ryand3rk

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Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] ryand3rk@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Lots of interesting comments! I really enjoyed this thread. Two things I'd add:

  1. I think "technology" should really be referred to as "a technology". For instance, judging Gen Z against a technology (like a photocopier) that predates their birth seems a bit unfair. As a Gen X, I don't think it was fair to be judged for growing up with calculators instead of slide-rulers. I love old tech, but I'm not kidding myself, it's old tech not the only tech.

  2. Also shouldn't the organisation adapt instead? If new hires are more comfortable watching videos for training vs reading procedures, or taking photos of things with their phone instead of the photocopier, isn't that just fine. It's not my preference, but isn't it best for me to adapt rather than them.

It's not that I don't have generational pride. I like my generation, we were and are adaptable. I just can't imagine that the subsequent generations won't be as adaptable to things I can't even imagine yet.

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Opinion | No One Should Want to See a Dictator Get Old (www.nytimes.com)
 

Xi and Putin are entering a dangerous time in the life cycle of dictators.

The Coup in Niger Is About Power. Russia Will Exploit It. in c/news@kbin.social
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The Coup in Niger Is About Power. Russia Will Exploit It. (www.theatlantic.com)
 

The most exciting explanations for Niger’s upheaval are globe-sweeping and probably wrong.

By Brian Klaas

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War on the Rocks podcast: Ukraine Struggles to Scale Offensive Combat Operations (warontherocks.libsyn.com)
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On this special sneak peak of the Russia Contingency, Mike sat down with Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to discuss the findings from their recent research trip to Ukraine. The conversation covered Russian defensive lines, the role that mines have played in stymying Ukraine's counteroffensive, and the broader challenges the Ukrainian military has with scaling offensive operations. To listen to part 2 of this episode, as well as a series of conversations about the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the Russian military, to become a member of War on The Rocks.

Podcast/Trip Report: What I Learned in Kyiv and Conversation with Mike Kofman and Rob Lee about Counteroffensive and Wagner in c/Ukraine_UA@kbin.social
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Podcast/Trip Report: What I Learned in Kyiv and Conversation with Mike Kofman and Rob Lee about Counteroffensive and Wagner (podcast.silverado.org)
 

Geopolitics Decanted by Silveradoby podcast@silverado.org (Patrick Gray, Michael Kofman, Rob Lee, Dmitri Alperovitch), Friday, July 14, 2023 6:11 AM

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Putin wants to attend an August summit. Host country South Africa doesn't want to have to arrest him (www.washingtonpost.com)
 

South Africa’s deputy president says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month but the country is trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant

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Russia’s Army Is in Disarray But Will Keep Fighting (cepa.org)
 

By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
July 14, 2023

Russia’s army is in some disarray, but despite low troop morale and the passivity of officers, the military is ready to pay a high price.

Favourite RSS reader? in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] ryand3rk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For years I've used Feedly, but recently tried "Feeder" on Android. I like the minimalist and no ad aspects. Even better it has a "fetch full article" function that works even for some paywalled sites. - downside is no website.

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Telegram has become a window into war (www.theverge.com)
 

Information is easy to find — but trust is harder.

Anyone know how to get RSS for threads to work? in c/tech@kbin.social
Anyone know how to get RSS for threads to work? in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] ryand3rk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

oh awesome! thanks for that link - I like that. For me, I like jumping around from rss readers to kbin to mastodon. It seems like the major news orgs might flock to threads. I can't be bothered to sign up.... and I don't want an instagram account. When threads federates, i'll just follow nytimes on threads through mastodon and be done with it. Seems like a bad sign for twitter.

Mockup: I'm a fan of having all my favorite subs/magazines to access on a glance. in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] ryand3rk@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

it's a mock-up, if you missed comment below

What Reddit Got Wrong in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] ryand3rk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

great article, thorough and insightful

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 13, 2023 (www.iswresearch.org)
 

Kateryna Stepanenko, Riley Bailey, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 13, 2023, 8:35pm ET.

Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations in at least three directions and made further limited territorial gains on June 13.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with 18 prominent Russian milbloggers and war correspondents to discuss the progress of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on June 13.

Putin discussed the progress of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and signaled that he believes Russia can outlast Western military support for Ukraine.

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Today I learned about Frances Hayward, the first woman to unofficially complete the Comrades Marathon [55 miles] in 1923 (brakpanherald.co.za)
 

Frances Elizabeth Hayward was the first woman to unofficially complete the Comrades Marathon in 1923, during a time when the race was only open to white men.

The Natal Witness reported at the time, “Hayward made a steady pace, dropping to a walk on the hills, and, at Thornybush, was last but one, a good mile behind the others. She looked cheerful and fit, having previously announced her intention of making Drummond by 11:00. She got to Drummond at 11:14, not far off her intended schedule.”

The article ended with, “Another signal of women’s emancipation from the thraldom of good-natured disdain in which mere man has held her.”

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Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted (www.theverge.com)
 

Apollo has become the center of a platform-wide fight between Reddit and its users.

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France Uncovers Major Disinformation Campaign By Russia (www.rferl.org)
 

France says it has uncovered a major disinformation campaign waged by Russia, involving the posting of false news items hostile to Ukraine made to look like they had been published by prominent French news organizations.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 12, 2023 (www.iswresearch.org)
 

Kateryna Stepanenko, Karolina Hird, Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 12, 2023, 5:20pm ET Click here to se...

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