Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)  Β·  last week

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BDG news: Calls for Due Process After US Authorities Detain Palestinian Buddhist Leader and Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi

πŸ”— Read here: https://tinyurl.com/258vb6wz

#Buddhism#BuddhistActivism#EngagedBuddhism#HumanRights#Politics#USA#Vermont#USPolitics

Zuri (he/him) πŸ• CET
Zuri (he/him) πŸ• CET  Β·  last week

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@georgetakei Like with the last election people treat this as two equal options
"Both sides have their experts"
"Both sides have corrupt politicians"

Seeing what we have seen with the #PresidentialElection2024, the #SecondTrumpAdministration, the #TradeWar2025/ #TrumpTariffs, and #DOGE, people just don't realize that, unlike in the past, there's only one real option and then there's doom. That's beyond comparison, yet they try

#Bothsiderism#DonaldTrump#Trump#Musk#ElonMusk #uspol #politics

Sunny
Sunny  Β·  last week

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@georgetakei
George, you lived it.
You've had decades to mull it over.

Any thoughts about what we the people could be doing to stop this?

He's shirking the checks on the Executive branch by the Judicial branch.

The Legislative branch is shirking their own duties to impose checks on the Executive branch.

Those are the constitutional remedies that I know of.

Who reigns him in when all the constitutional mechanisms have failed?

#politics

Paris Marx
Paris Marx  Β·  last month

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Generative AI isn’t delivering on its promises, but that hasn’t stopped governments from turning it into a geopolitical football.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @timnitGebru to discuss the state of AI in 2025 and how it continues to sustain the hype.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/267_ai_hype_enters_its_geopolitics_era_w_timnit_gebru

#tech #ai#generativeai #politics

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shanen
shanen  Β·  last month

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@georgetakei

These years Americans are free to choose from benign incompetence, malevolent incompetence, or feckless incompetence. That's how the votes fall. Amusingly enough, the #YOB (Yuge Orange Buffoon) checks all three boxes, though mostly the malign box.

#america #politics versus #freedom

Radical Anthropology
Radical Anthropology  Β·  2 months ago

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FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

Everybody welcome, just turn up!

LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

🌘Tues Feb 25, 6:30pm (London UTC)πŸŒ‘
Erica Lagalisse
'On Anarchist Anthropology' in conversation with our own activist and radical anthropologist Chris Knight.

Erica is author of 'Occult Features of Anarchism' (PM Press, 2019). And many many popular anthropology zines!

Erica will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

#anarchism #anthropology #politics #activism #ethnography #conspiracytheory #religion

Jonathan Kamens
Jonathan Kamens  Β·  2 months ago

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If you know of or are involved with an organization that helps people in a way that the #TrumpAdministration doesn't approve of, and the org is worried about continuing to do their work while protecting their employees, volunteers, and clients, I am happy to meet for free with the org to work through with them what their threat model is and how they can improve their security posture. They can reach out to me on Signal at jik.87. Please boostRequest for reach.
#politics#USPol #resist
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Emeritus Prof Christopher May  Β·  2 months ago

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Andy Haldane (Royal Society of Arts, writing in the FT) argues the UK should reform its regulative culture to join the US & focus on forgiveness rather than permission;

so writes a man who likely has never suffered a loss due to rapacious financial service operators, had to rent from an exploitative landlord, or found himself stolen from by scammers;

its always the comfortable middle-class who champion deregulation & a shift to higher risk; strangely never the victims!

#regulation #politics

Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Emeritus Prof Christopher May  Β·  3 months ago

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I agree with Martha Gill, it would be a really positive move if our political class actually listened to what people really think about immigration, and were not so influenced by the vocal minority who think migrants are a problem....

Actually we manage integration pretty well, we value the contribution migrants make to our society & actually would welcome more..... however, that's not the story that dominates, but it should!

#migration #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/01/settled-industrious-essential-its-time-we-saw-immigration-as-a-british-success-story

The Japan Times
The Japan Times  Β·  3 months ago

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China’s forced boarding schools for Tibetan children are aiming to erase their cultural identity, with children subjected to political indoctrination and separation from families. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/14/asia-pacific/politics/china-tibetan-culture-child/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #tibet
Calico Jesse
Calico Jesse  Β·  4 months ago

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β€œYou don't think much of my chances, do you?"
"Not much," agreed the ex-Minister of Education. "You're a Smyrnian."
"That's no legal bar. I've had a lay education."
"Well, come now. Since when does prejudice follow any law but its own.” β€”Asimov, Foundation, 1952

Sadly still relevant today.

#Reading#SciFi#Asimov#Politics

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)  Β·  4 months ago

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BDG feature: ​​​​Ramya Jirasinghe’s Water for Kings: A Sri Lankan Writer’s Poetic Vision and Caution

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/mrw929d2

#buddhism #srilanka #politics #theravada #literature #theater #colombo #civilwar #peace

Spaceflight πŸš€
Spaceflight πŸš€  Β·  last year

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"Political and #aerospace interests were more than reluctant to embrace any changes which they viewed as a threat to their own hegemony."
The mainstream media doesn’t cover #SpaceExploration and #SpaceScience with the same questioning πŸ” rigor that they reserve for #politics. People writing about space exploration are mostly cheerleaders πŸ₯³ for the cause, rather than independent observers keeping a watchful eye on how our national monies πŸ’° are spent. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2022/06/23/new-book-paints-bleak-picture-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program/

#NASA #SLS#Artemis

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