That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it attacked Oracle's data center in Dubai on Thursday, according to state media. Dubai's media office denied this claim. An Amazon data center was targeted in Bahrain.
My car has depression (check engine light is on).
Last minute: the European Commission has confirmed new talks with the US following attacks on EU tech rules.
As pressure mounts, Big Tech is gaining even more influence. Civil society is still not in the room
Agree with @anildash.com here, was just saying earlier how the volume of cheers for Anthropic deciding not to help build Terminator or the Panopticon shows just how low the bar is set for American tech firms. www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a...
As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter
this is so weak, passive, & unconvincing.
"People are rising up against big tech data centres being built at the expense of people and planet". Photo in black and white of 10 people holding a banner that stays 'STOP DIRTY DATA CENRES'. Global action plan logo.
This weekend we’re coordinating days of action with campaigners and local communities across the country, to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres in the UK.
Join an action near you: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres
Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
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"After the rapid growth of data centers triggered pushback from politicians, utilities and local residents over the pressures they place on the grid, tech companies are now building their own fleet of private power plants, mostly fueled by natural gas."
So if this is true maybe someone wants to pass on the memo to the media?
(And yes I realize the hardcore IR people will say; we can’t say this part out loud as long as we’re so dependent. But this is what the slow slide into F-ism looks like, good people staying mute)
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Wellicht zaak voor een sterke antropoloog-journalist om hier iets over te schrijven 🤓 mocht je op zoek zijn naar US-funded NGO perspectieven 👋🏻
World of journalism is still overwhelmingly white/ without migration background. They just don't feel it, when Rubio essentially tells us in Europe: you deport all the brown people and we can be friends again.
Dank voor het delen en voor jouw werk waarin in je het “acute gevaar van wensdenken” over de VS benoemd!
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Yap
100%
So yes, seeing @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & Keir Stamer say they felt reassured by Rudio's speech is, as the official PoliSci term goes, "redonculess-banana-cookoo-delulu"
But clearly there was nothing to see here, keep calm and carry on Europe
all will be well.
Genocide, enslavement, extraction? Erased. Just 'civilization-spreading'. He later rejects alliances that "atone for the purported sins of past generations", dismissing colonial violence as imaginary guilt rather than historical fact
4. Whitewashing colonialism:
Rubio celebrates Columbus's "adventure into the great unknown to discover a new world" that "brought Christianity to the Americas." Five centuries of Western, "expansion", "missionaries, pilgrims, soldiers, explorers", building "vast empires" becomes heroic achievement
This line of thinking is explicit cultural supremacism: Western culture isn't equal to others, it's superior.. (again why does this ring so familiar? hmmmm)
3. Cultural supremacy
Rubio lists only white male European achievement (Mozart, Beethoven, Dante, Michelangelo) as civilization's gifts, rejecting the idea that "our way of life is just one among many" as false politeness..(which yes, as an anthropologist, was 1 of many aw-rong-ful things i noted)
This is textbook "great replacement" rhetoric, demographic change as existential threat
a far right nationalist staple: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_R...
2. Migration as replacement:
Rubio claims mass migration "threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people" and is "an urgent threat to...the survival of our civilization itself."
He warns against "forces of civilizational erasure" threatening America and Europe. This presents "Western civilization" as superior, eternal, racially coherent..
Imagine a German politician doing this, and tell me what you see?! I guarantee its not (Applause.)
1. Civilizational essentialism:
Rubio calls the West "the greatest civilization in human history," "unique and distinctive and irreplaceable," bound by shared ancestry (where have we heard this before? hmmm... oh wait!)
I listed esp obvious parts below, in no particular order of awfulness. Rubio's speech clearly spells out with whom in Europe the #Trump administration is seeking to make allies
did the Europeans not notice or not care? I am not sure which one is worse #munichsecurityconference
Rubio's #Munich speech was met with a 'sigh of relief' in Europe: grateful for reassurance of partnership. THIS IS BAFFLING when you examine the white Christian nationalist undertones of his speech
See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...
📰 New preprint! By @ferraribraun.bsky.social and @ccs.bsky.social, highlighting the hidden influences of European news media's reliance on the cloud infrastructures of Big Tech. For news work, autonomy is decreasing, while vulnerabilities are increasing.
Read here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
