Notices by Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social), page 9

#Uruguay election: opposition centre-left figure Yamandu Orsi wins presidential runoff - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/25/uruguay-election-results-2024-yamandu-orsi-wins-presidential-runoff-alvaro-delgado "Former history teacher says the ‘horizon is brightening’ as all political rivals pledged to work together to move the country forward"

Lord #Byron museum to open in Italian building where poet had intense affair - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/25/lord-byron-museum-open-italian-building-poet-intense-affair another good reason to visit #ravenna, one of my favourite cities - https://moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2024/08/2024-ravenna.html

Turkish woman convicted under anti-terror laws for sharing Guardian article - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/25/turkish-woman-convicted-under-anti-terror-laws-for-sharing-guardian-article "Peri Pamir given suspended sentence after posting article about UK woman killed fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria"

Killing of #journalists in Israeli strike could be a #warcrime, legal experts say - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/25/killing-of-journalists-in-israeli-strike-could-be-a-war-legal-experts-say "Israel used US munition to target and kill three members of the press in #Lebanon, Guardian investigation reveals"

Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, and use DOJ to probe 2020 election

Trump will use the Justice Department to address his own personal grievances
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/22/trump-jack-smith-prosecutors-firing-justice-department-investigation/

@frankkcat ditto in UK and US

Australian government drops #misinformation bill - https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/24/australian-government-drops-misinformation-bill/ “based on public statements and engagements with Senators, it is clear that there is no pathway to legislate this proposal through the Senate.” #australia

@FediThing I agree

Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ - https://www.wired.com/story/maths-bunkbed-conjecture-has-been-debunked/ "This famous probability theory was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong." isn't maths fun...? (a mathematician writes...)

#Biden must #Trump-proof US democracy, activists say: ‘There is a sense of urgency’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/24/biden-actions-before-white-house-exit "President can secure civil liberties, accelerate spending on #climate and healthcare, and spare #deathrow prisoners" just do it, and quickly...

wiring porn

#OldDelhi

Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/24/homeless-people-to-be-given-cash-in-first-major-uk-trial-to-reduce-poverty#UBI is the way forward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income

World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/24/world-unable-cope-10-years-talks-un-global-treaty-to-end-plastic-waste "Countries must curb production now and tackle plastic’s full life cycle, says Norwegian minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of key UN talks this week" a word in your ear... #plastics

@FediThing yes, definitely, to reduce them to things with no agency or rights

@RunRichRun yes, better than extinction

@RunRichRun indeed

Путин подписал закон о запрете "пропаганды чайлдфри" - https://www.severreal.org/a/putin-podpisal-zakon-o-zaprete-propagandy-chayldfri-/33213865.html absurd; huge admission of his continuing failure to give russians a reason to have children... #putin

@jamesravey yes, I agree

@RunRichRun must be a good story here - trump dies and is replaced by an AI avatar...

@RunRichRun I did, thanks. Alongquian too... so sad to read sentences like this: "Unfortunately, our last fluent speaker died in about 2005"