Dr Abeba Birhane

great but what actual action will the eu take?

So anyway, Andrew Wakefield should be in prison for the rest of his life.

Nomani is notorious for this kind of faux journalism.

When she reached out (for already public information), she conveniently left out that she’s the *senior contributor* at The Federalist, as if we didn’t have Google.

This was our response: would it shock you to learn she didn’t publish it?

Yes, it appears that if the dominoes fall in that direction, the final decision will take place in an Irish court (if I'm reading it right). Explains the heavy overt and discreet pressure the US administration has been placing on Ireland and Irish regulators for over a year.

Dozens arrested in support of Palestine hunger strikers at London prison Videos show police officers shoving protesters to the ground and herding them outside Prison Wormwood Scrubs.

Videos show police officers shoving protesters to the ground and herding them outside Prison Wormwood Scrubs.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I feel like almost every week I hear another anecdote about how somebody almost ate a poison plant or did something really dangerous with medication as a result of an AI summary.

confession: for some reason, I tend to unconsciously associate accounts i like and admire with non-male, non-white identities. I had an email exchange and an actual zoom meeting (in a different context) with some here and only downed on me now who they are 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

The NYT reported many hours ago that the government account was provably false (which @bellingcat.com & others had already exposed in video) yet the BBC as of 11am UK time makes no mention of this fact and still centres the government’s false narrative, mentioning only ‘conflicting’ views. Shameful.

the link to sign is here bsky.app/profile/prad...

No way we let Sweden get over the line on this ahead of Ireland.

Tell your friends. This isn’t just any old petition, this mechanism has EU clout.

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Wow! That's a lot!!!
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The EU is quietly reshaping how laws are made. Omnibus legislation, once an exception, risks becoming the norm, with less public consultations, fewer impact assessments, and reduced public scrutiny.

Join us and register : lnkd.in/epE2Vwfi thegoodlobby.eu/are-omnibus-...

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

If you work at Apple, Zoom, Amazon and AMD (not to mention Palantir or Nvidia) i think you should organize, unionize, and hold your fascist enabling CEO accountable.

You are powerful together

Many got into government or military posts in West Germany, up to and including becoming the highest ranking non-US person in NATO.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will discuss, with global lawmakers, the effects on democracy of concentrated media ownership.

“No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.”

mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...

I've only just seen this from last June, and it's pretty depressing really.
I'm not sure whether to celebrate the UK being #3 (after USA & China), or be embarrassed (see post 6 in the thread for details).

"AI didn't just increase its footprint in Washington in 2025. It ate tech lobbying whole." www.axios.com/2026/01/23/a...

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

i feel like we're sleepwalking awfully fast through the tired old shit where tech companies show off how invasive they are in our lives and intellectually lazy, privileged, narrow minded people brush it off as harmless for a couple of years before it turns and bites them.

It provides a good introduction of canonical thinkers and ideas in the philosophy of science

well, this turned out to be a quick read. nice to read some philosophy of science (been a minute) but the book is good only for a brief intro

Against Method is next...

weekend read

Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" is the result of the world bowing before the global rampage of the US-Israel Axis. Once again, the Palestinian people are being offered as sacrifices, and along with them, the entire global system of international law.

Elaine Burke - The Smartphone Age Laura chats to Elaine Burke from the 'For Tech's Sake' podcast about going back to simpler times before the widespread use of smartphones!

I was grateful to be given a lot of time and space to go off on my push for intentional tech use, returning to being active and not passive users, in this segment with Laura Fox. If you're thinking of dumping devices or platforms, try listening to this first: www.rte.ie/radio/2fm/cl...

beyond words to express how much i hate this... looks like "AI summary" not the author's written abstract is displayed by default for all ACM digital library publications. i, for one, didn't ask for it and hate it to my core

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There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.