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Politically, now would be a good time to recognise Palestine, but the reality is that it's easier for spineless politicians across the globe to procrastinate.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/10/m

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Axios

House Democrats put a half dozen "safe" GOP seats to their 2026 target list t.co/MItEtY4l6n

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Michael Piotrowski

Reminder: our department at the University of #Lausanne currently has an opening for a junior lecturer (#postdoc) in computational humanities.

Knowledge of French (B2 level) is required for teaching.

Check out the official job posting (in French) for details.

#DigitalHumanities #HumanitésNumériques #ComputationalHumanities #job #AcademicJob #PostdocJob
mastodon.acm.org/@mxp/11425771

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The Japan Times

Japanese manufacturers are accelerating efforts to mitigate the economic impact of a massive earthquake forecast to occur in the Nankai Trough off the country's Pacific coast. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/ #japan #earthquakes #nankaitrough #manufacturing #carmakers #cashless

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Dr. Ezzideen

During Ramadan, a charity kitchen gave out three thousand meals a day. Rice, meat- nothing extravagant, but enough to keep people moving, if only barely. The line was always long: barefoot children, hollow-eyed mothers.

Then the food dwindled. First the meat. Then the rice. Then the silence.

Today, there was nothing.
The door stayed shut. A small boy stood closest, holding his container like something holy. His voice barely rose above the dust:
“No rice today?”

A man in a stained vest shook his head. No words. Just the gesture, final, like a curtain closing on a funeral no one attended.

There were no tears left. No surprise. Hunger had become the atmosphere.

The children drifted away. Some wandered aimlessly, still clutching their pots. Others returned to ruined homes, tents, hollow rooms with no glass in the windows. The sun burned. Nothing had changed. Their mothers waited, not with hope, but with the resignation of those who’ve made peace with cruelty.

A mother doesn’t scream when there’s no food. She listens for her child’s empty return and prepares to say something kind with nothing in her hands.

That night, the children slept, or something like it. The body shuts down what it can spare. Dreams were rare. The starving do not imagine.

In the photo taken later, their faces showed nothing. Not because they felt nothing, but because feeling had long turned inward, into bone, into soul.

And in that emptiness, something vast appeared: That children can starve under an open sky, and no one will come.
That hunger is not the only absence.
That you can cry out until even God becomes an echo.

They would wake again. Wait again. And the days would go on, not because it made sense, but because no one remained to say otherwise.

#GazaGenocide‌

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Martin Ruskov

"Anyone invested in a mutual fund that owns Tesla shares could be about to bail out Musk and his billionaire friends."
mastodon.online/@electrek/1142

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The Japan Times

Fans from around the world have opportunity to secure their places at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, with general ticket sales resuming on Tuesday. japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2025 #olympics #2026milanocortinaolympics

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µP

164 Landing #games for 53 platforms from 1969 to 2017:

uvlist.net/groups/info/landing

#GameStudies #GameHistory #BASIC #RetroGaming

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Martin Ruskov

"The initial account of the vehicles not having emergency lights on was mistaken, an Israeli military official told journalists Saturday evening. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations."

"One medic, Assaad al-Nassasra, is still missing, the Red Crescent says. Abed said he saw al-Nassasra being led away blindfolded by Israeli troops. Al-Khatib said the organization has asked the military where it is holding the staffer.

Al-Khatib said the slain men had been “targeted at close range” and that a forensic autopsy report would be released soon."

"Israeli troops, some with night goggles, dragged Abed out of the ambulance and onto the ground, he said. They made him strip to his underwear, beat him all over his body with their rifle butts, then tied his hands behind his back, he said.

They interrogated him, asking him about his paramedic training and how many people were in the ambulance with him, he said. One soldier pressed the muzzle of his automatic rifle into his neck. Another pressed his knife blade into Abed’s palm, almost cutting it, until a third soldier pulled them away and warned Abed, “They’re crazy.”

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“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose, mother, to help people”

“These are paramedic crews that I personally have met before,” he said. “They were buried in their uniforms with their gloves on. They were ready to save lives.”
apnews.com/article/mideast-war

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AISA
Follow @IslabUnimi@fediscience.org Seeing Italian universities and research group in the #fediverse is so rare that they deserve to be recommended and followed.
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Axios

Trump's personal victim complex has powered much of its political career.

Now it's going global — with the entire world, not just Trump's domestic enemies, feeling the weight of retribution. t.co/ysLxhnyWTF

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Bully Pulpit Games

Less than a single day is left to show support for #ZhenyasWonderTales. Don't you want to add this gorgeous game to your collection?

#TTRPGs #RPGs

bpglink.com/zhenyas

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mapto

The US gets a high-profile glimpse of how Soviet and post-Soviet legal systems work: prosecutors act not on public interest, but on political directives.

I was hoping that in a well-functioning legal system, there would be alternative prosecution and seeking of legal responsibility. Certainly following this case closely.
apnews.com/article/new-york-ma

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Martin Ruskov

To do a job well, one needs to get invested in the details. Trying to produce sensations leads to even bigger sensations of failure. A lesson an investigate journalist wishes Musk could learn.
propublica.org/article/doge-go

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mapto

Francia e Belgio sono scandalizzati dalla richiesta americana che le aziende seguono la loro politica anti-DEI (acronimo inglese per diversità, eguaglianza, inclusione). I politici dei due paesi si stanno esprimendo contro. Addirittura il vice presidente del consiglio belga annuncia:

We have no lessons to learn from the boss of America

Anche in Italia aziende hanno ricevuto la medesima lettera. Io non ho visto nessuna reazione. Pare che il silenzio è assoluto. Un segnale di conformità alla discriminazione. La storia ci insegna cosa segue.

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SwissNationalScienceFoundation

⚔️🏛️🗳️ "#Polarisation stops political parties from cooperating and poisons relations between individuals."

Political scientist Frederico Ferreira da Silva and his colleagues at UNIL have studied the increase in what he describes as a "threat to #democracy."

➡️ sohub.io/rvd7

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

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civil.ge

Georgian Photojournalists Slam World Press Photo for Awarding Russian TASS Reporter for Tbilisi Protest Coverage
Georgian photojournalists and documentary photographers stated they are “disturbed” and “outraged” by World Press Photo’s decision to award Russian photographer Mikhail Tereshchenko, a reporter for the Kremlin-controlled TASS agency, for his photo story capturing protests in Tbilisi in late November and early December last year. His photos, taken for the Russian propaganda TASS,

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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.

nature.com/articles/d41586-025

#NSF
#NIH
#USPol
#Science

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