"Jonathan Glazer has shown us how the struggle against antisemitism and against the Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians are two sides of the same coin.
Yogi
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Human animal, protector of plants and other life Account of Yogi Hendlin
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
If you're in the Netherlands... Feral Ecologies & the Feminine Sensorium: Movement, Sonic Portraiture, and Interspecies Becoming hipsy.nl/event/213117...
Feral Feminine at Salon Ruigoord 11 June, Thursday 18-21:00 Dinner included. Come meet vibing participants, learn to dance with your eyes clothes, how to identify and eat plants around you, and get whisked back to what it was like to be in a 70s black gay bar in Harlem. hipsy.nl/event/213117...
Feral Ecologies & the Feminine Sensorium
Feral Ecologies & the Feminine Sensorium: Movement, Sonic Portraiture, and Inter...
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Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax
Silicon Valley’s growth over recent decades has made California rich — and one of the most unequal places in America.
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If I were to ever do fraud, I'd suffer consequences. When these guys do fraud, they get interviewed about it arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...
AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.
Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his book The Future of Truth.
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🛢️The oil&gas lobby is pushing for fast-tracked approvals, weaker enviro assessments+new permitting loopholes for thousands of planned CO2 pipelines These projects may be labelled “strategic” or “public interest”, making it harder for communities 2 challenge them🚷 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/p...
Permission to Pollute | Corporate Europe Observatory
New report on how the European Commission is weakening permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects, such as mines, CO2 pipelines and data centres.
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NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing intimate user data with Google and Meta without consent.
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NEW POSTER: The Road Lobby loves when it’s hard for us to walk or bike to school, work, to get a coffee or some milk. Their profit depends on it. On everything far away, on car dependency, on convenience and choice being illegal. #UrbanTruth #1HourCityConspiracy
We've made so many people dizzy with toxins because some of us have refused to become sufficiently dizzy by facing their own contradictions.
Just read the robot Buddhist monk story. Unsurprisingly, it was all faked. "At its ordination ceremony, Gabi’s movements were remotely controlled from behind the scenes.. [and] its words had been prerecorded" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/t...
Meditating or Rebooting? A Robot Buddhist Monk Comes to South Korea.
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The shamisen is a three-stringed lute with a long neck and a square body covered in skin (historically cat or dog, though modern versions may use synthetic materials). It is played with a large plectrum called a bachi, producing a sharp, percussive sound that carries well in theatrical settings.
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The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction
This essay is adapted from Traversal. “In the great chain of cause and effect,” Alexander von Humboldt wrote as he was teaching science to read the poetry of nature, “no single fact can…
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Happy to announce a new article from Luc Hagenaars, Grant Ennis, and myself in JAMA Health Forum on the “Harms of Framing Obesity as a Disease of Individuals.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Harms of Framing Obesity as a Disease of Individuals
This Viewpoint examines how framing obesity as an individual disease that should be treated may impact addressing the larger systemic- and policy-driven roots of the problem that could be addressed to...
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How can anyone enjoy the aftertaste of food with exhaust in their face?
Gleefully harming the climate, air, and water is one the very unlikeable things Trump is doing, and it’s so easy to add a point about that to Democratic campaign messaging about how prices are rising due to his broken campaign promises and corruption. Dems are missing an opportunity here!
Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 4mo agoI think it’s good politics to speak loudly and clearly about the climate crisis. Time to end the climate hushing billmckibben.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...
“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”
Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts.
City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."
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💚🌎 Happy Earth Day 🌎💚 So grateful for Mama Earth 💚💙
#WonderfulBirdWednesday Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑 04/2026 #Birds #Nature #FlawlessTiming 🌟 #FMSPAD #SomethingThatFlies #Birdsky #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #Macrophotography
How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth
Wow. SCOTUS’s “shadow docket” was first established to stop the Clean Power Plan. It’s remarkable how many assaults on democracy, or at least on established process, over the last decade have served to protect fossil-fuel interests from the energy transition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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