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President Macron, "What is at stake in Europe is the different democratic models amid foreign interference"

"Information manipulation"

"Domination of minds by negative emotions and addictions to social media"

"Being vulnerable to algorithms designed in the US and China"

“Russia is already attacking us now. We’re seeing assaults on infrastructure, arson, and recent incidents in military barracks. Nearly all traces lead back to Russia,” — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Come on, 8 billion people all owning a modest sized home in a walkable neighbourhood?...

Bluesky you deserve some fireflies in a cornfield. Not pictured-the young hawk chased away by robins, the enormous kale after the rain, the smell of the tomato plant leaves.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

Because Trump has no mob ties to the Middle East. Read Catherine Belton Putin's people, and you will know why Trump doesn't move against his beloved Putin. The Russsian information nyx helped getting him elected. DT wants the same oligarchic system. Other reasons are historic ties and Real Politik

Strange Atlantic cold spot traced to ocean slowdown For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean’s overall warming, fueling debate amongst scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long-ter...

“This work shows the AMOC has been weakening for more than a century, and that trend is likely to continue if greenhouse gases keep rising.”

news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

Just received two more emails this morning from the Russian trolls which more links to fake stories about Sandu and Kallas.

We are shifting to command economy where the President forces companies to use inefficient and expensive coal power plants, overruling free market dynamics.

As Hannah Arendt said, the belonging is more important than the lies, even if it damages one's self interest.

Making people care that they are being lied to is also key.

It is easy to expose the lies of Trump and other populist politicians, but people want the lies. Even when those lies are against their material self-interest.

Like the X-Files motto, they want to believe.

What do you suggest? That's an excellent rant but what direction do you suggest we "adapt"?

People won’t trust courts or parties. They won’t believe evidence. They’ll be certain their side is right, no matter what reality says.
That’s not disagreement. That’s epistemic fracture. And once it sets in, it’s nearly impossible to reverse.

In its place: an algorithmic chaos where every citizen is a broadcaster, every feed a battleground, and every truth contestable. We didn’t design for this. We didn’t adapt in time. And now the cracks are widening

We built 20th-century democracies on the assumption that truth could be verified, public discourse could be deliberated, and those in power could be held accountable.
But the system those assumptions relied on, gatekeepers, shared facts, institutional trust, are in decline, and deservedly so.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

We’ve been in touch with local law enforcement in LA. They have the resources they need to meet the moment, and we stand ready to assist should the need arise.
 
There is no emergency and the President’s order calling in the National Guard is unnecessary and counterproductive.

Hello, fellow primates! 🙂

We'd be a lot better off if we dump the religions and accept this.

Over and over again Trump tells us that he thinks the Nazis were the good guys in the story.

Red Headed Woodpecker on a big tree trunk. Deep red head, solid black wing shoulders with a large white patch on the lower wing and a white belly and black tail.

Red Headed Woodpecker on a big tree trunk. Deep red head, solid black wing shoulders with a large white patch on the lower wing and a white belly and black tail.

Red Headed Woodpecker on a big tree limb. Deep red head, solid black wing shoulders with a large white patch on the lower wing and a white belly and black tail.

It's hard to believe Red-headed Woodpeckers are real but they are! Jarvis Bird Sanctuary, Chicago.
#birds #woodpeckers

In these distressingly unpleasant political/ oligarchic times, I'm reminded that Plato suggested that the leaders of a republic should be the men and women who have the highest qualifications, and are the best trained — and would rather not have that position.

Pitch for a movie script: a US president searches for economic and political ways to ignite a national crisis in order to declare a national emergency and then restrict freedom of speech, habeas corpus, and rule by law, and cancel elections.

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Journée chaude en #Pologne aujourd’hui
Irrégularités dans les votes 🗳️
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La directrice du Centre 🇵🇱🇩🇪a déclaré à l’Ambassade de Pologne 🇵🇱 à Berlin 🇩🇪, que le criminel #Nawrocki « n’aurait pas gagné sans le soutien de #russiaPropaganda « 
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So was it softened?

He does not need people, he can build drones and robots.