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• Post #4495524

  Ben is a great guy, we interviewed him on an old podcast some years ago. I hope people pay attention to what he’s writing about in this book, it would be great if the USA flipped and became a leading democracy again! https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/ben-wikler-plan-unrig-democracy

• Post #4137499

  RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@CubitOom/116988613196639968 Well done 👍

• Post #3916693

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/116942188958706735 🤪

• Post #3788356

  Wishing I could vote in England…

• Post #3764510

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116903489878207978 Wow!

• Post #3763050

  Bravo! “For decades, fossil fuel companies have hidden behind a simple defence: we only produce the product. The driver filling a tank, the household heating with gas — they are the ones burning it, not us. The Paris court has now dismantled that argument. It found that TotalEnergies’ investment strategies, industrial choices, and energy portfolio directly shape the emissions that follow. The consumer alibi, the industry’s most lucrative fiction, is over.” https://euobserver.com/226432/as-europ...

• Post #3635640

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116867513522463909 “Meta data center contaminates city water supply with rare metal-resistant bacteria” is peak 2026 😬

• Post #2524347

  This is bonkers! #degoogle “Both of these episodes, the Anthropic Claude Desktop manifest install I wrote about two weeks ago and the Google Chrome Gemini Nano push I am writing about today, share the same underlying decision. An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.” https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/b...

• Post #2431529

  OMG, this is 🔥🔥🔥 1/ SWALWELL: Any time your father was in government, prior to the Presidency or before, did he ever operate a hotel? BIDEN: No, he has never operated a hotel. SWALWELL: So he’s never operated a hotel where foreign nationals spent millions at that hotel while he was in office? BIDEN: No, he has not. SWALWELL: Did your father ever employ in the Oval Office any direct family member to also work in the Oval Office? BIDEN: My father has never employed any direct family members,...

• Post #2335816

  I wonder how the US would look?

• Post #1996608

  “The bill would make clear that the powers of corporations do not include spending money or contributing “anything of value” to influence elections or ballot measures, as the bill’s language explains. That could directly challenge the ability of super PACs to raise unlimited money and keep their sources of funding secret. “It makes Citizens United irrelevant in Hawaiʻi,” said Tom Moore, a senior fellow for democracy policy at the Center for American Progress who previously served for seven yea...

• Post #1939167

  This:

• Post #1897449

  “The irony of being forced to dumb down an essay about a story warning against the forced suppression of excellence was not lost on me. Or on my kid, who spent a frustrating afternoon removing words and testing sentences one at a time, trying to figure out what invisible tripwire the algorithm had set. The lesson the kid absorbed was clear: write less creatively, use simpler vocabulary, and don’t sound too good, because sounding good is now suspicious. At the time, I worried this was going to be...

• Post #1809723

  😎

• Post #1736256

  Please, #europe, #france, don’t fall for the con…

• Post #1729544

  Schlörwagen, anyone? German concept car 1939

• Post #840916

  🤨

• Post #799630

  “I wanted, in this horrible moment, to remind people that what the far right is doing globally, I think, is largely backlash. A new world is being born, and they’re basically trying to abort it. Which is a little ironic, given their views on abortion.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/25/rebecca-solnit-slow-revolution-far-right-cannot-tolerate

• Post #777592

  🤪

• Post #776240

  RE: https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach/116286820776996851 THIS!

• Post #643825

  “Now Trump has come to Putin’s aid by attacking Iran and driving up the oil prices. Russia’s making an extra $150 million a day now because of what’s happening in the Gulf. I think the Russian economy would’ve had real problems in terms of generating income over the summer, but now they get help with that. So I think we’re still in a bit of a stalemate. Krugman: One other striking thing is that—although the US is a net exporter of oil—the US, if you take a national accounting standpoint, is a l...

• Post #613254

  I wonder if any of these AI-bros bothered to ask a single artist, musician, or creative of any sort if they would like to be replaced by AI?

• Post #613253

  🤨

• Post #613252

  “Reading, after all, is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.” ~ David Ulin #reading #literature #readingcommunity #books #bookstodon

• Post #613251

  @EiNoin Thanks for the follow!

• Post #613250

  “He also explained that the administration’s ethnic cleansing agenda, even when not supplemented by military troops in American cities, is “not political, it’s biblical,” in keeping with that time when Jesus said “when I was a nearly blind stranger you dropped me off outside a closed Tim Hortons miles from my home and left me to wander in freezing weather for five days until I died.” So yeah, things are going just as god wants, is what we’re saying.” https://www.wonkette.com/p/crazed-american-f...

• Post #613249

  Apropos aujourd’hui? ~ Christopher Hitchens

• Post #613248

  “The pipes are being built this week. Your health data, your entertainment, your news, your government’s secrets — all flowing through one company, one family, with AI now authorized to process it and nobody watching. If we don’t ask who should be allowed to own this infrastructure before March 20th, we’re not going to get another chance to ask.” https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-merger-that-needed-a-war

• Post #613247

  You need a laugh today. This is a must watch. Apparently, this was sponsored by the Norwegian government. “Make it shitty!“ https://youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ&si=9-iKcg7L86hGGTDJ

• Post #613246

  @knownasrose Thanks for the follow!