Vincent Bevins
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My second book, If We Burn, is now on sale. My first book, The Jakarta Method, still coming out in translations
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Ok, today is the day 🚨 After four years of work, my second book is finally out. If We Burn - now available in hardcover, e-book, and audio editions. For now, I just want to thank the hundreds of people who helped to make this book possible
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Africa - the entire continent - is responsible for only 3.8% of global greenhouse gas emissions
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I was on that bridge today, and while I can only speak for my own experience, I saw: 1) Many Jews proudly marching, and centering their religion 2) The crowd of Muslims and Christians around them responding with love and appreciation every time they did so
London. Now.
This is horrifying.
How are Jews meant to stay in the U.K.?
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Why is Ireland the most outspoken pro-Palestinian nation in the Western world? Why is South Africa the most outspoken pro-Palestinian nation in the whole world? It's not coincidence
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I am mostly alarmed at the constant refrain that we had a "bad year" - that has been the case since like, 2015 now. It seems more likely that our society has entered a period of chronic failure and inhumanity, and that if we want to exit, we have to actually do something about it
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He killed an entire wedding in Yemen
Happy anniversary to the biggest scandal of the Obama presidency.
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The opening sentences of the Washington Post editorial opposing Chile's new constitution ↘️
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🇺🇲🇺🇲 "Active shooter drill industry" 🇺🇲🇺🇲
Active shooter drills in schools have become a $2.7 billion industry, and new research shows they have almost no value in keeping kids safe and are responsible for an increase in mental health problems for kids, especially younger ones
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A good question to ask: "Why doesn't the world care more about suffering in places like Yemen and Afghanistan?" A bad question to ask: "Why does the world care so much about Ukraine?" This app encourages you to turn everything into a fight, but we can care about the whole world
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I wonder how much they would have to pay me to not understand this image
unclear what israel is trying to accomplish planting flags in gaza
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Every once in a while, the actual rules of the liberal international order become terrifyingly clear. This shocks people of good conscience in the First World, while billions of others, who do not have the luxury of this ignorance, see awful confirmation of what they already know
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"A woman conducted her aerobics class in Myanmar without realizing a coup was taking place. Behind her, a military convoy arrives at parliament."
Una mujer hizo su clase de aerobic sin darse cuenta de que estaban dando el golpe de Estado en Myanmar. Y pues puede verse como el convoy de militares llega al parlamento.
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Private beaches are forbidden by the Brazilian constitution and I think that's beautiful
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Mondays are 20% of total work days
'We do seem to be increasingly a sick note society - there’s a reason that 25% of all sickness phone ins are on a Monday. How many of them are genuine?'
Dawn Neesom and Mel Crate debate the highest levels in sickness absence at workplaces, and if British workers are ‘slacking’.
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Ok but Duolingo doesn't work at all because the algorithm is clearly trained to keep you on the app, rather than make sure you learn anything
Could artificial intelligence make computers better teachers than humans? Luis von Ahn, the founder of Duolingo, thinks so.
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"Mr. Xi broke another long-standing political norm by appearing in public with streaks of gray in his hair. The topic was off-limits for the domestic media, but the Western media speculated that he meant to affirm his superior power." via
@WSJ
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Would be so sick if you could hold this little rectangle in front of your face only when you need it and put it in your pocket when you don't
Using map direction with Vision Pro is actually amazing 🤯
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This was technically supposed to be about shark meat but I think they may have struck on a larger point
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"KFC is not on the BDS list of targeted companies. But many Malaysians see any American fast food operator to be related to Israel"
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Sorry to spoil your cheap and crude gotcha but LGBTQ people in the Arab world overwhelmingly support the cause of Palestinian liberation. You would know this if you knew any Arabs
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Personally in my own life when a conflict is "actually very, very complicated" I just pick one side and give them four billion dollars a year in death machines
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In the final years of South African Apartheid, the white government decided it must 1) overthrow the government of Angola 2) install a puppet regime in Namibia 3) attack Zimbabwe 4) attack Botswana 5) attack Zambia in order to survive. This did not work
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2015: omg Brazil is like House of Cards from Netflix!
2019: uhh Brazil is like the worst video on Pornhub
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After losing the election last night, Jair Bolsonaro apparently isolated himself in the presidential palace, refused to speak with his ministers, and went to bed. We haven't heard from him since.
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I tweet this every few weeks but the internet absolutely does not work any more. You are corralled on to one of the few infinite-scroll brain-death experiences, and if you try to leave to actually go read something, an assault of pop-ups and broken paywalls forces you back here
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The West is fucked
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Truly bizarre. It takes two seconds to confirm she didn't say that in the video.
When celebrities like
@BellaHadid
advocate for throwing Jews into the sea, they are advocating for the elimination of the Jewish State.
This shouldn't be an Israeli-Palestinian issue. This should be a human issue.
Shame on you.
#IsraelUnderAttack
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We can call it now. Lula has been elected, and Jair Bolsonaro is the first president in Brazilian history to lose a re-election campaign
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The United States government has full control over one part of Cuba, and uses it for an illegal torture prison
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I admit I just learned about "effective altruism" this month but, at the risk of being too on-brand, I have to say that "I need to make as much money as possible because only I know how to spend it right" is the most U S American attempt at "philosophy" I have ever seen
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It is worth remembering - once more - that in 2019, Morales offered to hold new elections under international observation. It was clear that he would win. Yesterday in Bolivia we did not see a surprise resurgence of the left. What we are seeing, very simply, is democracy restored
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Israel just destroyed the Al-Jazeera and Associated Press offices in Gaza. In case it wasn't already clear, the IDF behaves this way because they know they can get away with it. To be effective, the international response must go far beyond the usual hand-wringing
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Worth remembering that protest alone can never be effective against an explicitly and self-consciously anti-majoritarian political movement. They already know how you feel. You have to actually take their power away
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It's quite typical of our planetary system that Duke Alumni fret about trying to get poor Africans to change their lives while they actually vote and pay for this
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Brazilian President-elect
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spent the night retweeting congratulations from other leaders: Biden, Macron, AMLO, Sánchez, Trudeau, and many more. This is not a victory dance - he is showing Bolsonaro that the world will insist on a democratic transition
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I love it when the people, without leaders, without organization, all show up with the exact same blue and yellow tents
Brasília amanheceu assim. Acampamento pró
@jairbolsonaro
em frente ao Congresso Nacional. É o povo na rua. Sem líderes, sem movimentos, só o povo mesmo, aquele de quem emana todo o Poder, segundo a Constituição que tantos estão a rasgar.
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Uh-oh, Elon Musk has caught a Twitter-specific mental disease. You've seen it before. Someone or some group on here has owned him so bad that he is re-aligning his whole life and worldview to prove them wrong. Happens all the time, but only Musk may blow up a planet as a result
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This bio tells you so much about the United States of America
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In May, I was invited to give the keynote address at an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Regensburg (Germany) to present my new book. Two days before the talk this month I was informed this invitation had been rescinded, due to pro-Palestine posts on social media
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Two things to understand about the Philippines. First, those are incredibly cool, wickedly funny people. Second, the Marcos family stole so much money during the US-backed dictatorship (and stayed rich when they moved to Hawaii) that they could buy people off and rewrite history
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As a guy that speaks four languages on a good day (and basic stuff in a 5th), and knows you really have to fight to keep each one alive, one thing that especially annoys me about Mayor Pete is that he just said he speaks like 27 and my entire bird brain country just believed it
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No it's a coup
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I am very glad that we are finally seeing Afghans as human beings, after 20 years. But it is unfortunate that much English-language media seems to be doing this to score political points and argue for endless war, and that they will change their tune again once they are refugees
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pq só famoso e político tem coronavirus? pq só famoso e político pode se testar
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Imagine these headlines: "Zelensky rejects Putin's request to turn over all evidence implicating Russia in the deaths of journalists in Ukraine." Or: "Khashoggi's family denies Saudi request to perform an autopsy on his dismembered body." See the problem
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"Innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward. I wish I could tell you something different" - says the government who could absolutely tell you something different
Here is a clip in case you'd like to watch him make this stunning admission. There are no more pretences:
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I was barely online yesterday but one initial conclusion I reached about the US is that a huge amount of people that are paid to understand politics have absolutely no idea about life outside the country. Wednesday on here was a litany of intensely embarrassing global comparisons
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You killed them
This has been an extraordinarily dangerous year for press around the world. Many killed, many more wounded, hundreds detained, attacked, threatened, injured – simply for doing their jobs. I am profoundly grateful to the press for getting accurate, timely information to people.
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Conversation with an Egyptian journalist yesterday. She said: "If neoliberalism doesn't even work in the United States, if the richest country on the planet can't even feed its own people, how the hell do you really expect us to believe that shit will work in Africa"
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Increasingly and frantically alarmed how many people are treating this Bloomberg thing like it is normal
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I have seen this image twice in the last 24 hours - posted first by a Kurdish friend, then by another in Brazil
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Under occupation and apartheid almost everyone asserts the right to active resistance. You would in your country. The question of which type of resistance is best is a strategic one, and I don't know enough to comment. I do know I support the liberation of the Palestinian people
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My favorite type of US politics man on here is the white guy who thinks Muslims don't know about Donald Trump
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Considering that São Paulo is not a particularly pro-Lula city, the streets are quite insane right now. People yelling, cars honking, it feels like Brazil just won the World Cup
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The big three tropical rainforest nations – Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – are in talks to form a strategic alliance to coordinate on conservation. President-elect Lula began the discussions
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This trope gets deployed every single time. The US once more "dragged into" something it spent decades creating
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Obviously the whole world thinks that Germans are experts on genocide. What is impossible to comprehend, unless you have spent time in the country recently, is that many Germans also think they are experts on genocide - but in the exact opposite way that everyone else thinks it
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Nothing is more radicalizing, nothing makes me more skeptical about global capitalism, than sitting on a train and listening to business men loudly do business
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Nothing funny about this week but it is a dark twist of history that ten years ago the White House let everyone believe that "no fly zone" means "let's all stop flying for a while" so now they have to explain what it really means
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Imagine sincerely arguing that the United States needs to lead the world
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Rio's first COVID-19 victim. She was a domestic worker. Her boss came back from Italy, didn't tell her she was at risk, and kept relying on her to clean the house. Brutal inequality, and the brutal stupidity of Brazil's ruling class, literally kill people.
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I'm at the gym in London and the BBC Radio dj has just explained that NATO also has nuclear weapons, so Putin probably won't actually use his. Now, Dua Lipa
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Too many people fail to realize that the Gamestop phenomenon can be incredibly stupid, deeply worrying, and very funny at the same time. Indeed, this applies to most things happening in the English-speaking world for years now
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Just a tip for anyone trying to do numbers this week. I bet you could get a thousand likes if you reveal that Pedro Pascal is from a left-wing Chilean family that supported Allende and fled the Pinochet dictatorship (true). Safe bet
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Sort of wish the "tech" industry had spent the last 15 years developing new technology instead of doing regulatory arbitrage and intentionally poisoning our brains, because nothing works and almost every part of the online experience has gotten worse
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Tip for visitors to Brazil - it is rude to "slam" the door of someone's car (shut it with any force whatsoever). You must make a show of closing it as softly as possible. It is not rational - and this is precisely what makes it an act of politeness. It is like bowing; just do it
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A more terrifying scenario would be that your movement around the world is restricted simply by your place of birth
No vaccine passport. It doesn’t get much more dystopian than being required to show your “health papers” wherever you go.
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We have two options: lots of cars above ground, or lots of cars below ground. I am a futurist.
@teslaownersSV
@boringcompany
It’s either traffic forever or tunnels. Try our first operational tunnel in Vegas at the convention center! The city just approved a full tunnel network, connecting major hotels, convention center & airport.
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Take a look at who actually emits the most carbon. And take a look at how much rich people in the US emit, compared to absolutely anyone else
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One good thing about Joe is he is so old he accidentally says these very true things you are not supposed to say
Biden: “If every investment banker in New York went on strike, nothing would much change in America. If every plumber decided to stop working, every electrician, the country comes to a halt. I mean, literally, not figuratively, literally, it comes to a damn halt."
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No one has ever seen Germany act like this before
Germany detains Gaza surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah and 'refuses him entry'
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Lot of really stupid stuff has happened to computers in the last 15 years but Adobe Acrobat Reader trying to act like an app has got to be one of the most pointlessly idiotic. Needing you to log in and scan the cloud constantly. Brother you just open PDFs, get over yourself
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Telling that Harry rejects the "curtseying and subtle interpersonal racism" part of his family legacy but not the classic "travel to the Orient and kill scores of Muslims" bit
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Wow he just came out and said it, his candidacy is about his personal class interests very cool
Howard Schultz blames Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for his decision to run as Independent and it has to do with her plan to tax the rich
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They're actually canceling journalism. Like, as a human activity. Everyone fired, under-funded and unable to report, or serving fickle oligarchs. But shoot-from-the-hip, power-flattering commentary is profitable, and we have to listen to those people complain about cancel culture
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Spend a few days in Southern California and it's obvious why this place pioneered the "health" food / gym rat culture that has gone global. It is sunny outside but literally 0 exercise happens organically in your daily life. You may have to walk across a big parking lot
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They tried to cover it up until it became literally impossible to do so
People will slam the US for mistakenly killing 10 Afghans, including seven children, in a Kabul drone strike last month. This criticism is well-deserved. (But I do admire the willingness to own the mistake. Many countries would have tried to cover it up.)
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Finally someone brave enough to say it
See those 2 buildings filled with people? Osama bin Laden's terrorists flew planes into them and killed them, as well as many who came to rescue them. OBL was a terrorist and a monster. And you can take his Letter to America and shove it up your ass. They didnt deserve death.
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I think it's pretty distasteful to mock someone for undergoing a public intellectual transformation. If someone admits, "damn, I didn't know a lot of stuff, it is crazy to find this out!!" that kind of thing should be encouraged. Really horrible to say "uh, everyone knows that."
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China is big, complicated, and very important. Its rise is a fact, whether you like it or not. For these reasons, we must think carefully, and speak honestly, about the country and its diverse characteristics. Reducing the entire nation to a strict good / bad binary is infantile
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Big news out of Indonesia today - President Joko Widodo acknowledges a number of serious human rights abuses in the country's history, including the anticommunist mass murder in 1965-66
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One of the craziest things I ever read
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Neera Tanden's nomination should be an inspiration to us all - it shows that a lifetime of posting cringe is not a barrier to higher office in these United States of America
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In "Wonder Woman 1984" (2020), Gal Gadot is called upon to help Washington with its most important mission. Wonder Woman has to continuously kill civilians until Central Americans give their countries back to the landed oligarchy. She succeeds heroically, to the song "Take On Me"
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Police have now surrounded and asked the apparent impersonator to come with him, he says his name's Howard, was just cheering and looks like this, and didn't commit any crime. Refuses to go with them. South Korea police apparently unsure what to do
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I find that my generation (US A millennials, especially those in the professional class) is far too optimistic about "mask off" moments. Traditionally what happens when a murderer's mask falls off is that he continues to kill you
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I am genuinely excited to reveal my second book, which will be published on October 3, and is now available for pre-order 🚨 I have been working on this for the last four years, and I cannot wait to share it with everyone
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Shocking scene right now in São Paulo, as Bolsonarista Congresswoman Carla Zambelli pulls a gun on the street. I just arrived at this bar and employees confirmed she charged in here armed
URGENTE! Carla Zambelli saca arma e aponta no meio da rua para pessoa na rua. Incidente ocorreu agora na travessa da Joaquim Eugênio Lima com a Lorena. Divulguem
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