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Just donated. Feels good

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🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

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Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing? Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Berlin jetzt. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Denmark lost 52 soldiers fighting alongside the US. Now they feel threatened by Trump www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

Tom Friedman on point here, though he understated the case. Either Trump is the worse negotiator in all the universes of truth and fiction, or he is beginning an alliance with Russia with a joint attempt to subjugate Ukraine (and then much else). www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 252 comments

This is chilling. Whatever he may said before, Elon intends to kill free speech in America, by persecuting those who challenge him.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

"By framing Ukraine as an economic burden, a trigger for global conflict, and an unreasonable actor prolonging the war, Trump’s pseudo-humanist political discourse creates a space where Ukrainian suffering becomes acceptable, or, potentially, even desirable."--Yegor Rubanov

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Bei einem Umstieg auf innovative und effiziente Technologien und deren intelligenter Vernetzung ergeben sich hohe Einsparungen bei Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle, die zum großen Teil importiert werden - aktuell für 80 Milliarden Euro jährlich. www.fr.de/politik/klim...

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

submitted 4 days ago • 221 comments

This book is incredible. Essential reading.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

submitted 122 days ago • 320 comments

Stalin blamed the kulaks for their own starvation. Anyone who blames Zelensky for Trump's decision to cut arms and intelligence has succumbed to the same logic.

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Some round numbers: Amount invested on the premise that LLMs would built AGI: $500 billion Number of massive LLMs that have thus far led to AGI: 0 Amount Nvdia’s market cap has lost from its peak: $1 trillion

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof. ⚡ Bluesky's first IRL ads spotted in @boston.gov @mbta.com.

submitted 4 days ago • 790 comments

Fun Fact: Dystopian fiction is when you take things that happen in real life to marginalized populations and apply them to people with privilege.

submitted 7 days ago • 111 comments

Countless emails asking how Americans can directly aid Ukrainian soldiers. Here’s an easy answer: savelife.in.ua/en/

submitted 7 days ago • 89 comments

Must watch war speech by Justin Trudeau. Few outside of Canada understand our combination of civility, empathy and steel in our spine - this speech explains all that. Not a foul word spoken. Not one inch of retreat. Long Live Canada Vive Le Canada #ElbowsUp www.youtube.com/watch?v=83f4...

submitted 7 days ago • 69 comments