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Taking the high ground is a CHOICE … Good to see Top UK pension fund pulls £28bn from State Street over ESG retreat on.ft.com/4kf7Va2 Top UK pension fund pulls £28bn from State Street over ESG retreat

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Two panel mosiac of the Rosette Nebula - Quick and dirty process of 90 mins of data. #astronomy #astrophotography

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Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

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“Wow” Y’all are so easily impressed

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Thoughtful approach to economy and migration policies www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Artificial intelligences fail to identify optical illusions in images created by other AIs – so these images could form the basis of a new kind of CAPTCHA test

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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My sour recommendation to you this morning: this sobering piece on who will defend Europe in the coming war. It's detailed, clear and terrifying. www.ft.com/content/f268...

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I am not at Gulf of Mexico. Just liked the assertiveness of this meme. Lunatics won’t make me accept their phony baloney bs. Still i persist. Nite nite Love you guys🥰🥰😴😴

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A survey of workers who used generative AI found that they used critical thinking less when they trusted the AI to do the task accurately

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How long until the Library of Congress faces a purge? Should historians be getting what resources they can now? I'm imagining anything related to the civil rights movement, anti-fascism, and even public health could be gone soon.

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Biologists are discovering a world of beings tinier than viruses that appear to be everywhere – even living inside us. We have no idea what most of them are doing, but they raise profound questions about what life is and how it got started. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

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Just saying…

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People opining about indefinite leave to remain don’t have the faintest clue how onerous it is to get it. Thousands of pounds. A booking system that requires logging on at 12.01am to find slots. Paying to sit a test on the Black Death and the inventor of the hovercraft.

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Clothes made of nylon often end up in landfill, but engineered bacteria that break down the plastic may give new hope for recycling. www.newscientist.com/article/2467...

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Good morning here is your thread of Weekend FT highlights: 1. Nobel winning economist and author of "How Nations Fail" Daron Acemoglu shows how this weakening of institutions could lead to the end of the era of US prosperity on.ft.com/4hOXBU5

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The way things are going in the US, the rest of the world have to become imaginative about the scenarios that would best safeguard their interests. Today I ask if the world could decouple from US trade. For most countries, the answer is yes, at a significant but bearable cost. on.ft.com/41eWTKF

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Corporate America sucking up and Musk raking in the $ "A rush of announcements in recent days included Visa finalising a payments processing deal with Musk’s social media site X and United Airlines accelerating a plan to use Musk’s Starlink satellites for in-flight WiFi." www.ft.com/content/c8ed...

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the moon, venus, and saturn all hanging out tonight 🌌🥺

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The campaign against trans rights is also about stripping away everyone’s protections against discrimination, reviving, as Douglass put it “the moral blindness” of those who “persuade themselves that they are safe, though the rights of others may be struck down.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Truly terrible move by BBC World Service to axe its flagship science news show #ScienceInAction, the world's best, smartest science journalism in audio for a global audience. Host @peaseroland.bsky.social is the most insightful, informed, energetic journo in the BBC Science Universe. bit.ly/3PTLg50

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I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ

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A team in Exeter has developed a finger-prick test to classify long Covid into three types: weak antibody response, excess immune response, and unclear patterns. Early results suggest it could guide tailored treatments, but larger trials are needed. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“Make good trouble.” ~ John Lewis

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A recipe that, I felt, deserved reposting

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A mysterious form of superconductivity has been found in a twisted crystal, which could help researchers better understand how to make super-efficient electrical devices. www.newscientist.com/article/2465...

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AI-developed drug will be in trials by year-end, says Google’s Hassabis on.ft.com/3E0syGu

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One Headlight. Shooting the Milky Way and having composed this image, a vehicle emerged from the fog-laden valley below. Initially annoyed, I was to delete this file. But this image has become my favourite from that night's shoot. Take-away, don't delete files in camera. #photography #milkyway

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A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).

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Faster UK growth tied to boosting export services in South East, data shows — great @amyborrett.bsky.social charts you can play with here. Given importance of exporting to productivity, begs question why growth-focussed govt doing so little on trade side of EU reset. on.ft.com/4jqFbKX

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Hoo boy, I bet you could use a distraction today! So how about an intense JWST image of a pair of colossal stars whizzing past each other and blasting out wave after wave of dusty shells, expanding away at a soul-freezing NINE MILLION KPH?! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/two-coloss... 🧪🔭

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Celtic women reigned supreme in Iron Age Britain 🏹 @rowhoop.bsky.social and @pennysarchet.bsky.social discuss new genetic evidence with Rachel Pope which has shaken up long-held beliefs about the role of women in ancient civilisations. www.newscientist.com/podcasts/

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What Happened at Auschwitz review – this urgent documentary is a small step back towards enlightenment

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Obama’s inauguration - 28 degrees I’m going to leave this here ALL day Jan. 20 …..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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I feel like it’s worth remembering this >> TikTok admits tracking FT journalist in leaks investigation on.ft.com/3WGFJQX

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Human urine has been suggested as a fertiliser, and now scientists have found a way to better utilise this in just a few simple steps. www.newscientist.com/article/2464...

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Australian oysters’ blood could hold key to fighting drug-resistant superbugs, researchers find

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EU updates a trade deal with Mexico on Friday, relaunches talks with Malaysia this morning and files a WTO case against China this afternoon. Some nice optics of standing up for rules-based trade, no matter what effect they have in the end. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show. www.newscientist.com/article/2464...

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Little Nadiia protects her cat named Kasper during air raid alerts. No kid should live through such things. We need weapons to protect their childhoods. Source:nadin202121/April 2024

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