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submitted 1 day ago • 780 comments

“Internet celebrity” is a wild way of spelling sex predator and human trafficker

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

I think about this headline all of the time.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

Learn from Germany. When the left panders to anti-migrant sentiment, like the BSW, it just strengthens the far right. When the left fights solid, populist, grassroots campaigns, like Die Linke, it wins.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 5 days ago • 220 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 6 days ago • 307 comments

Europe has a solution for Starlink, it is faster and the quality is better. The IRIS 2 program. IRIS will make Starlink obsolete and provide permanent global coverage. The US, and especially Musk, are not needed. #IRIS #EU youtu.be/V-SXNVeNby0

submitted 5 days ago • 510 comments

this rich asshole in st. louis pointed a gun at some protesters and become a right wing celebrity overnight. conservatives were so enthralled by a guy who threatened to kill liberals that he got recruited to run for senate and raised over a million bucks in individual donations

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

submitted 8 days ago • 81 comments

Why does it seem that AOC has the biggest balls on the Dem side?

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

I already had low expectations for American civil society, but I have to admit being surprised by the sheer number of people and institutions who seem to have decided to sit out the next 4 years in the hopes that fascism blows over. They're going to regret not having done more when it was easier.

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

It really is that simple

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Remember, there’s infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch infrastructure.

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

Period.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

🇺🇲

submitted 21 days ago • 138 comments

OpenAI execs looking “desperate”.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Breathe people Just breathe Take a moment to yourselves It's early, maybe get a couple more hours in before you start the day.

submitted 33 days ago • 52 comments

The US would have lost the space race if not for black women. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 37 days ago • 420 comments

They realize that this affects African Americans as well don't they? #trump #dei #africa #lgbt #usa allafrica.com/stories/2025...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves other people’s interests - not yours.

submitted 40 days ago • 84 comments

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

submitted 43 days ago • 175 comments

So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. Do I have this right?

submitted 42 days ago • 357 comments

🇮🇪#Ireland, poll: Are Elon Musk and other social media bosses a threat to democracy? Yes: 80 % No: 16 % Ireland Thinks, 11/01/25

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

🇲🇽#Mexico, President Sheinbaum (Morena) approval rating poll: ⏫Approve: 80 % (+4) ⏬Disapprove: 16 % (-5) Enkoll/El Pais, 05/01/25

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

i cant imagine what itd take to be a "top performer" at the depraved & miserable meta corporation. Is it whoever clogs the toilet the most?

submitted 45 days ago • 249 comments

submitted 46 days ago • 2041 comments

Then fucking do something about it... Cut of X, Tesla, etc.. Apply economic sanctions, cancel contracts, actually make this clown pay a consequence. #musk #eu #europe #uk #france #germany

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Why would we ever want to expand this shithole country? We should be winding down operations and preparing to hand it back to the Natives. Fuck this place.

submitted 66 days ago • 9 comments

Delighted Health Insurance Executives Gather In Outdoor Coliseum To Watch Patient Battle Cancer theonion.com/delighted-he...

submitted 71 days ago • 305 comments

Could Donald Trump be a moderating influence on an Elon Musk presidency?

submitted 70 days ago • 254 comments

Backup and delete your bookmarks from X with the latest version of Cyd cyd.social/backup-and-d...

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips theonion.com/clarence-tho...

submitted 71 days ago • 380 comments

People who've never been dependent on a paycheck should not get to decide how long you can go without yours.

submitted 71 days ago • 549 comments

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

submitted 71 days ago • 478 comments

I feel inadequate to describe a book like this with the right superlatives--I don't want to reduce the book down to one thing in doing so... but I hope Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This will find a large audience.

submitted 74 days ago • 52 comments

My favorite part of Star Wars was the scene where the Resistance leaders decide against trying to destroy the Death Star and instead kick in $1 million each for Palpatine's inauguration.

submitted 75 days ago • 110 comments

how it started / how it’s going

submitted 76 days ago • 7 comments

Read the facts about Google's Play Integrity API: #GrapheneOS #Android #GooglePlay

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment