Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
The ticketing industry seems to operate under the assumptions that 1 everyone will sell their tickets if people are willing to pay more than face value, and 2 there is no way they can stop bots from buying tickets.
Great article on the world cup though!
UNHCR calls for urgent de-escalation as Israel-Iran strikes create humanitarian fears
🚨 UNHCR is calling for urgent de-escalation as the Israel-Iran conflict intensifies, deepening humanitarian fears.
For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet."
www.ft.com/content/5d06...
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: TC Alfred suspends shipping operations at Port of Brisbane, Queensland - Update | https://www.riskline.com
Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again newrepublic.com/article/1920... via @newrepublic.com
Powerful Open Letter to Donald Trump from 16 former Guantanamo prisoners.
"Guantanamo is not just a prison – it is a place where law is warped, dignity is stripped, and suffering is hidden behind barbed wire. We lived it..." 1/2
The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.
WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”
🇨🇩 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: M23 continue advance into South Kivu amid clashes with FARDC - Update | https://www.riskline.com
🇨🇩 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Authorities close airspace to aircraft registered or based in Rwanda | https://www.riskline.com
Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security EXECUTIVE ORDER February 10, 2025
Make America Great Again ... with legalized bribery
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
🇹🇿 TANZANIA, 🇺🇬 UGANDA: Ebola and Marburg surveillance measures enforced at border crossings between Tanzania’s Kagera region and Uganda | https://www.riskline.com
🇷🇸 SERBIA: Protest march reportedly underway in Belgrade | https://www.riskline.com
Access error page at Financial Times
@financialtimes.com getting this error on occasion (including now) on your site trying to access articles since last week. Unable to access "myaccount" also to contact support about it.
🇧🇫 BURKINA FASO, 🇲🇱 MALI, 🇳🇪 NIGER: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger leave ECOWAS - Update | https://www.riskline.com
🇨🇩 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Arrests reported amid protest in Kinshasa - Update | https://www.riskline.com
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NEW | Rwandan-backed M23 rebels are advancing towards Goma, a provincial capital in eastern DRC, and say they intend to capture the town.
The move is a major escalation in the eastern DRC conflict and would exacerbate the already dire humanitarian situation in the area.🧵
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"Senegalese President Diomaye Bassirou Faye, evoking the 80th anniversary of the massacre by French soldiers of Senegalese troops recently freed from German prisoner-of-war camps...told Le Monde that “soon there will be no more French soldiers in Senegal.”
responsiblestatecraft.org/senegal-fran...
#BreakingNews #SouthKorea Martial Law Commander Army General Park An-Soo has announced their First Martial Law Command Proclamation.
I'm still not seeing posts in Arabic in Blue Sky. When I posted in Arabic the formatting seemed awkward (couldn't do right to left script). This excludes a great many people. What's being done about it?
Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
today is nonidi 9 Frimaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIII, celebrating juniper
BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
