Neue Filme und Serien bei Netflix, Disney und Amazon Prime im April 2026
Im April läuft bei Amazon die finale Staffel von „The Boys“. „Malcolm Mittendrin: Unfair wie immer“ startet bei Disney .
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Alibaba releases the open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/ali
Toy giant Hasbro hit by cyberattack that may take them 'several weeks' to recover from
https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/nation-world/toy-giant-hasbro-hit-by-cyberattack/507-f6d75ff4-725b-43c0-8378-5afb814ee99…
Seeing Iran appoint new leaders and continue to fight is seeing the more literal kind of necropolitics in action, as a hierarchical system continues to function while replacing the expendable human parts that it lost. The system is of course changed and influenced (and ultimately was built) by humans, but it has become something undying, or at least almost as hard to kill as an idea, and it maintains a terrible inertia in it's destructive tendencies (e.g., "Morality Police" continue to patrol the streets).
Lest anyone think this somehow expresses approval of US actions, the same logic applies here too: what once had a (thin) verneer of democracy, a system which loudly proclaimed to be controlled by "the people" (but which never was nor was ever intended to be) has lost its paint job, exposing the inhuman machinations beneath. Trump is a symptom, not cause, of an institution built on blood and spoils, whose alignment with the Epstein class (and moreover, their institutions) is ever more apparent with each disregarded law and principle.
Stepping back for a moment, this systems/necropolitics perspective is just a perspective, with its own distortions and blind spots. To paraphrase LeGuin, any institution built by humans can also be changed or destroyed by them. But I think it's very useful to put on the systems goggles in this moment, especially when some are fond of preaching about the dangers of "overwhelmingly powerful systems unaccountable to humans which pursue destructive ends" without actually examining the plethora of existing systems that do just that.
P.S. yes, United Healthcare is another good example of this.
P.P.S. yes I bending the meaning of necropolitics here, but the two are related: these systems would not be so free to profit from human death and suffering if they were more vulnerable to the deaths of their constituent parts. Necropolitics of the standard variety is of course present as companies like Raytheon and Lockeed Martin profit from the carnage. The F-15 caught by friendly fire? Just as profitable for Beoing to replace as one downed by the enemy.
"BYU Library's New Seed Library"
https://news.lib.byu.edu/byu-librarys-new-seed-library
– schöne idee für ausrangierte Katalogkartenschränke! 🌱
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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.
Donnerstag: NASA-Astronauten auf Mondreise, SpaceX auf geheimem Börsengang
Artemis-2 mit Bilderbuchstart SpaceX beantragt Börsengang Cisco-Datenabfluss nach Cyberangriff KI-Werkzeuge vom Bund für Behörden #heiseshow
Schallgeräte bei Demonstrationen: Wie LRAD-Systeme funktionieren
Bei Protesten in den USA nutzen Sicherheitsbehörden LRAD-Systeme für Durchsagen und zur Kontrolle von Menschenmengen. Wie funktionieren diese „Schallkanonen“?