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đź’ĄThe Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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“In Syria, food and other support for nearly 900,000 people has been suspended. In West Africa, 3.4 million people have lost drug treatment for deadly tropical diseases. At least 328,000 HIV-positive people in 25 countries aren’t getting lifesaving drugs." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

submitted 48 days ago • 29 comments

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

submitted 30 days ago • 88 comments

The Roman Authorities in Jerusalem have issued a comment on the Radical Preacher.

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

submitted 33 days ago • 70 comments

Doughnut Economics survived Trump I - in fact it went from being a book of ideas to a buzzing worldwide community of practice. If you want to be part of turning a compelling global vision into local action, join us: it’s time to connect and learn together. Pls RT. doughnuteconomics.org

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

submitted 37 days ago • 787 comments

Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

submitted 90 days ago • 19 comments

I've just published an article in @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social on logic-checking as a complementary approach to fact-checking. Logic-checking can tackle misinformation that fact-checking struggles to address, & seamlessly leads to logic-based corrections skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/the-...

submitted 49 days ago • 10 comments

Re-reading books in 2025. First book of the year is done. I forgot how absolutely phenomenal 'Confessions of a Gambler' by Rayda Jacobs is. Also, previous readers of my second hand copy agree. Unputdownable. 🇿🇦 #2025readinglist

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

"Feminist urbanism is a theory and social movement concerning the impact of the built environment on women.The theory aims to understand what it means to be a woman in an urban space and what struggles and opportunities women encounter in these environments." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminis...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I see someone talk about the freedom of “self driving cars” I want to yell “YOU WANT A TRAIN”

submitted 55 days ago • 66 comments

i hate to be a monocausal guy but i really think this discussion of masculinity, trade school, the gendering of education etc is beating around the bush. male democrats have seen no sizable drop in their desire to attend college. female republicans have. it’s about politics.

submitted 53 days ago • 127 comments

I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 55 days ago • 58 comments

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

submitted 55 days ago • 477 comments

The article is a type of dog whistle. The author highlights two things that may or may not be related (but the link between the two seems plausible ...if you squint hard enough) and leaves it up to the reader to come up with a conclusion - one that the author has set up. (1/n)

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment