I would highly reading "Imperium" (Empire) by Ryszard Kapuściński https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_(Kapu%C5%9Bci%C5%84sk... to get a better understanding of why nations neighboring Russia do not believe that.

The mindset you suggest is laudable, and much easier to entertain from a certain distance.

This is what I read in a book about glucose. So I went ahead and measured. I found it not true, at least in my case. The recommendations of eating salad before your meal do nothing measureable for my glucose spikes.

The real verdict will be after several days of use with dual language dictation, but so far it looks really good!

I ended up having AI optimize Whisper Large and create a plugin for TypeWhisper, and that's what I use (feeding the results through local Qwen 3.8 running under MTPLX).

Selling blue-light filter coatings is a big business, though.

Now there is an official paid search API, and I'm guessing the certified providers will be allowed through the Cloudflare "bot protection"?

This is very worrying.

This makes returning to the country nice and pleasant. The border agents never ask you creepy questions like: Where are you going? Where will you be staying? What do you intend to do? (it's what US border agents ask their citizens). They just say hi and let you in.

I don't care what scandalous thing a politician said on any given day. I do not want to be advertising or voting material, to be riled up and pitted against others.

That means that I can judge the state of things by simply living in the country and watching what happens around me, comparing it to other places I visit. And that paints a very positive picture of the reality that surrounds us. Even on a practical level, living in a city that is safe and clean with good public transportation is something I've learned to appreciate. There are very few places in the world where I would consider living at this point, and in summertime at least, when the weather is nice, I simply wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

As to the OP and the blog post (impressive, btw!) — I largely agree. I don't think this is fear-mongering, these things are genuinely happening and are real risks. The OP didn't panic, and neither do I — but I do take these risks into account.