Diederick Raven

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👨‍🎓at Utrecht University, Comparative Historian of Science, Macro-anthropologists. Prof interested in Globalisation, Climate Change and Eurocrisis, Brexit.
Ominous. The Russians pre emptively absolve themselves of responsibility for nuclear catastrophe https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19134
Moscow Decree Attempts to Absolve Russian Responsibility for Nuclear ‘Accidents’ in Occupied Ukrainian Territory

Similar documents were released shortly before the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in the Kherson region last month which one Kyiv official described as a “smoking gun.”

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I thought you might need to see this.
#MeanwhileInCanada
Don't miss the blue whatever you do
Reading this brilliant book by Tony Just. Even with my reading glasses on the reading is a struggle. To font-size is close to undoable for people of a certain age.
Staying warm: What does an unheated room do to your body? - BBC News https://apple.news/AJ--2wAONRnyrtxaYySkwZA
Staying warm: What does an unheated room do to your body? — BBC News

The BBC's health and science correspondent undergoes an experiment to find out how a cold home affects him.

Christine Laggard wrote,

“As I have said many times, if it had been Lehman Sisters rather than Lehman Brothers, the world might well look a lot different today”.

IMF research finds more women on banks' boards & financial supervision agencies is associated with greater stability

Chilling, from Bill Maher
https://youtu.be/HKVBvooZ2c8
New Rule: Democracy's Deathbed | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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@ejoftheweb @jburnmurdoch @t0nyyates
The German Data Commissioner is advocating that all public bodies should leave Facebook (and presumably Twitter) and use open platforms instead.

Various German bodies and authorities have already created their own Mastodon servers, as have many EU agencies and the Commission.

https://mstdn.social/@TheEuropeanNetwork/109307607062425853

The European Network (@[email protected])

Germany’s data protection commissioner Ulrich Kelber is waging a campaign to get government bodies to close their Facebook pages, since, he says, there is no way of hosting a page there that conforms to European privacy laws. Authorities should move to the federal government’s own Mastodon instance, he says. The European Commission also maintains a server for European Union bodies to toot from. https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/mastodon-what-is-the-social-network-hailed-as-a-twitter-alternative/ #Germany #Mastodon #Facebook #UlrichKelber #BfDI

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👨‍🎓at Utrecht University, Comparative Historian of Science, Macro-anthropologists. Prof interested in Globalisation, Climate Change and Eurocrisis, Brexit.