More lateral links higher up in sub-networks and between sub-networks globally are what will eventually save humanity from itself, not "the left" (or the right).
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The only way to avoid getting what you say/ write twisted and used to claim you said or believe something totally different, and if you're someone with enough followers to be worth harassing then that too, is to stay absolutely loyal to one side of bigoted fanatics or the other.
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Israeli propaganda fanatics are so exhausting with their blatant bad faith arguments and brute force repetition. No wonder people give up trying to discuss any issue relating to I-P reasonably, bc it's impossible without extremists on both sides twisting anything and everything.
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Today in Berlin a citizen led pro-nuclear demonstration hugely outnumbered the paid up staff of anti-nuclear Greenpeace with their slick and expensive stage set piece.
Such an inbalance represents the sentiments of the public. Around the world polling makes it abundantly clear… Show more
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Timothy Snyder amazingly clear and concise as usual. About why 'Russophobia' is a false victimhood claim used to rhetorically legitimize aggression, and it harms Russians too.
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'remembrance agents' would also help with the mismatch between the human environment of evolutionary adaptedness when our social heuristics had enough reliable social cues, incl memory of previous interactions and relationships, to function more accurately
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I wish this would pass and become law. But I don't think it will with current international politics as it is.
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Closing a Legal Gap on Crimes Against Humanity opiniojuris.org/2023/04/16/clo
A UK colleague needs help for a student, a refugee & activist who aims to create space for migrants to speak about their activism. Despite winning a scholarship the ‘NHS surcharge’ is impeding him from taking up his PhD. Support the fundraiser if you can⬇️
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Thanks to the University of Glasgow for offering a scholarship to support students in Turkey & Syria. Deadline 30 June.
Being a resident in Turkey or Syria at time of applying is one of the eligibility criteria.
gla.ac.uk/scholarships/u.
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Reminds me of Carrying The Songs by Moya Cannon
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Helpful infographic from to keep track of Arab countries' positions on Syria's return to the AL. Countries in dark brown refuse to normalize, those in light brown are still reviewing their options, and those in yellow have officially restored diplomatic ties.
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"If the United States wants to avoid profound instability in the Middle East and a challenge to its broader global agenda, it must cease exempting Israel from the standards and structures of the liberal international order that Washington hopes to lead."
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"with things like the GDPR, the onus is on individuals to prove harm, rather than corporations to prove before they release a product that it fulfills a certain set of requirements"
Requires not artificially individualizing things, a major culture change.
You haven’t engaged with Syrians if your argument is ‘Syrians want to go home.’
Because no, this is not the narrative Syrians are pushing forth.
Syrians fled home because Assad was and is still bombing them.
Syrians revolted against Assad.
Syrians want a Syria without Assad.
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Boris Johnson, the day after the Skripals attack, lost his MI6 minders and travelled to Italy to go to Lebedev's party, and claims he did not discuss any government business "as far as he can remember".
He's lied so many times the last clause is a clue.
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funny how all these 'National Conservatives' turn out to be in league with a hostile foreign power and conspiring to increase Russian and allied authoritarian regimes' strategic influence over democratic states and to subvert constitutional democracy to make it more dysfunctional
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Yes, you can retort that the leader of the Opposition at the time was and is similarly compromised. And Boris Johnson too. That doesn't really exculpate you or your party at all. Both are guilty and their separate acts of treason do not cancel out.
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One of the 'nationalists' in allegiance with a hostile foreign power and an agent of the enemy.
Why the don't declare the global hybrid war is that their path to power involved active complicity with the Russian strategic manipulation of the Brexit campaign.
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"they are worried that she is now at risk of repelling the kinds of swing voters the party is desperate to retain"
Yet they kept quiet as long as they thought she was useful for their party's grip on power, nevermind the long-term harm she does to society.
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So it isn't even in the self-interest of the relatively more democratic states to side with this state strategically. Choosing this way means they're effectively more on the side of the global network of kleptocratic authoritarian regimes, not just sitting on the fence anymore.
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A democratic in values and principles state would not oppose extending the legal principle of universal jurisdiction to crimes against humanity and not only genocide. This is a decisive sign which way the Israeli government have chosen to go in the current global hybrid war.
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Would #Israel, claiming to offer refuge to survivors of WW II atrocities - among them my grandparents - oppose the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity?
This is what took place at the @UN Sixth Committee (Legal) this week:
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Calling Ukrainians "Banderites" and "nazies" is the same as calling Syrians "terrorists". This strategy is so far overused and abused by russian state officials and their western apologists. It is a way to silence and dehumanize victims of the real-time genocide.
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Musk treating a classically obvious and widely known example of a Kremlin associated grey propaganda outlet as credible and giving it new network connections again. Links to more evidence it is that in the thread.
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Not shocked to see the owner of twitter replying to an account that regularly promotes Kremlin and Syrian regime propaganda.
The account was also infamous in claiming that the child victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were crisis actors.
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So, effectively, almost half of people surveyed said that they would back sending vulnerable people to a human rights abusing dictatorship just for fun? This is down to how asylum seekers are talked about. Vast majority of Brits actually support accepting refugees. #r4today
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The champions of free speech at the National Conservatism conference have refused to allow to cover Suella Braverman's appearance at their upcoming conference.
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Hitler could not be invited. The new wannabe fascist international is meeting in Portugal: Salvini, Bolsonaro, Le Pen...
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Il leader della Lega Matteo Salvini il 13-14 maggio andrà al summit internazionale dell’estrema destra mondiale organizzato dal partito portoghese Chega. Ci sarà anche l’ex presidente brasiliano Bolsonaro e tra gli invitati Trump e Le Pen. ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/artShow this thread
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If Trump wants America to be great, why is he so popular with America's worst enemies? Putin accurately sees Trump as his best hope to weaken the US, prolong his dictatorship, and continue his war on Ukraine.
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Meanwhile in Russia: state TV propagandists on every channel aired multiple clips of Trump's interview with Tucker Carlson. Their main takeaway: "Donald said that America is tired of fighting Russia and should surrender." Watch:
youtube.com/watch?v=pFLxXD
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Politicians, pundits in Sweden debating if Musk’s “government-funded media” should apply to Swedish public service broadcasting. This takes attention away from what Musk is doing: smearing & lowering trust by rhetorically linking public service to propagandist state broadcasters.
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Do you know what a capsizing boat sounds like? When 50, 60 or 123 people fall into water? What it sounds like when they try to swim, calling you? What it's like when the calls become fewer, it becomes quieter & quieter? The sea can be the quietest & saddest place in the world.
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#Shipwreck 
off #Kerkennah, #Tunisia
An overcrowded boat carrying 123 people,including 30 women,13 children & babies,sank around 10pm last night,over 60 disappeared.
The boat had left the Tunisian coast yesterday at 18:00
We continue to call for safe routes
#TunisIsNotSafe
off #Kerkennah, #Tunisia
An overcrowded boat carrying 123 people,including 30 women,13 children & babies,sank around 10pm last night,over 60 disappeared.
The boat had left the Tunisian coast yesterday at 18:00
We continue to call for safe routes
#TunisIsNotSafe
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"In 2021, at least 7 boats appearing to be from nw Africa washed up in the Caribbean & in Brazil. All carried dead bodies.
These 'ghost boats'… an unintended result of years of efforts & billions of dollars spent by Europe to stop crossings on the Med."
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Those who forced them to take a small boat irregular route to access the asylum procedures by closing off every legal & safe route should be charged with reckless homicide instead of one of the victims who survived their attempt to make an example of them.
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1/My book comes out in less than a month!
Please grab a copy and share! robeschmann.com/book
Apparently it's already shipped from Amazon, I don't have it yet but a friend sent a pic w/ 1😅
#academicchatter #socaf #soctwitter #newbooks #amwriting #mustread
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The story that it's a principled defense of press freedom, like defending fair trial procedural rights even for the worst criminals, doesn't match with the consistent long-term pattern of omissions for much more clearly innocent and unjustifiably persecuted cases.
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If the real original motive for the 'Free Assange' campaign was about defending public-interest investigative journalism's freedom to expose government abuses, I'd expect it to also cover the 100s of other journalists who are much more clearly deserving of this much attention.
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Assange is a bad actor. Fox News paid millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit over its decision to amplify the Seth Rich conspiracy theory promoted by Assange to create distance between himself & Guccifer 2.0 (a Kremlin cut out). 1/ twitter.com/RepRashida/sta…
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More people should be discussing Florida’s SB1342, which uses vague language to allow the death penalty for parents and doctors that support trans kids. It only requires 8/12 jurors to agree to sentence the defendant to death.
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President Sisi of Egypt, recently ordered subordinates to produce up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia, according to a leaked U.S. intelligence document.
Is Egypt an ally of Syrians or an ally of Russia?
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In this moment of collective forgetting I revisited a searing 2016 article by Syrian writer, .
Responsibility to uphold democracy against the “Syrianization of the world,” he says—a world poisoned by corpses of truth, justice & freedom—is global.
yassinhs.com/2016/08/22/the
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Godfrey Reggio will join to discuss radical ideas for harnessing collective intelligence, leveraging insights from his work as a community organizer + his gorgeous films, ANIMA MUNDI + THE QATSI TRIOLOGY.
harvardfilmarchive.org/collections/th
koyaanisqatsi.org//films/film.php
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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE:
FOUNDATIONS + RADICAL IDEAS
Please join @sfiscience June 19-23 to discuss intelligence in collectives from adaptive matter to animal groups to brains to AI to teams. We will focus on 1st principles + dynamics. Space is limited!
santafe.edu/conferences/co
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Are you a PhD student with ideas about the connections/tensions between computational approaches and critical ones? Do you want to share those ideas this September and get feedback from amazing scholars like and others? Submit!
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We are currently accepting paper proposals for our 2023 Identity and Social Media Symposium: Bridging the Gaps between Computational Methods and Critical/Cultural Perspectives.
Communication doctoral students, please submit your proposal by 5 MAY 2023 at
institute.communication.utah.edu/news-and-event
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