Another day, another unflattering portrait of a public figure, and this time, the Streisand effect is in play too. TIME magazine reports on Australia's wealthiest person, Gina Rinehart, and her attempts to get a painting of her removed from the National Gallery of Australia. The portrait by Vincent Namatjira, an Aboriginal Australian artist, is part of a series in which he uses humor and exaggerated features to portray the rich. “People don’t have to like my paintings, but I hope they take the time to look and think, ‘why has this Aboriginal bloke painted these powerful people? What is he trying to say?’” he said in a statement shared with TIME. The gallery, to which Rinehart is a donor, is not backing down, saying it “welcomes the public having a dialogue on our collection and displays.”
Germany is banning the rector of the University of Glasgow from entering the EU. Because he’s a witness to genocide (as a surgeon who among other things repairs blown off faces of children) who was to speak at the French senate.
We were surprised by a recent #Frontiers
blog. They make derogatory statements, accuse us of data manipulation & mischaracterize our comms with them. 😔
We fully expect to receive a takedown demand for this story. We also think the stakes of this anti-censorship battle are too high not to publish it anyway.
What happends to spys that are caught? That depends if it's a ✅good or a ❇️bad spy, right?
"Most prominently, a lawsuit against Reuters ... resulted in a stunning order from a #DelhiCourt It demanded that Reuters take down its (Appin Technology) article alleged targeting and spying on opposition leaders, corporate competitors, lawyers, and wealthy individuals on behalf of customers worldwide"
Before all of these #MAGA attacks on #TaylorSwift, all I knew about her was that she was a rather successful pop singer. Because of this "holy war" against her, I have done some, admittedly shallow, research on her, and I am actually currently listening to her "Taylor's Version" album.
A #homeassistant plugin to control #Haier appliances received a threatening cease 'nd desist letter, claiming it causes significant economic harm to them. A tool for controlling their own freaking gear! 💩 👿
This being a US platform, whether you are in the right or not, you have to bow to the bigger lawyer army.
OTOH, the repository at https://github.com/Andre0512/hon has been forked ca 950 times since the announcement. 😉 #streisandeffect
Wholesale rape, murder, and razing of villages since 1949
Murder of peaceful activists
Murder of journalists
Theft of homes and possessions
Making Gaza a prison city
Starvation-focused embargo
Oppressive laws for Palestinians
Thousands of Palestinian #prisoners, many tortured & assaulted
Indefinite "detention" even after death
Keeping bodies of prisoners
I think the response of #israel to the Oct. 7 attacks has done more to inform the world about their policies toward #Palestine than any other event in the last 70+ years.