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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Lots of interesting comments! I really enjoyed this thread. Two things I'd add:

  1. I think "technology" should really be referred to as "a technology". For instance, judging Gen Z against a technology (like a photocopier) that predates their birth seems a bit unfair. As a Gen X, I don't think it was fair to be judged for growing up with calculators instead of slide-rulers. I love old tech, but I'm not kidding myself, it's old tech not the only tech.

  2. Also shouldn't the organisation adapt instead? If new hires are more comfortable watching videos for training vs reading procedures, or taking photos of things with their phone instead of the photocopier, isn't that just fine. It's not my preference, but isn't it best for me to adapt rather than them.

It's not that I don't have generational pride. I like my generation, we were and are adaptable. I just can't imagine that the subsequent generations won't be as adaptable to things I can't even imagine yet.

 

Xi and Putin are entering a dangerous time in the life cycle of dictators.

 

The most exciting explanations for Niger’s upheaval are globe-sweeping and probably wrong.

By Brian Klaas

 

On this special sneak peak of the Russia Contingency, Mike sat down with Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to discuss the findings from their recent research trip to Ukraine. The conversation covered Russian defensive lines, the role that mines have played in stymying Ukraine's counteroffensive, and the broader challenges the Ukrainian military has with scaling offensive operations. To listen to part 2 of this episode, as well as a series of conversations about the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the Russian military, to become a member of War on The Rocks.

 

Geopolitics Decanted by Silveradoby [email protected] (Patrick Gray, Michael Kofman, Rob Lee, Dmitri Alperovitch), Friday, July 14, 2023 6:11 AM

 

South Africa’s deputy president says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month but the country is trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant

 

By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
July 14, 2023

Russia’s army is in some disarray, but despite low troop morale and the passivity of officers, the military is ready to pay a high price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For years I've used Feedly, but recently tried "Feeder" on Android. I like the minimalist and no ad aspects. Even better it has a "fetch full article" function that works even for some paywalled sites. - downside is no website.

 

Information is easy to find — but trust is harder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

oh awesome! thanks for that link - I like that. For me, I like jumping around from rss readers to kbin to mastodon. It seems like the major news orgs might flock to threads. I can't be bothered to sign up.... and I don't want an instagram account. When threads federates, i'll just follow nytimes on threads through mastodon and be done with it. Seems like a bad sign for twitter.

 

"India, a critical security partner of the United States, now buys huge amounts of Russian oil, purchasing one of every two barrels shipped at sea."

[..] "In a little over a year, India has gone from purchasing hardly any Russian oil to buying about half of what the country exports by sea."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/22/business/india-russia-oil.html #ukraine

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

it's a mock-up, if you missed comment below

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ha! very cool!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

...and this is the moment I realize I'm old

(edit) and of course I had to figure it out anyways. gotta love wikipedia. probably this one: standard domestic phone 1950-1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone I remember dialing it actually hurt my finger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

great article, thorough and insightful

 

Kateryna Stepanenko, Riley Bailey, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 13, 2023, 8:35pm ET.

Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations in at least three directions and made further limited territorial gains on June 13.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with 18 prominent Russian milbloggers and war correspondents to discuss the progress of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on June 13.

Putin discussed the progress of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and signaled that he believes Russia can outlast Western military support for Ukraine.

 

Apollo has become the center of a platform-wide fight between Reddit and its users.

 

France says it has uncovered a major disinformation campaign waged by Russia, involving the posting of false news items hostile to Ukraine made to look like they had been published by prominent French news organizations.

 

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