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BREAKING Nearly one-third of citizens in the Pacific nation of Tuvalu are seeking a landmark climate visa to live in Australia as rising seas threaten their palm-fringed shores, official figures obtained by AFP show

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Third-country asylum plan shows UK is in ‘a very dark place’, says Albanian PM

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In which I meet Toula the rescue dog from Santorini living in Switzerland who had just arrived in Paris by train for a book launch. On learning to live a little again, piece by piece and kind person by kind person. My newsletter: rick-morton.ghost.io/her-name-was...

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Research has found that students write better essays than ChatGPT, according to this news story which mentions at the end that it was "compiled by ChatGPT"...

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So the Very Large Telescope in Chile is good. The Extremely Large Telescope, set to go online in 2028, will be even better. But what I'm really excited about is what comes after that: the Fucking Huge Telescope

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New research shows that believers in conspiracy theories have no idea how fringe their own beliefs are, and they vastly overestimate their own abilities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Lovely writing from @squigglyrick.bsky.social about the book launch of @meganclement.bsky.social, among many other things! (Wish I'd gone to these fete drinks) rick-morton.ghost.io/her-name-was...

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This is as certain as 2 + 2 = 4

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🇹🇭 VIDEO: Thailand credits prey releases for 'extraordinary' tiger recovery Sambar deer have been released In the forests of western Thailand, as part of a project run by Bangkok and WWF to boost the kingdom's fragile tiger population by providing them with a food source to hunt and eat.

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"I have not cried like that for a long time... This decision did not come from women who play grassroots football. It came from cis, white men who still run the game even down to the grassroots level." @meganclement.bsky.social talks to UK trans football players: lesglorieuses.fr/let-the-doll...

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Trump says US strikes 'obliterated' Iran nuclear sites, as Washington joined Israel's war with Tehran in a flashpoint moment for the Middle East. In response, Iran's armed forces said they targeted multiple sites in Israel. Israeli rescuers said at least 23 people were wounded u.afp.com/SxUt

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"Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths" - every couple of weeks I think about how this happened between 2020 and 2022 and just...never really made or stayed in the news. english.elpais.com/internationa...

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+1 but for the Paris metro and London underground

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Next week, UNAIDS will consider a proposal to close down the program by 2030. This comes as decades of progress to defeat #HIV is now under threat: www.devex.com/news/will-un... via @jennyleiravelo.bsky.social

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Thailand credits release of deer for 'extraordinary' tiger recovery. The wild tiger population in Thailand's Western Forest Complex has increased almost fivefold in the last 15 years from about 40 in 2007 to between 179 and 223 last year u.afp.com/SNt7

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Was going to make a joke about women lagging behind in crypto scams and going bankrupt buying ape jpgs but...

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UPDATE AFP journalists heard violent, sustained explosions in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Thursday morning, as the Israeli army warned of incoming Iranian missiles. According to the journalists, the explosions heard were the biggest since the conflict with Iran began a week ago

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So much from this era will look hilarious in the future if AI does bring about the promised revolution. This story frets about women being "in denial about AI’s all-consuming importance" www.ft.com/content/7f0f...

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Moth uses stars to navigate long distances, scientists discover. When temperatures start rising every year, Bogong moths embark on the thousand kilometre night-time flight from their home on the east coast to the cool inland shelter of caves in the Australian Alps u.afp.com/SNrM

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The FDA just approved a revolutionary new HIV prevention method. A strategy was already in place to make sure it reached poorer countries as quickly as possible. But with its cuts to #HIV services, the Trump admin could undermine this breakthrough: theforsaken.substack.com/p/the-promis...

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One thing I think is valuable about RFK and Jay being in power is that it's a chance for the public to realize (1) this is true in science, and (2) a lot of "scientific uncertainty" is actually just a small number of vocal, aggrieved, incorrect people who are motivated by spite and know how to post

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It's absolutely wild that US government policy is that cows should be protected against bird flu, but people shouldn't - really interesting piece from @gracewade.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2484...

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BREAKING At least 14 dead in Kyiv after Russian strikes, says military authority

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EDRi’s new position paper makes the case for an 🇪🇺EU-wide ban on #spyware. "After conducting a values-based analysis into spyware, the paper concludes that the only human-rights compliant approach is a full ban." edri.org/our-work/spy...

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"Barbara Santini is a psychologist who has been quoted hundreds of times in news publications around the world - including the Telegraph, BBC and Independent - and who, I can now state with certainty, does not exist." pressgazette.co.uk/news/fake-ex...

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VIDEO: Fires blaze in the Israeli port city of Haifa following an Iranian missile attack. After decades of enmity and a prolonged shadow war fought through proxies and covert operations, the latest conflict marks the first time arch-enemies Israel and Iran have traded fire with such intensity

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I remember watching Ananda on MTV. She died at 52 from a preventable & treatable form of cancer bc she worried mammogram radiation would give her cancer. She then declined treatment when diagnosed, which she regretted when it was too late. The “wellness” industry is literally scaring people to death

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UPDATE United Nations says it is drastically scaling back its global humanitarian aid plans due to the "deepest funding cuts ever". The UN's humanitarian agency said that it is seeking $29 billion in funding compared to $44 billion requested in December, in a "hyper-prioritized" appeal

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realize it is very unpopular to say this (lol, I have Pissed Off some folks with this one) but generally you should be extremely dubious about claims regarding AI use and water www.verysane.ai/p/the-bigges...

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Funny to think about Britons watching millions take to the streets affirming "No Kings" and thinking oh yes, we have one of those

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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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Incredible stuff - writing up what is basically an unhinged google review and making it sound like the following is the height of immorality: "Many were openly picnicking"

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My latest scoop: ICE has rescinded its accountability policy for warrantless arrests, giving agents “free license to make any arrest,” per one lawyer representing victims. It follows @theguardian.com exclusive that the agency was told to “push the envelope” to meet Trump’s 3k arrest quota.

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It's refreshing to see these things put so plainly

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Jesus fucking Christ man.

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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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Alexander Taylor died by "suicide by cop" after coming to believe OpenAI had 'killed' his ChatGPT girlfriend Juliet. He grabbed a knife and ran at police. His father used ChatGPT when writing his son's obituary. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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Fascinating missive from our dystopian present

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Investigators recovered a black box recorder from the crash site Friday of a London-bound passenger jet that ploughed into a residential area of India's Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground. u.afp.com/SNG3

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BREAKING 'No increase in radiation levels' at Iran's Natanz nuclear site after Israel strikes, says IAEA

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Finally, someone has written a story about the pastis-flavoured chips I think about every time I'm in line at the shop

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A London-bound passenger plane crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday leaving one known survivor from 242 on board, with the jet smashing into buildings housing doctors and their families. u.afp.com/SNiV

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Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which seem to be unintentionally leaking radio signals that overpower astronomers' telescopes

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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has faced budget cuts before, but the impact of President Donald Trump's policies has been even more "devastating" for reproductive health worldwide, chief Natalia Kanem told AFP. u.afp.com/SGjA

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BREAKING Israel says activist Greta Thunberg leaving on flight to France

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