@stephengbrown

Interested in GDR politics, ecumenical theology, current affairs. All tweets in a personal capacity - retweets for info not necessarily approval.

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Today marks 60 years since the Aberfan disaster. It was one of Britain’s worst mining disasters. At 9:15am on 21st October 1966, a coal tip collapsed onto a school killing 144 people, including 116 children. We will always remember them ❤️
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Great to hear Torsten Moreis of @HumboldtUni speak about how @Oikoumene developed the idea of the sustainable society in the early 1970s and its significance today- Global Network for Public Theology, Amsterdam
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ecumenika@ecumenikaOct 19
Christian nationalism. WACC Europe @WACCEuro invites you to a webinar with professor André Gagné @andre_gagne1 on October 20 at 15h Paris time/9am New York. Register for free here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Italy's Rai now has a tv series where Angela Merkel decides to become a detective in Northern Italy after retirement h/t @putintintin1
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@ilvit029 Jul 2024
Cosa succederebbe se #AngelaMerkel diventasse un’investigatrice? #MissMerkel è la nuova curiosa serie di #Rai2 dove l’ex cancelliera tedesca, in pensione, si diletta a risolvere alcuni casi di omicido In onda da venerdì, in prima serata! #Series #Rai #Palinsesti #AscoltiTv
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Liverpool Vista
@LiverpoolVistaOct 18
Lovely view from Liverpool of the Wirral and North Wales. Spot any locations you're familiar with? #autumn #wales
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Carole Delga
@CaroleDelgaOct 18
Un dimanche consacré à sécuriser, à nettoyer, à reconstruire aujourd’hui et demain. J’apporte tout mon soutien aux forces de sécurité, aux élus locaux et aux équipes mobilisées. Il nous faut renouer le dialogue pour ne laisser ni la colère ni la peur gagner notre pays. Il faut rétablir la confiance pour réparer une République abîmée et préserver l’Etat de droit. midilibre.fr/2026/10/18/en-i…

EN IMAGES Mouvement du 17 octobre : Paris, Limoges, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille… Comment les...

La forte mobilisation, ce samedi en France, contre la vie chère – entre 500 000 et 800 000 personnes – a été éclipsée par la violence sans limites des casseurs qui ont pillé des magasins et attaqué...

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csz@cszablaOct 15
from the guardian piece: is our techbros learning? theguardian.com/technology/2…
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Bertolt Brecht: “In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.”
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On this day in 1964, it was announced that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of #nonviolence and its application for Civil Rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought and proved that systemic oppression could be challenged and dismantled through nonviolent resistance. Nonviolence isn’t just a strategy in our history books. It’s an everyday mindset that empowers us to build a better, more peaceful world. #MartinLutherKingJr #Nonviolence365 #TheKingCenter #MLK
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next year maybe @ecumenika
NonstopEurotrip.com 🇺🇦@nonstopeurotripOct 14
Off on a new adventure - my second visit to Uzbekistan! 🇺🇿 I hear they have some exciting new trains to check out?! 🚆 Flying with @etihad from Abu Dhabi to Tashkent on one their A321s 🇦🇪 ✈️ #NonstopEurotrip
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Slow Travel Berlin@slowberlinOct 12
Golden rays in an autumnal Volkspark Friedrichshain 🍂 #berlin
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Just .. wow
East German Visuals
@GDRvisualsOct 11
Overview of the Berlin Wall dissecting the city, 1981.
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Hayduke ⏹️
@GWHayduke97Oct 11
As this is taking off, here's my self-promotion: on my Substack I write about the ways present and future AI will impact political economy, society, and even human existence - and what we can do to stop it, and how a pause/stop can be enforced. Subscribe: connorsscratchpad.substack.c…
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#OTD 1986: Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Iceland. Within 48 hours, they come remarkably close to agreeing to abolish nuclear weapons. Talks collapse over Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ missile-defence programme. A failed summit that helped change the Cold War. coldwarconversations.com/epi…

Face to face with the Soviets at the Cold War Reykjavik Summit between President Reagan and Mikhail...

This episode is brought to you by the CNN Original Series Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game which premieres 2nd June 2024. The series tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the 1980s as

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Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels an Philippe Sands überreicht: Der Völkerrechtsanwalt forderte in seiner Rede in der Frankfurter Paulskirche ein Ende angeblicher »Debattenbeschränkungen« in Deutschland. juedische-allgemeine.de/kult…

Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels an Philippe Sands überreicht

Der Völkerrechtsanwalt forderte in seiner Rede ein Ende angeblicher »Debattenbeschränkungen« in Deutschland

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Showing Pierre Sauvage’s « Weapons of The Spirit » this morning in my course on « Religion & Secularism in France ». Highly recommended documentary on the village of Le Chambon, Righteous among the Nations as an entire community m.youtube.com/watch?v=yMcG0J…

Weapons of the Spirit

Oružje duha Weapons of the Spirit Pierre Sauvage, Francuska/SAD,...

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on "machines of loving grace" maybe he should read more Barth
Hayduke ⏹️
@GWHayduke97Oct 10
Dario Amodei considers people opting out of AI-driven transformation of human life as a problem, perhaps a dystopian problem, needing to be "solved", on par with anti-vax. This is from the same essay, 'Machines of Loving Grace', in which he advocates that we become pets of the machines, and suggests video games as one of several alternate vectors of meaning to replace meaningful struggle and challenge.
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Imagine a pharmaceutical company saying: "We have no precise data on how many people will die or suffer permanent harm after taking this medication, but we have implemented the highest safety standards available"
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD
@LuizaJarovskyOct 7
If AI companies cannot reliably quantify the risk their products pose, their "preparedness" has little to NO value. Society is right to push back.
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Francis X. Rocca@FrancisXRoccaOct 8
The new @AnthropicAI rule against "abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude is a helpful reminder that LLMs should not be treated the way we treat human beings.
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Stephen Sackur@stephensackurOct 8
I’m sorry to say the BBC is committing multiple acts of self-harm. Current senior management do not seem to understand that in the changing media landscape the BBC should still be providing content the commercial sector is unwilling or unable to invest in.
Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweetOct 8
Sorry to inform you that @BBCFreeThinking (and Thinking Allowed) have been cancelled as part of cost-saving measures. Last show will go out in April. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly…

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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