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Luc Dockendorf

@lucdockendorf.eurosky.social
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Dad, diplomat, daredevil.

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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
What a nightmare
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Access Now @accessnow.org · 30/09/2026
People in Tigray told us what it meant to live through a prolonged internet shutdown that began in 2020 and lasted for more than two years. Now, as fighting escalates + connectivity is disrupted again, their stories are a reminder of what is at stake. #KeepItOn www.accessnow.org/15-stories-f...
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15 stories from Tigray’s internet siege
It’s been two years since Tigray were cut off from the internet. Share the 15 stories from Tigrayans and help amplify their voices.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
*Record scratch, freeze frame* AMB BONNAFONT: Yup, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation
A screenshot from the opening of the UN Security Council’s 10,228th meeting dedicated to A.I. and international security, chaired by French Foreign Minister Noel Barrot. Over the minister’s right shoulder you can see Ambassador and Permanent Representative Jérôme Bonnafont, one of France’s (and the world’s) most accomplished diplomats, who seems to have picked something up and looks into the camera. The subtitles “on AI. Mr Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI, Mr.” are visible on the screen.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
There is some disagreement among member state representatives what constitutes the "crown jewel" of the Human Rights Council. Some say it's the Universal Periodic Review. In fact it's the Special Procedures.
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ISHR @ishr.ch · 07/09/2026
Coming up tomorrow: #HRC63 side event on #Sudan co-sponsored by ISHR: 'The UN’s next steps to advance atrocity prevention and accountability' 📅 Tuesday 8 September 2026 ⏰ 13:00-14:00 CEST 🏛️Room XI, Palais des Nations, Geneva
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026
In this report, @unep.org warns that the “1.5 to stay alive” target is no longer achievable and I can think of nothing else right now. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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Overshoot explained: 5 things to understand about a world beyond 1.5°C
Exceeding 1.5°C must not mean abandoning the goal. UNEP explains five things to know about climate overshoot and the choices that will shape what happens next.
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Elisabeth Pramendorfer @elisabethgcr2p.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📢 OUT NOW (EN/ES): The Right Tool for the Moment: Venezuela, Political Transition and the Case for Renewing the FFM 🇻🇪 at #HRC63 @uninvhrc.bsky.social
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Zama Neff @zamahrw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
South Africa has named the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and girls for what Afghan women have long called it: gender apartheid. Now it should act, by supporting its inclusion as a crime against humanity in the new treaty. www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...
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South Africa Names Gender Apartheid. Now It Should Act.
At South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemoration on August 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke, among other things, about the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan. Stan...
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
This rocks. Solidarity!
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ISHR @ishr.ch · 30/07/2026
‼️LAST CHANCE‼️ Join our webinar with Andrea Bolaños Vargas, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders today at 3pm CEST! SUBMISSIONS TO THE UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES More information: ow.ly/8fBW50Zq5m4 Register here: ow.ly/qvFC50Zq5m1
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ISHR @ishr.ch · 27/07/2026
Join our webinar with Andrea Bolaños Vargas, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders on 30 July! SUBMISSIONS TO THE UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES More information: ow.ly/8fBW50Zq5m4 Register here: ow.ly/qvFC50Zq5m1
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026
It’s insane to me that there’s always money for war (or, more recently, AI) but the world’s governments can’t get their act together to fund the one global organisation we have to solve all of our problems.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026
Repost if you believe that every war criminal or perpetrator of atrocity crimes should have their day in court www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
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International Criminal Justice Day: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union
The High Representative issued a statement on behalf of the EU on International Criminal Justice Day.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026
Happy to report from #AIforGood that the cybertruck is no longer here. This @wfp.org monster thing here ate it.
A tiny truck with monstrously large wheels that looks like it eats cyber trucks and SUVs for breakfast
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026
There’s a UN publication for everything. TIL there’s a UNESCO booklet called “Growing up in a Connected World: A Family Guide for the Digital Age”: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p... Let’s see if that solves the discussions with the teens about screen time
Title page of UNESCO publication “Growing up in a Connected World: A Family Guide for the Digital Age”
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk at the Global Dialogue on AI Governance: Taking Back Our Agency in the Age of AI www.ohchr.org/en/statement...
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High Commissioner Türk at the Global Dialogue on AI Governance: Taking Back Our Agency in the Age of AI
Ministers,Excellencies,Distinguished participants,Before a new drug reaches the market, it undergoes years of clinical trials, regulatory review, and market authorisation.This process can last between...
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026
It’s been a long first day at the first Global Dialogue on AI at the UN in Geneva and the automated subtitles are one of its unsung heroes
A panel with five people at the UN Global AI Dialogue. The subtitles on the screen behind them say “Thank you, Watermelon. OK.”A panelist at the UN Global AI Dialogue. Subtitles: “[we believed that] the invisible hen will take care of everything we now face[…]”UN Global AI Dialogue screen saying: “Presentation of the Preliminary Report of the Independent International
Scientific Panel on Al
6 July 2026 | Global Dialogue on Al Governance” 
With the cheeky subtitle “and it wasn't bad”
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026
“What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” Tony Benn’s five questions to the powerful. Think of these often.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026
"Look for the helpers." The earthquake is horrible but in its aftermath, you can see the best of humanity; from Venezuela, from elsewhere on the continent, from half a world away, people came to help find survivors. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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‘I can only describe it as a war zone’: the rescuers navigating Venezuela’s post-quake hellscape
Thousands of volunteers are joined by overseas teams in the hope of finding more survivors in the rubble
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026
The UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence has released its preliminary report and you can (re-)watch @mariaressa.bsky.social and @yoshuabengio.bsky.social present it here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v... (report here: www.un.org/independent-...)
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Home | Independent International Scientific Panel on AI
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ISHR @ishr.ch · 29/06/2026
📅 Save the date! #HRC Elections Pledging event We are organising together with Amnesty International our annual online pledging event for candidate States: 🗓️ 3 September 2026 🕰️ 3:00PM - 5:30PM CEST / 9:00AM - 11:30AM EDT 🏡 Online 📝 Register here: ow.ly/fN7O50Zigvl
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026
FYI #OpenSource friends: call for papers for Luxembourg's October OS conference. Proposals for 20 min talks are due late August. This makes 2 years I've not been able to go, so, vicariously, please consider it! It's especially strong on OS for sovereignty, gov, AI, and, this year, edtech.
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Open Source Conference Luxembourg
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Open Source Conference Luxembourg
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Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect @globalr2p.org · 15/06/2026
🚨 AI is rapidly transforming warfare, but life-&-death decisions must never be delegated to algorithms. We've joined Access Now, @amnesty.org & 200+ CSOs calling for meaningful human control over the use of force & stronger civilian protections. More: www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
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AI-accelerated warfare must stop - Access Now
As AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly becoming a means of rubber-stamping killing at unprecedented speed and scale, Access Now, Amnesty International, and more than 200 civil society organizations and ...
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 15/06/2026
On the Occasion of the #G7 Summit An Open Letter to the Leaders of the G7, the G20, BRICS & All Nations On finalizing the Pathogen Access & Benefit-Sharing annex of the WHO Pandemic Agreement ⬇️ @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social President of #Brazil Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus DG of @who.int
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Amnesty’s Afghanistan researcher @zasultani.bsky.social is in Brussels to meet with Belgian authorities and EU institutions, alongside @hrw.org's @fereshtaabbasi.bsky.social and @theecre.bsky.social, to highlight the grave risks and persecution that people returned to Afghanistan would face 🧵
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 10/06/2026
Are we waiting for this to spread to the rest of Europe before we shut down X?
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
AI steals context from everywhere, incl #Indigenous data, such as art & knowledge. Part of the inherently sexist, racist, homophobic (etc) nature of these processes & their companies' cultures- taking from the more vulnerable, excluding their knowledge & views. Great piece @kerrijmalloy.bsky.social
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
RIP Jean Ziegler. I suppose someone has to take over and it might as well be me so here we go: F U C K A L L E M P I R E S especially your favourite Empire, but also *all* the others, historic or current; public or private. Nothing good ever comes from them. Fuck 'em all.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026
This is a very interesting and unfortunately topical conversation between @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social and @mjgault.bsky.social on how belligerents in the US/Israeli war on Iran are using GenAI and other information manipulation to sway public opinion: podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/a...
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Navigating Reality and War During the Age of AI Propaganda
Podcast Episode · Angry Planet · 5 June · 59min
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026
Nobody asked for this and the world has certainly suffered enough but I'll still try to start posting more stuff.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026
Beautiful. The Council of Europe legal instrument on the right to a healthy environment can't come soon enough.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026
Some diplomats are world class shitposters but most of us draft twice before posting nothing
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/05/2026
Yes - I’m currently engaged in trying to get a lot more attention (and funding) devoted to this rapidly growing problem. All ideas to that end actively solicited.
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🔥 the 🇺🇳 UN General Assembly is about to be called upon to #VoteYesForClimateJustice as it considers an important resolution tabled by 🇻🇺 Vanuatu (and others) to welcome and build upon the historic #ClimateJustice ruling by the 🌐 ⚖️ International Court of Justice! 🧵⬇️ follow proceedings in thread below
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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Will be part of this @accessnow.org webinar with @giuliowolfe.bsky.social and and others on May 19. Join us! www.accessnow.org/event/digita...
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Digital security in war and conflict: challenges for civil society and tools for resilience - Access Now
Join the next webinar organized by the Digital Security Helpline, to discuss key trends and strategies to keep at-risk actors safe online.
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michael caster @mcaster.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
#China's Disruption of RightsCon is a Wake-Up Call To Counter Its Authoritarian Influence, I write at @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/chinas-disru...
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China's Disruption of RightsCon is a Wake-Up Call To Counter Its Authoritarian Influence
RightsCon’s cancellation should inspire a reckoning with China’s influence, writes Michael Caster, head of the Global China Program at ARTICLE 19.
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Gina Romero / Special Rapporteur FoAA @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#Zambia Deeply concerned by gvt’s "postponement" of @rightscon.org Requiring "disclosure of topics" for an "alignment with national values" is a clear violation of the rights to freedom of assembly, association and expression, and a deliberated attack on civic space. 1/
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Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
🧵1- It has been 57 days since the internet went down in Iran. For many, the only remaining option has been Starlink. In 2023, Iran invoked “digital sovereignty” at the International Telecommunication Union to push for disabling Starlink connections. Yet the number of terminals continued to grow.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 15/04/2026
Three years of war in #Sudan have caused the loss of countless lives and destroyed basic services including the health system. See how we responded in 2025 and what we’re demanding for the population: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-three-... #TalkAboutSudan
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Philippe Dam @philippedam.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“This is not self-defence: It is a blatant violation of the UN Charter" UN HR Experts rightly condemn #Israel forces' 8 April mass bombing & forced displacement in #Lebanon, urge all states to end arms transfers to Israel & support civilians. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... @eudiplomacy.bsky.social
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 14/04/2026
Every now and then, I read something that I can’t get out of my head. Like this hard-hitting article by Forensic Architecture director Eyal Weizman on the Gaza genocide and how its desert-making domicide is now deployed in the war against Lebanon: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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Philippe Dam @philippedam.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
After 3 years of conflict, Berlin #Sudan conference shouldn't be remembered as 1st day of yet another year of atrocities. @eudiplomacy.bsky.social should: ⛑️Press measures to protect civilians ⚖️Support genuine accountability 🫸Join atrocity prevention coalition Our take 👇 www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
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Sudan: World Leaders Need to Act on Ongoing Atrocities
Leaders meeting in Berlin on April 15, 2026, the three-year mark of ongoing conflict in Sudan, should commit to concrete, time-bound measures to protect civilians and to hold those responsible for ser...
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Comfort Ero @comfortero.crisisgroup.org · 09/04/2026
"It took Israel only 10 minutes to carry out one of the worst mass-killings in Lebanon since the end of the country’s civil war in 1990." “..what I’m most sad about is that my pretty Lebanon, our beautiful Lebanon, soon it will all be brought down to the ground.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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The deadliest 10 minutes in decades: Lebanese reel from Israeli strikes that killed hundreds
Beirut residents and officials say civilians were main casualties in operation that bombed 100-plus targets in 10 minutes
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Justice Rapid Response @jrapidresponse.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
2025 Annual Report Launch! 📣 Last year, JRR completed 115 expert deployments in support of countless justice actors involved in accountability processes in close to 20 country situations.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 07/04/2026
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 07/04/2026
"After seeing Trump threaten the murder of "a whole civilization," I find myself taking seriously the prospect that tonight we could see the United States use nuclear weapons for the first time since 1945." www.forever-wars.com/the-many-fat... You and me both, @attackerman.bsky.social. Terrifying.
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The Many Fathers of The Murder of Iran
As Trump threatens that "a whole civilization will die tonight," remember that he didn't get here by himself
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
The NASA #Artemis II tracking website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art... It includes a nice moveable visualization of the Moon, the spacecraft, the Sun, and the Earth, so you can get a feel for the relative positions of them all.
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NASA: Artemis II
Artemis I will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come.
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ISHR @ishr.ch · 05/04/2026
Defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja turns 65 today behind bars. Instead of celebrating with family, he suffers from a heart condition, glaucoma, and chronic pain from 2011 torture. Denying medical care is a slow death sentence. Our message to Denmark: Act before it is too late. #FreeAlKhawaja #Not15Years.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026
“We collectively affirm the importance of equal application of international law to all, including countries that hold themselves out as global leaders.” This also applies to us in the EU. International (humanitarian) law is clear. Our politics should not obfuscate that.
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Luc Dockendorf @lucdockendorf.eurosky.social · 26/03/2026
This is a compelling analysis of the systems, both technological and bureaucratic, that have led to the horrific bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab in the early days of the US/Israel war against Iran; by @kevinbaker.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity
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