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"[H]ospitals, schools, and water and sanitation systems — upon which children depend to survive — have been attacked, damaged, or destroyed ... Nothing justifies the killing and maiming of children, or the destruction and disruption of essential services that children depend on."
Turning the world over to madmen. That is what is happening. Madmen.
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IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN
His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.
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This story is such a bad example of journalists *creating* news. They sent out a survey to 5,000 GPs. 752 replied. 540 said they’d never refused to give a fit note to someone who said they had mental health issues. 162 said they had refused, which is over a fifth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent
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If you are a researcher using ChatGPT Edu metadata about your research has been leaking www.fastcompany.com/91507219/cha...
Preliminary investigations confirm what we all know: Trump and the US have blood on their hands for murdering schoolgirls in Iran
can claude turn an all night existential crisis into a morning epiphany and the produce a semester's worth of work within a weekend?
maybe im selfish but at this point i dont really give a fuck about how the laws that target us and our life-saving healthcare might also affect cis people. why is it always "and it could hurt cis people because of XYZ!" why are we not enough. why are we never enough for you all to care about.
View Boris Gamazaychikov’s graphic link Boris GamazaychikovBoris Gamazaychikov • 1stVerified • 1st Head of AI Sustainability @ SalesforceHead of AI Sustainability @ Salesforce 32m • Edited • 32 minutes ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn The gas-powered data center craze has come to Europe. Yesterday, a 110MW off-grid AI data center outside of Dublin was switched on - and it's powered entirely by fossil fuels. Developers went with natural gas engines (specifically RICE) to bypass the grid connection queue. They claim the engines "could" be switched to HVO, and that the project will attempt to connect to the grid "when possible". What does this mean for Ireland's climate goals? According to my estimates, this single project will increase the entire country's annual GHG emissions by ~1%. Assumptions: - The project seems to be using Rolls Royce (mtu) 4000 Series RICE which have an electrical efficiency of 44% https://lnkd.in/eRX4PRuf - Modifying the NREL life cycle gas emissions factor with this efficiency yields 656.75 gCO2e/kWh https://lnkd.in/gfgs2X6P - Assuming a 90% capacity factor because AI hyperscale data centers run near 24/7 to recoup massive GPU costs - Ireland’s 2024 GHG emissions = 53.8 million tCO2e https://lnkd.in/ejjRgRpE hashtag#DataCenters hashtag#Sustainability hashtag#ArtificialIntelligence
Royce (mtu) 4000 Series RICE (natural gas) Al Data Center
Ireland's new fossil-fuelled #Petrotech data center will increase Ireland's **total** (everything, not just the power sector) emissions by ~1%
Absolutely nuts. A 1% national increase - for what? Come on boosters, explain why this is worth it 🫠
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“”You’re leaving in power a regime that is more convinced than ever that they need a nuclear weapon as a deterrent,” says Fred Wehrey, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “That’s the great tragedy of this.””
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Sénégal: Investissements prioritaires - Le gouverneur de Thiès privilégie la mobilité urbaine
You made no reference to the impacts on the African or South American continents in your article. Why not?
Earlier this month, my state of Australia banned a particular phrase associated with Palestine liberation that refers to two bodies of water in the Levant. It's been kind of downplayed because "they'll only arrest people who are using it to menace!" No, they're just arresting everyone lol
Must-read thread from Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War
Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.
Often, I have an idea for a piece but it's not until I do the iterative work of writing the words down, reading them, and imagining what another reader might think that I realize that I was missing steps in my argument that I wouldn't have filled in if I hadn't tried to write it down.
Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.
This headline sucks. "Tilly Norwood" did not respond to a goddamn thing.
reality is a simulation in which some asshole typed "give that ben affleck character from mall rats earth's biggest military"
'Pedro Sánchez responds to Von der Leyen and makes a gesture towards China, India and Brazil: 'We don't want a more nuclear world. We don't want a nuclearised Europe' dozz.es/fdbsb4'
Trump really is fast. It took the previous 4 US presidents 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban. It took Trump just a week to replace Khamenei with Khamenei.
"The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate mourns to the Palestinian people & to the journalistic community in Palestine and around the world the passing of fellow journalist Amal Hammad Al-Shamali (46), who was martyred as a result of Israeli occupation forces shelling..."
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Exclusive: The Metropolitan Police interviewed Virginia Giuffre 3 times after her lawyers handed them a dossier of evidence saying that she was trafficked to UK by Epstein and Maxwell, and made her have sex with Prince Andrew
But they did not launch an investigation
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Whole world's getting a real crash course in the "geography is history" principle
There is frequent debate about the cost of Irish Unity, with wildly different figures mentioned by different commentators.
Those referencing John Fitzgerald's contribution on the matter would do well to read this article.
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So because #Ryanair in 2024 treated a passenger to a 13-hour delay and €890 in costs for a new flight, and then simply ghosted her, an Austrian court today impounded one of its airplanes at Linz airport. ooe.orf.at/stories/3345...
My friends in enterprise IT security, esp for public sector, understand what an unmitigated disaster this is. Everyone needs to operate under this assumption: our personal data has been urretrievably compromised& will be exploited, not only by a malignant govt, but also by private& foreign actors.
When you get annoyed and write 3000+ words in response to @utafrith.bsky.social piece in the Times Educational Supplement on Autism dermotcasey.net/the-challeng...
Partially as I see people I respect like @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social sharing something deeply problematic