TNC was on Chris Hayes show recently… a good interview:
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Here’s a follow up to the Australian radioactive source story, saying how they found it.
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ON JANUARY 31, Dezeen published an article listing the names of the prestigious architecture firms that have pledged to lend their assistance to the realization of “The Line,” a 105-mile-long mirrored and enclosed luxury horizontal skyscraper in the Saudi Arabian desert that will allegedly run on 100 percent renewable energy and eventually house 9 million consumers of the future, presumably not among them the thousands of indigenous people to be forcibly displaced for its construction.
Participation in The Line—an indoor, climate controlled mall only conceivable in a state absolutely drunk off oil money that will almost certainly never get built and, if it does get built, will come at the cost of massive human suffering—is not just an embarrassment; it should be nullify the progressive reputations of all firms involved. For a very long time, architecture firms have talked out of both sides of their mouths, espousing reverence for resiliency, egalitarianism, and environmentalism all while working for some of the most despotic regimes on the planet.
The hypocrisy is astounding in a field where maintaining a nebulously liberal image still seems to matter. For instance, how can a firm like Adjaye Associates—known for working with great sensitivity on projects that highlight diversity and center marginalized experiences, like the highly acclaimed NMAAHC—pretend to care about the concept of human rights when taking money from a petro-regime that assassinates journalists and has already begun jailing indigenous people in order to erect a nightmarish tube for the wealthy to live “in harmony with nature” ?
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Or in other words another tale of how government pulled private industry’s bacon out of the fire after a huge fuck-up
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“He also faces a burglary charge in relation to the escape of a clouded leopard named Nova…Irvin told investigators that he’d wanted to take Nova but that he was only able to pet her before she got on top of her enclosure, an affidavit said.”
He’s lucky to have a face left to face the charges
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I was just coming to post this!
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Yeah, if it’s all about obtaining rare animals, no – you do not actually love animals. 
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I’ve been following it a little bit. Honestly it’s even sadder than that too. He appears to be a person with… Compromised ability to understand the situation he is in… He was breaking into an abandoned house owned by some local church and hoarding random animals there before he decided to try stealing zoo animals.
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That’s a name i’ve not heard in a long time. Hopefully he does some good.
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I just saw this today, heart-warming but heartbreaking when realised that those girls would not be going to school now.
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Saw this news about the Galleri test, previously mentioned here on BB:
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TikToker Who Falsely Accused Professor Of University Of Idaho Murders Faces Doomsday Judgement After Blowing Off Defamation Lawsuit
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Absolutely fucking disgusting invasive bullshit.
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Yeah, not a huge surprised that it got pushback…
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