Springer Nature uses a combination of screening tools, AI-enabled approaches and expert human oversight to identify and assess unethical or fraudulent content, according to director of research integrity Chris Graf. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... AND THEN WE PUBLISH ANYWAYS LOL XD

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

OTD in 1939 the Jabłonków incident took place. Units of the German army attacked Poland thinking the original invasion was still scheduled for that day. The Nazis claimed they were "rogue units with nothing to do with Berlin". Imagine lying like that today.

A fungus photo a day: Multiclavula mucida, taken last February. A few more photos below. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

13 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

UPDATE: After the Texas Supreme Court refused to block the GOP-led Galveston County yesterday from changing voting maps after primary ballots have already been cast, the pro-voting plaintiffs challenging those map changes filed an emergency motion with an appeals court later that night.

Texas Supreme Court refuses to stop GOP-led county from changing voting maps between primary and November election

The county has openly acknowledged the partisan motivation behind the change. In its response to the Texas Supreme Court, Galveston County argued that commissioners could have several reasons to…

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This is like B-movie level silly but so is every other 2026 villain. This @opendemocracy.net exposé on climate disinfo tinfoil hat 'doomsday cult' AllatRa - and how it has managed to infiltrate COPs, European Parliament, US Capitol, *and the Vatican* - is BEYOND WILD. But wait there's more... 🧵

ITS OFFICIAL I'm in an actual Allatra video. Apparently I'm an "informational hitman" and not just some dipshit Twitch streamer who stumbled onto a cult one day and decided it would be fun to troll them. You can obviously tell they know NOTHING about me besides the fact I allegedly live in AZ

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Nigel Farage called a by-election to prove he still has the people's support. Instead, the major parties dropped out, leaving his only opponent as Count Binface, a satirical candidate known for mocking British politicians.

New in PN with @juddlegum.bsky.social: How Kalshi infects the news "Since last December, both CNBC & CNN have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of financial ties between the networks & Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently"

How Kalshi infects the news

CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.

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Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.

Dalo by se očekávat, že s růstem průměrné globální teploty se bude zvyšuje i četnost vln veder. Co říkají data o změně počtu epizod vln veder v ČR? Od roku 1961 vzrostla průměrná roční teplota v ČR o +2,3 °C, roste i počet vln veder.

⚠️ The DOJ wants to cancel voter registrations across the country in the days leading up to the midterm elections in November. The alarming offensive is emerging in two court cases that could have far-reaching consequences for elections across the country — and SCOTUS could have the final say.

Trump’s DOJ wants to purge voters right before elections. Will the Supreme Court allow it?

Eligible voters “removed days or weeks before Election Day will likely not be able to correct the State’s errors in time to vote."

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New: Meta scraped Blacked[.]com and other porn sites. Now a judge has said the company that owns Blacked and other porn sites can sue Meta for doing so www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

The judge found that Meta’s attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees “strains credulity.”

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HOSTIN: Why haven't we seen the release of over 2.5m additional Epstein file documents? JD VANCE: My understanding -- I'm gonna check on this to be sure -- but my understanding is that a lot of those are duplicates of things that have already been released NAVARRO: So they why not release them?

Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times. www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...

Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm

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Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

Lorenzo Cohen at MD Anderson presented "Biofield Therapy" results at AACR last week. "Biofield Therapy" sounds scientific but is just a fancy name for telekinesis - AKA staring at mice. Actual photo from his lab below, now deceased psychic staring at mice. Not clear who does the staring these days.

This is the proper reaction when a pastor tries to work a miracle by pushing your forehead.

“DUE TO TO THE TENOR AND DEPTH OF THIS FEMALE ANGEL’S LOVE MAKING, I ORGASMED MULTIPLE TIMES BEFORE WAKING UP NUDE IN HEAVEN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! I DID NOT WEAR A CONDOM!” said President Trump

Markets Surge After Trump Claims He Had Sex With An Angel

NEW YORK—In what came as a welcome shock to investors amid recent dips in the global economy, markets reportedly surged Tuesday after President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social Post that he’d had ...

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Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

🤑👀 Trumpova parta tuneluje stát tak nevídaným způsobem, že to překvapuje i zkušený novináře. Pár dní zpátky jsem psal o tom, jak si teď už odvolaná ministryně pro vnitřní bezpečnost Kristi Noem přihrála přes svoje přátele víc jak 200 milionů dolarů. Ty se utratily za v

Congratulations Substack on your new partnership with Polymarket! And to those publishing on Substack, is this really the tool you want from the folks who take part of your revenue?

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 8mo ago

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

VP Vance is falsely claiming the Trump Admin somehow has the “inherent” authority to just unilaterally withhold from MN mandatory federal #Medicaid funding to which the state is entitled.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Q: Can you talk about the legal authority under which the federal govt pauses legally obligated funds, such as Medicaid? JD VANCE: Congress appropriates the money. We're the ones who actually make sure it actually goes to the people it ought to go to

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions: