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Aleksandr Bastrykin of Russia’s Central Investigative Committee tells Putin that in the 15 years of the org’s existence, it has investigated 1.5 million cases. Seems like a lot of investigations for one law enforcement unit—so much crime, so many suspects.
In Oymyakon, Yakutia, they held an ultramarathon of 50 kilometers today. Outside temperature was -42°C. Former head of Russian national soccer team, 50yo Aleksey Smertin, won his age category with a time of 4 hours 45 minutes.
“Sprawling network”, you say? So, like an archipelago then, of State-administered camps for people who haven’t been convicted of real crimes. Seems I have heard of something like that before.
The last time I flew through Charlotte, at 7AM, it reminded me of the film “Soylent Green.”
I am a knowledge worker who uses AI for some things but am too concerned about the obvious errors and hallucinations in AI to trust it for anything truly important. I see a lot of AI skepticism on BlusSky and Mastodon and have assumed that it arose from similar experiences by educated users.
Russia's senior law enforcement official, Aleksandr Bastrykin, with a younger man who is now Russia's Prosecutor-General. Same vibe.