Oh, that's an easy question. It will never happen. Why? Because they're both US puppets in the region.
You can't look at what the leaders of these countries say. You look at what they do. Turkey's population, for example, is extremely sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians. Erdogan will even get up there and bang the drums about Israel's evils. But that's just to placate the populace. In reality, he's done absolutely nothing when he could fatally wound Israel if he so chose.
There are allegations Erdogan's family (his son, specifically) is still doing business with Israel. Israel and Turkey have largely cooperated with the collapse of Syria. Both regimes simply cannot exist without material support, arms specifically, from the US.
What could turkey do? Cut off Israel's energy imports. IIRC ~40% of Israel's energy comes from Azerbijan from a pipeline that transits Turkey. Erdogan could absolutely shut it off if he wanted to. That would absolutely cripple Israel.
But he doesn't. Because he's not actually opposed to Israel.
Domestic military production in Turkey is ramping up especially in air defence while currently building the "Steel Dome" obviously inspired by Israel's Iron Dome [0] and partially in response to Israel's military conquest. Israel funded the PKK in Syria to attack Turkish armed forces [1] though the PKK have recently dissolved.
So facts are thin on the ground currently. More will become clear in the coming days. I've heard different accounts all the way from 12 bunker busters were used on Fordo to none were used and the entrance was bombed after Iran was warne, kinda like a warning shot, to say "we can get you".
What Iran does next depends on the extent of the damage. It could be nothing. It could be a token response. It could be escalation.
But so far Iran has been the only rational actor in this region. Iran has been attacked with justification. Anytime someone says "preemptive strike" they mean "attack without justification". Their responses have been measured, rational, justified and proportionate.
When Israel tried to previously escalate the conflict with Iran and drag the US into war with Iran, Iran just didn't take the bait. And this is despite Israel assassinating government officials, bombing Iranian embassies and bombing Iran for absolutely no reason.
> But so far Iran has been the only rational actor in this region. Iran has been attacked with justification. Anytime someone says "preemptive strike" they mean "attack without justification". Their responses have been measured, rational, justified and proportionate.
Either I'm misunderstanding (or misreading) something, or at least one of these sentences accidentallied a negation.
I sympathize with people thinking Israel is wagging the dog but I don't think it's true.
Israel exists in the way that it does and does what it does because we allow it to. It is a toolf our imperial interests, not the other way around. To argue otherwise absolves us of our responsibility and can often descend into antisemitism (which I oppose).
We have described Israel as an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" in a region we want to destabilize becuase it has resources that are important to us.
Oh and this is uniparty too. Don't kid yourselves if you think things would be different if the Democrats were in power. It would not. There is universal agreement on US foreign policy across both parties. The events in Gaza began under a Democratic president who did absolutely nothing to rein Israel in where he could've ended it with a phone call.
There is no opposition to what Israel is doing. Even now, Democratic leaders in Congress aren't complaining about what the president is doing and has done. They're complaining that they weren't consulted. And not to oppose it but to have the opportunity to express their support.
And yes, the media is absolutely complicit in what's going on too.
This administration is destroying US soft power in a way that no rival could ever have imagined possible. The big winner here is China.
DOGE? Absolutely performative. Even things like USAID are a trival amount of money and miss the point that it's a very cheap way of getting influence. Plus I'm sure there's some CIA money buried in there too.
Abusing the power in such a trivial manner like suspending this account does nothing but hasten this downfall.
It's always worth adding that 20+ years ago the US passed a law colloquially known as the "Hage Invasion Act" [1], which not only authorized but requires the US to invade the Hage if ever any US servicemember are brought up on charges to the ICC. And this extends to servicemembers and leaders of allies.
Empires don't die quietly or quickly. This is going to be long, drawn out and chaotic.
The article not talking about alienation is either a failing from shallow analysis or a political statement in and of itself not to criticize capitalism. To blame this solely on technology is somewhat of a Luddite take. That's a symptom.
The very fact that you have free time, weekends, paid leave, enough money to enjoy these things (until the last few decades anyway), etc are the result of anti-capitalist collective action. People quite literally died so you can have these things.
It's no accident the society is so hyper-individualistic now. That's be design by the capital-owning class to destroy any form of collectivism because it's a threat to the economic order.
So things like "third spaces" disappearing can't be viewed in a vacuum. It's a foreseeable consequence of hoarding property (ie ever-increasing housing prices). The powers-that-be love that. You're not forming bonds with your fellow human beings. You're also not "wasting" time on recreation instead of working a third job you hate just to make ends meet and make somebody else more money.
A key part of Marx's alienation is the alienation of labor. This is where you're not paid enough to afford the goods or services you produce. We see this in the developing world: literal children being paid pennies to make clothes they can't possibly afford. We are increasingly seeing the alienation of labor in the developed world.
I have a theory that BitTorrent is used as a command and control mechanism for botnets.
We've seen various methods of botnet and malware control like rotating domain names that were successfully reverse engineered and used to trigger a kill switch for WannaCry, famously [1].
BitTorrent is known to be resilient, particularly if you use multiple trackers, proxies, etc that are all built into the infrastructure.
So there are two use cases for public image dissemination:
1. Lossy: JPEG fills this role;
2. Lossless: this was GIF but is now PNG; and
3. Animated: GIF.
So for a format to replace JPEG, it must bring something to the table for lossy compression. Now that JPEG is patent-free, any new format must be similarly unencumbered. And it's a real chicken-and-egg problem in getting support on platforms such that people will start using it.
I remember a similar thing happening with Youtube adding VP9 (IIRC) support as an alternate to H264, which required an MPAA patent license. The MPAA also tried to cloud VP9 by saying it infringed on their patents anyway. No idea if that's true or not but nobody wants that uncertainty.
Anyway, without total support for VP9 (which Apple devices didn't have, for example) Youtube would need to double their storage space required for videos by having both codecs. That's really hard to justify.
Same goes for images. You then need to detect and use a supported image format... or just use JPEG.
There are lots of lessons to learn from Google Wave.
The first is: what problem does this solve (for users)? That was never clear. It always seemed like a solution in search of a problem. Any communication platform needs to ask "how does this compete with text messaging, group chats and email?"
The second is: this was peak "startup within Google" experimentation. And it cannot work. No new product will be able to compete with existing billion+ dollar businesses. There's no incentive to succeed and political inertia preventing you doing anything. A whole bunch of people got a ton of equity thrown at them for mediocrity.
Third, Wave was still in the era when Google was pushing Google Web Toolkit ("GWT") as a solution to UI engineering. This didn't really solve any problems and created a bunch of new ones. For example, for the longest time (this was eventually fixed many years later) you had to use special versions of protobuf Java classes.
Lastly, i believe I heard that the internal implementation was incredibly complicated such that people managed to produce the same functionality with a fraction of the source code in Python/JS.
"Random" is a really interesting concept because it's intuitive yet hard to define. It's really a definition by exclusion, that is if you can't describe something in any way then it's random by default. But how do you know you just haven't found the way to define it yet?
This is somewhat related to the idea of complexity. So if you have a sequence of "random" numbers, how do you know they're random? Take a look at a Mandelbrot Set and you wouldn't guess it's not that complex.
I really like the idea of Kolomogorv complexity [1], which is to say that the complexity of an object (including a sequence of numbers) is defined by the shortest program that can produce that result. So a sequence of number generated by a PRNG isn't complex because an infinite sequence of such numbers can be reduced to the (finite) size of the program and initial seed.
There are various random number generators that use quantum effects to create random numbers. One interesting implication of this is that it ends the debate about whether quantum effects can affect the "classical" or "macro" world.
I heard a story (unconfirmed) that at the time Oracle was buying Sun, it was pretty obvious that owning Java then suing people, most notably Google, was the whole point.
Google not buying Sun may go down as one of their poorest decisions. I mean rumor has it, Google offered $6 billion to buy GroupOn (which they turned down). If GroupOn is worth $6B (it isn't) then owning Java is worth $7.5B.
I suspect Google believed they had an implicit license from Sun to use Java on Android, otherwise this was a massive licensing failure. While Sun still existed, even buying a token license would've been cheap.
Now Google ultimately prevailed in their lawsuit setting an important precedent but at what cost? It was over a decade of uncertainty and cost who knows how much in legal fees. And while it was ongoing, Android was under a cloud and Google had to abandon a bunch of things it was otherwise doing with Java.
I'm not super versed in the detailed, but as a result haven't Android's Java and OpenJDK diverged substantially at this point? As far as I understand you can't just run Java code (post version 8 I think) on Android. It's why you can't for instance write a Clojure app for Android.
Maybe someone who knows more could fill in the details
You can't look at what the leaders of these countries say. You look at what they do. Turkey's population, for example, is extremely sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians. Erdogan will even get up there and bang the drums about Israel's evils. But that's just to placate the populace. In reality, he's done absolutely nothing when he could fatally wound Israel if he so chose.
There are allegations Erdogan's family (his son, specifically) is still doing business with Israel. Israel and Turkey have largely cooperated with the collapse of Syria. Both regimes simply cannot exist without material support, arms specifically, from the US.
What could turkey do? Cut off Israel's energy imports. IIRC ~40% of Israel's energy comes from Azerbijan from a pipeline that transits Turkey. Erdogan could absolutely shut it off if he wanted to. That would absolutely cripple Israel.
But he doesn't. Because he's not actually opposed to Israel.
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