Neither socialists nor communists destroyed 237 years of Constitutional democracy. In 2010 SCOTUS passed "Citizens United", the most deceptively named Republican ruse since Fox "News" (aka GOP TV), which unleashed unregulated capitalist greed. And the biggest billionaire feeding frenzy in history.

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Republicans are so pathetic they're recycling Red Scare dogwhistles as old as Trump: NB reporters: "McCarthy's reckless and unfounded attempt to impugn my loyalty is just one more example of his typical tactic of attempting to tie up to Communism anyone who disagrees with him." --Edward R. Murrow

Many Americans still believe that Europe is unsafe and the US is the greatest country, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. #DonaldTrump #FakeNews #Maga #Republicans #FarRight #AfD

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

EXTRAORDINARY EVENT IN EUROPE Thousands of records smashed from West to East from North To South Over 40C again in AUSTRIA, records allover the country,records smashed in Czechia,Slovakia,Slovenia,Croatia,Poland,Hungary... It's worse than during June. TBC

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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To climate deniers: You said it was a hoax when 18M hectares burned in Canada in 2023. You ignored it when 2025 became Norway's hottest year ever. Now forests above the Arctic are burning while Canada's smoke reaches Europe. At what point will you reflect?

Climate change is no longer a far-off concept debated solely in scientific communities.It has become an increasingly pressing issue affecting our planet and every living being on it.From extreme weather events to rising sea levels,it is evident that climate change poses substantial risks to humanity

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

"If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research and validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle into established knowledge, and the opportunities for flawed or fabricated info to be seen as reality will grow—all while AI profiteers cash in."

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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There are very few people on this planet, who have two, not just one, blue plaques. One of them certainly is John Venn, the inventor of the Venn diagram. #Hull #Geek

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Phrases to avoid, these days... A warm welcome [whatever you do] is heartwarming to see... Warm wishes

A baby stingray hatching on a North Sea beach in Germany. Its undulating movements are instinctive from the very first second. The person filming returned it safely to deeper water.

250 years ago today, Thomas Jefferson…bought a thermometer. And he recorded Philadelphia’s highest temperature that day: 76 degrees. Today’s heat-dome, climate-change high is 99.

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Remembering Alan Turing during Pride Month. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💗 www.kings.cam.ac.uk/alan-mathiso...

We are pleased to announce a major donation to support the work of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. Lawerence Washington, husband of former BDSC director Kathy Matthews, has established an endowment in her honor. bdsc.indiana.edu/news-events/...

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Very evolved algae. 😉😁

Ach du meine Güte, die Autobahnen gehen kaputt /s Vielleicht hilft das der BuReg die richtigen Entscheidungen zu treffen? Schlimmer ist aber, dass Menschen, Tiere, ALLE leiden!!!

taz@taz.de · 2mo ago

Bis zu 39 Grad heiß soll es in den kommenden Tagen werden. Selbst Straßen gehen kaputt. Wetterdienst warnt vor Unwettern. Festivals mussten geräumt werden.

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RIP David Hockney

Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell

I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life defector.com/ai-animal-vi...

AI Animal Videos Are Ruining One Of The Internet's Last Good Things | Defector

Recently while picking up a banh mi in my neighborhood, I found myself transfixed by a TV in the restaurant showing what I assumed was a nature documentary. At first the footage soothed: Gentle humpba...

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