Lots of interesting comments! I really enjoyed this thread. Two things I'd add:
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I think "technology" should really be referred to as "a technology". For instance, judging Gen Z against a technology (like a photocopier) that predates their birth seems a bit unfair. As a Gen X, I don't think it was fair to be judged for growing up with calculators instead of slide-rulers. I love old tech, but I'm not kidding myself, it's old tech not the only tech.
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Also shouldn't the organisation adapt instead? If new hires are more comfortable watching videos for training vs reading procedures, or taking photos of things with their phone instead of the photocopier, isn't that just fine. It's not my preference, but isn't it best for me to adapt rather than them.
It's not that I don't have generational pride. I like my generation, we were and are adaptable. I just can't imagine that the subsequent generations won't be as adaptable to things I can't even imagine yet.
Xi and Putin are entering a dangerous time in the life cycle of dictators.
The most exciting explanations for Niger’s upheaval are globe-sweeping and probably wrong.
The most exciting explanations for Niger’s upheaval are globe-sweeping and probably wrong.
By Brian Klaas
War on the Rocks podcast: Ukraine Struggles to Scale Offensive Combat Operations
On this special sneak peak of the Russia Contingency, Mike sat down with Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to discuss the findings from their recent research trip to Ukraine. The conversation covered Russian defensive lines, the role that mines have played in stymyin...
On this special sneak peak of the Russia Contingency, Mike sat down with Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to discuss the findings from their recent research trip to Ukraine. The conversation covered Russian defensive lines, the role that mines have played in stymying Ukraine's counteroffensive, and the broader challenges the Ukrainian military has with scaling offensive operations. To listen to part 2 of this episode, as well as a series of conversations about the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the Russian military, to become a member of War on The Rocks.
this nitter mirror still seems to be working:
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Podcast/Trip Report: What I Learned in Kyiv and Conversation with Mike Kofman and Rob Lee about Counteroffensive and Wagner
Geopolitics Decanted by Silveradoby [email protected] (Patrick Gray, Michael Kofman, Rob Lee, Dmitri Alperovitch), Friday, July 14, 2023 6:11 AM
Putin wants to attend an August summit. Host country South Africa doesn't want to have to arrest him
South Africa’s deputy president says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month but the country is trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant
Russia’s army is in some disarray, but despite low troop morale and the passivity of officers, the military is ready to pay a high price.
By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan July 14, 2023
Russia’s army is in some disarray, but despite low troop morale and the passivity of officers, the military is ready to pay a high price.
For years I've used Feedly, but recently tried "Feeder" on Android. I like the minimalist and no ad aspects. Even better it has a "fetch full article" function that works even for some paywalled sites. - downside is no website.
Information is easy to find — but trust is harder.
apparently threads isn't going to encourage politics and news.
but, I think news orgs have other ideas.
https://www.threads.net/@washingtonpost
https://www.threads.net/@nytimes
https://www.threads.net/@wsj
oh awesome! thanks for that link - I like that. For me, I like jumping around from rss readers to kbin to mastodon. It seems like the major news orgs might flock to threads. I can't be bothered to sign up.... and I don't want an instagram account. When threads federates, i'll just follow nytimes on threads through mastodon and be done with it. Seems like a bad sign for twitter.
How India Profits From Its Neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine War
Attached: 1 image "How India Profits From Its Neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine War: India, a critical security partner of the United States, now buys huge amounts of Russian oil, purchasing one of every two barrels shipped at sea." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/22/business/india-russi...
"India, a critical security partner of the United States, now buys huge amounts of Russian oil, purchasing one of every two barrels shipped at sea."
[..] "In a little over a year, India has gone from purchasing hardly any Russian oil to buying about half of what the country exports by sea."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/22/business/india-russia-oil.html #ukraine
it's a mock-up, if you missed comment below
...and this is the moment I realize I'm old
(edit) and of course I had to figure it out anyways. gotta love wikipedia. probably this one: standard domestic phone 1950-1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone I remember dialing it actually hurt my finger.
Kateryna Stepanenko, Riley Bailey, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 13, 2023, 8:35pm ET Click here to see ISW’s interac...
Kateryna Stepanenko, Riley Bailey, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 13, 2023, 8:35pm ET.
Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations in at least three directions and made further limited territorial gains on June 13.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with 18 prominent Russian milbloggers and war correspondents to discuss the progress of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on June 13.
Putin discussed the progress of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and signaled that he believes Russia can outlast Western military support for Ukraine.
Apollo has become the center of a platform-wide fight between Reddit and its users.
France says it has uncovered a major disinformation campaign waged by Russia, involving the posting of false news items hostile to Ukraine made to look like they had been published by prominent French news organizations.
Kateryna Stepanenko, Karolina Hird, Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 12, 2023, 5:20pm ET Click here to se...
Kateryna Stepanenko, Karolina Hird, Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 12, 2023, 5:20pm ET Click here to se...
National broadcaster says thousands of articles will be reviewed after pro-Kremlin phrasing added to at least 16 Ukraine war reports
Trump’s Indictment Is Worse Than You Think It Is
Come and see why the former president is nailed dead to rights.
Ukraine is using its new arsenal of Western tanks and armored vehicles in what is expected to be one of the largest military operations in Europe since World War II.
"Battle plans for an attack on another country or Defense Department documents about our capabilities are in no universe Donald J. Trump's personal documents," he said.
ISW: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 11, 2023
Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, Kateryna Stepanenko, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 11, 2023, 6:40pm ET Click here to see ISW’s inte...
Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, Kateryna Stepanenko, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 11, 2023, 6:40pm ET Click here to see ISW’s inte...