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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social - more bringing back shame, in case it's not showed up on your timeline !

Attitudes in 2026 to free movement, to secure single market membership General public: 48-30 support (+18) Labour: 67-20 support (+47) LibDems: 65-21 support (+44) Green 64-20 support (+44) Conservatives 47-40 support (+7) (!) Reform: 39-46 opposed (-7) @britishfuture.bsky.social June 2026

“Everyone likes to think climate change a shared problem, but it’s not. Addressing the climate crisis is really easy. Control the richest, curb their power, curb their emissions, and also tax their wealth.” - Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam International climate change policy lead.

Tonights Hunter's Full Moon rises over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. No AI, no composite. Single frame. #fullmoon #huntersmoon #maryland #chesapeake #baybridge #photography

Brazilian man cries as he describes how Flavio Bolsonaro's acceptance of bribery led to a delay in rolling out vaccines in Brazil. His grandmother and great-aunt he says, died as a result of Bolsonaro paydayreport.com/a-brazilian-...

Oh fuck :( . And of course entirely inevitable... 😔 . If this means journalists end up no longer having public facing email addresses, it'd be a *serious* loss. (I've gotten in contact with journalists that way in the past).

Remi Dekker, son of resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen has this to say about our minis! 😍 I am blown away! Also pic of when we met up recently, he got a special painted one by John Morris. (KS on now www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...)

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Very smart approach, and makes painfully clear that this is a dishonest movement.

@bioturbonick.net Hey, I've been following you a while, and I'm a bit surprised to see that you - seem to have thought it's a productive use of your, or anybody else's time to argue about the merits of genAI (with people you certainly know oppose its use due to its many downsides + its owners).

I agree with this in broad strokes, but the underlying connective tissue here is more of a character problem: this administration is simply bad at authoritarianism. Their policy judgment and execution has been ham-handed and incompetent because *they* are ham-handed and incompetent

Nice! That seems to be a winning angle, and while Impeachment would be justified on a whole plethora of fronts, this will certainly be the way things run the smoothest with the media, public opinion (and potentially Republican senators).

Weil jetzt viele und schnelle Takes zu #Serbien kommen, da die Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie so funktioniert und so medial-politische Diskurse prägt bis leitet: Es wäre dramatisch, wenn man von der studentischen bzw. zivilgesellschaftlichen Bewegung nichts lernt und es nur medial-politisch ausschlachtet.

Under Lulu, Amazon deforestation rates have been plummeting—by 41%. The planet won tonight. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Im Vergleich zur letzten großen Kundgebung (am 15. März 2025) in der Hauptstadt #Serbiens, wo ebenfalls aus allen Himmelsrichtungen Student*innen und Zivilgesellschaft zu Fuß nach Belgrad wanderten, gibt es dieses Mal am Abend davor keinen gemeinsamen Empfang im Zentrum, sondern dezentrale Empfänge.

Preprint alert: coalcrossover.org now available without a password: 6,580 coal units in 2,384 plants in 73 countries. The math: for >95% of these units, coal OpEx alone > full CapEx + OpEx aka "LCOE" for solar and/or wind. The preprint explaining how, what, why: gwagner.com/coalcrossover

Something odd happens if you argue that the concept of machine is not well fit to describe living systems. Often, the response is not just that it's wrong: it's heretic (vitalism!). What this says is that the machine view of life is more a modern crypto-Christian belief than a scientific theory.

There's no real argument behind the claim that we are machines. Some say it just means that we're made of matter. But the brain is not compared to a river or a mountain, it's compared to a hydraulic machine, a clock, a telegraph or a computer. To machines, not just material systems. Why?

And of course it's a religious concept. A machine is something created by someone for some purpose, with a plan, using some knowledge. We have forgotten its religious origin, but all the conceptual scaffold is still here.

Not everyone seems to realize that the origin of the machine view of life is not scientific at all. It dates from the 17th century (Descartes) and it's the expression of a monotheist view opposing pagan views of nature. A living being is like a perfect machine made by God, not an autonomous being.

And media - who loves to ride the drama of a pollercoaster - needs to take a hard look at what's legitimate and what's not. If this teaches us anything - DON'T GET COMPLACENT AND DON'T TRUST THE POLLS. LOCK IN. SIGN UP FOR A CANVASSING SHIFT. LEAVE NOTHING TO CHANCE OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

I hope Democrats are ready to blow up the system with campaign finance and transparency reforms. Trust is already at an all-time low. We don't get out of this mess without rebuilding trust.

BREAKING: ProPublica's new bribery story just named Democrat Jim Clyburn & Sen. Lindsey Graham. Susan Collins called this "a partisan hit job." Partisan? It names Democrats. The contractor called Collins his most important patron. Investigate them all. Start at the top.

Be too fabulous for fascism. Vote.

i know this is tiring, sorry, but also this is why we dont have to splash ads every paragraph or worry about access bullshit:

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

This is a great explainer, and hits the mark well, from what I can see / have heard. (I'm not in France, so can hardly really judge what's happening!)

The producer of a radio show I went on this morning said the host wanted to talk about Ilhan Omar, so I went back and listened to a bunch of the press coverage from last week to refresh my memory on the details. And I realized that the US media still doesn’t know how to talk about authoritarianism.

This is just brilliant :) !

It's a bit trying at first, but kinda hit a somber point with me eventually. I don't live in the US, but sorry for that part of people's reality there...

I don't think most people are OK with that, either. There are many enduring problems with relying on consumers to regulate by voting with their dollars. They have inadequate information, they're intentionally misinformed, and a lot of company money comes from other places (e.g. investors, B2B).

Very well put, all of this !

Also, people just want to get through their damn day, and trying to think through the ethical implications of every action is overwhelming.

Just trying to drink some coffee is a fraught ethical question. I don't want to drink coffee that's causing massive ecological damage, or is being picked by people who are dying of heat stroke, right? Yet, I can't tell you for sure if I'm succeeding at avoiding that.

But, I'm not saying we should throw our hands up about coffee. I'm saying that people care more than they're able to realistically act, in a lot of cases.

Very nice new paper by @benzevgreen.bsky.social @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social @tisjune.bsky.social on the actual appropriate response to AI hype (resistance, not "AI literacy") ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

Here's the thing: if we're actually going to phase out fossil fuels and halt global heating, we will NEED executive agencies to display a pattern of "disparate treatment" against fossil fuels. BAAJA literally outlaws this.

Just scheduling this so it posts DEEP into the North American timezone www.instagram.com/reel/Dei1tQI...

This is sick to hear (apparently Sweden, Holland and Finland have cut their foreign aid budgets).

Radiating good vibes like the sun.

Don't get me wrong: it's very bad that a centuries old town hall caught fire, but a society that thinks this is worth getting preoccupied about and doesn't seem to much care about people losing hands and eyes and life is a society that needs a serious rethink of priorities

New piece covering some recent news stories & AI bloopers. If you're looking for a chuckle, check it out! Also, I'm cofounding an anti-TESCREAL institute! Send me an email if you have any funding leads. (We have a modest amount to get started, but are looking to expand rapidly).