Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s...

"Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism" by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
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Your government refusing to prosecute sexual predators, but protect them instead, only makes sense when you realize your government is being run by sexual predators.

My "Writing the History of the Royal Navy, 1945-2020" is out with IJMH (link in next text), surveying interesting new work by Ed Hampshire and Peter Hore, and covering mistakes in existing work such as the Official History of the Falklands Campaign, and where gaps remain. 1/2

Old Photograph Ice Cream Cart Fort William Scotland

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Amy Mclean Ice Cream cart by the harbour in #Fort #William, #Highlands. Historically, this area of #Lochaber was strongly #Clan #Cameron country tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/06/old-...

21 April 1945

In WWII, Poles fought on almost every front against German Nazi tyranny.

The liberation of Bologna by the Polish II Corps, commanded by General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko.

#WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

Euripides - The Historian's Hut Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) “All of our human life is full of pain and there is no rest from toil.” From Euripides’ Hippolytus (approximately line 190), translated by James Morwood in Medea and Other P...

A quote from Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) about painful life.

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#history #quotes

The Tale of A Medieval Arsonist Who Was Mysteriously Burned To Death - The Historian's Hut Around the year 585, Bishop Gregory Of Tours (c. 539-594) traveled through a community called Carignan, located on the convergence of the Chiers and the Meuse rivers. A cloister of monks lived there, ...

The Tale of A Medieval Arsonist Who Was Mysteriously Burned To Death

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#history

British Carrier Pigeon Loft With all the major advances in technology before and during World War I it is not uncommon to forget that one of the most reliable as well one of the most commonly used forms of communication during W...

Photograph and description of a WWI British Carrier Pigeon Loft. #WWI #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #FWW #History #Pigeon #CarrierPigeon #BritishArmy #BritishArmyHistory #Photograph

The Zrínyi II SPG was the Hungarian equivalent of a StuH 42 built on the chassis of the Škoda T-21 medium tank produced in Hungary under the name Turán. The Zrínyi first saw battle #OTD in 1944. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Author of ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?’ Omer Bartov talks on the moral degeneration of Zionism YouTube video by The Newsmakers

"...Holocaust & Genocide Studies scholar Omer Bartov explains why Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide.

Bartov... analyses how Zionism, which emerged as... emancipation... morphed into a radical state ideology of ethno-nationalism & exclusion of Palestinians."

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I once heard a friend say that he didn't believe a woman should be President because we're too emotional. Name ONE woman who has ever gone on a shooting rampage out of anger.

Bridget McKenzie, who resigned in disgrace over Sports Rorts, tells Sunrise that the NDIS will only survive if we “stop the rorting.”
Extraordinary hypocrisy. From the same party that left the NDIS without fraud protections for a decade. #auspol

They were warned that privatisation of the NDIS would possibly lead to fraud from the wild west of providers followed by an outcry of funding sustainability from the opposition that inevitably leads to cuts for the most vulnerable, meanwhile profits are still being made.
Rinse and repeat.
#auspol

‘Once the men were on the patrol boat, the US personnel boarded the fishing boat and stole the crew’s food and the beer’…

“They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities told us things had been handled very badly.”’

If rakes floated on water, #Trump would step on one. Guaranteed.

He's the Sideshow Bob of the swimming pool ...

US at risk of running out of missiles if another war breaks out after depleting stockpile in Iran operations | CNN Politics The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in t...

⚠️ During the Iran War, the US military has used:

• At least 45% of its Precision Strike Missiles
• At least half of its THAAD missiles
• Almost 50% of its Patriot air defense interceptor missiles

This has created “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in future conflict.

⭕️ Israel’s Land + Resource Grab in Lebanon Israel’s military says it has defined a “forward defense line” inside southern Lebanon, where it intends to hold and operate inside Lebanese territory, with the goal of clearing and controlling a strip of land. Journalist @cbonneauimages notes the area includes access to the sea and Lebanon’s offshore gas reserves. ➤ Around five brigades, backed by naval forces, are deployed south of this line. ➤ Their stated mission is to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure and prevent attacks on northern Israeli towns. But massive demolitions and razing of structures has been ongoing in these lands since the ceasefire just a few days ago ➤ The move is intended as part of a broader strategy to create a buffer/security zone several kilometers inside Lebanon, keeping Hezbollah pushed further north.

See new posts Conversation courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages In case anyone is confused about what this is: This illegal Israeli occupation map includes the sea, coincidentally where Lebanon’s gas and oil fields are. This is and always has been a land and resources grab.

⭕️ Israel’s Land + Resource Grab in Lebanon

Israel’s military says it has defined a “forward defense line” inside southern Lebanon, where it intends to hold & operate inside Lebanese territory, with the goal of clearing and controlling a strip of land.

Journalist Courtney Bonneau notes the area...

TIMES OF ISRAEL: “Commanders say the IDF is replicating its policy from Gaza in Lebanon”

NYU PROFESSOR: “This is what Israel has done to my hometown in southern Lebanon”

Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon.

Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.

Media should stop saying Israel is “demolishing” villages in Lebanon. It’s misleading.

The accurate term is ethnic cleansing.

A whistleblower is about to tell all regarding insider trading within the Trump admin.

If this happens and she has the proof, Trump, Barron, Eric and Don Jr will go down.

28mm medieval street scene.

Top down view of medieval street scene.

The backs of St Albans. A model for wargaming.

I have the first St Albans table ready (bar a few details).

Thus will be the demo game for 'Scurrours!' - The Wars of the Roses expansion for Écorcheurs!

#wargaming #medievalwargaming #Ecorcheurs

“Every year, Australia hands $20 billion in tax breaks to property investors – more than it spends on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined.

These tax breaks have helped fuel wave of property speculation that has pushed home ownership out of reach for my whole generation. ➡️

Government to pay for showers for at-home aged care recipients The decision to scrap the plan to charge older Australians $50/hour for showers was made after months of sustained criticism, including warnings that people were forgoing other care to afford the serv...

So the government will take funds from one vulnerable cohort, those on the NDIS, to give to another vulnerable cohort, the elderly. We could tax gas exports, of course. Then there'd be money for both. #auspol

yes, this is totally something we should get our students so dependent on they cannot function without it

‘The Franks, may God forsake them’: a Fatimid government document from 1109 about skirmishes in the Levant This article offers an edition, translation, and analysis of a newly discovered Fatimid document preserved in the Cairo Geniza, a report by a Fatimid official in Tyre in the early summer of 1109, j...

It has been an amazing last few months for stuff coming out of the Fatimid ports of al-Sham, with that and also this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dame Averil Cameron obituary Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer

And Dame Averil Cameron (1940-2026), historian of the Byzantine empire bit.ly/4ex8POD #Skystorians

25% you say, Angus? 😱

There's a 78% tax on gas profits in Norway, and they're doing just fine. But I guess their political leaders aren't captured by oligarchs ... 🙄
#auspol