Steve Witkoff said Russians shot down their own drones in order to comply with Putin's order to stop attacking energy infrastructure and that he tends to "believe that president Putin is operating in good faith."⤵️

19.03.2025 15:13 — 👍 182    🔁 37    💬 98    📌 22

How it started. How it’s going.

03.03.2025 03:02 — 👍 7190    🔁 1249    💬 199    📌 95

Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.

This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.

(Even better: Tesla will hate this)

27.02.2025 16:27 — 👍 15656    🔁 3068    💬 579    📌 1256

X is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers | TechCrunch Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) is blocking links to Signal.me, a URL shortener used by the private messaging app Signal that allows users to send out a

17.02.2025 21:40 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

... someone from Voronezh.

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In images I never thought I would see in my lifetime, the revolutionary Syrian flag is being raised at the Syrian embassy in MOSCOW.

Few things explain the scale of Russia’s military and strategic defeat in Syria more than this.

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South Korea's National Assembly voted to lift martial law with 190 votes in favor.

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The military is leaving the Parliament building after the vote to lift martial law passed - YTN

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@altmetric.com on Bluesky We’re no experts but this sounds like it might be suboptimal for disseminating research. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

One of the reasons Bluesky is seeing more engagement: other platforms have adopted the behaviour of de-prioritising external links (like, say, to research papers) due to Ad models.

See this: bsky.app/profile/alt...

Here links can be freely shared without being drowned out or de-emphasized

03.12.2024 14:01 — 👍 1034    🔁 166    💬 12    📌 14