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I’m getting enough of these to think it must be the new Nigerian prince scam. Am I right? Anyone know how it works?

Is #Greenland the Final Breaking Point of Transatlantic Relations? - Is Greenland a Real Security Issue? - What are possible scenarios?
By Juraj Majcin, European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels
"The EU should therefore push back where it has leverage, notably in trade and technology regulation, by seriously considering activation of its Anti-Coercion Instrument, as requested b…

Is Greenland the Final Breaking Point of Transatlantic Relations?
But Also - Mercosur Gets Signed, and EU 'Membership Lite' for Ukraine?

Moving services to the EU
Like a lot of Europeans, I realise that the US isn't a reliable partner anymore.
I am just talking about myself here, and not my employer, or my family.
I do use a lot of services that are based in the US, and some I will probably not migrate in the near future.
But when I receive a bill, it is a good moment to consider if it is a candidate for migration.

In a decisive vote Friday,
the Virginia Senate approved a
constitutional amendment that would automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions
after they complete their sentence
and guarantee the right to vote in the commonwealth.
The measure will now head to voters for final approval.
The amendment, which passed the Senate 21-18 after earlier approval by the House of Delegates,
would fundamentally change how Virginia treats vot…

Virginia takes key step to end ‘overt and intended effort to block Black people from voting’
Read more here.

#Drumpf deeply callous and caustic caged animal energy insults fired at female reporters in his orbit are nothing new, as dozens of immature sickening remarks have been attributed to him in the past year, but ominous autocratic threats against TV networks do raise the bar and cause constitutional alarm.
The paunchy Prez recent angry babbling tirades in

Trump, who just called a female reporter ‘piggy’, rages at ABC News journalist for being too mean to him
Trump called ABC ‘fake news’ during the Oval Office exchange

One of our friends is the daughter of a Chilean refugee who came here as a young child after the fascist coup in 1973.
Under this Labour government she and her family would have been sent back, probably by 1980 when the dictatorship imposed a new constitution. It was still a highly repressive country. Refugees generally didn't deem it safe to return until the late 1980s. Most made lives here, contributing greatly to this country, as migrant communities always do.

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

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…

Cowboys cruise to victory over Raiders; Virginia Tech hires James Franklin

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-raiders-virginia-tech-james-franklin-wembanyama-i…

Communities in the DRC are building something remarkable: a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor connecting two major protected areas.
Strong Roots Congo has already secured 23 community forest concessions covering nearly 600,000 hectares. The project does double duty—allowing wildlife to move safely between habitats while supporting local livelihoods and protecting Indigenous peoples from land grabbing.

Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor
Dominique Bikaba’s family was once displaced from vibrant rainforests in the Congo Basin to make way for a sweeping national park. Today, a conservationist who also champions the protection of endangered gorillas in these forests, Bikaba is embarking on a journey to conserve this ecosystem — in a way he says is more just. His […]