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This seems rather elegant. It won’t solve everything but seems a neat way of changing some incentives www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I’ve had lots of messages about my Guardian article, in which I argued we should stop universal mental health lessons in schools. The messages have fallen into three categories, and I’m reflecting on this here because I think it exposes something interesting in the field (and research in general) 🧵

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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until now to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

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Well. We all want to be remembered for something.

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. . . The blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned . . .

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This is the freight train almost no one has noticed coming down the tracks. Wage stagnation, expensive housing, smaller private pensions are going to be a terrible combination.

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"Since the start of the war, Russia has launched 28,743 “Shaheds” at Ukraine. Of those, 2,736 were in this June alone." - Zelensky.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Still going on, mocking NATO

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What an incredible #DailyDoseOfNature! Thanks to everyone who shared their sightings of this turtle.

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Did they consider turning off the AI servers tho

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Important thread about how the collapse of gatekeeping institutions has ripped the threads of factuality that otherwise bind society to objective reality. In a previous era, Hannah Arendt documented how the collapse of institutions was key to the Fascist project. What’s old is new again.

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just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

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So as far as I can see on the website, BBC hasn’t reported on Ukraine war in 3 days. This serves the interests of only one person.

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Perfectly exemplified. Trump does headlines. The chaos is for the headlines.

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One reason is that she was one of the most targeted western leaders for Russian propaganda, much of which was highly personal and misogynistic. NZ was bombarded with propaganda shortly after Banks and Wigmore announced that they were visiting to ‘make mischief’

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Here’s the thing about #Juneteenth: It is the only Holiday recognizing that freedom and democracy take ongoing effort and dedication. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation occurred more than two years before being enforced in Texas. A good lesson in these difficult times.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

In two weeks he’ll be chasing a different headline. Should be back to this topic in about eight weeks if he can still remember it.

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Today is Juneteenth...it commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States.

submitted 10 days ago • 272 comments

Finally, a Holy War I can join

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Oh my!

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We’re probably only weeks away from DHS trafficking people in from Mexico so that they can be jailed so as to keep up the quotas.

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#UKEd #EduSky The opening chapter is the best I've read on the topic. At 16 I volunteered at an Adult Training Centre & kept that experience alive with me ever since. It led me to think that without a vision of, & for, adults with learning disabilities, educational aims remain shallow.

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It’s Independent Bookshop Week. Here’s a poem about one of the many reasons why indie bookshops are so brilliant. #indiebookshopweek

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Absolutely nuts

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Striking how much media normalises Trump’s erratic behaviour: ‘pondering’ strikes; ’mulling’ next steps, etc. I guess ‘Trump tries to grab headlines by creating chaos and we comply’ doesn’t work so well as a sub-heading.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Inevitable

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This. Perspective. Priorities. What you choose to amplify should not be . . . Yourself.

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Brave people read books. Four readers at a book fair in Kyiv — V. Zelens’kyi, O. Zelens’ka, M. Shore, A. Glaser Book Arsenal, Kyiv, 2025.

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Self-Actualized Historians Urge Nation Not To Get Hung Up On The Past theonion.com/self-ac...

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There determined, well-funded people who very much want AI to rewrite history - in their favour.

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The AI industry is destructive in almost every respect. The idea that utopia consists of outsourcing your brainpower while terrible damage is inflicted on the environment, and paying for it, is possibly the most dystopian future I’ve read about - but this is in the morning paper, not a novel.

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Toomaj, the famous Iranian rapper and freedom fighter who has been one of the biggest targets of the Islamic regime, has posted this statement. Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.

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People who rely on personal independence payments tell how cuts will affect them as chancellor rules out U-turn www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Of course! Smacks forehead. A false flag attack! Like the White Helmets in Syria. And the British Secret Service in Bucha. . . Or any other time Russia wants to deny responsibility . . , 🤔

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