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Per Axbom Twitter

The mining industry in Kiruna (northern part of Sweden) is causing underground deformations that are putting buildings at risk. This means they’re moving large parts of the town about 3km due east. No joke. This video shows the bizarre visual of a large house being moved. x.com/Anders_Lindber…

Here’s that same house arriving close to its destination.

x.com/lkabgroup/stat…

And another house. x.com/angrytheinch/s…

I wonder about packing for a move like this...

x.com/kirunabilder/s…

Check out the wheels used to steer and turn this contraption!

x.com/dabitch/status…

This is a much better explanation than mine of what’s going on here. They’re moving the town and they’re doing it long before anything is in danger.

x.com/vagabondbaker/…

🔗 Originally posted on Twitter

Per Axbom Twitter

You may be reading about how only 2 women were awarded Nobel prizes this year. Not true.

Actually, Olga Tokarczuk received the 2018 award for literature. And Duflo's economics prize is not formally a Nobel prize.

The total number of female Nobel prize winners in 2019 is zero.

Here's why the economics prize is not technically a Nobel Prize: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Mem…

Those in the know will of course remember that the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature was announced this year since it was suspended last year due to a sexual assault scandal.

theguardian.com/books/2019/oct…

🔗 Originally posted on Twitter

Per Axbom Twitter

For decades democratic countries worked on putting structures in place to help news media scrutinize power, to discourage false reporting and deter misleading information. Social media circumvented the structures and became the power itself. Lies and threats became currency.

— History books of the future 🧐

The implication being that we are currently writing the second paragraph of that chapter...

”What Facebook fails to acknowledge is that it isn’t neutral. It is favoring candidates who smear their opponents [...]”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

by @ellgood and @KarenKornbluh

🔗 Originally posted on Twitter