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Dozens killed in Israeli air attack on Gaza refugee camp: Medical official

Palestinian authorities in Gaza say more than 50 people killed and 150 others wounded in Israeli air raid on Jabalia.

Al Jazeera
Word of the day: defenestration

As IP lawyers are pointing out… Microsoft has used the X trademark for years.

Has Elon ever done due diligence in his life?

Today on @Flipboard's podcast about the role of human taste in a tech-driven world, we feature our first @Mastodon curator: the force behind @viewfinderCurator and @artskorps

https://art-of-curation.simplecast.com/episodes/sabine-stoye

Thanks for taking the time to talk to me, Sabine! Was a blast learning from you. :)

#mastoart #art #photography

Boosting art and photography 🖌 Sabine Stoye, Mastodon | The Art of Curation

The Fediverse’s first movers are staking their ground as curators. Meet Sabine Stoye, who runs one of Mastodon’s most beloved accounts for art and photography curation.

The Art of Curation
Welsh whisky (whiskey?) was today given place based #IP protection - #GeographicalIndication #GI. It’s a relatively new product, albeit based on older traditions that had more or less died out. Are there #craft products that this approach could be applied to?

@erik_kwakkel I haven’t seen reference to this side of the story on Mastodon yet. #Receptio’s origin story says they were founded at the “behest of the International Philological Society”
https://www.receptio.eu/story
Except that’s a scam too. https://www.scena9.ro/en/article/romanian-academy-nobel-florent-montaclair-chomsky

#Receptiogate

Our History | RECEPTIO

RECEPTIO

A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More

https://www.openculture.com/2022/11/a-list-of-1065-medieval-dog-names-nosewise-garlik-havegoodday-more.html

A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More

The Rovers, Fidos, and Spots of the world have been regarded since time immemorial as man's best friends. But they haven't always been named Rover, Fido, and Spot: early fifteenth-century English dog owners preferred to give their pets names like Nosewise, Garlik, Pretyman, and Gaylarde.

Open Culture

“out of a sample of 1,200 Covid-19 related central government contracts worth £16 billion, about half of which worth £8bn, “went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy. Meanwhile, smaller firms without political clout got nowhere.”

#Corruption #UKPolitics

https://apple.news/AnhqYVzimSp-yj6G-ALUl0g

Modern Britain has returned to the 'Old Corruption' the Victorians tried to end — inews

We are further down a road to a klpetocracy than most people in Britain imagine

RT @[email protected]

📣 We are inviting paper proposals for the international symposium on Pandemic Communication and Populism to be held at Loughborough University, 12-13 June 2023. Deadline 15 January 2023, for more information see: https://www.pancopop.net/pancopop-symposium-2023/

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
#COVID19

PANCOPOP SYMPOSIUM 2023 – PANCOPOP

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie dies at age 79

Family say the musician, who was in one of the best-known rock bands of the 1970s and 80s, died after a short illness

The Guardian