David Kharebov
@dharebov.bsky.social
Born in Russia, living in Berlin.
Tech, media fundraising, human rights 🏳️🌈
Tech, media fundraising, human rights 🏳️🌈
Yesterday's news about OpenAI, and not only literally — tech companies have been openly working on US and other defense contracts for years now, protests lead to people fired rather than projects abandoned.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’
Program with the defense department is first under the startup’s initiative to put AI to work in governments
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Yesterday's news about OpenAI, and not only literally — tech companies have been openly working on US and other defense contracts for years now, protests lead to people fired rather than projects abandoned.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It was only a matter of time before these two would see eye to eye on something other than competitive kid-making
May 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It was only a matter of time before these two would see eye to eye on something other than competitive kid-making
My friend @aivengo96.bsky.social attended "The Forum of Yulia Navalnaya" and, in a shocking twist, saw a glimpse of the future for the Russian opposition instead of the never-ending squabble we are all used to.
Сомневающийся участник: мой путь на форум России будущего - Русская служба The Moscow Times
Мнение | Алексей Уваров - Не ждал от этого форума ничего хорошего. Мне казалось, что снова встречу лишь лозунги, закрытую среду и оторванность от реальности. Но за три дня я услышал то, чего мне давно...
www.moscowtimes.ru
May 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
My friend @aivengo96.bsky.social attended "The Forum of Yulia Navalnaya" and, in a shocking twist, saw a glimpse of the future for the Russian opposition instead of the never-ending squabble we are all used to.
Reposted by David Kharebov
My piece on Kaskad, an obscure Russian army unit that offers officials, pro-Kremlin youth activists and various regime "Mitläufer"s a chance to get the badge of war veteran and come back home safe and sound after a short deployment in Ukraine:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
Selfies From the Front: Inside the ‘V.I.P.’ Brigade for Ambitious Russian Officials
www.nytimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My piece on Kaskad, an obscure Russian army unit that offers officials, pro-Kremlin youth activists and various regime "Mitläufer"s a chance to get the badge of war veteran and come back home safe and sound after a short deployment in Ukraine:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
Only by p.50 I figured the book “The End. Germany in 1945-1955”, was not in fact the “Wolf Time - Germans 1945-1955”, the book that I actually wanted to read. Now adding not one, but two of these to the book about 1945 German suicide epidemic would be concerning, so I am considering -a library-.
May 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Only by p.50 I figured the book “The End. Germany in 1945-1955”, was not in fact the “Wolf Time - Germans 1945-1955”, the book that I actually wanted to read. Now adding not one, but two of these to the book about 1945 German suicide epidemic would be concerning, so I am considering -a library-.
Great article by @alexfiniarel.bsky.social about how migrants and refugees are not really coming to your country to commit crimes and steal your jobs. Written by an immigrant who hasn't stolen anyone's job yet, too, so take note!
Migrant Libel: Explaining and debunking the myth about immigration driving up crime rates
Despite politicians' rhetoric linking a rise in immigration to an increase in crime, statistics show an absence of so much as a correlation.
Despite politicians' rhetoric linking a rise in immigration to an increase in crime, statistics show an absence of so much as a correlation.
Migrant Libel: Explaining and debunking the myth about immigration driving up crime rates
On April 14, incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced the new government's plans to limit the number of asylum seekers to 100,000 a year, to increase deportations, and to suspend the countr...
theins.press
May 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Great article by @alexfiniarel.bsky.social about how migrants and refugees are not really coming to your country to commit crimes and steal your jobs. Written by an immigrant who hasn't stolen anyone's job yet, too, so take note!
Our exhibition in Berlin is giving out tiny statuettes of Alexey Navalny as part of the art installation by Spanish artist Fernando Sanchez Castillo. It's a part of a larger project that depicts famous protesters from across the world.
A heart to bring home Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo has created the first Alexey Navalny monument — a pocket-sized tribute you can keep — Meduza
At 4:00 p.m. on May 24, Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo will activate his Expanded Memorial for Alexey Navalny at Meduza’s “No” art exhibition in Berlin. Visitors will be able to take home a ...
meduza.io
May 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our exhibition in Berlin is giving out tiny statuettes of Alexey Navalny as part of the art installation by Spanish artist Fernando Sanchez Castillo. It's a part of a larger project that depicts famous protesters from across the world.
The decision to delete Instagram from my phone and just use the desktop version is undoubtedly the best thing I did for the quality of my mornings, evenings and commute. The reels were just too addictive, and I still get plenty from my friends to feel in the loop.
May 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The decision to delete Instagram from my phone and just use the desktop version is undoubtedly the best thing I did for the quality of my mornings, evenings and commute. The reels were just too addictive, and I still get plenty from my friends to feel in the loop.
Reposted by David Kharebov
Dear Friend,
I am Hon. Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense. I urgently seek your trust to assist in transferring $6,000,000 USD extracted from the European Union as a payment for a highly classified US military operation against Houthi forces in Yemen.
I am Hon. Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense. I urgently seek your trust to assist in transferring $6,000,000 USD extracted from the European Union as a payment for a highly classified US military operation against Houthi forces in Yemen.
March 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Dear Friend,
I am Hon. Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense. I urgently seek your trust to assist in transferring $6,000,000 USD extracted from the European Union as a payment for a highly classified US military operation against Houthi forces in Yemen.
I am Hon. Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense. I urgently seek your trust to assist in transferring $6,000,000 USD extracted from the European Union as a payment for a highly classified US military operation against Houthi forces in Yemen.
Wow. Russian disinformation network "Pravda" succeeded in polluting outputs of 10 leading AI tools, including models by Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Over 3,6 million articles released by this network in 2024 are now contaminating their datasets.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Russia flooding training data to influence chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude
A Russian disinformation network called Pravda (“Truth”) has influenced leading AI chatbots’ output by publishing numerous articles that made their way into the bots’ training data, a new report from ...
meduza.io
March 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Wow. Russian disinformation network "Pravda" succeeded in polluting outputs of 10 leading AI tools, including models by Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Over 3,6 million articles released by this network in 2024 are now contaminating their datasets.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Entertaining thoughts of an SPD-Linke-Green coalition this election day
February 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Entertaining thoughts of an SPD-Linke-Green coalition this election day
Reposted by David Kharebov
NEW on our site
Our data shows that people are turning away from the news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising. A new piece by our researcher Craig T. Robertson explains why this is happening and what publishers can do about it
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-...
Our data shows that people are turning away from the news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising. A new piece by our researcher Craig T. Robertson explains why this is happening and what publishers can do about it
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-...
People are turning away from the news. Here’s why it may be happening
Our data shows a ten-year trend towards disengagement from online news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW on our site
Our data shows that people are turning away from the news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising. A new piece by our researcher Craig T. Robertson explains why this is happening and what publishers can do about it
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-...
Our data shows that people are turning away from the news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising. A new piece by our researcher Craig T. Robertson explains why this is happening and what publishers can do about it
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-...
Russia pulled this stunt in 2016
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Ottawa coffee shop ditching ‘Americano’ for ‘Canadiano’ on its menu
An Ottawa coffee shop is renaming the popular “Americano” drink to “Canadiano” on its menu to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of annexation against Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Russia pulled this stunt in 2016
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Reposted by David Kharebov
Ok folks, deep breaths.
There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
/1
There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
/1
February 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Ok folks, deep breaths.
There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
/1
There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
/1
Ugh my feed is full of Superbowl
February 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Ugh my feed is full of Superbowl
Reposted by David Kharebov
I mostly regret the years I spent watching Russian state TV for work, but 10 years ago today I had it on in the background when Putin landed in Egypt for this rendition of the Russian national anthem
Still one of the single funniest minutes of video on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifS...
Still one of the single funniest minutes of video on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifS...
Военный оркестр Египта исполнил Гимн России/National Anthem of the Russian Federation
YouTube video by Alvaszaldatini
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I mostly regret the years I spent watching Russian state TV for work, but 10 years ago today I had it on in the background when Putin landed in Egypt for this rendition of the Russian national anthem
Still one of the single funniest minutes of video on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifS...
Still one of the single funniest minutes of video on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifS...
Reposted by David Kharebov
This is interesting! Did not know that the 1914 Germany-Russia border was in the same spot as the current Poland-Lithuania-Russia (Kaliningrad) border, but the side that was then Germany is now Russia and the side that was Russia is Lithuania
The Russia/ Lithuania border here has what I believe is a unique distinction - in 1914 the Russian Empire started to its east, but now Russia is to the west. Same border, a country switched sides... 2/n
January 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This is interesting! Did not know that the 1914 Germany-Russia border was in the same spot as the current Poland-Lithuania-Russia (Kaliningrad) border, but the side that was then Germany is now Russia and the side that was Russia is Lithuania
Craving pryaniks all of a sudden
January 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Craving pryaniks all of a sudden
Thinking about watching Twin Peaks for the first time in my life
January 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Thinking about watching Twin Peaks for the first time in my life
Reposted by David Kharebov
if you ever meet someone who watches every minute of Yury Dud interviews, you need to run for your life because you’ve come face-to-face with a psychotic maniac
January 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
if you ever meet someone who watches every minute of Yury Dud interviews, you need to run for your life because you’ve come face-to-face with a psychotic maniac
Интересная статься про то, как сирийские журналисты из пропагандистских медиа переобуваются в воздухе, чтобы сохранить работу
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘Not a mouthpiece of the regime’: Syria’s state news agency enters new era
Journalists and broadcasters at Sana wait for ‘actions, not words’ but look to future after fall of Assad government
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Интересная статься про то, как сирийские журналисты из пропагандистских медиа переобуваются в воздухе, чтобы сохранить работу
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Reposted by David Kharebov
We are not ready for the future political implications of that second paragraph.
January 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
We are not ready for the future political implications of that second paragraph.
Reposted by David Kharebov
🎉 It is our birthday!
On this day in 2001, Wikipedia was launched.
Over two decades later, it has become one of the largest and most trusted sources of knowledge on the internet, with 63+ million articles in 300+ languages.
Read all about the history of Wikipedia ➡️ w.wiki/KYn
On this day in 2001, Wikipedia was launched.
Over two decades later, it has become one of the largest and most trusted sources of knowledge on the internet, with 63+ million articles in 300+ languages.
Read all about the history of Wikipedia ➡️ w.wiki/KYn
January 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🎉 It is our birthday!
On this day in 2001, Wikipedia was launched.
Over two decades later, it has become one of the largest and most trusted sources of knowledge on the internet, with 63+ million articles in 300+ languages.
Read all about the history of Wikipedia ➡️ w.wiki/KYn
On this day in 2001, Wikipedia was launched.
Over two decades later, it has become one of the largest and most trusted sources of knowledge on the internet, with 63+ million articles in 300+ languages.
Read all about the history of Wikipedia ➡️ w.wiki/KYn
Reposted by David Kharebov
This is something from Matryoshka (Kremlin's disinfo network) that can become truly dangerous if used at scale amid the 𝕏 / Twitter>BlueSky exodus:
They cloned a pre-existing legitimate account (bio, avatar, banner--but not name) from 𝕏 / Twitter↙️ to BlueSky↘️...
They cloned a pre-existing legitimate account (bio, avatar, banner--but not name) from 𝕏 / Twitter↙️ to BlueSky↘️...
January 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is something from Matryoshka (Kremlin's disinfo network) that can become truly dangerous if used at scale amid the 𝕏 / Twitter>BlueSky exodus:
They cloned a pre-existing legitimate account (bio, avatar, banner--but not name) from 𝕏 / Twitter↙️ to BlueSky↘️...
They cloned a pre-existing legitimate account (bio, avatar, banner--but not name) from 𝕏 / Twitter↙️ to BlueSky↘️...