“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"
“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"
"We'll sell weapons to other countries, and they'll gift those weapons to Ukraine" isn't support for Ukraine: it's just a sales pitch.
If sick = you also feel tired and your thinking gets slower, doing mental work (including writing) will yield diminishing returns. It's better to just take a break, relax and get better.
what a visual
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
...and of course I've spent the last hour working to cut my family's usage of US-owned or US-made goods and services, with the goal to get as close as possible to not giving a single cent of our salaries to the US. If enough Europeans do the same, we won't even need to impose #tariffs of our own.
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
From a country where unionisation rights are enshrined in the constitution, this is absurd. I sure hope that mass strikes ensue.
I currently work for a big tech company, and you're 100% right. Don't listen to the "we want to change the world" bull by tech leaders. They only want three things: more money, more control, and a larger cult following for their outsize egos.
I just got a public death threat from a few folks who noticed I am doing a library event to talk about my career and my books. They called me all the familiar names, then “I won’t be sad if someone shoots her in the face.” And a woman’s reply, “Right between the eyes.” I am a children’s author.
It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."