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"Had Beijing simply given Great Dragon a monopoly over China’s telecom equipment, this would have been a disaster for the entire country. But China had deliberately created space for multiple strong competitors to emerge so that the industry overall would continue to make progress."

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Excellent review by Kyle Chan for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social of rhe recently published Eva Dou’s House of #Huawei. www.phenomenalworld.org/reviews/huaw...

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#Berlin Great pleasure to be invited a the "#Beckett in Babylon (Kino)" première of Declan Clarke's 2024 production If I Fall Don't Pick Me Up.

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Tardigrade tattoos! www.sciencealert.com/scientists-t...

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🛸𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🛸 My review of Jörg Matthias Determann's @determann.bsky.social Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social is now out in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (by Cambridge University Press)! Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S002...

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#MayDay #MayDay2025 #sciencefiction #utopia #socialism Excellent post by William Emmons on William Morris - News From Nowhere (Morris against and for Marxist orthodoxy). What better way to celebrate labour day? williamemmonsbooks.substack.com/p/may-day-po...

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Outer space is harsh. Extreme temperatures and radiation can break down most materials, but a study on the International Space Station finds a biological molecule that holds its own: melanin derived from #fungus. It may prepare the way towards long term space exploration. In PNAS: t.co/H7M7NN5lA9

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"Donald Trump and Elon Musk many ways to connect their names. New Year in Las Vegas. A #cybertruck in flames." Refrain and the lyrics on the banner from yesterday's #performance in #Berlin.

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Missed the live #performance by T-Ina Darling, Mark Bombastik and (who also collaborated with Felix Kubin on New Year in Las Vegas album) "Trumpologies Today" at the Signal window & performance space on the #MayDay in #Berlin.

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#Talk #resistance #politics #political #art #Berlin 2nd May 2025, 6pm CEST Dmitry Vilensky: Art making at the time of Emergencies – Between despair and hope. The short history of Chto Delat collective. Zoom registration link here curating.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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#exhibition #today #berlin #NEWS ++ Mark Fridvalszki + Marko Tadić: The Future Is Out There – Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V | 01.05.-14.06.2025 www.artatberlin.com/en/news-mark...

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Also reminds us that RFK is a latecomer to the game (another exemple of how easy to recycle colonialist & imperialist tropes has become). There's this anecdote with 'Germ theory' denialist in the upper echelons of the Pentagon during the pandemic saying 'if I don't see them, they don't exist'.

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Sunday's presidential election in Romania will be existential for the West. Brussels Playbook answers all of the big questions lingering over the vote 👇

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Die Frühjahrsdürre ist inzwischen gravierend. Nachdem schon der Koalitionsvertrag den Umwelt- und Klimaschutz zur Nebensache degradiert hat, ist jetzt niemand in Sicht, der das Umwelt- und Klimaministerium mit Engagement übernehmen möchte. Es ist ein Trauerspiel. #Dürre #Klima

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bits of spaceships and machinery. 2025

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The Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 will soon re-enter the atmosphere. It's the same design as Venera 8, launched 4 days earlier in 1972. They were intended to be buddies, but Venera 8 made it to the surface of Venus while Kosmos 482 got stuck in Earth orbit. 🧪 #PlanetSci

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A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

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Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.

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Just a little FYI: if you're looking for a good May Day/International Workers Day film to watch, Salt of the Earth (1954) is hard to beat. Based on the 1951 Empire Zinc strike in New Mexico, the film includes some of the workers as actors and was one of the first fully independent US films.

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#vietnamreunification #Vietnam50 #VietnamLiberationDay In #Berlin Babylon Kino celebrates with a film program & exhibition, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the end of the American-Vietnam War. babylonberlin.eu/programm/fes...

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The question #Andor opened still stand. And the answers get clearer by fhe day. damiengwalter.medium.com/reviewing-an...

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Public transport tickets raising in Brașov Romania to 5 Lei. A comparison with public transport tickets in other large cities around the country. 1. This will have implication for the 'greening' and migrant labor for many depend on such transports. 2. Will hit elections. hotnews.ro/brasovul-dev...

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I understand that the University is dying, and will eventually be replaced by some kind of new world of for profit online job training modules, but in the interregnum do we really have to endure the morbid symptoms of programs in "Leadership studies" and "Entrepreneurship"?

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:o There is a /plethora/ of films, games, plays, books, and other materials that recount the legendary adventures of the mischievous 孫悟空. 🐒 :3 However, if you've ever wondered "what's he all about", you can find some interesting shorts that the kind people at #TedEd have put together.

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I'm super excited about this! Cosmic Fragments. Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age, edited by @historyasif.bsky.social, is published! My chapter is “We are as strangers here now”: Interplanetary Colonialism and Cadastral Landscapes. 🧪🔭

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Balkan Immigration Is Weird www.youtube.com/watch?v=pctH...

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There's a sense of fraudulence with such embryonic 'fantasy' statal formations, and calling them "rogue" risks implying that there are legitimate non rogue #empires. These entrepreneurs were blurring the limits of what "states", "Empires", "companies"were and how interchangeable they could become.

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Another excellent piece of recent cinema inspired by these histories (a sort of S American decolonial western) is the movie White on White (Blanco en blanco) from 2019 Spanish-Chilean film directed by Théo Court with a photographer Pedro at the end of 19 c Tierra del Fuego. youtu.be/PkZwEmq60ZE?...

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"We were always modern" (contra Latour), an excellent #review of a 2024 #Timisoara #exhibition about modernity's exclusions, the outcasts of nationalism and transnational actors of imperialism. With a focus on settler colonialist violence in 19 c Tierra del Fuego. www.criticatac.ro/am-fost-into...

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