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On the high-tech path to destruction

By Khaled Diab Rather than humans becoming enslaved by robots, machines have become the new slave or serf class, with

Is Europe not working?

The chair of a leading multinational claims that Europeans do not work hard enough and do not value work enough. I beg to differ.

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"The American Library Association documented 729 attempts to censor library materials in 2021, targeting 1,597 titles." US conservatives' attacks on alleged leftist "cancel culture" is a decoy to draw attention away from their war on books and knowledge. theguardian.com/books/2022/se…

07:12 · September 27, 2022

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The most sustainable way to travel is through writing.

18:29 · September 26, 2022

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Abiy Ahmed is a case in point of why Nobel peace prizes should not be too hastily awarded. Ahmed turned out to be a warmonger instead of a peacemaker. And the people of Tigray are paying a heavy human price. twitter.com/NewYorker/stat…

16:26 · September 26, 2022

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It sounds like the punchline to a cruel joke that the woman on course to become Italy's first female prime minister leads a neo-fascistic party called Brothers of Italy which has a hostile anti-women agenda. #Italia #ItalianElections #GiorgiaMeloni

07:28 · September 26, 2022

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There is no right answer but there are plenty of wrong ones.

06:54 · September 26, 2022

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Shana tova to my Jewish friends and Jews around the world on the occasion of Rosh HaShanah. In both Hebrew and Arabic, we don't refer to a new year but to the 'head' of the year. May this year's head be sane, sensible and enjoy peace of mind.

16:52 · September 25, 2022

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Even though cats are highly individualistic and far less likely to imitate others than people are, we say "copycat" rather than "copyhuman".

15:41 · September 25, 2022

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The Iranian regime so fears women that it murdered Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab in a way they did not approve of. May she rest in peace. Since then, the regime has killed 35 protesters. #IranProtests2022 rfi.fr/en/internation…

13:06 · September 24, 2022

Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, etc

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Trickle down economics only works if the rich are altruistic. There is a reason why most of them are rich - and it isn’t their altruism that springs to mind twitter.com/diabolicalidea…

17:22 · September 22, 2022 ·

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(Wealthy) democracies treat citizens better than foreigners. Poor autocracies treat (wealthy) foreigners better than citizens.

06:49 · September 22, 2022

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