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Podcast: Emma's heart is half in Jamaica and half in England “I think it's also a way of sort of placing you so that they can sort of continue with a conversation at a certain level...I feel it's for a particular purpose.”

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Copper, capital, and consequences: China’s mining gamble in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan For Afghanistan, the wins in finally opening the Mes Aynak copper mine are substantial. Yet so are its potential environmental and socio-cultural losses, especially in the long term.

For Afghanistan, the wins in finally opening the Mes Aynak copper mine are substantial. Yet so are its potential environmental and socio-cultural losses, especially in the long term.

Sudan’s sunken heritage: The hidden story behind Egypt’s High Dam As Egypt built its High Dam, Sudan’s Nubian valleys quietly disappeared underwater, displacing thousands, burying ancient sites and submerging a lost homeland.

As Egypt built its High Dam, Sudan’s Nubian valleys quietly disappeared underwater, displacing thousands, burying ancient sites and submerging a lost homeland.

Trinidad & Tobago's beloved ‘cascadu’ fish at risk The cascadu respires bimodally, so must intermittently come up for air — but when the temperature is too high, it will not surface. Their eggs also need oxygen to survive.

The consequences of climate change are having an adverse effect on the species’ reproduction

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LIVE on August 14: Digital spaces for the Quechua language: safety and inclusion online This GV Insights is a collaboration between Global Voices and the Center for Democracy and Technology

Panelists will explore the role of digital activists in shaping online spaces that reflect their communities’ values & needs. The session will also consider the responsibilities of other stakeholders in helping to ensure that digital spaces are welcoming and accessible to these language communities.

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BRI 2.0 in Uzbekistan: Funded by Europe, driven by China-Saudi cooperation The combination of Chinese engineering muscle and European finance is also a beneficial development for host countries. For Brussels, the gains are less clear.

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Cover of "The Potency Of Ungovernable Impulses" -Malka Older. Distance between our couple. Set on a graphic background of the gaseous moon platform.

"The Potency Of Ungovernable Impulses" -Malka Older #Booksky #166 Pleiti takes the lead on a seemingly minor mystery of who's attacking an academic's reputation which she attempts to unravel while working out her relationship with Mossa. Love the cozy mystery & setting. #3 in this series.

A passionate defense of walking and mass transportation:

As Mumford realized (in 1962!), it’s an illusion that cars provide freedom.

The heavy guns come out when Mumford starts dissecting 20th century transportation planning, slamming it for focusing on the "one-dimensional solution of private transportation by motor car."

You can see why he and Robert Moses were bitter foes.

Approaching the 19th century, you sense Mumford getting ready to unload on cars. Here he is describing L’Enfant’s plan for DC:

“It had become plain that once wheeled traffic is treated as the chief concern of planning, there will never be enough space to keep it from becoming congested..."

Much of the book explains the city’s development in Ancient Greece, Rome, and the medieval era.

Urban congestion and noise are not new problems.

I just finished Lewis Mumford’s magisterial exploration of city life.

Published in 1962, it has some of the sharpest takedowns of car-centric society I’ve ever read.

Mumford: “We have sold our urban birthright for a sorry mess of motor cars. As poor a bargain as Esau’s pottage.”

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🚨Agentes federales volvieron a invadir DC anoche (8/9). Federales de varias agencias, incluyendo la DEA, FBI, HSI (ICE), ATF, Marshals y la Patrulla Fronteriza, fueron vistos en:
- Benning Road
- Bloomingdale/ LeDroit Park
- Deanwood
- Dupont Circle
- Georgetown
- Navy Yard
- Shaw
- The Wharf

Follow @lirishavit • Translated by Grok Show original Alice Miller, who fought for the opening of a pilot course for women, calls on everyone to stand for one minute each day, every day, and say "Enough"!

Alice Miller, an Israeli women who sued the IDF in 1993 to allow women to become pilots, has joined in protests in Israel calling for an end to the war on Gaza:

🚨Federal agents swarmed DC last night (8/9) again. Feds from multiple agencies, including the DEA, FBI, HSI (ICE), ATF, Marshals, and Border Patrol, were seen at:
- Benning Road
- Bloomingdale/ LeDroit Park
- Deanwood
- Dupont Circle
- Georgetown
- Navy Yard
- Shaw
- The Wharf

Daniel Solove on Privacy, Technology, and the Rule of Law | TechPolicy.Press Solove is the author of On Privacy and Technology, published in March 2025 by Oxford University Press.

🎙 I interviewed Daniel Solove... The project of his latest book, On Privacy and Technology, is to synthesize 25 years of thinking about privacy into a “succinct and accessible” volume and to help the reader understand “the relationship between law, technology, and privacy” in rapidly changing world.

if these are things that interest you you might enjoy a book called Infomocracy by @older.bsky.social

'I made money covering up dirty shit Trump did. Now I'm making more money from the New York Times saying how bad I feel about making money covering up dirty shit Trump did.'

Cameron Stracher is a comemierda if ever there was one, and we all know from @older.bsky.social that there should be no book deals for comemierdas!

@older.bsky.social This is a non sequitur, but wanted to say that I really enjoy your Mossa and Pleiti novels (novellas?).

They're delightful. Thank you for writing them.

Thank you, I'm so happy to hear that!

I’ve been reading @older.bsky.social and now I’m trying to contrive ways to work “grignoter” into casual conversation. 😃 #BlueSkyBooks