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Ils nous disent pourquoi ils veulent un référendum sur l'UE - 4


Dans le cadre de la campagne commune pour un référendum de clarification sur l’appartenance de la France au système de l’Union européenne, une série de courtes vidéos sont réalisées. Elles donnent la parole à des signataires de l’appel pour un nouveau référendum, 20 après le NON au TCE, effacé d’un trait de plume par le congrès qui a adopté le Traité de Lisbonne et a modifié notre constitution. Depuis lors la France est sous le joug de l’Union européenne dont les décisions, textes et traités prévalent et s’imposent aux peuples des pays membres de l’Union européenne

Aujourd’hui nous vous proposons deux nouvelles vidéos :

Jean-François Dejours, professeur de philosophie et responsable du groupe philosophie au Snes-FSU

Jacques Cotta, journaliste

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Ils nous disent pourquoi ils veulent un référendum sur l'UE - 4

Deux courtes vidéos : Jean-François Dejours et Jacques Cotta
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🚨La journaliste blessée Dohaa Al-Sayyifi, qui a perdu ses trois enfants, sa mâchoire inférieure et a subi une grave blessure à la main, a écrit : « Je suis la voix qui ne pouvait être réduite au silence, malgré les blessures. » Je suis une Palestinienne de Gaza, témoin de la douleur, survivante d'un massacre qui m'a volé mon#GazaGenocide‌

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Dialogue, Not Division, Shapes West Africa's Tomorrow, ECOWAS Commission President Says en.sputniknews.africa/20250521…

Dialogue, Not Division, Shapes West Africa's Tomorrow, ECOWAS Commission President Says

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

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Navigate revisions to laws on hazardous chemicals in the EU


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Fuelling Galileo-13

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 – PFAS, chromates and the REACH revision take centre stage. Register for ESA’s free workshop on 17 June providing clarification on these changes and join us for a panel discussion.

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Manifestations au Panama : La Via Campesina exprime sa solidarité avec les mouvements sociaux et dénonce la répression menée par l’État


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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Panama : Stop attaques contre SUNTRACS

Action conjointe avec l’IBB (Internationale des travailleurs du Bâtiment et du Bois), il concerne une fédération syndicale internationale regroupant 361 syndicats libres et démocratiques, rep…
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Le mythe du beauf ou comment sortir du mépris de classe

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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

Pour aller plus loin :
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Entretien Blast “Paradoxes des récits de transfuges de classe”

Chronique Blast sur la méritocratie

Merci d’avoir regardé la vidéo ! C'est grâce à ses abonnés et donateurs que Blast peut exister et rester indépendant.

Journaliste : Paloma Moritz
Montage : Camille Chalot
Son : Baptiste Veilhan, Théo Duchesne
Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon
Production : Hicham Tragha
Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven
Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa
Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert

Le site : blast-info.fr/
Facebook : facebook.com/blastofficiel
Twitter : twitter.com/blast_france
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#culture

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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…

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Jimi Hendrix: Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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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.


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Celluloid Exploitation: Immigrants and Reality Television
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"Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the idea of using a reality television program to select immigrants vying for US citizenship. Whether this involves gladiatorial combat or inane pillow battles remains to be seen, though it is bound to involve airhead celebrity


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“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall
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#Signal explique à ses utilisateurs sur #Windows11 pourquoi la nouvelle version de Signal bloque par défaut le fonctionnement de #Recall, l'outil de #flicage de #Microsoft.

Étant donné que Recall prend des copies de votre écran toutes les 3 secondes, plus aucune activité ne peut être confidentielle sur W11, que ce soit une conversation Signal, un numéro de CB, un courrier à votre médecin, votre avocat ou votre syndicat ...

Signal s'excuse auprès de ses utilisateurs & leur explique qu'il n'a pas le choix

#Linux #LogicielsLibres #BoycottGAFAM


“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall

Even after its refurbishing, Recall provides few ways to exclude specific apps.
Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)

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Is Zionism Losing Its Grip?
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"The World is Sickened by Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (Including Many Israelis and IDF Soldiers) Cambridge, UK — Israel’s leaders, and by extension their zionist supporters, are increasingly being condemned as genocidal criminals in much or the world — even in places like the UK, France and Canada, where they had been given a pass for More
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The World is Sickened by Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (Including Many Israelis and IDF Soldiers) Cambridge, UK — Israel’s leaders, and by extension their
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Russia confirms readiness to help normalize Baku-Yerevan relations tass.com/politics/1961597

Russia confirms readiness to help normalize Baku-Yerevan relations

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 neighbors
TASS

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Display Market Trends, Opportunities, Key Players, Growth Factors, Revenue Analysis, 2024-2035

The latest report entitled ‘Display Market’ by Roots Analysis provides an accurate estimation of the market size, regional landscape description, and revenue forecast over the projected timeframe.

The Display Market size is projected to grow from $ 167.47 billion in 2024 to $ 261.38 billion by 2035, representing a CAGR of 4.13%, during the forecast period 2024-2035. The report turns the spotlight on the major challenges faced by the key players in the global market and the growth strategies currently adopted by them. The report is a granular assessment of this particular business sphere and entirely covers the dynamic competitive landscape of the market. The document offers key insights into the market positions of these players alongside their gross earnings. Furthermore, it elaborates on each of the market segments, with detailed scrutiny of the development scope and competitive scenario of the regional fragments of the market.

The latest study is inclusive of an in-depth analysis of the economic status of the Display Market and examines the most important regions constituting the global market. It further details on the most lucrative and growth-oriented regions, top market rivals, diversified product types, and a large number of end-use industries.

Key factors affecting the growth of the Display Market:

Geographical Overview:


  • The latest report broadly categorizes the Display Market into several geographical terrains, including North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, MENA, Latin America and Rest of the World.
  • The study is inclusive of essential information relevant to each region in this broad industry segment, along with the key drivers of the regional market growth.
  • The report further estimates the revenue accumulated by these regions over the forecast period.

Competitive Hierarchy:


  • The latest research report studies the major market players, their regional presence, industry share, and production facilities.
  • The report offers significant data pertaining to these market competitors’ company profiles, product types, and application outlook.
  • Moreover, the pricing models and gross margins of these industry majors have also been mentioned in the report.

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AUO Corporation, Box Light Corporation, Innolux Corporation, Japan Display, Leyard Optoelectronic, LG Display, Marvel Technology, Minda Industries, Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics, Sharp Corporation, and Sony Corporation.

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  • The latest research study endows the reader with a comprehensive analysis of the product types of the Display Market, categorizing the relevant information into the Distribution by Products, Technology, Feature, Pannel Size, End User, Durability, Viewing and Key Geographical Regions. The study focuses on the wide-ranging application landscape of the market, segmenting it into the market share, estimated growth rate, and the forecast product demand for each application type.

Additional Insights:


  • The market concentration rate and processing rate of raw materials have also been conscripted in the report.
  • The report contains an assessment of the current price trends, as well as the factors influencing the global market size.
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  • Vital data and information concerning the producers, distributors, and downstream buyers involved in the global market, as well as the cost structure analysis and market mechanism, form the important elements of this report.

Research objectives:


  • The Display Market report studies the worldwide market consumption rate in terms of value and volume.
  • It identifies the various sub-segments of the market structure.
  • It proffers information regarding the leading global manufacturers in this industry, describing their market value & share, sales volume, competitive analysis, SWOT analysis, and development strategies adopted during the forecast timeline.
  • The report describes the key industry players, with respect to their individual growth trends, future prospects, and contribution to the global market, and explains the factors related to their market growth potential, drivers, opportunities, threats, and industry-specific challenges.
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Swarm Intelligence: What Ants Can Teach Us About Tech | ProWritingAid

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.
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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:
openstreetmap.org/?#map=18/35.…

Ein Farbfoto der Gedenkstätte bei Amiras, auf Kreta. Im Hintergrund eine weiße, rechteckige Säule. Darauf steht eine hohe, dunkle Bronzefigur eines schemenhaft angedeuteten Engels mit gebrochenen Flügeln. Zu seinen Füßen ein Mensch mit abgebrochenen Armen und Beinen. Vor der Säule ein mit hellen, unregelmäßigen Steinplatten belegter Platz. An seiner rechten Seite eine Reihe von hellen, angedeuteten Menschenfiguren aus hellem Stein. Auf jeder Menschenfigur ist eine Liste mit rot eingelassenen Namen der von deutschen Besatzungssoldaten ermordeten Zivilist*innen.

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📽️ vidéo en ✊ SNCF : GRÈVE reconductible VOTÉE au Bourget CONTRE des suppressions de poste !: -- q5ms95HBjEU?version=3 youtube.com/watch?v=q5ms95HBjE… #SNCF #Grève #Bourget #SuppressionDePoste #Mobilisation

SNCF : GRÈVE reconductible VOTÉE au Bourget CONTRE des suppressions de poste !

Ce 20 mai, alors que la SNCF cherche à réduire le droit des grève des cheminots tout en maintenant ses plans de suppression de postes, plusieurs dizaines plu...
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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/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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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.


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UN: 14,000 infants could die in Gaza within 48 hours due to blockade #Palestine english.palinfo.com/news/2025/…

UN: 14,000 infants could die in Gaza within 48 hours due to blockade

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

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Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers. It’s trying to bring them back after losing $40bn in value - The Independent via inkl

inkl.com/a/pwXyJMFrAQr

You need an electron microscope to see the size of the violin I’m playing right now.

#klarna #AI #bullshit #BigTech


Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers. It’s trying to bring them back after losing $40bn in value

Klarna’s CEO has suggested that the AI job cuts have led to “lower quality” customer service
inkl
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Nadia Zaboura ✨

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

Screenshot MDR Altpapier 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.
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Nadia Zaboura ✨

"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

Screenshot MDR Altpapier 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.
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Nadia Zaboura ✨

"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

Screenshot MDR Altpapier 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." 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."
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Nadia Zaboura ✨

"Da ist eine riesige Leerstelle, die sich der deutsche Journalismus in der Breite leistet. Für jede Attacke, und für jede Nachricht über eine Attacke in deutschen Medien von Israel auf Palästina muss eigentlich ein ernstzunehmender Journalismus stets beim israelischen Militär nach Beleg nachfragen, dass dort Menschen oder Zivilobjekte ihren Schutzstatus verloren haben. Dafür muss es Belege geben."
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Nadia Zaboura ✨

"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

Screenshot MDR Altpapier 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: "Angeblich um die Terrororganisation Hamas zur Aufgabe zu zwingen, hat Israel am 2. März die Einfuhr von Lebensmitteln und Hilfsgütern gestoppt - und den Krieg mit noch größerer Brutalität fortgesetzt. Immer wieder bombardiert die Luftwaffe auch Krankenhäuser und Schulen, die als Notunterkünftte dienen, tötet nahezu täglich Zivilisten. Israel begründet seine Angriffe damit, dass sich unter oder neben zivilen Einrichtungen Stellungen der Hamas befänden. Beweise legt sie dafü fast nie vor."
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Nadia Zaboura ✨

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."

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Nadia Zaboura ✨

"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

Screenshot MDR Altpapier 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 erst vergangene Woche einen Beitrag in der Sendung "Panorama" veröffentlicht.
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Nadia Zaboura ✨

Wer diese unabhängige, machtkontrollierende Medienkritik einer Einzelperson unterstützen und weiter ermöglichen möchte, kann das hier tun:

paypal.me/medienanalysen

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:

open.spotify.com/episode/2esoz…


Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 20. Mai 2025 – Der beschränkte Blick auf Gaza

Haben die Nachrichtenmedien beim Berichten über den Krieg in Gaza eine Schlagseite? Wie staatstragend sind sie? Und versagt auch der Medienjournalismus?
Antonia Groß (MDR)
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Marcel Geveler

Leider haben wir da nicht nur im Gaza n Problem beim Journalismus im Grunde haben wir den min. seit Merkels letzter Regierungszeit als man ständig Menschen von Pegida und Co das Wort überlassen hat oder der Pandemie wo man Querschwurblern das Mic in die Nase gehalten hat oder aktuell wo man trotz Einstufung weiterhin amtliche Faschisten in jede Talkshow einlädt und das nur die Spitze. Mittlerweile hat man dadurch das Vertrauen maximal verloren :|
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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)

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Israel's military leaders are not 'only obeying orders.' They could have stopped the Gaza massacre

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Gideon Levy (Haaretz)
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stephie

»The government bears the responsibility & the blame, which are unforgivable. But absolving the military just because of a lack of courage to tell the truth? Only because your friends are killing children? Only because the goal of toppling Netanyahu overshadows everything in your view?
One cannot claim that the army is only obeying orders & that the chief of staff is only a cog in the machine. The chief of staff & the air force commander are not cogs. Neither are the people under their command.«

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“Sectarianism is the enemy of national liberation”: An Interview with Patrick Higgins on Syria, Imperialism and the Palestinian Cause thewallwillfall.org/2025/05/19…

“Sectarianism is the enemy of national liberation”: An Interview with Patrick Higgins on Syria, Imperialism and the Palestinian Cause

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

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THEY HAVE CAST AVATAR GASLIGHT GATEKEEP GIRLBOSS!!! 🧡​

variety.com/2025/tv/news/netfl…

#AvatarYangchen #AvatarTheLastAirbender #Netflix #ATLA #AvatarLegends #ChroniclesOfTheAvatar #DawnOfYangchen #LOK #LegacyOfYangchen #LegendOfKorra


Netflix's 'Avatar: Last Airbender' Casts Dichen Lachman, Dolly de Leon

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)
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Lety Does Stuff

@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/Yangche…


Yangchen

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.)

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Assieds-toi sur le côté.
notesandsilence.com/2025/03/16…
#zen #meditation #pratique #silence #spirtitualité #conscience

Rien à Voir

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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The Empire Strikes with Tariffs: How America’s Economic Bludgeon Is Shaking China from Within journal-neo.su/2025/05/21/the-…

The Empire Strikes with Tariffs: How America's Economic Bludgeon Is Shaking China from Within

Social unrest, labor protests, and the hollow promises of global capitalism When Western analysts — modern-day missionaries in business suits — talk about
Ребекка Чан (New Eastern Outlook)

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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/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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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.


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Microsoft bans the word “Palestine.”

Ban Microsoft.

#microsoft #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #boycott #BDS social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/…

#cryptohagen

2025-05-22 04:51:41

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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 Microsoft’s 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-w…



Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” 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)

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The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)

Link: thevinylfactory.com/features/t…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps - The Vinyl Factory

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)

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Snopkov: Belarus-China relations are picking up steam eng.belta.by/politics/view/sno…

Snopkov: Belarus-China relations are picking up steam 

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/ExperiencedDe…


My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane

Jokes aside, GitHub/Microsoft recently announced the public preview for their [GitHub Copilot...
reddit

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Eduardo Galeano: We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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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.


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Russian Defense: Pacific Fleet Protects Russia's Interests in Half World's Waters saba.ye/en/news3485233.htm

Russian Defense: Pacific Fleet Protects Russia's Interests in Half World's Waters

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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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…


GitHub - derekeder/csv-to-html-table: :arrow_down_small: Display any CSV (comma separated values) file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table

:arrow_down_small: Display any CSV (comma separated values) file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table - derekeder/csv-to-html-table
GitHub

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The US is against adding a paragraph on support for Ukraine to the G7 statement en.news-front.su/2025/05/21/th…

The US is against adding a paragraph on support for Ukraine to the G7 statement

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)

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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…


The US has a new most powerful laser - Michigan Engineering News

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)

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Simion seeks annulment of Romania’s election over fraud allegations english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

Simion seeks annulment of Romania’s election over fraud allegations

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)

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Microsoft Product Recall?

A burn-off as seen from Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island, Australia, photo by author
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“
Microsoft Clippy stares menacingly at a small AI robot that is optimistically holding out it's hand
Figure 1 – Clippy and AI – a match made in heaven? [2]

Serious concerns have been raised about the Recall feature, including:

  • Security: It acts as a built-in keylogger/screen-grabber. Passwords, account numbers etc. are not guaranteed to be obscured [3]. Recall becomes a prime target for hackers who will use it as a tool for living off the land. Why would a cyber-criminal go to the trouble of installing spyware when the OS already has it running, and they can search back in time to before they arrived?
  • Privacy: Potential authoritarian misuse such as mandating access to data. Border guards could demand to view the complete history of everything you have done. Microsoft could easily change the terms & conditions to slurp the data for targeted advertising, on-sale for profit, etc.
  • Hardware. Customers will need to upgrade their PCs to new “Copilot + AI” models with built-in neural processing chips. This comes with substantial cost and disruption for the customer. The more cynical might see this as moving compute and storage costs from Microsoft data centres to the customer.
  • Opt-out. Customers who do not want Recall must actively find the switch to disable it. If the feature adds value for the customer, then surely Microsoft would be brave enough to make it opt-in? In a corporate or shared environment, it may not be possible to opt-out, creating other problems.
  • Solution looking for a problem. It’s unclear what problem Recall addresses that Microsoft or others could not solve in a simpler and cheaper manner outside of the OS.

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.

Peak Innovation


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:
A chart of Time on the X-axis versus Customer Value on the Y-axis that shows an upward slope of product improvement in green that eases off and turns into a blue plateau of peak innovation and then descends as red trough of unwanted updates
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.
A 2013 Chevrolet Cruze burns from an engine compartment fire
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:

MeasureThe “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:
A four-quadrant model of product maturity vs alignment
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:
A four-quadrant model of feature origin vs benefit to 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

Customers have choices


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.
A sketch of an angry businessman yelling "Recall!" and a frog jumping away from him out of a pot on a stove
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.

Wrapping it up


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

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

But, it won't play out the way you think it will
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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.


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