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"what does the Kremlin brand as “traditional values”? While Putin denounces Western modernity as a moral threat, Russia itself contradicts its supposed ideals: children are abducted from occupied territories of Ukraine, domestic violence is normalized, religious minorities are persecuted, and soldiers’ lives are deemed expendable."
The Ugly Truth Behind the “Traditional Values” Russia Sells — UNITED24 Media [from October]
https://united24media.com/anti-fake/the-ugly-truth-behind-the-traditional-values-russia-sells-11690

From #RobertReich @…
The moral bankruptcy of #America’s #leadership class.…

America without a leadership class
In the face of the worst crisis American democracy has faced in living memory, they’re silent or complicit

Mooi artikel.
#wijers #feeks

De feeks, de heks en het lek - Reporters Online
De val van informateur Hans Wijers begon met één lek en eindigde in een morele storm die groter werd dan […]

Eindelijk een goede analyse van het NRC schandaal. Waarom doet geen krant dit?
https://reportersonline.nl/de-feeks-de-heks-en-het-lek/

De feeks, de heks en het lek - Reporters Online
De val van informateur Hans Wijers begon met één lek en eindigde in een morele storm die groter werd dan […]

“Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.
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The motive hardly matters: whether the US regards the EU as an enemy for transactional or ideological reasons, it now sees it as an enemy.
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[Mark] Rutte warns of war, urging Europe to prepare itself, yet he has nothing to say about the one-time ally across the Atlantic…

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/lea

A leadership vacuum and staff cuts threaten NSA morale, operational strength
The signals intelligence giant has halted recruitment for its Legal Honors Program, two people familiar say, slowing inflow of top legal talent. Other long-term capabilities are at risk.

Most meetings are bad, and most attempts to fix it merely reduce the *amount* of meetings, rather than do anything to improve their usefulness.
This is an opportunity for #UX designers aspiring to "do strategy." But hi-fi artifacts won't help you here; their purpose is to document decisions that have already been made.
Lo-fi artifacts only appear skippable when seen alone; i…

This meeting could have been a picnic
Well-designed meetings are just as important to our work as well-designed artifacts.

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.
-- Marlo Thomas

Red Lines and Grey Zones in the Fog of War: Benchmarking Legal Risk, Moral Harm, and Regional Bias in Large Language Model Military Decision-Making
Toby Drinkall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03514

Red Lines and Grey Zones in the Fog of War: Benchmarking Legal Risk, Moral Harm, and Regional Bias in Large Language Model Military Decision-Making
As military organisations consider integrating large language models (LLMs) into command and control (C2) systems for planning and decision support, understanding their behavioural tendencies is critical. This study develops a benchmarking framework for evaluating aspects of legal and moral risk in targeting behaviour by comparing LLMs acting as agents in multi-turn simulated conflict. We introduce four metrics grounded in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and military doctrine: Civilian Tar…

“The real question, then, is not ‘what can we do?’, but ‘what are we afraid to do?’ Whose comfort are we protecting when we ask safe questions? Whose illusions do we preserve through politeness? Solidarity is not an optic; it is a disruption. It is noisy, uncomfortable, often isolating. It pulls reputation apart rather than polishing it.
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We are too fluent in the language of outrage, too comfortable in the posture of virtue. History will not absolve spectatorship, even when specta…

When solidarity becomes spectacle
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.