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Valeria Kholostenko retweeted
Ukraine spent 5 years developing their defense from Russia around Starlink, and last night, Musk cut it off to help Putin.
This morning, the halls of power in Europe need to understand that Musk, Trump and Putin aim for total dissolution of democracy, and the primary target is Europe.
Valeria Kholostenko retweeted
💔 By attacking Ukraine, the Russians created the greatest tragedy in their own history. They collided with a culture whose pain threshold is very high, with people who cannot be frightened or terrorised. More than that, they do not yet know that in Ukrainian history there were countless rulers who took cruel revenge on enemies even after everything had ended. At a time when most of the peoples of Europe would have broken under that level of cruelty in which it is even hard to believe, Ukrainians, on the contrary, are motivated by injustice to fight. Ukrainians are the last romantics of Europe.
@easyJet cancelled my Milan → Palermo flight. I paid for a replacement flight because there were no easyJet flights available.
Now easyJet is refusing reimbursement because it claims it DID have flights available within 48 hours.
There's just one problem: I have screenshots from easyJet's own system proving that isn't true. 🧵
Apparently my experience with @easyJet is far from unique.
In 2025, the Dutch Consumers’ Association reported easyJet was failing to reroute passengers on other airlines, even when earlier flights were available. Courts ordered reimbursement for passengers who booked alternatives themselves. consumentenbond.nl/nieuws/20…
More recently, passengers were reportedly stranded in Tunisia after being told there were no alternative flights for 10 days spending thousands to get home. bbc.com.im/news/articles/cm2…
And Italy’s competition authority opened a separate investigation into easyJet over alleged unfair baggage pricing practices. reuters.com/legal/litigation…
Starting to see a pattern here.
#easyJet #PassengerRights #EU261
@easyJet You cancelled my flight, failed to provide rerouting, and your own system showed no alternative flights available. I incurred the cost of rerouting myself and provided all supporting evidence.
Your internal policies do not override EU261.
@EnacGov I am asking ENAC the Italian authority responsible for enforcement of EU passenger rights to review easyJet’s handling of this case and take appropriate enforcement action
Valeria Kholostenko retweeted
Exclusive: A drone company backed by Blackwater founder and Trump ally Erik Prince is buying one of Ukraine’s leading makers of battlefield robots. on.wsj.com/46RZ6xi
Valeria Kholostenko retweeted
Russia’s campaign against Europe looks increasingly brazen.
Yet EU leaders remain reluctant to call it what a growing number of security officials say it resembles: war.
politico.eu/article/russias-…
Valeria Kholostenko retweeted
Investigators found an Nvidia Jetson Orin in the wreckage: a minicomputer that costs a few hundred dollars.
Nvidia confirmed to NYT that the photos showed a Jetson Orin. The company says it does not sell the modules in Russia, but resellers can move them there.
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Really enjoyed this conversation with Travis Kalanick. Brought back some memories.
I was Head of Sales at Cabulous, which became Flywheel, during the earliest days of Uber. I remember competing with Uber on the streets of San Francisco, signing up cab drivers and eventually our first cab company. I was the one walking into taxi pits, opening doors and closing business.
We were already putting taxis on a live map and connecting riders directly with nearby drivers before Uber launched. We also pushed Open Taxi Access, opening up the technology across fleets.
At one point Travis Kalanick and Ryan Graves even sat down with our CEO, John Wolpert, to understand where Cabulous was headed. Uber was reportedly recruiting engineers around the same time to build something “similar to Cabulous.”
Crazy to look back at what all of this became and realize how I had a front row seat to it all.
pr.com/press-release/183240?…
Valeria Kholostenko retweeted
"If you are relying on AI to write for you and to generate ideas for you, you are putting yourself at sea level"
Silicon Valley's go-to comms strategist Lulu on why templates and AI writing rob you of being better
"When you use a template, you are giving up on the possibility that you could be better. And I say this sometimes about AI writing, AI is a wonderful tool, I use it all the time"
"But if you are relying on AI to write for you, you're putting yourself at the level of anyone else in the population who wants to pay fractions of a cent for a token to get similar output from the same shared brain. So if you are far below average, you should do that, because average is better than you. But if you believe you can be even a little bit better than average, you would be robbing yourself"
"Ralph Waldo Emerson calls it a form of suicide, because in imitating others, which is what a template is, you are killing your own ideas. What are we if not a unique combination of beliefs, ideas, feelings?"
"If you take that and you mute it, you are killing a really sacred part of yourself. So using templates is robbing yourself of the possibility that you could ever be better than the last thing, and that's a shame"
Lulu (@lulumeservey) is the best in the world at what she does.
She’s the go-to comms strategist for Silicon Valley and many of the top founders in tech trust her.
She’s an advocate for going direct, has built a singular career and shares everything she’s learned.
0:00 From China to America
2:08 Learning to Read the Room
6:18 Building a Movement
7:30 Learning Comms by Doing
10:50 Anduril as an Insurgent
15:07 The Power of a Manifesto
18:47 Go Direct
26:45 Conviction Over Charisma
31:30 Why Rostra Exists
33:23 How AI Leaders Lose Trust
40:40 Tell a Better Story
47:55 Do Things That Can't Be Faked
50:55 The Return to Beauty
57:11 Originality Over Templates
1:04:02 Do What Only You Can Do
1:07:14 The Jetsons Rule
1:10:41 Trust Yourself
1:12:29 Why Humans Crave Stories
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Valeria Kholostenko retweeted
An investor at @HashgraphVC shared a FULL breakdown on how to raise without getting ignored by VCs 👇
I just finished Russia’s War by Jade McGlynn. It dissects something much deeper than Putin or the Kremlin: the imperial supremacy that permeates Russian society at every level.
The belief that Russia is entitled to dominate its neighbors, and that Ukrainians, Georgians, Moldovans or whoever stands in its way can be killed in pursuit of that entitlement, is not merely a feature of the regime. It is deeply rooted in the national psyche.
Which raises an uncomfortable question about the supposedly educated, liberal Russians living comfortably in the West.
Where are they?
I can count on one hand the prominent Russians I regularly see unequivocally opposing Russia’s war: Garry Kasparov, Pussy Riot, Vitalik Buterin…The list gets remarkably short, remarkably fast.
And forget public figures for a moment. Look around your own social circles. Think of the Russians you know who live safely in the West, free to speak without fear of the Kremlin.
Do you see them saying anything? Protesting? Donating to Ukrainian causes? Using their platforms, however small, to oppose what Russia is doing?
When you are free to speak and still choose silence, it becomes harder to argue that this is simply Putin’s war.
“In Germany there were 800,000 anti-fascists in camps. In Russia there are about 4,000 political prisoners. “
Russian war in Ukraine has show how strong the virus of supremacism is
KASPAROV: I think, turning point for changing Russian imperial consciousness would be Ukrainian flag in Sevastopol.
Because, after all, we're not fighting solely against Putin as source of evil. Putin relies on Russian imperial consciousness.
This imperial virus sits very deep, even among well-educated and intelligent Russians who read books and speak foreign languages.
Russian war against Ukraine has shown how strong this virus is. This does not apply only to people from the remote Russian provinces.
This war also enjoys support in Moscow and St. Petersburg. There is no real opposition to this war.
My opposition colleagues often say, "You know, there are about 4,000 political prisoners in Russia."
I say "In Germany there were 800,000 anti-fascists in camps." There's no genuine resistance to war in Russia.
Many people left Russia. Putin relies on historical myth of Russian Empire, which has taken deep root in public consciousness.
This historical myth can only be gotten rid of when it becomes obvious that the "empire is dead."
You asked how Russia can lose this war? This will not be 1945. Please don't think of 1945, but rather of 1918.
Russia is not able to continue the war, resources are being exhausted, not just economic, but psychological ones.