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congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.

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Actually surprised egg memes taunting Americans in their hour of difficulty hasn't become a thing. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-might-...

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RIP Jennifer Johnston. The first writer I ever met, when she visited our school to talk about Shadows on Our Skin. A fine, somewhat-overlooked writer. Jennifer Johnston: chronicler of Ireland’s hidden civil wars www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Chinese authorities appear to have censored a document showing plans to spend more than US$6.6 million this year on training for two American-born winter sport athletes. In full: https://buff.ly/4beaq8t

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"Any company whose value is this dependent not on its balance sheet but instead on a shared popular narrative is unusually vulnerable to narrative shifts." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/tesla-is-m...

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"Phonetic overlap," they say...

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I have a review in The Irish Times of Looking at Women Looking at War, by the late Ukrainian writer and human rights researcher Victoria Amelina (€): www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

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Adrian Chiles is sound on the national question. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I'm a bit surprised that Pat Shortt, Richie Kavanagh or some other zeitgeist bard has not yet composed a paean to the dodgy box. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

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"Every four years, there’s a chance that the US sides with our mortal enemies in order to extract colonial-like economic concessions from us" is not a valuable proposition The credibility of the US is dead, and there’s nothing a centrist Democratic president can do to fix it

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The pandemic taught many countries how crucial the undocumented are to their economies -- previously wary countries such as Australia and Italy gave them regularization and rights. I wrote this paper a couple years ago but it's suddenly relevant again: www.dougsaunders.net/2022/01/the-...

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The New York Times is complicit in this and Pamela Paul is partly responsible for this.

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I have a review in the Irish Times today, of two fine books about Gaza: Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, and Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza.

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This “NATO transcript” is fake and I’m sad to see people repost it. I’m reporting it and blocking the account that originally posted it. Always worth checking your sources before you repost stuff that conveniently affirms all your political feelings, whatever side you’re on.

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Unfortunately for Vance, the administration he is part of is currently showing the folly of handing over the keys of power to a cult of ideological extremists that only a third of voters elected.

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The “free speech absolutist” suing his own customers in #China for complaining about their accidents in his cars… apnews.com/article/tesl...

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Associated Press White House reporter blocked from attending this afternoon’s Oval Office event covered by the media after the wire service was warned to adhere to usage of “Gulf of America,” according to AP executive editor Julie Pace.

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There's a real air of 1998-2000 about this story. Sensitive laptop losses and thefts really seemed to disappear with the advent of thumb drives and cloud storage. www.rte.ie/news/newslen...

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NEW: update your #iPhone. Today's #Apple security update fixes a bypass used by a sophisticated attacker to get around the USB Restricted Mode on locked devices. Props to my brilliant @citizenlab.ca colleague @billmarczak.org for the discovery!👇

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My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

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Fantastic exhibition at the Petit Palais yesterday of the Swedish painter Bruno Liljefors (1860–1939). Probably the greatest paintings of nature I have ever seen. Not sure how I'd never heard of him before, given he was a friend of Anders Zorn and Carl Larsson.

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I wrote this about anti-wokeness, which is nothing more than a rebadged do-over of the tedious political correctness panics of my childhood. On how anti-woke, like 'politically incorrect' before it, is just a politically correct term for 'a dickhead'. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

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A victim in #Sweden's mass murder, Bassam Al Sheleh. A father of two who came to Sweden from Syria. Worked making bread and food, and on days when he had Swedish language classes -- where he would be killed -- he would start at 4-5am, then work late after classes. Loved TikTok.

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More of this please. Make them scared.

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The "Lord Protector" himself.

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Inevitably to the Visit Rwanda sponsorship bringing a reputational stain on Arsenal and Bayern. The consequences of being sponsored by a state run by questionable regime. Arsenal hasn’t commented. Bayern studying, meanwhile Rwanda-backed rebels (UN claim) running amok in Congo. Football welcomes all

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I always wondered why they bothered putting such an expensively assembled cultural hub in a place that is a pain in the arse to get to, especially by public transport. I fear the ultimate collapse of WKCD might also be the death knell for government culture initiatives in Hong Kong.

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