@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-22 11:23:07
Restoring CISA is one issue many lawmakers can agree on
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2026/05/restoring-cisa-is-one-issue-many-lawmakers-can-agree-on/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-23 06:15:00
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-23 04:46:50
“Authoritarian systems do not require industrial crematoria. They build infrastructure, erase humanity, and condition populations to normalize accumulating bodies.”
https://wendy664.substack.com/p/ice-is-quietly-rolling-out-a-55-billion
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-05-22 11:42:03
from my link log —
Open access to standards documents.
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-open-access-to-standards-documents/90856
saved 2026-05-21
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-23 06:05:42
How the data center boom is exposing weaknesses in US power grids and what fixes the electricity infrastructure may need to become fit for the future (Chris Gillett/Works in Progress Magazine)
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-american-data-centers-cant-plug-in/…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-05-23 09:54:57
RE: https://sunny.garden/@MiasAlt/116623206917509577
Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza… alone.
The US is committing genocide in Gaza
Germany is committing genocide in Gaza.
Italy is committing genocide in Gaza.
The UK is commit…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 22:33:22
ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors,
leaving kids waiting in shelters for months
https://www.texastribune.org/20…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-07-22 11:37:14
Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
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.
@macandi@social.heise.de2026-05-22 09:28:00
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-23 04:13:43
F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Kash Patel’s Girlfriend
The bureau said it is not pursuing a case,
but the scrutiny is an example of the Trump administration weighing whether to criminalize routine news gathering
https://www.nytimes.c…
