Between 10–15 academics from Gaza will be speaking — it’s so important we show up in solidarity. Please sign up to attend and support their voices: eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-from-… #Gaza #AcademicSolidarity

Japan and Brazil, both fed up with the United States, are looking to begin trading beef with each other for the first time in history. America First = America Last.

I’m literally crying.

as a leftist it's quite frustrating to see a lot of established leftist voices completely silent on age verification 🙃 and this is indicative of a broader ignorance about tech issues among leftists, which is unacceptable given how much tech dominates our modern world 1/3

“Today marks 80 years since the atomic bombing. Do you know the movie "Hiroshima"? Eight years after the end of the war, in 1953, it was produced with the full cooperation of Hiroshima citizens, including over 85,000 atomic bomb survivors.”

If the Earth could speak with words, I think she’d say: “I gave you rivers to drink from and you built factories by them. I gave you sunrises and you stared at your phones. I gave you everything and you appreciated nothing.”

As rising sea temperatures are affecting marine life in the waters around Japan, konbu (kelp) harvests in Hokkaidō have fallen by two-thirds in the past 30 years. nippon.com/en/japan-topic…

A new paper, published in PNAS, suggests that "large groups of editors and authors...cooperated to facilitate publishing fraud." The authors used statistical analyses and huge databases of papers to figure this out. But first, some context on paper mills. There is a well-known

🚨 South Park didn’t just go scorched earth, they napalmed the narrative. This week’s episode has Dora the Explorer getting ICE-raided at her own show, then trafficked straight to Mar-a-Lago to give old men massages. That’s right. A kids’ cartoon character ends up massaging a

In the context of Brexit, the politics of canon and tradition in the Jane Austen Rise of a Genius series, affirm a nationalist and neoimperial culture. Austen was neither radical nor an abolitionist and we should all stop using the eugenicist term "genius" theconversation.com/jane-austen-at…

Connectomes are limited in the sense that: - Mapping neuron connection doesn't capture the biochemistry happening in those neurons in a live animal/insect. - The connections are like spaghetti code, trying to make sense of all of it is extremely difficult.

Please head over to lifeline4gaza.com to find a campaign that could use your support 🌹

A hamster forum where people were going to talk about how to care for their pet hamsters was banned

Egypt just signed a $35 billion deal with Israel. With neighbours like this who needs enemies.

🇺🇸 Estados Unidos: Avances para proteger la salud mental frente al uso de IA. El gobernador J.B. Pritzker, del estado de Illinois, firmó una ley que protege a los pacientes al prohibir el uso de aplicaciones y chatbots de IA para ofrecer servicios de terapia y psicoterapia.

And people are allowing it to continue

And by schools who support the usage of these cheating mechanisms.

It is Covid and long Covid.

日本政府は今こそ、パレスチナの人々の自由を支持し、自決権を尊重するために、パレスチナ国家の承認をする時です。 動かない政府を動かすのは、私たち市民の責任です。 パレスチナの人々の権利が尊重され、自由に生きていける未来のために、署名へのご協力をお願いします。 change.org/Palestine_Stat…