approximation street
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equal parts conflict-averse and curmudgeonly
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This is a very good case for resisting AI creep into your life. Plan your own vacation. Read through different recipes. Decide for yourself what to wear. Of course it's nice when life is easier, but a frictionless life is also an empty one.
Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in…
Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵
There is no justification — no, none — for supporting the man who inspired, egged on, and has now pardoned these acts.
1/ One of President Trump’s first acts was to pardon those convicted in connection with January 6th. Here are some of the convicted felons he set free:
An innocent Afghan girl, in tears at her 6th-grade graduation, says, “Let this be my final goodbye to the classroom, desk, & chair. Oh God, what have we done wrong?” After sixth grade, she will be banned from education. heartbreaking farewell to learning under Taliban’s rule.
Female students at a medical school in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province weep as a man announces that they are no longer allowed to continue their studies. The Taliban’s new order bans women from medical education, closing the last remaining institutions where women can learn.
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It’s Been a Tough Year. Let’s Help Each Other Out.
There may be a dark shadow hanging over this year’s holiday season, but there are still ways to give to those in need.
A dozen medical experts said Josseli Barnica’s death at a Texas hospital was preventable. They called her case “horrific,” “astounding” and “egregious.” propublica.org/article/jossel…
“Sequestered at home, a girl becomes just another mouth to feed. But as a bride, she’s a valuable commodity. A $2,000 bride price is enough to feed a family for a year. For the girls, of course, this is a nightmare.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…
2023 peace laureate Narges Mohammadi is a woman, a human rights advocate, and a freedom fighter. This year’s #NobelPeacePrize also recognises the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against the theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression…
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. #NobelPrize
During last year’s demonstrations in Iran—the most widespread revolt against the state since the 1979 Revolution—schoolgirls emerged as an unexpected source of defiant energy. nyer.cm/OFmrp3z
“It’s better that people are more able to express themselves, but it quickly can lead to a pathology, rather than an acceptance of the variety of human emotions. … Retreating to a diagnosis can be a way of not engaging with it.” — Susanna Kaysen thecut.com/2023/05/susann…
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Girl, Interrupted Turns 30
“There was a way in which, for some people, the hospital could be a refuge or a haven, and I don’t think that’s true anymore.”
From Michelle Goldberg: You Cannot Hear These 13 Women’s Stories and Believe the Anti-Abortion Narrative nytimes.com/2023/05/22/opi…
“I've been a hostage for seven and a half years now.” US citizen Siamak Namazi is the longest serving American in Iranian prison. Now, he’s speaking in an unprecedented interview from inside Evin prison to plead President Biden to get him released. “This is a desperate measure.”
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