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‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release
hollywoodreporter.com · Feb 20
While promoting his cautionary tale about Fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.
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Craig Duncan
(@craigduncan) ·
Feb 21
🔁 @CultureDesk:
Disney asked "Andor" creator Tony Gilroy not to use the word "fascism" when he was promoting its second season. Now, he's saying it — and talking about how the show's storylines connect to current U.S. politics. "So you get out your 'Fascism for Dummies' book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible," he told @THR. "How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don’t think it’s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper."
#Andor #Television #StarWars #TonyGilroy #TrumpAdministration
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
theguardian.com · Feb 21
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
theguardian.com · Feb 21
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
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Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis?
theguardian.com · Feb 21
Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential
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Dr Susi Arnott
(@SusiArnott) ·
Feb 21
"Even in Europe, where polls show citizens overwhelmingly accept climate science and support stopping planet-heating pollution, a quiet but deadly form of denial has emerged"
#AjitNiranjan #journalism #climatebreakdown
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/21/under-water-in-denial-is-europe-drowning-out-the-climate-crisis
UN declares Earth has entered a period of 'water bankruptcy' that is likely impossible to reverse
earth.com · Feb 19
Rivers are shrinking and aquifers are falling, raising fears of “water bankruptcy” as billions experience increasing water shortages.
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Morpheus Being
(@MorpheusB) ·
Feb 21
🔁 @dallo:
UN declares Earth has entered a period of 'water bankruptcy' that is likely impossible to reverse
https://www.earth.com/news/un-declares-water-bankruptcy-era-as-major-rivers-and-aquifers-dry-up/
> Rivers are shrinking and aquifers are falling, raising fears of “water bankruptcy” as billions experience increasing water shortages.
Reminder that llm data centres waste dozens of gallons of potable water every minute of every day
Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds
newscientist.com · Feb 19
Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments
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mau 🏳️🌈 #EndFossilFuels
(@mzedp) ·
Feb 21
🔁 @Natasha_Jay:
NewScientist: "Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments"
This is both so logical and yet absurdly like a science fiction story ...
Whale Fall
nesbitt.io · Feb 21
What happens when a large open source project dies.
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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
harpers.org · Feb 19
Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking
At the World’s Largest General Science Meeting, Surviving Trump Is the Topic
404media.co · Feb 21
“This is really a turning point and we’re in a historical transition at present.”
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