In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
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News organisations who breathlessly cover the ‘biggest IPO ever’ without adding perspectives on who Musk is, what he did to the world’s most vulnerable people by destroying USAID, or to democracy, have no compass, no ethics. This is not just another big IPO. This funds more damage to humanity.
Mein aktueller Favorit ist das hier: AXE Smoked Marshmallow - FIFA Edition.
Study reveals: “authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer extreme enticements or impose draconian punishments in order to make successful power grabs.” Instead, they “need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre.”
Wolfgang Blau
Can a system designed for the communications technologies of the 18th century survive those of the 21st?
Donald Trump’s present for the US on its 250th birthday: Humiliation.
Acc to @djrothkopf.bsky.social: semicringecentennial.
By the man who is “first in incompetence, first in tastelessness and first in the minds of psychiatrists who study narcissism, megalomania and public displays of dementia.”
Gerade noch rechtzeitig die Doku “Mission Sommermärchen“ in der @zdfde.bsky.social Mediathek gesehen. Sehr gut! Absolute Empfehlung. Klinsmann und die Revolution. Und Beginn eines anderen Deutschland?
@niggi.bsky.social auf @uebermedien.de über das ‘Gehäuse der Eigentlichkeit‘. Oder eher die Eigentlichkeit des Gehäuses des Wolfram W.
Unklar, was das ist? Hier ist die Antwort 👇🏾
“Kids Under Fire”
A documentary for which Laila Al-Arian and Kavitha Chekuru won a Peabody Award - with @aljazeera.com Fault Lines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0z...
WARNING: graphic imagery included!
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Can our 18th-century institutions survive 21st-century technology?
