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[cyber soroka 🇺🇦 @cybersoroka]

Russia’s legal system is unjust but there’s better ways to highlight this and more deserving people to actually put in the spotlight and bargain for their freedom. Like the illigally detained people across the occupied territories, including Crimea, or the occupied Ichkeria.

[Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz2]

Amazing that some still talk about the Soviet Union as if it brought about social justice when in fact it enslaved the workers, starved the peasants, shot the intellectuals, and deported or exterminated the colonised peoples.

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

Over the weekend we reported a big rise in Sweden's exports to Kazakhstan. The rise has been broad-based since Russia invaded Ukraine, but the most recent jump - in May 2023 - is almost entirely driven by electrical machinery (red). A lot of this stuff must be going to Russia...

[Philip Goff @Philip_Goff]

This morning I am preparing for my upcoming public debate with @seanmcarroll. Any advice?
https://t.co/egB8WgmIdB

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

German exports to Kyrgyzstan are up 2000% in the past 2 years. Where do you think these goods go? This is how western companies can circumvent sanctions against russia. And this how russia is able to continue the war.

[Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz]

Philosophy progresses not (mostly) by coming to decisive resolutions on big-picture issues but rather by opening us up to new possibilities previously unthought of or dismissed. Philosophical progress is abundant, especially recently.
https://t.co/fH0NPYcoRy

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Google has a lot of really cool technology, but shockingly little makes it to the public eye

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Today we're sharing details on AudioCraft, a new family of generative AI models built for generating high-quality, realistic audio & music from text. AudioCraft is a single code base that works for music, sound, compression & generation — all in the same place.

More details ⬇️

[Богдан Гдаль @viterzbayraku]

Ви знаєте, хто зібрав найповніший каталог робіт усіх українських шрифтових дизайнерів? Ніколи б не здогадалися! Бельгієць (!) Люк Девруа.

Відомий вчений інформатик, математик, який живе в Квебеку, Канаді.

Він створив найповнішу збірку всіх шрифтових робіт світу, і один з перших дуже докладно систематизував і українців. При чому досить оперативно додавав всі нові шрифти.

Нажаль, навесні 2022 від потрапив у серйозне ДТП на велосипеді, і з того часу не може оновлювати сайт. Але і без того його внесок великий.

[Stardust Collector @ruinwanderer]

Friendly reminder: we don't need a democratic Russia. We need a decolonized Russia. Nations imprisoned in Russia deserve independence. Good Russians don't seem to be capable of a minimal self-reflection.

They publish books I Love Russia in 2023 and are offended by inflatable sharks.

But even if they were capable of anything, they still can't represent Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Buryatia, Sakha, Tuva, and so on because they aren't Tatars, aren't Bashkorts, aren't Dagestani, and so on.

They're the Moscow and Saint Petersburg elites who parasite on the rest of the areas it colonizes. They aren't that different from Putin's regime, and in fact they have numerous ties with it.

[Прозорий Kавун @not_kavun]

⚠️ Still necessary reminder, apparently: every time someone retweets Anton Gerashchenko, a puppy dies somewhere. 🐶🔫
How about listening to what Ukrainians have been saying about him for years? (mini-🧵)

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

🦧An orangutan driving a golf cart, checking the rear-view mirror, being cautious, and slowing down

[spti @spitiiiCL_J054]

@Sedom91 @ygnatyuk_ Так, вона є у відкритому доступі: https://t.co/mJnw4l1OR0

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

Let’s use the tweet below to explain something about why science is successful and politics today is largely dysfunctional. The person to which Jim responded asks for an apology if new data or evidence is presented which causes someone to change their view. Why? The process of updating ones view as new information or knowledge is acquired is central to science, and by extension to our rational understanding of the world. Demanding an apology from someone who engages in this vital activity is tantamount to demanding an apology for the enlightenment. Essentially, it represents the view that it is a personal insult to disagree over the interpretation of data. Nature, however, doesn’t care about your feelings and if it turns out that your opinion is wrong, no apology is necessary and indeed celebration is in order because you’ve learnt something new about Nature.

[David Chalmers @davidchalmers42]

recordings from five symposia at @ASSC26nyc:

affect and perception
https://t.co/OHYWhADKhH

animal C beyond mammals
https://t.co/gAxU7TlZFu

introspection
https://t.co/1UtypvqCGf

learning and C
https://t.co/YYZM8YKzeV 

mathematical spaces for C
https://t.co/pR4nU5Yijn

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

You're on a date with this woman but this man calls you in for a meeting to help humanity and align the AGI. What do you do?

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

Russian terror against Ukrainians has many faces. For example, a face of "neutral athletes". After a Russian fencer Anna Smirnova clearly lost 15:7 to Ukrainian Olha Kharlan in Milano, Smirnova insisted Kharlan shaked her hand. Kharlan rejected, and proposed to touch each other's sabres, what led to a self-victimisation show by Smirnova, who was sitting for 50 minutes in front of Kharlan, demanding from Ukrainian a handshake, and later filled a complain against a Ukrainian, demanding to disqualify her. First this complain was rejected, but later Kharlan was disqualified. This is what the Russians are doing: killing Ukrainians in Ukraine, and morally terrorising the Ukrainians worldwide.

[martin grasser @martingrasser]

Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird

This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,

The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵