Eventually, the discussion turned to the broader political climate. Though the government’s focus was on deterring asylum seekers, the overall atmosphere was changing, said Rajeshwari Yogi, a telecommunications engineer who works at Ericsson, one of Sweden’s leading companies.“Even if we are skilled laborers, are we still welcome here?” she asked.Europeans may see themselves today as besieged by migrants, but it was not so long ago that their forebears were themselves impoverished migrants, leaving their home countries in great droves to seek fortune, or simply survival, in colonized lands. Between 1850 and 1930, more than a million Swedes crossed the Atlantic…
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Mark Zuckerberg understands that many of us have had enough of influencers and stuff we don’t care about forced onto our feeds by the algorithm.On Thursday, Meta announced the launch of the Facebook Friends tab, a toggle that serves up friend-related content (stories, reels, posts, birthdays and friend requests) instead of recommended content.”The new Friends tab is a throwback to OG Facebook when you only saw friends’ status updates,” Zuckerberg said in a post. “More OG Facebook coming soon,” he wrote, adding a flexing arm. Meta says that the Friends tab is “available initially through the navigation bar on your…
Peatlands such as Männikjärve bog in Estonia are important carbon sinksVincent Jassey Microbes in carbon-rich soils ramp up their rate of photosynthesis in warmer conditions, suggesting current climate models may be overestimating the total emissions expected from degrading landscapes as the climate warms. As the world warms, natural ecosystems like peatlands and permafrost are expected to start rapidly releasing stored carbon dioxide as microbial activity shifts in their soils. These environments could be huge sources of future emissions, with estimates suggesting the northern hemisphere stores 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon in permafrost, while the world’s peatlands … Source link
Tom Moore got the call just before Christmas in 2021. The head of the University of Durham’s Archaeology department, Mr. Moore was well-known in history circles in Yorkshire, in northeast England. It was why he had received the urgent message, from a man who claimed to have stumbled on something big.“I think it’s Iron Age,” said the caller, Peter Heads, an amateur metal detectorist. And then, no one said a word. Now, after more than three years of painstaking excavation, conducted in near-total secrecy, Mr. Moore and his colleagues say that it could be one of the most significant archaeological…
US President Donald Trump says he may cut tariffs on China to help seal a deal for short video app TikTok to be sold by its owner ByteDance.Trump also said he is willing to extend a 5 April deadline for a non-Chinese buyer of the platform to be found.In January, he delayed the implementation of a law passed under the Biden administration to ban TikTok.The legislation, which was signed into law in 2024, cited national security grounds for the sell or be banned order.”With respect to TikTok, and China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldThe writer is chief US economist at Brevan HowardPresident Donald Trump’s administration argues reciprocal tariffs between the US and other nations can level the playing field for fair trade. But what is a fair rate?For Europe, there is a clear case for taking action. Tariff rates between the US and Europe are relatively small but officials have correctly identified that Europe’s competitive advantage primarily owes to non-tariff barriers — especially how it applies value added tax. A recent White House…
Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia It’s time for the right to stop living in the past and start living in the zeitgest. Yes, friends, it’s time to start supporting reparations. After all, President Trump does. Speaking to Newsmax, President Trump was asked about reparations for the January 6 prisoners, and answered positively to the concept. And why not? Most reasonable people agree that those who were actually violent deserved the consequences they faced – which was prison time. But the grannies who calmly respected the velvet ropes in Statuary Hall and the Rotunda? What crime did they commit after walking…
The billionaire mogul coincidentally made the allegations on the same day his estranged daughter appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue.Vivian Jenna Wilson also criticized Elon Musk for declaring her “dead” again in a recent anti-trans tweet.Article continues below advertisementVivian Jenna Wilson Says Elon Musk Is ‘Pressed’ About Her Cover StoryInstagram | Vivian Jenna WilsonLast week, Vivian appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine, where she criticized her father, Elon Musk, including calling him a “pathetic man child.”That same day, Musk also issued a tweet on his X (formerly Twitter) page, where he suggested that trans individuals are behind…
ADOPTION OF UNMANNED SHIPS “WILL TAKE TIME” The world’s first fully electric container ship, MV Yara Birkeland, has been a pioneer in autonomous maritime transport since it started commercial operations in 2022. It undertakes two voyages a week, transporting about 100 containers on each journey with only three crew members. Plans are in the works for five voyages weekly with two crew members. But the widespread deployment of large fully autonomous ships, such as container vessels and tankers, in international waters will take time, experts noted. “It’s far in the future,” said IALA’s Zachariae. “In the foreseeable future, 20 to…
The administration of United States President Donald Trump has confirmed that a journalist from The Atlantic magazine was included in a private social media chat about upcoming attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen. On Monday, The Atlantic published an article from editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, in which he described the stunning realisation that he had been added to a group chat where high-level government officials were discussing military actions. “The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time [18:00 GMT] on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen,” Goldberg wrote in the opening…