A unilateral ceasefire is just a prelude to the next escalation.
By a man who knows the region. Harald Malmgren is a geopolitical strategist, negotiator and former aide to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.
Today, spurred on by a marvelous post by @dajbelshaw, I mused on 5 reasons I will be celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Satire, threat, uspol
Richard Scarry's 21st century classroom
https://boingboing.net/2022/05/30/richard-scarrys-21st-century-classroom.html
‘According to the sociologist Nathalie Paton, rampage shootings represent a perverse expression of some of our culture’s dominant values, including self-expression, autonomy, and authenticity. “Nowadays the social norm is to ask each and every person to pursue individuation, to become autonomous,” she says. “But it’s a paradox — when you ask everyone to be original not everyone can be, so they have to go to extremes like violence.”’
29 May 1986.
#OnThisDay the 🇪🇺 EU flag was raised for the first time in front of the Berlaymont building – our headquarters in Brussels.
The then Commission’s President, Jacques Delors, led the ceremony to mark its official adoption to the sound of the EU anthem.
I really am loving the new look Proton.
Hopefully some kind soul will produce an emoji for the new look. 🤓
Though, one thing it needs for verbose posters such as I: the ability to add another post from the compose window.
List of Worker-Owned Tech Cooperatives Worldwide
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31456918
I'm linking to the HN discussion as it's interesting how techbros like to say something's not possible when there's literally lots of people doing it!
(Yes, I've submitted a PR to add @weareopencoop)
Philosopher and historian by training, Platform Lead by pay cheque. Opinions my own.