À travers ce nouvel article de #DansLesAlgorithmes, @hubertguillaud nous propose de plonger dans l'historique des techniques de reconnaissance faciale.

Son article synthétise ce que la journaliste Kashmir Hill décrit dans son livre « Your face belongs to us ».

👉 framablog.org/2025/05/18/la-re…

#IA #IntelligenceArtificielle #ReconnaissanceFaciale

La reconnaissance faciale, l’enjeu du siècle

« Le plus grand danger de la reconnaissance faciale vient du fait qu’elle fonctionne plutôt très bien ».

^Framablog

Art in progress…

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Russia’s Neutrality During The Latest Indo-Pak Conflict Was Due To New Policymaking Dynamics

Russia’s Neutrality During The Latest Indo-Pak Conflict Was Due To New Policymaking Dynamics

By Andrew Korybko

Russia might be reassessing India’s role in Eurasia.

Alexei Zakharov is a respected Russian expert on South Asia who serves as a Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation’s Strategic Studies Programme, which is one of India’s top think tanks. He recently published an insightful piece titled, “Can India rely on Russia to diplomatically isolate Pakistan? It seems unlikely”, which candidly explains Russia’s neutrality during the latest Indo-Pak conflict. In a nutshell, he believes that Russia’s growing ties with Pakistan are the main reason, but there’s actually a bit more to it.

This analysis here from last summer enumerates several others which posit that a pro-BRI policymaking faction now exists in Russia as the friendly rival of the established balancing/pragmatic one. The first believes that the return to a form of Sino-US bi-multipolarity is inevitable and thus wants to accelerate China’s superpower trajectory as revenge against the US for all it’s done since 2022. The second, by contrast, want to avert outsized dependence on China by relying on India as a friendly counterweight.

Russia’s neutrality towards the latest Indo-Pak conflict coupled with the pro-Pakistani (and even sometimes anti-Indian) commentary of top “Non-Russian Pro-Russian” influencers within its global media ecosystem, which could have been corrected with some “gentle nudges” but wasn’t, surprised some observers. After all, it was concluded here after Modi’s trip to Moscow last summer that his visit was a victory for the balancing/pragmatic policymaking faction, yet it was evidently short-lived as seen.

It arguably seems like the pro-BRI faction is back to influencing Russia’s South Asian policy as suggested by the preceding examples, with this perception being lent immense credence by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s speech at the Diplomatic Club on Thursday. He warned that the West wants to pit India against China and strongly alluded to the Quad, in which India participates, as an example of an “openly confrontational” format. All of this implies that Russia might be reassessing India’s role in Eurasia.

Instead of continuing to be seen as a friendly counterweight to China that’ll also help jointly speed up Eurasia’s integration, it might soon be suspected of being a hostile counterweight to China that could also obstruct the aforesaid integration at the US’ behest. The second perception could influence policy if Russia becomes more dependent on China in the event that tensions escalate with the US over Ukraine or if Russia engages in major deal-making with the US and/or China in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Either scenario would likely solidify the pro-BRI policymaking faction’s newly restored influence over their balancing/pragmatic rivals, though Putin himself remains a committed member of the second faction, which is why his planned trip to India later this year could even everything out in that event. If neither of the abovementioned scenarios materializes, then policymaking influence might naturally oscillate back towards the balancing/pragmatic faction with time, or at least after Putin’s planned trip.

Circling back to Zakharov, he’s correct that Russia’s growing ties with Pakistan were responsible for Russia’s neutrality during the latest Indo-Pak conflict, but that’s only due to the newly influential pro-BRI policymaking faction conceptualizing them in a Sino-US bi-multipolarity context. This contrasts with how their balancing/pragmatic rivals conceptualize them as part of Russia’s multi-alignment strategy. India should be aware of these new policymaking dynamics in order to avoid misunderstandings with Russia.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

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"A survey of #Welsh #rainforests in 2024 found only 22% were in a good condition due to pollution, fragmentation and invasive species." #conservation #mosses #lichens #trees #environment #Cymru #Wales

BBC News - Celtic rainforest facing species 'extinction crisis'

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Celtic rainforest in Wales facing extinction crisis, ecologists warns

A rare lichen's last refuge on ancient oak felled by a storm puts a unique forest on the brink.

^{Paul Pigott (BBC News)}

My world in 1 photo

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#betergejatdanslechtbedacht #art #artvisual #photooftheday #moeitewaard #impressive #streetphotography #visuals #artoflight #artinstallation #performance #myworldinonephoto #video #videooftheday #short #interesting #youbringonthesun #youmakeitshine #leeuwarden #photography #gabekamphuis #visualstoryteller #photovisionary

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DDR traktoren, LKW&PKW museum Reddelich Bad Doberan Germany June 2024

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📜#Histoire d'un jour - 18 mai 1980 : l'aube rouge de Gwangju election-politique.com/electio…

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VOLBEAT - Time Will Heal

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18 May 1925 | A German Jew, Max Rack, was born in Duisburg. From December 1934 he lived in the Netherlands.

In spring 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and registered in the camp where he perished on 5 August 1942.

Oxfam’s Bushra Khalidi delivers this clear and urgent message in The New Humanitarian: what happens in #Gaza affects us all 👇🏾

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Het is gruwelijk, maar we doen - misschien - pas iets als er duidelijke tekenen van genocide zijn. We zijn het verplicht, maar we treuzelen, we weten het ff niet. Ondertussen worden de Palestijnen in Gaza net zo behandeld als de Joden in de jaren '40 in het getto van Warschau. Toen wisten we het niet, nu is het volkomen helder.
"Nooit meer" is een lege term geworden.

#Gaza #Genocide

nos.nl/artikel/2567736-israel-…

Israël blijft onverstoord massaal geweld gebruiken: 'Een schoolvoorbeeld van genocide'

Israël pleegt een genocide in Gaza of maakt zich in elk geval schuldig aan genocidaal geweld, zeggen steeds meer deskundigen. Ook de publieke opinie lijkt steeds meer te verschuiven.

^{Eliane Lamper (NOS Nieuws)}

Tree sparrow

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#photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography
#Mastodonnaturecommunity #ukwildlife #treesparrow

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Burano

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No white discrimination in South Africa.

It is baseless rumour and disinformation, spread by Musk + Grok AI, just more #racism.

They've been caught tweaking the algorithm, adding disinfo.

4% of the population is still owning more land than the majority. No genocide of Boers, but #apartheid is still affecting black and coloured population.
(edit: typo)

#SilentSunday

#fotografie #photography #landscape

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray, ie, we are not looking for it. So, in the largest sense, we find only the world we look for.
-- Henry David Thoreau (Journal, July 2, 1857)

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🔒 La migliore difesa contro lo streaming sportivo illegale? Le #VPN, forzate ora a bloccare i siti in questione per proteggere l'industria. #StreamingLegale 🏈🎾

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VPN costrette a bloccare i siti di streaming sportivo illegale

VPN costretti a bloccare 200 domini pirata in Francia dopo l'azione legale di Canal+ Group, cambiando il ruolo dei provider nella lotta alla pirateria.

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🚗 Provando la Hyundai i30 N-Line 100 CV: ci sono cose che adoro e altre che meno. Scopri la mia esperienza! #Hyundai #CarReview

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Hyundai i30 N-Line 100 CV, cosa mi piace e cosa no | La mia prova

La nuova i30 N Line si conferma come una delle compatte più interessanti in alternativa alle solite note europee. Ottimi i consumi

^{Tommaso Marcoli (Tom's Hardware)}

@FotoVorschlag #FotoVorschlag "Dorfleben"

"Es sind oft Dörfer oder kleine Städte mit touristischem Potenzial, die aufgrund ihrer Lage, ihrer Geschichte oder ihrer Denkmäler wichtig sind, deren Aktivität und Bevölkerung aber im Allgemeinen im Niedergang begriffen waren, bevor sie in Buchdörfer umgewandelt wurden" (Wikipedia)

Hier in Cuisery, Frankreich

🇷🇴🇪🇺 Présidentielle en Roumanie: des abstentionnistes font entendre leur voix pour le second tour election-politique.com/index.p…

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Iran Sentences Three to Death Over Fatal Mosque Attacks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-18/iran-sentences-three-to-death-over-fatal-mosque-attacks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East @middle-east-bloomberg

Expect the last release candidate of Linux 6.15 as early as today!

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2025.05.17 京都御苑
Nikon Zfc 試し撮り。ほぼカメラ初体験なのでまずは露出以外はほぼお任せで。
カメラって情報量が多いんで難しいイメージだけど、カメラ側で頑張ってくれるので実際に触ってみると、印象より気軽に撮ることもできるのが良いですね。
ただ、とにかく手が馴染んでないので、いつの間にか誤操作で撮ったらしい謎画像がところどころに混じってるｗ
あと、ファインダーとモニターで微妙に違って見える気がするので、このあたりの慣れも必要そう。

#photography #Kyoto #京都 #マストドン写真部

Hoy el Correlimos Tridáctilo-Territ de tres dits-Pilro tridáctilo-Txirri zuria (Calidris alba)
11 Ene 2024
Playa de Castilnovo, Conil, Cádiz, España

ebird.org/spain/checklist/S158…
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calidris…

#BirdsPhotography #birds #aves #bird #birding #pajarear #nature #naturaleza #NaturePhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #photography #txoria

Un pomeriggio in compagnia degli streghi e uno delle fate
Il Museo italiano dell’immaginario folklorico di San Michele di Piazza al Serchio partecipa all’edizione 2025 di "Amico Museo", la campagna...

lanazione.it/lucca/cronaca/un-…

Un pomeriggio in compagnia degli streghi e uno delle fate

^{DINO MAGISTRELLI (La Nazione)}