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Chanchala Samaraweera Gunewardena
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Chanchala Samaraweera Gunewardena
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Economic Dev via Creative Enterprise. Leading: Matara Festival for Arts, Kolamba Kamatha Fest, Freedom Hub & Kimbula Kitchen #FreePalestine🇵🇸✊🏾
Matara & Colombo, Sri Lanka انضم Mart 2018
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My 18-month investigation into Sam Altman and OpenAI in @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz, is out now.
Read here: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Thread on a few of the key findings here: x.com/RonanFarrow/st…
Ronan Farrow@RonanFarrow
(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:
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Even making children anywhere in the world *fear* that they might be suddenly destroyed is an atrocious crime against humanity.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV on Trump’s warning to Iran of “civilization” destruction —
“This is truly not acceptable. Here there are certainly questions of international law, but even more than this a question of morality for the good of people.”
He adds the war is “continuing to escalate and is not resolving anything… is only provoking more hatred throughout the world.”
“attacks on civilian infrastructure are against international law, but it is also against sign of the hatred and division that we are capable of.”
Video @Reuters
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I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.
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Western leaders that placated and played along when every red line against Gaza was trespassed have this on their hands. ‘Our species’, the many of us in the ‘developing’ world that stood up to our own wannabe dictators wash our hands of this.
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno
Donald Trump is clearly threatening to use nuclear weapons against Iran. He needs to be removed as President to prevent a catastrophe that our species will never recover from.
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Israel bombed the Rafie Nia Synagogue in Tehran.
Yes, you read that right. Israel bombed a synagogue. In Iran.
Most Americans probably didn't know that there are ~100 synagogues in Iran, 30 of which are in Tehran.
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Based on its independent analysis of new satellite imagery and detailed knowledge of the site, the IAEA can confirm recent impacts of military strikes close to Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), including one just 75 metres from the site perimeter. The BNPP itself has not been damaged, the IAEA’s analysis of the 5 April imagery shows.
Once again, IAEA Director General @rafaelmgrossi warns that continued military activity near the BNPP - an operating plant with large amounts of nuclear fuel - could cause a severe radiological accident with harmful consequences for people and the environment in Iran and beyond.
Regardless of the nature of the intended targets, DG Grossi says such attacks pose a very real danger to nuclear safety and must stop. DG Grossi reiterates call for all parties to fully respect the 7 indispensable pillars for ensuring nuclear safety and security during a conflict. A nuclear facility and surrounding areas should never be struck, DG Grossi says.
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...a tender that typically takes a little over three months took seven months to conclude.
sundaytimes.lk/260405/news/th…
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The Rajapakse version of history is so boldly revisionist and really banks on Sri Lanka being an island of short memory. And sadly as the GR election proved we have been, and it’s what NR is hoping will pan out for him. For the moment though, I think people see through it.
NewsWire 🇱🇰@NewsWireLK
“We have always prioritised protecting the public from social crises. We did the same when ending the war, during the Covid-19 pandemic, and throughout the Aragalaya period, taking a step back to prevent societal collapse,” MP Namal Rajapaksa said, accusing the government of being insensitive to people’s struggles. He added that if necessary, they would fight for an election if it is not granted democratically.
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Also of concern: ‘Task force members didn’t know much about the $10 million collected in the Rebuilding Sri Lanka fund as of January, or whether any had been disbursed. This included the finance and funding sub-committee, mandated to mobilise and transparently utilise the fund.’
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More journalism of national concern by @ExaminerLK. Vulnerable Lankans who survived Ditwah continue to live in tents & now face this terrible heat that will give way to a heavy monsoon. Yet mechanisms & timelines to meet the urgency are languishing.
examiner.media/plantation-com…
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Proud of our team & appreciative of our festival founder & lead advisor @CBKsrilanka for delivering on a brill Y2 of our trilingual Kolamba Kamatha Festival of Sri Lankan theatre. An honour to champion Lankan creativity & talent.
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On a day when the world should be celebrating Easter & uniting behind humanity’s achievements - Artemis II carrying 4 astronauts back toward the Moon,
we are instead staring at a post that glorifies unchecked power & threats of destruction.
What happened to checks & balances & to any sense of a stable world order?
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Is GoSL planning this heat, that is surely set to increase? I’m thinking about MC staff on our streets, and others who work outside - still lacking formal spaces for meals or washrooms. Is there planning w/ employers for their health, hydration & rest? @anuradisanayake @VraieB
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On Easter, sharing something from home.
The Transfiguration mural by David Paynter at the Chapel of the Transfiguration, S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka - photographed in December 2024.
Wishing you a blessed and joyful Easter.
May this day of hope and renewal bring peace, light, and new beginnings.
#Easter
#HappyEaster
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We - all countries at the equatorial band - need to overhaul our building codes to bring this sort of materials back into use.
When I wanted to build our house of our earthbags, the difficulty was not with the method, but with the contractors.
SHAV★@shavnyuy
Burkina Faso is one of the hottest countries on earth, yet 500+ students are learning in full thermal comfort, no air conditioning required. This school’s thick clay walls absorb the heat, while elevated steel roofs push it out. Eucalyptus ceilings, local labor, rainwater harvesting, everything possible came from what was already there. This is a technology institute built with the technology that suits our climate and needs. The West calls it “low-tech.” Africans call it working with your climate, not against it. 📍 Burkina Institute of Technology, Koudougou, Burkina Faso 🏛 Kéré Architecture 📷 Iwan Baan
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Doing the right thing shouldn’t be a prank. President should enact this. That said, well played @RehanJayawick
Rehan Jayawickreme@RehanJayawick
Energy Minister Kumara Jayakodi has been removed from his portfolio by President @anuradisanayake🙏🏻 #lka1
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