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Western sanctions catch up with Russia’s wartime economy
The Western ban on technology imports is affecting most sectors of the economy, while the Kremlin’s forced mobilization of more than 300,000 Russian conscripts to serve in Ukraine, combined with the departure of at least as many abroad fleeing the draft, has dealt a further blow, economists said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/26/russia-war-economy-military-supply/
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I know not why I am so sad
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:It wearies me; you say it wearies you;But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born,I am to learn;And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,That I have much ado to know myself.
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Your mind is tossing on the ocean
Your mind is tossing on the ocean;There, where your argosies with portly sail,Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,Do overpeer the petty traffickers,That curtsy to them, do them reverence,As they fly by them with their woven wings.
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Montreal-area city got hacked with ransomware
The Lockbit ransomware gang has claimed credit, saying it copied 14 TB of data and will release it in two weeks unless a ransom is paid. La Press quotes Claude Vallières, the city’s head of IT, saying, “We know we have encrypted servers, but we don’t know who attacked us. We are still investigating the…
