RIP Navalny 💔

Not just a tragedy for Russia but a chilling message for the West. The question is whether we’ll hear it.

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Navalny didn’t just show enormous courage and express irrepressible hope – he embodied them | Carole Cadwalladr theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

Oh my. Thanks to Carole Cadwalladr for sending me this. Such a coincidence. It was going to be the first page of the Selected Prose I’ve been struggling with recently & was just about to abandon— but who knows, maybe now I won’t! 
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We are in shock at the news of the death in Gaza of Moustafa Thuraya (a freelance videographer working with AFP News Agency) and Hamza Waël Dahdouh, journalist for the channel Al Jazeera PR. It appears an Israeli strike hit their car. It is definitely a never-ending slaughter. #PressFreedom

12-year-old Dunia lost her leg in an Israeli airstrike that killed her whole family.

We filmed this video with Dunia during the seven-day truce, and yesterday an Israeli tank-fired shell killed her while she was recovering in Naser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The full World Health Organization (WHO) statement on the United Nations assessment mission to the Al-Shifa hospital, which colleagues described as a “death zone.”

The extreme suffering of the people of #Gaza demands that we respond immediately and concretely with humanity and compassion.

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Every minute, every hour, the situation is getting worse in📍 #Gaza

Thousands of people- including our colleagues- are being killed from bombs & strikes. Soon, more will die from consequences of the imposed siege.

A ceasefire is critical to save what is left of our humanity.

Mohammed Abu Hatab is the latest journalist to have been killed in Gaza, along with 11 family members reportedly by an airstrike on their home. Committee to Protect Journalists counts 36 journalists and media workers killed so far - 31 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and 1 Lebanese cpj.org/2023/11/journa…

Palestine TV journalist Mohammad Abu Hattab was killed with his family in an Israeli airstrike. His colleague Salman Al-Bashir removes his protective gear marked PRESS on air saying: “We can’t take it anymore, we are exhausted. We are victims. The only difference between us is

Failing to hold Dominic Cummings & Boris Johnson to account: what I learned. You have to act now. After the event is after the event. You’ll be told to ‘move on’, to ‘get over it’ to ‘look forward’. This is already happening now. While people are dying.

🚨UK govt is holding its AI Safety Summit next week.

Since the summit is all about 'safety', the govt & Big Tech bros attending will be cracking down on election disinformation, right? Nope.

Killer robots & far off dystopia it is.

Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth) for #PeoplesAI series /Part 1

🔴 The future of AI should be decided with and by the people.

Join the People’s Summit for AI Safety, our alternative to the Big Tech-led UK government “AI Safety Summit”.

TODAY at 3PM GMT/11AM EST/8AM PST.
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52,000 pregnant women and over 30,000 babies under six months of age are currently drinking brackish or contaminated water in Gaza, according to an internal U.S. State Department document's assessment

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SXSW award-winning documentary ANOTHER BODY about deepfakes will screen at Curzon Soho in London on November 26, with a Q&A with Pulitzer Nominated Journalist Carole Cadwalladr Carole Cadwalladr

Tickets: curzon.com/films/another-…

Watch our Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=Cs3Wlf…

what if the only way to stand up for yourself, is to stand up to yourself? this anti-bullying month, let’s all take a closer look at the kind of bully we rarely stand up to.
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Learn more about how to deal with negative self-talk at StandUpToYourself.com #StandUpToYourself

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Varoufakis tells Carole Cadwalladr

“Jeff (Bezos) doesn’t produce capital, he argues. He charges rent. Which isn’t capitalism, it’s feudalism. And us? We’re the serfs. “Cloud serfs”

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I've loved reading the tributes to Jess Search. And they just keep on coming. I was so acutely grateful for her kindness and grace in my hours of need...but so do so many others.
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