Ethics have teeth? https://www.mdpi.com/0718-1876/21/4/103

Outstandingly awesome email reply to me ducking out of something to focus on my book: "Many thanks for getting back to, completely understandable. May the muses be with you! 🙂" #writing #academia

#nokimgs #nokings3 per German state media 'No Kings' protests — Trump critics rally across the US Protesters say US democracy is backsliding under President Donald Trump, with the White House dismissing the marches as a product of "leftist funding networks." […]

#berlin #nokings #nokings3 #democracy

#nokings https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/28/no-kings-protests-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Does anyone know how you make it so that the phone button on an iphone ALWAYS is for the phone (not @signalapp ! Which just started...) and the text is ALWAYS for the phone (not iMessage or anything else?) I just want the autonomy to choose when I use my phone and when I use other services!! […]

“Children are being killed at school. Men are dying at checkpoints as they try to move their families … Women are being killed while waiting in line for bread. Medics are being killed while responding to emergencies,” Skylar Thompson, deputy director of Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRA) […]

“Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government,” District Court Judge Rita F. Lin wrote […]

The goddam lies. The goddam liars. #nokings “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world…This prospect frightens me much more than bombs…Intellctual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian regime.” —George Orwell, “Fascism and Democracy” (1941)

Next weekend's #berlin #nokings moved to Bebelplatz instead of the US embassy – because of the marathon, but Bebelplatz is where the Nazis used to burn books so not totally inappropriate.

Human like hands are a waste of money. The "army" part is the part I'm worried about. The only economically viable uses I see for humanoids are sex fantasies and urban warfare (including ICE). #giftarticle https://wapo.st/4uTiDIr

We used to take sleepers in the 2010s, but now you have to book months ahead and I'm never that sure of my dates. It's not only the money. #sleepers #NightTrains Smart sleepers could be the glow-up night trains need Europe has a bit of an on-off relationship with night trains. A Berlin team's […]

minors to a long list of male relatives and marginalizes the mother. "This suggests a gradual shift toward increased discrimination against mothers and especially affects wives of the disappeared," #syria: Wives of missing men push for legal reform Decades-old family laws affect hundreds of […]

Russian attack on World Heritage sites in Lviv causes uproar Several World Heritage sites were hit in the latest Russian attack on Lviv in western Ukraine. Ukraine has called on Russia to be completely isolated in the cultural sector […]

Merz criticized for selective approach to international law Dozens of legal scholars have called on the German government to condemn the US operations in Iran and Venezuela. They argue that if violations of international law go unpunished, the rule of law erodes […]

The promise of beauty is itself beautiful. #spring #berlin #hope #action

The incident comes after Osaka announced last month it had received an unusual donation of 21 kilogrammes of gold to pay for the maintenance of its ageing water system. https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/mysterious-large-steel-cylinder-suddenly-emerges-from-the-ground-in-japan/ via […]

My guess at the game plan is US gets all the Americas, China gets all East Asia, and Russia gets all Europe. IDK about Africa? US war in Iran: China casts itself as savior of SE Asia As the US-Israel war with Iran sends fuel prices surging across Southeast Asia, Beijing is using the crisis to […]

"in a first" means "more tinpot dictator stuff" In a first, Trump signature to appear on all US dollar bills The signature on US currency is just the latest instance of the president’s name and likeness being stamped onto government projects […]

Said here but not highlighted enough: - Donbas contains Ukraine's own best security guarantee / fortifications. - Russia is saying it will stop helping Iran if US stops helping Ukraine Not mentioned here: - Ukraine is now alleged to be completely dominating in terms of lives lost by either side […]

Was that good or bad?

Surprised this is new!

Parseword #57 ⏱️ 3m38s ⭐️ No Hints

General Stanley McChrystal in a recent NYT interview laid out why the entire Iran war strategy is built on magical thinking. He described three “great seductions” that trap American administrations: covert action that never stays covert, surgical Special Ops raids that don’t change facts on the […]

I find this graph of who ours friends, enemies, and people trying to stay out of it are really useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_ES-11/7

reparations to ukraine, gaza, and Iran sound like a great idea https://p.dw.com/p/5B7aN maybe also chechnya and georgia?

“Being an archaeologist can be a very frustrating profession” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/ancient-skeleton-discovered-sitting-upright-in-france?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Philosophy Professor sues after his #texas university terminated his contract after he gave a talk about Palestine in another state at which he did not give his university affiliation. Anti-Palestine groups took over a year to track and doxx him then another year to campaign to get him fired […]

SAVE Act Would Block 21 Million From Voting “The SAVE Act is pretty openly a voter suppression measure: voting by undocumented immigrants is virtually nonexistent, and it is already illegal. The Brookings Institution reported in 2025 that about four cases of mail fraud occur per 10 million […]

#trump is biggest threat to city’s architectural splendour since War of 1812 “The WH began ripping the beige Tennessee flagstone out of the Colonnade that connects the Oval Office & West Wing to the Residence. Trump wants to replace it with black granite, which will contrast more with the gold […]

Given what it's gonna do to the world economy I think it's better if we drop all references to intelligence and just start calling it subprime computing

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116291075340580859 For some reason I was once trying to talk my dad out of using his car ever again while in a Lufthansa lounge, and the main thing I remember (besides why) is suddenly becoming aware of a dozen businessmen (everyone near me) looking like they all […]

DOJ paid off Mike Flynn. Or rather, taxpayers paid Mike Flynn for selling out his country to Turkey. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

RE: https://mastodon.online/@Geri/116290884370800922 Capital punishment has been completely abolished in all European countries except for Belarus and Russia, the latter of which has a moratorium and has not conducted an execution since 1996. The absolute ban on capital punishment is enshrined […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116291200501189408 Somehow this version misses out the ungodly screams, bystanders calling ICE nazis, and bystanders shaking from the trauma of watching the ordeal as reported earlier (& tooted further up my timeline.)

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116290947605148680 not likely but

Norway's Epstein fallout: A case study in accountability? Why have the #epstein files triggered a political and royal meltdown in Norway, while the US barely reacted? DW breaks it down with Trine Eilertsen, editor-in-chief of Norway's largest printed newspaper […]

🇫🇷🚨Pas un thriller, mais la réalité: Les conservateurs (PPE) veulent faire annuler ce jeudi le vote historique contre le #chatcontrol généralisé et forcer un nouveau vote. Protestez MAINTENANT pour la démocratie et la vie privée ! 👊 → https://fightchatcontrol.eu/fr/#contact-tool

RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116266597665909346 Vote is tonight!!!

RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116266597313969922 Wahl ist heute Abend!!