Vlad Ned

Vlad Ned

@vladned.bsky.social

inka bureau cofounder | columnist featured in Wired and Forbes | film critic | space appreciator | 🇺🇦

67 Followers 22 Following 28 Posts Joined Jun 2023
1 year ago
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I don't understand why these two haven't opened a speakeasy bar called "Mezcal and Pascal" yet, when it's so obvious

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1 year ago
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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’ Infowars Out Of Bankruptcy The satirical publication said a nonprofit advocating against gun violence will relaunch a version of the site.

The Onion buying Infowars on a bankruptcy auction is the best metaphor and the shortest explanation for 2024

www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...

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1 year ago

I am glad to see that you are not giving up in here, although it will clearly not be ‘like then’ again

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1 year ago
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Andromeda spotted from my balcony in Kyiv 🔭 Get used to this view, because in 4.5 billion years the Milky Way will collide with it, and the appearance of our sky will change forever (sorry for the drama)

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2 years ago

True cyberpunk is when you miss air raid alert from a Russian attack because you do fitness in a VR headset and notice that something is wrong only when your dog gets scared and breaks into the virtual safety zone

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2 years ago
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Westerners won't even know about it, but it was enough to include a Ukrainian district in a damn game about Spider-Man for Ukrainian users to be touched, and for Russian users to writhe in anger.

It's amazing how little we need to feel represented.

Thanks, Insomniac!

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2 years ago

If the weather permits, the Orion Nebula is clearly visible at this time of the year (including its cool clouds) – look after 12 midnight to the East, at least some optics are enough. Plus, it is a large object that stretches 33 light years wide.

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2 years ago

- perhaps they grew in regions of the nebula where the density of matter was not sufficient for the formation of stars.
- maybe they were created around stars and then were ejected into interstellar space through various interactions.

But it is still interesting why they fly in pairs.

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2 years ago

In the summer, James Webb's telescope found about 40 pairs of Jupiter-sized rogue planets there. The mystery is that they are not attached to the stars and travel in pairs. Scientists still cannot explain why this happens. But there are several hypotheses:

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2 years ago
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My first attempt to take a photo of the Orion Nebula above Kyiv, oneshot, exposure – 30 seconds.

In addition to being just a beautiful object located 1300+ light years away, there are also strange things happening there that are mysterious to science.

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2 years ago
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2 years ago

Not working from a smartphone if you haven’t any RSS apps installed

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2 years ago

- The way some global companies cheated with sanctions for Russia could turn out much worse with China. The scale and its intertwining in the global economy is much larger.

And as an employee of one of the major US companies commented, the market always finds ways to adjust

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2 years ago
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For me, it was pretty hard to write this story since:
- everyone is afraid to talk about China openly
- there's little open info about external development studios, but meanwhile, you have no idea how many of your favorite games they are involved in ↓

https://t.ly/MGCeh

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2 years ago
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Just made my first phone+telescope astrophotography of the Andromeda galaxy. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work

Kyiv, Ukraine, 22.07.23

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2 years ago

That was brave, такого не напишуть ані в Threads, ані в Твіттері ✊

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2 years ago

Thanks a lot! It was just a casual phone photo test, tonight want to try it through a telescope. But yesterday’s observations were interrupted by an air raid alert, so..

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2 years ago
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So called astrophotography, shot in Kyiv 18.07.23

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2 years ago

Well at least they are consistent not only with Russia-related headlines

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2 years ago
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Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

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2 years ago

I wrote this story for Wired more like a column, not a *true journalism*, but it still was a pretty surreal experience for a first month of a full-scale Russia’s war in Ukraine

https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-video-games-guilt/

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2 years ago
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Тут про це вже придумали жарт

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2 years ago

Working on a story about how tensions between China and Taiwan will affect game developers in the region. Wrote a post on Reddit about searching for people to comment. It is still hangin’ on a Taiwanese subreddit. On the Chinese one, it was banned in minutes.

You can take the boy out the hood…

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2 years ago

Навіть в такому кострубатому Bluesky поки що подобається майже все, окрім двох речей:
- що ми тут обговорюємо твіттер і Маска
- що у соцмережі 2023 року так і не придумали, як відмовитися від лайків, підписників, і цього порожнього відчуття urgency, яке тисне і нічого не дає у відповідь

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2 years ago

Взагалі у мене не увійшло в звичку слухати книги, але нещодавно послухав «Проблему трьох тіл» Лі Цисіня, було ок. Але деякі штуки – наприклад Бурден у виконанні Бурдена – це прям окремий досвід

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2 years ago

Читаю як дурко паралельно декілька книг:

«Завтра, завтра, завтра» Зевін, «Блакитну цятку» Сагана,
Under Alien Skies астрофізика Плейта

По першій поки рано робити висновки, друга – не дарма класика, третя класна

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2 years ago

Bluesky is lagging because of high demand, Meta briefly teases their Twitter-like clone. It all means one thing: time for Google to return Google Plus

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2 years ago

I just wish the first post here contained the word "macaroni"

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