Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Rees-Mogg wants to abolish the independent Supreme Court and give ultimate power to the government and its parliamentary majority. Who can then do whatever they like. No more checks and balances. No more democratic norms. Just a Putin-style dictatorship.
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/popular-conservatives-rees-mogg-attacks-lady-hale-and-calls-for-neutering-of-supreme-court/5118671.article

Monarch butterfly numbers dip to second lowest level in Mexico wintering grounds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/08/monarch-butterfly-population-numbers-decline-endangered-mexico #Climatecrisis #Butterflies #Environment #Wildlife #Americas #Insects #Mexico

Apple Maps Now Offers Cycling Directions in Switzerland https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/08/apple-maps-cycling-directions-switzerland/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"It’s almost impossible to believe now, but in #2005 not one of the top ten companies in the #Fortune500 was a technology company. The highest entry was Hewlett-Packard at number 11, but it had nothing to do with the web. #Microsoft, which was coasting along at this point with its dominant Internet Explorer web browser, was number 41, and #Intel was 50. It was a long drop then to #Apple Computer at 263 and #Amazon.com at 303.

https://cybercultural.com/p/introduction-to-bubble-blog-book/

And that's „ut, mi, sol", a triad, a fine pure "Dur- Dreiklang" to be precise, symbolized in three dancing fingers making sound with three differently water filled glasses. It was all about the triad in seventeenth-century musical discourse of Europe. #histodons #EarlyModernHistory

Nine of #Bolsonaro's allies being raided by the Brazilian Federal Police, including four #Army Generals and one #Navy Admiral.

Two of #Bolsonaro's allies arrested, two arrest warrants still outstanding.

#JailBolsonaro 🍿

https://g1.globo.com/politica/blog/daniela-lima/post/2024/02/08/pf-faz-operacao-aliados-politico.ghtml

»Sleeping across Europe. Night Train Map 2024« is a beautiful map of Europe's night train network. i love the colors and the vision behind it! it was created by @jurim of @backontrack who are "campaigning for more, better, affordable, long-distance and cross-border #nighttrains in Europe"

🗺️ https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/

/via @curiousdata

#traintravel #mapping #darkmode

@lymphomation I'm totally biased but the best entry into viewing art at a museum is alongside an artist.

I went to art museums with my dad as a kid and learned how to look at art like he did. He also spent his life working blue collar jobs with a level of artistry that awed his employers.

It's a double shame that so many feel that art is only for the elite. So many people miss out on the personal enrichment and society is lesser for that.

Ireland measles: Adult dies in hospital after contracting disease

Please so not think measles is just innocent. We vaccinate for a reason!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68237808

#art #painting

Perspective: How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1227564378/get-the-picture-bianca-bosker-art

Looks like the Crick is creating an incubator in London:

"Companies with a focus broadly aligned to the Institute’s scientific goals in biomedicine will be able to occupy highly serviced state-of-the-art laboratories and office space in close proximity to the Francis Crick Institute and community of researchers, extending the reach of Crick discoveries and becoming part of a globally competitive location for entrepreneurship, technology and idea-generation."

https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2024-02-06_the-crick-collaborates-in-ventures-with-british-land-blackrock-and-reef-group-to-accelerate-the-growth-of-londons-knowledge-quarter-as-a-world-leading-life-sciences-and-ai/biotech-destination%3F1

"Move along, not much to see here. That seemed to be the message from OpenAI last week, about an experiment to see whether its advanced AI chatbot GPT-4 could help science-savvy individuals make and release a biological weapon."

https://www.ft.com/content/e2a28b73-9831-4e7e-be7c-a599d2498f24

Online betting opportunity:

"Imagine placing 50 flies in a bucket of soil. Some will fight and some will mate, but, for the most part, they will do their own thing."

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(24)00035-7

Birmingham back in the day

Stephen King could never match the cold fear of an SEO writer adding me on LinkedIn

Gordon Brown slams ‘obscene’ levels of destitution in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/08/gordon-brown-slams-obscene-levels-of-destitution-in-the-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #Poverty #Inequality #UK #UkPoverty #Destitution

Israeli settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, block and close roads between the Palestinian cities of Jenin and Tulkarm. #Genocide #Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #WestBank