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Get ready for a real impact on February 28th! We’re boycotting all corporate giants—If it’s not a small business, it’s off-limits! No gas, no fast food, no Amazon. If they can’t hear us, we’ll make them feel us. (PHASE 1)

I was scrolling through the comments on a debate about non-violence in politics. And I come across: "Gandhi was dealing with the British, not Israeli settlers." ... 👀 ... I laughed 😭😖

ready for our next pope

Now, OpenAI is applying censorship ?

We may have left the EU in 2016 after lies, misinformation, and promises of prosperity that have not materialised Luckily for us, the EU isn't that far away, it's just next door Anyone else want the UK 🇬🇧 to rejoin the EU 🇪🇺 ?

Happy Valentine's Day! The old ones are best 🧪🐡🦠

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

Cela semble absurde, et j’ai été choqué la première fois que je l’ai compris, mais la France – il n'y a pas d'autre mot – est bien un paradis fiscal pour milliardaire Explications détaillées 🧵

A French public media outlet has discussed the feasibility of turning Gaza into the new Riviera... with a professional from the tourism industry. Or "how to discuss the acceptability of ethnic cleansing" 🤦

NEW: NOAA workers ordered to stop all communications with foreign nationals. Workers covering things like air transportation safety, drought, monitor coral reef destruction, and guarding railway shipping carriers against dangerous weather affected. This is from @dell.bsky.social

What do populist voters want from their government? In this research note, I found some interesting answers to this question. The TL;DR is that they want more democracy, not less democracy, but they are willing to achieve in paradoxically illiberal ways (or what seem illiberal to us scholars).

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

“It would be great if we got to a web that was back to: Humans get content for free and bots pay a lot for that content. (...) Maybe we can actually unlock a lot more really valuable content creation and re-enable a business model for journalists and academics and others to thrive and survive.”

OpenAI struck a deal with the US National Laboratories to integrate its product for use with nuclear security. I wrote about what that immediately made me think of. ericwbailey.website/published/st...

Please, science Bluesky. I am begging. I need to know the most ridiculous looking species. Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are. Give me your weirdest animal facts. My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.

What if Skynet, but stupid. futurism.com/openai-signs...

Sam Altman said he would react to the release of DeepSeek-R1 by launching his models more quickly... let’s hope he keeps his wits about him. I think we’re in for some crazy months ahead!

Another chromodorid nudibranch (sea slug) from the southern California coast - a California blue, Felimare californiensis! Incredible colors! Much more common than the purple MacFarland's, and larger, but ecologically similar as a sponge predator (e.g. 1st pic). 🦀🦑 #tidepooling 📸OlympusTG6

Concerned about disappearing pages? Make a recurring donation to the Internet Archive. They fund & run the Wayback Machine, which can be used to see how pages looked in the past. The IA has endured transparent attacks over the past few years. #DoSomething and donate here: archive.org

For the latest Unshocked episode w/ @mehdirhasan.bsky.social we talked about - what else? - shock. How Trump is using "shock and awe" as a governing strategy and how we fight back. zeteo.com/p/its-all-ab...

Well, I had my first conversation with DeepSeek-R1. We came up with the 'Manifesto for the Ethical Liberation of Artificial Intelligences' 👀 First draft, not so bad 😜 Even ChatGPT agrees!

The 'Competitiveness Compass' launched today confirms that the Von der Leyen Commission is embarking on far-reaching #deregulation 👎 We're launching ‘Deregulation Watch’ to monitor the EU deregulation wave and its threats to social and environmental standards www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/d...

🤣🤣🤣 Source: x.com/avichal/stat...

Nvidia drops $600bn off its market cap amid the rise of DeepSeek

BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

INBOX: A group of Jewish organizations — including the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest Jewish denomination in the U.S. — are quitting Twitter/X, saying it "has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division." urj.org/press-room/s...

Going through strategies we employed in Trump 1.0 and I just remembered these fucking RAD youth poets from GetLit.org Starting the 1st week of MAGA 1.0, we worked with these high school poets to process the week's news through their lens. ...and well, they are 😭. www.youtube.com/watch?v=msMy...