На выходных ездила в город Ковдор, известный не только как столица Гипербореи, но и как прототип Сулима из романа Алексея Поляринова @polyarinov «Риф».
Приезжаю и вижу, что в Ковдоре на центральных улицах стоят кадавры - застывшие фигуры детей. На экскурсии нам рассказали, что раньше таких скульптур было ещё больше, но местные почему-то значительную часть просто разбили.
На выходных ездила в город Ковдор, известный не только как столица Гипербореи, но и как прототип Сулима из романа Алексея Поляринова @polyarinov «Риф».
Приезжаю и вижу, что в Ковдоре на центральных улицах стоят кадавры - застывшие фигуры детей. На экскурсии нам рассказали, что раньше таких скульптур было ещё больше, но местные почему-то значительную часть просто разбили.
Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. In the past, it was noticed that through bulk SMSes, investors were induced to invest in or purchase the stocks of certain listed companies. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion.
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