#OnThisDay in 1942, the Allies began Operation Streamline Jane, to capture the rest of #Madagascar. Streamline Jane consisted of three linked operations, codenamed Stream, Line, and Jane.
The initial landings for all three operations were very successful. But Vichy resistance was stubborn, and it was November before the island was completely under Allied control.
The new West End company of Six has been revealed. Starring from 17 October 2023 will be Nikki Bentley as Catherine of Aragon, Thao Therese Nguyen as Anne Boleyn, Kayleigh McKnight as Jane Seymour, Reca Oakley as Anna of Cleves, Inez Budd as Katherine Howard and Janiq Charles as Catherine Parr. They will be joined by Gabriella...
How cool is this?! ⛵📦💚
Maritime container ships under sail!
And they are a cooperative ! :anarchoheart3:
Windcoop’s first ship will be an 85m container ship with a loading capacity of 1,400 tonnes, i.e. 100 x 20 feet containers on average.
Plus up to 12 passengers!
The first line will be France- Madagascar, from 2025, transporting organic fairtrade spices*.
The National Crime Agency (NCA), has arrested and detained Romy Voos Andrianarisoa, the Civil Chief of Staff of Madagascar's President, Andry Rajoelina, over corruption allegations....
Andry Rajoelina, President of Madagascar, has defended his acquisition of French nationality in the interest of his children and doubled down that he will always defend the African country.
I haven't posted on Twitter since November, and wasn't tempted to until just now, when I saw a tweet saying that Tetrarchs first went into battle on #DDay.
It's one of my pet peeves. The Tetrarch wasn't designed as an airborne tank, it was intended to be a standard light tank. It was taken into service in that capacity, and a bunch of them fought on #Madagascar in 1942.
#HitoSteyerl - Mean #images#ai
"#SenseTime is an #ArtificialIntelligence firm that, until April 2019, provided surveillance software to #Chinese authorities that was used to monitor and track #Uighurs; it had been flagged numerous times as having potential links to human-rights violations. It seems the combination of my name and face was not only used to optimize #MachineVision for #RacialClassification, but that this optimization was swiftly put into practice to identify and track members of an ethnic minority in #China. The fact of my existence on the internet was enough to turn my face into a tool of literal #discrimination wielded by an actually existing digital autocracy. [...] We interviewed [...] S., a student who did an internship in an ai start-up that offered personalized luxury travel recommendations to the better-off. His company’s communication strategy emphasized automation, with a recommender system allegedly based on users’ preferences extracted from social media. But behind the scenes, it outsourced all its processes to micro-providers in #Madagascar. It did no #MachineLearning" https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images
#OTD in 1942, #British forces launched Operation Ironclad, landing on the Vichy #French island of #Madagascar, beginning a six-month long campaign to take the island.
It was the first major amphibious operation conducted by the Allies, and they learned some useful lessons from the experience.
When representatives of an Australian mining firm arrived in Ambohitsy Haut village in southern Madagascar, they told residents they wanted to drill holes looking for graphite in their village. The villagers agreed, but they were clear; you can dig, but away from our ancestral tombs.
UK casting updates: Six (West End), To Wong Foo (Manchester), Madagasca (UK tour), Elf (West End), Everybody's Talking about Jamie (UK tour)
The new West End company of Six has been revealed. Starring from 17 October 2023 will be Nikki Bentley as Catherine of Aragon, Thao Therese Nguyen as Anne Boleyn, Kayleigh McKnight as Jane Seymour, Reca Oakley as Anna of Cleves, Inez Budd as Katherine Howard and Janiq Charles as Catherine Parr. They will be joined by Gabriella...
Madagascar President’s Chief Of Staff Arrested In UK on Corruption Charges (thewillnews.com)
The National Crime Agency (NCA), has arrested and detained Romy Voos Andrianarisoa, the Civil Chief of Staff of Madagascar's President, Andry Rajoelina, over corruption allegations....
Madagascar leader defends move in dual nationality scandal (northafricapost.com)
Andry Rajoelina, President of Madagascar, has defended his acquisition of French nationality in the interest of his children and doubled down that he will always defend the African country.