cat man, global citizen. managing partner, @reflexions. transit, philosophy, humanism, emerging tech, anti-fascism✊
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Thread. The New York Times coverage of the police search for the killer of the health insurance CEO is getting weird. One aspect of it is pretty dark.
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Deadly new directive from Taliban leader (pictured) bans women’s health training leaving them w/out midwives or female health workers. Male doctors banned from treating women &female workers can’t be trained.This erases women’s access to healthcare & is a death sentence to women.
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Surreal scenes from Tbilisi as a young brave woman breaks through riot police barrier screaming: “Is it me you are afraid of?!”
The Georgian women define bravery. Video @RTavisupleba
In the US there has been a spike in searches for how to emigrate to Canada/Europe.
The shift toward authoritarianism is a global phenomenon; we are still in the early stages of a long-term trend that will likely engulf most liberal democracies in the coming years/decades.
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"It is likely Harris will win the election. That doesn't mean she will get to be the president."
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I started out thinking the Times had a small problem. But it's a big one. Related but far greater than really every other major media problem. I don't really fully understand its origins. But I know it when I see it.
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I feel like this is something that should be a much bigger story than it is: Starting next year, American passport-holders won't have visa-free access to Europe.
Instead, you'll have to pay 7 Euros and wait *14 days* for an entry visa to be processed.
reason.com/2023/07/28/say-go…
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Usually much less than 14d “This whole procedure is expected to be completed in only a few minutes. However, the application will be manually processed if there is a hit from the ETIAS. The manual processing is expected to take about 96 hours (4 days), or a maximum of 2 weeks.” schengenvisainfo.com/etias/
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I keep coming back to this line from Asteroid City. We don’t need to know all the answers to all our questions, we don’t need to understand every moment we are living though, we just need to keep living, just keep telling the story, and I think that’s just beautiful.
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New: @nycmayor is bowing to pressure from a powerful local business (and from one of his own top advisers) and ordering @nyc_dot to come up with alternatives to the long-planned redesign of deadly McGuinness Boulevard in Brooklyn. nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/07/…
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Among several graphs showing unprecedented current climate extremes it is the ones showing the growing anomaly in Antarctic sea ice extent that I find most concerning.
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the stage of capitalism where we explain the wealth of an affluent nation by comparison to the net worth of less than a dozen dudes
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The world is still full of mysteries: pea plants can sense the size of a stick before touching it AND WE DONT KNOW HOW. Maybe:
🦇Echolocation: plants seem to click & may "listen" for echoes!
👁️Basic vision using eye-like structures in leaves!
🦨Smelling the chemicals around them!
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This is a scandal. The Supreme Court is now just a 9 person legislature, slinging takes and making law with cases that are basically made up by friendly right wing groups in order to get the new law they want from their 6 buddies on the court. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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This is a bonafide scandal. On the legal level, it means the Court decided a case that wasn't a real case or controversy as Art III requires. On the political level, it
Man cited in Supreme Court LGBTQ rights case says he was never involved washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Mike Davis in his last interview: “Ruling classes everywhere have no rational analysis...for the immediate future. A small group have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history,& they have no vision,no strategy,no plan”
theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
"I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people."
"a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now."
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