The reaction to Pakistan’s first women’s march was relatively mild: criticism and condemnation from Islamist parties and conservatives, who called the participants “anti-religion” and “vulgar.”
As Women's Marches Gain Steam in Pakistan, Conservatives Grow Alarmed - The New York Times - 0 views
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That did not deter the organizers of the 2018 march in Karachi, the significance of which reverberates to this day.
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powerful figures in Pakistan want the event banned altogether.
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I got asked a lot of questions:How do I use Google Maps? Will I get in trouble if I cross the road without using a pedestrian crossing? How do I get a proof-of-age card? A driver’s license? A tax file number? Do you think a Labor victory in the election will be good for us?
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Charities like the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Refugee Voices and the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project give them monetary support and housing, but day-to-day matters — helping them with paperwork and navigating Australian bureaucracy, driving them to buy groceries and to various appointments, helping them find jobs and winter clothes — mostly fell to a small group of volunteers, many of whom had taken weeks off from their jobs.
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Many of the others were looking forward to that day, when they would move to more permanent homes.
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El Shafee Elsheikh hostage-taking trial begins in Virginia - The Washington Post - 0 views
Taliban Renege on Promise to Open Afghan Girls' Schools - The New York Times - 0 views
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The schools were supposed to reopen this week, and the reversal could threaten aid because international officials had made girls’ education a condition for greater assistance.
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Under the Taliban’s first rule, from 1996 to 2001, the group barred women and girls from school and most employment.
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The news was crushing to the over one million high school-aged girls who had been raised in an era of opportunity for women before the Taliban seized power in August last year — and who had woken up thrilled to be returning to classes on Wednesday.
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Daniel Dennett's last interview: 'AI could signal the end of human civilisation' | The ... - 0 views
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If there isn’t an inner me experiencing my thoughts, feelings and the things I see and hear, what is going on
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‘What’s happening in the brain is there are many competing streams of content running in competition and they’re fighting for influence. The one that temporarily wins is king of the mountain, that’s what we can remember, what we can talk about, what we can report and what plays a dominant role in guiding our behaviour – those are the contents of consciousness.’
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Those acquainted with the workings of large language models, the technology behind ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, will recognise a similarity in Dennett’s description of consciousness and the architecture of generative AI: parallel processing streams producing outputs that compete for salience.
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since the 7 October Hamas attacks, violence against Palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and settlers has reached record levels.“It’s more radicalised, it’s more brutalised, it’s more extreme,” he said. “Since 7 October, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed – more than 100 of them minors – and every day there are invasions of Palestinian cities.”
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Jenin has been a particular target for Israeli raids since the 7 October Hamas attacks, with more than 120 Palestinians – civilians and fighters – killed by Israeli soldiers there.
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But armed men still patrol Jenin camp where fighters backed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad are based, and residents in the town say there’s no sign of the war subsiding.“What the army doesn’t know is that resistance is an idea planted in the heart,” one resident said. “It won’t stop. If one is killed, five more will replace him.”
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