Trinity warns staff not to answer US government request for diversity and equality information
A questionnaire seeks to establish whether funded research aligns with the Trump administration’s interests.TheJournal.ie
We told you this would happen and you said we were being “hysterical“ 🙄: They're Arresting Women for Miscarriages Now in the US
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They're Arresting Us for Miscarriages Now
What the hell happened to the Overton Window?Jessica Valenti (Abortion, Every Day)
USA: the CBP are snatching students off the streets for writing op-eds in a university magazine.
UK: The Met side-eye CBP and says "hold my beer …"
(C'mon, raiding a Quaker Meeting House and arresting a meeting there is just totally on-the-nose for 1675 politics, never mind 2025 …)
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The UK police broke into Westminster Quaker meeting house to arrest 6 young people last night.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/…
As a member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, I have held quiet witness together with Quakers protesting wars for decades.
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.Quakers
"Greenlanders shouted at Vance and carried banners reading 'Yankee, Go Home' upon his arrival"
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JD Vance arrives in Greenland: ‘It’s cold as s–t here — nobody told me’
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #greenland
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JD Vance arrives in Greenland: 'It’s cold as s--t here — nobody told me'
President Trump has pushed for Greenland’s roughly 56,000 residents to sever ties with Denmark and join the United States.Diana Glebova (New York Post)
Nazi America | Heil Trump!
Trump revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology,” the latest step in a broadside against culture he deems too liberal
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
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Trump order on Smithsonian targets programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.Darlene Superville (AP News)
"STAND UP TO TYRANNY!
More than 200 'Tesla Takedown' protests planned this weekend
Tesla has become a lightning rod for violent attacks and vandalism in the months since CEO Elon Musk joined the Trump administration and now protests have spread to the UK
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #socialmedia #Fediverse #Tesla #protests
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We analyzed racial justice statements from the 500 largest US companies and found that DEI officials really did have an influence
Only 1 in 5 Fortune 500 companies made strong racial justice commitments in response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Those companies were more likely to have DEI staff.The Conversation
A remarkable statement in a judgment against US government.
Rare to see a government defence described in such stark terms by a judge.
This is judicial comment turned up to 11, so to speak.
Am not following this case as closely as I am following the deportations case.
(I decided that as I am not an American lawyer, it was better to know one case well, than a number superficially.)
But looking at this judgment, the same lack of care by US government and legal flimsiness is plain.
#Police response to mass protests marked by punitive ill-treatment: lawyers
#Turkey #acab
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Police have engaged in widespread physical abuse, sexual harassment and degrading treatment of young people detained during mass demonstrations sparked by the jailing of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, lawyers representing the detainees told Turkish media.
Police response to mass protests marked by punitive ill-treatment: lawyers - Turkish Minute
Police have engaged in widespread physical abuse, sexual harassment and degrading treatment of young people detained during mass demonstrations sparked by the jailing of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, lawyers representing the detainees told Turkish m…Turkish Minute (TurkishMinute)
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Sewage spilled into England's rivers and seas for record 3.6m hours last year
Sewage spilled into England's waterways for a record number of hours last year, the Environmental Agency says.Esme Stallard (BBC News)
In Turkish democracy your lawyer has the right to remain silent.
#erdoğan #turkey #türkiye #fascism #faşizm #imamoglu #imamoğlu mastodon.social/@rmblaber1956/…
Richard Michael Blaber (@rmblaber1956@mastodon.social)
https://www.dw.com/en/imamoglus-lawyer-detained-amid-ongoing-protests-in-turkey/a-72067490.Mastodon
From: blenderdumbass . org
A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...
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#copyright #endCopyright #copyleft #libre #piracy #privacy #dataProtection #AI #AiArt #philosophy
#ungerechtigkeit #armut #ernährung #deutschland
Ungerechtigkeit in Deutschland?
Dazu habe ich als #armutsbetroffene doch auch was zu sagen!
(Beilage in der taz von 28.03.25, ALT -Text zusammengefasst wegen Zeichenbegrenzung)
The thing about #Quakers, &I should know because I am one, is that from the outside we look pretty soft and easy to intimidate. Most of us are delicate, silver haired elderly ladies or gender diverse young people wearing shapeless clothes made of hemp. We spend endless meetings reaching consensus on decolonising the names of roles in our Meetings. But once a Quaker is finally convinced of the moral course of action there is absolutely nothing that will sway them from it.
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.Quakers
A new commitment to fight malnutrition worldwide.
We have announced €3.4 billion until 2027 to support partner countries facing high levels of child malnutrition, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
The EU support will address children under five and young pregnant and breastfeeding mothers suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
We will work with partner countries to get closer to a world where every child wakes up nourished, grows strong, and thrives.
More: europa.eu/!nywc49
EU pledges €3.4 billion to combat global malnutrition
Today, at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in Paris, the European Commission announced a new pledge of €3.4 billion until 2027 to combat malnutrition globally.European Commission - European Commission
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If you needed another reason why LLMs are problematic, read this.
The problem is that any popularity algorithm can be manipulated. This is something we have seen with search SEO, with social media algorithms and now with LLMs. People will try to manipulate these algorithms for marketing reasons and sadly for more nefarious reasons.
For me, the first step of any solution is to ban user profiling.
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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the timeNewsGuard (NewsGuard's Reality Check)
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En plus de la lettre, les entreprises ont reçu un questionnaire dans lequel elles sont invitées à certifier qu'elles n'opèrent pas de programme anti-discrimination en leur sein.
Plusieurs entreprises françaises ont reçu un courrier de l'ambassade des... [1609 chars]
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#actu #news #presse #franceinfo
TESLA TAKEDOWN DAY TODAY!
Tesla Takedown Gets Ready for Global Day of Anti-Musk Protests
More than 200 Tesla Takedown protests scheduled around the world this weekend!
Protest with your neighbors at your local Tesla dealership
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #Tesla #socialmedia #Fediverse #Breaking #BreakingNews
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Tesla Takedown Gets Ready for Global Day of Anti-Musk Protests
Over 200 Tesla Takedown protests are planned around the world.The New Republic
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Italian government approved use of spyware on members of refugee NGO, MPs told
National security committee is investigating whether secret services breached law by using surveillance tool to monitor activists and journalistsAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
With Russia's current rate of advance now on schedule to occupy all of Ukraine 196 years from now, Russians focus their war efforts solely on Ukraine's civilian population.
Each of the top 10 daily records for shot-down Russian shahed drones occurred in the past month.
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How Scammers Steal $1 Trillion a Year - Mostly From Americans
Scammers operate everywhere—job recruitment sites, across social media, on dating apps and in your text messages.WIRED
Umm, what??
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.Quakers
Take Down Tesla!
Stand Up For Democracy!
On Saturday 3.29.25 we are calling for a GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION to stop Elon Musk!
Join us!
Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it. We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup.
⚡Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines.
⚡ We're tanking Tesla's stock price to stop Musk.
⚡Stopping Musk will help save lives and protect our democracy.
#AureFreePress
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Join me at the TeslaTakedown
The #TeslaTakedown movement is growing! Join us for an event in our community—or find one of more than 100 events every week across the country. And if there's not one near you, it's easy to sign up to host your own. Let's fight for our country!actionnetwork.org
I had already messaged my MP to remark that this seemed ... odd.
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В Турции — крупнейшие за последние годы протесты. Задержаны больше 1,9 тысячи человек
Вот как выглядят улицы Стамбула и Анкары после ареста Экрема Имамоглу, главного оппонента ЭрдоганаMeduza
I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Gleeful Cruelty of the Whi...
The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account
Welcome to the 4chan administration.Charlie Warzel (The Atlantic)
My health has been especially limiting recently (peri-menopause has kicked off so many new and difficult things!)
So, this morning I am imagining that I am this person. On the shores of a loch, in the wind, cheeks cold, hair a mess, heart full.
#Photography #ChronicIllness #Perimenopause #WomensHealth #Women #LandscapePhotography #Scotland #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead.
Countries boost recruitment of American scientists amid cuts to scientific funding
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5343966/countries-boost-recruitment-of-american-scientists-amid-cuts-to-scientific-funding?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science @science-npr
"Insgesamt ist alles, wirklich alles, was ich hier jeden Tag sehe, es ist unfassbar. Also es ist unbeschreiblich, empörend und niederschmetternd - unbegreiflich." Ein deutscher Arzt aus dem Gazastreifen berichtet. MONITORwww.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD...
Monitor: Bruch der Waffenruhe:...
Monitor: Bruch der Waffenruhe: Was Ärzte aus Gaza berichten - hier anschauen
Der Krieg ist zurück im Gazastreifen. Nach einigen Wochen der Waffenruhe, gibt es nun wieder fast täglich neue Luftschläge des israelischen Militärs – mit hunderten Toten und Verletzten.www.ardmediathek.de
The thing at the top of the picture is a third rail, it has 750 volts DC on it. If you touch it you will die a very painful death.
In other news, nothing can go wrong with using AI to rewrite Social Security code.
This one was October 23rd 2014, as seen from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA.
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Partial solar eclipse live: Phenomenon of the Sun will be visible across the UK
The astronomical event, set to begin at 10:07 GMT, is drawing in astronomy lovers keen to watch.BBC News
If the weather is not so good in your area one can watch the Royal Observatories Greenwich live stream
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Partial solar eclipse LIVE
Watch the Moon hide a portion of the Sun live online with Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomerswww.rmg.co.uk
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Dim and dimmer: our underwhelming solar eclipse video
A breathtaking solar eclipse was witnessed by millions of people across Europe this morning. But on the roof of the Guardian HQ in north London, the view was... underwhelmingIrene Baqué (The Guardian)
Some great weekend reading here.
Swap out one horrifying news story about fascism for this piece and feel infintely better about the world.
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#Writing #Author #WritingCommunity #Scotland #Reading #Books #WorkingClass #WorkingClassWriters #Women
Working-Class Women Aren't Supposed To Say This
‘What I’ve made is good. What I’ve made is important.’ It’s rare and radical to say that out loud. Especially if you’re working class. Especially if you’re a woman.Kristie De Garis (By Hand)
I thought I'd have days of delays and paperwork and Customs fees but the supplier just did everything for me.
As for the specs, I've now got 96 CALB NMC cells, totaling around 21 kWh.
Total cost for the batteries, busbars & shipping was $6500 NZD ($3715 USD).
Interestingly though, the total weight for the batteries is only around 90 kg (198 lbs). Might just get this Austin Allegro converted to electric very close to its internal combustion weight!
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