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Russians want “Stalin on remote” — nuclear weapons against Ukraine, but no Gulag at home.

A clear paradox has taken shape in Russian society: support for Stalin as a symbol of order, victory, and a firm hand is growing, while direct demand for his repressive methods remains selective and limited. ⚒️

According to consensus polling data, Stalin ranks first among the most outstanding figures of all time — 42%, ahead of Putin (31%), Lenin (28%), and Pushkin. Positive attitudes toward him remain at 63–70%, while negative views stand at just 8%. Around 48% of Russians overall support erecting monuments to Stalin, with the figure rising above 70% in some regions.

At the same time, the repressions are increasingly being bracketed off — dismissed as features of that era, excesses by officials, or something best left in the past. People are tired of the uncertainty surrounding the special military operation and want precisely “Stalinist solutions”: harsh, total, fast — with purges and even extreme measures such as tactical nuclear weapons. Any cruelty “over there” is acceptable, so long as it all ends more quickly and in victory. But almost no one wants a full return to 1937, with camps and total fear. ☢️

Put simply, demand has grown for “Stalin as a service.” Society wants to rent only the efficiency and symbolism of strength — for the front, corrupt officials, and external enemies — while rejecting the full package of closed borders, the Gulag, and trials for absenteeism.

The modern digital city-dweller with an imperial soul is ready to erect monuments and admire the leader, yet becomes genuinely outraged by any slowdown of YouTube, any messenger blockade, or any new round of digital control.

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Durov intends to turn Telegram into a super app modeled on China’s WeChat. 📱

The messenger will gain the ability to write code and create almost any kind of application directly inside the platform — without using external servers.

He also introduced Telegram-based login for websites, similar to “Sign in with Google.”

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Palantir has released an entire manifesto that, in substance, looks less like a corporate statement and more like preparation for a major war. ⚙️

There are 22 points in total, and most of them boil down to one idea: technology is now directly tied to the state and to military power. Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska reject the liberal Silicon Valley model and argue that engineers — and the entire tech industry — have a duty to take part in defending and strengthening the state. And, of course, AI software is now a new kind of weapon.

Palantir speaks of a transition from soft power to hard power. In its manifesto, morality, rhetoric, and values are declared insufficient. Software in the 21st century is presented as a new deterrent — much like nuclear weapons once were. Palantir is no longer asking whether this is permissible. The only question now is who gets to this new class of weapon first. The text also shifts responsibility onto everyone — onto society as a whole. Karp’s company is, quite literally, talking about a mobilization state. The main points can be read there.

There is also plenty in the manifesto criticizing apps, liberal pluralism, excessive morality, and so on.

Now, to the point. Karp’s manifesto is a full-fledged political framework in which choice is transformed into inevitability. Instead of regulation and public debate over decisions, they say there is simply no alternative. Palantir wants to position itself as the actor that defines the enemy and holds power. A private company speaking in the language of a mobilization state is, in effect, laying claim to sovereign functions outside democratic control. 🧠

Karp and Zamiska argue that elites are more effective than democracy, interpreting reality in the manifesto entirely through their own lens. Instead of human rule and human choice, we are being offered technofascism — and Palantir is the world’s first technofascist company.

Between the state’s boot pressing down on your throat and technocrats living inside dystopian realism, many would probably choose the latter. But if the old argument was about trading freedom for personal comfort, the argument has now moved to another plane entirely. This is about redrawing the world itself. And the question is whether people actually want a future in which threats are defined by AI — or, more precisely, by the paranoid schizophrenic who owns that AI. ⚠️

But keep this in mind: Palantir is now the first technofascist company in the world. Humanity does not yet know how to defeat this kind of “fascism.”

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The Japanese have solved fencing’s biggest problem as a spectator sport: it no longer looks like frantic twitching in white pajamas. ⚔️

The Fencing Visualized system tracks the movement of the épée in real time using computer vision, drawing colored trails behind the blade — with no sensors or markers required.

Previously, because of the sheer speed of the action, it was nearly impossible to understand who struck where and when. Now, the bout looks more like a lightsaber duel.

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An oil spill has occurred in the Tuapse River following an enemy UAV attack. 🛢️

Specialists have localized a spill of petroleum products in the Tuapse River. The pollution was caused by a fire at the maritime terminal, which broke out after a UAV attack on the night of April 16. The fire has already been extinguished, according to the Kuban operational headquarters.

Specialists installed 750 meters of containment booms to prevent petroleum products from spreading across the water surface. In addition, five special oil-recovery devices were deployed, and an oil trap was set up.

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The UAE no longer needs America’s protection. It is time to think about closing US bases, as they have become a burden, said analyst and UAE presidential adviser Abdulkhaleq Abdulla. 🇦🇪

According to him, the UAE no longer requires American protection because, during Iranian aggression, it proved capable of defending itself with dignity.

“What the UAE needs is to acquire only the best and most advanced weapons America has,” he said. “That is why it is time to consider closing American bases, since they are now a burden rather than a strategic asset.”

And no one even had to explain it to him.
He figured it all out himself. With his own mind.

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Neural networks have started generating videos that feel a little too real about the new reality Russians are living in. 🧠

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