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Solar storm predicted for Easter weekend

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bubmagApril 21, 2019

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Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gaze

Social change: Timelines have become battlegrounds. There is palpable excitement as the most populous democracy in the world goes out to vote. Last election, which saw the saffron sweep, we realised the role of social media platforms in electoral politics. F…

bubmagApril 21, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Why Did Czeslaw Milosz Believe?

I’ve been reading today To Begin Where I Am, selected essays of the Polish poet and thinker Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004). Here is a passage from “If Only This Could Be Said,” in which Milosz attempts to articulate his religious beliefs. He was a liberal intelle…

bubmagApril 21, 2019

NATO

Haftar forces press offensive on Libyan capital

Tripoli (AFP) - Forces backing Libya's unity government battled to push back an offensive by strongman Khalifa Haftar on Sunday as his troops approached the gates of Tripoli after air raids overnight. Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army, galvanised…

bubmagApril 21, 2019

Astroturfing

Kiwis praising Jacinda Ardern for Easter post from 2014

A Facebook post by Jacinda Ardern, written in 2014, is now being shared widely again, with many praising New Zealand's Prime Minister for doing the right thing long before taking the top job. In the post, written on April 18, 2014, Ardern, who at the time w…

bubmagApril 21, 2019

Super Heroes

Avengers Endgame: The Marvel Cinematic Universe explained – BBC News

SPOILER ALERT! This article contains details of the plots of some Marvel films, including recent releases. Image copyrightDisney Image caption Why so serious? Perhaps the Avengers: Endgame cast are getting theirs heads round the ins and outs of the MCU Ma…

bubmagApril 21, 2019

Barack Obama

Trump lashes out on Twitter after Romney says he’s ‘sickened’ by president – CTV News

WASHINGTON - Sen. Mitt Romney says he's "sickened" by the dishonesty the Russia investigation found in the Trump White House, but the president fires back that Romney should have put the same energy into running for president in 2012 that the Utah Republican …

bubmagApril 21, 2019

Scotland

Scotland + Venice

Edmund de Waal: psalm British ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal will be the first contemporary artist to create a major work for the 500-year-old Venetica Ghetto, where he will present a two-part exhibition based on the Psalms the poetry of exile. Over at…

bubmagApril 21, 2019

Scotland

Malky Mackay in running for Scotland caretaker role

The SFA will seek to establish the viability and merit of handing over interim control of the Scotland team to Malky Mackay in the next few days. A caretaker appointment is now considered the most likely outcome of an Easter weekend of assessment and deliber…

bubmagApril 21, 2019

Astroturfing

This Week In Techdirt History: April 14th – 20th

Five Years Ago This week in 2014, the world was dealing with the Heartbleed bug and turning its attention to the NSA's possible awareness of it — leading Obama to tell them to start revealing flaws but with no particular incentive to actually do so. It wasn'…

bubmagApril 20, 2019

Solar storm predicted for Easter weekend

Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gaze

Why Did Czeslaw Milosz Believe?

Haftar forces press offensive on Libyan capital

Kiwis praising Jacinda Ardern for Easter post from 2014

Avengers Endgame: The Marvel Cinematic Universe explained – BBC News

Trump lashes out on Twitter after Romney says he’s ‘sickened’ by president – CTV News

Scotland + Venice

Malky Mackay in running for Scotland caretaker role

This Week In Techdirt History: April 14th – 20th

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