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This is an excellent piece on the moral panic over the entirely reasonable Maccabi hooligan ban.
The UK is now willing to undermine British institutions to protect Israel | Politics | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinion…

The UK is now willing to undermine British institutions to protect Israel
British football fans are regularly banned without scandal. Why is it that Israeli fans cannot be?

Un train stationne Š Exelmans vers Mairie de Montreuil en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention de nos agents .
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Amid this news madness, I've thoroughly enjoyed being subscribed to the daily #CarbonBrief. Instead of compulsing the news, I try [and often fail] to focus on the most insightful items in my news feeds. This analysis of the latest UK auction for #WindPower was excellent:

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Portugal. The Man:
🎵 Angoon
#NowPlaying #PortugalTheMan
https://portugaltheman.bandcamp.com/track/angoon
https://open.spotify.com/track/6E4GELe7in3j1zKgTO5Yb9

Yesterday I finished "The Other Side of Tomorrow" written by Tina Cho and illustrated by Deb JJ Lee. Lee's "In Limbo" was an excellent graphic memoir, and this similarly has wonderful art, although I didn't make the connection until checking the authors after reading to the end.
This book is a realistic fictional account of two childrens' escape from North Korea via China, Laos, and ultimately Thailand where they could declare themselves refugees at a US embassy and get sponsored to live in America. Along the way they're helped by various members of the Asian Underground Railroad. I'll avoid spoilers but yet definitely encounter difficulties along the way.
The ending definitely hits different now (while also accentuating my disgust with the current US regime). Like "Libertad" that I also finished recently, the "escape to the US at the end" plot line is going to become less prevalent going forward, although Libertad involved a good measure of complexity around that point.
I was a bit disappointed in one of the later plot points where a different and more-real-world-probable turn of events could have served as a better message for society, with the "lucky" outcome as written reinforcing regressive notions of family, and as an ex-Christian the Christian elements of the story made me feel a way. I'm an agnostic, not an atheist though, and can respect the idea that those willing to risk torture and death for their faith have every right to stand by it and take inspiration from it. Most (very valid) critiques of big western Church institutions just don't apply to underground churches in northern China who are helping people escape the horrors of deep fascism.
Overall a really good book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

This extract in particular is an excellent summary of why people turn to AI, and (as well as what follows, namely the "raising the standards and lowering the stakes" bit) an excellent guide to recentering education as a process & practice rather than a series of benchmarks students are required to chase.
https://www.tumblr.com/inside-a-cold-cave/805462716508717056?source=share

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115611262294196579
Molly’s gloriously-outsider take on “crypto treasury” companies is excellent. For an insider take on the same issue, see Matt Levine, who in the same column covers sports betting, various colorful fra…

Institutional power, capitalism, colonialism, and an empire on the brink of war or collapse. Doncha just love escaping into fiction when the real world gets to be too much?
Yeah, 19th century fictional Britain is strikingly similar to the US today, but at least you know the fictional story will have a resolution. I don't want to spoil the story. Just know that you're in for a captivating ride with an excellent author.
Babel by R.F. Kuang
I listened to the audio book…

The cloud is an excellent tool for many workloads, I won't deny that.
But it is important to remember that “The Cloud” is still, essentially, "Someone Else’s Computer."
That means your data exists inside someone else’s jurisdiction, logs, metadata, and access paths.
And in the age of AI, being aware of that matters more than ever.