@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.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-05 02:58:24
Trump is officially planning for a pay freeze on both base and locality pay for most civilian federal employees, citing fiscal responsibility and economic conditions.
The planned federal pay freeze makes an exception for federal law enforcement personnel,
who are expected to receive a 3.8% raise starting in January.
The larger raise for law enforcement is meant to improve recruitment and retention for “critical law enforcement roles,” (i.e ICE).
The federal pay raise…
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-07-10 08:13:44
The biggest festival in Poland is happening soon, traditionally the entrance is free of charge and there is free of charge campsites.
Line-up is great, many stars from polish scene Godsmack and POD.
I've been twice, the atmosphere is amazing.
So it's really tempting to change my summer plans accordingly ;)
#best
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-08-06 02:20:33
Herby Potato Salad With Grainy Mustard Vinaigrette #plantbased
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2026-07-15 21:16:03
The Gardens Between (Multi, XPd on PS5) 2 friends must solve puzzles by manipulating time.
So this one is obviously inspired by Braid. Lot of the same mechanics using forward and backward time "travel". Instead of a platformer tho, this is more of a walking sim. Walking forward or backward and one interaction button is all you have here, but it's plenty.
Some great music in this game. I like the art style, simplistic but expressive. For being as short as it i…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-08-06 09:37:18
Raiders Issued Compelling Message on Jaguars’ Brian Thomas Jr. https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-message-jaguars-brian-thomas-jr/
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2026-08-26 15:49:14
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-07-06 03:10:54
The 360 camera is kind of fun for doing silly things...
#bikeTooter.
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-09-09 09:29:35
Euclid: Quick Data Release (Q1) -- Exploring the detailed visual morphology of galaxies in clusters
Mas-Buitrago, Kruk, O'Ryan, Nardone, La Marca, Awad, Baes, Fossati, G\'eron, Ghaffari, Girardi, Lintott, Sorce, Altieri, Durret, Pettorino, Irureta-Goyena, Simmons, Reerink, S\'anchez, Knapen, Shankar, Duran-Camacho, P\'erez-Mart\'inez, Walmsley, Auricchio, Baccigalupi, Baldi, Bardelli, Battaglia, Biviano, Bolzonella, Bonchi, Branchini, Brescia, Brinchmann, Camera, Ca\~nas-Herrera, Capobianco, Carbone, Carretero, Castellano, Castignani, Cavuoti, Cimatti, Colodro-Conde, Congedo, Conselice, Conversi, Copin, Costille, Courbin, Courtois, Cropper, Degaudenzi, De Lucia, Dole, Dubath, Dupac, Dusini, Ealet, Fabricius, Farina, Farinelli, Ferriol, Fosalba, Fotopoulou, Frailis, Franceschi, Fumana, Galeotta, George, Gillis, Giocoli, G\'omez-Alvarez, Gracia-Carpio, Grazian, Grupp, Gwyn, Holmes, Hook, Hormuth, Hornstrup, Huertas-Company, Jahnke, Jhabvala, Joachimi, Kermiche, Kiessling, Kubik, K\"ummel, Kunz, Kurki-Suonio, Le Brun, Ligori, Lilje, Lindholm, Lloro, Mainetti, Mansutti, Marggraf, Martinelli, Martinet, Marulli, Massey, Maurogordato, Medinaceli, Melchior, Meneghetti, Merlin, Meylan, Mora, Moresco, Moscardini, Munari, Neissner, Niemi, Nightingale, Padilla, Paltani, Pasian, Pedersen, Percival, Pezzotta, Pires, Polenta, Poncet, Popa, Pozzetti, Raison, Renzi, Rhodes, Riccio, Romelli, Roncarelli, Rusholme, Saglia, Sakr, S\'anchez, Sapone, Sartoris, Schneider, Schrabback, Scodeggio, Secroun, Sihvola, Simon, Sirignano, Sirri, Tallada-Cresp\'{i}, Taylor, Teplitz, Tereno, Tessore, Toft, Toledo-Moreo, Torradeflot, Tutusaus, Valiviita, Vassallo, Kleijn, Veropalumbo, Wang, Weller, Zacchei, Zamorani, Zerbi, Zucca, Macias-Perez, Sereno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08962 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08962 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.08962
arXiv:2609.08962v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Galaxy clusters provide unique laboratories for studying environmental effects on galaxy evolution. The morphology--density ($T$--$\Sigma$) and morphology--cluster-centric radius ($T$--$R$) relations trace how galaxy morphology is influenced by the environment, but previous studies at intermediate redshifts have been limited in both sample size and radial coverage. We use the Euclid Quick Data Release 1 (Q1) visual morphology catalogue to measure the $T$--$\Sigma$ and $T$--$R$ relations for smooth, featured-or-disc, and barred galaxies in known clusters at $0.2\leq z\leq 0.5$, extending this analysis to large cluster-centric distances ($3 R_{500c}$) and studying their dependence on stellar mass. Using photometric redshifts and stellar masses provided by Euclid, we identify 1754 cluster members within $1.5 R_{500c}$, distributed across 71 clusters. We classify the identified galaxies as smooth, featured-or-disc, or barred using the predicted vote fractions provided by the Zoobot deep learning foundation model in the Q1 visual morphology catalogue. We confirm the $T$--$\Sigma$ relation in all the stellar mass ranges studied, with a stronger influence of the cluster environment on galaxy morphology in the densest parts of the cluster and closer to the cluster centre. Beyond $1.5 R_{500c}$, the morphological segregation weakens, with featured-or-disc galaxies overtaking smooth galaxies at the lowest densities, consistent with the growing contribution of field interlopers in the cluster outskirts. For barred galaxies, we find a tentative decline of the bar fraction toward lower densities that is most pronounced for the most massive galaxies. In conclusion, our results show that the cluster environment drives a progressive transformation of galaxy morphology, with the loss of disc structure becoming more pronounced towards the cluster core, where environmental processes act most efficiently.
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@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-06-30 12:46:52
