Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government. The influential musician pledged to donate his earnings from the Windows 95 chime to people in Gaza www.theverge.com/news/671864/...
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Brian Eno pledged to donate his earnings from creating the Windows â95 startup chime to people in Gaza.Mia Sato (The Verge)
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Dans le cadre de la campagne commune pour un rĂ©fĂ©rendum de clarification sur lâappartenance de la France au systĂšme de lâUnion europĂ©enne, une sĂ©rie de courtes vidĂ©os sont rĂ©alisĂ©es. Elles donnent la parole Ă des signataires de lâappel pour un nouveau rĂ©fĂ©rendum, 20 aprĂšs le NON au TCE, effacĂ© dâun trait de plume par le congrĂšs qui a adoptĂ© le TraitĂ© de Lisbonne et a modifiĂ© notre constitution. Depuis lors la France est sous le joug de lâUnion europĂ©enne dont les dĂ©cisions, textes et traitĂ©s prĂ©valent et sâimposent aux peuples des pays membres de lâUnion europĂ©enne
Aujourdâhui nous vous proposons deux nouvelles vidĂ©os :
Jean-François Dejours, professeur de philosophie et responsable du groupe philosophie au Snes-FSU
Jacques Cotta, journaliste
pardem.org/ils-nous-disent-pouâŠ
Deux courtes vidéos : Jean-François Dejours et Jacques Cottapardem.org
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The withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger from ECOWAS is a natural challenge after 50 years of regional integration, the president of the community's commission said, expressing optimism about overcoming these difficulties.Sputnik Africa
Changes to regulations and processes will introduce new restrictions on the use of hazardous chemicals in the EU. These could impact space programmes, the space sector and its supply chains â PFAS, chromates and the REACH revision take centre stage. Register for ESAâs free workshop on 17 June providing clarification on these changes and join us for a panel discussion.
#launchers #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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La Via Campesina exprime sa solidaritĂ© avec lâUniĂłn IndĂgena Campesina (UIC) et lâUniĂłn Campesina Panameña (UCP), qui se mobilisent actuellement aux cĂŽtĂ©s dâautres secteurs populaires du Panama pour dĂ©fendre la souverainetĂ© nationale. Ensemble, ces mouvements dĂ©noncent les violations des droits humains, le non-respect de la Constitution politique de la RĂ©publique, ainsi que la loi controversĂ©e 462, qui introduit des rĂ©formes majeures du Fonds de sĂ©curitĂ© sociale du Panama (CSS). Selon ces mouvements, les rĂ©formes condamneraient les travailleur·euse·s Ă ne jamais pouvoir partir Ă la retraite et Ă percevoir des pensions de misĂšre ne dĂ©passant pas 300 dollars. Iels protestent Ă©galement contre lâimplication dâintermĂ©diaires financiers, ce qui entraĂźnerait une privatisation du CSS et une baisse des pensions pour les travailleur·euse·s.
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Action conjointe avec lâIBB (Internationale des travailleurs du BĂątiment et du Bois), il concerne une fĂ©dĂ©ration syndicale internationale regroupant 361 syndicats libres et dĂ©mocratiques, repâŠEntre les lignes entre les mots
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Rejoignez-nous, devenez sociĂ©taire : blast-info.fr/devenir-societaiâŠ
Le mot beauf qui Ă l'origine dĂ©signait le beau frĂšre est entrĂ© dans le langage courant pour dĂ©signer la caricature dâun français moyen, rĂ©actionnaire, un peu bĂȘte, bornĂ©, macho, vulgaire⊠On pense alors au fameux tonton raciste ou Ă Kevin qui a un mulet, de grosses lunettes de soleil et fait du tuningâŠ. Mais cela va encore plus loin, puisque petit Ă petit, le beauf devient lâautre, celui auquel on ne veut pas ressembler, celui qui nâa pas les bons goĂ»ts, la bonne culture, les bonnes opinions. Les beaufs nâexistent que dans le regard de la sociĂ©tĂ©. Dans son livre Ascendant Beauf, Rose Lamy dĂ©montre que la figure du beauf est surtout un outil de domination et de fabrique du mĂ©pris social. En se moquant des beaufs, on se moque aussi des classes populaires, on se dĂ©sensibilise de leur sort. En revenant sur son histoire personnelle, lâautrice raconte tout ce qui se cache derriĂšre lâimage du beauf : une existence dĂ©terminĂ©e par la classe sociale, les morts prĂ©maturĂ©es, les emplois aliĂ©nants, les dĂ©serts mĂ©dicaux. Lâhumiliation permanenteâŠ
Pourtant, le dessinateur Cabu, qui a en partie crĂ©Ă© ce personnage le disait âon est tous le beauf de quelquâunâ. Pour le sociologue GĂ©rard Mauger citĂ© dans le livre âla figure du beauf produit simultanĂ©ment une reprĂ©sentation stigmatisĂ©e des classes populaires et une reprĂ©sentation enchantĂ©e de soi-mĂȘme comme lâenvers du groupe stigmatisĂ©â.
Le beauf en dit donc beaucoup sur la personne qui juge, la condescendance lui donne une forme de supĂ©rioritĂ© morale et intellectuelle mais tout ceci a des consĂ©quences bien rĂ©elles. âNous sommes toutes et tous Ă la fois bourreaux et victimes de lâoppression de classeâ Ă©crit Rose Lamy.
Alors pourquoi est-ce problĂ©matique dâutiliser le mot beauf ? En quoi cette figure est-elle devenue un bouc Ă©missaire ? Comment questionner ce mĂ©pris social ? Et comment l'extrĂȘme droite profite en partie de la stigmatisation des beaufs et donc des classes populaires blanches ? RĂ©ponses Ă toutes ces questions et bien dâautres dans cet entretien de Paloma Moritz avec Rose Lamy
Pour aller plus loin :
Le livre de Rose Lamy seuil.com/ouvrage/ascendant-beâŠ
Entretien Blast âParadoxes des rĂ©cits de transfuges de classeâ
Chronique Blast sur la méritocratie
Merci dâavoir regardĂ© la vidĂ©o ! C'est grĂące Ă ses abonnĂ©s et donateurs que Blast peut exister et rester indĂ©pendant.
Journaliste : Paloma Moritz
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Le mot beauf qui Ă l'origine dĂ©signait le beau frĂšre est entrĂ© dans le langage courant pour dĂ©signer la caricature dâun français moyen, rĂ©actionnaire, un peu bĂȘte, bornĂ©, macho, vulgaire⊠On pense alors au fameux tonton raciste ou Ă Kevin qui a un mulet, de grosses lunettes de soleil et fait du tuningâŠ. Mais cela va encore plus loin, puisque petit Ă petit, le beauf devient lâautre, celui auquel on ne veut pas ressembler, celui qui nâa pas les bons goĂ»ts, la bonne culture, les bonnes opinions. Les beaufs nâexistent que dans le regard de la sociĂ©tĂ©. Dans son livre Ascendant Beauf, Rose Lamy dĂ©montre que la figure du beauf est surtout un outil de domination et de fabrique du mĂ©pris social. En se moquant des beaufs, on se moque aussi des classes populaires, on se dĂ©sensibilise de leur sort. En revenant sur son histoire personnelle, lâautrice raconte tout ce qui se cache derriĂšre lâimage du beauf : une existence dĂ©terminĂ©e par la classe sociale, les morts prĂ©maturĂ©es, les emplois aliĂ©nants, les dĂ©serts mĂ©dicaux. Lâhumiliation permanenteâŠ
Jimi Hendrix: Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. wordsmith.social/protestation/âŠ
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Ukrainian drones attack NPP training center in Zaporozhye Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAlexey Krechetov (Rossa Primavera International News)
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Decibels Are Ridiculous
Link: lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibelâŠ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
Celebrating a rare dumpster fire in the kingdom of science.lcamtuf (lcamtufâs 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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The latest report entitled âDisplay Marketâ by Roots Analysis provides an accurate estimation of the market size, regional landscape description, and revenue forecast over the projected timeframe.
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You ever watch ants? Yeah, those little guys. Theyâre always on the move, working together like thereâs some kind of invisible force guiding them. Itâs wild. And donât even get me started on birds.ProWritingAid
Es gibt nur wenige Orte auf #Kreta ohne GedenkstĂ€tte fĂŒr von den deutschen Besatzungssoldaten ermordete Zivilist*innen.
Die GedenkstĂ€tte bei Amiras erinnert an das Massaker von #Viannos im September 1943, wo die #Wehrmacht als "Vergeltung" fĂŒr 12 getötete Soldaten ĂŒber 500 Menschen ermordete: MĂ€nner, Frauen, und Kinder aus den Dörfern der Umgebung, alle, derer man habhaft werden konnte. Ich besuche diese GedenkstĂ€tte jedes Mal.
Der #AfD-Politiker #Lucassen feiert seinen Vater dafĂŒr, als FallschirmjĂ€ger 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 SteigbĂŒgelhalter des #Faschismus.
Die GedenkstÀtte befindet sich hier:
openstreetmap.org/?#map=18/35.âŠ
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
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Gemini figured out my nephewâs name
Link: blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/May/âŠ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
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/âŠ
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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 âŠThe Palestinian Information Center
Klarnaâs AI replaced 700 workers. Itâs 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 Iâm playing right now.
#klarna #AI #bullshit #BigTech
Klarnaâs CEO has suggested that the AI job cuts have led to âlower qualityâ 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. Ăber das Ergebnis des Televoting sagt der ESC-Sieger: "Dieses Jahr war das alles sehr seltsam"DER STANDARD
âSaftige Medienkritik" đ€
Journalistin Antonia Groà vom geschÀtzten 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 ĂŒberfĂ€llige öffentliche, breite Debatte zum deutschen Nahost-Journalismus.
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âHaben die Nachrichtenmedien beim Berichten ĂŒber den Krieg in Gaza eine Schlagseite? Wie staatstragend sind sie? Und versagt auch der Medienjournalismus? Heute kommentiert Antonia GroĂ die Berichterstattung.â
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âRenitenz der Nachrichtenmedien
So wenigstens sagt es die Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin Nadia Zaboura in einem hörenswerten Interview im Podcast "Uber Israel und PalÀstina 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 "beschrÀnkte" Berichterstattung, wie sie sagt, verspielen.
Den Vertrauensverlust beim Publikum begrĂŒndet sie mit einer Berichterstattung ĂŒber Gaza, die eine Schlagseite fĂŒr 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 reichweitenstÀrksten 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".
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Redaktionen reagierten nicht auf Kommentare in Sozialen Medien, kaum auf Leser*innenbriefe. Zaboura ist als Beraterin tÀtig, 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:
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"Dort gelten noch einmal ganz anderen Bedingungen, weil dort nicht in die Tiefe gearbeitet wird.
Und aufgrund der sehr groĂen 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 hÀufig der Kontext verloren.
Ein zentrales Problem ist laut Zabouras Analyse die eins-zu-eins Ăbernahme von Informationen, die die israelische Regierung an Agenturen und Medien meldet. Es fehle an Berichten, die Positionen von Menschenrechtsorganisationen und Betroffenen mit einbeziehe."
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"Dagegen, sagt Zaboura, wĂŒrden die beiden Kriegsparteien in deutschen Medien oft "merkwĂŒrdig symmetrisch dargestellt." Das ist aus ihrer Sicht falsch:
"Es gibt eine Asymmetrie des Geschehens in Israel und PalÀstina. PalÀstina wird nicht als eigener Staat anerkannt, immer noch nicht. PalÀstina hat keine eigene Regierungsform in dem Sinne, keine eigene Staatlichkeit. PalÀstina hat keine eigene Armee oder eine Möglichkeit, sich selbst zu verteidigen."
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![Screenshot MDR Altpapier
Dagegen, sagt Zaboura, wĂŒrden die beiden Kriegsparteien in deutschen Medien oft "merkwĂŒrdig symmetrisch dargestellt." Das ist aus ihrer Sicht falsch:
"Es gibt eine Asymmetrie des Geschehens in Israel und PalÀstina. PalÀstina wird nicht als eigener Staat anerkannt, immer noch nicht. PalÀstina hat keine eigene Regierungsform in dem Sinne, keine eigene Staatlichkeit. PalÀstina hat keine eigene Armee oder eine Möglichkeit, sich selbst zu verteidigen."
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."](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7306550 "Screenshot MDR Altpapier
Dagegen, sagt Zaboura, wĂŒrden die beiden Kriegsparteien in deutschen Medien oft \"merkwĂŒrdig symmetrisch dargestellt.\" Das ist aus ihrer Sicht falsch:
\"Es gibt eine Asymmetrie des Geschehens in Israel und PalÀstina. PalÀstina wird nicht als eigener Staat anerkannt, immer noch nicht. PalÀstina hat keine eigene Regierungsform in dem Sinne, keine eigene Staatlichkeit. PalÀstina hat keine eigene Armee oder eine Möglichkeit, sich selbst zu verteidigen.\"
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.\"")
"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, LĂ€nder und Parteien betreiben Propaganda, wenn es um kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen geht. Was Zaboura hier aber in Bezug auf Israel betont: Auch fĂŒr eine Besatzungsmacht gelte das Völkerrecht:
9/13
"Doch gerade wenn sich Informationen nur schwer unabhĂ€ngig bestĂ€tigen lassen, sind Belege kompliziert. Deshalb eigneten sich gerade Formate wie Live-Ticker fĂŒr Berichte ĂŒber den Krieg in Gaza nicht (aktuell etwa hier bei der "FAZ" oder hier beim BR).
In der Titelgeschichte der jĂŒngsten 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. MĂ€rz die Einfuhr von Lebensmitteln & HilfsgĂŒtern gestoppt - und den Krieg mit noch gröĂerer BrutalitĂ€t fortgesetzt. Immer wieder bombardiert die Luftwaffe auch KrankenhĂ€user & Schulen, die als NotunterkĂŒnfte dienen, tötet nahezu tĂ€glich Zivilisten.
Israel begrĂŒndet seine Angriffe damit, dass sich unter oder neben zivilen Einrichtungen Stellungen der Hamas befĂ€nden. Beweise legt sie dafĂŒr fast nie vor."
"Spieglein, Spieglein
Nun sind das eine die Politik, und die Nachrichtenmedien, die sie ĂŒbersetzen. 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
Andere Anforderungen aber gelten fĂŒr den Medienjournalismus, der eine besondere Kontrollfunktion hat. NĂ€mlich jene, die journalistischen Medien kritisch zu begleiten - deren ideale Selbstbeschreibung immerhin nicht weniger ist, als die MĂ€chtigen zu kontrollieren.
12/13
Noch einmal Zaboura:
"Mich persönlich wundert, dass der deutsche Medienjournalismus so leise ist zu dieser Thematik. Gerade wenn wir uns die nahezu tagtĂ€glichen VerstöĂe gegen journalistische ProfessionalitĂ€t und IntegritĂ€t anschauen zur deutschen Berichterstattung".
"Zu lange - und da hat sie nun wirklich recht - habe es gedauert, bis die Medienmedien sich ĂŒberhaupt 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 stÀrker zu benennen und Macht zu kontrollieren".
Wer diese unabhĂ€ngige, machtkontrollierende Medienkritik einer Einzelperson unterstĂŒtzen und weiter ermöglichen möchte, kann das hier tun:
Hier geht es zum Gesamttext des MDR-Formats âAltpapierâ:
mdr.de/altpapier/das-altpapierâŠ
Und hier zum rezensierten und kontextualisierten Podcast-GesprÀch zwischen Shai Hoffmann und mir:
open.spotify.com/episode/2esozâŠ
Haben die Nachrichtenmedien beim Berichten ĂŒber den Krieg in Gaza eine Schlagseite? Wie staatstragend sind sie? Und versagt auch der Medienjournalismus?Antonia GroĂ (MDR)
Gideon Levy ĂŒber Yair Golan's Bemerkung, und sein ZurĂŒckrudern -
Nein - die israelische Armee hat nicht "nur Befehle befolgt". Auch wenn Netanyahu die Verantwortung trÀgt - es war die israelische Armee, die Zehntausende Kinder tötete.
Und es war die israelische Armee, die diesen Genozid jederzeit hÀtte 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.âŠThe Wall Will Fall
THEY HAVE CAST AVATAR GASLIGHT GATEKEEP GIRLBOSS!!! đ§Ąâ
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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
avatar.fandom.com/wiki/YangcheâŠ
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-toâŠ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
Page 1 Accepts, the Rest Avoids Rejectionmaxwellforbes.com
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SACRAMENTO, the United States, May 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump confronted visiting Soen.people.cn
Lâassise est du cĂŽtĂ© de la dĂ©construction, ouiâŠLâassise est surtout âŠsur le cĂŽtĂ©.LĂ oĂč lâon observe les mouvement de construction et de la dĂ©construction sâalterner.Cela vaut Ă©galement pour nâŠNotes & Silence
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Social unrest, labor protests, and the hollow promises of global capitalism When Western analysts â modern-day missionaries in business suits â talk aboutРДбДĐșĐșĐ° Đ§Đ°Đœ (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/âŠ
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Microsoft bans the word âPalestine.â
Ban Microsoft.
#microsoft #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #boycott #BDS social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/âŠ
Microsoft quietly implemented a policy blocking employee emails containing words on its internal Exchange servers, according to No Azure for Apartheid (pro-Palestine Microsoft employees)The automated filter, which silently prevents emails from reaching recipients first detected Wednesday, after Microsoftâs Build developer conference
.. including protests from employees over its provision of cloud services and other critical infrastructure used by the Israeli military
dropsitenews.com/p/microsoft-wâŠMicrosoft Bans the Word âPalestineâ in Internal Emails
After days of disruption by pro-Palestine activists at its Build developer conference, No Azure for Apartheid said, Microsoft made it impossible to send emails containing "Palestine" or "Gaza."Waqas Ahmed (Drop Site News)
TEHRAN, May 21 (MNA) â At least 98 people were killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza in the past day.Mehr News Agency
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ĐĐŸĐ»ĐŸŃ ĐĐŸŃДО,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,Ű”ÙŰȘ ÙÙ۱Ùۧ ,Stimme Koreas,êł”íê”,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
67 percent of Israelis said they support ending the Gaza war as part of a hostage dealHaaretz
This image brings the warmth because of memories of moments in the two shows, the characters' lives.
This image tinges that warmth with chilled despair because I might have been one of the last irl crowds that had moments like this.
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#EU #israel #genocide ni.hil.ist/@desirable_dialogueâŠ
"We call on Israel to investigate this incident, uhm, and also held these accountable who are responsible for this" EU foreign policy chief
#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/tâŠ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
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 worldâs âfirst talking stampsâ.Chris May (The Vinyl Factory)
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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
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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.
old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDeâŠ
Jokes aside, GitHub/Microsoft recently announced the public preview for their [GitHub Copilot...reddit
Eduardo Galeano: We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. wordsmith.social/protestation/âŠ
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Eine Studie zeigt, dass die Polizei ein strukturelles Problem mit Diskriminierung hat. Ob die Bundesregierung daran etwas Àndert, scheint fraglich.
Diskriminierung durch BeÂamÂt*inÂnen: Eine Blackbox namens Polizei
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The most pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian countries â US and its European colonies â are so blind to the evilness of Israelâs actions in Gaza.Eric ZUESSE (Oriental Review)
Save The Children UK is right: Gaza is a graveyard for humanity's conscience.
#Action4Gaza #Gaza #Genocide #SaveTheChildren
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
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CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
Link: arstechnica.com/science/2025/0âŠ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
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-htâŠ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
: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 â A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan
Link: news.engin.umich.edu/2025/05/tâŠ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
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 Romaniaâs 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 Romaniaâs election over fraud allegations)
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Show HN: ClipJS â Edit your videos from a PC or phone
Link: clipjs.vercel.app/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4âŠ
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 âRecallâ[1]. It takes screenshots of your desktop every 5 seconds, storing them locally for AI-powered search (no, I didnât make this up)
Microsoftâs pitch seems to be:
âRecall will know everything youâve been doing so our AI can give you a better version of Clippy to help you through your busy dayâ
Figure 1 â Clippy and AI â a match made in heaven? [2]
Serious concerns have been raised about the Recall feature, including:
This old quote sums up the Pandoraâs box that Microsoftâs Windows 11 Recall opens:
âData is not the new oil. Itâs the new plutonium â amazingly powerful, dangerous when it spreads, difficult to clean up and with serious consequences when improperly used.â
â Jim Balsillie 2019[4]
The purpose of this post isnât 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. Clarkeâs Third Law states:
âAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magicâ[8].
Perhaps there should be a fourth law:
âAny attempts to improve sufficiently advanced technology will just annoy peopleâ
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 âPeak Innovationâ.
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 â Conceptual chart of software product value to customer over time
Further updates risk reducing customer value and entering the âTrough of Unwanted Updatesâ[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 â 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 â 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 âRecallâ 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 âProduct Bloatâ 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 â 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 â Feature Request Customer Value Quadrant
Feature requests from vendors, not customers, may address latent demand â something customers didnât 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:
| âRecallâ Customer User Stories | âRecallâ 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 âRecallâ, and the cost of new hardware, may drive users away from Microsoftâs 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 â Will Recall scare Windows customers into making the jump to other operating systems? [11]
While Windows 11 and âRecallâ are unlikely to trigger the âYear of Linux on the Desktopâ[14], they could push users away. Businesses are generally too entrenched in Microsoftâs 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 âRecallâ, 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 âTrough of Unwanted Updatesâ. 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/wiâŠ
[2] Image generated on Google Image FX with prompt âA stylised paper clip with eyes and eyebrows wrestles with a cartoon AI agentâ
[3] Microsoft Recall ââŠwill not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbersâ, from support.microsoft.com/en-us/wiâŠ
[4] Jim Balsillie testimony to Canadian Parliament: ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/e⊠and article analysing it: hub.packtpub.com/jim-balsillieâŠ
[5] Takedown of Recall from The Register on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=-pe2uyfbMUâŠ
[6] Kevin Beaumont in DoublePulsar about security implications of Recall: doublepulsar.com/how-the-new-mâŠ
[7] Bleeping Computer on Recall: bleepingcomputer.com/news/micrâŠ
[8] From âProfiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possibleâ 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/ajâŠ
[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_âŠ
[11] Image generated on Google Image FX with prompt âA sketch of a businessman with a speech bubble that says â Recall! â shouting loudly scaring a frog into jumping out of a pot of water on a stove to get away from himâ
[12] Microsoft Visio âThemesâ are a personal bugbear. Here is a thread on Microsoft site bemoaning the unnecessary changes answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msâŠ
[13] Cognitive bias on aversion to change, see Status Quo Bias en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_qâŠ
[14] Year of Linux on the Desktop article on The Register: theregister.com/2022/10/14/yeaâŠ
#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/âŠ
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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Israeli officials leave no doubt about why Israel  is taking a slow-motion strangulation approach to Gaza â to maintain key Western support and shield themselves from war-crimes tribunals. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.Consortium News
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