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Also, this just flew across my feed, which is quite relevant and touches on complicated realities, which might confuse poor souls like OP (if they are not paid/otherwise incentivised to spread propaganda):

https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-trooper-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/

There is a good chance that there are A-W, Y and Z social media companies too. Some may be legit (eg. marketing on existing social media platforms), and others more for trademark squatting.

Strange comment. I have a long and varied comment history. OP not.

Heh. I guess an alternative is that they are a useful idiot of a paid actor, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Given the account age, it's probably an existing user's dedicated meme bot account.

That's not what they are paid to do.

Fresh propaganda (bot?) account.

It mostly runs. An Azure-optimized HyperV build is the primary hypervisor I think, but I'd wager that most customer VMs on Azure are running Linux. However, if you want to run Windows in the cloud, it's a decent option.

My experience with Azure has been less than stellar. They have good API documentation, but tooling & core compute is a bit janky. The web UI is also a throwback to a past era, but you can't really avoid it when debugging issues which you have to do often during development. Then the developers want to forget all about it ... which is a problem when something inevitably breaks.

Hah.. I like it. tweets are now x-cretions.

Oh I don't know... twitter was probably seen as good tool for more pump & dump and other financial scams, not to mention the opportunity to influence worldwide politics.

Then there's the wish to turn it into an everything app with micro transactions at every step of the way. Such a beast wouldn't get far in the EU, and probably not the US either.

Except we know that mostly doesn't work. It is weird to me that your preference is to waste resources and not help people.

I'm not against effective measures, but I've seen too many kind and well-meaning people make a lot of bad decisions over the years. I think this is often the case for politicians too, for which we expect high standards and judge harshly when they inevitably fail. I like to leave room for people to make mistakes, and the opportunity to admit & correct mistakes.

Maybe we need fewer politicians and petty dictators on soap boxes making claims and promises and more no-nonsense elbow grease bureaucracy, with more direct feedback loops, and KPIs that benefit the population.

Too many smokers continue to smoke after developing serious symptoms. People continue with poor diets and too little exercise despite their own doctor's advice. We stare at screens for many hours per day. I'd still rather big warnings and community health initiatives than forced exercise/diets/screen-time-limits. Human rights / self determination is important. But organised efforts to appropriately highlight bullshit in public forums isn't bad at all. In both approaches, the Q is how categorization happens, and can it be trusted.

Who was behind the anti-vax/mask psyops campaigns? To me, it seems to have been rolled up together with pro-trump, pro-russia/anti-ukraine, anti-LGBTQ, climate-change-denial streams. At least, these talking points are what a few older people (non-US-based) that I know started repeating. It looks like a giant pot of discontent, with a few usual suspects adding ingredients, no doubt with some profit opportunities along the way.

I'd rather have big fat warning labels than censorship, to be honest. The issue is that many governments and people end up in a spiral of distrust & broken trust (justified or not).

Covid was/is a shitshow though. Where was the world class PsyOps then? Perhaps too busy scaring the hell out of everyone to notice that it might not be the smartest strategy.