike]

No, in fact if you model the Russians own air alerts issued to civilians, this is approximately the trajectory taken by UA drones to hit St. Petersburg and/or Ust-Luga.

[Dakota Smith @weatherdak]

This is something I have never seen before on satellite.

Clouds perfectly outlining roads.

Just incredibly neat imagery of Houston, Texas this morning.

Massive shoutout to @Emokwx who discovered it.

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

It would be a data set poisoning only if *all drivatars* would be more agressive. But this is just an easily identifiable outlier in the data set, nothing more. You can even argue that drivatars are intentionally selected from a pool of all players with a high variance, so having a reckless driver like this just makes it easier for the game devs to put together a candidate data set. Anyway, absolutely hilarious, I hope they keep it as-is.

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

@Faytuks is Lavrov briefed via Internet Explorer or what

[Cameron Schwartz @nyoomtm]

Liftoff of Starship V3, from the dunes right outside the pad.

This is the most insane shockwave action I have ever seen on video. Absolutely mad.

📽️ Me for @WeAreSpaceScout

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

@ec12edfae2cb221 thank god for auto translation to reveal such gems

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

@forgebitz Who cares, Claude Code deleted the entire repo history on accident anyway.

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

Actual historical reason: they wanted to strengthen a strategically vulnerable buffer zone against China and Japan, while simultaneously serving Soviet nationality policy by giving Jews an own territorial homeland (countering Yiddish Zionism), and relocating jews from the European mainland where their urban and commercial existence sat uncomfortably with Soviet values and ideology (i.e. jews were class enemies).

[Riccardo Rossi - IU4APB - @AstronautiCAST co-host @RikyUnreal]

Earthset 🌏🌑🛰️ (Apr 6)

Camera setup by #ArtemisII @Astro_Christina

Raw photos courtesy of the ESRS @NASAEarth @NASA_Johnson
ID ART002-E-20957 to 21293
(only 80mm ƒ/8 frames - stabilized - linear interpolation)

Edit by Riccardo Rossi (ISAA)

Enjoy!
@astro_reid @AstroVicGlover @Astro_Jeremy @NASAAdmin

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend

[ぞくぞく@個人開発 @konekone2026]

猫ちゃんの強制休憩アプリを作りました！
SNSをやりすぎると猫ちゃんがあらわれて画面を占領します🫪🐈

[Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad]

Rumen Radev, whose party took the lead in Bulgaria’s elections tonight, has long been linked to the Kremlin in a “controversial manner”.

Leonid Reshetnikov is a retired Lieutenant General of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) who headed the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISI) from 2009 to 2017. RISI, formally part of the SVR until 2009 and thereafter under the presidential administration, served as a key instrument of Russian soft power and influence operations across Eastern Europe. After leaving RISI in 2017, Reshetnikov became chairman of the supervisory board of Tsargrad TV, a neo-imperial Russian news channel financed by Kremlin-linked oligarch Konstantin Malofeev.

The core of the Radev–Reshetnikov link traces to the 2016 Bulgarian presidential election. According to a U.S. State Department report on Russian disinformation, Reshetnikov directly interfered in that election. His institute commissioned a sociological study conducted between July 1–15, 2016, specifically designed to identify the profile of an ideal pro-Russian BSP presidential candidate - one who would increase support for Russia while eroding support for the US, EU, and NATO. The results of that survey, analysts noted, mapped almost precisely onto Rumen Radev's public profile. Crucially, just two weeks after the study concluded, General Radev resigned as Air Force commander on August 1, 2016 - and within days, BSP and ABV were already promoting him as their presidential candidate.

After Radev won the 2016 presidential election, Reshetnikov himself publicly acknowledged that he had discussed Radev's candidacy with BSP leader Kornelia Ninova, effectively confirming Russian intelligence involvement in shaping the nomination. This admission was cited directly in Bulgarian and international media. The U.S. State Department subsequently included the 2016 Bulgarian presidential election in its broader report on the Kremlin's global propaganda and disinformation ecosystem.

The Reshetnikov connection deepened in September 2019, when Bulgarian Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov charged Nikolai Malinov - head of the pro-Russian Russophile National Movement - with espionage for Russia, and simultaneously announced that Reshetnikov was banned from entering Bulgaria for 10 years on national security grounds. Investigations revealed that Malinov had controlled accounts receiving funds from RISI and the Double-Headed Eagle Society - organizations linked directly to Reshetnikov and Malofeev. At the time, President Radev responded cautiously, demanding "incontrovertible evidence" and suggesting the prosecution might be a politically motivated domestic maneuver — a reaction that critics interpreted as shielding the network.

On the eve of today's election, the Washington Post published an analysis describing Bulgaria as the "Kremlin's next best bet" following Viktor Orbán's defeat in Hungary - framing a potential Radev government as Moscow's most significant remaining lever of influence inside the EU and NATO. Analysts and former diplomats interviewed expressed concern that Russian influence operations, with Reshetnikov's 2016 template as the blueprint, had now produced a political vehicle - Progressive Bulgaria - capable of reaching government.

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@zoltanspox Szia Zoli, van valami update azóta?

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@Mlody1646072 A kurva anyádat tung tung szahur

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@Wirtual Yeah somewhat out of character, but thank you, Mr. TrackMania

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@masterhaxx0r

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

@SoarAtlas You seem to miss that there are also completely bogus lat/long lines in the "original" images. While the numbers do not make any sense, they are pretty consistent... except for one of the numbers, where the typical diffusion net distortion is visible on one of the 0s.

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

@CalibreObscura "Our entire narrative of the war comes from images the US military chooses to release to us", no, it's really not, fam.

You highlighted a single dumb aspect of the video in the QRT, but I can't find a single part that wouldn't be almost entirely clueless and uneducated.

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

@Player_retiredd I have to say, the original, Oscar (1967) is much better and much more inconic, than this remake, Oscar (1991).

[masterdesky🏴‍☠️ @masterdesky]

@GARTSyria @vxunderground nooooo what have you done to Mr. Syria