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Das Bild zeigt eine düstere, wolkenverhangene Küstenlandschaft. Der Himmel ist bedeckt mit dichten, grauen Wolken, die eine bedrohliche Atmosphäre schaffen. Der Ozean erstreckt sich bis zum Horizont, wobei die Wellen ruhig erscheinen. Im Vordergrund sind einige Strandsonnenschirme und grüne Liegestühle zu sehen, die auf einer Rasenfläche stehen. Rechts im Bild ist ein Gebäude mit einem offenen Balkon und einem beleuchteten Fenster zu erkennen. Die gesamte Szene wirkt ruhig und melancholisch, mit einem Fokus auf die Natur und die vorherrschende Stimmung des bedrohlichen Wetters.
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"Colombian President Gustavo Petro has responded defiantly to the United States’ decision to revoke his visa, stating that he "doesn’t care" and criticizing Washington for what he called a violation of international law over his stance on the war in Gaza" Petro: “I no longer have a visa to travel to the United States. I don’t care...Revoking it for denouncing genocide shows the US no longer respects international law”
...you know, I think the Presidents of Columbia and Brazil are onto something.....brilliant! Trump has decided to buddy-up with that loser Milei of Argentina...a complete economic basket case that has basically been in default for....many decades. And just btw, the economic policies that started them down the path to oblivion were set up by Peron.....and in many ways, trump is putting similar policies in place in USA.
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Another excellent thread from @pluralistic I especially agree with this bit:
"The EU needs to get the *hell* off US tech infrastructure. Under Trump, Big Tech and the US government have stopped even pretending that American tech companies are independent of the US government. We know (from China) that Apple will happily backdoor its cloud servers to assuage authoritarian governments"
Not easy for even a motivated person to achieve without a lot of help though. Yet. mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11527130… pluralistic@mamot.fr - Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
Start reinstalling landlines and payphones again. It was needed anyway, and more independence from what corporations and governments weaponize as tracking devices is a bonus.
#FotoVorschlag 📷 'Blick aus Deinem Fenster' Ich wohne oben und sehe meist Vögel und Wolken, wenn ich aus dem Fenster schaue. Heute ist am Himmel nur Blau auszumachen. Langweilig! Also habe ich ein älteres Bild rausgekramt. #Fotografie #Photography #Wolken #Clouds
Flottilla is sailing again. We left Koufonisi, Crete, last night, and are already some 50Nautical miles underway, wit 420Nm to Gaza. Lot's of drone activity during the night, but no attack.
If I had to name one thing as the worst attribute of modern humanity, it would be consumerism. If I could name two, the second would be our need for instant gratification. If I could name three, th…
If you have *first hand experience* of improving the diversity of a governance board of (currently all men) volunteers, I'd love to hear how you went about it, or resources which helped you, please.
What did you find helped make the role more attractive to a wider range of applicants to join?
(This is in the context of a Free software project, but broader contexts are welcome.)
1. Does the board *want* to change? If not, it'll be rough. 2. If yes, does the board accept that this will be hard work? 3. Do the board know the barriers to joining (time, money, impact)? 4. Are they prepared to address the issues? (Different meeting hours, better location, paying etc) 5. Don't reach out to people already on boards - they're already busy! But ask them if they can recommend people who would be good candidates. 6. Accept that you might have a low "hit rate".
@Edent With respect to point 5, ask them explicitly for women, as men will usually mention other men. Old boys network etc.
In addition, when you reach out via announcement, mention you know that women react differently and specifically state you would like to heae from them even if they think they do not check all boxes.
There are a few key reasons why DEI strategies fail (see image below). Here are just a few examples of how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategies and plans fail: Scholars to study why $365M DEI investment into STEM failed to diversify engineerin…
First thank you. Secondly, because women don’t get promoted as readily they won’t think of themselves as eligible for board membership. So that means you have to encourage women to join who may think they don’t fit the criteria. Maybe even be explicit in saying board membership does not require ALL but only SOME qualifications. I find women often don’t apply because they think they don’t have all the experience on the list. Def ask other women for recs.
Check out the Python Movie on YouTube (sorry, don't have the link). There is a insightful segment of it on how Python worked to bring in more diversity to its community.
The events season has started! This article is an invitation to people from across many communities, whatever your role or level of experience, to come and participate in workshops, conferences, camps, lectures, festivals, and more.
Is there a search sub-committee? Do you advertise on "normal" charity boards, or just FOSS ones? Are you able to compensate? Have you expicitly said you want to diversify the board?
If you do manage to find someone, it's hard to make the board representative without making that person a representative of their minority.
the thing I have to say from my experience doing this for a small convention is: it's probably gonna be messy. Probably a person on the board or a friend of a guy on the board is doing some shit that needs to stop in order to make the space welcoming for more diverse members. Probably no one will want to tell him to stop because he's a friend of long standing. This is usually where diversity efforts end; complaints have no official process to go through and never get heard...
I haven't dealt with diversity balancing, but from both being on boards and reporting to them I would offer one useful tip: if you want the current board to get on side, speak privately to one or two of them who would be sympathetic and ask them to raise a more diverse board as an agenda item at the next meeting.
This makes it official, shows allyship, and will help get the ball rolling. An actionable item could then be to identify 3-5 potential new board members before the next meeting.
Not specifically in this context, but I have experience in various diversity programmes. One thing to highlight:
When you frame the problem as ‘we need more women’ (or more people of a particular ethnicity, or sexual orientation, or whatever) then this immediately devalues people in the group that you are trying to target. We did a lot of work at Microsoft to try to stop senior leadership boasting at all-hands meetings that they’d hired more women, because women in the audience immediately thought ‘was I hired just because I’m a woman?’ And then thought ‘do my colleagues think I was hired because I am a woman?’ Which then immediately undermines them in their job.
Not having women in leadership positions is not the problem, it is a trailing indicator of the problem. The root problems are likely to be things like:
You are recruiting from places women avoid, or which favour men.
You are recruiting via your networks, where women are underrepresented.
You are encouraging an in-group culture that makes everyone not in that group feel excluded and this disproportionately affects women (you will also be losing other people for the same reason).
You are organising things at times that are inconvenient for people with carer responsibilities, which disproportionately affects women.
You are looking for people who have a lot of free time and this systematically excludes a load of people (you can’t fix this as a volunteer project, but you can push for government equity initiatives).
Remember: your goal is to find the best people. The fact that roughly 52% of the population are self-deselecting before you even get to evaluate them on relevant metrics is a significant indicator that you are failing at this. Keep that framing in mind.
El Parlamento de Andalucía ha puesto en marcha unas normas que cambian de manera notable la manera de asistir a los plenos desde la tribuna de invitados. A partir de este periodo de sesiones ya no se permite hacer fotos, grabar vídeos ni mostrar pancartas o carteles reivindicativos. También queda prohibido llevar camisetas con mensajes […]
La vicepresidenta primera del Gobierno y ministra de Hacienda, María Jesús Montero, ha respondido al dirigente de Junts, Jordi Turull, después de que este afirmara que Andalucía «vive de las subvenciones». Montero ha utilizado su cuenta oficial de la red social X (antes Twitter) para dejar clara su posición y sumarse así a otras defensas […]
There have been lots of haptic vest devices over the years, though the vast majority have been very simple. Many existing suits pack in a few speakers or vibration motors to give feedback to the wearer. Kinethreads aims to go further, serving as a full-body haptic suit using an innovative mechanical setup.
Kinethreads is effectively an exosuit, which mounts several motorized pulley systems to the wearer’s body. These pulleys are attached to the user’s hands, feet, back, torso, and head via strings. By winding in the pulleys, it’s possible for the device to effectively tug on different parts of the body, creating rich, dynamic physical feedback that can easily be felt and interpreted by the user. The whole system weighs 4.6 kilograms—not light, but very practical. It can also run for 6 hours on a single charge. The whole suit can be donned or doffed in under a minute. Cost is stated to be under $500.
It’s a particularly interesting device for VR use. The team notes applications such as simulating the weight of picking up a virtual object, creating the feeling of virtual “gravity,” or giving continuous dynamic feedback during a driving simulation. Other demos include mimicking the sensation of touching hard objects, or the more diffuse feeling of standing under a waterfall.
Two concerts from the Schwäbisch Gmünd European Church Music Festival.
FIRST:
Gerlinde Sämann, soprano and conductor, Johannes Frisch, Andreas Pilger, violin, Susanne Zippe, viola, Heidi Gröger, viola da gamba, Magnus An...
Police have arrested many people in hundreds of raids leading up to the vote as reports of Russian interference and planned disturbances plagued what many believe is the most consequential election in the country’s recent history.
Dal suo cappellino da pescatore gonzo e le ciabatte negli anni ’90 alle camicie stropicciate e alle giacche di oggi, il regista di Una battaglia dopo l’altra si è sempre vestito senza mezze misure
Sotto le bombe israeliane e sfruttati da Hamas, il destino degli orfani tra le macerie di Gaza, editorialedomani.it/politica/m…, , Potrebbero essere «oltre 18mila i minori rimasti orfani dal 7 ottobre e di questi, molti non sono neanche assistiti da qualcuno», dice Rana Quffa, direttrice di un centro per l’infanzia a Khan Yunis. Così rischiano di diventare i nuovi combattenti di Hamas
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"Body camera footage released from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in upstate New York earlier this month caught federal agents calling immigrants “animals” and bragged about the number of “illegals” detained — despite that not being the case in at least one instance."
"“I would not let anybody out of their cells, so we did it in an orderly fashion, had them all lined up. It’s bathroom time, or it’s f— brush your teeth time, or it’s food time. Other than that, nope, your a— is staying in there. ‘But you can’t do that.’ I absolutely can. ‘I need a phone call.’ No you don’t. ‘I need to go to medical.’ Nope, you look good to me,” the agent said, mimicking a conversation with a person detained.
He continued to say that they kept the bathrooms inside the cells where people were held.
“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the agent, who said he worked in the “intelligence unit.”"
#Russia #Europa #Nato #ONU Il ministro degli Esteri russo Sergej #Lavrov ha dichiarato ai leader mondiali, riuniti all’Assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite che Mosca “non ha alcuna intenzione” di attaccare i paesi europei”.
AgenPress. Il ministro degli Esteri russo Sergej Lavrov ha dichiarato ai leader mondiali, riuniti all'Assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite che Mosca "non ha
< Nella sua autobiografia (Assata, tradotta in Italia nel 1992), racconta le manipolazione dei processi, le violenze e le torture dopo l’arresto, in ospedale e da un carcere all’altro. Evade nel 1979, con l’aiuto di alcune compagne (per avere partecipato a questa azione Silvia Baraldini si vide aggiungere vent’anni di carcere alla sua condanna). Dopo alcuni anni di clandestinità, riuscì a raggiungere Cuba. >
Usa (Cultura) Assata Shakur, militante rivoluzionaria afroamericana, è morta il 25 settembre scosro a Cuba, dove risiedeva come rifugiata politica dal 1984. Era nata nel 1947, e il suo «nome da schiava» era JoAnne Chesimard.
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