Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

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Thank you for telling the results of russian propaganda lies using POWs. It is shocking how russia has weaponized every aspect of life they can intimidate or coerce.

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"Still Serving: Inside the Most Bombed McDonald’s in The World" in Kyiv, Ukraine. It's a good @janelytv.bsky.social dispatch for @nbcnews.com , with many details that perhaps need more context for non-locals, but the visuals themselves are great enough.

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According to Lithuanian state television, the origin of the drone has not been confirmed yet.

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"Somali pirates hijacked a suspected Iranian shadow fleet tanker off the coast of Yemen on Thursday, amid what experts say is the biggest surge in piracy in the region in more than a decade." Quite the cross-over event. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/w...

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