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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Anti-Netanyahu protests take place throughout Israel, reports of violence – The Jerusalem Post

Major protests have been taking place in all of Israel largest cities, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, as well as smaller locales. There have also been reports of violent confrontations and attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters. Source: Anti-Netanyahu protests take place throughout Israel, reports of violence – The Jerusalem Post

Colour code

Peakspeak

Colours are supposed to be fun, perhaps God created colours to entertain us, make us feel good with abundant variety around us.But the manner in which human race has demonized skin colour is unfathomable.This is as lame as a Cedar tree telling a Banana tree – “Oh! Your leaves skin colour is so light and beautiful!!”it doesn’t work this way…..the diversified flora and fauna is created to relish each one’s uniqueness and not to look down upon the others.The biosphere works on very simple rule of balance and it has enough place for everyone and everything except greed.Unfortunately, human race has been totally taken over by lust, greed and ego which is not only leading to anger and dissatisfaction within them but to everyone around them.

Even in the so very advanced 21st century and from the world’s most civilised and developed societies we seem to have totally misunderstood colour,so…

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What Is the Realistic Value of a Language?

Foundation Operation X for Languages, Cultures and Perspectives

Written by Dyami Millarson

The question of a language’s value is relevant to language preservation. Language has made humans more evolutionarily succesful than any other species on planet Earth. When I think about language deeply and observe what it does, I see it as a system that is mimicking observed reality. Language is a parallel reality of sorts. It took me many years of experience with language-learning to grasp this profound yet simple truth. Language is a simulation of reality, and therefore words are the building blocks of this simulated reality.

Humans gained an evolutionary advantaged by creating their own parallel reality based on the immediately observed reality, and that is also why I think humans gained the mysterious ability of abstraction and imagination. In my view, these are merely an extension of the nature of language: fiction is the product of human beings’ ability to mimick reality by using…

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Facebook pulled 48 Trump ads saying ‘your vote has not been counted’ – Business Insider

  • Facebook removed 48 ads from the Trump campaign for violating their voter interference policy, a spokesperson told Business Insider.
  • They included the phrase “Your vote has not been counted.”
  • The ads were aimed at people who had not yet voted, but would likely have also been seen by people who had voted. Some 399,000 people saw them.

Source: Facebook pulled 48 Trump ads saying ‘your vote has not been counted’ – Business Insider

92-Year-Old Songwriter Tom Lehrer Releases All His Lyrics Into the Public Domain – Slashdot

Songwriter Tom Lehrer became a star in the 1950s and ’60s writing and performing satirical songs that skewered just about everything… Lehrer, 92, announced Tuesday via his website that he’s effectively putting everything he ever wrote into the public domain. That means his lyrics and sheet music are available for anyone to use or perform, without having to pay royalties or deal with lawyers… [Most of Lehrer’s music “will be added gradually later with further disclaimers,” according to Lehrer’s web site.]

Lehrer’s giving up those royalties. But in exchange, he’s trying to give his work a new lease on life, said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia. “Lehrer, in this case, is basically saying, ‘Hey everybody, come revisit my material, come do with it what you want,'” he said… That could mean we’ll be hearing more of Tom Lehrer’s work, said Jennifer Jenkins, who runs the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. “There is empirical research showing that when material enters the public domain, it actually gets used more,” she said. Source: 92-Year-Old Songwriter Tom Lehrer Releases All His Lyrics Into the Public Domain – Slashdot

Coronavirus: Merkel in fresh plea to stay at home amid record infection tally | News | DW | 24.10.2020

Merkel wearing a mask as she sits down for a Cabinet meeting (Markus Schreiber/dpa/picture-alliance) German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned citizens to stay at home and reduce all unnecessary contact and travel after the number of infections hit a new record high. The country’s death toll also passed 10,000 on Saturday. Source: Coronavirus: Merkel in fresh plea to stay at home amid record infection tally | News | DW | 24.10.2020

Long Covid: ‘I thought I’d get over this no problem’ – BBC News (UK)

Logan family

The 39-year-old mother of two felt dizzy and lost her sense of taste and smell.

“When I got the positive test, I thought: ‘Okay, this is maybe how it’s going to be for the next few days and then I’ll pick up.’

“What happened to me was that, by day 14, whenever you usually expect to feel better, I actually was a lot worse.”

Five weeks later, however, and Rebecca was still not feeling better.

Now, more than six months later, she still suffers from breathlessness, “brain fog” and has to take daily naps.

Rebecca believes she has so-called long Covid – a term being used to describe a range of symptoms identified in people months after they have had the virus.

 

Source: Long Covid: ‘I thought I’d get over this no problem’ – BBC News