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26 Sep 2022
After a long road I'm proud that my book "Die Macht Der Diaspora" for @Ullstein, which explores the history of diasporas in Germany will be on sale from 29 September. It looks at diasporas from Ukraine, the Western Balkans, Turkey, Iran and the Arab World
amazon.de/Die-Macht-Diaspora…
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"The criticality of the situation is that there is no fuel even for the (ru worms) military working on the front line."
Good morning Vietnam
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Falling global oil prices and higher taxation of crude oil led to the EBITDA of Russian oil companies decreasing 40,7% in May 2026 and the netback from the sale of oil dropping by as much as 80% depending on the brand of Russian oil.
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Mixed reactions in IRGC-linked Telegram in reaction to deal news. “Hand Ghalibaf.” - “I see it negatively” - “Mr Mojtaba’s opinion matters.” - “I see it in people’s benefit” - “America hasn’t been properly punished” - “we were in streets for 100 days but turned to shit…”
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Jun 13
New article of mine for @JamestownTweets.
JNIM Escalates Sahelian Offensives Amid Fratricidal War with Islamic State Sahel.
Both groups advance all over the Sahel and now, beyond. All while fighting each other at the same time. (Free access).
jamestown.org/jnim-escalates…
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Jun 13
A transparent process would explain the basis on which a model gets banned so people could see whether this applied equally to equivalent model capabilities. Instead we have chest-thumping tweets from DoD.
Jun 13
Are they specifically trying to fuck with Anthropic or is the idea to apply this to any comparably powerful models from competitors?
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Jun 13
It didn't take long for Ukraine to strike the pontoon bridge at Chongar and some trucks waiting at the checkpoint. Waiting for satellite imagery to confirm. x.com/davinci_army/status/20…
Jun 13
Уражено КПП «Джанкой», залізничний міст, понтонну переправу та вантажівки на Чонгарі.
Показуємо, як це було.
Переходимо до патрулювання ворожої логістики з т.о. Криму та блокування спроб відновлення переправ. Пропускна здатність понтонів невисока, у чергах до них змушені накопичуватися вантажівки, стаючи для нас готовими цілями.
Операція в ніч проти 13 червня — частина єдиного задуму. Це результат системної роботи спільного Центру мультидоменних операцій «Фаланга» 1 ОШП імені Дмитра Коцюбайла та 475 ОШП «CODE 9.2». Мета формування мультидоменного Центру — забезпечення передумов для постійного просування на суходолі.
На цьому напрямку досягнуто необхідних результатів, які визначалися Головнокомандувачем ЗСУ та Верховним Головнокомандувачем.
Знекровлюємо ворога, щоб просуватися вперед.
Це не кінець. Далі буде.
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Jun 12
You can't really contend with what LLMs mean without centering the quantity issue. The flood of low-quality slop is drowning out any hypothetical good uses, especially when hallucinations and errors fill up our databases and resources.
Jun 12
Before ChatGPT, more than 98 per cent of all English-language articles published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half.
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Jun 13
Her last-gasp attempt to help the Russians
Jun 12
Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation.
Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. theins.press/en/inv/281731
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If the Russian system was run by such master strategists it wouldn't have launched this war in the first place.
Focus resources on the assumption that Russia will keep pushing for a long time, but also have contingency plans ready to handle the impact of internal Russia collapse
Jun 13
I often read that the Russians will run out of men, materiel or even money at time X. But the Russians also see what's going on. They will not blindly charge ahead to just run into a shortage and capitulate. There is always adjustment. That's why looking for time X is pointless.
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The most effective systems are ones that can focus resources on a current problem while having contingency plans and frameworks available to handle various plausible future outcomes
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Jun 13
Widespread interruption in Iranian banking systems including e-banking and ATM machines.
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Congratulations to Ukraine and Moldova. Incredible to think that the sequence of events that led to this point began in 2013 when Putin pressured the then-Ukrainian president into backing out of an Association Agreement with the EU.
Jun 12
Today, the European Union took a major step forward.
All Member States agreed to open the first accession negotiations cluster with Ukraine and Moldova.
At the first Intergovernmental Conference on Monday, we will open the cluster on fundamentals; the backbone of the accession process.
It covers the core values and principles on which the EU is built, from the rule of law to strong democratic institutions.
This is a recognition of the determination, courage and hard work shown by both countries in advancing reforms, even in the face of immense challenges.
And a signal that the EU’s offer of peace, stability and opportunity is unmatchable.
Enlargement is a strategic choice.
By bringing our nations closer together, we strengthen peace, security and prosperity across our continent.
In a world marked by growing uncertainty, a larger European Union is in our common interest.
Enlargement remains one of the EU’s greatest success stories and our best investment in our shared future.
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Jun 13
Wenn man bei der CDU in Sachsen-Anhalt nachfragt, wie dieses Foto entstehen konnte, das den CDU-Fraktionsvorsitzenden Guido Heuer und den AfD-Spitzenkandidaten @UlrichSiegmund zeigt, bekommt man folgendes Statement:
„Das Foto ist entstanden, weil es nur zwei Mikrofone gab und ich bei einer Falschaussage von Herrn Siegmund intervenieren musste. Ich habe Herrn Siegmund das Mikrofon aus der Hand genommen, und dabei ist diese unglückliche Aufnahme entstanden. Das war allerdings keine Kumpelei, sondern politische Konfrontation. Das Wort ‚Brandmauer‘ habe ich noch nie genutzt. Für mich gilt der Fraktionsbeschluss: ‚Abgrenzen, aber nicht ausgrenzen‘.“
Ich lasse das mal so stehen …
(Fotograf: Christian Schroedter)
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Jun 13
The demonstrators have nothing but contempt of Sali Berisha, the ossified leader of the opposition Democrats. Unless the Albanian protests give rise to a credible political actor they would only damage Rama without unseating him. He knows is and won't compromise.
As protests in Albania continue to grow, Edward McAllister, Reuters Bureau Chief for Greece and the Balkans, explains how the demonstrations over a planned luxury resort have grown into general political discontent with Prime Minister Edi Rama
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Jun 11
American credibility has deteriorated to the point where the president can announce a diplomatic agreement and the near-universal reaction is "let's wait for confirmation from Tasnim"
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Jun 12
It's disgusting. Just straight up racism.
Yeah. Gotta make sure those minorities aren’t recognized for their contributions to the country.
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Great to see such a critical piece about the uncertainty of the democratic path in Syria published in Syria's state-run newspaper, "al-Thawra". The paper previously served as the Assad regime's mouthpiece. shorturl.at/5Y4K2 By Ghassan Mufleh, who survived 12 years in Sednaya. via @Charles_Lister
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An MoU that reopens the Strait for ending the Iran blockade will be better than where we are now.
But if there isn't a fast move to a final HEU for sanctions relief deal that is the only path out of Iran-US conflict then this just resets to the unstable pre-February stalemate
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A minimal arrangement with no final deal where everything just resets to the same unstable pre-Feb 2026 situation just with everyone in much worse shape would probably be the more likely scenario if you look at who is running the US and Iran right now.
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And too many are kidding themselves if they think a US-Iran MoU will stop Israelis from finding ways to continue their incremental advance into Lebanon.
A lot more external pressure on Netanyahu and Hezbollah than is likely to arise soon is needed before that happens.
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