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This is …rich www.c-span.org/program/whit...

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What broad newspapers should I as a European support in the USA to strengthen free and fair news with journalistik integrity, in these times? I have previously had subscriptions for several papers but recent decisions by owners of papers forces me to reconsider.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I wonder which of the two strategic choices is the most performative for BP? Because if their green deal was only window dressing, there would be no need to reset, unless they’re both PR products.

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Rest in pieces, Europe.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 13 days ago • 411 comments

Incredible.

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submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

Early morning physical activity significantly lowers depression risk, especially for those genetically predisposed to the condition. by Tian G, Yao ZY (...) Jia CX et 3 al. in J Affect Disord #MedSky 📖 read the article:

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All these bros conveniently forgetting that the U.S. government was instrumental in creating the Internet through NSF grants to universities and research hubs through the 80s and 90s.

submitted 22 days ago • 54 comments

Guys. Guys. It turns out that the recent HS graduate who goes by "big balls" and likely has access to all sorts of incredibly sensitive government data... may not... and, I know this maybe shocking... may not be all that trustworthy.

submitted 22 days ago • 61 comments

Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. Read more here: tcrn.ch/4aKfIZa

submitted 24 days ago • 32 comments

Pushing live production code cooked up by some young coders over a week of sleepness nights in place of a legacy system that is fundamental to the operation of the US government is against every programming best practice.

submitted 24 days ago • 128 comments

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

submitted 25 days ago • 143 comments

Me: "My brain like almost can't compute the amount of bad news at like every single part of government systems." @mmasnick.bsky.social: "It's a distributed denial of service attack on people who believe in reality."

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 26 days ago • 1095 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 27 days ago • 503 comments

”Institutions can indeed protect democracy. But only if the people who value it stand up for those institutions.”

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Austrian article saying that if the public broadcaster is destroyed, the private news will follow. The day after the Trump administration started dismantling PBS.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

submitted 30 days ago • 191 comments

Team @lawfare.bsky.social is tracking Trump's executive orders, with brief summaries of what they actually do (and don't do) here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/docu...

submitted 38 days ago • 13 comments

I’m not sure people quite grasp how much of the crypto world is reacting to the Trump memecoin launches.

submitted 39 days ago • 446 comments

This week's cover and editorial @thelancet.bsky.social on mis- and disinformation's impact on public health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments