The Wars Aren't Ending, Now We See GAFAM Facilities Being Bombed
This is becoming a tech issue
"If Trump wants to steal Greenland, he doesn't need tanks or missiles. He can just tell Microsoft and Oracle to brick the entire Danish state and all of its key firms, blocking their access to their email archives, files, databases, and other key administrative tools. If Denmark still holds out, Trump can brick all their tractors, smart speakers, and phones. If Denmark still won't give up Greenland, Trump could blackhole all Danish IP addresses for the world's majority of transoceanic fiber. At the click of a mouse, Trump could shut down the world's supply of Lego, Ozempic, and delicious, lethally strong black licorice." -Cory Doctorow two days ago
Yesterday in IRC someone from South Korea told us several time about compulsory military service, days ago we linked several times to press articles which quoted German officials saying war was inevitable (NATO/Germany), and moments ago we showed Germany becoming a bit more like Ukraine (men under the age of 45 not to leave without permission from the "defence" sector).
Now the mainstream media speaks of "practical survivalism", i.e. so-called 'paranoids' going more mainstream as fuel runs low and wars spread in scope. Based on the latest on (or from) Iran, another escalation is more likely than a ceasefire. The world is fast becoming a more dangerous place and mainstream media tries to distract from imminent impact of fuel shortages, followed by agricultural disaster (due to a lack of fertiliser in the required quantities). They want people to think about and talk about a mission "to" the moon (not even landing, we're worse off than in 1969 and even the mail client won't work). GAFAM datacentres are being bombed in several countries, yet the corporate media keeps shilling "clown computing" (GAFAM/US outsourcing as the core strategy), which it has ambivalently rebranded as "AI datacentres" or some malarkey to that effect (for buzzwords' worth, phony "novelty").
Thankfully we're doing OK and doing backups today (external drives have more than doubled in price since we purchased one last summer). But for many people in many countries there's growing pain, anxiety, hopelessness (short wars turn out to be very long; patience runs out). Someone we know recently had family tragedy here in the UK; her daughter, also a mother, committed suicide.
Andy recently wrote about Free software as a "Plan B" (it's his latest article) and someone in Planet GNOME did a series about the role of Free software in a post-apocalyptic scenario. That was before Caesar Cheeto, the Microsoft-sponsored dictator, took control of the world's leading super-power and US debt exploded by more than 3 trillion dollars in little over a year. █
"What's clear is that our uh debt is growing much faster, the federal government debt is growing substantially faster than our economy and that ratio is going up and, you know, in the long run, that's kind of the definition of unsustainable." -Jerome Powell at the end of March