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Reach out, touch space.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

A video shared by Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir shows Israeli security forces humiliating detained international activists.

When a senior minister taunts detainees on camera, it is a signal that abuse is not just tolerated but celebrated.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

“History holds a final lesson. If disruption is coming, it will show up in a recession. Downturns cleanse the economy of unproductive jobs. Companies must make radical changes to survive; weak firms go under; capital and labour moves to more productive ones”

[Yasir Ai @AiwithYasir]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

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[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Palestinians in the West Bank view horses as a symbol of resilience. In a photo essay, 1843 captures Jericho’s annual horse competition https://t.co/lZhOlEGY3t

Photos: Jude Edginton

[Peter De Groote @peterdegroote]

Als we met even veel expertise naar de nu al jaren noodlijdende chemie in de haven van Antwerpen kijken, ziet het er benard uit.

[David Criekemans @DavidCriekemans]

Het is genoeg geweest. De rentesneeuwbal bedreigt toekomst van alle Belgen. Maak plan om naar 49,5% overheidsbeslag te gaan. Plaats efficiëntie & effectiviteit centraal. Regio's zijn ondertussen overgefinancierd. Het probleem zit bij de uitgaven. Desnoods technische regeringen.

[Ivan Van de Cloot @IvanVandeCloot]

Al lang wordt er gevreesd dat als zovelen afhankelijk zijn van de overheid voor hun inkomen, schuld en tekort reduceren heel moeilijk wordt: "Op 4 miljoen loontrekkenden telt België zowat 1,9 miljoen mensen in de publieke dienstverlening"
https://t.co/oyQ0B0s9Ab

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

I stand with Pope Leo

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says recent Israeli strikes in Lebanon are "disgusting", including 100 attacks in the span of only ten minutes on Wednesday.

Olmert says while Hezbollah needs to be targeted to ensure the safety of Israel, the cost to civilian lives must also be minimised.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Pope Francis, in November 2017, received a custom Lamborghini. He blessed it, signed it,, and sold it for $950,000, donated all the proceeds to charity

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

MESSAGE

I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach.

Indeed, whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world's great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings. History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace.

An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be rooted in dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect — approached with the understanding that, at the deepest level, we are all brothers and sisters.

I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end.

DALAI LAMA

31 March 2026

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

It was 1480, when 18,000 Ottoman Turks invaded Otranto in Puglia, Italy 🇮🇹, devastating it

800 young martyrs (male, over 15 years) refused to renounce Christianity and were beheaded

Today, their bones can still be seen in the beautiful Otranto Cathedral

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

📽️ There have been many scary, unnerving days in this latest Gulf war.
But the past 24 hours was particularly bad.
Why? Because both sides are now causing lasting damage to the world economy's life support system.
Our latest primer on the econ consequences of this war👇

[Victims of Communism @VoCommunism]

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924.

He left behind a legacy of mass murder, starvation, terror, and oppression.

Remember the victims.

[Ivan Van de Cloot @IvanVandeCloot]

Een van de ongelooflijkste zaken de voorbije jaren is dat we met Itsme een product en bedrijf hebben met wereldpotentieel. En dat dan de Belgische overheid denkt dat te moeten verdringen met een overheidsproduct #mygov in plaats van het trots te omarmen. En dan dezelfde overheid:

[Rehna Raveendran @Rehna_AntiCaste]

Dear Mahsa Amini,

Your murderer is murdered.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

“I was raped every day for 6 months.”

Ekhlas was 14 when captured by ISIS during the Yezidi Genocide in 2014.

Girls were sold off into sex slavery like cattle, with underaged girls higher priced than adults.

This is the fate of every Middle Eastern minority with no army.

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

This is what the children of Congo go through everyday so that you can have iPhone 17 Pro Max, Samsung S26U and other Gadgets 💔

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Michelle and I were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of a true giant, the Reverend Jesse Jackson. We will always be grateful for Jesse's lifetime of service, and the friendship our families share. We stood on his shoulders. We send our deepest condolences to the Jackson family and everyone in Chicago and beyond who knew and loved him.

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

In 1983, exactly 43 years ago, a girl from Itaberaí (Goiás) slipped past the security of Brazilian President Figueiredo and handed him a letter asking for a house for her mother, who was a domestic worker and unemployed.

The girl’s request led to the construction of the Valentina Figueiredo housing complex in João Pessoa, Paraíba, which is home to 22,000 residents and was named after the president’s mother.