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Its a lot worse here in Myanmar (Burma). Due to On-Going War and revolution against Coup ,junta cut of power just to starve revolution supporters to death. Yest

by v3ss0n 4y ago

Its a lot worse here in Myanmar (Burma). Due to On-Going War and revolution against Coup ,junta cut of power just to starve revolution supporters to death. Yesterday 3 died due to heatstroke near us. Now very hard for business: 12 hours a day power outage even in cities like Yangon (Rangoon) . 2 days ago it was 105 degree F and due to no power we can't have air conditioning . It was so hot in the day that I cannot even sit in-front of laptop for more than 1 hour. It is totally killing.

hammyhavoc 4y ago
Great example of the echo chamber/filter bubble effect: this is the first time I've heard about this, and it's been going on since 2021. Wow.
- throwaway049 4y ago
  I wouldn't really expect this to get regular coverage outside the region. Just something in the foreign news section when there's a major event. But you can mitigate the bubble effect by bookmarking news sites in multiple countries and browsing all of them.
  - hammyhavoc 4y ago
    I follow quite literally thousands of RSS feeds, and this is still the first time I've heard about this. It might be the quantity problem: because there's more coverage on x, coverage on y is easily overlooked because it's such a small percentage of cumulative reporting.
    - throwaway049 4y ago
      Thousands of newsfeeds sounds like a quantity problem in itself. Even at one post per feed per day doesn't that take up an inordinate amount of your time?
      - hammyhavoc 4y ago
        I use a lot of automated filtering against it. I read for maybe an hour per day, just like someone would read a newspaper. I haven't seen live broadcast TV since 2010, so it's not like I spend my life consuming content or anything like that. The overwhelming majority of them don't even publish every month, let alone every quarter. They're also categorized and prioritized. E.g., a vuln in a piece of software I or a client uses is going to be weighted differently to say a recipe from my wife's blog.
        throwaway049 4y ago
        Kinda envy that level of organisation!
        hammyhavoc 4y ago
        Well, to be fair, I have been using RSS since the '90s, and it wasn't an overnight thing, and it's required a lot of trial-and-error, especially since Google Reader and Yahoo Pipes died. As organized as some aspects of my workflow are, there's areas of my personal life that are quite shambolic. Some other things that changed my working life: * Putting a numbered label on all of my several hundred cables that relates to a spreadsheet with connectors, length, colour, where I bought it from (with a URL for fast replacement), warranty period, any notes (condition, suggesting not to buy another or that it needs re-terminating). * A 'flexible' area of my home office where it isn't my desk, but a usually empty space where I can setup a secondary workspace for myself or others with smaller items. It's always torn down after use so that it can be anything it needs to be on a given day. Even having the ability to get a change of scenery when working from home feels much better mentally than staring at a wall or one of my monitors most of the time. * Keeping a digital zettelkasten and also treating it as a knowledgebase. I'm very good at having ideas, but appalling at retaining them. Everything reasonably compelling gets written down, that includes solutions to problems that require some degree of complexity, or alternative solutions that may work better for the next time the problem emerges for me or someone else. These little cards are nice to provide others with an actionable and documented solution. * The "Johnny Decimal" system has been great for digital file management. As a disclaimer, I was diagnosed with ADHD in the '90s, and if I wasn't somewhat anal over my workflow then very little would happen, if anything. The human element: * My closet organization is borderline nil. There's a system emerging if I can stick to it, but we don't talk about the 'laundry chair' in the company of others (heh, hello). * Organizing food and eating things before the best-before can be challenging at times. I can do a lot better with this. I saw a few compelling FOSS options for this, but I'd have to check my zettelkasten to figure out the names. * I struggle with responding to IMs. I wish I could 'mark for follow-up' or simply 'mark as unread' on them. I love email from an organizational perspective, but most folks don't like email (no surprise there).
    - toast0 4y ago
      News coverage is strongly biased towards new things, thus the name. Continuing conflict isn't new, especially if it's not local. Warzones are dangerous, and if none of the sides is interested in protecting reporters, and no side has an affiliated and large contigent of independent risk-taking reporters, there's just not going to be much coverage. If just being an independent reporter is a large risk, also getting close to combat is less likely.
      - v3ss0n 3y ago
        Its true , even photographers that post online got killed and detained. In last month bombing incident , the junta send Mi35 gunships 8 hrs later , to get rid of the people who are gathering evidences.
  - v3ss0n 3y ago
    Many news agency won't cover it , but here are local news sources with unbiased news and with good english. They can't operate inside country since coup since journalist got detained or killed. https://myanmar-now.org/en/ https://myanmar-now.org/en/ https://mizzima.com https://mizzima.com https://www.irrawaddy.com https://www.irrawaddy.com
- mikub 4y ago
  I'm not a big reader of news, but here in germany you hear a lot about the situation over there. Just a few days ago they bombed their own people with fighterjets. And of course there was that meme with the girl doing some yogaclass while in the background you could see the military vehicles starting the coup. """ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6vnSR0wbI&pp=ygUXbXlhbm1hciBjb3VwIGdpcmwgZGFuY2U%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6vnSR0wbI&pp=ygUXbXlhbm1hc... """
  - hammyhavoc 4y ago
    Just an observation: in the time I spent in Berlin, I felt like I had a much better idea of what was going on in the world just from local news sources, which surprised me. The UK definitely feels like a bubble in and of itself (hence focusing on RSS feeds instead of TV). The USA is like the UK dialled up another notch. It's of course very US-centric, as you would expect.
    - crossroadsguy 4y ago
      UK has been able to keep its generations of citizens blissfully unblemished by its true colonial past - the horrors, massacres, and the genocides - many many of each kind of them. I wouldn’t be surprised if the more recent events also get rather easily skipped.
    - mikub 4y ago
      The good thing here is that you have the public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF which have really good news coverage, corospondents all around the world, or some "newsshows" that also tell you about some forgoten conflicts or such things from time to time. I was living in NewZealand for one year and the TV and newspapers always felt somehow sensationalist to me. One of the things I miss though, are some good FM radio talkstations, but now that we have podcasts thats not so much of a problem anymore.
  - v3ss0n 3y ago
    Yeah , it happened a few weeks ago and i couldn't focus on anything after that event for a few days. The fear of it could be me and my family , anytime is overwhelming.
- ldarby 4y ago
  I highly recommend the podcast It Could Happen Here, they are good for bursting such bubbles. Last update they had on Myanmar is here: https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-junta-s-sham-elections-and-a-myanmar-update https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-junta-s-sham-... (or anywhere else you can find podcasts).
  - v3ss0n 3y ago
    Good podcast . For local people here - We are getting killed even for photo graphing silent strike , back in newyear day. The people protest by nobody going out , and the amatuer reporter who just photographed and posted on reddit which was picked up by new sources , got killed 2 days later. Thats why many of us dare not to do podcast/go live on news.
- jaredklewis 4y ago
  If you’d like to keep up on this and other conflicts and international events, I highly recommend the Economist.
  - v3ss0n 3y ago
    I had posted new sources that cover daily in previous comment , in case to keep updated.
hedora 4y ago
I wish the international community would classify weaponizing utilities and food supplies as war crimes.

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hammyhavoc 4y ago

Great example of the echo chamber/filter bubble effect: this is the first time I've heard about this, and it's been going on since 2021. Wow.

throwaway049 4y ago
I wouldn't really expect this to get regular coverage outside the region. Just something in the foreign news section when there's a major event. But you can mitigate the bubble effect by bookmarking news sites in multiple countries and browsing all of them.
- hammyhavoc 4y ago
  I follow quite literally thousands of RSS feeds, and this is still the first time I've heard about this. It might be the quantity problem: because there's more coverage on x, coverage on y is easily overlooked because it's such a small percentage of cumulative reporting.
  - throwaway049 4y ago
    Thousands of newsfeeds sounds like a quantity problem in itself. Even at one post per feed per day doesn't that take up an inordinate amount of your time?
    - hammyhavoc 4y ago
      I use a lot of automated filtering against it. I read for maybe an hour per day, just like someone would read a newspaper. I haven't seen live broadcast TV since 2010, so it's not like I spend my life consuming content or anything like that. The overwhelming majority of them don't even publish every month, let alone every quarter. They're also categorized and prioritized. E.g., a vuln in a piece of software I or a client uses is going to be weighted differently to say a recipe from my wife's blog.
      - throwaway049 4y ago
        Kinda envy that level of organisation!
        hammyhavoc 4y ago
        Well, to be fair, I have been using RSS since the '90s, and it wasn't an overnight thing, and it's required a lot of trial-and-error, especially since Google Reader and Yahoo Pipes died. As organized as some aspects of my workflow are, there's areas of my personal life that are quite shambolic. Some other things that changed my working life: * Putting a numbered label on all of my several hundred cables that relates to a spreadsheet with connectors, length, colour, where I bought it from (with a URL for fast replacement), warranty period, any notes (condition, suggesting not to buy another or that it needs re-terminating). * A 'flexible' area of my home office where it isn't my desk, but a usually empty space where I can setup a secondary workspace for myself or others with smaller items. It's always torn down after use so that it can be anything it needs to be on a given day. Even having the ability to get a change of scenery when working from home feels much better mentally than staring at a wall or one of my monitors most of the time. * Keeping a digital zettelkasten and also treating it as a knowledgebase. I'm very good at having ideas, but appalling at retaining them. Everything reasonably compelling gets written down, that includes solutions to problems that require some degree of complexity, or alternative solutions that may work better for the next time the problem emerges for me or someone else. These little cards are nice to provide others with an actionable and documented solution. * The "Johnny Decimal" system has been great for digital file management. As a disclaimer, I was diagnosed with ADHD in the '90s, and if I wasn't somewhat anal over my workflow then very little would happen, if anything. The human element: * My closet organization is borderline nil. There's a system emerging if I can stick to it, but we don't talk about the 'laundry chair' in the company of others (heh, hello). * Organizing food and eating things before the best-before can be challenging at times. I can do a lot better with this. I saw a few compelling FOSS options for this, but I'd have to check my zettelkasten to figure out the names. * I struggle with responding to IMs. I wish I could 'mark for follow-up' or simply 'mark as unread' on them. I love email from an organizational perspective, but most folks don't like email (no surprise there).
  - toast0 4y ago
    News coverage is strongly biased towards new things, thus the name. Continuing conflict isn't new, especially if it's not local. Warzones are dangerous, and if none of the sides is interested in protecting reporters, and no side has an affiliated and large contigent of independent risk-taking reporters, there's just not going to be much coverage. If just being an independent reporter is a large risk, also getting close to combat is less likely.
    - v3ss0n 3y ago
      Its true , even photographers that post online got killed and detained. In last month bombing incident , the junta send Mi35 gunships 8 hrs later , to get rid of the people who are gathering evidences.
- v3ss0n 3y ago
  Many news agency won't cover it , but here are local news sources with unbiased news and with good english. They can't operate inside country since coup since journalist got detained or killed. https://myanmar-now.org/en/ https://myanmar-now.org/en/ https://mizzima.com https://mizzima.com https://www.irrawaddy.com https://www.irrawaddy.com
mikub 4y ago
I'm not a big reader of news, but here in germany you hear a lot about the situation over there. Just a few days ago they bombed their own people with fighterjets. And of course there was that meme with the girl doing some yogaclass while in the background you could see the military vehicles starting the coup. """ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6vnSR0wbI&pp=ygUXbXlhbm1hciBjb3VwIGdpcmwgZGFuY2U%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6vnSR0wbI&pp=ygUXbXlhbm1hc... """
- hammyhavoc 4y ago
  Just an observation: in the time I spent in Berlin, I felt like I had a much better idea of what was going on in the world just from local news sources, which surprised me. The UK definitely feels like a bubble in and of itself (hence focusing on RSS feeds instead of TV). The USA is like the UK dialled up another notch. It's of course very US-centric, as you would expect.
  - crossroadsguy 4y ago
    UK has been able to keep its generations of citizens blissfully unblemished by its true colonial past - the horrors, massacres, and the genocides - many many of each kind of them. I wouldn’t be surprised if the more recent events also get rather easily skipped.
  - mikub 4y ago
    The good thing here is that you have the public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF which have really good news coverage, corospondents all around the world, or some "newsshows" that also tell you about some forgoten conflicts or such things from time to time. I was living in NewZealand for one year and the TV and newspapers always felt somehow sensationalist to me. One of the things I miss though, are some good FM radio talkstations, but now that we have podcasts thats not so much of a problem anymore.
- v3ss0n 3y ago
  Yeah , it happened a few weeks ago and i couldn't focus on anything after that event for a few days. The fear of it could be me and my family , anytime is overwhelming.
ldarby 4y ago
I highly recommend the podcast It Could Happen Here, they are good for bursting such bubbles. Last update they had on Myanmar is here: https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-junta-s-sham-elections-and-a-myanmar-update https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-junta-s-sham-... (or anywhere else you can find podcasts).
- v3ss0n 3y ago
  Good podcast . For local people here - We are getting killed even for photo graphing silent strike , back in newyear day. The people protest by nobody going out , and the amatuer reporter who just photographed and posted on reddit which was picked up by new sources , got killed 2 days later. Thats why many of us dare not to do podcast/go live on news.
jaredklewis 4y ago
If you’d like to keep up on this and other conflicts and international events, I highly recommend the Economist.
- v3ss0n 3y ago
  I had posted new sources that cover daily in previous comment , in case to keep updated.

hedora 4y ago

I wish the international community would classify weaponizing utilities and food supplies as war crimes.