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Posts by Mari Elken

Social scientist here. Dancing and disco is definitely appreciated by me - with small children and thousand commitments home there is rarely time, so a conference is a perfect occasion.
As a bonus you get to see the dance moves of all those people you look up to...

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The future, this is.

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Soon, at a University near you.

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There's a war on for your mind.

theonion.info

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Oh how I hope this goes through as this would no doubt be entirely awesome.

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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

So how much corruption is too much corruption.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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At least Palantir is not really hiding who and what they are.

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Really needed this one Really Good News about Hungary 🥳

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Holding my breath hoping Hungary will finally choose to stop supporting Putin.

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... and it is getting worse. There must be some true masochism or "taking one for the team" to continue this...

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At this point, Rutte's strategy seems equal parts ineffective and embarrassing.

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With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

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Grok.

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So much winning.

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The rest of us knew this in 2016, hell, even 2015 and whenever the loony idea of running for office first was aired

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Just your regular Tuesday on SoMe. Combination of fab images of the dark side of the moon and an aging lunatic who for some unbeknown reason was elected as POTUS issuing orders of genocide. Oh, and @nytimes.com has chicken soup recipes, because the sniffles. Yeah. What timeline was this again?

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“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.”

Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz “Has your leader been credibly accused and/or convicted of several crimes, which he is using his position of power to dodge accountability for?”

"Is your country ruled by an aging megalomaniac whose supporters worship him with an almost cult-like zeal?"

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Elections. Trump buddy did not win. Still the messy business of coalitions, but there is at least hope.

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Well, at least Slovenia survived this weekend. Barely.

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What a paragraph.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This was Bakhmut, once a nice, cozy town until russia "liberated" it from life itself.
Wherever russia goes, it brings only death and destruction.

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The last paragraph is a good indication of the state of reality...

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Picture of man with two trays (the kind you bring to an informal potluck) of pastries. He is surrounded by journalists.

Picture of man with two trays (the kind you bring to an informal potluck) of pastries. He is surrounded by journalists.

Here's the state attorney in charge of the case against the son of the future queen of Norway trying to cheer people up by bringing some home-made pastries for everyone. Norwegians really believe in the power of pastries to make things better, if not only for a few minutes.

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Rutte for sure seems to be the only one who thinks Trump&co know what they are doing in Iran..

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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

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US threatens Anthropic with deadline in dispute on AI safeguards The AI developer laid out red lines on military use of its products, a source said.

just finished writing a column on something else but if i hadn't been, i'd have been writing about this, because if you think AI chatbots are an issue (fair) then meet 'allow Pete Hegseth, an idiot, to use your not that stress tested AI as he sees fit in weaponry'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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If Bodø Glimt continue like this, I might have to start watching fotball again. That's amazing. #bodoglimt

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This is frankly quite scary.

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So I just realised panda was actually trending on Bluesky. For good reason, that performance got instant legend status. Landing a jump in that costume is amazing.

#Olympics #figureskating

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