Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"What is truly antisemitic is the equating of Zionism with Judaism": Jewish activist Rachel Shapiro arrested today in Berlin after her speech calling for a free Palestine.

"We stand, as a Jewish value, with the oppressed, always", is how she concluded her speech before the German police took her away.

"Mídia ligada à Faria Lima faz-se horrorizada com o plano de golpe. Mas rentistas alimentaram a polarização e “instalaram-se” no governo bolsonarista, sob Paulo Guedes. Diziam que “excessos” eram pontuais. Agora, tentam lavar suas mãos…"

https://outraspalavras.net/mercadovsdemocracia/as-digitais-do-financismo-no-crimes-de-bolsonaro/

"Os atrasos da FCT na resposta aos pedidos de prorrogação criaram dificuldades a vários bolseiros ouvidos pelo PÚBLICO, já que a bolsa de doutoramento implica um regime de dedicação exclusiva e, portanto, neste período entre a ausência de resposta e o fim do pagamento da bolsa não podem arranjar outra fonte de financiamento."

https://www.publico.pt/2024/02/15/ciencia/noticia/fct-promete-resposta-bolseiros-receber-prazo-mes-2080443

"News is also coming in about the next few rounds of Covid vaccine boosters. It seems that while countries such as the US & France have made vaccines available to anyone who wants them, the UK will probably continue restricting free access to select groups, and may reduce access further in the future"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/covid-booster-jabs-campaign-spring-2024-uk

"Of course, these models are trained on large corpuses of internet data that include a lot of toxic and dangerous content, so their being helpful is a double-edged sword! A helpful model would helpfully tell you how to build a bomb or kill yourself, if asked. The other key innovation has been to make these models much less likely to share dangerous information or generate toxic content. This is done with both supervised and reinforcement learning."

https://aeon.co/essays/can-philosophy-help-us-get-a-grip-on-the-consequences-of-ai

All over the world, you can find Putin apologists who love the attention they get by presenting views from the parallel universe.

Here, meet former Danish member of parliament Marie Krarup, who reacts to the news of Navalny's death:

"Unfortunate that Navalny is dead. Sad for the Russians that a democratic system has not been built in Russia. The West could have helped with this. But they did the opposite. Unfortunately."

Sure, we killed Navalny because we did not help Russia.

February 17, 1740, birthday of Swiss naturalist Horace Benedict de Saussure. He studied the #Alps ⛰️ and was the first to geologize on the summit of Mont Blanc in 1787, describing alpine-type crystals found there💎

https://tinyurl.com/wwec4uz

Navalny death ratchets up pressure on GOP to move Ukraine aid

The Friday death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has cranked up the pressure on House GOP leaders to pass another round of aid to Ukraine to counter Moscow’s aggression amid allegations that an emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin had a hand in Navalny’s demise. Supporters of Kyiv have argued for months that a... #press

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4473466-navalny-death-ukraine-aid-gop/?utm_source=press.coop

An analysis of #influenza virus evolution over 22 years of #flu seasons reveals the major drivers of disease transmission and epidemic severity. #ReviewedPreprint #epidemiology #virology #epidemic #microbiology https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/91849?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_pr

>100 Yale faculty have written a letter to the next President of Yale. We outline challenges ahead in a world in which demagogues seek to divide us from each other, undermine education, squelch dissent, suggest the diversity that exists on campuses is a retreat from excellence. Here is the letter.

" So-called zombie fires are burning under thick layers of snow at an unprecedented rate, raising fears about what the coming summer may bring. "

" As of February, most of BC has been under medium to extreme levels of drought "

#ClimateDiary #Climat #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #BBC #BBC-Climate #NadineYousif

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68228943