More criminalizing of protest, this time against a corporate critic who identified power seizures against democracy.
#oped
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/13/elon-musk-tesla-takedown-protest
Three Year Later, the Sony a7R V Remains a Class Leader https://petapixel.com/2025/03/11/three-year-later-the-sony-a7r-v-remains-a-class-leader/ #highresolution #canoneosr5ii #comparison #megapixels #Equipment #fullframe #landscape #portrait #sonya7rv #wildlife #Opinion #nikonz8 #opinion #oped
Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/trumps-agenda-is-undermining-american-science
Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.
Fico Never Lets You Down
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Twenty six out of 27 EU leaders, including Slovak prime minister Robert Fico, approved a joint statement on Europe’s rearmament and continued aid to Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
Despite flexing muscles at home for weeks ahead of the emergency summit, the pro-Putin Slovak PM did not vote against the summit conclusions, leaving only his equally confused friend, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, to play the role of the bad boy/useful idiot. Before leaving for Brussels, Fico, long blaming Ukraine for cutting off Russian gas transit through its territory, allegedly causing massive financial losses to Slovakia, told Slovak MPs on the parliamentary EU affairs committee that he would veto the conclusions unless they included guarantees for the resumption of Russian gas transit.
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#SlovakNEWS #opinion #Slovakia #EU #OpEd #GasTransit #politics #Fico #EmergencySummit #UsefulIdiots
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WE’RE GOING TO FIGHT! “Member states have recognised that the cancellation of transit through Ukraine is a problem that threatens the entire EU.”
“We’re at the #Napster moment in the #AI race. (for #books) When we started streaming music in the early 2000s, most of it was stolen. That wasn’t going to work in the long run. Who could afford to be a musician if no one paid for music.” —Prof. #TobyWalsh, artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales
#OpEd / #Writers / #BlackBooks / #BlackInc / #tech / #BigTech / #theft / #Piracy / #Publishing / #UniNSW <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/i-have-been-an-ai-researcher-for-40-years-what-tech-giants-are-doing-to-book-publishing-is-akin-to-theft>
#oped The Chief of Staff of the ISR 'army', Halevi, was keen to end his leadership with a new escalation against #egypt, by announcing his concern about the capabilities of the Egyptian forces, which, although they do not pose a current threat, pose a potential threat at any moment.
This is despite the fact that Egypt is openly armed and obtains its weapons from the same sources as Israel (...)
By K. Elaraby for MEMO 
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250305-the-limits-of-the-israeli-escalation-against-egypt/
Washington Post Loses 75,000 Subscribers Due to Jeff Bezos’ Opinion Takeover
https://www.thewrap.com/washington-post-loses-75k-subsribers-after-bezos-opinion-takeover/
The paper’s latest hard right turn also prompted more protest resignations
Washington Post sign outside its headquarters.
"A kind of apathy can take hold among voters as we approach that first Tuesday in November. Does our vote matter? Will it really make a difference if we show up? I'm of the mind that our vote actually does matter; it just matters less than we want it to."
https://thelightjournal.substack.com/p/vote-with-your-wallet?r=5awxcx
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