X / Twitter should be banned throughout Europe and shut down permanently. Threads is bad too. Disinformation campaigns, hate and violence, none of which gets these accounts banned. www.liberation.fr/politique/in...

Ingérences étrangères : Marine Tondelier demande l’interdiction de X, «source de fake news» à «l’algorithme pipé»

La secrétaire nationale des Ecologistes estime qu’au-delà des attaques numériques qui perturbent le débat public et la campagne présidentielle, le réseau social d’Elon Musk a «un impact plus structure...

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Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

3. if LLMs are going to transform science and life in general, the fact that a small number of massive companies— propped up by government funds—are able to conceal how these systems work from everybody except their internal teams should be an outrage.

private equity is destroying everything and must itself be destroyed

Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse

Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?

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This is what the forests of Kharkiv region look like today: covered in thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic cables left by Russian drones. This deadly "web" is almost invisible, but its impact on nature is devastating. 📹: 57th Motorized Brigade

Can we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol

"Ovarian cancer is a misnomer." Nearly all ovarian cancers are fallopian tubes cancers. American Cancer Society, American College of Surgeons & European Society of Gynaecological Oncology have recently urged MD's to offer tube removal with other abdominal surgeries. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...

Most ‘Ovarian Cancer’ Isn’t. And That Fact Can Save Lives. (Gift Article)

The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Kyiv 🇺🇦🙏

It sure feels like there is too much advice in the world. Advice about how to work, sleep, eat, love, travel, think, grow old, and spend an afternoon. Somehow, nearly every ordinary part of being alive has been turned into something we need to optimize. Maybe we just need a little room to live.

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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Nature interviewed five artists from a variety of backgrounds about how to create engaging images that accurately convey scientific/medical concepts, & how they see the future, in light of AI developments. Insightful nuanced piece, with beautiful visuals from talented real-life human illustrators. 🧪

‘Good design takes mastery’: scientific illustrators sketch out AI’s future

Nature talks to five artists about their approaches to communicating science visually.

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Those of us going up for tenure in the next few years have had to not only carry the extra labor of teaching during the rise of GenAI, that difficulty will not be considered when we were evaluated.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last mo.

Analysis of **110,303 submissions** to two elite journals over 5 years found that institutional prestige, team size, topic, and country strongly influenced editorial decisions. Most biases emerged in editorial review. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #metasci #science

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

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It's not that I think they have a super-secret plan to overturn the elections and seize power, but you're watching an entire political party, from top to bottom, meme itself into convincing itself that its opponents are inherently illegitimate, and that road doesn't go anywhere good.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Tuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."

This is not a speech. It is a disinformation campaign.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING MS NOW: The Trump White House hosted about two dozen election denial activists this week ahead of Trump's address where he's expected to spread election lies. The session was convened by conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell — who advised Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 result.

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact

"The reach of Chinese authorities has become so extensive, and the costs Beijing bears for detaining foreign citizens and operating beyond its borders have become so low, that cases like Min Zin’s are now the norm, even for U.S. citizens." www.worldpoliticsreview.com/china-transn...

China’s Transnational Repression Is Being Met With a Deafening Silence

The arrest of a U.S. scholar highlights Beijing’s expanding campaign of transnational repression and Washington’s muted response to an increasingly global threat.

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So military troops under the direct control of Trump and Hegseth will be on the streets of our nation’s capital for the rest of Trump’s term. The rationale—they’re here to help with a crime emergency—is laughable. But of course the real reason is ominous. cbs4local.com/news/nation-...

Pentagon to keep National Guard in D.C. until Inauguration Day 2029

The Pentagon says the National Guard will remain deployed in Washington, D.C. through Jan. 20, 2029, unless President Trump ends the mission earlier.

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There is no defensible reason to ever give an online exam again

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · last mo.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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🔞🕯️ A Russian missile killed an entire family. Will this photo stop the war? Most likely not. But I believe that the world should see the truth, - photographer Yefrem Lukatsky "I hope that those who will be hurt by this photo will forgive me. Kyiv, July 6, 2026," - he added.

We should pay peer reviewers Paying reviewers led to faster decisions—an average of 5.5 working days vs 38 days for unpaid reviews And review quality improved (judged by handling editors) Reviewers who delivered a good peer review in 4 days were paid $290 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

JD Vance urging the Ukrainians to be defensive is peak pro-Putin lobbying by the Trump administration. Now that Ukraine is doing better than they ever imagined, they want Ukraine to back off and take a deal Putin would go for. Nothing has changed. The US is with Russia.

If this is true -- a very big if -- it is surely how McConnell would have wanted to go: exploiting the timing of the death of major figures (Scalia, RBG) for cynical partisan gain.

tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · 2mo ago

Republicans may be running out the clock on disclosing whether McConnell is even alive, purely so a filing deadline slides past and Thomas Massie can't grab the seat. A man's actual mortality reduced to a procedural loophole for gatekeeping power.

Russland umgeht mit der Schattenflotte in der Ostsee die Sanktionen, finanziert seinen Angriffskrieg und spioniert uns von diesen Schiffen aus mit Drohnen aus. Und wir Deppen lassen die gutmütig da rumfahren. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/nato...

Russische Schattenflotte in der Ostsee: „Wir Deppen lassen die da gutmütig herumfahren“

Militärexperten halten es für sehr wahrscheinlich, dass Russland die Nato-Staaten in Europa testet und ausspionieren will. Die Drohnen starten wohl von Schiffen der Schattenflotte.

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man that guy is ruining things for all the other politicians with his do things that help people sort of ethos who does he think he is

Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?

I challenge anyone go try and reproduce some random papers, even those based on open free public datasets, but without the code and/or a detailed description of how the data was obtained and processed, and not become militant about the necessity of code and complete data sharing at a minimum.