This must not be allowed to happen!#Gaza #Humanity

'My children go to sleep hungr...

'My children go to sleep hungry,' Gazans tell the BBC

The BBC speaks to people in Gaza during a 10-week blockade on food, medical supplies and other aid.

^{Alice Cuddy (BBC News)}

Wann fängt die #EU an, selbstbewusst #EuropasWerte zu verfolgen und konsequent umzusetzen?
#GegenTracking vorgehen

Die EU besteht nicht NUR aus #Wirtschaftsinteressen !
Ich zumindest bin es Leid, nur #USA und #China zu folgen, aus #GermanAngst , aus #EuropeanAngst .
Die #Grosskonzerne folgen jetzt #Trump.
#Gewinnmaximierung

Und die #EU ?

Abwarten, #PrinzipHoffnung , #EuropäischeIdee verwässern.
Sind wir Zuschauer oder Akteure?
#TuWas #Europa !!!

#EuropaischeUnion

tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/techn…

Kommt die Super-App auch nach Europa?

Chatten, Shoppen, digitale Behördengänge: alles mit einer App. So genannte Super-Apps sind in Asien und auch in Brasilien Alltag, in Europa noch Vision. Wie lange noch?

^{Antje Erhard (tagesschau.de)}

🇵🇹🇪🇺 Législatives anticipées au Portugal: une économie en difficulté qui ne pèse pas encore sur l'élection election-politique.com/index.p…

#VuDansLaPresse #newspaper #politique #politics #international #Portugal #Legislatives #election2025

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"Thus was the Zionist state able to come into being and portray itself as a redemptive compensation for the Nazi genocide of the Jews. These historical circumstances have allowed this state to oppress the native Palestinians to a degree that went certainly way beyond what the founders of Zionism, Herzl included, had expected."
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@palestine

#Zionism
#Israel
#Palestine
#CrimesAgainstHumanity

The Zionist Project’s Duality: Escaping Racist Oppression and Reproducing It in Colonial Context

Duality between the position of oppressed and that of oppressor is not rare in history. It is encountered in particular in the case of national movements embodying the quest of an oppressed nation for liberation from colonialism while this same natio…

^Jadaliyya

Große Keramikschalen für Obst, Salat oder einfach zur Dekoration.

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Don’t stop, Ukraine. Don’t stop.

#Australia #photography #ukraine

Don’t stop, Ukraine. Don’t stop.

Don't stop Ukraine. #photography #ukraine

shojiwax.com/2025/05/18/dont-s…

Don’t stop, Ukraine. Don’t stop.

Don’t stop Ukraine. #photography #ukraine

^shojiwax.com

Ma cosa c'entra l'esercito e i suoi droni con il salone del libro?

Niente, solo normalizzazione, la militarizzazione della vita civile.

@antoniomazzeo

ansa.it/piemonte/notizie/2025/…

Esercito: drone terrestre in mostra al Salone del Libro - Notizie - Ansa.it

Ospite particolare allo stand del Ministero della Difesa, è Atomo, il sistema tecnologico a quattro 'zampe' che l'Esercito Italiano impiega per svolgere - a distanza di sicurezza - missioni di ricognizione e campionamento in aree potenzialmente conta…

^{Agenzia ANSA}

🇵🇱🇪🇺 Election présidentielle serrée, sous le regard attentif de l’UE election-politique.com/index.p…

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A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

Increasingly I think it makes sense to distinguish between different accelerationist positions. I rarely use the term to describe my own politics any more, both because I don’t want to risk association with far-right positions and because the potential vehicle for a left-accelerationist politics has been smashed into pieces. But my instincts remain left-accelerationist, in the sense of being inclined to ask how emerging technologies could be steered towards solidaristic and socially beneficial goals rather than being driven by the market. It means insisting we consider the technology analytically in ways which distinguish between emergent capacities and how those capacities are being organised at present by commercial imperatives. It means insisting we dive into the problems created by emerging technologies, going through them rather than seeking to go around them, rather than imagining we could hold them back by force of our critique.

In the mid 2010s this felt like quite an optimistic way to see the world but now it feels like a weirdly gloomy way to see the world, because the sense of collective agency underwriting such a future-orientation now seems largely, if not entirely, absent. It’s interesting therefore to see someone like Reid Hoffman, rare liberal member of the billionaire paypal mafia, offer a perspective which has some commonalities with this but could rather be described as a liberal humanist accelerationism. From pg 1-3 of the book Superagency, he’s written with Greg Beato:

We form groups of all kinds, at all levels, to amplify our efforts, often deploying our collective power against other teams, other companies, other countries. Even within our own groups of like-minded allies, competition emerges, because of variations in values and goals. And each group and subgroup is generally adept at rationalizing self-interest in the name of the greater good. Coordinating at a group level to ban, constrain, or even just contain a new technology is hard. Doing so at a state or national level is even harder. Coordinating globally is like herding cats—if cats were armed, tribal, and had different languages, different gods, and dreams for the future that went beyond their next meal. Meanwhile, the more powerful the technology, the harder the coordination problem, and that means you’ll never get the future you want simply by prohibiting the future you don’t want. Refusing to actively shape the future never works, and that’s especially true now that the other side of the world is only just a few clicks away. Other actors have other futures in mind. What should we do? Fundamentally, the surest way to prevent a bad future is to steer toward a better one that, by its existence, makes significantly worse outcomes harder to achieve.

The difference here is that he’s envisioning society as made up with more or less self-realised individuals, in a world in which power and vested interests is (primarily, at least) a matter of how those individuals interact rather than an enduring structural context to their interaction. But with this huge caveat, a lot of the assumptions and instincts here are similar to my own. This could in turn be contrasted to Tony Blair’s post-liberal accelerationism concerned with the role of the state under these conditions:

There’s a similar line of thought in this review by Nathan Pinkoski of Blair’s book on leadership. He describes Blair’s program as a “kind of post-liberal progressive rightism that promises to co-opt the progressive left while crushing the populist right”. Underlying this project is “a commitment to unlimited, unrestrained technological progress, and a belief that this will bring about a better world”.

And we might in turn distinguish this from the libertarian accelerationism of Marc Andreessen who seems to see little to no legitimate role ofr the state.

There’s a risk in distinguishing between these positions that we take them as doctrines, whereas I think they can better be understand as articulations of underlying instincts and orientations. How technology feels to people and how they feel about technology. Their inclination when presented with sociotechnical change etc.

#accelerationism #capitalism #ideology #instinct #MarcAndreessen #ReidHoffman #socialChange #sociotechnicalChange #technology #tonyBlair

Tony Blair, Right-Wing Progressive

I once thought of Tony Blair the way I did of Princess Diana: part of my fading childhood memories.

^{Nathan Pinkoski (Compact)}

Verfassungsschutz: Russland setzt auf "Wegwerf-Agenten"

Der Verfassungsschutz warnt: Russland nutzt für geheimdienstliche Aktivitäten in Deutschland immer wieder sogenannte "Wegwerf-Agenten". Angeworben werden die Zivilisten oft über Messengerdienste wie Telegram.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/innenpoli…

#Verfassungsschutz #Russland #Ukraine

Verfassungsschutz: Russland setzt auf "Wegwerf-Agenten"

^{tagesschau.de}

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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#China #Eurasia #Geopolitics #India #Pakistan #Russia

"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'

bbc.com/news/articles/c7873ynn…

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

#museum #trucks #photography #YouTube #Germany #cars