New post, in which I indulge in exploring categorisation of text with open LLMs, and along the way incidentally develop an R package to facilitate relevant workflows. Analysing Russian news via Telegram, processing them with open LLMs - tadadit.xyz/posts/2025-0...

Belated announcement that I have finally released an openly-licensed collection of textual datasets extracted from Russia's main government websites. Yearly update expected. tadadit.xyz/posts/2024-1...

As Prigozhin’s messages are back in the news, here is a lengthy methodological post dedicated to the 400+ audio files that #Prigozhin posted before his mutiny in June 2023. Full transcriptions provided, easy to read and download. tadadit.xyz/posts/2023-0... Some quick results: