A Shameful Review from "NeMoskva": Silent Luzhniki for Shaman, a Woman Train, and "Alice's" Revelations About State Messengers
"NeMoskva" has compiled the most absurd and resonant news stories of recent days—from the failed performance of the leading pro-government artist to strange sculptures and confessions from a voice assistant.
Deathly silence at Luzhniki: Shaman failed to start the stadium
During a concert in honor of Builder's Day in Moscow's Luzhniki, the singer Shaman three times tried He tried to get the crowd to sing along. However, the performer received only complete silence in response: the audience refused to support him with either vocals or applause. Meanwhile, the stadium, which seats 81, was almost completely full.
"They'd better install a toilet": a woman-train outraged residents of Krasnoyarsk Krai.
In the village of Nizhnyaya Poima in the Krasnoyarsk Territory have established A sculpture of a woman-train. The object provoked an extremely mixed reaction among the local population.
According to the work's creator, sculptor Maxim Starovoitov, residents directly told him that a public restroom would be more appropriate in the place of the art piece. The artist himself took the criticism in stride, attributing the reaction to the "wildness" of the local population.
"Alice" from the state messenger recommends using Signal and Telegram.
The voice assistant "Alice," built into the Max messenger, warns users against installing the app on their primary smartphone. As Verstka pointed out, when asked about security, Alice recommends either purchasing a separate phone (a "maxphone") for Max or prioritizing Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram.
Later, the algorithm, apparently, was adjusted: when a similar question asked Dozhd journalists, the neural network changed its rhetoric and proposed "simply isolating the smartphone environment" from the app.
A Smolensk priest called a Nazi general "an instrument of salvation."
During the liturgy, Smolensk priest Dmitry Gamilovsky called Wehrmacht General Heinz Guderian—the chief inspector of Nazi Germany's armored forces, under whose leadership Smolensk was captured—"the instrument of saving the church."
Following the resulting outcry, the Smolensk diocese attempted to justify the cleric's words, stating that the statement was made "out of emotion."
