Jiri Mandak

Monte Dolack, Suburban Refuge, 1984

Monte Dolack, Suburban Refuge, 1984

Keburia ss26 #fashionsky

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’ Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

We are literally destroying our planet and ourselves in service of a toy a handful of billionaires have promoted as the everything app to destroy the negotiation power of labor. We are going to kill ourselves to fire ourselves because they want to permanently pull the ladder up behind them.

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U.N. special rapporteur Alice Edwards said she's documented "serious cases of torture" in Russian prisons and detention sites. “Look, I’m calling this part of Russian war policy. It’s clear that it’s organized. It’s clear that it’s systematic.”

Our investigation, no paywall: wapo.st/3YNw5PF

Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way. In their race to push out new versions with more capability, AI companies leave users vulnerable to “LLM grooming” efforts that promote bogus information.

A Russian operation is one of the most successful so far in getting lies repeated by popular AI chatbots. Gift link to my story today. wapo.st/44vhnR3

Díky za tyhle ověřovací články, jsou super, musí dát hodně práce.

Since the onset of the war, Czechia’s crude oil imports have contributed nearly 3 billion euros in tax revenues to the Russian state. In total, Czechia has spent 8.4 billion euros on Russian oil and gas since February 2022, more than six times the 1.32 billion euros it has provided in aid to Ukraine

Marharyta Polovinko, a 31-year-old Ukrainian artist and paramedic, was killed on the battlefield.

She served in the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade.

Known for her powerful artwork painted with blood and inkless pens, she depicted war’s brutal reality and mourned its victims.

Photo: @solomiyamag

3/4. Russia has rejected the ceasefire and continues a war that was criminal from the beginning. Under Trump, we are only making this easier. We are putting US power on Russia’s side.

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On February 20, 2025, Chris Young, a senior member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team met with the USADF leadership team, including me, at headquarters. Young explained that he was there to introduce DOGE to the Agency. He also announced that two software engineers would be assigned to the Agency to modernize the Agency’s IT systems and create efficiencies in our operations. During discussions, I stated to Mr. Young that modernizing our IT systems and databases was welcome news and that we fully supported the mission of

using technology to create a more efficient workforce. Mr. Young spoke about his experience in Africa as a child of missionaries and stated that he has seen first-hand the many problems that USADF is trying to address. He mentioned that due to the urgency of responding to the President’s Executive Order aimed at USADF, the two engineers would come to the Agency the next day on February 21st. 4. On February 21, Ethan Shaotran, Jacob Altik, and Nate Cavanaugh arrived at USADF. Shaotran and Cavanaugh introduced themselves as IT personnel from GSA. Altik stated that he was a lawyer from the White House Personnel Office. They explained that we needed to immediately sign a memorandum of understanding for their detail assignment. 5. Once the MOU was signed, Altik explained the true purpose of the meeting, which was to provide USADF leadership with DOGE’s interpretation of the “minimum presence and function” required by USADF’s statute. DOGE read the statute to mean: 1) only the USADF Board and President/CEO are statutorily required, 2) only one or two grants funded by private sector partnerships are required, and 3) all other personnel/employees therefore needed to be eliminated under the Executive Order. 6. Altik stated that his next step was to present a RIF plan (where all USADF staff would be fired) to the board for approval by Monday, February 24. Altik threatened that if the Board didn’t approve the plan, the Board would be dismissed.

Chilling details from a lawsuit against DOGE by USADF about how much of a lie DOGE's "IT modernization" is (the best way to describe it is if someone comes from the cable company and then says because he's in your house, he's allowed to do a home invasion) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Pointing out AI-induced glitches and hallucinations like the bearded dancers therefore seems to me to be beside the point. Such traditional critique of representation is helpless when those in power are no longer concerned with the details of representation, but only with ›flooding the zone‹
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Dreaming of spring 😍😩

Valentine's Day cards, light pink paper cards with monochrome collages cutout from an old book, cheerful slogans in ink handwritting.

Made a few Valentine's day cards for friends at work 😊

I think the thing that makes this so distinctly bad is that it isn't just a total failure of Google to resist, but how this seems likely to haunt us forever. Our country and our perception of it is shifting and we realize no future president will do something so unpopular as rename it...

The surrender of legacy media and social platforms to MAGA is multicausal but largely the product of a disciplined campaign to make infrastructure political. Without a bad-faith campaign involving years and unimaginable sums of money, I highly doubt organic incentives would produce this outcome.

thank you, bought it :-)

Above view of small handmade rug depicting a grinning tiger in red boots surrouded by green leaves.

New rug. (by @2girls1rug on ig)

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #851,483, Jiri Mandak ‪@jirimandak.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 3, 2023"

heh, got numbered as #851,483

Btw, it's playable in browser here, though UI is currently broken: jírimandak.link

News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions NEW YORK—Calling out the unsustainable pace at which historic events seemed to be occurring, local man Brad Gifford told reporters Monday that important news stories were now happening faster than ...

"It’s getting harder and harder to come up with enough incoherent perspectives to meet the moment."

Computer monitor encased in custom made cardboard box stylized as a marble cladded public monument.

Made this custom cardboard box stylized as a marble cladded memorial for the computer with my videogame on - at an independent videogame art festival in Prague. 🙂