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The Palestine Laboratory – EP 1 Uncovering how Israel profits from surveillance technologies using occupied #Palestinian territories as a testing ground aje.io/qw7zxh via @AJEnglish

#Postcast listened on 15 May - The Great Repair: Emotions, Memory, and the German–Jewish Settlement after the Holocaust (Cornell UP, 2026) explores how Jews and Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the #Holocaust @reparation newbooksnetwork.com/the-great-repa…

Today's #book - Howard W. French | The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide #Africa #History youtu.be/6Ft5DHvl8aI?si…

🧵on 'NYT rift' 1/22 A NYT article on sexual abuse against Palestinians -accurate but barely scratching the surface- is triggering hysteria in the Israeli govt not bcs of the facts, but bcs of the audience. Apartheid Israel fears NYT readers will finally see and no longer ignore.

“1. Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.” Jeanette Winterson’s 10 rules of writing, which apply to all creative work themarginalian.org/2018/09/05/jea…

"Freedom involves attention, awareness, discipline, effort, & being able to truly care abt other ppl and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day." - This is Water, David Foster Wallace #words4thoughts #15May2026

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

The idea that great art might improve your wellbeing shouldn't be a surprise to any of us, of course, but it's still brilliant to see this research from @ucl being covered today: theguardian.com/science/2026/m…

If there is absolutely one piece of journalism you must read today, make sure it is this hard hitting reportage by @NickKristof on the rape of Palestinian prisoners by Israeli guards. I do hope mainstream news channels in America make it their focus tonight

Traditional deep reading is declining. Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis explores the 3 types of reading (and the 2 you'll pick). Read the full article: buff.ly/RNBx7EU

#WhenTheWorldSleeps Palestine stands as the moral compass of our time. Exposing Apartheid and its crimes, their root causes and implications, is necessary to ensure the world "wake up" and work together to overcome it. Together we can and we will.

I've been a neuroscientist for 20 years: I do 6 things to keep my brain strong and healthy—you don't need to 'optimize every minute' cnb.cx/42dI36F

To the people of Tenerife, My name is Tedros, and I serve as the Director-General of the @WHO, the @UN agency responsible for global public health. It is not common for me to write directly to the people of a single community, but today I feel it is not only appropriate, it is necessary. I want to speak to you directly, not through press releases or technical briefings, but as one human being to another, because you deserve that. I know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word “outbreak” and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment. But I need you to hear me clearly: this is not another COVID-19. the current public health risk from #hantavirus remains low. My colleagues and I have said this unequivocally, and I will say it again to you now. The virus aboard the MV Hondius is the Andes strain of hantavirus. It is serious. Three people have lost their lives, and our hearts go out to their families. The risk to you, living your daily life in Tenerife, is low. This is the WHO’s assessment, and we do not make it lightly. Right now, there are no symptomatic passengers on board. A WHO expert is on that ship. Medical supplies are in place. Spain’s authorities have prepared a careful, step-by-step plan: passengers will be ferried ashore at the industrial port of Granadilla, far from residential areas, in sealed, guarded vehicles, through a completely cordoned-off corridor, and repatriated directly to their home countries. You will not encounter them. Your families will not encounter them. I also want to say something else, something that goes beyond the science. I personally thanked Prime Minister @sanchezcastejon for #Spain’s decision to receive this ship. I called it an act of solidarity and moral duty. Because that is what it is. I want you to know that the WHO’s request to Spain was not made arbitrarily. It was made in full accordance with the International Health Regulations, the legally binding framework that defines the rights and obligations of countries and the WHO when responding to public health events of international concern. Under those rules, the nearest port with sufficient medical capacity must be identified to ensure the safety and dignity of those on board. Tenerife met that standard. Spain honoured it. Nearly 150 people from 23 countries have been at sea for weeks, some of them grieving, all of them frightened, all of them longing for home. Tenerife has been chosen because it has the medical capacity, the infrastructure, and the humanity to help them reach safety. And because I believe that so deeply, I will be there myself. I intend to travel to Tenerife to observe this operation firsthand, to stand alongside the health workers, port staff, and officials who are making it happen, and to personally pay my respects to an island that has responded to a difficult situation with grace, solidarity, and compassion. Your humanity deserves to be witnessed, not just acknowledged from a distance. As I have said many times: viruses do not care about politics, and they do not respect borders. The best immunity any of us has is solidarity. Tenerife is demonstrating that solidarity today. The ship’s captain, Jan Dobrogowski, crew and the company operating the vessel have shown exemplary collaboration at this challenging time. On behalf of the World Health Organization, and on behalf of those passengers and their families around the world, I thank the people of Tenerife and everyone else involved. Please take care of yourselves and of each other. Trust in the preparations that have been made. And know that the WHO stands with you, and with every person on that ship, every step of the way. With respect, care, and gratitude, Tedros

Here are the photos that won the @nytimesphoto Gaza photographer Saher Alghorra a 2026 @PulitzerPrizes -- taken under impossible, dangerous conditions even as he lacked supplies and even food. The world is in his debt for chronicling conditions in Gaza. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/wor…

Worth watching #documentary by #AlJazeera, How sugar was built on a global system of slavery - asking question: have we ever really escaped the bitter curse behind the world’s sweetest commodity? thinking of #Caribbean #Haiti #Labour youtu.be/F4uHlI6ASlc?si…

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s decision to co-sponsor the UN Human Rights Council resolution on North Korea reaffirms South Korea’s longstanding commitment to freedom, democracy, and the rule of law, said 25 rights groups. trib.al/ixEtTJS

Today, I had the pleasure of welcoming the Co-Chairs of the @UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance — Ambassador Egriselda López of El Salvador and Ambassador Rein Tammsaar of Estonia — to UNESCO, as we advance preparations for the first Global Dialogue to be held this July in Geneva. UNESCO, together with the @ITU, is leading the coordination of the joint secretariat for the Dialogue, also including the Executive Office of the Secretary-General and @ODET_UN. At a time when AI is already transforming our economies and societies, our collective responsibility is clear: not only to harness its immense potential, but also to ensure that its benefits are shared equitably across all regions, while its risks are addressed through coordinated global action. @UNESCO will continue to lead these efforts — from setting global standards through its Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, to supporting countries with AI readiness assessments, training judges and public servants, advancing AI competency frameworks in education, and mobilizing its global networks of scientists, journalists, educators and youth. #ForThePeople

What an Inspiring talk - Ocean Vuong Teaches the Art of #Writing: 2 essential things for good writing: #daringness and #disobedience "willingness to risk, throw yourself without expecting to land...failure is prerequisite to success & experiencing life" youtu.be/kn4r4CmWmUw?si…

this morning listened to the podcast on the book by Lia Kent, "The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in #TimorLeste" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024) #Memory #ConflictResolution #Reconciliation #Book #Research newbooksnetwork.com/the-unruly-dead

@Jaemyung_Lee I trust that upholding the universal values such as human rights, democracy and freedom is what the people of ROK wishes and request ro the leader as a representative to carry forward. Thank you.

사욕을 위해 국익을 훼손하는 자들을 매국노라 부른다. 매국 행위를 하면서도 사욕을 위해 국익을 해치는 것이 나쁜 짓임을 모르는 이들도 많다. 아니 알면서 감행하는 것인지도 모르겠다. 심지어 국익을 포함한 공익추구가 사명인 정치와 언론 영역에서도 매국행위는 버젓이 벌어진다. 결국 이 역시 우리가 힘을 모아 가르치고 극복해야할 국가적 과제, 비정상의 정상화 과제이다. 각국의 주권과 보편적 인권은 존중되어야 하고 침략적 전쟁은 부인된다. 그게 우리 헌법정신이자 국제적 상식이다. 역지사지는 개인만이 아니라 국가관계에도 적용된다. 내 생명과 재산만큼 남의 생명 재산도 귀하다. 존중해야 존중받는다.