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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος

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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · Feb 11

Συγκλονιστικό άρθρο
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Path to American Authoritarianism

What comes after democratic breakdown.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h

The same thing has happened to the Labour Party and the BBC. It's as if some vitiating mist has crept across the political landscape, sucking the courage out of all the institutions it touches. Perhaps it's neoliberalism. Perhaps it's the growing wealth and power of the very rich.

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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 3d

Extinguishing wildfire misinformation: avenues for journalistic improvement

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/extinguishin...

Extinguishing wildfire misinformation: avenues for journalistic improvement

Our Journalist Fellow Niko Efstathiou looks at how news publishers can improve their coverage of wildfires and fight false narratives around them.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 3d

The Trump administration is attempting to undermine elections. Efforts have included rewriting election rules to burden voters, threatening to prosecute election officials, and supporting election deniers. Keep track and learn more with our new interactive timeline: bit.ly/3IZMSdG

Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections

Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

www.brennancenter.org

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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 3d

Έλληνας κι αυτός;
Παλαιοημερολογίτης;
/s

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 3d

Our future is being shaped to a terrifying degree by people who have just … completely lost their marbles…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 3d

Βιοδυναμικά φωτοβολταϊκά; /s

Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Dec 1

Farm with solar energy
Agrivoltaics increased grape yield up to 60%

2 vineyards of French biz Sun’Agri increased grape yields by 20-60% in 2024, vs areas with no solar
PV modules helped moderate temperature extremes, reducing summer heat and winter cold
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 4d

It CANNOT be said that we didn't have the technology AND know-how to radically cut emissions.

As per this example from the #EnROADS simulator, we could, if we wanted, to slam the brakes on our current emissions trajectory by acting on these areas!

Test it for yourself!

en-roads.climateinte...

Screenshot of the En-ROADS climate simulator dashboard showing all the areas we can act on to reduce emissions:

Energy Supply
Transport
Buildings & Industry
Economic & Population Growth
Carbon Dioxide Removal
Agricultural Emissions
Waste & Leakage
Deforestation

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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 4d

Ήρθαν τα φετινά εμβόλια για γρίπη και COVID19;

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 4d

As an experiment, I tried out Google's AI, Gemini, to draw this image which uses 6,250 dots which allows one to represent the area needed for solar renewables. I also got it to add a rough legend that includes all three colours.
Bit clearer?

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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 4d

Αυτά όλα είναι γνωστά εδώ και 40 χρόνια.
Ένας νόμος, μια τροπολογία, δεν ήρθε που να τα ρυθμίζει αποτελεσματικά!

Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 4d

Η ΟΛΜΕ λέει θα αλλάζει το πρόγραμμα για να σχολάνε τα παιδιά νωρίτερα. Ούτε αυτό προβλέπεται πουθενά!
Οπότε: είτε οι συνεδριάσεις θα γίνονται 7η ώρα με όσους δεν έχουν εκείνη την ώρα μάθημα, είτε τα παιδιά θα σχολάνε νωρίτερα, χάνοντας όμως μάθημα

Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 4d

2) Οι συνεδριάσεις λέει γίνονται εκτός διδακτικών ωρών αλλά εντός εργασιακού ωραρίου. Αφού κάποιες τάξεις έχουν 35 διδακτικές ώρες την εβδομάδα που ταυτίζονται με τις 30 ώρες εργασιακού ωραρίου, πότε θα γίνει η συνεδρίαση;

Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 4d

1) Υπάρχει μια διάκριση μεταξύ διδακτικού ωραρίου και εργασιακού ωραρίου (δεν ξέρω γιατί). Αν λείπει κάποιος και ο Διευθυντής μου πει πήγαινε να απασχολήσεις τα παιδιά αυτό κατά την ΟΛΜΕ και τα δικαστήρια είναι ώρα του διδακτικού ωραρίου οπότε κάνω υπερωρία. Και κανένας δεν πληρώνει υπερωρίες

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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 4d

Δεν μπορώ να καταλάβω γιατί το υπουργείο δεν φέρνει μια νομοθετική ρύθμιση να σταματήσουμε να κυνηγάμε τις ουρές μας

www.olme.gr/wp-content/u...

www.olme.gr

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 9d

O que os estudos acerca disto sugerem é que uma aproximação à direita radical não reduz o seu sucesso eleitoral.

E o nosso trabalho sugere também que fazê-lo contribui ainda mais para a normalização da retórica de ultra direita.

expresso.pt/politica/ele...

Passos aconselha fim das "linhas vermelhas" com o Chega; Ventura e Carneiro atiram a Montenegro

Luís Montenegro e José Luís Carneiro vão andar a sul do Tejo, já André Ventura vai fazer campanha no centro do país. Os dois líderes dos maiores partidos da oposição começaram o dia a atacar o Governo...

expresso.pt

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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 9d

Can we start with the Civil War?
I’m bored already!
Or declare for The Great American Reich and be done with it!

Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 14d

Ethernet RJ-45 pass-through connectors! 🤯
I don't know what rock I have been living under!

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 16d

Any serious conversation about inflammatory rhetoric needs to include a significant discussion about how Right wing operatives and cranks sowed fear and doubt in lifesaving medicine and stoked resentment and fury toward public health authorities—all for political advantage.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17d

Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17d

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Wp EXCLUSIVE
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18d

I'm not a medical professional. I don't know the proper threshold for treating a fever with Tylenol.

But the way Makary phrased that felt like it laid out the MAHA worldview more than anything else. They believe medical intervention is "unnatural," and thus always suspicious.

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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 18d

Hear, hear!

Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 18d

Δεν περίμενα ποτέ ότι θα νιώσω νοσταλγία για το Δουβλίνο, αλλά βλέποντας το House of Guinness στο Netflix, να που ένιωσα!

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λ³🎲 @cubiclogic.bsky.social · 18d

If something is not to a great extend boring for most (except the extremely driven few), chances are that is not science, it is storytelling.

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Δημήτρης Δαλαγιώργος @dalagiorgos.bsky.social · 18d

Χα, χα! Καλό!
Δεν διαφωνώ.
Τι γίνεται όμως, με την πίεση, την απαίτηση, να τα κάνουμε όλα ενδιαφέροντα;
Όταν αρνούμαστε ότι κάποια πράγματα θα είναι απλώς βαρετά, κι ας είναι απαραίτητα;
Ή δεν έχει σχέση αυτό που λέω;

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21d

The US is rapidly on the way to becoming the new Turkey, and not because the food is going to get really good.

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