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"Those who attack Jews in the UK are not striking a blow for Palestine: they are behaving as antisemites always have"

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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"‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse"

From loom smashing to data centre bombing: the need for individual and social control of technology is greater now than ever.

theguardian.com/technology/202

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Germany’s Scholz wants European allies to up defense spending

Germany is Europe's leading aid donor to Ukraine, and Berlin wants other countries to catch up. #press

politico.eu/article/germany-ol

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Ruth Mottram

Sitting on the Oslo metro T-bane with my #LangrendSki alongside about 30 other people all taking #PublicTransport to the nearest #Skitrails

This might be the most #Scandinavian I've ever felt.

#crossCountrySki #NordicSkiing #Oslo #Norway

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"We’re taking legal action to uncover Palantir’s blanked-out contract"

"Even if you wanted to give the tech giant Palantir the benefit of the doubt, with its £330m contract to process NHS data there’s no way to tell: 417 out of 586 pages are completely blanked out."

goodlawproject.org/were-taking

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Steve Silberman

I guess it's going to take America still longer to finally admit to itself what's been flamngly obvious since 2016: The Republican Party is under Russian control, doing the Kremlin's bidding to destroy the US from top to bottom. apnews.com/article/house-speak

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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

It appears that the Tories’ cynical attempt to shut young people out of voting may have backfired, with a number of older Tory voters lacking the ID required. This will happen as senior citizens fail to renew driving licenses or passports. Young people, meanwhile, have the online organisation to help ensure their peers obtain a suitable ID to vote with.

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My first sourdough loaf. A lot of faff, but I hope it's worth it.

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"NASA Selects Bold Proposal to 'Swarm' Proxima Centauri with Tiny Probes"

Think pebble-sized objects powered by laser beams that accelerate them to 10-20% of the speed of light. The distance to our nearest star but one is 40 trillion kilometres.

universetoday.com/165116/nasa-

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"The Final Lesson Donald Trump Never Learned From Roy Cohn"

"The unrepentant political hitman who taught a younger Trump how to flout the rules didn’t get away with it forever."

For a brilliant zeitgeist drama featuring Roy Cohn as one of its main characters, see the six-episode TV series Angels in America, based on a play by Tony Kushner. Cohn's part was played by Al Pacino.

politico.com/magazine/story/20

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"Scottish Labour conference: Press barred from lobbying event"

Labour's rose-tinted spectacles appear to have gone completely opaque.

opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone

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@KimSJ Granted, but Egypt still has a moral choice to make in the face of this immediate crisis.

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RIP Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, assassinated by Vladimir Putin.

May his memory be a blessing, and hasten the end of Putin.

theguardian.com/world/2024/feb

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@KimSJ The moral choice is to prioritise an immediate threat to life. I can appreciate the medium to long-term problem for Egypt.

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"Egypt ‘setting up contingency area’ in case of Rafah exodus"

Cairo is caught between a rock and a hard place: set up a contingency area in Sinai and facilitate the Israeli far-right plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt, or keep the border sealed, and share moral responsibility for the deaths of Gazans.

It should be an easy decision, but el-Sisi, murderous dictator that he us, is not a moral person.

theguardian.com/world/live/202

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Ruth Mottram

What deep held flaw is built into the human psyche that we would prefer to consider the monstrous technologies of #geoengineering rather than cut any fossil fuel use?

#ClimateDiary

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Ulrike Hahn

@Ruth_Mottram
so called risk seeking in the domain of loss?

Consider the following gamble. Would you prefer:
option a: lose 100 Euro for sure
or
option b: losing 200 Euro with probility .5, 0 Euros otherwise

it's a well known, and robust, effect ever since Kahneman & Tversky 1979, that most people considerably prefer option b

pages.ucsd.edu/~aronatas/proje

basically, drastically cutting carbon emissions, ie radically changing our life style is perceived as 'a sure loss'?

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EZ Lorenz 🇺🇸 📸

Captured the First Quarter Moon with Jupiter below plus four of its moons (double exposure) and a closeup of the moon tonight.
-02.15.24

#Moon #Washington #PNW

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taz

Der konservative Ministerpräsident Kyriakos Mitsotakis hatte die Homo-Ehe gegen den Widerstand der Kirche sowie aus den Reihen seiner eigenen Partei vorangetrieben. 👉 taz.de/!5992689/

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Adam Bienkov

🔴After the Wipeout

Today's huge by-election victories shows the next general election is all but decided. It's now time for us to focus on what will come next

adambienkov.co.uk/p/after-the-

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