I just watched what happened in 2022 and its like they ruined it for EVERYONE. For all the athletes. For everyone watching in the world. They befouled it. They denied everyone joy. Just so they could win. And everyone lost. And thats what Russia does geopolitically too.

Jenka@jenka.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The first thing Alysa Liu did upon discovering she had won gold is run over to give the bronze winner, Ami Nakai, a hug, and let me assure you that the vibes are only this good because Russia is absent.

The Cornell 7 news took me back to when an "iconic" figure in the futures field s*xually harassed me. This is also where my doubts about whether I have what it takes to become a futurist turned into ironclad determination. I finally wrote about it today: lnkd.in/p/d885tiP6

RVPE is not about S€X it's about power to dehumanize. What RVPIST doesn't realize is that to dehumanize the other is also to forfeit your own humanity.

By deactivating a gene, researchers were able to cause cells in the pancreatic ducts to produce insulin to regulate blood sugar. www.wired.com/story/pancre...

Some Pancreatic Cells Are Just One Genetic Tweak Away From Treating Diabetes

By deactivating a gene, researchers were able to cause cells in the pancreatic ducts to produce insulin to regulate blood sugar.

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Trump admin wants political appointees deciding which science gets funded. Stalin tried it in 1948 with a pseudoscientist Trofim Lysenko. Millions died. On the new NIH order & its Soviet parallels, cancer studies killed as a culture-war joke + Musk's Mars nuking Mars fantasies: lnkd.in/p/eCRn-hnG

The Trump administration wants political appointees to decide which science gets funded. Stalin tried it in 1948 with pseudoscientist Trofim Lysenko. Millions died. Lysenko rejected genetics as… | Mo...

The Trump administration wants political appointees to decide which science gets funded. Stalin tried it in 1948 with pseudoscientist Trofim Lysenko. Millions died. Lysenko rejected genetics as contr...

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As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

Pensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claims

An online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death

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Unearthed video: Leaked Flock webinar reveals Flock employees teaching police how to surveil anti-Trump No Kings protestors and track their vehicles.

With every single day Fedorov is making it clear why Zelenskyy has thought it better to fire him. All the ego driven moves and now Karp/Palantir is not the vibe he thinks it is 😒

Cognitive warfare works like a societal autoimmune disorder: defenses turning inward, misidentifying the body’s cells as threats. A population fighting itself need not be invaded. It can surrender its interests from within, convinced every choice was its own. lnkd.in/p/dYe7UgJX

What if the account making you furious shares a payroll with the account cheering you on? The argument looks spontaneous. The outrage was commissioned. Soviet intelligence called its covert… | Monika...

What if the account making you furious shares a payroll with the account cheering you on? The argument looks spontaneous. The outrage was commissioned. Soviet intelligence called its covert influence...

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We are really cursed with the most cruel and mean spirited in the positions of leadership across the board. Small, bitter, angry men that should have gone to therapy before making their lack of humanity a problem for all of humanity.

Bradley P. Moss@bradmossesq.bsky.social · last mo.

We are Jews. We don’t make jokes about these things. We don’t dehumanize like this. Shame on Gvir. This is the type of commentary the Nazis would have made about us. Shame.

As Carney said, “Nostalgia is not a strategy”. Really, at this stage nostalgia might as well be poison.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There is no pre-Trump world to which we can return. That has all been washed away. And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule. My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

*Prigozhin got indignant and rebelled because the Russian military was shelling his bases and liquidating his slave ex-prisoner-fighters *He didn't mind the Ukrainians killing his men, but having his own side killing them was too much for him *Later Prigozhin got killed by Russians himself

OTD in 1996 Russia signed the Khasavyurt Accords which ended 1st Chechen War on unfavorable terms. Almost exactly 3 years later we staged false flags to justify tearing the agreement up to start the 2nd Chechen War. We used the time to get ready to attack again. Which should not sound familair.

I have been writing about this batshit theory for almost two decades now, yet somehow this may be the stupidest claim about "autogynephilia" I have ever seen...

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last mo.

Actual adult people who work in the mainstream press talk to this guy and take him seriously. He's a white supremacist, yes, but he's also just a premium sexless dork.

We all know this inevitably ends with “agent just makes up data for months after instrument breaks and no-one notices”, right?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.

“The new tool, called Model Hardware Standard, enables AI agents to autonomously operate a wide range of devices that can be programmed using computer code, ranging from complex microscopes to liquid handlers, lasers and robotic arms.”

Measles-linked deaths since RFK Jr became HHS Secretary now surpass those recorded in the previous 20 years combined.

Shocking and yet entirely unsurprising it’s taken us this long to

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?

55% of Americans say they believe that Jesus will return to Earth someday. 75% of Christians 92% Evangelicals 86% Black Protestants 64% Mainline 63% Catholic 29% nothing in particular 8% agnostic 1% atheist (trolling no doubt) 69% Republicans 45% Democrats

🧵 Apocalypse soon: 10% of Americans think Jesus will definitely/probably return during their lifetimes. Group pcts who say this: 22 Black Protestants 21 Evangelicals (ethnicity unclear) 6-7 Mainline & Catholic 14% HS or less 10% Some college 5% College graduate 3% Religiously unaffiliated

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

Shot, chaser

Yep nobody likes to listen to the post-Soviet people’s Cassandra warnings but we’ve been ahead of the curve for a while. Actually posted a little video that refers to it (caption is more informative than the vid tho): vt.tiktok.com/ZSVGEsuvL/

Monika Bielskyte on TikTok

What if the account making you furious shares a payroll with the account cheering you on? The argument looks spontaneous. The outrage was commissioned. Soviet intelligence called its covert influence operations “active measures”: forged documents, planted stories, front organizations and political manipulation designed to fracture an adversary from within. Conversion was optional. Cynicism, nihilism and demoralization did the work. In Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev documented how this machinery evolved under Putin. Vladislav Surkov, his political strategist, blurred the boundaries between power and opposition. Pomerantsev called it “a strategy of power based on keeping any opposition there may be constantly confused, a ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it’s indefinable.” Disorientation is the point. Opposing extremes can be amplified by the same operator. The apparent choices multiply while the space for constructive action collapses. Competing explanations pile up until establishing reality feels exhausting and acting on it feels futile. Steve Bannon called it “flood the zone with shit.” It is cheaper to bury a fact than to disprove it. Every verified account enters a race against an unlimited supply of counterfeits. Generative AI turns that race into an industrial production line, compressing much of the old content machinery into a prompt, producing endless variations of plausible unreality, tailored to different languages, identities and grievances. One operator can test hundreds of narratives and amplify whichever version finds the fracture. Private influence firms recruit contractors, click-farm workers and paid influencers across borders. Many have no ideological investment in the cause. Your outrage is someone’s day job. Cognitive warfare works like a societal autoimmune disorder: defenses turn inward and misidentify the body’s own cells as the threat. A population fighting itself does not have to be invaded. It can surrender its interests from within while remaining convinced that every choice was entirely its own. No one can privately outlearn a market that industrializes confusion. Lifelong education and information literacy are severely undervalued forms of civil defense. When people recover the ability to know what is happening, they recover the ability to change what happens next. #CognitiveWarfare #StrategicDisinformation #GenerativeAI #HybridWarfare #InformationLiteracy

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guys, you don't need A.I. to make cute dog videos. just point your phone at literally any dog on the earth doing anything.

Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last mo.

Laura Loomer is taking credit for Milo getting detained by ICE.

Filling Trump's AI slop trough is Natalie Harp's main job. Fictional memes of himself and bot posts are his only windows to the world.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions

The measles vaccine created herd immunity that kept infants and immunocompromised people safe. They’re relying on us to protect them, and we are failing. All the little gravestones of kids who died before the vaccine should serve as a warning. Get vaccinated. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Infant in Pennsylvania is one of two people reported to die of measles this week

The deaths were the first associated with measles in the state in 35 years.

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"Underlying conditions," the go-to excuse for eugenicists everywhere.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Dr Oz: "I don't want anyone in America concerned inappropriately. We don't know exactly what happened in PAG yet. We don't know if the children died from measles or had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time. We lived this during covid."

*I'm impressed that the AIs stayed so democratic and didn't appoint some kind of Stalinist Crime Boss