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La Via Campesina exprime sa solidarité avec l’Unión Indígena Campesina (UIC) et l’Unión Campesina Panameña (UCP), qui se mobilisent actuellement aux côtés d’autres secteurs populaires du Panama pour défendre la souveraineté nationale. Ensemble, ces mouvements dénoncent les violations des droits humains, le non-respect de la Constitution politique de la République, ainsi que la loi controversée 462, qui introduit des réformes majeures du Fonds de sécurité sociale du Panama (CSS). Selon ces mouvements, les réformes condamneraient les travailleur·euse·s à ne jamais pouvoir partir à la retraite et à percevoir des pensions de misère ne dépassant pas 300 dollars. Iels protestent également contre l’implication d’intermédiaires financiers, ce qui entraînerait une privatisation du CSS et une baisse des pensions pour les travailleur·euse·s.
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Le mot beauf qui à l'origine désignait le beau frère est entré dans le langage courant pour désigner la caricature d’un français moyen, réactionnaire, un peu bête, borné, macho, vulgaire… On pense alors au fameux tonton raciste ou à Kevin qui a un mulet, de grosses lunettes de soleil et fait du tuning…. Mais cela va encore plus loin, puisque petit à petit, le beauf devient l’autre, celui auquel on ne veut pas ressembler, celui qui n’a pas les bons goûts, la bonne culture, les bonnes opinions. Les beaufs n’existent que dans le regard de la société. Dans son livre Ascendant Beauf, Rose Lamy démontre que la figure du beauf est surtout un outil de domination et de fabrique du mépris social. En se moquant des beaufs, on se moque aussi des classes populaires, on se désensibilise de leur sort. En revenant sur son histoire personnelle, l’autrice raconte tout ce qui se cache derrière l’image du beauf : une existence déterminée par la classe sociale, les morts prématurées, les emplois aliénants, les déserts médicaux. L’humiliation permanente…
Pourtant, le dessinateur Cabu, qui a en partie créé ce personnage le disait “on est tous le beauf de quelqu’un”. Pour le sociologue Gérard Mauger cité dans le livre “la figure du beauf produit simultanément une représentation stigmatisée des classes populaires et une représentation enchantée de soi-même comme l’envers du groupe stigmatisé”.
Le beauf en dit donc beaucoup sur la personne qui juge, la condescendance lui donne une forme de supériorité morale et intellectuelle mais tout ceci a des conséquences bien réelles. “Nous sommes toutes et tous à la fois bourreaux et victimes de l’oppression de classe” écrit Rose Lamy.
Alors pourquoi est-ce problématique d’utiliser le mot beauf ? En quoi cette figure est-elle devenue un bouc émissaire ? Comment questionner ce mépris social ? Et comment l'extrême droite profite en partie de la stigmatisation des beaufs et donc des classes populaires blanches ? Réponses à toutes ces questions et bien d’autres dans cet entretien de Paloma Moritz avec Rose Lamy
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Entretien Blast “Paradoxes des récits de transfuges de classe”
Chronique Blast sur la méritocratie
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Ukrainian drones attack NPP training center in Zaporozhye Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAlexey Krechetov (Rossa Primavera International News)
Decibels Are Ridiculous
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Celebrating a rare dumpster fire in the kingdom of science.lcamtuf (lcamtuf’s thing)
The parties agreed to step up efforts to advance the work of the 3+3 regional cooperation platform, designed to ensure that the problems of the South Caucasus are solved by the regional states themselves and their immediate neighborsTASS
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You ever watch ants? Yeah, those little guys. They’re always on the move, working together like there’s some kind of invisible force guiding them. It’s wild. And don’t even get me started on birds.ProWritingAid
Es gibt nur wenige Orte auf #Kreta ohne Gedenkstätte für von den deutschen Besatzungssoldaten ermordete Zivilist*innen.
Die Gedenkstätte bei Amiras erinnert an das Massaker von #Viannos im September 1943, wo die #Wehrmacht als "Vergeltung" für 12 getötete Soldaten über 500 Menschen ermordete: Männer, Frauen, und Kinder aus den Dörfern der Umgebung, alle, derer man habhaft werden konnte. Ich besuche diese Gedenkstätte jedes Mal.
Der #AfD-Politiker #Lucassen feiert seinen Vater dafür, als Fallschirmjäger der Wehrmacht auf Kreta dabei gewesen zu sein, und posiert mit Nazi-Devotionalien.
Diese Partei von Faschisten darf niemals Macht in die Finger bekommen, wer sie "wie jede andere Partei" behandeln will, ist Steigbügelhalter des #Faschismus.
Die Gedenkstätte befindet sich hier:
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OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Gemini figured out my nephew’s name
Link: blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/May/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Eduardo Galeano: Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Humanitarian organizations have warned that Israel's systematic starvation policy against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could result in the deaths of around 14,000 infants over the next two days unless urgent and adequate …The Palestinian Information Center
Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers. It’s trying to bring them back after losing $40bn in value - The Independent via inkl
You need an electron microscope to see the size of the violin I’m playing right now.
#klarna #AI #bullshit #BigTech
Klarna’s CEO has suggested that the AI job cuts have led to “lower quality” customer serviceinkl
"...the firm hopes to recruit people from rural areas, students and others to fill the new jobs"
They're just trying to pay as little as possible. There's nothing wrong with students or rural areas, but this kind of mentality will always lead to bad results. And just watch, that'll be their excuse to again replace people a few years from now.
Johannes Pietsch hofft auf eine Austragung in der österreichischen Hauptstadt, aber ohne Israel. Über das Ergebnis des Televoting sagt der ESC-Sieger: "Dieses Jahr war das alles sehr seltsam"DER STANDARD
„Saftige Medienkritik" 🤝
Journalistin Antonia Groß vom geschätzten MDR-Format
@altpapier macht hier unsere Analyse und die wichtigsten Probleme der deutschen Nahost-Berichterstattung sicht- und erstmals teilbar.
Spread the word, befreit die Kacheln, startet die überfällige öffentliche, breite Debatte zum deutschen Nahost-Journalismus.
1/13
„Renitenz der Nachrichtenmedien
So wenigstens sagt es die Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin Nadia Zaboura in einem hörenswerten Interview im Podcast "Uber Israel und Palästina sprechen" zu dem Host Shai Hoffmann, der am Freitag erschienen ist.
Sie gibt darin eine saftige Medienkritik: Dem Journalismus und dem Medienjournalismus."
3/13
Eines ihrer Hauptanliegen ist das Vertrauen, das sich die Medien durch eine "beschränkte" Berichterstattung, wie sie sagt, verspielen.
Den Vertrauensverlust beim Publikum begründet sie mit einer Berichterstattung über Gaza, die eine Schlagseite für israelische Quellen hat - vor allem aber darin, dass gerade Nachrichtenmedien nicht auf Kritik reagieren. Sie nennt das eine "journalistic malpractice" - journalistisches Fehlverhalten.
4/13
"Das was dort gerade spezifisch in den beiden reichweitenstärksten Nachrichtenmedien geschieht, ist immer wieder hochproblematisch und es wird von verschiedenen Menschen, von Wissenschaftlern, Forschern, von Journalisten, aber auch aus dem Medienpublikum nicht nur kritisiert, sondern auf Dauer kritisiert".
5/13
Redaktionen reagierten nicht auf Kommentare in Sozialen Medien, kaum auf Leser*innenbriefe. Zaboura ist als Beraterin tätig, kennt deshalb sowohl Meinungen aus Publikum wie aus der Perspektive von Journalist*innen.
Sie bescheinigt den schlechten Umgang mit Kritik besonders den Nachrichtensendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks:
6/13
"Dort gelten noch einmal ganz anderen Bedingungen, weil dort nicht in die Tiefe gearbeitet wird.
Und aufgrund der sehr großen Reichweite gerade der ARD @tagesschau und von @ZDF "Heute" obliegt diesen Nachrichtenformaten und den Menschen, die daran arbeiten, eine ganz besondere Verantwortung."
"In einer von Schnelligkeit getriebenen Nachrichtenwelt gehe zu häufig der Kontext verloren.
Ein zentrales Problem ist laut Zabouras Analyse die eins-zu-eins Übernahme von Informationen, die die israelische Regierung an Agenturen und Medien meldet. Es fehle an Berichten, die Positionen von Menschenrechtsorganisationen und Betroffenen mit einbeziehe."
7/13
"Dagegen, sagt Zaboura, würden die beiden Kriegsparteien in deutschen Medien oft "merkwürdig symmetrisch dargestellt." Das ist aus ihrer Sicht falsch:
"Es gibt eine Asymmetrie des Geschehens in Israel und Palästina. Palästina wird nicht als eigener Staat anerkannt, immer noch nicht. Palästina hat keine eigene Regierungsform in dem Sinne, keine eigene Staatlichkeit. Palästina hat keine eigene Armee oder eine Möglichkeit, sich selbst zu verteidigen."
8/13
"Weiter mit Zaboura:
"Das spiegelt sich nicht in der Art und Weise der deutschen Medienberichterstattung stets und fortlaufend wieder, wie es das verdient hat. Und es spiegelt sich auch nicht wieder, dass durch dieses asymmetrische Geschehen [...] gewisse Pflichten einhergehen.""
Völkerrechtliche Verzerrungen
Sie meint: Kriegsparteien haben zwar immer eine kommunikative Strategie. Regierungen, Länder und Parteien betreiben Propaganda, wenn es um kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen geht. Was Zaboura hier aber in Bezug auf Israel betont: Auch für eine Besatzungsmacht gelte das Völkerrecht:
9/13
"Doch gerade wenn sich Informationen nur schwer unabhängig bestätigen lassen, sind Belege kompliziert. Deshalb eigneten sich gerade Formate wie Live-Ticker für Berichte über den Krieg in Gaza nicht (aktuell etwa hier bei der "FAZ" oder hier beim BR).
In der Titelgeschichte der jüngsten Ausgabe des @spiegel wird dieser Hinweis immerhin sehr deutlich formuliert:"
10/13
SPIEGEL:
"Angeblich um die Terrororganisation Hamas zur Aufgabe zu zwingen, hat Israel am 2. März die Einfuhr von Lebensmitteln & Hilfsgütern gestoppt - und den Krieg mit noch größerer Brutalität fortgesetzt. Immer wieder bombardiert die Luftwaffe auch Krankenhäuser & Schulen, die als Notunterkünfte dienen, tötet nahezu täglich Zivilisten.
Israel begründet seine Angriffe damit, dass sich unter oder neben zivilen Einrichtungen Stellungen der Hamas befänden. Beweise legt sie dafür fast nie vor."
"Spieglein, Spieglein
Nun sind das eine die Politik, und die Nachrichtenmedien, die sie übersetzen. Dann gibt es noch solche, die eine eigene Agenda fahren. So geht es im Podcast etwa auch um die Macht des Springer-Konzerns, der sich seit jeher zu Israel bekennt. Zu den Verbindungen der "Bild" mit Premierminister Netanjahu hat der @NDR vergangene Woche einen Beitrag in der Sendung "Panorama" veröffentlicht."
11/13
Noch einmal Zaboura:
"Mich persönlich wundert, dass der deutsche Medienjournalismus so leise ist zu dieser Thematik. Gerade wenn wir uns die nahezu tagtäglichen Verstöße gegen journalistische Professionalität und Integrität anschauen zur deutschen Berichterstattung".
"Zu lange - und da hat sie nun wirklich recht - habe es gedauert, bis die Medienmedien sich überhaupt einer Betrachtung der Berichterstattung Uber Gaza angenommen haben. Das hatte vor wenigen Wochen auch @uebermedien - Chefredakteur Alexander Graf eingestanden."
13/13
Mic Drop von Zaboura:
"Es ist das Thema unserer Zeit. Es ist der Kristallisationspunkt von so vielen verschiedenen Aspekten - von dem, was in der Welt gerade geschieht. Da kann sich weder Journalismus noch Medienjournalismus leisten, da nicht aktiv hinzuschauen und noch stärker zu benennen und Macht zu kontrollieren".
Wer diese unabhängige, machtkontrollierende Medienkritik einer Einzelperson unterstützen und weiter ermöglichen möchte, kann das hier tun:
Hier geht es zum Gesamttext des MDR-Formats „Altpapier“:
mdr.de/altpapier/das-altpapier…
Und hier zum rezensierten und kontextualisierten Podcast-Gespräch zwischen Shai Hoffmann und mir:
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Haben die Nachrichtenmedien beim Berichten über den Krieg in Gaza eine Schlagseite? Wie staatstragend sind sie? Und versagt auch der Medienjournalismus?Antonia Groß (MDR)
Gideon Levy über Yair Golan's Bemerkung, und sein Zurückrudern -
Nein - die israelische Armee hat nicht "nur Befehle befolgt". Auch wenn Netanyahu die Verantwortung trägt - es war die israelische Armee, die Zehntausende Kinder tötete.
Und es war die israelische Armee, die diesen Genozid jederzeit hätte beenden können.
»#Israel's Military Leaders Are Not 'Only Obeying Orders.' They Could Have Stopped the #Gaza Massacre«
haaretz.com/opinion/2025-05-22… (paywall)
Oil painting by Syrian artist Malik Alazami of his home city Damascus. I am re-publishing this excellent dialogue between historian Louis Allday and writer and researcher Patrick Higgins.…The Wall Will Fall
THEY HAVE CAST AVATAR GASLIGHT GATEKEEP GIRLBOSS!!! 🧡
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#AvatarYangchen #AvatarTheLastAirbender #Netflix #ATLA #AvatarLegends #ChroniclesOfTheAvatar #DawnOfYangchen #LOK #LegacyOfYangchen #LegendOfKorra
Netflix's live-action version of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' has added seven cast members across its upcoming second and third seasons.Selome Hailu (Variety)
@adrianmorales Haha, I just really love the casting for Avatar Yangchen, who's my favorite Avatar Legends character. She's an Avatar who was a spymaster basically
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Yangchen was the Air Nomad Avatar succeeding Avatar Szeto and preceding Avatar Kuruk. She grew up in a rather isolationist time for the four nations in the aftermath of the Platinum Affair.Contributors to Avatar Wiki (Fandom, Inc.)
Getting a paper accepted
Link: maxwellforbes.com/posts/how-to…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Page 1 Accepts, the Rest Avoids Rejectionmaxwellforbes.com
SACRAMENTO, the United States, May 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump confronted visiting Soen.people.cn
L’assise est du côté de la déconstruction, oui…L’assise est surtout …sur le côté.Là où l’on observe les mouvement de construction et de la déconstruction s’alterner.Cela vaut également pour n…Notes & Silence
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Social unrest, labor protests, and the hollow promises of global capitalism When Western analysts — modern-day missionaries in business suits — talk aboutРебекка Чан (New Eastern Outlook)
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Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain what makes money unique, how it is a form of debt, and why the attempt to impose a single globa...YouTube
Eduardo Galeano: The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
TEHRAN, May 21 (MNA) – At least 98 people were killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza in the past day.Mehr News Agency
Голос Кореи,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,صوت كوريا ,Stimme Koreas,공화국,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
67 percent of Israelis said they support ending the Gaza war as part of a hostage dealHaaretz
#music #alternative #teaser #therainwillcome #nosight #angelic #vanity
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An international human rights organization says at least 26 Palestinians have died of hunger in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.PressTV
The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)
Link: thevinylfactory.com/features/t…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Made of plastic and embossed with a melody, these tiny record stamps are among the strangest, most enchanting bits of vinyl out there. Chris May investigates how the Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan came to produce the world’s “first talking stamps”.Chris May (The Vinyl Factory)
Despite global turbulence and challenges, Belarus-China relations are gaining momentum, Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Snopkov said during a meeting with Vice Premier of the State Council of China Liu Guozhong.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
Oh my god. I just had the terrible realization that AI coding agents take the Mythical Man Month and make it last forever. They're new to the project and they'll never learn anything, so they're always new to the project.
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Eduardo Galeano: We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eine Studie zeigt, dass die Polizei ein strukturelles Problem mit Diskriminierung hat. Ob die Bundesregierung daran etwas ändert, scheint fraglich.
Diskriminierung durch Beamt*innen: Eine Blackbox namens Polizei
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The most pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian countries — US and its European colonies — are so blind to the evilness of Israel’s actions in Gaza.Eric ZUESSE (Oriental Review)
Save The Children UK is right: Gaza is a graveyard for humanity's conscience.
The Russian Pacific Fleet celebrates the anniversary of its founding today, Wednesday. On May 21, 1731, the Okhotsk military port was established-the first Russian naval unit to operate permanently in the Far East.www.saba.ye
CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
Link: arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A portable containment device that can be dropped on a truck.John Timmer (Ars Technica)
Show HN: Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table
Link: github.com/derekeder/csv-to-ht…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
:arrow_down_small: Display any CSV (comma separated values) file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table - derekeder/csv-to-html-tableGitHub
The United States has expressed its opposition to the inclusion of a paragraph on further support for Ukraine in the statement following the meeting of central bankers and finance ministers of the G7 countries, which is taking place in Canada.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan
Link: news.engin.umich.edu/2025/05/t…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Hitting 2 petawatts, the NSF-funded ZEUS facility at U-M enables research that could improve medicine, national security, materials science and more.Kate McAlpine (University of Michigan College of Engineering)
George Simion seeks to annul Romania’s presidential vote, alleging foreign interference and fraud after losing to pro-Europe Nicusor Dan in the runoff election.Al Mayadeen English (Simion seeks annulment of Romania’s election over fraud allegations)
Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone
Link: clipjs.vercel.app/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A free online video editor that enables you to edit videos directly from your web browser.clipjs.vercel.app
Prior to this, the Russian president visited the Kursk Region on March 12. At the time, he held a meeting at one of the command posts of the Kursk troop grouping.Sputnik International
Microsoft has released a new feature for Windows 11, called “Recall”[1]. It takes screenshots of your desktop every 5 seconds, storing them locally for AI-powered search (no, I didn’t make this up)
Microsoft’s pitch seems to be:
“Recall will know everything you’ve been doing so our AI can give you a better version of Clippy to help you through your busy day“
Figure 1 – Clippy and AI – a match made in heaven? [2]
Serious concerns have been raised about the Recall feature, including:
This old quote sums up the Pandora’s box that Microsoft’s Windows 11 Recall opens:
“Data is not the new oil. It’s the new plutonium – amazingly powerful, dangerous when it spreads, difficult to clean up and with serious consequences when improperly used.“
– Jim Balsillie 2019[4]
The purpose of this post isn’t to criticise Recall (enough people are doing this already[5] [6] [7]), but instead to use it as a case study to learn more general lessons on product and feature governance.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic“[8].
Perhaps there should be a fourth law:
“Any attempts to improve sufficiently advanced technology will just annoy people“
Commercial software products often reach a level of maturity where any further innovation becomes change for the sake of change, impacting customer experience. We will call this stage “Peak Innovation”.
The typical lifecycle of a software product starts with many deployments of new features that add value, ultimately reaching a plateau of maximum value to the customer:
Figure 2 – Conceptual chart of software product value to customer over time
Further updates risk reducing customer value and entering the “Trough of Unwanted Updates”[9].
Software products are fundamentally different to physical products.
Changes on a physical production line require expensive and time-consuming retooling, yet software product updates can be made quickly by a small team of people, with immediate and potentially large impacts.
When a physical product such as a vehicle needs updates after sale, an expensive product recall is required.
Figure 3 – Physical product recalls such as the Chevrolet Cruze can be expensive, but necessary. Also, a metaphor for Recall [10]
Software products can have updates issued quickly at little expense. This can however make it too easy for vendors to push out features that they have not fully considered, especially ones that are not needed.
Executives can be guilty of pushing product teams to deliver new features, just so they can live-demonstrate them at sales events.
How can we recognise the signs that a software product has reached peak innovation and should move from innovation to maintenance (not necessarily forever – start innovating again if there is a technology or market shift), and thus reduce the pressure of executives demanding the delivery of shiny new things?
Consider these criteria, with Recall as a case study:
Measure | The “Recall” Case Study |
The product is mature and already delivers what a representative user would expect. | Microsoft Windows is a mature operating system offering essential features like hardware and filesystem management, a user interface, and ability to run applications. |
The product tries to grow into adjacent areas. | Microsoft Recall is an OS feature that offers AI-powered search across applications; however, search functionality should be the responsibility of individual applications, not the OS. It is thus growing into other areas. |
Recall pushes Windows 11 into “Product Bloat” territory by adding extraneous features to a mature product. For example, web browser applications already store browsing history, so duplicating this functionality in the OS is unnecessary. Here is a four-quadrant model to assess product lifecycle status by product maturity vs alignment with scope:
Figure 4 – Product Maturity against Alignment Quadrant
Product teams can assess feature requests against this four-quadrant model that looks at where the origin of the request and value to the customer:
Figure 5 – Feature Request Customer Value Quadrant
Feature requests from vendors, not customers, may address latent demand – something customers didn’t realise they wanted. Microsoft Recall seems vendor driven, but is the customer benefit positive or negative?
For a feature to be fulfilling latent demand, it must provide a benefit to the customer. Unwanted features with no value do not meet any demand.
When writing user stories for Recall, the benefits seem heavily tilted towards Microsoft, so there does not seem to be customer demand, latent or otherwise:
“Recall” Customer User Stories | “Recall” Microsoft User Stories |
As a person suffering from amnesia, I can find out what I did on the computer last week, so that I can recover my life. | As a multinational technology corporation, we can implement OS snooping on users with AI analysis, so that we can be seen to have an AI strategy that pushes up our stock price |
As a multinational technology corporation, we can implement OS snooping on users with AI analysis, so that we can gather user data that we can later monetise or use for AI training | |
As a multinational technology corporation, we can implement OS snooping on users with AI analysis, so that we can get our customers to pay for AI compute and storage to reduce our expenditure on data centres | |
As a multinational technology corporation, we can implement OS snooping on users with AI analysis, so that we can increase OS resource requirements to force users to pay for new hardware and Windows software that makes us and our partners more money |
The desktop operating system market is mature, with options, some of which are free. Features like “Recall”, and the cost of new hardware, may drive users away from Microsoft’s desktop OS and surrounding ecosystem. Customers will be reluctant to make such a fundamental change, but this is an inflection point that may cause them to switch to another OS.
Figure 6 – Will Recall scare Windows customers into making the jump to other operating systems? [11]
While Windows 11 and “Recall” are unlikely to trigger the “Year of Linux on the Desktop”[14], they could push users away. Businesses are generally too entrenched in Microsoft’s ecosystem (Outlook, OneDrive, Excel, Active Directory etc.) to switch en masse, but higher hardware requirements might drive home users to alternatives like Linux, macOS, or ChromeOS.
In my home, we use a Windows 10 PC alongside various non-Microsoft devices. I am unlikely to pay a Microsoft tax for expensive hardware upgrades to run a newer Windows OS with unwanted features. This is likely to push us to Linux on the desktop, despite the effort involved to change.
I hope this post sparks discussion on software products and how to identify when product teams should pivot from developing new features onto maintenance and tuning of what already exists. I have seen examples of apps ruined by unwanted features, and this is sad because it is so unnecessary [12].
Will Microsoft recall “Recall”, consigning it to the bin of failed experiments? This is difficult to predict. User sentiment seems overwhelmingly against it, but few have tried it yet, and we tend to be averse to change[13].
The Sunk Cost Fallacy may drag Microsoft down the road of continuing with Recall; however, as the feature is so unpopular and does not generate any revenue (yet), it may still result in a boardroom edict to kill it off.
Microsoft has lost its way with Windows, heading into the “Trough of Unwanted Updates”. Recall is a terrible idea, and they should scrap it immediately. This will require Microsoft senior leaders to display true courage and fail fast.
[1] Microsoft Recall product page: support.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…
[2] Image generated on Google Image FX with prompt “A stylised paper clip with eyes and eyebrows wrestles with a cartoon AI agent”
[3] Microsoft Recall “…will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers”, from support.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…
[4] Jim Balsillie testimony to Canadian Parliament: ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/e… and article analysing it: hub.packtpub.com/jim-balsillie…
[5] Takedown of Recall from The Register on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=-pe2uyfbMU…
[6] Kevin Beaumont in DoublePulsar about security implications of Recall: doublepulsar.com/how-the-new-m…
[7] Bleeping Computer on Recall: bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr…
[8] From “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible” by Arthur C. Clarke (1962)
[9] The approach in this post differs from the traditional economic view of product lifecycle where a product enters a decline stage because of falloff in sales due to diminishing demand. The economic Product Lifecycle was defined by Theodore Levitt in 1965, see: repository.dinus.ac.id/docs/aj…
[10] A 2013 Chevrolet Cruze burns from an engine compartment fire, cropped from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… by Cullen328. See main page for more details at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_…
[11] Image generated on Google Image FX with prompt “A sketch of a businessman with a speech bubble that says ” Recall! ” shouting loudly scaring a frog into jumping out of a pot of water on a stove to get away from him”
[12] Microsoft Visio “Themes” are a personal bugbear. Here is a thread on Microsoft site bemoaning the unnecessary changes answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ms…
[13] Cognitive bias on aversion to change, see Status Quo Bias en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_q…
[14] Year of Linux on the Desktop article on The Register: theregister.com/2022/10/14/yea…
#AI #MicrosoftRecall #ProductBloat #ProductLifecycle #Recall #TroughOfUnwantedUpdates #Windows11Recall #YearOfLinuxOnTheDesktop
But, it won't play out the way you think it willSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)
Eduardo Galeano: Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them---will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn't rain down yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. Good luck doesn't even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms. The nobodies: nobody's children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way. Who are not, but could be. Who don't speak languages, but dialects. Who don't have religions, but superstitions. Who don't create art, but handicrafts. Who don't have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police blotter of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Israeli officials leave no doubt about why Israel is taking a slow-motion strangulation approach to Gaza — to maintain key Western support and shield themselves from war-crimes tribunals. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.Consortium News
Justice Dept. investigating former New York Gov. Cuomo over pandemic testimony, AP source says
wwnytv.com/2025/05/21/justice-…
Congressional Republicans recommended that he be charged with lying over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.Associated Press (WWNY)
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I recently rewatched The Cell and realized it was directed by Tarsem Singh who also did The Fall. Both movies are visually striking. The costumes are so good!!
His filmography is sadly very small but that gives me a chance to check out everything else he has made.
Com a queda do muro de Berlim e de vários regimes ditatoriais na América Latina, e após décadas de lutas pelo fim da discriminação de diversos grupos marginalizados por todo o mundo, os anos 90 e 2000 popularizaram diverses filmes, séries, músicas e afins com a mensagem de que todes somos iguais, de que é importante tratar a todes igualmente.
Mas não é como se essas mensagens fossem particularmente efetivas: uma lei proibindo casamento entre pessoas do mesmo gênero na Califórnia (EUA) conseguiu milhões em doações e esteve em vigor entre 2008 e 2010, a desigualdade salarial média entre pessoas negras e brancas só reduziu para 40% de diferença quase em 2010, pouco mais de 1% des personagens na televisão estadunidense eram NHINCQ+ em 2006/7 e por assim vai. Nos anos 10, com o aumento da popularidade da internet, questões de discriminação começaram a ser apontadas de forma mais aberta e horizontal, o que deu mais visibilidade para causas sociais, resultando em mais leis antidiscriminação, mais políticas de cotas, mais preocupações com acessibilidade, mais representação na mídia de vivências marginalizadas e outros ganhos.
No entanto, mesmo que tais medidas sejam amplamente consideradas justas e beneficiais para pessoas marginalizadas, ainda tem gente que traz a ideia de que "todes deveriam ser tratades igualmente". Isso ocorre, por exemplo, quando alguém fala que defende questões como igualdade salarial e fim de crimes de ódio, mas que não gosta de medidas como cotas, exigências para que pessoas da mesma raça, nacionalidade ou modalidade de gênero representem personagens com tais características em adaptações ou até mesmo medidas que afastam pessoas por conta de terem falado mal de um grupo marginalizado que também não afastam pessoas por falar mal de um grupo privilegiado.
Pois bem, a grande questão aqui é que existem estruturas de poder que beneficiam alguns grupos, mas não outros. Não é importante reservar espaço em um desenho animado para personagens cis, hétero, magres ou branques porque já são características dominantes na mídia. É importante haverem cotas universitárias para pessoas que estudaram em escolas públicas porque, em geral, vão ser pessoas sem a segunda opção de ir atrás de uma faculdade particular para prosseguir estudando. É importante reservar cotas de projetos culturais para pessoas negras e indígenas porque são pessoas com menos oportunidade de financiamento independente, e cujos projetos podem ser vistos como "nichados" por pessoas brancas ainda que representem realidades de partes grandes da população que não são representadas em mídias de massa.
"Tratar todo mundo igual" não funciona quando o mundo é desigual.
Se a sociedade tem um padrão e a intenção é a de contribuir para que a sociedade seja mais justa, se firmar como isente da responsabilidade de buscar qual é a forma justa de agir pode até não piorar a vida de pessoas marginalizadas, mas também não vai livrar ninguém ou nenhum grupo de ser enquadrade como cissexista/racista/heteronormativa/capacitista/misógine/etc.
Isso também é relevante em escalas menores. Se alguém se mexe de forma peculiar e outras pessoas apontam o quanto aquilo é esquisito ou engraçado, não importa o quanto isso seria feito contra qualquer pessoa agindo da mesma forma: ainda é um julgamento capacitista e/ou colonialista (ou mesmo opressivo de outras formas) de "como pessoas normais se expressam". É importante evitar tirar sarro ao entender que aquele comportamento é normal com base em fazer parte de um grupo marginalizado, mas a realidade é que a linha das ações vistas como "normais" ou como "ridículas" por si só são fundadas em preconceitos que beneficiam grupos opressivos. A ridicularização pública de "comportamentos esquisitos" serve como ferramenta de silenciamento de pessoas que não alcançam padrões normativos.
Como um outro exemplo, se ume chefe dá para sues empregades o mesmo calendário de feriados com a intenção de ser politicamente neutre, provavelmente elu estará também ignorando feriados religiosos que vão cair em diferentes datas dependendo da pessoa. Caso pense no Natal como um feriado importante por conta de ser popular, isso ainda normaliza a cultura cristã como padrão, enquanto cerimônias de outras religiões são consideradas "menos universais".
Já vi pessoas defendendo que já que personagens hétero geralmente não se dizem hétero na mídia, isso faz com que todes es personagens heterodissidentes também devessem evitar falar sobre se são gays, lésbiques, bi, pan, assexuais ou afins. Enquanto algumas orientações sejam mais ou menos decifráveis por conta de comentários e ações, não só é importante que termos para orientações heterodissidentes deixem de ser vistos como tabu como também nem todas as narrativas são óbvias. Pessoas de orientação fluida existem, assim como pessoas que mantém relacionamentos sem sentir atração, e essas narrativas são apagadas quando há um incentivo a nunca falar de rótulos. Essa ideia também coloca certas vivências heterodissidentes - aquelas onde termos específicos são discutidos - como indesejáveis ou menos realistas. A neutralidade em nunca falar do assunto só reforça narrativas heteronormativas e derivadas.
Todos estes pontos que fiz são questões nas quais acredito. Eu os trouxe por conta da amplitude do problema, que não se limita a uma atitude ou a uma forma de opressão. Dito isso, quero colocar em evidência a forma que o exorsexismo e o exilinguismo agem, porque a atitude de "tratar pessoas igualmente" com base em um padrão social binário também nos prejudica, e este é um assunto pouco comentado.
Exorsexismo é a opressão que exclui pessoas que não se encaixam completamente, sempre e somente como homens ou como mulheres. Isso ocorre de várias formas, como, por exemplo:
A questão é que, dentro de uma sociedade exorsexista, não adianta só "respeitar todas as identidades de gênero igualmente". Não quando isso significa tolerar termos que descrevem feminilidade, masculinidade, ser homem ou ser mulher porque "são intuitivos", enquanto aponta-se que termos que descrevem pessoas não-binárias "são forçados". Não quando presumir a identidade de gênero e a linguagem pessoal alheia é uma ação vista como "natural" ou "educada", de forma que pessoas cisdissidentes ou inconformistas de gênero precisam se explicar e/ou corrigir presunções errôneas e pessoas não-binárias e/ou que usam neolinguagem podem ter que ir além de explicações simplificadas para serem compreendidas ou respeitadas.
Identidades não-binárias não são "igualmente fáceis de entender" ou de presumir em sociedades que insistem que gênero é formado pela expressão de gênero preferida, por papéis de gênero, pela criação e pela corporalidade, sendo todas estas divididas de formas binárias, ainda que existam muitos exemplos provando o quanto essas coisas não precisam se alinhar para que alguém se diga homem ou mulher. Enquanto pessoas cisdissidentes binárias (incluindo aqui pessoas trans que só se veem como mulheres ou como homens, mas também pessoas ipsogênero, ultergênero e afins) precisam provar para uma sociedade cissexista que devem ser categorizadas corretamente por conta do quanto se encaixam nos padrões esperados, a possibilidade de pessoas não-binárias existirem é amplamente rejeitada, não importa o quanto certos setores da comunidade não-binária tentam se justificar com a existência de espaços liminares ou fluidos entre gêneros binários ou explicações sobre a importância política de rejeitar categorizações de gênero.
Essas "explicações simplificadas" sobre não-binaridade que tentam apelar para um "senso comum" (o qual ainda é cisnormativo e conformista de gênero) podem até ocasionalmente partir de um lugar de desespero ou de tentar abrir espaço para algum reconhecimento, mas, a longo prazo, elas só criam mais barreiras para que pessoas não-binárias e outras pessoas cisdissidentes possam se reinvindicar suas identidades de forma livre. Pessoas não-binárias femininas e masculinas merecem tanto respeito e reconhecimento quanto pessoas que não possuem gênero nenhum. As particularidades de pessoas aporagênero, xenogênero e egogênero não merecem ser reduzidas a noções superficiais de neutralidade, androginia ou rejeição política ao binário de gênero, e estas categorias também merecem vocabulário próprio que diferencia tais experiências para quem quiser especificá-las.
A questão de identidades, expressões e modalidades de gênero serem autodeterminadas ao invés de impostas foge de percepções superficiais sobre esses assuntos. Ela requer um rompimento com o senso comum de que essas questões podem e devem ser presumidas. Por isso, só "não entender, mas respeitar igualmente" não é o suficiente, porque não adianta respeitar uma pessoa que se diz não-binária só para depois associar certas genitálias ou roupas a ser homem ou a ser mulher. Não adianta pregar respeito à autodeterminação de pessoas trans quando também é demonstrado desgosto pela "esquisitice" ou "especificidade gratuita" de identidades xenogênero.
A mesma coisa se aplica a conjuntos de linguagem pessoal diferenciados. Sim, -/ael/e pode não ser um conjunto tão intuitivo quanto a/ela/a ou o/ele/o: tal conjunto, ou qualquer outro fora dos padrões, exige uma conscientização maior do que uma troca entre "tratar alguém como homem" e "tratar alguém como mulher". Tais conjuntos questionam a limitação da expressão de gênero gramatical a duas opções marcadas como binárias, assim como a ideia de que é possível presumir que conjuntos alguém usa com base na aparência ou na identidade de gênero.
Conjuntos que requerem especificações, usados por pessoas desconfortáveis com jogar todas as possibilidades para além de a/ela/a e de o/ele/o no balde da "linguagem neutra", também questionam a narrativa de que se todas as pessoas que não são homens e nem mulheres são não-binárias, todas estas pessoas só precisam de algum "gênero neutro" qualquer a ser embutido no vocabulário popular sem que tais pessoas possam opinar sobre elementos específicos com os quais se sentem mais confortáveis.
Em um mundo onde linguagem pessoal é vista como fundamentalmente atada com expressão ou com identidade de gênero, e como uma questão que deve ser atribuída externamente, a rejeição de um "gênero gramatical neutro" escolhido com base na preferência de quem vai tratar a pessoa, e não da pessoa em si, é também uma reinvindicação contra um sistema de pronomes, artigos e outros elementos gramaticais já prontos. Não queremos simplesmente a normalização de marcadores neutros, mas sim a abertura para que todas as pessoas possam refletir sobre como querem ser tratadas sem a obrigação de seguir gêneros gramaticais já prontos.
Para respeitar e incluir todas as pessoas não-binárias e usuárias de neolinguagem, não é possível só fazer a mesma quantidade de esforço necessária para "nos tratar igual a todo mundo", quando o "mundo" em questão é construído com suposições e imposições que nos trazem desvantagens a todo momento. (E isso se aplica a outras opressões também.)
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Donations come from California and other states. Contributors on both sides cite their personal beliefs.Dan Morain and Jessica Garrison (Los Angeles Times)
Then the word you're looking for is “恶意软件”/“èyì ruǎnjiàn”.
The “恶意”/“èyì” bit is standard across all of Chinese, “恶”/“è” meaning “evil” and “意”/“yì” meaning “intent”, which forms “malicious intent”. The characters look slightly different between Simplified and Traditional Chinese, but you can easily convert through Google Translate to check if it's the same terms.
And then “软件”/“ruǎnjiàn” is how mainlanders refer to “software”, “软”/“ruǎn” meaning “soft” or “intangible” and “件”/“jiàn” meaning “item” or “component”. Other folks from other Mandarin-speaking regions use different terms for this concept.
Source: Local experience from living in Los Angeles and Wikitionary
And then for confirmation that these are the industry terms, just CTRL+F “恶意软件” on the pages below.
support.microsoft.com/zh-cn/wi…
support.google.com/googleplay/…
#MikeHuckabee can literally go fuck himself.As if being a Trump #ambassador is anything good or righteous on this planet. Especially an ambassador to Israel. He might as well have been the fucking ambassador to Hell.
He "sucked Donald's cock" so now he's an ambassador. Trump's payback for a decent "blowjob" and for "swallowing his load".
Nothing more!
And Mike Huckabee's opinion on anything having to do with #Israel ain't worth shit! #USpol #Palestine #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #GazaGenocide #PalestineGenocide
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