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Mongabay<p>Optimism is a strategy in conservation—grounded in evidence and small, local wins that build agency and scale.</p><p>The Founder and CEO of Mongabay, argues that pairing hard truths with credible success stories counters doom, mobilizes action, and keeps coalitions working.</p><p>Commentary by Rhett Ayers Butler<br><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-need-for-success-stories-in-conservation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-</span><span class="invisible">need-for-success-stories-in-conservation/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/solutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solutions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a></p>
Susan Ville<p>📑 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/recommended" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recommended</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> - The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya </p><p>By Amel Guettatfi </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/the-disappearance-of-dr-hussam-abu-safiya-hospital-gaza" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dropsitenews.com/p/the-disappe</span><span class="invisible">arance-of-dr-hussam-abu-safiya-hospital-gaza</span></a></p>
Susan Ville<p>Over recent days, Israeli extremist settler groups have flooded <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> platforms with inflammatory messages targeting Hassan Mleihat, Al-Baidar organisation’s General Supervisor, some amounting to open calls for harm</p><p>🔹 Al-Baidar Organisation for the Defense of Bedouins and Targeted Villages has emerged as a primary target of extremist Israeli settlers in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/westbank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>westbank</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/defendingcivilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defendingcivilrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a></p><p>📰 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> by Dr Rassem Bisharat for MEMO 👇🏽 SEP-08 </p><p><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250908-targeting-al-baidar-palestinian-rights-group-confront-israeli-settler-violence-and-incitement/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">middleeastmonitor.com/20250908</span><span class="invisible">-targeting-al-baidar-palestinian-rights-group-confront-israeli-settler-violence-and-incitement/</span></a></p>
Susan Ville<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> "History teaches us that atrocities are too often recognised only after the fact. From the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the Holocaust, Srebrenica and Rwanda, became part of our collective conscience only after the full scale of the crimes could no longer be denied. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> is following that same tragic script—except this time—the world is watching in real time."</p><p>Crying antisemite to shield Israeli genocide and mass murder - by J. Kanj </p><p><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250908-crying-antisemite-to-shield-israeli-genocide-and-mass-murder/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">middleeastmonitor.com/20250908</span><span class="invisible">-crying-antisemite-to-shield-israeli-genocide-and-mass-murder/</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“AI is now as good as it's going to get, and that's neither as good nor as bad as its fans and haters think, and you're still not going to get an A on your report.</p><p>You see, now that people have been using AI for everything and anything, they're beginning to realize that its results, while fast and sometimes useful, tend to be mediocre.</p><p>Don't believe me? Read MIT's <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NANDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NANDA</span></a> (Networked Agents and Decentralized AI) report, which revealed that 95 percent of companies that have adopted <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> have yet to see any meaningful return on their investment. Any meaningful return.</p><p>To be precise, the report states: "The <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> Divide is starkest in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/deployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deployment</span></a> rates, only 5 percent of custom enterprise AI tools reach production." It's not that people aren't using AI tools. They are. There's a whole shadow world of people using AI at work. They're just not using them "for" serious work. Instead, outside of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a>'s purview, they use <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> and the like "for simple work, 70 percent prefer AI for drafting <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/emails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emails</span></a>, 65 percent for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BasicAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BasicAnalysis</span></a>. But for anything complex or long-term, humans dominate by 9-to-1 margins."</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/overinflated_ai_balloon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/08/25/ove</span><span class="invisible">rinflated_ai_balloon</span></a>&gt;</p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“He will not escape. He will be arrested, shoot himself or be shot.” — <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JohnSilvester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnSilvester</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://theage.com.au/national/victoria/whatever-the-outcome-accused-cop-killer-will-not-escape-20250827-p5mqdn.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theage.com.au/national/victori</span><span class="invisible">a/whatever-the-outcome-accused-cop-killer-will-not-escape-20250827-p5mqdn.html</span></a> &gt; (paywall) / &lt;<a href="https://archive.md/uJ7xx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/uJ7xx</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt;</p>
Susan Ville<p>Recommended <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> - The representative of a country responsible for the post-1991 siege that killed half a million Iraqi children, turning <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>afghanistan</span></a> into an endless graveyard, and underwriting the daily massacres in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a>, has accused Lebanese <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> of lacking civility </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lebanon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mena</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iraq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syria</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> </p><p>📰 By Tala Alayli for Al Mayadeen </p><p><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/tom-barrack-s-imperial-tantrum-in-beirut--when-entitlement-s" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">english.almayadeen.net/news/po</span><span class="invisible">litics/tom-barrack-s-imperial-tantrum-in-beirut--when-entitlement-s</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Leaders crafting growth in OKC honored at Dean A. McGee Awards <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1323967/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1323967/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BusinessStrategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessStrategy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChadHuntington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChadHuntington</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CivicLeadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivicLeadership</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DeanA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeanA</span></a>.McgeeAwards <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DowntownDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DowntownDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomicGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicGrowth</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeneRainbolt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneRainbolt</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/KentonTsoodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KentonTsoodle</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MarkBeffort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarkBeffort</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OklahomaCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OklahomaCity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/philanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philanthropy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RichardMckown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardMckown</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tourism</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UrbanDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanDevelopment</span></a></p>
Dennis A<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristopherBouzy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristopherBouzy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> <br>"In less than seven months, we have watched America slip into fascism with zero meaningful resistance..."</p><p>The House Is on Fire and Democrats Are Debating Paint Colors | Opinion</p><p>"The house is on fire, and Democratic leadership is debating what color to paint the kitchen. Either grab a hose or get out of the way because if we lose this fight, there won't be a democracy left to save."<br><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/house-fire-democrats-are-debating-paint-colors-opinion-2117415" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/house-fire-democr</span><span class="invisible">ats-are-debating-paint-colors-opinion-2117415</span></a></p>
SherBeareth<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/19/in-gaza-city-we-are-saying-goodbye" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/</span><span class="invisible">19/in-gaza-city-we-are-saying-goodbye</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a></p><p>People are overwhelmed – emotionally, mentally, physically, financially; they cannot endure any more suffering.</p><p>Since my family and I heard this announcement, we have been looking at each other with confused, fearful eyes.</p><p>When I saw images on social media of tents and tarpaulins entering Gaza City, my heart broke into a million pieces. The thought of my future being stuffed into a tent terrified me. My dreams are big; how can I fit them into a small tent?</p>
Susan Ville<p>📰 recommended <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> </p><p>📌 Title: Outcry as aid sector risks normalising the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation</p><p>“This is an existential threat for a sector that is already facing a crisis in legitimacy.” </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ihl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ihl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanitarianlaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanitarianlaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oPt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oPt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> </p><p>By Eric Reidy and Will Worley for The New Humanitarian in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aid</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a> category (published AUG-20) </p><p><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08/20/outcry-aid-sector-risks-normalising-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-ghf-palestine" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenewhumanitarian.org/news/20</span><span class="invisible">25/08/20/outcry-aid-sector-risks-normalising-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-ghf-palestine</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“For all the superlative-laden claims, OpenAI's new top model appears to be less of an advancement and more of a way to save compute costs — something that hasn't exactly gone over well with the company's most dedicated <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/users" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>users</span></a>.</p><p>As the flag bearer that kicked off the generative AI era, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> is under considerable pressure not only to demonstrate technological advances, but also to justify its massive, multi-billion-dollar <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a> rounds by showing its <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> is growing.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TobiasMann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TobiasMann</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HypeCurve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HypeCurve</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://theregister.com/2025/08/13/gpt_5_cost_cutting/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/08/13/gpt</span><span class="invisible">_5_cost_cutting/</span></a>&gt;</p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2326864/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2326864/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Op Ed: Rude behavior mars culture and politics <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>america</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BillBarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillBarth</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/civility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civility</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/manners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manners</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UsaPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UsaPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WisconsinPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WisconsinPolitics</span></a></p>
Susan Ville<p>"How is it possible for a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> reporter to have made the following obscene observation in his segment on Israel’s murder at the weekend of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?" (...)" </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complicity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> </p><p>📰 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> J. Cook AUG-12 👇🏽 </p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/the-bbc-helped-kill-anas-al-sharif?r=18qsxb&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/jonathan</span><span class="invisible">cook/p/the-bbc-helped-kill-anas-al-sharif?r=18qsxb&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false</span></a></p>
Susan Ville<p>📑 Hassan Abo Qamar, straight from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnasAlSharif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnasAlSharif</span></a> was the voice of Gaza. His murder will not silence us. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> </p><p>🔹 By Ahmad Ibsais and Hassan Abo Qamar for State of Siege AUG-12 </p><p><a href="https://ahmadibsais.substack.com/p/anas-raised-his-voice-but-the-world?r=18qsxb&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ahmadibsais.substack.com/p/ana</span><span class="invisible">s-raised-his-voice-but-the-world?r=18qsxb&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false</span></a></p>
Susan Ville<p>🗨️ Facts. Sadly. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>egypt</span></a> </p><p>"The massive deal will see Egypt redouble its <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> dependence on Israeli gas exports even as the war on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> has placed a strain on bilateral relations" </p><p>📰 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> by Emma Scolding and Sara Seif Eddien for DSN </p><p><a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/egypt-israel-record-gas-export-deal-leviathan-gaza?r=18qsxb&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dropsitenews.com/p/egypt-israe</span><span class="invisible">l-record-gas-export-deal-leviathan-gaza?r=18qsxb&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false</span></a></p>
Susan Ville<p>📰 Featured <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oped</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mustread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mustread</span></a> </p><p>"From the perspective of soothing the conscience, this is a mighty thing – for those in Paris, London and Ottawa. It does not save a single life on the ground in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> or the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/westbank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>westbank</span></a>, provide a single meal for a starving family, or rebuild a single destroyed school. But President Emmanuel Macron, and Prime Ministers Sir Keir Starmer and Mark Carney can all commune as a triumvirate of principled statesmen." </p><p>- Dr Binoy Kampmark for MEMO</p><p><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250802-diplomatic-merchandise-exploiting-the-issue-of-palestinian-recognition/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">middleeastmonitor.com/20250802</span><span class="invisible">-diplomatic-merchandise-exploiting-the-issue-of-palestinian-recognition/</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Uncertain Times for Germany, Its Jewish Community and Its Relationship With the United States and Israel <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1249411/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1249411/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/InnovativeTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InnovativeTechnology</span></a> is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spacecraft</span></a> or the endless iterations of generative <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AItools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AItools</span></a>.</p><p>As the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canadian</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/technologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technologist</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/engineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineer</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/UrsulaFranklin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrsulaFranklin</span></a> once said, fantasies of technology would have it that innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. But more often than not, in the real world, it is “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NeedsDriven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeedsDriven</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/scrappy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scrappy</span></a>, on <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/location" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>location</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/iterative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iterative</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/practical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>practical</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/mundane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mundane</span></a>”. </p><p>The real pioneering <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/technologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technologies</span></a> of today are genuinely useful <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systems</span></a> I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TopDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TopDown</span></a> “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/solutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solutions</span></a>” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/innovative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innovative</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> really can set people free.” — Eleanor Drage</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/EleanorDrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EleanorDrage</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FrugalTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrugalTech</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Cambridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambridge</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LeverhulmeCentre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeverhulmeCentre</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FutureOfIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureOfIntelligence</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation</span></a>&gt;</p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“It would usually be at about this moment that readers would expect this typically <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/bearish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bearish</span></a> column to issue a stern <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/warning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warning</span></a> about the dangers of this speculative dash for trash. But Goldman’s numbers don’t really support it. Over the past 35 years, these spikes in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/speculative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speculative</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/trading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trading</span></a> activity have tended to result in above-average equity market returns over three, six, nine and 12 months. It’s on a two-year view that returns tend to falter. </p><p>“The recent rise in speculative trading activity signals near-term upside risk for the broad equity market but also increases the risk of an eventual downturn,” Goldman says.</p><p>In <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>, the evidence is less clear; the history of reversals in momentum like we’ve seen is decidedly up and down, with no clear pattern that would predict how even the next three months go. That said, our market does tend to follow the broad trading patterns and direction of Wall Street.</p><p>All we can say is that <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/investors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>investors</span></a> continue to *bet on absolutely everything going right* – and they’re betting on it in increasingly aggressive ways. History and the numbers do say the party can go on for a while to come, but this level of speculation could make the hangover nasty.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/feast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feast</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/famine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>famine</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/chanticleer-wall-st-global-short-squeeze-20250728-p5mi8d" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">afr.com/chanticleer/chanticlee</span><span class="invisible">r-wall-st-global-short-squeeze-20250728-p5mi8d</span></a>&gt; (paywall) / &lt;<a href="https://archive.md/08sG3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/08sG3</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt;</p>