Юрий Дудь взял интервью у Армена Захаряна, автора одного из самых необычайных и увлекательных литературных каналов на русскоязычном YouTube «Армен и Фёдор».
На протяжении почти трех часов Армен рассказывает о любви к литературе, истории своего увлечения, уроках жизни и важнейших книгах, которые надо показать инопланетянам, чтобы они поняли человечество. Каждый из ответов он снабжает калейдоскопом литературных примеров.
Чтобы припастись цитатами на любой случай и быть такими же красноречивыми, вспоминаем подборку остроактуальных выдержек из сочинений Марселя Пруста, подготовленную Арменом специально для «Дискурса», — о привычке к войне, милитаризации культуры и слепоте общества.
Юрий Дудь взял интервью у Армена Захаряна, автора одного из самых необычайных и увлекательных литературных каналов на русскоязычном YouTube «Армен и Фёдор».
На протяжении почти трех часов Армен рассказывает о любви к литературе, истории своего увлечения, уроках жизни и важнейших книгах, которые надо показать инопланетянам, чтобы они поняли человечество. Каждый из ответов он снабжает калейдоскопом литературных примеров.
Чтобы припастись цитатами на любой случай и быть такими же красноречивыми, вспоминаем подборку остроактуальных выдержек из сочинений Марселя Пруста, подготовленную Арменом специально для «Дискурса», — о привычке к войне, милитаризации культуры и слепоте общества.
For example, WhatsApp restricted the number of times a user could forward something, and developed automated systems that detect and flag objectionable content. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Telegram has gained a reputation as the “secure” communications app in the post-Soviet states, but whenever you make choices about your digital security, it’s important to start by asking yourself, “What exactly am I securing? And who am I securing it from?” These questions should inform your decisions about whether you are using the right tool or platform for your digital security needs. Telegram is certainly not the most secure messaging app on the market right now. Its security model requires users to place a great deal of trust in Telegram’s ability to protect user data. For some users, this may be good enough for now. For others, it may be wiser to move to a different platform for certain kinds of high-risk communications. 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.
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