На 28 септември 1987 започват известите протести на русенските майки Въпреки безспорното значение на тези протести за свалянето на комунистическия режим в България, определението "първата в най-новата история на България мирна протестна демонстрация" е противоречиво защото от поне 3 години […]

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-technology/1572285/september-s-ozone-hole-biggest-in-20-years-warning-signs-appeared-months-ago

September’s ozone hole biggest in 20 years, warning signs appeared months ago

The area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole peaked at more than 27 million sq km in September, the second-largest ever observed for this time of year.

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This is also how Berlusconi's Forza Italia opened the door for fascists to rule Italy. "The motion was proposed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who argued that passersby are “walking over or even stepping onto the names of […]

Three countries render the UN dysfunction: the US, Russia and China "Writing in a 2022 article for US publication Lawfare, analysts John Ramming Chappell and Emma Svoboda noted that the France-Mexico initiative and others like it are “couched in voluntary language” and lack consensus “from the […]

Models like Talkie-1930 sound like voices from the past. If they could reliably speak from specified historical vantage points, researchers might also use them to simulate the past. But how reliable are they? Today we release a benchmark answering that question for English contexts 1831-1930.

This is true in Germany, as it is true in Italy and other EI counties: the EPP has long been playing along with the fascists. And not even for any economically reasonable votes, as if that would've changed something. It's pure cronyism and these two forces are what drags Europe down […]

A nice overview of the state of all-things-ai https://www.techpolicy.press/what-policymakers-and-the-public-need-to-know-about-the-cult-of-ai/

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

"In one revealing example, a restaurant owner is closing up shop and comes across a deranged drunk person, who violently attacks. The owner had simply encountered a homeless man who’d come into the restaurant after it closed, looking for food and a bathroom. The exchange was completely […]

oh no, the hashtag police!!

A very sober and exhaustive review. Let's hope it really is a watershed moment, but I doubt it. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/16/ed-sheeran-israel-palestine-macklemore/ If I could dream a bit, I wish for this tour still taking place at alternative, probably underground, locations... with or […]

The Haidt vs Gray debate is very important science and will take decades to resolve (rather converge). But the fact is that commercial (billionaire-owned) social media is hurting everyone, not only kids. And this doesn't have to do with wellbeing, it's enough that it has to do with […]

"Europe keeps getting measured against the US and China as though all are playing the same game, and they aren't. America spends about 17% of GDP on healthcare, roughly $15K a head for a life expectancy of 78 years.The EU spends around 10% and gets 81. That 7-point gap counts as economic […]

Кой кого надлъгва за контрола върху съдебната власт "Въпреки че позицията на премиера Радев звучи съвсем принципно, два дни по-рано “Прогресивна България” издигна цели 11 кандидати за членове на ВСС. Толкова е цялата парламентарна квота в управленския орган на съдебната власт, въпреки че […]

Кой кой е сред кандидатите за ВCC на Румен Радев През 2016 най-големият съдийски протест пред ВСС изкара на улицата стотици магистрати и съдебни служители. Поводът бе, че от години ВСС игнорира проблемите на най-натоварения съд в страната.. Отговорът на ВСС бе да назначи бившия прокурор Стефан […]

"To mitigate AI risk, society could pass laws to put executives in jail when their models do harm. There is precedent: Oliver Schmidt, general manager of Volkswagen's environmental and engineering office in Michigan, received a seven-year prison sentence for his role in the car maker's effort to […]

Apparently, GenAI developers believe there are non-ignorable chances it could kill us all. No kidding, Sherlock? How did you figure that speed-crashing the planet's climate could be deadly? Did you need help from your chatbot to arrive at it?

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This Is Just To Say I have trained on the proofs that were on our servers and which you were probably saving for publication. Forgive me I can't rule out that your proofs improved our models but burning $15m on a $1m prize so lean and so slop

The contrasting disaster responses in Nepal and Chinese Tibet reveal why a healthy state needs free speech “The government needs journalists to uncover uncomfortable truths because it needs accurate information in order to govern effectively,” they say. “But if journalists are given completely […]

BBC on the assassination of Georgi Markov "Stefan Sverdlov, a colonel in the Bulgarian secret police until he defected in 1971, told the BBC in 1979: "Every department of the Darzhavna Sigurnost [Bulgarian secret service] is controlled by an advisor from the Russian KGB, sometimes known as an […]

Bulgaria's Radev accepts the role of the messenger for Russia's menaces Radev summed up his position with the words: “In my opinion, Europe can exist without Russia. But Europe will hardly exist for long against Russia.” […]

How to disentshitificate "Apple takes 30 cents out of every dollar that an Apple user spends in an app. If your app tries to use another payment method, they’ll turf it out of the App Store. And of course, iPhone owners can’t replace Apple’s app store with another one, because the iPhone has an […]

How to disentshitificate "Apple takes 30 cents out of every dollar that an Apple user spends in an app. If your app tries to use another payment method, they’ll turf it out of the App Store. And of course, iPhone owners can’t replace Apple’s app store with another one, because the iPhone has an […]