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📌 Una delle due imbarcazioni, con 800 Persone nel macro SAR #MarIonio, non è un motopesca:

sarebbe la 🚢#Kefah1 🇱🇾 battente bandiera #Libia - EX nave ONG - in passato #SeaWatch2 e poi #Lifeline che l'ha venduta a privati nel 2020.

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Le foto della nave sono state rilasciate ieri insieme al comunicato della Guardia Costiera⚓️🇮🇹

Essendo familiare, fonti ONG da noi consultate ritengono che si tratti della nave che in passato ha fatto soccorsi nel Mediterraneo.

📌 La nave non è piu della ONG dal 2020. Image
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📌 La nave non è più della ONG: è stata venduta a Malta, passata di proprietà nel 2020.

Una foto, del febbraio 2021, ritrae la nave all'ormeggio di La Valletta, con ancora la scritta 'Lifeline' a poppa, nonostante da quasi un anno non fosse più di proprietà della ONG. Image
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The problem with economic models; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all…

#Pluralistic 1/ A Tron-like plane of glowing grid-squares. Two spherical cow
I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, an anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:

redteamblues.com 2/
The problem with economic models: Ideology disguised as math.

3/  Image: bert knottenbeld (modified) https://www.flickr.com/p
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Prana rekhā #lifeline #jyotisa rules #mercury #Juiter #snake curse in hand #longevity devī’s grace
The prana rekhā starts from mercury and goes till the mount of Jupiter.
🦜Jupiter is prana & rules akas. It is wrongly called heartline in western palmistry
🦜 It starts from Image
mercury. Mercury is bookish knowledge, maths, vocabulary, memory etc. The purpose of life is to evolve above this base education and move to spiritual knowledge. Hence the lines start below Mercury.
🦜Chains, islands on this line will end the life early if visible in both hands.
Usually, Jupiter is afflicted in certain way in the chart and Saturn is strong in negative way.
🦜serpentine movement of this line indicates Rāhu afflicting Jupiter and person suffers from naga dośa
🦜If the line is cut from another line specially from mars the person loses
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@sanidadgob ha publicó un balance de utilización del recurso 0⃣2⃣4⃣ #024 de atención a la conducta suicida en línea

34.000 llamadas.
1500 derivaciones a #112
585 suicidios en curso

¿Son muchas o pocas 300 llamadas diarias?
Mis reflexiones🧵🔽
¿Son muchas o pocas 300 llamadas diarias?

Pues no lo sabemos. Depende de con qué recursos los comparemos. En #lifeline en USA reciben 2,5 millones llamadas al año. En Australia una llamada cada 30 segundos.
NO creo que lo importante sea lo cuantitativo;
Más importante es la función que cumple, lo cualitativo que no puede medirse en un número. El alivio del sufrimiento, infundir esperanza, conectar con la vida, aliviar la angustia, la contención emocional y la información que ofrece.
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parachute or #lifeline bonus because of its ability to support players with additional funds in case they haven’t hit a win with their real money.

The bottom line is that you can withdraw winnings at any point in your play provided you still haven’t tapped into the bonus #funds
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mposurga.sharetribe.com/en/listings/17… options. Well, the truth is that the great bulk of sign-up bonuses are sticky, which means they are non-cashable. You can use them for playing your favorite online slot but once you request a withdrawal, the bonus amount will vanish from your balance.
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👨‍💻Small Thread On #HealthBankDAO

After being paralyzed twice due to a spinal deformity at birth and having rebuilt myself to become a 2x #streetworkout champion / judge & gym owner..

I realized that everything about what the medical industry describes as "proper health" was in
Reality.. nothing but complete BS.

This is why I am building this project.

To change the medical industry's standards💯

Turning chemical based bodies into electric based bodies through proper holistic therapies for removing free radicals from the body.

Minimizing the chance
Of anyone from "improper cell replication" because of mineral deficiencies or excess metals in the blood disrupting the PH of each soul alive.

This is bigger than health.
This is about re-educating the World on how the human body ACTUALLY works.

They will say I'm crazy or lying
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It's official. @POTUS signed the bipartisan #InfrastructureBill into law.

When Do We Get Our Broadband?
benton.org/blog/when-do-w…

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Now, action shifts from Congress to key federal agencies that will implement the broadband provisions.

@brookingsMetro noted it will be a longer-term, patient approach to rebuilding American competitiveness through infrastructure @jwkane1 @CarolineRGeorge @AdieTomer
Some key actions and deadlines in the months and years ahead:
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THREAD: Unfortunately, a new #lockdown means a sharp, inevitable rise in #domesticviolence suffered by women and children. ⁣

We have pulled together a Safety Planning Handbook for victim-survivors. Please share this where you can, we don’t know who it may help. 💜⁣ Image
THREAD: Having a code word allows you to raise the alarm to family, friends, carers, or support workers without putting yourself in even more danger.

#quarantine #dv #domesticabuse Image
THREAD: Notifying a trusted neighbour can allow them to alert the police if they hear any fighting coming from your home.

#SydneyLockdown #COVID19nsw #domesticviolence Image
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So tired of @lawandeconomics argument that poor people just don't want #broadband & we don't know why. Why don't more people participate in #Lifeline? Maybe bc the subsidy is tiny & the Trump @FCC did its level best to make it hard to get. wired.com/story/opinion-…. #SubCommTech
@lawandeconomics @FCC I also invite anybody to go to their local library & wait a few hours to use the computers with free Internet access. #SubCommTech
@lawandeconomics @FCC Those with their hair aflame over "government-run broadband" seem unaware that the most common models today are public-private partnerships & open access networks which give commercial ISPs the opportunity to provide connectivity outside their service areas. #SubCommTech
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Super disappointed in this #netneutrality column by @ShiraOvide feat @ceciliakang. It misses the mark badly in so many ways. nytimes.com/2021/02/25/tec…
@ShiraOvide @ceciliakang 2 focus on the no blocking, throttling & discrimination mandates really is seeing half the story. What the Trump @FCC did in 2017, in addition 2 repealing the #netneutrality rules, was to abdicate its legal authority 2 protect consumers & competition in the #broadband market.
@ShiraOvide @ceciliakang @FCC That legal authority (Title II) gives the @FCC the power 2 protect consumers, promote competition & close the digital divide. Every action the @FCC takes 2 strengthen #Lifeline or give $$$ for rural #broadband deployment is on shaky legal ground without Title II authority.
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The #COVID19 crisis put millions of Americans in financial peril, hitting households of color particularly hard and moratoriums on utility shutoffs instituted in many states to #ProtectConsumers have already expired. 1/6 nclc.org/media-center/c…
Millions of utility customers face the threat of shutoff due to the inability to pay their #energy bills and unpaid #utilitybills are accruing across the country. #COVID19 #LIHEAP #HomeworkGap #Lifeline #ProtectHomeowners 2/6 nclc.org/media-center/c…
New analysis from @NCLC4consumers finds that without additional aid and flexible repayment programs, millions of families and #smallbiz will face or are already facing a mountain of debt that they can’t pay, placing them at high risk of disconnection. 3/6 nclc.org/media-center/c…
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Today a #COVID19 relief package was introduced in Congress that includes provisions to help Americans access broadband -- or stay connected -- during the pandemic. 1/5
The bill provides $3.2 billion in broadband subsidies for low-income Americans and those financially impacted by #COVID19. It covers not only monthly service but up to $100 for use of a laptop, desktop, or tablet. 2/5
The bill also provides $1 billion for Tribal land connectivity, and helps low-income Americans and those who are already eligible for @FCC's #Lifeline program stay connected during the pandemic. 3/5
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Thread re: $7B for #broadband in the COVID-19 bill. Still waiting on the final bill (computer & printer problems, I'm told), but the breakdown is something like this:
1) $32B for $50 ($75 for tribal lands) monthly emergency bb benefit; 2) $1B for deployment on tribal lands 1/
3) $250M 4 telehealth; 4) $65M 4 #broadband mapping; 5) $300M grant program 4 bb in rural areas; 6) $2B for "rip & replace" (removing Chinese made equipment & replacing w. something more secure; 7) $285M for a "Connecting Minorities Community Fund," 2 expand bb in near HBCUs. 2/
There's a lot 2 celebrate in this bill, but nobody who is trying 2 close the #digitaldivide believes that this is enough. Here's what we should be most happy about: Bipartisan agreement that #broadband Internet is essential 4 full participation in society, economy, & culture. 3/
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BIG NEWS!!!! The COVID-19 relief bill that Congress has agreed on has $7B for #broadband, including $3.2 for a monthly $50 "emergency broadband benefit" 4 low-income households & the recently unemployed. My statement: gigisohn.com/media/sohn-che…
I wrote about the #broadband benefit for CNN.com in September. cnn.com/2020/09/09/per…. I'm shocked & delighted that it made it into the bill - was not expecting it.
Kudos to @FrankPallone & his amazing staff & to @SpeakerPelosi & the unsinkable @russelldegraff. They made it happen when the rest of us had pretty much given up.
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#Lifeline, the only federal program that helps close the #DigitalDivide by making voice & #broadband more affordable, has also become an essential resource for low-income people across the country during the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic. 1/4 bit.ly/NALA-MSS-Comme…
But it's in this troubled context that the @FCC is considering major, permanent changes to the #Lifeline program that could jeopardize subscribers’ access to essential voice and #broadband services. 2/4 #HomeworkGap #COVID19 bit.ly/NALA-MSS-Comme…
.@NCLC4consumers and 18 other advocacy orgs (below) wrote @FCC today urging it to waive the #Lifeline mobile #broadband minimum service standard (MSS) increase & voice support phase-down scheduled to take effect on December 1, 2020. 3/4 #DigitalDivide bit.ly/NALA-MSS-Comme…
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I've been working on digital human rights for nearly 20 years now, and I remember how the idea was once widely mocked as a distraction.

Back in 2009, Finland was derided for declaring broadband a human right.

cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/1…

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And even by Malcolm Gladwell standards, this 2010 take on the uselessness of online activism has not aged well.

newyorker.com/magazine/2010/…

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The GOP and @AjitPaiFCC's attacks on the #Lifeline fund to bring broadband to rural and disadvantaged Americans are modern versions of the infection that says that the digital divide is a frivolity.

3/
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BREAKING NEWS: The court sends back to the @FCC much of the mess it made with #NetNeutrality.

I stood up for an open internet in 2017 because the @FCC was on the wrong side of the American people and the wrong side of history. Let's keep up the fight.

cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opini…
@FCC Here are the highlights of today's #NetNeutrality decision.
First, the court shot down the @FCC's unlawful attempt to block states from stepping in to protect an open internet. This is huge. It means the fight is still on & state & local #NetNeutrality efforts can go forward.
Second, the court takes the @FCC to task for failing to consider how its #NetNeutrality roll-back threatens #publicsafety. The court states that "any blocking or throttling of . . . communications during a public safety crisis could have dire, irreversible results." Exactly.
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⛔️🚢 La storia di #Charlottea, la nuova barca delle Ong tedesche, che puoi vedere solo se sei identitario.

Se mi dedicate qualche minuto ve la racconto.
Fidatevi, merita.
Da qualche giorno circolava la notizia che in zona SAR libica fosse arrivata una nuova barca tedesca.

Notizia condivisa da account sovranisti, finita su siti come Vox News (sì, lo so, lo so) e “La sassata” (🤷‍♂️).
Inizia tutto così.

È presto, sono le 8 di mattina del 31 luglio, e @francescatotolo esce con una notizia: c’è una seconda barca tedesca accanto alla #AlanKurdi di @seaeyeorg! 😱

E così, con un tweet dal nulla, nasce la #Charlottea.
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So. The #Lifeline case has descended into another Aquarius case. Meanwhile, 16 leaders of EU Member States meet for an #EUCO informal meeting on #migrationEU.

Time for a brief recap of the role of #NGO-s doing #SAR operations in the Central Mediterranean? 👇
First: PERCEPTIONS MATTER. 📺🤔

Irregular sea arrivals to Italy are WAY down, and continue to be (-78% y-o-y), even as NGOs carried out over 40% of SAR operations in 2017 and 2018.
Still, 51% of Italians believe flows are as high or higher than last year's.👇
Second: DETERRENCE VS NGOs does not pay off (much).🚢⛔️📉

Over the last two weeks of the new goverment's "deterring measures", the decline in sea arrivals vs 2017 is broadly in line with the drop experienced since July 2017. With or without #Aquarius and #Lifeline arrivals. 👇
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