Sometimes we don't notice how our activism shapes national politics. But it does. We don't see it, because we're busy acting. People that have to change plans because of it are much more attentive to it.
The Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoglu, and several other senior members of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) were detained early this morning. The arrests come just days before the opposition party was expected to officially nominate İmamoglu as its presidential candidate. The CHP will hold primaries on Sunday, March 23, to elect its presidential nominee, and İmamoglu was widely considered the most likely choice. He had unofficially announced his candidacy earlier this month.
Protesters chanted, “Mayor Resul is not alone!”, “Mayor Ekrem is not alone!” and “Detentions, arrests, and repression will not scare us!”, BirGün reports.
Emma Sinclair-Webb, the Turkiye Director of Human Rights Watch, condemned the detention of İmamoglu and other senior CHP officials, calling it a blatant abuse of the judicial system, Reuters reported.
Words of support for Imamoglu came from the French Foreign Ministry, whose spokesman said that the arrest could have grave consequences for Turkish democracy. The Foreign Ministry in Berlin called it “a step backwards” for Turkiye. The Council of Europe condemned the arrests as a move against the will of the people. The mayors of Athens and Thessaloniki also voiced support for the Istanbul mayor in social media posts.
In the wake of the Wednesday arrests, the Turkish lira crashed by 12% to an all-time low of 42 to the dollar.
Access to several social media platforms, including X, TikTok, and Instagram, was partially restricted in Turkey this morning.
Imamoglu’s arrest came a day after Istanbul University announced annulling İmamoglu’s diploma in line with a move by the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office questioning the legitimacy of his higher education credentials.
The U.S. government is taking people off the street and sending them to the place in the bottom picture without charges filed, no arraignments, no due process and without notifying anyone of the people’s whereabouts.
El Salvador intends to never release anyone from CECOT.
Around the world, economic policymakers are adapting to the reality that President Trump could upend their plans at a moment's notice. https://t.co/IuKRfwLHiJ
Sometimes we don't notice how our activism shapes national politics. But it does. We don't see it, because we're busy acting. People that have to change plans because of it are much more attentive to it.
I wrote the post above about the time this article came out https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-board-members-executive-sell-off-100-million/story?id=119889047
This is not only about wearing shoes indoors. It is also about whether where you take your shoes off is a point you then cross while Al home. https://theconversation.com/wearing-shoes-in-the-house-is-just-plain-gross-the-verdict-from-scientists-who-study-indoor-contaminants-177542
This is not only about wearing shoes indoors. It is also about whether where you take your shoes off is a point you then cross while Al home. https://theconversation.com/wearing-shoes-in-the-house-is-just-plain-gross-the-verdict-from-scientists-who-study-indoor-contaminants-177542
@Tambou tra 4 anni sarà troppo disgraziato per poter candidarsi. Ma io avevo detto la stessa cosa per Trump
@Tambou yeah? Why do I think that a "forced marriage" might be a better way of describing it
We see Tesla failing on the market, but Musk has seen this from the inside. That's why he jumped ship long ago. Just google "Tesla insider"
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-accused-massive-insider-trading-tesla
Yes, Wrigley's chewing gum, which holds a near-monopoly in the Western world, is plastics
https://theconversation.com/chewing-gum-is-plastic-pollution-not-a-litter-problem-251662
When the people in power comprehend the power of accessible education, we get proof of what their real agenda is https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
Berkshire Hathaway has increased its stakes in Japan’s biggest trading houses, a move that is expected to offer support to the wider Tokyo stock market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/18/companies/berkshire-japan-trading-firms-stake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #tradinghouses #berkshirehathaway #warrenbuffett #investments #stocks
Did you realise #Trump is talking about #MAGA electing himself when he makes a contrast to #Musk?
"some people would say let's use somebody that failed in business for his whole life"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/trump-hopes-him-buying-a-tesla-will-boost-companys-stock/vi-AA1ALSH3?t=30
Duolingo's "make as many mistakes as you need" is probably the worst statement in the history of education. Not that making (and supposedly correcting) mistakes is not good for learning. The problem is that they make you pay for this feature of an app that doesn't have much learning success to brag about.
Zambia suffers an environmental disaster from an acid leak, linked to a Chinese copper mine
https://apnews.com/article/mining-pollution-china-zambia-environment-93ee91d1156471aaf9a7ebd6f51333c1
A presentation of our archive was published in the #IRCDL2025 proceedings. It features some formal considerations behind the project, notably an analysis of representation of the book sample.
ceur-ws.org/Vol-3937/#pa...
The report is written by @mapto.qoto.org.ap.brid.gy and @manutenca.bsky.social.
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3937 - Proceed...
An introduction to the project BogoSlov (Biblical OriGins in slavOnic texts - Systems for Language-modelled Observation and Verification) has been published in the proceedings of the #IRCDL25 (Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science) conference.
In it we describe what approaches towards quotation and allusion identification are we taking. In particular, we work on identifying references to the #Bible in #OldChurchSlavonic texts.
The paper is titled "Quotes at the Fingertips" and is freely downloadable from here:
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3937/#short8
This publication comes exactly in the days when we held a project meeting in Heidelberg, experimenting with different approaches and shaping our way ahead. It is only out third month into the project and we already have some interesting findings to share.
Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
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