Ostap Karmodi

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How a new technique invented by Renaissance Venetian artists eventually led to modernism, and why modernism is so sticky even though most people hate it.

Look down

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@sandbik С бабушкой своей в подобном тоне общайтесь

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У Дженсена Хуанга обнаружилась вторая любовница, совет директоров NVIDIA начал обсуждать его увольнение, Хуанг не стал дожидаться, когда его уволят, и уволился сам.

Ничего хорошего это NVIDIA не сулит: Хуанг создал эту компанию и привёл её к нынешнему лидирующему положению на рынке.

В Пекине сейчас наверняка открывают шампанское: они думали, что просто будут красть технологические секреты, а получилось гораздо лучше.

https://t.co/0dbCZh6tc7

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

New: The contents of a hacked computer belonging to John Mark Dougin, an American ex-cop living in Russia, offer documentary evidence that he worked with the FSB and GRU to peddle disinformation. He liaised with GRU Unit 29155 the originator of the Ukraine biolabs hoax, and his "moment of triumph came in June 2026, when information from his investigation was endorsed by @TulsiGabbard, who was serving as director of national intelligence in the Trump administration." https://t.co/yUTo5ZAEq7

[Tomáš Hajdušek @TomHajda]

@nikkizitkova @mpsvcz @strakovka https://t.co/Jn3zrfxiHp

[Ostap Karmodi @ostap]

Фридрих Мерц угрожает заблокировать принятие обсуждаемого сейчас нового многолетнего бюджета ЕС, если в нём не будет предусмотрено долгосрочное финансирование Украины и если в этом финансировании не будут участвовать все страны Евросоюза (сейчас финансирование одобрено только на следующий год и три страны: Венгрия, Словакия и Чехия, в нём не участвуют).

https://t.co/9w8CouzirR

[Ostap Karmodi @ostap]

The problem was "solved" in the past by very high child mortality and the lack of a pension system: people had to make lots of children if they didn't want to be destitute after 60. It can be solved in the same way again, theoretically, if you ban social security and antibiotics, but it's not something easily sold to voters.

[Ostap Karmodi @ostap]

Tesla к середине следующего года прекратит выпуск сайбертраков. Выпускающий их завод в Техасе перепрофилируют под выпуск беспилотных такси — сайберкэбов.

Открытый выпуск НКС

https://t.co/DA481VyFax

[Ostap Karmodi @ostap]

@WarOnTheRocks "Don't provoke Russia by defending yourself", S15E01. Do you people ever learn?

[Daniel Lippman @dlippman]

SCOOP: Heritage has ousted one of its top scholars, Robert Rector, the intellectual architect of welfare reform who had challenged Heritage head Kevin Roberts last yr for his defense of Tucker Carlson. He had been w/ Heritage since 1984. (W/ @joshgerstein) https://t.co/5sppUBDtCH

[Rep. Jason Crow @RepJasonCrow]

No funding for Putin’s war machine.

I’m fighting to end Trump’s diesel deal with Russia and ensure we stand with the people of Ukraine.

[Ostap Karmodi @ostap]

Political shifts among the American electorate in 2022, 2024, and 2026. Voters are swinging back and forth: it’s clear that they’re dissatisfied with both parties, and in each election cycle, they punish the one in power. I wonder how long and how far this pendulum will keep swinging.

And one more thing: the next time you’re tempted to say, “This won’t change anything—Trump’s (or Biden and Harris’) voters don’t care; they’ll vote for him anyway,” bite your tongue. The core electorate is never the deciding factor. The outcome of an election is always decided by people like these, who are tossed back and forth.

[Tom Wood @thomasjwood]

The breadth of the demographic swing against the GOP this midterm is all the most striking because we saw a comparably consistent swing *to* the GOP only 4 years ago, in 2022.

Data from the fantastic newly released @APNORC Civic Health & Elections poll.

[Ostap Karmodi @ostap]

В Китае провели самое большое в истории исследование того, как тесные трусы влияют на качество спермы, исследовав сперму почти 30 тысяч мужчин в разных трусах. Результаты неутешительные: в отличие от некоторых предыдущих исследований, это показало, что тесные трусы серьёзно ухудшают качество спермы по целому ряду важных показателей.

https://t.co/4F1j8mK6oC

[Ostap Karmodi @ostap]

43 votes

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То, что Спортивный арбитражный суд в Лозанне приказал международной федерации хоккея допустить российских хоккеистов на международные соревнования, может им не помочь. Премьер-министр Канады уже заявил, что не впустит в страну, где в следующем месяце будет проходить чемпионат мира среди юниоров, членов российской и белорусской сборных, а чешское правительство — что не допустит российских хоккеисток на женский юниорский чемпионат, который должен пройти в январе в Остраве. Сборные Финляндии, Швеции, Чехии, Норвегии, Дании, Латвии и Австрии объявили, что не станут играть с российской сборной на основном чемпионате мира, который должен пройти в Германии в мае, и Германия уже думает отказаться от проведения этого чемпионата, если от неё потребуется допустить на него российских хоккеистов.

https://t.co/VRezxhcFlq

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Has anyone started the “This was all part of Trump’s master plan” spin yet? “The Dems fell into the 4D chess master’s trap”? That kind of thing?

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@RestoreBritain Those who don't stick their head in the sand hoping that their sworn enemies will forgive or forget them.

[Ostap Karmodi @ostap]

The news of the Democrats’ victory is mixed for me: on the one hand, anything that might limit this madman’s power is already a good thing. On the other hand, I don’t expect anything good from the Democrats themselves.
But today there is one piece of unambiguously good news: in California, a referendum proposal to impose a 5% tax on billionaires has failed. Not all votes have been counted yet, but right now the proposal is at only 43.9%, and the chances of it reaching 50% are slim.

At the same time, the counterproposal has won: a constitutional amendment prohibiting the introduction of new taxes on property and personal capital. It has garnered 54.6%.

I’ll say it for the hundredth time: referendums are better than elections. In referendums, the majority tends to vote sensibly—even in a state like California, which, judging by election results, seems thoroughly left-leaning. When people choose between two specific alternatives rather than between two pigs in a poke, they usually make the right choice.

[Ostap Karmodi @ostap]

I just got up and took a quick look at the news, but I can already see that my prediction from yesterday—that the Democrats’ victory would be more modest than the polls suggested—didn’t pan out. The Democratic Party has won both houses of Congress, and in the Senate, it looks like it will have even more seats than the most optimistic projections predicted: The Democrats have taken Senate seats from the Republicans in seven states: Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, North and South Carolina, and Maine—and they may do so in three more: Alaska, Nebraska, and Mississippi, where not all ballots have been counted yet. In Texas, a Democrat won the Senate race for the first time since 1988; in Kansas, for the first time since 1932.

Trump has already stated that he will work with the Democrats, but the Democrats may have other plans.

This victory for the Democratic Party is clearly Trump's doing, first and foremost, secondly, that of the majority of Republicans, who unquestioningly lined up to kiss his ass, and thirdly, that of those voters who kept repeating, “That’s what I voted for,” even though it had long been obvious even to a hedgehog that Trump was leading America into the abyss.

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

💥 Czech Greens/EFA MEP Markéta Gregorová claims to have been detained in Beijing for 1.5 hours in what she called “pseudo-scare tactics” over the arrest of a Chinese national accused of spying in the Czech Republic.

Gregorová said she was the only delegate out of 15 EU officials who faced such problems at border control upon landing in Beijing Capital Airport on Oct 26.

A vocal critic of the CCP, Gregorová said she faced extensive questioning from Chinese officials despite presenting her diplomatic passport and an official invitation letter.

Gregorová is the vice-chair of the European Parliament’s China group, and was travelling to the Chinese capital as part of a delegation from the parliament focusing on trade talks between Brussels and Beijing.

The visit follows recent talks between EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and Chinese officials.

Gregorová claims she was banned from using her phone during the ordeal and had her passport confiscated.

https://t.co/aZYkOW9GJn