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Ivan Andriollo

@andriollo

Berlin based tech executive. Software engineer with a passion for the arts, science, history, economics and geopolitics.

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The smartest renewable rooftop system in the world?
The smartest renewable rooftop system in the world? YouTube video by Just Have a Think

Ingenious rooftop power-generation project here that is actually HAPPENING rather than merely being theorized about. I think it looks quite smart! Like a tiara for an apartment block. πŸ˜‚
youtu.be/1vJuKxAIMuA?...

11.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”₯πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Ukraine received PAC-3 missiles for Patriot from Germany, - Zelensky

Berlin promised to provide these missiles during the last "Ramstein".

11.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

US and Israeli airstrikes killed Mojtaba Khamenei's father, mother, wife, and son, and they wounded him in the legs.

Sounds like the backstory to the Punisher series -- I expect Trump will try to declare an end to the war before he will.

11.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today's APOD: a cosmic monster about to devour an entire galaxy! Or a chance alignment - you decide πŸ˜€ Read more: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26031... πŸ“Έ: William Vrbasso

11.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

11.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 4392 πŸ” 812 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 75
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made β€œlethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

11.03.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
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China’s Domination of the Drone Supply Chain Is a Vulnerability for the West Ukraine and Russia have together used hundreds of thousands of civilian drones on the battlefield. Most of them are from China.

I have written about this here www.worldpoliticsreview.com/ukraine-russ...

11.03.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Europe Needs to Wean Itself Off Chinese Drones Europe’s dependence on foreign-made drones and partsβ€”especially from Chinaβ€”is a national security risk.

And again here

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-europe-ch...

11.03.2026 08:16 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ukraine Reaches a Milestone: Making β€˜China-Free’ Drones

This is a very good approach.
(And I say approach, rather than outcome, because the headline goes a bit far. But still: well done Ukraine!!)

#drone
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

11.03.2026 07:55 πŸ‘ 294 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Merchant vessel Seaway Hawk transporting decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger-class Mine Countermeasures Ships USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator and USS Sentry in the Delaware Bay to unload in Philadelphia tomorrow - March 9, 2026    SRC: FB- Delaware River Shipping / Andy Wyrick πŸ“·

Merchant vessel Seaway Hawk transporting decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger-class Mine Countermeasures Ships USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator and USS Sentry in the Delaware Bay to unload in Philadelphia tomorrow - March 9, 2026 SRC: FB- Delaware River Shipping / Andy Wyrick πŸ“·

We live in a world beyond parody. The United States has had four minesweeper vessels in the Persian Gulf for 35 years. Just yesterday these ships arrived in Philadelphia to be decommissioned, a day before Iran announces that they are mining the Strait of Hormuz.

10.03.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 648 πŸ” 236 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 29
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EU member states are preparing €30 billion in bilateral loans to Ukraine that would bypass Hungary and Slovakia's veto on the bloc's €90 billion loan package, two diplomatic sources told Politico. The funds, led by Nordic and Baltic states, would cover Ukraine's budget deficit through mid-year. #EU

11.03.2026 08:23 πŸ‘ 339 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Russia is winning so much that in the fifth year of its full-scale invasion, Ukraine is supplying its weapons to the U.S. and the Gulf states.

10.03.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 1468 πŸ” 237 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 4
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No surprise: table media reports that while the number of German employees went up only 12.7% between 2016 and 2025, the number of employees in the defence sector went up by 64.9%

11.03.2026 08:23 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6
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Windows 11 has an updated Minesweeper game

11.03.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 923 πŸ” 150 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 17

13 is middle school

10.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 3499 πŸ” 854 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 7

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called β€œNumident” and the β€œMaster Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

10.03.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 2955 πŸ” 1468 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 68

It doesn't take much.

10.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 371 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 7
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡°πŸ‡· The U.S. is removing THAAD and Patriot air-defense systems from South Korea to redeploy them to the Middle East, - Yonhap

10.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 194 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 29

Flashback to the 2024 Republican National Convention πŸ‘‡πŸ½

10.03.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 1753 πŸ” 578 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 9

According to the document, Putin will be able to β€œextraterritorially” use units of the Armed Forces to β€œprotect Russian citizens” in the event of their arrest, detention, criminal or other prosecution abroad.

10.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ukrainian forces advanced further into the Zaporizhzhia region. The new positions are directly threatening the Russian occupation in Uspenivka.

The Russian presence in the Dnipropetrovsk region has been almost completely removed.

10.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 783 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 7
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Three professional drone teams from Ukraine have arrived in the Middle East in order to support efforts to neutralize Iranian drones. The first 3 countries being supported are Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.

This has been confirmed by President Zelenskyy.

10.03.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 602 πŸ” 148 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 13

This administrationβ€¦β€¦πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

10.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 1217 πŸ” 302 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 46
Zelenskyy wants US licence to produce ballistic missile interceptors President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reiterated Ukraine's wish to obtain a US licence to manufacture interceptors for ballistic missiles.

⚑️ Zelenskyy wants US licence to produce ballistic missile interceptors

10.03.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Ukrainian forces struck a plant in Bryansk that produces control systems for Russian missiles, President Zelensky confirmed. Zelensky says he received the report from commander in chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. #Ukraine

10.03.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 246 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œCode is cheap” - @stevesanderson.bsky.social

No. Good code is expensive. Bad code is even more expensive.

10.03.2026 06:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ukraine strikes missile control systems plant in Russia's Bryansk Oblast, Zelensky says Zelensky said Ukrainian forces struck a plant in Russia's Bryansk Oblast that manufactures control systems for Russian missiles. The facility, identified as Kremniy El, is one of Russia's largest micr...

Ukrainian forces struck a plant in Russia's Bryansk region that manufactures control systems for Russian missiles, President Volodymyr Zelensky said at an online media briefing on March 10.

10.03.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 221 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
Screenshot of Meta trying to sell me on their new AI posting assistant, Manus. M-anus. Someone had fun naming that! (Yes I know it's a real name but it's still basically meta-anus)

Screenshot of Meta trying to sell me on their new AI posting assistant, Manus. M-anus. Someone had fun naming that! (Yes I know it's a real name but it's still basically meta-anus)

I choose to pronounce this to rhyme with anus

10.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 255 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4
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Leavitt confirms that the current "ballpark" total of US soldiers injured fighting Iran is 150

10.03.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 2665 πŸ” 1018 πŸ’¬ 450 πŸ“Œ 191

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

10.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 13702 πŸ” 3126 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 236