A statement signed by 150 people incl. Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie expresses concern over the illiberal trend intensified by our national reckoning.
https://t.co/4zPjuPNXBu
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
2 French billionaires snapped their fingers and raised $300,000,000 for the rebuilding of Notre Dame.
38,000 of us pledged what we could, ranging from $1 to $50,000, in order to raise $2,000,000 to rebuild a few black churches.
That’s what wealth inequality looks like.
'I'm so sorry my son but it's not everyday that Notre Dame burns,' a father says to his impatient son, while two meters away a woman in tears, cries, 'they must do something! do something!'
Scientists & engineers launched “InSight” from Earth (a moving platform) across 300million miles to arrive where Mars (a moving target) will be seven months later, landing safely to do geophysics at the Martian equator. And you have a problem listening to us about climate change?
@voxdotcom@gaywonk the same "normalisation" started a process in Macedonia in 2007 that ended with 11 yrs of dictatorship. Populists glorifying 'patriotism' and attacking the media. It really does start as naive daily politics...until it splits the country in 2 groups that hate each other
For all the investment into self-driving delivery robots for pavements and roads, it’s worth remembering the fastest way to deliver something in a city is still by bicycle.