Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
"one of the surest strategies for amassing autocratic power is what I call deliberate deliteracy: the destruction, restriction, and monopolization of the infrastructures that make mass literacy possible." www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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Many young men are driven to resentment and are financially exploited as influencers sell them classes, pills, and the illusion of clout, a new report reveals. www.wired.com/story/the-ma...
The ‘Manosphere’ Isn’t a Movement. It’s a Multibillion-Dollar Grievance Industry
Many young men are driven to resentment and are financially exploited as influencers sell them classes, pills, and the illusion of clout, a new report reveals.
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Extreme heat is killing hundreds of thousands of people every year — and the annual toll is growing go.nature.com/4fXyVcG
Heatwaves have killed millions. Here’s how scientists tally lives lost
Two very different methods are used to estimate the human toll of heatwaves such as those now hitting parts of Asia and Europe.
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Vaya, pues al final estábamos equivocados y Soto Ivars tenía razón, sí que existen las denuncias falsas
“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
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75 year old lifelong Republican and Trump voter says he no longer supports Trump after ICE arrested his 45 year old Venezuelan girlfriend.
Americans won’t freak out about lettuce being toxic, because they hate salad. But just you wait till the explosive diarrhea hits burgers or pizza. Then they’ll care.
El cambio climático dibuja un nuevo mapa de las enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos y bacterias www.infolibre.es/politica/cam...
El cambio climático dibuja un nuevo mapa de las enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos y bacterias
Cada vez es más frecuente en España y otros países de Europa la aparición de enfermedades como el dengue, el virus del Nilo o el chikungunya, así
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Una sola semana de calor abrasador causó 9.600 muertes en Alemania en junio. La mayoría tenía más de 75 años, en un país donde hospitales y residencias no suelen contar con aire acondicionado. elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
Una sola semana de calor abrasador causó 9.600 muertes en Alemania en junio
La ola de finales de junio dejó más muertos que cualquier año entero desde 2016. La mayoría tenía más de 75 años, en un país donde hospitales y residencias no suelen contar con aire acondicionado
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Musk also famously said he sees other people as NPCs. We used to call people who lack the ability to feel empathy or guilt and see other people as tools or toys to be used and discarded "sociopaths."
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last wk.I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you experience. 1/
"Sin is when you treat people like things"
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last wk.For Zuck, people aren't co-equals with needs that are as real and important as his own. For Zuck, people are problems to be solved. He embodies Terry Pratchett's maxim (voiced by Granny Weatherwax) that "sin is when you treat people like things." 20/
En 6 meses, Repsol ha tenido un beneficio neto de 2.711 millones€, más que en todo 2025. Mientras tanto, cada incendio, cada ola de calor, cada desastre climático son más intensos por culpa del cambio climático. El mismo que estas empresas de petróleo y gas impulsan con sus sucios negocios.
Because birds make everything better.
Stephen Miller: "The president is using his authority as commander as chief to sign an executive order using the new ruling the Supreme Court issued to expand the definition of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship. That includes, for example, alien enemies ... "
I miss the 80s, back when men were men and we didn't have any of this woke stuff going on
COVID-19 can wake up dormant viruses in the body, large study confirms | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
COVID-19 can wake up dormant viruses in the body, large study confirms
Virus reactivations by SARS-CoV-2 could worsen initial symptoms and increase risk of Long Covid
science.org
“Awful as the ketamine-addled Zuckermuskian mediocrities are, they are not the ultimate causes of enshittification. They are the effects of an enshittogenic environment.” @doctorow.pluralistic.net in a new special feature on what happened to the internet:
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
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Duane Michals. Joseph Cornell holding an untitled bottle object. 1969.
Eric Clapton’s ass was a white man working in the Black genre of rock who learned everything from emulating Delta bluesmen. Then this cracker gone get onstage at his concert & spew this racist anti immigrant white power speech about how all non whites need to leave Britain immediately. True story.
National Wake - International News [South African Punk] (1981) These guys were a mixed race punk band that formed during the apartheid period https://redd.it/76vcc4 https://youtu.be/ze5yn6KneJg
National Wake - International News [South African Punk] (1981) These guys were a mixed race punk band that formed during the apartheid period
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There is something hilarious about Italian Americans unironically talking about how every Mexican dish is the same, just remixed. Bestie? You know that pressing pasta into a new shape doesn't actually make it different, right?
I’m just so tired of everything trying to make money any other way than by doing the thing it was meant to do.
Sony quietly prepares to bring ads to PlayStation ecosystem as game costs rise
It looks like Sony is planning to add an advertising environment on PlayStation to tackle the rising game development costs and increase revenue
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