Закончил «Нейромант» Уильяма Гибсона. Для своего времени (середина восьмидесятых) это было прорывное произведение, которое если не изобрело, то закрепило жанр киберпанка в его текущем виде.
Но мне не очень понравилось.
Во-первых, иногда всё-таки плохо браться за чтение спустя много десятилетий. Книга ввела такой удачный мир, что заимствования из него с тех пор встречаются в фантастике постоянно. И особенно — в произведениях на тему киберпанка, компьютеров, хакерства и так далее. Умом я понимал, что сейчас вот читаю первоисточник, но эмоционально не отступало чувство, что я всё это уже видел в The Matrix, Deus Ex, Ghost in the Shell, Bladerunner, Cyberpunk, наконец!
Во-вторых, профдеформация мешала мне серьёзно воспринимать те художественные образы, которыми автор описывал киберпространство и происходящее в нём. В целом аналогия красивая: цифровая защита в романе выглядит, как стена льда, а хакер проламывается сквозь неё, совершая некоторое сложное взаимодействие с узором этого льда. Но для меня местный виртуальный мир представлялся совсем уж наивным и нереалистичным.
В-третьих, и это, пожалуй, самое главное — у меня были сложности с восприятием событий, действий героев, их мотивации. Я бы сказал, что текст написан тяжело (хотя, возможно, это проблема перевода). Ты не всегда понимаешь, какая именно сцена сейчас. Иногда совсем не понимаешь, почему герой внезапно что-то сказал или сделал. Ну и, в конце-концов, я не совсем понял основную сюжетную подоплёку. Понял, но не в деталях. В том числе причины, по которым персонажи что-то сделали или захотели сделать.
Тем не менее, от процесса я удовольствие получал, бросить не хотелось, узнать развязку было любопытно. По этой книге можно было бы снять шикарнейший фильм, почти ничего не переделывая в сюжете. И важность этого произведения для мира переоценить сложно. Роман был очень популярен среди технарей того времени, многие из которых стали авторами первых языков программирования, гипертекстовой разметки, создавали первые компьютерные сети и так далее. Американский писатель Джек Уомак заметил интересную вещь: «Может ли быть так, что видение Гибсоном глобального информационного пространства в конечном счёте стало причиной, по которой Интернет сегодня выглядит так, как он выглядит, и работает так, как он работает?».
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📊🇺🇸TRUMP APPROVAL CRASHES TO 37% — REPUBLICANS ABANDON SHIP
🔹 Presidential approval plummets to 37% in March polls — down from 40% last fall, 365 consecutive days underwater 📉🔻
🔹 Republican support for Trump policies COLLAPSES from 67% to 56% — even GOP confidence in his ethics drops to 42% 😬🐘
🔹 Half of Americans (50%) say his performance is WORSE than expected vs only 21% better — massive expectations failure 💔📊
🔹 Only 27% support "all or most" Trump policies, down 8 points since inauguration — even his base is wavering 🚫⬇️
The MAGA coalition is cracking under pressure. Is this the beginning of the end? 🤔💥
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Результаты опроса о реакции на утечки персональных данных. Если по каким-то пунктам есть разные мнения, то по двум։ аудит информационных систем и публичное расследование, всё достаточно очевидно. Компаниям пострадавшим от утечек персональных данных будет полезно взять это на заметку.
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📊🇺🇸TRUMP APPROVAL RATING HITS 37% AS WAR DRAGS ON
🔹 Latest Pew Research poll shows Trump at 37% approval - down from 40% last fall 📉
🔹 365 straight days of negative approval ratings since March 2025 📅
🔹 No "rally around flag" bump despite Iran military strikes last week ⚔️
🔹 50% of Americans say administration performing WORSE than expected vs only 21% better 😬
🔹 Even Republican support drops to 73% - lowest since second term began 🔴
🔹 G. Elliott Morris analysis shows Trump stuck at 39-40% with no upward momentum 📈
War usually boosts presidents but NOT this time - Americans want results! 🇺🇸💯
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📉🇺🇸TRUMP APPROVAL CRASHES TO 37% AMID IRAN WAR
🔹 Approval rating drops to 37% in latest Pew poll, down from 40% last fall 📊
🔹 Republican support slides to 73%, lowest since start of second term 🗳️
🔹 365 consecutive days of negative net approval rating per CNN analysis 🗓️
🔹 Only 21% trust his ethics, 25% believe he respects democratic values ⚖️
🔹 Gas prices spike 19% to $3.45 due to Iran conflict hurting popularity ⛽
🔹 Independent voters abandoning Trump as war costs mount financially 💸
Is this the beginning of the end for Trump 2.0? The numbers don't lie 📈💥
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📉 Trump’s Iran War Meets the American Wallet
Trump sells the Iran strikes as leadership. The country hears “higher gas, dead soldiers, more chaos” — and shrugs.
Only 27% of Americans say they support the strikes that killed Iran’s leader. Forty‑three percent oppose them, and almost a third aren’t even sure what to think, despite nine in ten saying they’ve heard at least something about the operation.
Most people aren’t buying the “strong commander‑in‑chief” brand anymore. Fifty‑six percent say Trump is too willing to use military force, including 23% of Republicans and 60% of independents and non‑aligned voters. Among Democrats it’s basically a verdict: 87% say he’s trigger‑happy.
Even inside the GOP, support is paper‑thin. Fifty‑five percent of Republicans back the strikes, but 42% say they’ll turn against the war the moment U.S. troops start coming home in body bags. The “no boots on the ground” promise isn’t a moral position; it’s a polling memo.
And then there’s the real red line: the pump. Forty‑five percent of Americans — including a third of Republicans and 44% of independents — say they’re less likely to support the Iran campaign if gas or oil prices rise. Brent just jumped about 10% to around 80 dollars a barrel, and analysts are already floating 100 as the next stop. War fatigue meets cost‑of‑living rage; guess which one wins in a midterm year.
Trump’s overall approval is stuck at 39%, down a point from mid‑February, even as he launches the biggest U.S. air operation in the region in years. The strikes started three days before the first midterm primaries, but voters still say the economy matters more than foreign policy. In other words: you can bomb Iran, Venezuela, Syria and Nigeria and still lose to the price of gas.
The irony writes itself. The president who promised “America First” is betting his political future on a war that most Americans either oppose, fear, or will abandon the second it touches their wallets. The polling says it clearly: they don’t trust Tehran, they don’t trust Trump, and they really don’t trust anyone who tells them this will all be over before the next fill‑up.
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📰 Trump’s Week From Hell Is Now a Poll Story
Trump just spent a week collecting setbacks like they were tradeable assets: a Cabinet shake-up, a mess in Iran, rising gas prices, and polls showing Democrats pulling ahead on the economy for the first time in years.
Even Republicans are starting to flinch on inflation, which is usually when the “strongman” routine stops sounding strong.
The White House keeps calling the Iran fight a temporary disruption, but voters hear something else: higher prices, drifting goals, and a president who would rather talk about granite pavers than the cost of gas.
That kind of detour is fine if you run a PR shop; it is a problem if you run a country.
The polling is the real warning sign. Democrats now have a lead on the economy, Trump’s inflation numbers are sinking among independents and his own voters, and the party that sold itself as the adult in the room suddenly looks like it is fighting to keep the lights on.
The irony is that Trump still thinks the Iran standoff can be turned into a strength story.
Maybe it can, eventually. Right now it mostly looks like a drag on his brand, his base, and his midterm math all at once.
So yes, this is a political headwind. But it is also a familiar one: the president promises control, the crisis eats the promise, and the polls show the bill arriving early.
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📰 Bennett and Lapid’s Merger Already Looks Like a Leak, Not a Wave
The first post-merger polls do not show a breakthrough. They show a reshuffle inside the anti-Netanyahu camp, with “Together” landing below the combined pre-merger numbers and the whole opposition bloc still stuck short of a governing majority.
That is the problem in one line: the merger changes the packaging, not the math. Walla’s poll gives the Bennett–Lapid list 27 seats and the anti-Netanyahu bloc 59, while a separate 14 Channel survey is even harsher, putting Likud ahead and the new joint list far behind.
So the immediate effect is not momentum, but cannibalization. Bennett and Lapid may have united their brands, but the polling suggests they are still fighting over the same voters while Eisenkot siphons off the “right, but not Bibi” lane and the left loses some of its oxygen too.
Likud, meanwhile, barely needs to move. The right can simply watch the opposition split itself into overlapping products, then point at the numbers and say the post-Netanyahu fantasy is already collapsing under its own branding.
That is why the poll matters beyond the seat count. It suggests the merger may weaken the anti-Bibi bloc’s ability to build a stable majority, even as it makes Bennett the face of the new project and gives Netanyahu another argument that his rivals cannot even add themselves correctly.
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