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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 2mo ago

#BandcampFriday is the perfect day to check in on your favorite bands and buy some new music. My picks today:

#Tradycyja has the debut #Kasary album and a new #Kaliazanki collection, authentic #Belarusian songs by all-men and all-women choirs respectively.
#TodarWajciuszkewicz, seminal bard from #Belarus, released new album Ваячак.
#Litvakus #Kartl (Postcard) is a new EP of traditional Lithuanian Jewish music.
And #BorisGrebenshikov got a whole bunch of new albums and singles out.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 2mo ago

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@aleciabatson@mastodon.social @gvwilson@mastodon.social Fixed link: https://xcancel.com/joseph_browning/status/1811022092176933325

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 8mo ago

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@randahl@mastodon.social He's not giving away the game, this statement itself is voter suppression. Journalists and influencers amplifying this message are helping him scare people into not voting in November. For the rest of the game, watch what #TulsiGabbard is doing. Gerry-mandering and voter suppression might not be enough this time, they're preparing to seize the ballots and voting machines under bogus national security pretenses and prevent certification of the vote by the states.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 6mo ago

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@parismarx Accountability laundering is not a new problem in tech,¹ but LLMs are making it a thousand times worse because they are specifically designed to mimicry humans and human agency. ¹ Remember how Facebook claimed it wasn't their fault Cambridge Analytica collected personal data of hundreds of millions of people and used it to convince entire countries to vote for fascists? They claimed they told CA to delete the data, but let them keep the models trained on it.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

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Millions of people in #Belarus and #Ukraine were and continue to be exposed to radioactive isotopes. #Cancer cases went up, I am part of that statistic as cancer survivor. #Thyroid gland disfunction has become commonplace, my wife can't function without a daily dose of levothyroxine. Birth defects went up in Belarus and all over Europe. Displacement of hundreds of thousands further accelerated centuries-long demographic decline of Belarus that started with the genocidal #ForgottenWar of 1654.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

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@phred@weirder.earth @mhoye@cosocial.ca Thats brings back memories. Rails rendering non-idempotent state-altering actions as GET links instead of POST forms was one of the many reasons I decided not to use it in https://samizdat.barley.cloud/ back in the day. Funny how the same kind of people who ruined Ruby community with that irresponsible nonsense also brought us "curl | sudo bash" and LLMs. False promise to deliver something that doesn't need to be understood has been a theme in tech, and never ended well.

samizdat.barley.cloud

Samizdat: Co-op Engine

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 9mo ago

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@mhoye @1a1nC This. Ignore what fascists say and create consequences for what they do.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

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@Doreen32128@universeodon.com @davidaugust@mastodon.online Vote for a populist, elect a fascist.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 6mo ago

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@sindarina@ngmx.com @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io This is code for abortion. One day historians will be very confused about our misuse of language.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 8mo ago

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@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social Bullshit. If they really didn't, they wouldn't be pouring so much money and effort into making it harder to vote.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 8mo ago

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@kimlockhartga@beige.party Matches my personal experience. My grandmother volunteered to fight Nazis when she was 16, walked all the way to Moscow and back all the way to Berlin, and left a graffiti on the Reichstag's wall that said "I came here to kill War." My connection to WW2 is second hand and very personal. For my kids, it remained third hand until Russia invaded Ukraine. Only then it became second hand and personal for them, too.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

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@Viss Saw that coming, moved to Sourcehut years ago.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

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@__ic@mastodon.social This one does, in depth, and draws lessons for the rest of the world from the many kinds of organizational failure exposed by Chernobyl.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

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@__ic@mastodon.social I recommend Manual for Survival by Kate Brown: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393652512 The 2019 Chernobyl miniseries by BBC is also very good intro into the topic.

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Manual for Survival

Winner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the Marshall D. Shulman Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionFinalist for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage"A magisterial blend of historical research, investigative journalism, and poetic reportage…[A]n awe-inspiring journey." —Economist, Manual for Survival, An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster, Kate Brown, 9780393357769

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

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@anlomedad@fedifreu.de @JensHannemann@mastodon.online @W_Lucht@mstdn.social #Belarus. That is the place between #Chernobyl and Moscow where #Russia decided to make the fallout go by seeding the radioactive clouds.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 8mo ago

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@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social @dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org The best way to counter all of that is to get more people to vote. All other paths lead to violence and much less certain outcomes. That is why I always push back on the "voting don't matter" narrative. It will always matter, it will always be worth fighting for the right to vote.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 8mo ago

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@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social @dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org We had exactly this discourse after 2016. https://circle.lt/post/20200403-money-for-people-with-minds-that-hate/ "Clinton received 3 million more votes than Trump, and lost the electoral college 0.23% in Michigan, 0.77% in Wisconsin, and 0.72% in Pennsylvania. Jill Stein pulled away more votes than that in each of these three states. The Comey letter has cost Clinton around 1% in the polls … voter suppression and the Russian troll farms … Take any one of these four factors away and Clinton likely would have won."

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Money For People With Minds That Hate - Circle of Light

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

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@davidaugust The only failure here is American people's failure to see through the grift and vote their interests. Operation #EpsteinFury remains a great success for #AgentKrasnov and his handler @DarthPutinKGB. Oil price is up, Russia sanctions are down, American soft power is obliterated, what's there to complain about? https://mastodon.circle.lt/@dmitry/116427972984892097

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Dmitry Borodaenko: "So #Iran got what it demanded — a ceasefire in #L…" - Circle of Light

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 6mo ago

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@frederic@chaos.social I love that it keeps evolving and getting better, without breaking my muscle memory for its many useful little features. We now have 16M color themes. Free space estimates. Better use of kernel buffers when copying files to Samba NAS. Meanwhile comparing directories ignoring mtime, mass-rename leveraging glob patterns, file search results as a virtual folder -- it all still works, using same shortcuts.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 8mo ago

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@petersuber@fediscience.org #ReplicationCrisis clearly has humbled the scientific community.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 20mo ago

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@hugo Even before that, Robert Heinlein, 1938: https://circle.lt/post/20191004-twin-review-universal-basic-income-from-1938-to-2018/ You'd think we aughtta have figured it out by now.

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Twin Review: Universal Basic Income from 1938 to 2018 - Circle of Light

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

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@trademark @bruces #Belarus, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_war_in_Belarus_(2022%E2%80%93present)

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 5mo ago

@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world Indeed. Jews comprised just under 9% of population of Belarus before WW2, and 90% of them perished in Holocaust. For scale, 25% of population of Belarus perished between 1941 and 1945, i.e. Holocaust consitutes less than half of the killings even when not including the mass executions of Belarusians by Soviets in 1939-1941 (when USSR was still Hitler's ally) at sites such as Kurapaty and Brest Fortress. And Russians still insist on atrributing all these deaths to Nazis, too.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 6mo ago

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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io Sign me up to destroy capitalism.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 23mo ago

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@noondlyt@hellions.cloud @dangillmor@mastodon.social This is not how fascism works. Siding with Trump now buys them nothing. Even the pole position buys them nothing. Nobody who is anybody right now is going to be safe if Trump wins.

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Dmitry Borodaenko @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt

· 20mo ago

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@alexblock@mstdn.ca @Paulatics@mstdn.ca WhatsApp also keeps getting exploited by spyware, most recent of many examples: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/metas-whatsapp-says-israeli-spyware-company-paragon-targeted-scores-users-2025-01-31/ They must be doing something Signal doesn't that makes their users more vulnerable to these kinds of attacks.

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