George Jacobs

"Independence" means very different things here in each case; whether the separation of former Yugoslavia into separate nations, the first phase of Greek independence from the then Ottoman Empire, or Turkey becoming a republic; these are completely different and it's misleading to compare them.

At the low end there's likely to be significant under-reporting. At the high end there's a reverse bias: people with major mental health problems may not be able to mantain a demanding high income job. This graph means less than it appears to.

It's because he was within Mordor. It's "explained" shortly after Shelob's lair, when Sam had been wearing the ring to hide from orcs but takes it off just before coming out of the tunnel and entering Mordor, because instinctively he realises that he'll become visible to Sauron in his domain.

Me sorprende que te hayan dicho que trabajar con pantallas provoca la presbicia. Yo he sido un ratón de biblioteca desde siempre, así que tengo miopía, que ya reduce el efecto de la presbicia que tengo debido a mi edad.

“History shows it clearly, austerity creates the conditions in which fascism thrives. When Gov'ts strip away public services, weaken safety nets and deepen inequality, people lose hope in democracy and turn to authoritarian strongmen.’” . - Richard Murphy

Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.

Por desgracia, como persona solitaria, no tengo más opción que discutir con mí mismo.

We should all have freedom of movement, to seek a better life for ourselves and our loved ones, and especially to get out of an unbearable situation. Some people vote like they're billionaires-in-waiting, but we're actually all asylum-seekers-in-waiting.

Black Iris, oil on canvas, 1926 Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things"
Georgia O'Keeffe

Tech has successfully gamified everyone's brains to the point that they think they're living in a simulation/video game even if they don't actually think that. Literally 'reading' books like a player in a game to gain imaginary xp.

An incisive article.

Some of those men will be gay.

Some of this is just imploring people once again not to farm out their storytelling to AI. Craft and process can sometimes be the only things you'll ever get out of a story that you've written, so why would you ever give those joys away to a machine?

"We also reported that the chatbot was bullshitting, in the technical sense."
We're living in the age of bullshit. Trump is the iconoclastic paragon of our times. No wonder people are desperate to embrace the automation of bullshit.

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Yo lo empecé hace poco y me encanta.

Por cierto, no fue el único: Marie Curie recibió premios Nobel en física y química.

UK Labour doing its best to replicate the US Democrats' success in moving the country to the right and consigning themselves to irrelevance.

La mejor frase que he escuchado hoy: «No son genios, solo son millonarios».

Imaginad lo que lograría un verdadero genio con los recursos de esos tecnolerdos egotistas.

Is it right to assume that bluesky are prejidiced? An alternative explanation that occurs to me for the simple reason that I've seen this kind of thing before is an organised bombardment of complaints, alleging antisemitism or whatever, from a large number of individual accounts.

Maybe put out a call for unpaid volunteer slush pile readers on a trial basis? You'll be able to figure out which one is in tune with the themes and style of the magazine. I think there are many people (like myself) who would like to gain experience of the process and would volunteer.

US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.

AI & propaganda is
💜 a marriage made in heaven. 💜
Describe your desired conclusions, use that as an AI prompt, and then: your agenda is presented as a factual analysis.
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How Trump’s Embrace of Afrikaner “Refugees” Became a Joke in South Africa Untangling the “white genocide” narrative from propaganda to punchline, as South Africa’s president meets with Trump in the White House.

theintercept.com/2025/05/21/s...

Trump’s attempt at Oval Office ‘gotcha’ moment backfired spectacularly ANALYSIS: Armed with printouts of tabloid news articles and a montage of video clips, Trump launched into a meandering explanation of the current political situation in South Africa to its president C...

More details concerning the response of the South African team:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump enjoys starring in his bits of theatre. He has the backing of half of the people of the USA. Should we in the West still respect the USA? Should we vote for governments who continue to follow the lead of the American government?

Providing protection from harmful extremists like human rights activists.

How The U.S. Is Resettling White South African Refugees theonion.com/how-the...

Es tan tierno 🥰

Mientras en los EEUU festejan el triunfo de la ignorancia, nosotros tenemos que alejarnos para evitar el contagio.

Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man

Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’ The resident doctors’ wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people’

Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’

«Había crecido en un país dirigido por políticos que enviaban a militares a pilotar bombarderos para matar a los bebés y hacer del mundo un lugar más seguro donde los niños pudieran crecer en paz».

Ursula K. Le Guin