Sara Monajem
@saramonajem.bsky.social
A retired educator finding all ways to continue learning
So much for allowing entry and competition!
CNA - Channel News Asia (Unofficial)@cna-poster.bsky.social · 2d agoMusk vows affordable Starlink in India days before Ambani's record Jio IPO - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/musk-vows-affordable-starlink-in-india-days-ambanis-record-jio-ipo-6450016
Yes, indeed! The sooner the right hand is aware of what the left hand is doing the better!
Euronews@euronews.com · 3d ago“Cities can’t keep working to cut emissions while allowing their own advertising spaces to encourage more flying and fossil fuel consumption.”
Growth is not a goal nor a mission. They should all take a course with @mazzucatom.bsky.social -- apparently reading (if at all) her books did not get them where they need to go!
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I wish she could spend some time reading the works of some philosophers in their original language.
George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last wk.What do you think of Taylor's advice?
Il me semble qu'il n'a pas lu Tolstoï, ou peut-être a-t-il oublié son thème principal.
FRANCE 24@france24.com · last wk."Adieu ma Russie" : un historien à la recherche de son père et d'un pays tant aimé
Is there anything new in what is reported -- the government, the agitators, the proxies... everything to obfuscate that fact that there are too many students in one classroom, that there are too few teachers and there are too many broken infrastructures
The Economist@economist.com · last wk.The pupils’ original grievances for protesting were fair enough. The government, however, accuses hard-left politicians of exploiting the protests and fanning the anger
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social "Perfection of tools, confusion of aims is the plight of..." look it up, it is a quote from Bertrand Russell
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
Let us wait until Meta's Muse invade her Smart home!
George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last wk.How do you feel about AI, folks?
Contemplating this is also the best indication of the loss of brain plasticity for learning, expanding, using imagination as well as wisdom, Ahhh!
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ils doivent nous préparer au plan Marshall de Trump.
FRANCE 24@france24.com · last wk.Midterms 2026, le récap' : les démocrates jouent la modération, Donald Trump s'en va-t-en campagne
They are truly bastards with a capital b!
Jerry Kinard, DrPH, DHA, MS (CRA), MA (CMHC)@drjerrykinard.bsky.social · last wk."It's an AI agent, a tool that goes out into the world for unsupervised tasks. Using its own web browser, Muse can cancel your gym membership, haggle with customer service people, buy groceries...https://bbc.com/future/article/20260930-metas-new-ai-is-about-to-break-the-internet
"People really need to ask themselves why their communities chose to erect statues to slaveholders instead of abolitionists.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Rutger Bregman@rutgerbregman.com · 4mo ago3/ That's the model we need. A new elite — not of birth or credentials, but of massive positive impact. Make future historians proud. Full 2025 Reith Lectures: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This level of recognition requires also qualities in character and outlook. Please, let us normalize this and make it another eyeball and troll ...
The Economist@economist.com · 4w ago“Donald Trump is about to have the opportunity of a lifetime—if he is up for it,” suggests Gary Marcus. In a guest essay, the author contends that if Mr Trump were to “help defuse AI’s most explosive risks” then the Nobel prize would be there for the taking
Blessed be Indira Talwani and all efforts to recognize the judges holding steadfastly to what has remained.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4w agoFederal district court judges like Indira Talwani — who effectively stopped Trump's plan to use the US Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting — deserve the gratitude and appreciation of all Americans. They are holding the line against the authoritarian bullies who threaten our freedoms.