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👉🏽 “A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.”
~ Gandhi
~ Gandhi
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COP30 has started. Stay updated on @environment.theguardian.com's live blog, alongside recaps from our other partners:
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
COP30 has started. Stay updated on @environment.theguardian.com's live blog, alongside recaps from our other partners:
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Thanks, Prof. Reich. Excellent historical quote. The ruling parasites still use this same scare word. The fact that this good term, democratic socialism, still scares people is disappointing.
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Thanks, Prof. Reich. Excellent historical quote. The ruling parasites still use this same scare word. The fact that this good term, democratic socialism, still scares people is disappointing.
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We spent 20 years making phones central to museum visits. Apps, hashtags, scans, signups, beacons, selfies - now we wonder why visitors stare at screens instead of art.
I’ve written about what went wrong and how we can do better:
thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/h...
#MuseumEd #VisitorExperience
I’ve written about what went wrong and how we can do better:
thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/h...
#MuseumEd #VisitorExperience
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We spent 20 years making phones central to museum visits. Apps, hashtags, scans, signups, beacons, selfies - now we wonder why visitors stare at screens instead of art.
I’ve written about what went wrong and how we can do better:
thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/h...
#MuseumEd #VisitorExperience
I’ve written about what went wrong and how we can do better:
thormartinbaerug.com/2025/11/05/h...
#MuseumEd #VisitorExperience
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Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🙋 🗣️ Looking for new ways to bring young people into your city’s decision-making?
🏛️ Then submit your city challenge to the latest @nets4dem.eu Democracy Lab, taking place in #Bilbao on 10-12 February 2026 - organised by Eurocities & Bilbao City Council.
Read the call and apply 👉 lnkd.in/emaa3JRp
🏛️ Then submit your city challenge to the latest @nets4dem.eu Democracy Lab, taking place in #Bilbao on 10-12 February 2026 - organised by Eurocities & Bilbao City Council.
Read the call and apply 👉 lnkd.in/emaa3JRp
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🙋 🗣️ Looking for new ways to bring young people into your city’s decision-making?
🏛️ Then submit your city challenge to the latest @nets4dem.eu Democracy Lab, taking place in #Bilbao on 10-12 February 2026 - organised by Eurocities & Bilbao City Council.
Read the call and apply 👉 lnkd.in/emaa3JRp
🏛️ Then submit your city challenge to the latest @nets4dem.eu Democracy Lab, taking place in #Bilbao on 10-12 February 2026 - organised by Eurocities & Bilbao City Council.
Read the call and apply 👉 lnkd.in/emaa3JRp
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“Since [Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social took] office, Paris has planted over 200K trees with a pledge to add 170K more by 2026. Urban forests are being created near landmarks like the Hôtel de Ville, Gare de Lyon, & Opéra Garnier, with plans to cover 50% of the city with planted areas by 2030.“
Anne Hidalgo: Transforming Paris into a Green Metropolis for a Sustainable Future
Pic: Ms Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris (Source: ChatGPT)
medium.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“Since [Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social took] office, Paris has planted over 200K trees with a pledge to add 170K more by 2026. Urban forests are being created near landmarks like the Hôtel de Ville, Gare de Lyon, & Opéra Garnier, with plans to cover 50% of the city with planted areas by 2030.“
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Happy Birthday to us! This month Unabridged Bookstore is celebrating 45 years of business and books!
Thank you so very much to all of our wonderful customers and friends, to our Lakeview neighbors, and to the literary community of Chicago for keeping Unabridged Bookstore going since 1980!
Thank you so very much to all of our wonderful customers and friends, to our Lakeview neighbors, and to the literary community of Chicago for keeping Unabridged Bookstore going since 1980!
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Happy Birthday to us! This month Unabridged Bookstore is celebrating 45 years of business and books!
Thank you so very much to all of our wonderful customers and friends, to our Lakeview neighbors, and to the literary community of Chicago for keeping Unabridged Bookstore going since 1980!
Thank you so very much to all of our wonderful customers and friends, to our Lakeview neighbors, and to the literary community of Chicago for keeping Unabridged Bookstore going since 1980!
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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It's not called The Eptstein Ballroom! Stop calling it that!
October 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It's not called The Eptstein Ballroom! Stop calling it that!
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Thank you to all of the kind people reading this. #BeKind #TeachRespect #TeachLove #LiveInGratitude #Feel
October 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Thank you to all of the kind people reading this. #BeKind #TeachRespect #TeachLove #LiveInGratitude #Feel
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Maybe we should call it No Czars.
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Maybe we should call it No Czars.
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This is happening:
"[E]nding democracy — making certain we don’t have free and fair elections. The way that manifests in autocracies is not that they don’t hold elections. Venezuela has elections. It’s that the elections don’t mean anything, because they manufacture the outcome."
"[E]nding democracy — making certain we don’t have free and fair elections. The way that manifests in autocracies is not that they don’t hold elections. Venezuela has elections. It’s that the elections don’t mean anything, because they manufacture the outcome."
Stacey Abrams on Why DEI Is the Key to Defeating Trump
Stacey Abrams, the former gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, has released a '10 Steps Campaign' to fight Donald Trump and authoritarianism.
www.rollingstone.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is happening:
"[E]nding democracy — making certain we don’t have free and fair elections. The way that manifests in autocracies is not that they don’t hold elections. Venezuela has elections. It’s that the elections don’t mean anything, because they manufacture the outcome."
"[E]nding democracy — making certain we don’t have free and fair elections. The way that manifests in autocracies is not that they don’t hold elections. Venezuela has elections. It’s that the elections don’t mean anything, because they manufacture the outcome."
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Day 333 day of #GeorgiaProtests, thousands of people marched Rustaveli Avenue, the regime made it illegal to protest on the road and have arrested dozens of democracy defenders through out the week.
"To the end! To the victory!" #3E
🎥 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge
"To the end! To the victory!" #3E
🎥 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge
October 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Day 333 day of #GeorgiaProtests, thousands of people marched Rustaveli Avenue, the regime made it illegal to protest on the road and have arrested dozens of democracy defenders through out the week.
"To the end! To the victory!" #3E
🎥 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge
"To the end! To the victory!" #3E
🎥 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge
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The Washington Post is dead.
Aside from the insane position that ignores the White House is not a Trump hotel, and belongs to the American people, the Washington Post fails to disclose that its corporate owner is partly paying for the Eastwing destruction.
Unforgivable.
variety.com/2025/digital...
Aside from the insane position that ignores the White House is not a Trump hotel, and belongs to the American people, the Washington Post fails to disclose that its corporate owner is partly paying for the Eastwing destruction.
Unforgivable.
variety.com/2025/digital...
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Defends Trump’s ‘Aggressive’ Demolition of White House East Wing; Amazon Is Among Donors to $300 Million Ballroom
The editorial board of the Washington Post, owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, expressed approval of President Donald Trump's 'aggressive' move to tear down the White House's East Wing in order t...
variety.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The Washington Post is dead.
Aside from the insane position that ignores the White House is not a Trump hotel, and belongs to the American people, the Washington Post fails to disclose that its corporate owner is partly paying for the Eastwing destruction.
Unforgivable.
variety.com/2025/digital...
Aside from the insane position that ignores the White House is not a Trump hotel, and belongs to the American people, the Washington Post fails to disclose that its corporate owner is partly paying for the Eastwing destruction.
Unforgivable.
variety.com/2025/digital...
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The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
disconnect.blog
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Never mind ‘Night at the Museum’, we’re talking MATHS in Museums 🔦
Did you know a key factor in building number confidence is seeing the value of numeracy in everyday life? Educator Tommaths (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ shares 5 things museums don’t tell us about maths!
https://ow.ly/SECu50XhoUw
Did you know a key factor in building number confidence is seeing the value of numeracy in everyday life? Educator Tommaths (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ shares 5 things museums don’t tell us about maths!
https://ow.ly/SECu50XhoUw
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Never mind ‘Night at the Museum’, we’re talking MATHS in Museums 🔦
Did you know a key factor in building number confidence is seeing the value of numeracy in everyday life? Educator Tommaths (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ shares 5 things museums don’t tell us about maths!
https://ow.ly/SECu50XhoUw
Did you know a key factor in building number confidence is seeing the value of numeracy in everyday life? Educator Tommaths (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ shares 5 things museums don’t tell us about maths!
https://ow.ly/SECu50XhoUw
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“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
www.stereogum.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
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"“It’s important to let people know what those who don’t support this look like, that we’re just like everybody else: We are America.”
The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia 19thnews.org/2025/10/kend... via @19thnews.org
The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia 19thnews.org/2025/10/kend... via @19thnews.org
The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia
Kendra Sullivan's one-woman stand received an outpouring of support from people in other conservative areas who "feel like a tiny blue speck in a red state."
19thnews.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"“It’s important to let people know what those who don’t support this look like, that we’re just like everybody else: We are America.”
The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia 19thnews.org/2025/10/kend... via @19thnews.org
The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia 19thnews.org/2025/10/kend... via @19thnews.org
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
A warning from 1765 that's screaming at us today. When we surrender critical thinking for comfortable lies, atrocities follow—against truth, justice, and our shared humanity.
#Truth #Democracy #Philosophy
A warning from 1765 that's screaming at us today. When we surrender critical thinking for comfortable lies, atrocities follow—against truth, justice, and our shared humanity.
#Truth #Democracy #Philosophy
October 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
A warning from 1765 that's screaming at us today. When we surrender critical thinking for comfortable lies, atrocities follow—against truth, justice, and our shared humanity.
#Truth #Democracy #Philosophy
A warning from 1765 that's screaming at us today. When we surrender critical thinking for comfortable lies, atrocities follow—against truth, justice, and our shared humanity.
#Truth #Democracy #Philosophy