“There is a dead body lying there [and] they’re not informing family, they’re not contacting family – maybe they’re not sad about it even,” Abdul Aziz’s distraught uncle, Abdul Baseer, told The Age from the family home in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Typing notes may be ever-so-advanced – but it is less effective in terms of learning.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581
15th July, 2019: “Go back…” – these words have been used by some individuals in connection with refugees and migrants. However, if the president of the US says them, it becomes a sort of legitimising template for others. “Well, that’s what the president said, so I can also say it.” This then goes way beyond the freedom of speech. So, the effect of the same words is entirely larger when they come from the top. Everything a president says, becomes important because he is the president. We may call this “power” (with a lot of simplification). History has shown what can happen, if the people of a country are misled by their leader. Suddenly, there is a licence for what otherwise would be simply illegal. A very dangerous playing field indeed.
5th August, 2019 Today I hate to see that my worst fears are confirmed. No doubt, there is a measured responsibility of the leadership for what happened in El Paso and Dayton. You simply cannot talk as a leader in the same way you would talk as an ordinary person. 29 people are dead now because of the missing gun law review and because of the loose tongue of the leadership.
A very worthwhile read for any parents of children with smartphones.
How social networks destroy the very foundation of democracy:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43465968
“The reporter posed as a Sri Lankan businessman wanting to influence a local election.
Cambridge Analytica boss Alexander Nix was apparently filmed giving examples of how his firm could discredit political rivals by arranging various smear campaigns, including setting up encounters with prostitutes and staging situations in which apparent bribery could be caught on camera.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48364817
“But then Facebook changed its algorithm – how it decides what to put in front of us. When social media is a big part of your life, an algorithm change can come as a shock.
Leah’s content was being shown to fewer people, and her comics started to get fewer likes.”
It is actually a scene from Novosibirsk, Russia where highly toxic chemicals from a coal-fired power station have coloured the water of a lake to look like a beach on the Maldive islands.
Of course, one must think about the presented data and not fall victim to fast conclusions. Countries with large surface areas and low populations are not necessarily big polluters.
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