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r721
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- r721Source: https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die...
- Current discussion: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=46342412 (264 comments)
- You reminded me about this Abstruse Goose comic: https://web.archive.org/web/20230202225744/https://abstruseg...
- Just a HN convention to add ([year]) to old stories' titles, the comment was for the mod to change the title, sometimes they do it.
- (2013)
- >Starting today, Google Translate uses advanced Gemini capabilities to better improve translations on phrases with more nuanced meanings like idioms, local expressions or slang.
https://blog.google/products/search/gemini-capabilities-tran... [Dec 12, 2025]
- >Durov's TON shitcoin
>Telegram reeks of FSB/SVR honeypot
Btw interesting connection between Durov/TON and Jan Marsalek (alleged Russian spy) was recently uncovered by FT:
>In 2018 Marsalek invited Ben Halim and other backers of the Libya projects to invest in a new crypto token being launched by messaging platform Telegram, whose founder Pavel Durov had met Marsalek and invited him to participate.
>A special purpose vehicle was set up for them to pool their money and invest but Credit Suisse, which was organising the sale of the token, blocked the transaction. It turned out the bank was happy to take money from Marsalek, whose role in the biggest corporate fraud in recent European history had yet to be revealed, but was wary of his Libyan friends.
>As a workaround, Ben Halim and others decided to let Marsalek invest their money in his name, sidestepping Credit Suisse’s money laundering checks. However, the US Securities and Exchange Commission blocked Telegram’s issuance of the tokens and Marsalek refunded his Libyan associates.
- >It seems that a country is then doomed into having a 2 party system.
- And after that he decided to become an ally of Russian government to help them spread conspiracy theories (about Seth Rich for example):
>In the end, the most charitable interpretation of Assange’s “dissembling” as Mueller calls it, in the Seth Rich hoax is that he genuinely couldn’t rule out the possibility that Rich was his source. The Mueller report demolished that final moral refuge. Rich had been dead four days when Assange received the DNC files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#WikiLeaks_...
- Imagine you are a media outlet. How exactly would you verify the claim if everything you have is a link to suspended account and testimony of account owner (and Meta doesn't want to comment on details)?
- It's your app: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=45917167
- 2 points
- Just after Matthew Prince's interview at Wired :)
- (2022)
- FYI: ZeroHedge is a project of two pro-Kremlin Bulgarians, a father and son:
https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-tr...