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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 20 years of the Amaryllis Quartet
In this birthday concert, chamber music classics by Beethoven and Brahms are performed alongside a new work by the Swiss oboist, composer and conductor Heinz Holliger.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r463
A Marine Corps veteran suffered a broken arm last week
after he disrupted a Senate hearing to voice his opposition to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Democracy Now! speaks with the veteran, Brian McGinnis,
who is also a Green Party candidate for Senate in North Carolina.
McGinnis is critical of U.S. policy in Israel and the Trump administration’s decision to go “full speed ahead with military action” in the Middle East.
McGinnis is charged with three counts of ass…
President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being "threatened and undermined" by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/03/trump…
“It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/ai-polling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y1A.UXN7.Opb7CzcuUTlF&smid=url-share (gif…
Trump says Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have "Low IQs" and "their views are the opposite of MAGA" after they blasted him over Iran (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/582460…
What’s good: the context, the history, the detailed analysis, naming the actors who caused the atrocity, naming the opposition, naming those who abdicated responsibility, naming those could have stopped it but didn’t, viewing all of this a bit systemically
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European Union (probably not alone) is at risk of insufficient primary materials to facilitate the renewable energy capture systems on which its modest climate mitigation plans rely.
Report by their Audit Court.
https://www.eldiario.es/economia/ue-rie…
Silicon sampling, simulating human polling with AI agents, undermines the very idea of the opinion polls and will only worsen our broken information ecosystem (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion