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Beyond The Bargaining Table: How India's Soft Power Is Rewriting The ASEAN Playbook

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Yet politicians in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and others peddle the xenophobic line that it's migrants and minorities. Which is distraction, and leads only in one direction.

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Japan to let more foreigners provide in-home nursing care Specified skilled workers, technical trainees to receive the green light in April

Japanese health officials will soon open the doors wider for foreign health workers to provide in-home nursing care, Nikkei has learned, in a bid to ease the labor shortage in the field. asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Jap...

Week 6 Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed

The World Health Organization calculates that measles vaccinations saved 60 million lives, 2000-2023. On Thursday, CDC scientists were forbidden to co-author papers with WHO colleagues.

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"The people leading this assault on science and democracy want us to feel overwhelmed. They want us to give up. Let’s not."

Indian Tourists Flock To Southeast Asia, But ASEAN Visitors To India Remain Low—Here’s Why

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Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’ The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform Party leads in UK poll for first time If a general election were held tomorrow, 25 percent of British voters would choose Reform, YouGov poll suggests.

“The poll, published on Monday and conducted by YouGov for The Times newspaper, showed Reform – which promises to “freeze immigration” to the UK – taking the lead for the first time in a major public opinion survey.”

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Thousands protest the rise of German far right ahead of Feb. 23 general election Thousands of Germans have protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party ahead of a Feb. 23 general election.

Solidarity with everyone in Germany today protesting the rise and gradual normalization of the far-right: apnews.com/article/germ...

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Moo Deng in my neighbourhood park

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

AI Will Turn Our Lives into The Truman Show Large language models can create muddled, misinformed multiverses

"In an AI-mediated future, every one of us will live in a private Truman Show. As a society, we will be utterly incapable of making fruitful collective decisions because we will have no shared understanding of the world." www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-w...

Opinion | Trump Has a New Favorite Foreign Leader. He’s Known as ‘the Madman.’ Javier Milei and the rebirth of austerity for the needy.

Good look by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social at Milei's influence on the incoming Trump team and what it says about the shifts within Trumpism from MAGA populism to DOGE libertarianism.

There is, however, one huge difference between the Argentine and US contexts that will complicate the DOGE agenda.

Opinion | My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment Where have all the good vibes gone?

In his last @nytimes.com column, @pkrugman.bsky.social writes: “if we stand up to the kakistocracy — rule by the worst — that’s emerging as we speak, we may eventually find our way back to a better world.”

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