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OK, so the Alt-Right regime at the BBC has cancelled a 96 year old national treasure. THE national treasure. Lifelong naturalist and broadcaster, who introduced most of the country to a love for the natural world in their childhoods. For the capital crime of a nature program covering damage to ecosystems. In the final series of his lifetime of service

Remind me, which side of the political spectrum does cancel culture? 🤬

#IStandWithDavidAttenborough

in hindsight the plot of The Great Gatsby makes infinitely more sense when you remember that the author and all of the characters have been driven to the brink of stark-raving, shoelace-eating madness by three years of a global flu pandemic

Il Venerdì di Repubblica intervista la responsabile iniziative legali dell'Uaar Adele Orioli, dopo la vittoria dell'associazione contro il Comune di Verona che aveva censurato i manifesti della campagna "Viviamo bene senza D".👇
blog.uaar.it/2023/02/22/una-se
È l'occasione per parlare di impegno civile e delle campagne che l'Uaar porta avanti per un paese più laico.

You know things are going well in your country when it’s unclear if the Prime Minister’s press release is suggesting they’re going to allow the enslavement of illegal immigrants, or that everyone else is being enslaved and the illegal immigrants won’t be allowed to participate

Every link on Twitter is broken right now.

Two weeks ago: “How Elon Musk fired Twitter staff and broke nothing.”
Megan McArdle. WaPo.

Someone call McArdle, the perennially wrong rightwing columnist at The Washington Post—or better, her boss the Opinion editor.

(What is really going on there: McArdle is serving the billionaire class, who wants to believe tech workers are expendable. But not sure why WaPo continues to pay her.)
#Twitter #media #News #McArdle
engadget.com/every-link-on-twi

Freed Ukrainian POW describes first thoughts after russian capture 

60 Minutes's Scott Pelley speaks with three Ukrainian soldiers, all women, who were captured by russian forces. Their stories are disturbing.

(WARNING - Describes Disturbing Scenes)

(13 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗 youtu.be/wpm9ZThwP_U

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine

This is the #EU map of droughts. Orange means the soil is dry, red means the soil is dying.

We in northern and eastern Europe better be ready to help out this summer #climate
edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/edov2/php

Per i servizi segreti la minaccia "più concreta e vitale" è quella "anarco-insurrezionalista, caratterizzata da componenti militanti determinate a promuovere, attraverso una propaganda di taglio fortemente istigatorio, progettualità di lotta incentrate sulla tipica 'azione diretta distruttiva'".

Il potere teme l'area anarco-insurrezionalista ben oltre le sue capacità di azione, e teme la violenza anarchica sulla proprietà più di quella neofascista sulle persone.

Mappa: ecn.org//antifa/

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Ecco qui la relazione annuale dei servizi segreti sulla sicurezza nazionale, da cui estrapolo le parti che mi sembrano più rilevanti per confermare la tradizione storica di incomprensione e criminalizzazione di ogni spinta culturale e sociale antimilitarista, pacifista e movimentista, buttando tutto nel calderone delle minacce alla sicurezza nazionale.

sicurezzanazionale.gov.it/sisr

The classic trilemma goes: "Fast, cheap or good, pick any two." The Moderator's Trilemma goes, "Large, diverse userbase; centralized platforms; don't anger users - pick any two." The Moderator's Trilemma is introduced in "Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media," a superb paper from @arozenshtein@mastodon.socialof U of Minnesota Law, forthcoming in the journal *Free Speech Law*, available as a prepub on SSRN:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

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Meanwhile, both of us knew the Jon & Vangelis version of "State of Independence", but barely aware of Donna Summer's version. I did like the choir - I think adding the choir was a good touch.

AND IT DAMN WELL BETTER BE. "Summer's version is notable for its all-star choir which included Lionel Richie, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Brenda Russell, Christopher Cross, Dyan Cannon, James Ingram, Kenny Loggins, Peggy Lipton, Patti Austin, Michael McDonald, and Stevie Wonder."

Oh.

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Un professore universitario perde il suo incarico alla Sapienza di Roma, in maniera che reputa arbitraria e senza una chiara giustificazione. Si è scoperto che in passato ha fatto l’attore porno. Fa causa all’ateneo e la vince: dovrà essere risarcito. Un caso che mette in luce il moralismo di un certo mondo accademico italiano. 👇
vanityfair.it/article/ruggero-

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