“Pope Leo’s American ancestors were Black, listed in census records as mulatto, Black, Creole or a free person of color. His family tree includes slaveholders and enslaved people…” https://apnews.com/article/pope-apologizes-slavery-role-holy-see-vatican-78df993c5604eb098b19f255b89b3155 #SLAVERY #CHRISTIANITY #VATICAN #STATEOFTHEWORLD
Pope apologizes for Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery. Leo’s own family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners. He delivered the apology in his first encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” or Magnificent Humanity which was released on Monday. Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope has ever publicly acknowledged much less apologized for the role that past popes played in giving European kings explicit authority to subjugate and enslave “infidels.” One expert calls this “a truly remarkable moment.”

AP News

Just another day at the office. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#world #StateOfTheWorld #GlobalIssues

#FotoVorschlag

“Menschenskinder” / Oh man, good grief, jeez (old-fashioned expression of amazement, frustration, or dismay)

Amazement or dismay — how about both at once? We can send humans to the far side of the moon and work towards a vaccine for cancer, while actively committing genocide, stripping away human rights, and destroying the planet. In modern parlance, my favorite fridge magnet puts it a little differently.

#photography #kitsch #stateoftheworld

May 9th

Reflections

www.jresin.se

A project called "Reflections"

A salute to everyone that who's no longer with me!

A moment of thought about the state of the world today.

Inspired by music and poetry.

#reflections
#photographicpoetry
#personalproject
#timesgoneby
#stateoftheworld

And don't call me Shirley.

#1980s #depression #humour #StateOfTheWorld

Vance accuses EU of ‘foreign interference’ in upcoming Hungarian election while endorsing Orbán – as it happened

US vice-president claims ‘the bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary’

the Guardian

April Fool's Day... feels mighty f*cking redundant, given the state of the motherf*cking world.

#APRILFOOLSDAY #APRIL1ST #APRIL #STATEOFTHEWORLD

If someone comes to me today preaching about “post-quantum” security issues, I’ll remind them of the current state of security: the npm ecosystem gets abused daily, CI pipelines run left and right with full access to cloud services, so-called security devices like F5 and Ivanti are exposed (and compromised) to the internet, mailboxes get compromised just to change an IBAN in a PDF, and a simple phone call is still enough to get someone to hand over an MFA code.

But yes, by all means, let’s focus on post-quantum threats while handing AI tools SSH access like it’s a feature, not a confession.

#cybersecurity #stateoftheworld