While the destruction of a single aircraft will have little effect on the potency of Moscow’s current 60-strong fleet, the operation highlights Kyiv’s growing ability to strike targets deep inside Russian territory.
Kyiv has over recent months launched dozens of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft to attack Moscow, a journey of several hundred miles. Soltsy-2 is around 400 miles (650km) from the Ukraine border.
This is a stunning attack deep inside Russia, all the more a surprise when you see it on a map.
The tech industry always wants us to see its products as inevitable. But this is another moment where we need to recognize that isn’t true, and we do have the collective power to stop technologies that don’t serve us.
This is something I’m currently wrestling with. The appeal and positive potential are so tantalizing.
I go to bed choosing one thing to accomplish the next day, I wake up to tackle this singular task. I tend to work only in the morning, get everything done before lunch. The afternoons, I spend mostly reading and learning things to help me solve the next day’s task. I usually wake up with the sun, and sleep soon after sunset.
Saving this for posterity, mostly for the reminder that it’s ok not to work all the time — since almost everything else in the Western world tells you that you should be.
Anything that makes us, our work, or our lives unique often makes today’s rigid software more frustrating to use. People deserve environments and tools which become more powerful, not more frustrating, as they learn what makes them and their lives more unique. People deserve environments which can evolve with them. People deserve the opportunity to introspect, and craft their digital environments to support their best.
This is the sort of thing I want to see out of computer and software companies these days — new paradigms. Maybe it’s happening inside of R&D labs, but it definitely isn’t happening — or at least being seen — as fast as top-down, controlled, walled gardens are.
I love the sense of play behind this set design, particularly how the designers tapped into childhood memories of toy stores and gazing into the boxes.
I challenged myself to create something that seemed impossible. I like to surprise people, so I resolved to make a Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube, starting on it in March 2016; on September 13, 2018 it solved itself without getting stuck for the first time.