“#Ukraine held on to #Bakhmut far longer than many expected. In hindsight, this #strategy may have rested on the knowledge—or at least the hunch—that the meat grinder was exacerbating tensions between #Prigozhin and the #Russian military, and those tensions might explode into something damaging for Putin…”
For the past week, after my shift, I’ve been going and dropping off leftover sandwiches from work at the base of a tent that’s recently been pitched in a park near our house. I don’t say anything, I don’t announce myself, I just drop off the food at this tent and then leave…
Wagner boss to leave for Belarus and charges to be dropped - state media ⬇️
Russian state media have just reported that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin will leave for Belarus.
The reports say charges against him and his Wagner forces will be dropped by Russian authorities to avoid "bloodshed". #Russia#war#crisis
Interesting #news values on the #BBC site just now, down from the main news from #Russia. A #pop#festival performance is apparently more important to us than the #UK government's response to the #crisis in nuclear armed Russia. Further down, more from the same festival is more newsworthy than policy developments in the #SNP, a party seeking the breakup of the UK. I don't know who pockets the profits at #Glastonbury, but they must pay their #PR bods plenty to get this stuff reported as "news"
As a reminder for those fascinated by the #Russia 'coup' you can follow @Factal for major verified #breakingnews stories. These are the same editors who monitor the #news all day, every day for #globalsecurity and #crisis leaders for the world's largest companies and NGOs.
Nine survivors from a migrant boat that sank were arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling as hope faded for hundreds of missing passengers and attention turned to Greece’s failure to act before the…
"Google's policy of accepting "crisis pregnancy center" ads is the moral equivalent of taking money from fake oncologists who counsel people with cancer to forego chemotherapy in favor of juice-cleanses."
Google's search quality has been in steady decline for years, and Google assures us that they're working on it, though the most visible effort is replacing links to webpages with lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a confident habitual liar chatbot:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
It’s likely that a non-emergency type #crisis will last for days, weeks, or months. During that time, be sure to take care of your body, which is easy to neglect as your mind races to fix the issues.
Schedule time for breaks, meals, and sleep. Drink lots of water.
Take time off work if you can. You don’t have infinite physical resources. Most people max out their days, and must sacrifice something to account for the extra load.
Don’t rush to normal. It takes a long time for humans to cope with a crisis. Grief, anger, shock—all of these things take time to dissipate to manageable levels. Budget time for that to happen.
Allow yourself to feel emotions. Emotions inform you of what your subconscious is dealing with. This provides context. Write it down.
Don’t rush to make changes in your lifestyle in reaction to the crisis, unless you need to avoid immediate danger. Wait until you have time to review your notes and have the benefit of hindsight.
So, this just happened and I wanna scream, sob, and just give up at this point.
This is my family's safe person here (who's only in the office for 1 more HOUR) informing us that the inn owner texted her that he expects $500 from us TODAY.
I can't do this, I can't fucking do this anymore 😭😭😭
Thank you so much for the $25 and $100 donations for shelter!!! 💖
Can anyone match either of these? 🙏🏻
After rent our most urgent goals are our pain, psych, & seizure meds ($200 for both of ours), groceries ($100), our storage unit + late fees ($100), and our phone bill ($55)! 😟
Please keep boosting, y'all rock, thank you so much!!! 🥺
Yes.
“Agile tech companies have an advantage. We are seeing the beginning of the future battlefield: technology, driven by the commercial market, is taking over”
Ukraine invasion puts spotlight on war tech companies
@rikefranke I can't read the article, however the quote "technology, driven by the commercial market, is taking over" made me think.
The war shows advantages and limits of free #market#defense industry. A multitude of tech startups delivering creative solutions with impact on the battlefield (drones, targeting apps), while on the other hand industry can't keep up with the sudden increase in shell consumption as their production lines are not set up for (large scale) war.
The latter is very similar to problems we have in civilian #crisis management. "Just in time delivery" means no stocks, and no investment in emergency reserves or idle production lines as the return of investment is not guaranteed. The consequences we saw in the last years. Here it seems government run emergency reserves or legislative mandates are necessary.
So my question is: Where in defense production should the free market reign and where the government step in? Maybe a topic for @Sicherheitspod ?
Hope fades for missing migrants in deadly shipwreck in Greece (www.france24.com)
Nine survivors from a migrant boat that sank were arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling as hope faded for hundreds of missing passengers and attention turned to Greece’s failure to act before the…