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It's unlikely I will post more here. But do follow me on the sky app, for more reporting from Kyiv and beyond. Same handle/ ID there :)

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Word is, China was providing Cuba with tech support for shortwave TXs, but they got in some beef and China pulled out; then RHC TXs's state just crumbled until they all broke down. HM01 was from their Bejucal TX, but if they managed to bring one RHC TX back then maybe HM01 too!

Radio Havana Cuba heard back on the air! Could HM01 reappear soon too? RHC heard Tuesday night on 6000kHz from their Titan Quivican TX site. HM01/RHC (same facilities) had been off the air since last August/November, after all TX sites simply broke down due to lack of maintenance

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It's been a bit since I've written about the ethics of war. But something struck me today. The principle of distinction requires you to aim at military targets, and to do *a lot* of work to determine that something is a military target. The principle of proportionality says that civilian harm is permissible if it's necessary and proportionate to the military advantage achieved. It kicks in *only* once you've established that a target is a lawful military objective. For example: suppose that I had an AI tool that was selecting targets, and I knew with high confidence that 5% of those targets would in fact be civilian. I *don't* think that IHL would treat this as a matter of applying the principle of proportionality, but rather would treat it as a matter of distinction. TLDR: If you know ahead of time that your method of target selection will unavoidably and predictably yield a non-trivial false-positive rate, then it's in breach of the principle of distinction, irrespective of whether the deaths caused by attacking some specific civilian target are proportionate to the broader goals of the operation.

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In the next few years, some fundamental questions in metaethics are going to get the closest thing to genuinely new empirical evidence we’ve ever seen.

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Google #EarthEngine Tutorial-189 Published: Interactive Mapping using #Python API tools youtu.be/QzlJyQ787OI

@BGhandehari Hi Bahar, I have emailed you. Please check. Thank you.

According to the wife of a political prisoner in Iran’s Evin Prison, authorities have told prisoners that prisoners held on financial charges will be transferred to Greater Tehran Prison and political prisoners and foreign nationals will be transferred to Qom Prison.

India’s growing engagement with the Taliban reflects the shifting geopolitical realities of the region, writes @RuchiKumar for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/indi…

@NarimanGharib Hello Mr Nariman, hope you are well. I am trying to reach you. Please let me know what would be a good way to reach you.

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Congratulations to #IWMFFellow @RuchiKumar, who is a finalist in the @fjawards in the Excellence in Environmental Journalism category for her reporting on forced sterilization among sugarcane workers in India: fjawards.com/finalists

Great piece by @RuchiKumar and an Afghan photographer reporting on the plight of Afghan women in #Afghanistan nationalgeographic.com/photography/ar…

#JournoRequest Looking for a contact for Keith Cressman at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. His FAO email ID doesn't work, so any alternative contact would be very useful. Thank you!

It's unlikely I will post more here. But do follow me on the sky app, for more reporting from Kyiv and beyond. Same handle/ ID there :)

Communities are also adapting their lives to the war; think underground schools and hospitals (story on that soon!). Theres a lot of dignity and grace in how Ukrainian respond to the violence around them. But this shouldn’t be normal for anyone.

I am not active on Twitter anymore, but I felt like this needed to be shared here too. From my recent trip to #Ukraine. A Shahed drone carries as much payload as a carbomb. Now imagine 100s of these, along with other missiles, exploding over heavily populated cities almost daily

@NajibSadid @HelenaMalikyar Has it become worse in recent years? Is there a way to measure or monitor dust storms over the years?

@HelenaMalikyar Dust-storms are regional & require regional & long-term efforts to mitigate ( afforestation, soil/sand stabilization). Absence of international funding is a big challenge but if we mobilize people to take the lead, we can still improve the condition.

A massive dust storm has swept through northern #Afghanistan as droughts persist for the fourth consecutive year. These storms carry large amounts of salt particles from Central Asian deserts into the fertile #AmuDarya plain, impacting human health & agricultural productivity.

Hello! I am trying to connect with Georgian journalist Nino Tarkhnishvili. If anyone here knows her and is able to share a contact, or email or forward my request to her, I would greatly appreciate it! #JournoRequest

in India's sugarcane capital, thousands of women farmworkers have been forced into hysterectomies—and now climate change is making things worse. critical reporting from @RuchiKumar about heat risk, forced labor, and the dark underbelly of agriculture atmos.earth/the-forced-ste…

Women in #India were lied to, duped into having hysterectomies so they could work more in fields. Must read w/ @RuchiKumar atmos.earth/the-forced-ste…