Like playing the floor is lava except lava is accountability for genocide and war crimes

Powerful editorial: Sickening. Shameful. And in the end useless Those words came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold. A blood-soaked dictator & war criminal received a royal welcome in the land of the free — as attack drones headed for our cities kyivindependent.com/editorial-th...

Wait til he finds about Meloni.

📰: «La répression transnationale, en particulier contre les défenseurs des droits humains, est une tendance qui s’aggrave», confirme notre directeur @philalynch.bsky.social dans cette enquête de Swissinfo.

Israel has assassinated at least 238 journalists in Gaza in 22 months - war crimes aimed at silencing the truth. But the world sees the genocide against Palestinians aided by international arms and corporations - we must boycott, sanction, and divest now.

This would be hilarious if the circumstances weren’t so infuriating.

Gaza : la faim. C'est la une de Libération jeudi. Plus d’une centaine d’ONG dénoncent «une famine de masse» dans l’enclave, où les morts par malnutrition se multiplient faute d’aide alimentaire, bloquée par Israël.

Tu peux donc être exilé fiscal, suspecté de financement illicite de parti, traiter les parlementaires de "marioles", échapper illégalement à trois reprises à leurs convocations mais ouvrir un réseau d’internats privés catholiques non mixtes. Intégrisme, séparatisme, communautarisme = #Sterin

Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Des années qu'on se tue à l'écrire : la politique de l'offre et les cadeaux fiscaux aux + riches et aux entreprises ça ne marche pas, ça creuse les déficits, c'est absurde d'un point de vue moral et anti-social. Et après ça vient chouiner sur la dette publique 🙃 www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/...

At this point it’s not AI, it’s just Elon on a different phone

Because they’ll hoard literally anything

La droite suisse, écrasant des votes populaires dans les cantons romands, vient d'inventer le fédéralisme centralisé à géométrie variable (décidée au seul bon vouloir du canton d'Obwald. www.letemps.ch/suisse/il-s-...

Thousands of Israelis join violent, racist march through Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter

Very considerate of him

Perdimus papam. C'est la une de Libération mardi. Le pape François est mort lundi à 88 ans, après un pontificat engagé sur les pauvres, les migrants et l’écologie mais décevant sur les questions sociétales.

Pope Francis spoke to the church in Gaza every single day since the war until his death

It’s difficult to put into words how deeply sad this is. No one can make the church perfect, but those who will probably succeed Francis are likely to make it worse.

Dans une chronique de la Tribune de Genève, Gerald Staberock, secrétaire général de l’@omctorg.bsky.social, Santiago Canton, secrétaire général de la CIJ, et @philalynch.bsky.social, directeur exécutif d'ISHR, alertent sur les impacts du manque d'investissement dans les #droitshumains.

One of the best jobs in the world is up for grabs: @npr.org is hiring for a China correspondent job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...

Trump : dealer de krachs. C'est la une de Libération mardi. Hongkong, Paris, New York... Les marchés boursiers ont poursuivi leur chute lundi après la déclaration de guerre commerciale de la Maison Blanche. Et pendant ce temps-là, le président américain jouait au golf.

Oops...

I suppose this was all worth it when you remember that people thought immigrants were eating cats in Ohio.

En la matière, ils s'y connaissent.

Re-Marine Le Pen: There's always something worthwhile in the archives:

There’s no excuse for any city that says this can’t be done.

The hard-hitting realisation that you are older than Lithuania. Hopefully, we'll keep aging well together.

Or, you know ... PSG being their usual selves. Usually does the trick for the opposition.

After years of courting the billionnaires buying up the French media landscape to serve their own interests, Macron is now being attacked by their outlets for ... his support to Ukraine. Flawless logic at all levels. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

You don’t say

If the EU could seize this moment, and issue eurobonds, “it would tap in to a deep well of willing buyers keen to trim US exposure” www.ft.com/content/4ba5...

"The move comes as rivals Shell and Norwegian company Equinor have also scaled back plans to invest in green energy and US President Donald Trump's "drill baby drill" comments have encouraged investment in fossil fuels." They're building the highway to climate hell and fuelling the entire drive.

NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040 ⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought 💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP) 🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400 🔌Electrification is key THREAD + charts www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/10

'We are living in a moment of existential challenge for the international human rights system. Though no single State can alone fill the financial gap left by the US nor counter its influence, a diverse coalition of States can mitigate the damage,’ writes @philalynch.bsky.social.

A few reflections on how we can act collectively to save our human rights house - which provides indispensable protection and shelter - before it is completely destroyed by Hurricane Trump. #HRC58 genevasolutions.news/human-rights...

📰: For our director @philalynch.bsky.social, hurricane Trump puts us before a choice: do we abandon the human rights house and accept a lawless future ruled by authoritarians and autocrats where might is right? Or do we act and invest now to protect it? genevasolutions.news/human-rights...

« Les F-35 commandés par la Suisse pourraient coûter des centaines de millions de plus » -> www.letemps.ch/suisse/les-f...

Before (2009) / After (2024) the cycle path on the seaside of Les Sables d'Olonne. It is a long and still ongoing change started in the 2010s. Before that, the location was said to be still as it looked when it was created in the 1950s.

He’s seconds away from saying 'only a good guy with a dictatorahip can stop a bad guy with a dictatorahip'

Si seulement il existait un moyen pour le peuple de peser sur son destin dans ce pays ... Via @letemps.bsky.social : www.letemps.ch/suisse/en-su...

🔉📰: 'Universal human rights are at a critical juncture and are being eroded, threatened and instrumentalised in unprecedented ways. Now is the time to step up,' our Director @philalynch.bsky.social told @imogenfoulkes.bsky.social speaking about the US funding freeze.

Quand Karin Keller-Sutter écoute le vice-président de l'administration la plus réactionnaire qu'ait connue le monde occidental depuis la 2e guerre mondiale, elle entend «un discours libéral, dans un certain sens très suisse». Ça ne rassure pas sur sa propre présidence.

Quote of the day: “The road to the authoritarian state is lined with people who advise you not to exaggerate”

#HRC58: Read through our detailed breakdown of the key issues on the agenda of the upcoming 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council (24 February - 4 April). ishr.ch/latest-updat...

Went onto Facebook today and these types of images were, and I am not exaggerating, 30% of my feed

Le fait que les prévisionnistes de la Confédération n'arrêtent pas de faire des erreurs, en déficits ou en surplus, des plusieurs milliards de CHF à la fois devrait être sujet à inquiétude à Berne.

Les chatbots à base de LLM sont du lorem ipsum de luxe et pas des sources d'information, chapitre 172

BBC research "provides a warning around the use of AI assistants to answer questions about news, with factual errors and the misrepresentation of source material affecting AI assistants." A timely reminder not to get carried away with AI tools as so many are rushing to sell them to you.

An all too frequent feature in AI / tech conversations and coverage: unquestioning, uncritical repetition of company claims.