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The EU is very progressive; not only do we not see colour, but we don’t even see settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.

Not since the days of Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds have I felt the need to write a special report for Metacurity.
But the intense level of activity on Friday and over the weekend surrounding the White House crackdown on Anthropic and its impact on cybersecurity prompted me to write a special Metacurity report this morning. The report presents a timeline of how we have arrived at the first major clash between frontier AI cyber capabilities and government authority.
I hope you …

Special report: Anthropic and the first great AI cyber showdown — a timeline
Over the past few days, a dispute over AI safety guardrails escalated into a White House crackdown, a global sovereignty debate, and the first major clash between frontier AI cyber capabilities and government authority.

Abstracts from 'Digital Heritage and the Global South: Ethics, Politics, Futures' in July 2025. A focus on AI and 'digital colonialism, algorithmic bias, infrastructural dependency on Big Tech, and the erasure of local agency, while foregrounding community-led and decolonial approaches to digital heritage'

@PhoenixWright@ieji.de I would think, especially knowing the systemic harms of colonialism and neo-colonialism, that the impetus would be on immediate experimentation and scientific research such to find a replacement as fast as possible. But the default posture you seem to be putting off is a complacency with the existing, wide-reaching harms. I have no idea why you would phrase this as the "best system ever invented". It is a crisis of imagination and will.
We ought to appl…

As I listen to the Revolutions podcast mini series on 1848, it's hard not to fixate in the ways in which the Liberal obsession with nationalism and national borders planted the seed for the genocides that followed. Liberals are still confused by why genocide is a persistent problem, as though liberalism itself should have fixed it. "We must establish more liberal institutions," they believe, "like the ICC, so that we can hold people accountable."
But genocide is simply a property of nations and borders. Nations have always be arbitrarily drawn and diverse groups of people have always lived together. I grew up with the balkanization of post-soviet Russia and post colonial Wars in Africa. Conservatives (that is, classical Liberals) would talk about how these people were simply uncivilized or somehow genetically predisposed to conflict. But the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides were similar to the Liberal violence implicit in nationalism from the beginning. The Bosnian Genocide was quite specifically a product of the Liberal nationalism of 1848.
There are still people in the world whose culture is defined by migration. These cultures do not recognize the legitimacy of borders because borders make their culture impossible. The very existence of these lines, and their necessary enforcement, is genocidal to pastoralists and other migratory people.
You literally cannot have borders and not be committing genocide. Concepts of national identity just add to the genocidal push, targeting ethnic minorities. Ethnicities defined by not having a nation of their own, such as Roma and non-zionist Jews, are, like pastoralists, permanently threatened by these imaginary lines.
And now, people look at the genocide ICE is carrying out, at the terror and murder, and they blame Trump. But Trump is simply the avatar of forces far beyond his comprehension.
Every liberal needs to look at their beliefs and realize that these murderous policies are implicit in the very concept of a nation.

Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python

Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.
Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/middle-east-news-oapkqap7z/-/a-ZpdrFSfMRYG5FIWpd6WQ1w:a:3199698-/0
Oct 7th, 2023?
Try May 15th, 1948.
78 years of settler colonialism, ethnic clean…

Hands as the Language of Thought: Correcting a Kant Attribution
There is a line about hands that travels well. It reads cleanly, carries an air of philosophical dignity, and arrives in print wearing the name of Immanuel Kant. "The hand is the visible part of the brain," runs the most common English form, or, in an older rendering, "the hand is the outer brain of man." The phrase appears in publishing copy, in teaching materials, on Goodreads quotation pages, in popu…

Hands as the Language of Thought: Correcting a Kant Attribution | David Boles, Blogs
There is a line about hands that travels well. It reads cleanly, carries an air of philosophical dignity, and arrives in print wearing the name of Immanuel Kant. “The hand is the visible part…

Scientists just cracked a major solar recycling challenge. A new laser technique cleanly removes backsheets from old solar panels without damaging the valuable silicon and glass underneath.
The method costs just $0.22 per panel and preserves components for reuse—a game-changer for making solar truly circular.

Continuous-wave infrared laser technology enables damage-free backsheet removal in end-of-life solar modules
U.S. researchers have developed an IR-CW laser-based method to remove backsheets from end-of-life silicon solar modules without damaging the glass or wafers, using controlled heating of the silicon–EVA interface through the front glass. The process enables clean mechanical delamination with preserved device performance and offers a lower-energy, lower-cost alternative to conventional thermal or chemical recycling methods.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mobiFlip/116736140083829116
Ich glaube, sie haben CleanElectric von vor acht Jahren gehört.