Viktor Frankl was born on March 26 in 1905.

Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 26, 2023 ~ Profit vs. saving the planet from collapse.

' Exxon's best prediction, published in 1985, was 99% accurate — more accurate than predictions from the world's top independent and government scientists at that time.'
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“This business of “publish or perish” has been a catastrophe. People write things which should never have been written and which should never be printed. Nobody’s interested. But for them to keep their jobs and get the proper promotion, they’ve got to do it.'

— Hannah Arendt

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Americans’ life expectancy is plummeting. The graphic is stunning.

“American life expectancy is lower than that of Cuba, Lebanon, and Chechnya.”

#MedTwitter

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Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year.

'That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty,' the author says. n.pr/42I9bK8

‘Working till we drop’: why women are on the front line of French pension protests | France | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

'Militia members and conspiracists know exactly what Trump’s Waco visit symbolizes...What he says will likely set the tone for the presidential campaign to come. Every American should be concerned.'

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'We ourselves do not even believe that we have to fight for our freedom, for our democracy. But this is what’s going on. Take the example of Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Iran. It’s the same track. We did not invent anything. The book is already written.'

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'If we are not able to stop what is going on at the moment, in a couple of weeks, days, maybe, Israel will no longer be a democracy and then once the point of no return has passed, it will take decades to get back from this point, and maybe it will not even be possible'.

We will not get through this century unless we rethink every aspect of how we produce our food. Here's a radical manifesto for doing it all differently.

A new analysis: Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards than would be expected based on their share of authorship, endure longer waiting times between the submission and acceptance of their manuscripts, and receive fewer citations.

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'AI has the potential to supercharge absurdity... people feeling as though they have close emotional bonds with AI.. People will structure their lives around these bonds, and yet will have no way of knowing whether..the bond is real or illusory'-Jonathan Birch
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'The people who should be treating this like the colossal emergency it is keep finding ways to delay and dilute a meaningful response...' - Rebecca Solnit
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