This . is . brutality 🤬🤯

Forensic doctors carrying out postmortem examinations on bodies in mass graves say the have … ⬇️ 1/6

#Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #WarCrimes #BuchaMassacre #Bucha #RussianWarCrimes #GenocideOfUkrainians #rape #execution

theguardian.com/world/2022/apr… … found evidence some women were raped before being killed by Russian forces.

“We already have a few cases which suggest that these women had been raped before being shot to death,” said Vladyslav Pirovskyi, a Ukrainian forensic doctor who with a team of coroners has … ⬇️ 2/6

Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity.

A very good piece on Vox here:
vox.com/recode/2021/6/…

It includes an interview with Carl Bergstrom, who is a very smart presence on Twitter. With a link to a new paper published in … [1/6] … the prestigious science journal PNAS earlier this month, titled “Stewardship of global collective behavior.”

The gist: that our lack of understanding about the collective behavioral effects of new technology is a danger to democracy and scientific progress. For … [2/6]

The Mueller report shows that bad guys who play dirty, like Trump, always win. For the Trump presidency, exposed in all its ugliness in the Mueller report, is predicated on a willingness to shred the rules and norms that sustain liberal democracy. And it relies for its success .. ... on the unwillingness of liberal democracy’s guardians to do the same. There is a fundamental mismatch here: Trump cutting every corner, trampling on every ethical guideline, while Mueller and those like him primly weigh up the legal niceties and nuances. They are thumbing ...

1/5 Having read this damn thing, some thoughts ... The key bit in all of this is Mueller’s prosecuting philosophy: “if it can be prosecuted effectively anyplace else, we will hand it off”. Mueller's Appendix D lists fourteen matters referred for investigation or prosecution ... 2/5 That need not mean just 12 new indictments. While Team Trump might argue that a referral need not result in charges, Mueller also stated that he only referred matters out if he felt there was evidence of a crime, that it was a matter worth prosecuting, and that ...

1/4 Interesting 💭 from former US prosecutor friend: “Do not look at Mueller Report and U.S. Attorney Southern District cases in isolation. Mueller apparently will not indict anyone else, but expect additional indictments from other sources ... 2/4 I would think the fight against Trump and his family and businesses will move to the US Attorney’s office in New York. Mueller handed off cases and evidence to 6 other federal prosecutorial entities. I would expect announcements about those cases at a later time ...

1/x Interesting comments this morning at our weekly breakfast. Large continent of my Brit expats friends in attendence so Brexit on the table 🤯. Just a few notes: more likely the fractures will widen. UK union is the likely victim ... 2/x When the people of Scotland voted in 2014 against separation, they were opting for an open over a closed future. Scotland’s unique ties with the other three nations of the UK sat alongside Britain’s place in the EU. Brexit changes fundamentally this calculus ...

1/x Ok, a multi-part Tweet just to clarify to all of those Tweeting “It’s not Xmas! It’s Christmas!! The word ‘Christ’ is there for a reason!!” The ”X” stands for the Greek letter chi, the starting letter of “Χριστός” (Christos) in Greek. The use of the word "Xmas" in English .. 2/x .. can be traced to the year 1021. The Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded use of ”Xmas” for ”Christmas” dates to year 1551 although there is reputable scholarship tracing it’s use by monks back in 1020 or so. So ... Merry Xmas! And assuming you believe this stuff ...

@ChristianUncut Most salient point: we don’t know where LinkedIn obtained those 18 million email addresses + all the related data. The DPC doesn’t address it. And reality? LinkedIn does not need to tell them. Most likely they just bought them on the market. But the big take-takeaway? ... ➡️ @ChristianUncut ... the breaches “are now trickling down into the companies modifying their practices”. The DPCs just want to settle these things. “Pay a fine. Promise to modify your behavior”. Why? ... ➡️

Viability of Facebook's stock. Longterm impact of these scandals on advertiser relationships/user growth. Hmm 🤔 . Marketers might not cut spending directly, but scrutiny of budgets on Facebook will increase, as will FB executives’ time to “explain things” cnbc.com/2018/11/19/fac… And look between the lines: taking a look at Facebook's 2018 stock woes vs. strong advertising growth, it's clear that marketers are less concerned about Facebook's long-term positioning than Wall Street.
While revenue growth from the main Facebook app is expected to slow ...

@ChristianUncut @businessinsider @BBCRoryCJ Here’s the thing: locally and nationally and internationally, the tech industry has gone from bright young star to death star. Not only have Silicon Valley companies turned out to be roughly as dirty in their corporate maneuvering as any old oil company or military contractor ... @ChristianUncut @businessinsider @BBCRoryCJ ... but because of the Valley’s founder worship, they’ve been almost uniquely controlled by a tiny number of people. Where does this almost unbelievably bad news cycle end for these companies? And what if the news stays bad ...