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Dmytro Bevzenko, Ph. D.
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Programmer, former scientist, Ukrainian.
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“KGB’s Press Bureau encouraged officers and veterans to publish “Chekist fiction,” dramatizing real operations through the safe filter of ideology. These tales glorified the intelligence service as the moral core of the Soviet state — vigilant, incorruptible, and indispensable.”
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Read Mark
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Two of our giants of poetry--Charles Wright & Mark Strand,conferring in,& toasting,the late light. Masters of the line,masters of the image--(& if Merwin & Simic had been there that Oct 9,2014,you'd basically have the corner on the"deep image"in the mid 20th C).We miss Mark, gone 11 years. Read him.
November 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Сиджу оце на лавочці і думаю: яка імовірність того, що прізвище пані Ніколь походить від слова «січовик»?
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...

В Оклахомі студентка психологічного написала у курсовій, що традиційні гендерні ролі не маю скасовуватися (abolish), бо це віддаляє людей від Бога. І послалася на Біблію. Їй поставили нуль. Вона пожалілася губернатору. Цікаво, чим закінчиться…
OU student says Bible-based essay grade violated free-speech rights
A student at OU says her free speech rights have been violated after she received a failing grade on an essay she wrote that cites the Bible.
www.oklahoman.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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What a world
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I knew that journalists are often less educated than scientists they cover, but this sentence is a new low: “… light can magnetically influence matter, not just illuminate it”.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its electri...
phys.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Well, there is Jacob Zuma package on NPM and it became a victim of Shai Hulud Second Coming. What a world we live in.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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What a beautiful picture
science.esa.int ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 13d
Webb has revealed for the first time that there are four shells of dust around this pair of Wolf-Rayet stars, which are known as Apep.

Read more 👉 https://esawebb.org/images/wolf-rayet-apep/
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Four dust shells in Wolf-Rayet Apep expand away from three central stars that appear as a single pinpoint of light. The shells are curved, and the interior shell looks like a backward lowercase e shape.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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There is no Y in JavaScript.
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I worked on "match!" to #fsharp back in 2008/9 during an internship with @dsyme.bsky.social and parallel tasks was one example in my MSc thesis: tomasp.net/academic/the... (p. 78).

"match!" had the extra feature that you could do short-circuiting - so "_" means the task doesn't have to finish...
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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The fastest way to be blocked by me is to follow me with a hummer and sickle for avatar.
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Тим часом у Сполучених Штатах

time.com/7299476/baby...
Why Baby Boxes Are Suddenly Everywhere
Devices to help parents anonymously surrender an infant are spreading across the U.S., stirring emotions and debate.
time.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Greatest website on the internet
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50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation
109 Cent
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October 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The Cambridge World History has a lot of very peculiarly phrased sentences.
Screenshot from volume 1 page 325 of The Cambridge World History. The sentence say, talking about gender roles in Paleolithic society:“Women, moreover, are more easily mistaken as sacred because of the obvious correspondences between the cycles of their bodies and the rhythms of the heavens.”
October 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Bloody hell
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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texty.org
Soviet cinema was a tool of Russian colonialism. Under the guise of entertainment, films promoted Moscow and imposed Russian culture while marginalizing others.

Our analysis reveals how this cultural imperialism worked.

#colonialism #Russia #UkrainianView

texty.org.ua/articles/116...
Soviet movies as a tool of Russian colonialism
In addition to serving as advertisements for the Soviet system and government, Soviet films deliberately promoted all things Russian, while …
texty.org.ua
October 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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What’s new in Chrome? We broke your svg layout, that’s what’s new in Chrome.
October 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Має існувати закон, що забороняє дітям прокидатися раніше восьмої на вихідних.
October 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Sora 2 звісно крута, але на паузу краще не натискати. Бо може захотітися пофарбувати бороду бузковим і поголити ноги.
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Знаєте як справи в Америці? Сьогодні ідучи на роботу проїхав місце де була клініка, в якій мені діагностували і допомогли з астмою. Клініка закрилася і натомість там буде сигарна крамниця з курильною кімнатою.
September 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I live under a rock and only now noticed you can enable background sounds on iPhone. Is this a new feature?
September 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Meanwhile: “No serial killer in Houston, mayor says after 5 bodies found in local bayous” - Houston Chronicle www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Mayor, police chief respond to claims of serial killer in Houston
Rumors and theories surrounding a possible serial killer in Houston spread on social media in recent days after five bodies were found in area bayous.
www.houstonchronicle.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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“Thawing permafrost is thought to have exposed sulfide minerals to weathering, delivering iron and other potentially toxic metals to aquatic ecosystems.”
Wild, scenic, and toxic: Recent degradation of an iconic Arctic watershed with permafrost thaw | PNAS
The streams of Alaska’s Brooks Range lie within a vast (~14M ha) tract of protected wilderness and have long supported both resident and anadromous...
www.pnas.org
September 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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It's always a meteorite
When the Sky Fell: Shocked Quartz and the End of the Clovis World
New evidence from three iconic archaeological sites points to a cosmic airburst at the dawn of the Younger Dryas
www.anthropology.net
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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This is what the Russian munitions that struck Dnipro this morning were loaded with. People are finding these fragments scattered across the streets and stuck in the walls of their apartments.
September 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM