Here is November 7th’s update! TLDR? Here’s the summary.
Here is November 8th’s update! TLDR? Here’s the summary.
I strategically retreated from doing an update on Wednesday (and I always perform tactical update withdrawals on Thursdays and Sundays) so this next one covers a bit from those two days.
Here is November 11th’s update! TLDR? Here’s the summary.
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the “buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!” people.
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it’s a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn’t really need more, but:
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week’s discussion post.
If I were the big general of Russia I would simply win
For instance, recent simulations suggest that stratocumulus cloud decks might abruptly be lost at CO2 concentrations that could be approached by the end of the century, causing an additional ∼8 °C global warming (23).
:lt-dbyf-dubois:
Link. I stopped reading it because who wants to know the future?
I mean, I can’t help but wonder what happens if a climate collapse drops the human population under a billion people inside a generation or two.
I have to assume that drastically reduces the amount of carbon we produce (among other pollutants). But it’s also not clear what ecology would be left in the midst of that kind of collapse.
Carbon takes a long time to leave the atmosphere so its going to suck for a long time
Does it? I thought plants were fairly efficient in that regard. The problem, as I understand it, is that big plant growths have an annoying habit of up-and-dying, decomposing, and putting all that captured carbon back out there again.
All the fossil fuels we’re burning are a consequence of plant life that had accumulated mostly before the evolution of composting organisms.
Bitcoin just dropped 500 dollars in one minute lol
Binance, the largest crypto exchange, had like $3B worth of FTX’s token. They decided to market sell all of it 4 days ago. Then, since all of FTX’s loans were against the value of their token, when the value of their token dropped it forced their creditors to margin call them because the value of their collateral was no longer sufficient. FTX lost $6B last night, and Binance verbally agreed to buy them out this morning, likely for pennies on the dollar. Basically, Binance saw an opportunity to attack their largest competitor and they took it.
FTX had been selling all of their holdings, including BTC, to try and prop up the value of their token so that they wouldn’t get margin called.
