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“Based on these findings, the Advisory Committee concludes that Tilburg University, as a moral actor, cannot remain passive and must act.”

https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/organization/advisory-committee-collaborations/collaborations-partners-israel/publication-advice-collaboration-academic-partners-israel

Publication advice on collaboration with academic partners in Israel | Tilburg University

Tilburg University
According to the article
“COVID was not supposed
to play a major role
in the Olympics anymore —
but Paris 2024
has shown that for the athletes,
it's still an issue”
and while I know
that you are not an Olympian
please be aware
that COVID is still an issue
for you as well.
"Higher education funding reform requires a more radical rethink and an approach that values the university sector as a whole. This funding reform needs to focus on the public values we want universities to pursue, recognising that the radical shift to a market-based system in recent decades is beginning to undermine the long-term viability of the sector." https://theconversation.com/university-finances-are-in-a-perilous-state-its-the-result-of-market-competition-and-debt-based-expansion-234862
University finances are in a perilous state – it’s the result of market competition and debt-based expansion

Higher education in the UK is facing serious concerns over financial risk and security.

The Conversation
J.D. Vance is a Manchurian candidate backed by money from Peter Thiel, Musk and other techlords, and adheres to a neoreactionary/Dark Enlightenment ideology cooked up by Mencius Moldbug (aka Curtis Yarvin) that caters to their desire to be a new technofeudalist aristocracy.
Musk and Thiel pushed Trump to nominate him, and now Musk is bankrolling the Trump campaign. They want Vance to inherit the dynasty after Trump turns elections into a formality.
This guy is seriously scary.
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-meaning-of-jd-vance
The Meaning of JD Vance

The Politics of National Despair Incarnate

Unpopular Front
PhD students in metascience can sign up to present their work at the first Paul Meehl Graduate School PhD day on September 20th in Eindhoven - a one day conference to present your work and get feedback from peers. Sign up before August 15: https://paulmeehlschool.github.io/news/phdday_announce/
First PMGS PhD day conference | Paul Meehl Graduate School

the Republican party of the 2000's would have somehow parlayed that shooting into a resolution to start bombing some wholly unrelated country by Monday morning. but these current guys take nearly all their cues from midwit online trolls, and so far the strongest reaction they have mustered is "uhhhbghh women in the secret service? what's next, a lady Ghostbuster?"

It's damning of the state of healthcare that they are reinstating mask mandates at cycle races before they reinstate them in hospitals.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-reintroduces-mask-mandate-amid-covid-19-concerns/

Tour de France reintroduces mask mandate amid COVID-19 concerns

New measure follows spate of abandons due to coronavirus

Cyclingnews
Mozilla holding everyone for ransom and saying they will post everyones bookmarks and browser history in public unless we all paid $50 to fund Firefox development forever would genuinely be a better business decision than giving in to adtech. Literally the only thing anyone who uses it wants from them is an uncompromised browser. Value goes to zero otherwise

Orban's party, Fidesz, established a new (right-wing) group inside the EU Parliament. Enough MEPs from other groups joined that this new group, Patriots for Europe, will be the third largest force in the EU Parliament.

Balkan Insight wrote about it: https://balkaninsight.com/2024/07/09/patriot-games-viktor-orban-goes-on-the-offensive/

Patriot Games: Viktor Orban Goes on the Offensive

The Hungarian PM’s primary objective had been to unify the two Eurosceptic right-wing formations in the European Parliament, but with his new Patriots for Europe grouping he has ended up outmanoeuvring both.

Balkan Insight
COVID isn’t over and I don’t know what it’s gonna take to convince people but we have to keep trying. #COVID #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid