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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 19h

20 years ago journalist and writer Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the stairwell of her apartment building in Moscow. Her 19-year-old granddaughter Anna lives in Europe, studies politics, and plans to devote her life to it. The Barents Observer met Anna Politkovskaya

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“My grandmother gave me this name so that I would do something with it”

Twenty years ago—on 7 October 2006—journalist and writer Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the stairwell of her apartment building in Moscow. Her granddaughter Anna was born after her murder: she li...

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Reposting this about the bond market because of no particular reason

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What is this unspeakable vulgarity? And what is Paulie Walnuts doing at the world cup final?

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Another screaming blunder from the Google AI summaries. They can't even get US time zones right. Colorado is behind California, according to this.

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Today in AI blunders from Google: Delta does not serve all 50 US states. Again, the most easily verifiable, basic, factual info, and they screw it up

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Graffiti at the Amsterdam Central Station, 1988. #jessejackson

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It may not be very fashionable to quote James Carville, but, you know. "I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody."

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Those rumbles you're hearing in the sky above New York are jet fighters, but it's nothing to worry about. They're patrolling as the do every year for the UN General Assembly. You can't see them on flight tracker apps, but you can see the tanker keeping them fueled and its call sign

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The Google AI gets the CALENDAR wrong. The calendar. This isn't some deep, contested fact. It's what day of the week it is. (Time zone issues? No. I googled this at 1.30pm ET.)

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This one hurts. There have been many pilots who could write well, from Saint-Exupéry on. But Langewiesche was the best of them.

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

For the love of Deus, ABC News, you've only had weeks to learn the one sentence in Latin that matters now

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Alberto Riva @albertonewyork.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I have no idea what the context is for this but wow, yes!

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Brian Gaar @briangaar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The sudden geopolitical relevance of Milan street signs.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The secret political turning point, clear only in retrospect, was when we shifted from turning on the TV or opening a paper and hearing the news, to turning on your computer or phone and being delivered whatever version of the news someone like you would find most engaging.

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