The insurrection case against Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin will be closed, and he will move to Belarus, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on June 24.
@endlessvoid And what is the goal? Now the results after the performance looks like;
Putin and the actual regime are weak: armed contractors leave their positions, enter in national territory and occupied a bit town without that the army is able to stop them. At the end and for the first time Putin's regime negotiates publicly with an oppositional illegal armed force inside its territory. Result: the regime show weakness.
Wagner as a contractor leaves the places in the line of combat and revolts against their actual employer: Result: Wagner cannot be trusted by future employers.
Since Prigozhin is not more in Russia/Ukraine, and it has been exiled, the command chain and control on Wagner is not more stable. At the same time the Russian Army doesn't seem able to take control of it, at least outside of Russia/Ukraine. Which control does now Russia have about the contracts in Syria, Africa, etc?
To be a theater... it doesn't seem to have a goal. Everyone seems here to be a loser: Wagner not more a successful company, Putin not more the head of a strong regime, the Russian army not more able to defend their territory against a armed force (worse, against a private company, not even a country or a terror organization).
For me more than a theater it looks like symptoms of decadence.
Putin's regime looks weak... to negotiate with a private company to avoid that their attack the capital of the country (a private company, not the NATO, not a bit terror organization) looks not really good.
The Russian army doesn't seem to be able to defend the Russian territory from the incursion of an organized armed force (able to occupy in hours a town with more than one million inhabitants)
Wagner doesn't look now as a company in which future stakeholders can trust, and trust is the base of the work of contractors.
@DarkGamer what it will be difficult will be to absorb into Russian forces the teams of Wagner deployed in other countries, especially African countries. They have been deployed as private contractors working for the local government or for local rebel groups. But... as part of the Russian Army that is diplomatically unsustainable (only exception Syria, since Russia is present there).
@shishmish And how they leave their place and arrive to Russia? Russian airports and sky are at the moment under governmental control. And I don't think that Syria will take part on the conflict organizing flights to Wager.
In a brief televised address, the Serbian army chief-of-staff, Gen. Milan Mojsilovic, said Kosovo Serbs can no longer ‘tolerate the terror’ of the Kosovo government
Russia-Ukraine War LIVE updates: Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin declared determination to oust Russian military leadership, accusing them of attacking his men. Meanwhile, the country's prosecutor general announced an investigation into Prigozhin for armed rebellion.
According to the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, cited by Russian state-owned news agency TASS, Russia's Vladimir Putin is aware of "the situation unfolding around" Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and "all necessary measures are being taken."
Russia's FSB security service has opened a criminal case against mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for calling for armed mutiny, the TASS news agency said on Friday, citing the National Antiterrorism Committee.
@CorInABox
No perhaps. That was all the problem. It was a break of trust by the admins who attended this meeting, and then cannot do a lot to regain the trust since they cannot speak about the subject. Eben is unknown who attended meeting. @LollerCorleone@kaladininskyrim
For the moment kbin doesn't offer the possibility of blocking an instance. The only possibility if offers is to "silence" it, that means, the user don't see the posts from this instance, but the instance (Meta in this case) can access the data posted by the user....
@smallpatatas ok... there are other options, but the problem is that the project is yet too young, and the devs are working hard in the functionality. I don't think that they will have power to address that in the near time.
Then I suppose I will need just to remove my posts, find other moderators for my magazins and delete account.
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
Yitzhak Pindrus of the United Torah Judaism party says that it's his duty to 'not only prevent the Pride parade, but in general to prevent this movement'
A growing number of instances (mainly of Mastodon so far) are signing an 'Anti-Meta Fedi Pact', pledging to block any instance owned by Meta in the fediverse....
@Mr_Jabroni they can get data without a context, what is a big problem for the integration. For instance, to coreference accounts in different platforms, they cannot do it based on the name, but they can do it building a graph of interactions and learning from it... just as an example. Of course everyone can do the same, the problem is that Meta has not only the skills and resources, but that it is a substantial part of their business model.
I don't claim that the Anti-Meta pact is a solution, I am far to know how is possible to go ahead with the situation. A first step is that the user should be allow to decide which instances cannot access her/his data, something that in Mastodon is already possible.
An additional problem is that after some representatives of big Mastodon servers took part in a meeting with Meta under NDA, I have a big problem of trust. @LollerCorleone@Silejonu
I’d like to explore a project for NLP based search on the fediverse. But I’m a fediverse beginner and am not sure if it’s possible to index fediverse content....
@ofcourse there are instances which defederated an instance because they implented free-text search. There is not agreement on that.
Steps 1 and 2 are problematic, since the Fediverse is hetetogeneous and not every instance federates which every instance, and not all the content is shared between diffrerent software (i.e. only a part of the content in kbin can be accessed by madtodon).
Anyway the approach is sound, maybe not for the fediverse, but for groups of instances which agree on a shared search engine.
I'm not sure about the GPU requirements, but on CPU the updates could be very slow for the actual trafic.
Kremlin spokesman: Prigozhin case will be dropped, he will move to Belarus (kyivindependent.com)
The insurrection case against Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin will be closed, and he will move to Belarus, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on June 24.
Wagner boss Prigozhin tells fighters to stop, avoid bloodshed in Russia revolt (www.jpost.com)
Some 5,000 Wagner fighters seen approaching the Russian capital • Russia powerless to stop Wagner's revolt, advances to Moscow
Incoming reports of Wagner Group soldiers leaving their missions in Africa and Syria to join the military coup in Russia against Putin. (twitter.com)
Serbia again threatens armed intervention in Kosovo as tension escalates (english.elpais.com)
In a brief televised address, the Serbian army chief-of-staff, Gen. Milan Mojsilovic, said Kosovo Serbs can no longer ‘tolerate the terror’ of the Kosovo government
Wagner's men surround Russian city Rostov-on-Don. Russia-Ukraine War LIVE (www.livemint.com)
Russia-Ukraine War LIVE updates: Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin declared determination to oust Russian military leadership, accusing them of attacking his men. Meanwhile, the country's prosecutor general announced an investigation into Prigozhin for armed rebellion.
Kremlin spokesperson says Putin aware of 'situation with Prigozhin,' Russian media report 'panic in presidential office' (kyivindependent.com)
According to the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, cited by Russian state-owned news agency TASS, Russia's Vladimir Putin is aware of "the situation unfolding around" Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and "all necessary measures are being taken."
Russia's FSB opens criminal case against Wagner chief Prigozhin for armed mutiny (www.jpost.com)
Russia's FSB security service has opened a criminal case against mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for calling for armed mutiny, the TASS news agency said on Friday, citing the National Antiterrorism Committee.
Prigozhin Says Moscow Strikes Kill 'Huge' Number of Wagner Forces, Vows to 'Stop' Top Brass - The Moscow Times (www.themoscowtimes.com)
The Moscow Times is collecting all the latest breaking news and developments around Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group.
Meta invited the admin of Fosstodon for a roundtable to discuss their upcoming fediverse platform (fosstodon.org)
And got a straightforward no as a response XD...
How scientific conferences are responding to abortion bans and anti-LGBTQ+ laws (www.science.org)
Survey shows few societies are pulling out of affected U.S. states, but many are implementing safety measures
Erdan: UNSC must condemn Hezbollah infiltration into northern Israel (www.jpost.com)
Erdan warned that Israel "retains the right to take all necessary measures to protect its territory."
Why is the North Atlantic breaking heat records? (www.sciencenews.org)
Record-breaking sea-surface temperatures off the coast of Africa may affect the 2023 hurricane season. What’s fueling the unusual heat is unclear.
Any kbin instance will block Meta?
For the moment kbin doesn't offer the possibility of blocking an instance. The only possibility if offers is to "silence" it, that means, the user don't see the posts from this instance, but the instance (Meta in this case) can access the data posted by the user....
'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S. (www.npr.org)
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
Revolutionizing NLP Summarization with LangChain: Overcoming Challenges of Large Document Processing and Information Fusion (dev.to)
In the realm of Natural Language Processing (NLP), summarizing extensive or multiple documents...
Hezbollah infiltrates, sets up armed position in Israel (www.jpost.com)
The military position has been on Israeli land for weeks, and the IDF has chosen not to attack it for the moment.
Coalition MK: LGBTQ community poses greater threat to Israel than Hezbollah or Hamas (www.timesofisrael.com)
Yitzhak Pindrus of the United Torah Judaism party says that it's his duty to 'not only prevent the Pride parade, but in general to prevent this movement'
Gay Russian refugee thought he was ‘dreaming’ at first-ever UK Pride parade (metro.co.uk)
'I call the UK my home.'
For my transgender daughter, there are only 18 States of America (www.salon.com)
My daughter's America has become apocalyptic — safe states scattered, broken up by vast stretches of hostility
A growing number of instances are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact
A growing number of instances (mainly of Mastodon so far) are signing an 'Anti-Meta Fedi Pact', pledging to block any instance owned by Meta in the fediverse....
OC Implementing NLP search on fediverse
I’d like to explore a project for NLP based search on the fediverse. But I’m a fediverse beginner and am not sure if it’s possible to index fediverse content....