Turkey and the new Syrian government threat the kurdish autonomous region in Syria
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-offers-military-aid-syria-counterterrorism-unprecedented-visit

Israel strikes in Gaza kill at least 70 after ceasefire accord, residents say

Israel airstrikes killed at least 70 people in Gaza overnight on Thursday, residents and authorities in the enclave said, hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced to bring an end to 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas.

The complex ceasefire accord emerged on Wednesday after mediation by Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. to stop the war that has devastated the coastal territory and inflamed the Middle East. read more

TRAORÉ SCHOOLS RUTO ON DEMOCRACY

What should democracy mean in the African context?

We’ve juxtaposed two visions - the first, that of Kenya’s William Ruto, delivering a noscripted condemnation of last July’s military coup against Niger’s Western-backed president; the second, that of Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, speaking candidly from the heart on International Youth Day in August 2024.

Traoré rejects an imperialist version of democracy - crafted to serve a privileged few while leaving the majority in the lurch. Under this form, despite elections, policies are still forced on unwilling citizens. He insists that clinging on to this kind of democracy is tantamount, at best, to incompetence.

In the 2010s, a municipality in the Wellington metropolitan area in New Zealand upzoned 80% of its residential land to allow medium- and high-density housing. It led to a substantial increase in housing supply and a 21% reduction in rents relative to similar municipalities.

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#HousingAffordability #UpzoningSuccess #SustainableCities #UrbanDevelopment #WellingtonHousing

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Have you ever thought about the price we (or the planet) pay for artificial intelligence (AI)? 🤔

Switzerland recently unveiled a supercomputer designed to handle the growing data needs of scientific research and advanced AI systems. While these machines could help tackle climate change, they are themselves big energy guzzlers. ⚡

So, the big question is: how sustainable is Switzerland’s latest technological leap? 👉https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/whats-the-environmental-cost-of-switzerlands-new-supercomputer/88720218

TIL every person who has become a centibillionaire (a net worth of usually $100 billion, €100 billion, or £100 billion), first became one in 2017 or later except for Bill Gates who first reached the threshold in 1999. [source, comments]

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RIP David Lynch

September 11, 2001 there was one American in space. This is the picture he took from the International Space Station
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Starregisseur David Lynch gestorben: Er war der grösste Visionär des Kinos https://www.watson.ch/!148805307