Arrest of journalist Olga Fedorova (Alex Kent, New York, May 8 2024)
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American Airlines is Issuing 'Poverty Verification Letters' For New-Hire Flight Attendants Because Their Wages Are So Low ( www.paddleyourownkanoo.com )
As of today, March 9, this is officially the new flag of Utah
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Arrest Netanyahu for 'crimes against humanity' - UPI.com ( www.upi.com )
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., says Israel is about to commit "crimes against humanity" and on Tuesday urged the International Criminal Court to arrest Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Pro-Palestinian hunger strike at Princeton University marks 1 week ( newjersey.news12.com )
It comes after 13 students were arrested for trespassing late last month during a protest....
Star Trek: Lower Decks to Conclude with Fifth and Final Season ( www.startrek.com )
It looks like the upcoming Lower Decks season will be the last one 😭😭 I didn't have any expectations for this show but it has quickly grown to be one of my favorites. I'll miss it
Google has an idea to prevent phone scams, but it'll mean allowing its AI to listen in on your calls ( www.businessinsider.com )
Google promised to keep data from the phone calls private.
Israel kills more than 500 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7 ( www.aljazeera.com )
That toll is more than three times the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank in 2022....
'Irate male' assaulted Newfoundland officers with block of cheese, police say ( www.ctvnews.ca )
...The RNC did not say if the officers were injured or what kind of cheese was used.
University of Barcelona's senate votes in favor of pro-Palestine protesters requests ( www.catalannews.com )
Students have been camping in the building protesting university's ties with Israel...
Today's the 99th anniversary of New Mexico's flag.
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Sam Bankman-Fried Believes He Was Set Up to Be the Fail Guy ( www.observers.com )
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Never Ended ( jacobin.com )
Israel was founded with the Nakba, a series of atrocities that ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland. Today we are witnessing Israel engage in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on an even larger, more violent scale....
Belgium university to quit project with Israeli institutions ( www.newarab.com )
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel said it would pull out of an AI project it was working on in collaboration with Israeli institutions, amid the Gaza war....
UNRWA to close East Jerusalem headquarters after arson attack by ‘Israeli extremists’ | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )
In a statement on social platform X, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said the arson attack was the latest in a series of threats, harassment and violent incidents perpetrated by Israelis against the agency’s staff over the past two months....
Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism to Fight “Normalization of Evil” ( www.democracynow.org )
Our guest is the Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass, the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. She is the recipient of the 2024 Columbia Journalism Award, and on Wednesday she addressed the graduating class of the Columbia Journalism School in New York City. Hass...
Announcing Rust 1.77.0 | Rust Blog ( blog.rust-lang.org )
‘You could be looking at the last surviving works by Gaza’s artists’ ( www.972mag.com )
An exhibition in the West Bank attempts both to capture and counteract the erasure of Palestinian life and culture in Gaza, even as its artists are killed....
What's your favorite Japanese prefectural flag?
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The Map of Mathematics (by Domain of Science)
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How do we feel about Nepal's flag?
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Announcing Rust 1.78.0 | Rust Blog ( blog.rust-lang.org )
Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors ( blog.ucsusa.org )
A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical....
Too good to be true: the greenwashers’ box of tricks ( www.ft.com )
Companies are becoming ever craftier in their efforts to pose as more climate-friendly than they are...
Google layoffs: A timeline of the company's job cuts and restructuring into 2024 ( www.businessinsider.com )
Google layoffs in 2023 affected about 6% of the company's global workforce, or about 12,000 people, starting in January....
