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@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-07-22 11:37:14

Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
popularfront.substack.com/p/ev
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-06-22 18:30:23

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Radio3InConcert
- Aldeburgh Festival - Ravel's La Valse
An orchestral journey of bold originality from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Aldeburgh Festival, featuring conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and pianist Steven Osborne.
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bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xn6x

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-05-02 17:16:50

I couldn't care less about a bunch of rich people in Brooklyn, I just read the article for the delicious drama. However, about halfway through the article, I started to see so many #FreeSoftware parallels.
1) Volunteers spend countless unpaid hours creating/maintaining something to better their community.
2) For-profit business packages it up as part of their offering.

"I've lived in the neighborhood since November 2020, we bought a house," Ria Harracksingh, an Elite Minds parent and the school's director of operations, told Hell Gate. "So, when the garden started to really just be stonewalling us, it became not about the kids. For me, it became about, 'Hey, I pay a ton of property taxes. We pay a ton of income tax there. These dollars are going to this garden that won't even let me access it as an individual!' So it became pretty personal on that front, too."
"I think from their perspective, making noise and contacting everybody they can about this is going to speed things up," Jonathan Stead, the garden's community partnership coordinator, said. "If anything, it slowed things down because our limited time has gone to responding to them, responding to GreenThumb about accusations that they're making about us, and discussing the Post story. This is all time that we could have devoted to try and get this done." "At the beginning, we didn't even see…
"It wasn't an option for us to continue the status quo, which was, I guess, [Elite Minds teachers] had a key and would come and go as they pleased," he said. "For organizations, it's a separate process, and it's not something community gardens have to do, but we chose to do it. It's been an enormous amount of work to try to get the process put together." Stead told Hell Gate that Urban Meadow and GreenThumb have been trading a draft of the new policy back and forth, but that due to time constra…
"Misconceptions about what community gardens even are, fundamentally, are pretty rampant," Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, another Urban Meadow coordinator, mused. "People just don't know that community gardens are not parks. They are very different from a New York City park. When I'm in Urban Meadow, the playground is right next door, and I see the lovely Parks Department folks in there cleaning up, taking the trash out. And I'm just like, 'I wish you would come in here and do that!' But no one h…
@stiefkind@mastodon.social
2026-05-31 12:16:43

Die Ascota 170 dürfte der "Peak mechanische Buchungsmaschine" sein: youtube.com/watch?v=QaNIcIawyEY
Gebaut in Chemnitz und noch bis in die frühen 1980er weltweit exportier wurde.

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-06-24 23:30:32

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Slovenian National Day
Barry Douglas joins the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and conductor Lio Kuokman in Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto. The orchestra also plays a work by the composer Leon Firšt.
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bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xng0

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-24 23:30:40

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Elgar and Holst from the 2024 BBC Proms
Senja Rummukainen, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo in Elgar's Cello Concerto. Later, Jess Dandy and the BBC Symphony Chorus in Holst's The Cloud Messenger.
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bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wg51

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-06-10 14:15:46

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