- Afghanistan got a democratic constitution in *1964* - Afghan Women got the right to vote before women in Switzerland - The legends about the first Afghan King say that he was *elected* And yet I keep hearing democracy in Afghanistan was "imposed" by the West after 2001. 1/🧵

JavaScript Engineers: "Our field is a mess with all these incompatible frameworks; real engineering disciplines would never do this." Electrical Engineers: "Hold my beer"

New: this is crazy. The top Google image search result for "tank man" right now is an AI-generated "selfie" of the man. Shows that as AI content becomes more and more widespread, the platforms we use to surface content don’t have a good way to identify it 404media.co/first-google-s…

predator instinct

German exports of motor vehicles and parts (blue) to Kyrgyzstan are up 5500% since Russia invaded Ukraine. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that all this stuff is heading to Russia. It's not like Kyrgyzstan is suddenly in a massive boom. Germany has to stop this...

I annoy my countrymen by using a-z alphabet, specifically substituting ä with a, and ö with o. QWERTY keyboard layout is a hack, localization of that is a hack on a hack which becomes evident upon reflecting on the acropatics required to write code.

Great insights about how to conduct a meeting. As a personal note, I think it is actually somewhat easier to write a six page, clearly thought-out memo, because bullet points in a slideshow is typically so terribly limiting and arbitrary format to present one's thoughts.

A traveling executive checks his email from his office electronic mail system through a Panasonic RL-H1400 hand held computer and a RL-P4001 Acoustic modem at a public telephone, early 1980s. The Panasonic RL-H1400 was a hand held computer that was first introduced in 1982 and

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Fascinating In the Berezka dance, women move with steps so short that it looks like they're floating

I am wondering if Putin took close notice about how US abandoned Afghanistan, and took it into his calculation about US's anticipated involvement in helping Ukraine.

The former president of Mongolia, after watching an interview with Putin, published a historical map of his country. To remind (jokingly) that the entire modern territory of the Russian Federation should belong to the descendants of Genghis Khan. "Don’t worry. We are a peaceful

I thought Dune 2 was the best movie of 2024 until I watched this masterpiece (sound on).

Listen to historian Timothy Snyder

Ukraine and Russia were close to a peace deal in spring 2022 but Ukraine rejected it? This is one of the favorite lies promoted by Russia and its sympathisers to shift the focus… and blame. However, a closer look at the facts reveals that the whole story does not hold water.

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OMG, I'm dead 😅🤣😂

As somebody not embedded in American culture and contexts, it really is perplexing to understand how Trump gathered such a huge acceptance by adult US population. This gentleman puts that wonder into words better than I could.