Trump is losing his war on democracy Trump’s power grabs are dangerous. But he’s going about them all wrong — and facing effective resistance as a result.

I've spent years reporting on how democracies die. And I've noticed something: by international standards, Donald Trump is really, really bad at destroying a democracy.

And that should give us real reason for hope. www.vox.com/politics/410...

Inför klimattullar mot USA Det dröjde bara en dag av Trump-styre innan USA hade lämnat Parisavtalet. Men det var bara början. I beslut efter beslut smulas den (redan otillräckliga) klimatpolitiken sönder.  Den så kallade ...

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When you vote for the guy with many, many words and fat fingers...

‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall Daisy’s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people

I wonder how long before the scammers get a AI online to try and scam this anti-scam AI? Then they can waste each others time and consume mobile bandwidth for no value whatsoever. What a time to be alive...

Nej, jag undvikeer allt kinesiskt själv, så mycket det nu går. Inte en chans att jag skulle använda en kinesisk AI.

YouTube video by The New York Times The First Signs of Tyranny, From People Who Missed Them | NYT Opinion

How fascism begins.
Hint: It does not start with your country invading Poland

NU KAN VI INTE VETA VAD MUSK EGENTLIGEN TÄNKER…

I'm curious about Muskrat's Tesla strategy? In a very short time span he's managed to befriend the fossil fuel tribe, and alienate every progressive that would consider an EV.

Professor i historia: ”Jag förstår inte hur Ryssland skulle kunna bli en demokrati” Professor Jukka Korpela tror inte att Ryssland blir en demokrati. Historikern säger att att det skulle kräva en alltför stor omställning av ryska värderingar.

Intressant artikel, med en ledsam slutsats:

Maybe I interpret the text incorrectly, but to me it sounds like it's ok to bully non-heterosexuals, or anyone with any sort of sexual orientation that is not considered normative, in political OR religious discourse. A terrible policy but religious discourse is not the only exception, right?

As much as I would like to believe it (and the man is clearly below average, intellectually) this has been debunked by multiple fact-checkers.