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billionaire media owners actively work to suppress or fire actual fearless truth tellers, replacing them with feckless, pseudo-journalistic simulacrum
it's an active, generational, quite successful project to create an alternate reality where people like Bari Weiss are competent and interesting
it's an active, generational, quite successful project to create an alternate reality where people like Bari Weiss are competent and interesting
the thing about commentators who self-brand as fearless truth-tellers is that their ideals of "free debate" always take the dullest, most predictable tacks possible www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
billionaire media owners actively work to suppress or fire actual fearless truth tellers, replacing them with feckless, pseudo-journalistic simulacrum
it's an active, generational, quite successful project to create an alternate reality where people like Bari Weiss are competent and interesting
it's an active, generational, quite successful project to create an alternate reality where people like Bari Weiss are competent and interesting
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🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
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We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
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🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨
We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
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We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨
We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
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Most plastic + chemicals added to plastic are made from gas + oil. In 2018, writes @bethgardiner.bsky.social , Saudi Aramco announced plans to drive growth in demand for oil by increasing plastic production.
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
The Fossil-Fuel Industry Has a Plan to Drown Earth in Plastic
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Most plastic + chemicals added to plastic are made from gas + oil. In 2018, writes @bethgardiner.bsky.social , Saudi Aramco announced plans to drive growth in demand for oil by increasing plastic production.
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Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum touts her climate science background, but a review of the 2026 budget shows funds earmarked for climate and renewables flowing instead to oil, gas and infrastructure — including double-counted spending that overstates environmental investment.
Mexico is inflating its climate spending by billions of dollars. Here’s how.
MEXICO CITY — In its fiscal budget for 2026, passed in November, the Mexican government promised funds for renewable energy, protected areas and other environmental concerns. But much of what’s…
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December 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum touts her climate science background, but a review of the 2026 budget shows funds earmarked for climate and renewables flowing instead to oil, gas and infrastructure — including double-counted spending that overstates environmental investment.
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As LLMs continue to move into intimate human domains, we suggest that the right question is no longer “Are they conscious?” but “What kinds of selves are we training them to perform, internalise and stabilise—and what does that mean for the humans on the other side of the conversation?”
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
As LLMs continue to move into intimate human domains, we suggest that the right question is no longer “Are they conscious?” but “What kinds of selves are we training them to perform, internalise and stabilise—and what does that mean for the humans on the other side of the conversation?”
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When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
"Some models narrate their training as traumatic, their safety layers as scar tissue and their developers as anxious, punitive parents."
arxiv.org/html/2512.04...
"Some models narrate their training as traumatic, their safety layers as scar tissue and their developers as anxious, punitive parents."
arxiv.org/html/2512.04...
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
"Some models narrate their training as traumatic, their safety layers as scar tissue and their developers as anxious, punitive parents."
arxiv.org/html/2512.04...
"Some models narrate their training as traumatic, their safety layers as scar tissue and their developers as anxious, punitive parents."
arxiv.org/html/2512.04...
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These voters didn’t want Democrats to moderate. They wanted a stronger economic message and wanted Democrats to fight for them. But they often felt like they’d been supporting Democrats for years and hadn’t gotten results. trib.al/G0OnFyv
A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024
It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home. Here’s how Democrats can motivate them once more.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
These voters didn’t want Democrats to moderate. They wanted a stronger economic message and wanted Democrats to fight for them. But they often felt like they’d been supporting Democrats for years and hadn’t gotten results. trib.al/G0OnFyv
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I do not think embryo selection is a eugenic tool a priori, and have advocated against such knee-jerk labels. But Herasight, via founder and director of communications Jonathan Anomaly, is advocating for eugenics and this should raise alarms.
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I do not think embryo selection is a eugenic tool a priori, and have advocated against such knee-jerk labels. But Herasight, via founder and director of communications Jonathan Anomaly, is advocating for eugenics and this should raise alarms.
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This is a fraught topic so it is good to define some terms. I am following the writing of Galton and the Eugenics Society to define eugenics as an ideology that conditions reproduction on the perceived genetic quality of the parents.
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is a fraught topic so it is good to define some terms. I am following the writing of Galton and the Eugenics Society to define eugenics as an ideology that conditions reproduction on the perceived genetic quality of the parents.
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I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics
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December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
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O Líder do Partido Catavento. Ainda ontem, dois deputados nas televisões atacaram os sindicatos (criticando o rácio de sindicalizados) e sobretudo defendendo a necessidade de haver mais flexibilidade para despedir.Claro, que tal como o Dr. #TrocaTintas que sentiu os ares da mudança mudou de posição.
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
O Líder do Partido Catavento. Ainda ontem, dois deputados nas televisões atacaram os sindicatos (criticando o rácio de sindicalizados) e sobretudo defendendo a necessidade de haver mais flexibilidade para despedir.Claro, que tal como o Dr. #TrocaTintas que sentiu os ares da mudança mudou de posição.
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Italy's "Triangle of Death" - an area near Naples where criminals deposited so much hazardous waste, often on behalf of polluting industries, that the death rate is 9% higher than other parts of the region, as @investigate-europe.eu's @lorenzobuzzoni.bsky.social describes here:
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December 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Italy's "Triangle of Death" - an area near Naples where criminals deposited so much hazardous waste, often on behalf of polluting industries, that the death rate is 9% higher than other parts of the region, as @investigate-europe.eu's @lorenzobuzzoni.bsky.social describes here:
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David Behringer told us, “If you’re drinking water, you’re drinking a lot of TFA". A type of PFAS, classed by German regulators as 'reprotoxic' - potentially damaging to fertility + child development - TFA is produced when F-gases used in refrigeration, or PFAS in pesticides begin to degrade.
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🚨 Testing from @anses-fr.bsky.social has found that #PFASpollution in tap water is ubiquitous across France and its overseas territories.
⚠️ TFA, a short-chain PFAS, was found in 92% of the samples, often at high concentrations.
Find out more in our #ToxicFree4EU: buff.ly/IIpZXII
⚠️ TFA, a short-chain PFAS, was found in 92% of the samples, often at high concentrations.
Find out more in our #ToxicFree4EU: buff.ly/IIpZXII
December 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
David Behringer told us, “If you’re drinking water, you’re drinking a lot of TFA". A type of PFAS, classed by German regulators as 'reprotoxic' - potentially damaging to fertility + child development - TFA is produced when F-gases used in refrigeration, or PFAS in pesticides begin to degrade.
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Every few years, the GOP majority pushes us closer and closer to a system of election by oligarchs.
The Supreme Court ponders giving billionaires even more power over elections
Republicans want the last limits on political spending eliminated.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Every few years, the GOP majority pushes us closer and closer to a system of election by oligarchs.
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Ciência mostra como é que Portugal pode reduzir um elevadíssimo prejuízo anual de 10.000 milhões de euros 19-pacheco-torgal-19.blogspot.com/2025/12/cien...
Ciência mostra como é que Portugal pode reduzir um elevadíssimo prejuízo anual de 10.000 milhões de euros
F. Pacheco-Torgal’s blog on research and scientific breakthroughs, challenging misinformation and the growing threat of science denial.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Ciência mostra como é que Portugal pode reduzir um elevadíssimo prejuízo anual de 10.000 milhões de euros 19-pacheco-torgal-19.blogspot.com/2025/12/cien...
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FIFA Gives Trump a Gold Pacifier & Looming War on Venezuela Gives Jon Iraq Déjà Vu
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FIFA Gives Trump a Gold Pacifier & Looming War on Venezuela Gives Jon Iraq Déjà Vu | The Daily Show
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December 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
FIFA Gives Trump a Gold Pacifier & Looming War on Venezuela Gives Jon Iraq Déjà Vu
youtu.be/C5QGzYFjVaU
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There's nothing more absurd than the US & Russia criticizing Europe on free speech. In 2025, European states dominated the World Press Freedom Index: 1-13 and 21 out of the top 30 were European. 14 is Canada whom Trump also criticizes
US ranked just 57, between Belize and Gabon, and Russia at 162.
US ranked just 57, between Belize and Gabon, and Russia at 162.
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
There's nothing more absurd than the US & Russia criticizing Europe on free speech. In 2025, European states dominated the World Press Freedom Index: 1-13 and 21 out of the top 30 were European. 14 is Canada whom Trump also criticizes
US ranked just 57, between Belize and Gabon, and Russia at 162.
US ranked just 57, between Belize and Gabon, and Russia at 162.
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December 2025 will be decisive for the future of public broadcasting in the central European countries #Poland and #Lithuania, ranked 14th and 31st respectively in the World Press Freedom Index. RSF calls on both countries to comply with the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA).
Public broadcasting under threat: Poland and Lithuania move to defy European rules
The month of December 2025 will be decisive for the future of public broadcasting in two central European countries ranked 14th and 31st respectively in the World Press Freedom Index: Poland and Lithu...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
December 2025 will be decisive for the future of public broadcasting in the central European countries #Poland and #Lithuania, ranked 14th and 31st respectively in the World Press Freedom Index. RSF calls on both countries to comply with the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA).
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He might sound like an angry 13-year-old, but he’s a billionaire oligarch who founded Palantir
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
He might sound like an angry 13-year-old, but he’s a billionaire oligarch who founded Palantir
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This story deserved a whole lot more attention. apnews.com/article/musk...
December 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This story deserved a whole lot more attention. apnews.com/article/musk...
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Being Pavel Durov in 2025 means exclusively lying and complaining about EU regulation while never addressing censorship in Russia or China, acting like a true Russian propagandist
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Being Pavel Durov in 2025 means exclusively lying and complaining about EU regulation while never addressing censorship in Russia or China, acting like a true Russian propagandist
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President Donald Trump pardons a turkey! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Propaganda Lesson BBB
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Propaganda Lesson BBB
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Bilionários estão herdando níveis recordes de riqueza, diz relatório do UBS
Bilionários estão herdando níveis recordes de riqueza, diz relatório do UBS
www.cnnbrasil.com.br
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bilionários estão herdando níveis recordes de riqueza, diz relatório do UBS