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Marcelo Jenny

@marcelojenny.bsky.social

political scientist / in love with politics parliaments elections democracy

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Spencer McDaniel@spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...

An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...

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Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · last wk.

1/ Gas prices were lowered, restrictions were lifted, and queues vanished temporarily for a visit to Irkutsk by Vladimir Putin. Russians are calling it a modern-day Potemkin village, but it appears to show how hard Putin's underlings try to hide Russia's problems from him. ⬇️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump posts meme suggesting he wants to run for an illegal third term, then follows that up with posts suggesting he wants to annex Greenland and Venezuela

2028 meme“Hello, Greenland” with Trump looming over the country Map of Venezuela with caption, “51st state”
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Waldläuferin 🌻@waldlaeuferin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Der Homo sapiens existiert seit etwa 300.000 Jahren auf der Erde. Dinosaurier hingegen haben unseren Planeten über einen Zeitraum von rund 165 Millionen Jahren bevölkert, bevor sie vor etwa 66 Millionen Jahren ausgestorben sind. Dinosaurier werden extrem unterschätzt.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ty Cobb, a former White House attorney under Trump 1, believes Trump’s speech is intended to justify declaring a national emergency around the midterm elections. Cobb suggests Trump aims to intimidate voters, seize voting machines, and prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

Trump setting stage to declare emergency around midterms, former White House attorney says

For perspective on what President Trump is trying to achieve with Thursday night's speech, the limits of his authority and the potential consequences for future elections, Geoff Bennett spoke with Ty ...

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w ago

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

In eigener Sache: Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026 - WELT

Unternehmer und Investor Peter Thiel ist der diesjährige Preisträger des Axel Springer Awards. Die Auszeichnung soll auch ein Zeichen für Meinungsfreiheit und offene Debatten sein.

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Micah@rincewind.run · 3w ago

cabo verde held both world cup finalists to a draw across 90 minutes and almost took argentina to penalties, easily the best performance anyone has put up against either team all world cup

Steve Bullock@guitarmoog.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is an openly hostile act towards European democracies and the EU. It is equivalent to Russian disinformation and destabilisation programmes and should be treated as such.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3w ago

The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

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: ...

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Social media is increasingly anti-social Only 7% of Instagram time & 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers. This is what happens when you condition algorithms on looking time rather than real social engagement.

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 3mo ago

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers