New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region
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The 22 Arab region countries covered in the WMO’s new State of the Climate report produce about a quarter of the world’s oil, yet directly account for only 5 to 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from their own territories. The climate paradox positions the region as both a linchpin of the global fossil-fuel economy and one of the most vulnerable geographic areas.WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said extreme heat is pushing communities in the region to their physical limits. Droughts show no sign of letting up in one of the world’s most water-stressed regions, but at the same time, parts of it have been devastated by record rains and flooding, she added.
New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region
Foundations of daily life are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming.Inside Climate News (Ars Technica)
New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region
An excerpt:
The 22 Arab region countries covered in the WMO’s new State of the Climate report produce about a quarter of the world’s oil, yet directly account for only 5 to 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from their own territories. The climate paradox positions the region as both a linchpin of the global fossil-fuel economy and one of the most vulnerable geographic areas.WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said extreme heat is pushing communities in the region to their physical limits. Droughts show no sign of letting up in one of the world’s most water-stressed regions, but at the same time, parts of it have been devastated by record rains and flooding, she added.
New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region
Foundations of daily life are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming.Inside Climate News (Ars Technica)
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Comparing climate models with observations | The latest generation of climate models shows too much long-term warming but better reproduces recent trends
Comparing climate models with observations
The latest generation of climate models shows too much long-term warming but better reproduces recent trendsZeke Hausfather (The Climate Brink)
Blind Spots in the Climate Movement | too intense a focus on emissions conceals the ongoing harms of expanded land use and the damage caused by "renewable" energy development
A very long essay, but I think worth a read - for solarpunks especially - even if you end up disagreeing with the anti-growth and anti-renewables conclusion.
Tldr: the first blind spot is that land disturbance (such as, for example, turning forests into agricultural land) is the "other leg" of climate change: it disrupts the water cycle, making some areas drier and some areas wetter, leading to, eg, crop failures and natural disasters.
Why don't we hear more about land disturbance as the other leg of climate change? Because capitalism demands growth. Capitalism can "solve" emissions with "green growth" - replacing old fossil fuel power plants with shiny new solar panels, and making a bunch of companies and developers richer in the process. But capitalism can't make more land. It can't solve the land disturbance problem by growing - it can only solve it by not growing. And that capitalism cannot do.
And the second blind spot is the tremendous ecological, environmental, and human harm done by the capitalist growth of "renewable" energy - from the slave children digging rare earths in the Congo to the pristine deserts paved over for giant solar projects. But because we are so single-mindedly focused on cutting emissions, we think "at least renewable energy doesn't produce carbon dioxide, so that's better, right?" And we put a nice green coat of paint on the world-destroying von Neumann machines of capitalism.
So what's the solution?
That being said, personally I propose: Let’s start with the goal of no new energy infrastructure whatsoever from any source, make do with what we have now, and shut down infrastructure from there as we eliminate frivolous use. This is an attainable goal. What are examples of frivolous use? Here’s a few candidates: AI, next day shipping, cheap plastic shit from China, cut flowers imported from South America on airplanes, perishable food shipped halfway around the world, commercial air travel, weed-free mown lawns, streaming movies and music, fast fashion, video game consoles, big screen TVs, f’ing single-use coffee pods, and the list goes on and on and on.
Blind Spots in the Climate Movement - resilience
In the media and in activist circles, Climate Change is generally presented as a problem with one cause—carbon emissions—and one solution: a “green energy transition.Resilience (Resilience.org)
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Ir's it like a climate inversion between south north ?
This would be fucked
Yeah, and there's data that it happened in the past. And we are seeing the same signals that happened in the past before the thing stopping happen again. It might have happened naturally but we are artificially inducing it in an accelerated pace, of course.
~~It was one of the major reasons for the heavy and long winters in the dark ages iirc.~~ I didn't recall correctly.
Not the past few, I was remembering wrong that one. Apparently around 500 years it weakens but the last shutdown was 12k years ago:
The most recent evidence of an AMOC shut-down is the Younger Dryas period, which occurred about 12,000 years ago. climate.sun.ac.za/uncategorize…
AMOC shut-down by 2100 – should important new results be used to update an approved IPCC consensus on risk? - School for Climate Studies
Prof Guy Midgley, Director of SU School for Climate Studies Prof Pedro Monteiro, Oceanographer at SU School for Climate Studies Skyla Thornton, Media Intern at the School for Climate Studies The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a…dorette (School for Climate Studies)
When a Road Goes Wrong | Highway projects bring destruction to the rainforest and surrounding ecosystems in South America. One connecting Brazil and Peru is a case in point.
When a Road Goes Wrong - Inside Climate News
Highway projects bring destruction to the rainforest and surrounding ecosystems in South America. One connecting Brazil and Peru is a case in point.Inside Climate News
The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention
The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention
A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.Rochmyaningsih, Dyna
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I am not overly surprised by this. The humanitarian response funding has been absolutely gutted this year, and not only by Trump (for example German gov. funding is down by 50% since 2022).
Thus organisations are struggleing to keep the lights on in the many emergency responses they already previously committed to, and have also not yet structurally adjusted, so there is an administrative overhang that further swallows what little funding remains.
And without NGO pushing for it, the shallow self of what journalism has become is totally oblivious to such relatively slow moving disasters. But it also becomes a self-reinforcing death spiral with no media coverage there is little non-government donations, thus further reducing the funds available.
'Scumbag': Texas candidate skewered for running as Republican after fundraising off Dems
'Scumbag': Texas candidate skewered for running as Republican after fundraising off Dems
A Texas candidate for state railroad commissioner sparked fury online after fundraising for her campaign as a Democrat — then filing to run as a Republican.Matthew Chapman (Raw Story)
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Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
Some Democrats Are Helping the Trump Admin's Anti-LGBTQ+ Tech Agenda
This op-ed from Fight for the Future, a group organizing around the internet and political power, criticizes Democrats' backing of age verification laws and attacks on Section 230 as enabling a censorious MAGA agenda.Evan Greer and Janus Rose, Fight for the Future (Teen Vogue)
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EU climate chief criticises China, India and Saudi pushback on carbon tax
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/43026095
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The carbon border tax, which comes into force from January, was behind an attempt by the big exporters to scupper wider negotiations on climate action at the latest UN summit in Brazil.
Speaking in the aftermath at COP30, Wopke Hoekstra told the Financial Times that the petrostates had also been “more assertive” across the board in a bid to thwart climate agreements as the shift to cleaner energy systems accelerates.
“Some of those making money out of [fossil fuels] are seeking to prolong that process. We have seen this quite explicitly,” he said. “Some of the petrostates are seeking to at least slow down rather than speed up [the energy transition].”
He added: “I have sensed a certain sense of assertiveness that might not have been there five or 10 years ago.”
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During public and closed-door meetings at the two-week talks, some of the developing countries argued the tax, or carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), was a unilateral measure that would drive up costs, restrict trade and hinder their ability to grow their economies.
The tax will initially apply to products such as steel, cement and fertilisers, and aims to ensure imported goods meet similar green standards to those produced inside the EU or face an additional charge.
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Hoekstra said the criticism was “clearly not very credible”, adding that in one-on-one conversations many countries “acknowledge it is clearly a climate tool” rather than a trade measure.
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More than 80 countries had rallied around a proposal at COP30 for a so-called road map to help countries wean their economies off fossil fuels.
But the plan failed to appear in the final agreement after objection from more than 30 other countries [particularly China, Russia, and petro-states in the Middle East]....
EU climate chief criticises China, India and Saudi pushback on carbon tax
Petrostates becoming ‘more assertive’, Wopke Hoekstra tells FTAlice Hancock (Financial Times)
Trump embraces gas guzzlers and air pollution by weakening fuel economy standards
Trump embraces gas guzzlers and air pollution by weakening fuel economy standards
The Trump administration proposed a major reversal of Biden-era fuel economy standards.Justine Calma (The Verge)
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Operation Bluebird – La bataille d’une startup pour arracher la marque Twitter des mains d’Elon Musk
C’est un scénario qui semble tout droit sorti d’une série juridique télévisée, mais qui se joue actuellement dans les bureaux de l’USPTO (l’office américain des brevets et des marques). Une startup de Virginie, baptisée non sans ironie « Operation Bluebird », a lancé cette semaine une offensive contre l’empire d’Elon Musk. Leur objectif ? Rien de moins que de faire annuler les marques déposées « Twitter » et « Tweet » détenues par X Corporation, expliquant que le multimilliardaire les a purement et simplement abandonnées.
Si cette démarche juridique aboutit, elle pourrait marquer l’un des retournements de situation les plus spectaculaires de l’histoire de la tech avec le retour du véritable Twitter, l’oiseau bleu et tout ce qu’il représentait, sous une nouvelle direction. Le cœur de la pétition déposée par Operation Bluebird repose sur l’abandon, un concept clé du droit de la propriété intellectuelle. Selon la startup, Elon Musk a fait bien plus que simplement changer un logo, il a délibérément et publiquement détruit la marque Twitter. Le texte est sans équivoque:
« Les marques TWITTER et TWEET ont été éradiquées des produits, services et du marketing de X Corp., abandonnant effectivement la marque historique, sans aucune intention d’en reprendre l’usage. L’oiseau Twitter a été cloué au sol. »
Les fondateurs d’Operation Bluebird, dont l’avocat Michael Peroff, s’appuient sur les propres déclarations du PDG de X pour étayer leur dossier. En juillet 2023, il avait tweeté une phrase désormais célèbre: « Nous dirons bientôt adieu à la marque twitter et, progressivement, à tous les oiseaux ». Pour Peroff et ses associés, c’était le signal que la marque était libre d’être revendiquée. En droit américain, si l’une d’elles n’est plus utilisée et que son propriétaire n’a pas l’intention de s’en resservir, elle peut potentiellement être annulée et réattribuée.
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Le projet – Ressusciter la place publique numérique
Mais Operation Bluebird n’est pas qu’une simple manœuvre de trolls juridiques. Derrière ce nom de code se cachent des vétérans de l’industrie, dont Stephen Coates, qui n’est autre que l’ancien directeur juridique de Twitter. Leur ambition est concrète, lancer un nouveau réseau social à l’adresse Twitter.new. Un prototype fonctionnel existe déjà et la plateforme invite dès à présent les utilisateurs à réserver leurs noms d’utilisateur. Pour lui, l’objectif est de retrouver la magie perdue de l’ancien Twitter. Il évoque avec nostalgie l’époque où la plateforme était véritablement le pouls de l’actualité mondiale:
« Je me souviens d’il y a quelque temps, des célébrités réagissaient à mon contenu sur Twitter pendant le Super Bowl ou de grands événements. Et nous voulons que cette expérience revienne, cette place publique globale où nous sommes tous connectés. »
Malgré l’émergence de concurrents sérieux comme Threads (Meta), Mastodon ou Bluesky, aucun n’a réussi à capturer l’essence de ce qu’était Twitter avant le rachat de 2022. Michael Peroff souligne qu’aucune alternative n’a atteint l’échelle nécessaire pour peser dans la conversation nationale de la même manière.
Une opportunité commerciale face à la dérive de X
Au-delà de la nostalgie, il y a une logique économique implacable derrière Operation Bluebird. Depuis la transformation de Twitter en X, la plateforme a vu fuir de nombreux annonceurs, effrayés par la montée des discours extrémistes, des arnaques et des contenus pour adultes non modérés. Une étude récente de Kantar Marketplace, publiée en septembre 2024, révélait que 26 % des spécialistes du marketing interrogés prévoyaient d’abandonner leurs campagnes publicitaires sur X. C’est précisément là que Peroff voit une ouverture. Les marques sont coincées sur ce réseau social faute d’alternative viable offrant la même réactivité. Operation Bluebird promet donc un retour à une modération plus stricte et un environnement plus sûr pour les marques, utilisant le nom et le logo (l’oiseau emblématique) pour rassurer instantanément le marché. Alors que Threads commence à peine à intégrer de la publicité et que Bluesky reste pour l’instant sans annonces, un nouveau Twitter capitalisant sur une marque mondialement connue pourrait théoriquement séduire les entreprises orphelines de l’ère pré-Musk.
Les experts juridiques sont partagés
La grande question demeure: cette audacieuse tentative a-t-elle une chance réelle d’aboutir ? Les avis d’experts en propriété intellectuelle sont nuancés, mais la porte n’est pas totalement fermée. La situation est complexe. X pourrait défendre ses marques s’il parvient à prouver qu’il les utilise encore, même de manière minime, ou qu’il a l’intention de les réutiliser. Mais un simple usage symbolique ne suffirait pas. C’est là tout le paradoxe, tout le monde appelle encore le site « Twitter » par habitude, mais l’entreprise fait tout pour effacer ce nom. X Corporation aura quand même du mal à se défendre. L’argument de l’abandon est puissant lorsque le PDG lui-même a publiquement rejeté l’ancienne identité.
Vers un Twitter 2.0 ?
Pour l’instant, ni Elon Musk ni X Corporation n’ont répondu aux demandes de commentaires. Mais le silence ne durera probablement pas. Si l’USPTO donnait raison à Operation Bluebird, cela créerait un précédent fascinant dans le monde des affaires. Imaginez un instant, fin de l’année prochaine, vous pourriez vous connecter sur Twitter.new, voir le logo de l’oiseau bleu et retrouver une plateforme gérée par d’anciens cadres de l’entreprise, pendant qu’Elon Musk continuerait de gérer X de son côté. Ce scénario, qui semblait impossible il y a encore quelques mois, est désormais une possibilité juridique tangible. La bataille pour l’âme (et le nom) de l’oiseau bleu ne fait que commencer.
Twitter.new: The New Twitter Social Media Platform
Reserve your handle on Bluebird - The future of social networkingwww.twitter.new
The red USB key, the little weakness that will lose you
The red USB key, the little weakness that will lose you
An experiment carried out in Luxembourg this summer shows that, despite ten years of awareness-raising and widely-documented cyber-risks, a significant proportion of the population still pick up and plug into their computers USB keys they come across…en.paperjam.lu
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Poland Weighs Donating MiG-29 Jets to Ukraine in Exchange for Drone, Missile Tech
The Polish armed forces’ General Staff said on Tuesday that “talks are underway,” noting that the aging Soviet-era aircraft are nearing the end of their operational life and will not be modernized.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/kyivpost.com…
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Is Europe ready to pull the trigger? Officials whisper about dumping US treasuries if Trump cuts Ukraine deal
European governments US Treasuries: European governments are considering a radical economic strategy by possibly selling off US Treasury bonds to counter a feared Trump-Putin agreement that could jeopardize Ukraine's security. This unprecedented response could trigger a financial crisis in the US and severely impact the global economy.
Archived version: archive.is/20251209220744/econ…
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Russian children flood Kremlin with complaints after Roblox ban
Russia announced on Dec. 3 that it had banned the platform over child-safety issues.
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Fact check: debunking Trump’s claims on immigration and affordability in Pennsylvania
The US president made baseless claims during remarks on cost of living that meandered into racism and bigotry
Donald Trump made a series of false and baseless claims in Pennsylvania on Tuesday during a speech that was billed as an address on affordability, but quickly became a meandering, campaign-style rally.
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The US is identified as part of the threat picture in Denmark
For the first time, the United States is being identified as part of the threat picture against Denmark.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/swedenherald…
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Bolivia and Israel restore ties severed over the war in Gaza
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s new right-wing government said Tuesday that it restored diplomatic relations with Israel, the latest sign of the dramatic geopolitical realignment underway in the South American country that was once among the most vocal critics of Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Aramayo met his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar in Washington and signed a declaration agreeing to revive bilateral ties, which Bolivia’s previous left-wing government severed two years ago over Israel’s devastating campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
Aramayo, as well as Bolivian Economy Minister José Gabriel Espinoza, launched this week into a whirlwind of meetings with American officials as their government works to warm long-chilly relations with the United States and unravel nearly two decades of hard-line, anti-Western policies under the Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS
When protests over Morales’ disputed 2019 reelection prompted him to resign under pressure from the military, a right-wing interim government took over and restored full diplomatic relations with the U.S. and Israel as it sought to undo many of Morales’ popular policies.
But 2020 elections brought the MAS party back to power with the presidency of Luis Arce, who in 2023 once again cut ties with Israel in protest over its military actions in Gaza.
it's more than tragic, it goes to prove that it only takes a momentary lapse of collectivist vigilance or a single mistake to reverse all momentum that these movements have earned; it has to be absolutely perfect, meanwhile the opposing side has well placed zealots who will never stop trying and a never ending supply of paid actors.
this is also why i believe that the us empire will endure considerably longer than most m/l people think it will last despite its undeniable signs of collapse.
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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”“And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.Mastodon Blog
Using social media may impair children’s attention
Children who spend a significant amount of time on social media tend to experience a gradual decline in their ability to concentrate. This is according to a comprehensive study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Pediatrics Open Science, where researchers followed more than 8,000 children from around age 10 through age 14.
Using social media may impair children’s attention
Children who spend a significant amount of time on social media tend to experience a gradual decline in their ability to concentrate. This is according to a comprehensive study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Pediatrics Open Science, where researchers followed more than 8,000 children from around age 10 through age 14.
The study included 8324 children (53% boys; mean age: 9.9 years). On average, children spent 2.3 hours/day watching television/videos, 1.4 hours/day on social media, and 1.5 hours/day playing video games. Average social media use was associated with increased inattention symptoms over time (β [SE], 0.03 [0.01]; P<0.001), with a cumulative four-year effect of β=0.15 [SE]=0.03; P<0.001). No associations were found between playing video games or watching television/videos and ADHD-related symptoms. The association between social media use and inattention symptoms was not moderated by sex, ADHD diagnosis, PGS-ADHD, or ADHD medication status. Inattention symptoms were not associated with increased social media use over time.
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It's insignificant at best, but more likely its just conflating phone usage in general with social media specifically.
Elon Musk’s xAI Says It Can Now Stuff AI-Generated Product Placement Into Scenes in Any Movie
Halftime: Dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into the scenes you’re watching, so breaks feel like part of the story instead of interruptions.
Source: xAI X post
Elon Musk’s xAI Says It Can Now Stuff AI-Generated Product Placement Into Scenes in Any Movie
Halftime: Dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into the scenes you’re watching, so breaks feel like part of the story instead of interruptions.
Source: xAI X post
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.blog.jim-nielsen.com
What's OS is that 0,02%?
Android forks? Blackberry OS? Some other OS that i'm missing?
Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling
Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling
SAN FRANCISCO - Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, according to sources familiar with the matter, a move that could help prevent its artificial intelligence chips from being…Reuters (Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS)
linux based video recording
Old cameras but they have been sitting.
What can I use to record and ensure the data is saved locally. Nothing serious, just chickens being accused of hurting plants when they are monitored. I just want to catch whatever it is (deer? Etc?) eating it so I can have evidence it isn't them
Probably going to be Frigate. It's meant for NVR, and has easy time management tools for review, plus you can setup an easy monitor stream with RTSP or ON IF to watch live from elsewhere.
You could also engage it's inference for doing simple identification or animals and objects to tag clips where something happens in a Region of Interest.
Tailscale is having performance issue with Admin and API
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This $69 eReader is designed to stick to the back of your phone - Liliputing
I find this mini reader very interesting, maybe a bit too barebone.
- 114 x 69 x 5.9mm (4.5″ x 2.7″ x 0.2″)
- 220 pixels per inch
- no front lighting
- 650 mAh battery
- ESP32 microprocessor: Wifi, bluetooth, usb-C port
This $69 eReader is designed to stick to the back of your phone - Liliputing
This $69 eReader is designed to stick to the back of your phoneBrad Linder (Liliputing)
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Russia to Bring Special Military Operation to Its Logical Conclusion – Putin
Russia to Bring Special Military Operation to Its Logical Conclusion – Putin
Russia will bring the special military operation to its logical conclusion, achieving its goals, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.Sputnik International
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China and Russia are not imperialist, they are closer to global south countries in their position with respect to imperialism as a global phenomenon. In order to fight the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, capital either seeks new markets, ie new inventions to flood with capital or geographically new markets, or it seeks to establish monopoly. The former allows for greater profits in absolute terms, the latter temporarily raises the rate of profit. The natural consequence is imperialism, where this is combined by having financial capital dominate the global south, super-exploiting labor for super-profits, and via unequal exchange, where technology and tech development is kept in the global north and thus monopoly prices are charged.
This is also why south-south trade is the path to escape underdevelopment, and is why China in particular has been a progressive force for the global south, as they don't withold tech knowledge but instead share it through cooperation and trade. China also doesn't charge the same monopoly prices for tech, which is why global south countries are seeing huge electrification, expansions in EVs, etc.
The west used to have a monopoly on cutting edge tech, they witheld the technology used for creating firearms from African countries for hundreds of years while selectively trading firearms in limited quantities for huge amounts of slaves, as an example. The west forces the global south to rely on them, and forces them into remaining at lower levels of industrial development and refinement. It's also why countries like the Sahel States are working towards cutting unrefined gold exports and upping refined gold exports, ie moving from unfinished raw materials into more finished goods or ancillary materials, and why porkie is terrified of them.
It isn't that goods further along in the commodity production process have more valuable labor time at the higher end, it's that the upper end of the production chain is easier to keep a tech and skill monopoly on. This is what liberals mean by "higher value add" industries, made more naked through Marxist analysis.
Russia wants the four oblasts, which they have been accelerating their advance in in the last few months. Cheap and deadly FPV drones force slow movement in general, but in the last few months strings of Kiev-held strongholds are falling left and right. Ukraine can't field the war much longer either, and the war is becoming increasingly unpopular. What's likely is that the four oblasts go to Russia, Kiev is forced into NATO neutrality, and their millitary is severely crippled. That's absolutely a Russian victory.
Which of these do you think Russia will have to compromise on, and why would you consider the compromise to be a loss?
Read Imperialism, the current highest stage of capitalism(Vladimir Lenin) on ProleWiki
The book Imperialism, the current highest stage of capitalism was written by Lenin between January and June 1916 in Zürich. According to Russian native speakers...ProleWiki
Record numbers of Ukrainians desert army amid losses to Russia
Record numbers of Ukrainians desert army amid losses to Russia
Thousands of soldiers have fled the army despite the threat of jail or social isolation.Al Jazeera
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Advent Calendar 10
Advent Calendar
Zen Mischief Photographs
This year for our Advent Calendar we have a selection of my photographs from recent years. They may not be technically the best, or the most recent, but they’re ones which, for various reasons, I rather like.
© Keith C Marshall, 2023
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Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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didn't another german state already try this and fail pretty spectacularly?? cost them WAY more money and then they ended up rolling back to m$??
given that, this is fantastic news! it's good to see people learn from past failed implementations, hopefully learn from their mistakes, and try again instead of just blaming it on bad software
I’ve been trying to find a source but from what I remember the transition was in maybe Munich and it was going fine.
Microsoft opened a new sales or operation center there and got cozy with the government there as quickly as possible to turn them back into a customer.
EDIT: Here is the LiMux endeavor.
Microsoft had announced in 2013 its willingness to move its German headquarters to Munich in 2016, which according to Reiter though, is unrelated to the criticism they've presented against the LiMux project.
Link previews on public groups
Hey everyone, does anyone know how to show link previews in groups? I heard about Instant View and Web Grabber, but can't find them in the public bot directory.
I'm not selfhosting
hi, the bots for link preview are called "www" in the list at deltachat-bot.github.io/public…
also notice that the right place to ask such questions is support.delta.chat/ if you want the developers and more DC users to see your questions
Do you mean InstantView Bot?
It is included in the list of public Delta Chat bots as "www". There are 3 bots with the same name. At least, www2delta@chatmail.woodpeckersnest.space works well.
Here is the list:
deltachat-bot.github.io/public…
Any Other – Silently. Quietly. Going Away (2015)
Adele Nigro è uscita dal gruppo. Ha deciso di lasciare quel folk che geograficamente sta tra la Svezia delle First Aid Kit e le foreste del Nord America, per fare qualcosa di nuovo. E forse di più vero... Leggi e ascolta...
Any Other – Silently. Quietly. Going Away (2015)
Adele Nigro è uscita dal gruppo. Ha deciso di lasciare quel folk che geograficamente sta tra la Svezia delle First Aid Kit e le foreste del Nord America, per fare qualcosa di nuovo. E forse di più vero. Perché, per quanto mi piacessero le Lovecats e il loro EP, non riuscivano a essere niente di più che una bella melodia e un’ottima armonizzazione. Il suo nuovo progetto, la sua nuova band, Any Other, riapre tutte le possibilità... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/09…
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Any Other – Silently. Quietly. Going Away (2015)
di Gianluca Porta Adele Nigro è uscita dal gruppo. Ha deciso di lasciare quel folk che geograficamente sta tra la Svezia delle First Ai...Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)
The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment
The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust for Linux team.
The end of the kernel Rust experiment
The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The cons [...]LWN.net
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[Pluribus Spoilers] A distressing thought about Koumba and the hive...
The hive exist, or desire to please the survivors. However they want. Koumba has used this more than anyone else to his own advantage to live the life of a decadent, hedonistic and shallow playboy - roleplaying as James Bond and surrounding himself and having sex with women. Now, to me - this is very much - at the minimum - taking advantage of them. The women he's having sexual relations with are not who they were, and it is unlikely - even if the hive came to him and suggested it (as I suspect they did) - that the women before the joining would be remotely interested in doing this. They are not them. Who they were has been lobotomised, malformed and disappeared into the hive - segmented up into billions of bodies.
I've seen some people (not here, but elsewhere) suggest that this behaviour is okay because the hive is consenting. The women he's picking show enthusiastic and active consent. This to me is disgraceful, not just in the context of that - but also what could be the case if Koumba had different, darker interests.
Now the show will not address this (and rightfully so) - but it still seems true to me regardless of that. If Koumba was a pedophile, they would provide him with children he requested - and the children would provide active consent. Just like the women he picks now, they wouldn't be who they were. There is no concept of childhood or child innocence anymore. The hive literally can't say no unless it contradicts their survival or asks them to hurt others.
So to anyone who thinks the hive is a good thing (and some people actually do), or that Koumba is doing no wrong with what he's doing. This should be a point to consider.
In theory they aren't individuals anymore, they are appendages. So there would be no issue with consent the same way you decide consent for your hand or mouth. In a sense your mouth consents because it is part of the you making that decision.
Except... If there were any chance your hand could separate from you and become an individual in the future it'd be immoral to use it for sex now. And Carol is already very confident that it's possible to reverse the Joining. But even if she wasn't it was always a possibility. So having sex with any of them is incredibly wrong, which should be obvious to anybody on a gut level.
StinkyFingerItchyBum
in reply to Otter Raft • • •Linearity
in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum • • •StinkyFingerItchyBum
in reply to Linearity • • •No. The middle east (people and governments alike knew the consequences of fossil fuels and they knew their precarious nature.
Make your choice. Live with the consequences of your actions.
Linearity
in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum • • •😝
earth.org/global-carbon-emissi…
Don’t get me wrong, I hate the use of fossil fuel as much as the next guy, but you can’t blame a people for the consequences of everyone’s actions
Global Carbon Emissions: Richest 1% Match Emissions of 5 Billion People
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in reply to Linearity • • •acargitz
in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum • • •Future generations born in the region, i.e., the people who are actually going to suffer, had nothing to do with this shit.
I know moralizing gives a hit of dopamine but let's just do better.
StinkyFingerItchyBum
in reply to acargitz • • •Current generations made the choice for their progeny.
It's not exactly moralizing. Actions have consequences. *Gestures broadly out the window. Let's stop doing the obviously bad things and clutch our pearls at the obvious and predictable consequences.
acargitz
in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum • • •Yes, of course 100%. We are together shoulder to shoulder on this. With you 100%.
This is where we are having our small difference. The word "their". I say "our". I am not going to wash my hands off of the future humans of the MENA region just because the rulers of their direct ancestors are doing shitty things.
StinkyFingerItchyBum
in reply to acargitz • • •P00ptart
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