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In addition to repudiating the "Greco-Roman" stoic ideal, the Trump/Vance model also repudiates the "Christian" ideal of compassion. In other words, they repudiate the twin pillars of the mythical civilizational origin story of the West they purport to be defending.

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Roman Architecture https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/roman-architecture

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No sé si estamos preparados para un mes que tiene 31 días, cinco fines de semana, un cambio de estación, un cambio de hora, un cambio de papa, una guerra interna dentro de la OTAN, una conmemoración del 11M, otra del covid y una semana de carnaval. Y todo con una sola nómina.

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I hope Americans appreciate that while the episode today was about Ukraine and featured Zelensky, it is more than anything about the future of their country, American democracy, its place in the world, and its rapid path towards authoritarianism

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For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography

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Read and wonder what Europe’s response has been so far. Hint: slash aid budgets: on.ft.com/4kfldmV The fallout @wemos.org

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Les EDS ont un rôle essentiel dans la compréhension des grands enjeux de santé dans les pays pauvres. Leur disparition va contribuer à invisibiliser la santé des populations fragiles. Peu probable qu’elle soit compensée par des investissements dans les systèmes statistiques nationaux…

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An influential program that gave detailed public health information to about half of the world’s nations has folded as a result of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

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Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

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Cela semble absurde, et j’ai été choqué la première fois que je l’ai compris, mais la France – il n'y a pas d'autre mot – est bien un paradis fiscal pour milliardaire Explications détaillées 🧵

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One point Agamben got right is that whenever we introduce seemingly benevolent mass surveillance systems, we must imagine what authoritarians will do with these powers during a state of emergency. Software designed to track online hate speech now used to screen and scapegoat academic research.

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In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first-ever vaccine trial for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at an unprecedented speed for a randomized vaccine trial in an emergency.🧵

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Encore une fois, certains agitent le totem de la censure pour évoquer la décision de la RTBF (en concertation avec TV5 Monde pour rappel) de diffuser le discours de Donald Trump en léger différé, en raison des potentielles idées d'extrême-droite qui pourraient être diffusées 🧵

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this is probably not the most important thing to know about the Panama Canal this week, but if you travel east through the Panama Canal you go from the Atlantic to the Pacific

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Hemos vivido tiempos más violentos que estos, pero no sé si más crueles y desesperanzados.

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Cuetlaxochitl es el nombre náhuatl original.

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"Given the clinical presentation and symptoms reported, and a number of associated deaths, acute pneumonia, influenza, COVID-19, measles and malaria are being considered as potential causal factors with malnutrition as a contributing factor." Update on outbreak unfolding in DRC" #IDSky #MedSky

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I would love to read any work on the hand gestures used for indicating taxi routes in cities likes Kinshasa. The meaning of a gesture will vary depending on where you are in the city and shows a very specific understanding of the city. Such an impressive unwritten shared knowledge. #kinshasa

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JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription

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Mais aussi des données solides qui prouvent que pour rigoler il vaut mieux traîner avec les littéraires qu’avec les scientifiques.

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Fabulous work with colleagues in Burundi, who took up Mpox sequencing to understand the situation AND are willing to share pre-publication, shows the expanding tree, and evidence for several introductions not taking off. In progress virological.org/t/preliminar...

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"La fin est où nous commençons." - T.S. Eliot Petite traversée en forme de #thread des différentes stratégies pour tenter d'achever un chef-d’œuvre inachevé : la fugue 14 de l'Art de la Fugue de Jean-Sébastien Bach 🧵

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Data preparation! It's crucial for machine learning, and we all hate it. Tools and techniques to reduce this burden? A talk summarizing of 10 years of R&D on this, from cheap tricks to LLMs and graph neural networks www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU_W... Entertaining and interesting, I hope

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😄😄😄😄☹️😄😄😄😄

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Boniface Mwangi, one of the most visible social justice activists in Kenya, was kidnapped from his home early this morning. Boni has been calling for people to protest at the Nairobi Marathon which is happening today.

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If you ask me "How are you?" I'm going to be honest. I simply reply that I am stuck between fury and sadness and will never forget that a genocide is happening in real time and people ignored or defended it. Now back to women's sports, right?

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What are you reading now ?

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Good news to see WHO approve an Mpox test; diagnostics are an important part of how we respond to outbreaks. www.who.int/news/item/03...

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Today’s Cafe del Sur about Gino Paoli is a pure delight pca.st/episode/7a80...

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