Surviving a world I mostly reject by love channeled from a better world that doesn't exist; conjuring what I can of it into defiant being.
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Patrick Stewart, who died last week at the age of 86, was a committed socialist from the start.
That conviction ran through his greatest role: Jean-Luc Picard, a leader who used reason and compassion rather than force. jacobin.com/2026/11/patrick-…
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🇩🇪 About 100,000 young people marched in Berlin and some 30 other German cities Saturday against military conscription, spending cuts and the rising cost of living, organizers told the Financial Times, two weeks after similar youth protests swept France.
Germany plans to roll out military screening for men born in 2008 or later in July 2027. Protesters also demanded more education funding like in France.
More than 100 police officers were injured in Frankfurt, where police broke up the march after clashes and looting and arrested 54 people ages 13 to 29. Police also halted the protest in Hamburg.
"If no one is listening to us, I don't understand why protests should not also turn violent," said Sophie S, a 23-year-old student protesting at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to the FT.
Hamburg, Berlin, Köln und Frankfurt zeigen 🇩🇪 Bilder, die einen einfach nur noch fassungslos zurücklassen.
Das Schlimme ist ja: Jeder wusste, dass es so kommt. Die Aufrufe liefen, und trotz dieser Vorwarnstufe schlägt die Demonstration überall in blinde Zerstörungswut, brennende Barrikaden und Chaos um.
Wir haben zu Recht Demonstrationsfreiheit – aber genau dieses Recht wird hier von Krawallmachern systematisch missbraucht.
Das hat absolut nichts mehr mit dem Deutschland zu tun, das ich kenne. Ich hoffe dass alle Einsatzkräfte der Polizei gesund nach Hause kommen.
#InnereSicherheit
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This is factual and worth knowing and coming to terms with if we are going to understand the rise of far-right sentiment. We are in an asymmetrical propaganda assault on democracy. The Islamophobia, anti immigrant craze is part of a concerted campaign to divide democratic nations. Be aware.
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Celeste and TowerFall have been delisted from Xbox, as the developer has chosen to boycott Microsoft for its involvement and investments with the Israeli government. bit.ly/3Ur8hCh
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RENFE train workers in Spain fear that more "accidents" could occur.
They are demanding that RENFE management terminate its contract with an Israeli security firm.
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BREAKING: Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs, per the Guardian.
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Just last month, DoorDash couldn’t seem to find the money to pay their deliveristas — until our administration forced them to give back $131M+ in stolen wages and penalties.
This week, they’ve managed to find $17 billion to acquire one of their main competitors.
Corporate consolidation means higher prices, harsher exploitation, and greater economic inequality for New Yorkers.
We’ve stood up to these giants before. That doesn’t stop now.
BREAKING: DoorDash just agreed to buy Instacart for $17 billion. Here's what that means for customers and shoppers. apnews.com/article/doordash-…
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When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.
Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous, not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years.
That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.
I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.
- Ann Druyan
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NEW: On Friday, dockworkers at 111 ports in 22 countries and regions on five continents will stop work in a coordinated strike against war, according to the most recent information from the organizing unions.
More than 25 dockworkers’ unions have now signed on, from Marseille to Mumbai, Hamburg to Montevideo, Melbourne to Oakland. Days ago the count stood at about 100 ports in 17 countries, and that figure doesn’t include the dozens of unions in other sectors that have pledged support. Their demand is simple: no weapons and no military cargo through their ports. Nearly everything the world ships passes through the docks, and without the workers who load and unload it, nothing moves.
In France, the main dockers’ union says the country’s ports will be 95% shut. Italy, India, Greece and Turkey face 24-hour strikes, and Morocco and Cyprus will see stoppages of up to two hours, with rallies planned in port cities around the world. In Greece, metalworkers, ship-repair workers and young people are joining the dockers, and in the US, ILWU Local 10 is striking in Oakland and San Francisco. The unions are working from the Istanbul Declaration, signed in May, with each one deciding for itself how to take part. They are also fighting for their own jobs, against cuts from automation and for contracts, raises, shorter hours and safety.
The unions point to escalating wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the danger of a generalized war. They condemn Israel’s new crimes in Hebron, carried out with the backing of the US, NATO and the EU. Israel’s lockdown of the city is now in its sixth day, with more than 3,000 Palestinians displaced, according to the UN. Palestinian unions have endorsed Friday’s action.
In Italy, the fight has spilled beyond the docks. The union USB has called for a nationwide general strike. Last night, the Italian government ordered transport workers back on the job last night. USB said it would defy the order and accept the steep penalties.
The unions are calling on workers and young people everywhere to stand with the dockworkers, saying “Ports for peace and the peoples, not launching pads for war.”
I’m reporting from Calabria, Italy, and I will be in Genoa tomorrow ahead of the strike to report on the ground during the mobilzation.
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BREAKING: House Democrats have preemptively introduced a resolution to stop the federal government from bailing out AI companies in the event of the industry collapsing. The bill says these companies should be subjected to the ordinary bankruptcy process.
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BREAKING: Hegseth fires the Pentagon's chief planner, Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, per The Atlantic.
Defense officials said the main reason for the firing was that he clashed repeatedly with Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's top civilian for policy, causing Hegseth to lose confidence in Sylvia.
Colby is the official who said in August the US is reviewing the strategy for the specific and potential use of nuclear weapons.
He is at least the 5th general pushed out this year, each holding a key position.
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AI has provided “zero payoff” to corporate America outside of the technology sector, according to Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok.
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“Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft”
Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft kotaku.com/now-that-the-shoe… kotaku.com/now-that-the-shoe…
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This article's title is sarcastic. It describes Microsoft and Epic's recent takedowns of AI-assisted ports of their games. Neither company has changed its overall stance on AI.
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Lula surrendered to justice, faced his accusers, went to jail on tampered evidence, proved his innocence and then won 2 elections in a row.
Flavio fled a day after he won 60 million votes and a congressional majority.
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34 days after this tweet was made chatgpt was released to the public
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Travis Knight says that LAIKA will never use generative AI in their films.
“AI is theft. It’s the ingestion of years and years and years of human creativity and ingenuity, regurgitated back. It has no humanity. It has no spirit.”
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