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It didn't get much attention but the stars of the anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown COVID-19 "freedom movement" were major organisers for Liberal Party-funded Advance, recruiting 100s of volunteers & amplifying their messages to their followers. www.crikey.com.au/20...

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“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.” - Carl Sagan

submitted 5 days ago • 104 comments

www.slate.auto I think this has some merit. It ticks a lot of boxes.

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In stupid but easy to see coming internet irony news: the people who made up that they were victims of shadowbanning in a conspiracy to silence their speech, so they had to take over Twitter to eliminate the victimization they imagined, have instituted shadowbanning of speech they don’t like.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

www.scmp.com/business/chi... Not sure how cheap they’ll be but definitely a real step in battery technology. Nice work CATL!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Fantastic piece on "Advance" & other secretive fossil fuels bad actors, by the talented Tim Elliott. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. And great to see The Klaxon being given a solid shout out. 1/2 www.theage.com.au/national/cop...

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

submitted 58 days ago • 470 comments

youtu.be/wpAj8rRe-p0?... Wow. Imagine Trump thinking this was going to work. The only thing that could have made this worse would have been if it was held in the car park of the four seasons landscaping facility.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

submitted 68 days ago • 801 comments

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

submitted 81 days ago • 625 comments

I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.

submitted 81 days ago • 92 comments

Hypothesis: Elon Musk just wants to pwn people. Almost everything he does is either pwning or actions that just enable next-level pwnage. Even this "Occupy Mars" crap is his claim on the ultimate fuck-you to the entire Earth.

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Silence so far from the Australian government on the current coral bleaching event on the northern Great Barrier Reef, repeating mass mortality there in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2024, No press release = no Australian media coverage.

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/crime-n... This is just awful. If you believe god can cure diabetes, may I suggest that prior to withholding the insulin, just make sure god has first cured your Child's said diabetes, otherwise they will definitely die a horrible, drawn out death over several days.

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This is a really important video about the progress that has been accomplished in saving lives from preventable diseases around the world, and how easy it is for that progress to be undone.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 101 days ago • 2502 comments

Men who who tried to revive their “masculine energy” by bending the knee…

submitted 107 days ago • 1145 comments

New artist I like. Just sharing because this is a social network youtu.be/H4GzsABwWO4?...

submitted 112 days ago • 1230 comments