July 3, 2023
Beijing’s Silent Worry: How China Perceives the Crisis in Russia
As mercenary troops bore down on Moscow on June 24, 2023, it likely wasn’t only Russian President Vladimir Putin and his governing elite in Russia who were looking on with concern. Over in China, too, there may have been some concerned faces. Throughout the war in Ukraine, Beijing has walked a balancing act of sorts […]
Webb Captured Astonishing Views of the Four Solar System’s Giants
With the addition of Saturn, the James Webb Space Telescope has finally captured all four of our Solar System’s giant worlds. JWST’s observations of the ringed planet, taken on 25 June 2023, have been cleaned up and processed, giving us a spectacular view of Saturn’s glorious rings, shining golden in the darkness. By contrast, the […]
Elon Musk explains new Twitter limits
Twitter owner Elon Musk announced on Saturday that users of the platform will be limited to viewing a maximum of 8,000 posts per day, claiming that the measure would cut down on “data scraping and system manipulation.” Musk’s announcement came hours after Twitter users around the world found themselves unable to view their timelines or […]
Woman fired for transgender tweet awarded over $127,000
A woman who lost her job for tweeting that transgender women are biologically male has been awarded more than £100,000 ($127,000) by a British tribunal. She claimed that she was discriminated against for holding “perfectly ordinary beliefs about the material reality of sex.” In a judgment handed down on Friday, a London-based employment tribunal ordered […]