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Keir Starmer is a total fuckwit.

Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

I confess, right now the title "Scientific American" reads like an oxymoron. And it's not the publisher's fault.

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

How the Absence of Shame is Reshaping Indian Democracy - Frontline In India’s post-shame era, nationalism, spectacle politics, and elite power blunt criticism, leaving citizens as spectators rather than watchdogs.

Manoj Kumar Jha doesn't say it aloud, but there is an almost complete overlap between the rise of Hindutva and the erosion of shame in Indian society.

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How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

And this 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability

Read this article by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social too

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

"Flashy simplicity trumps thoughtful complexity. Considered views on history and ethics become distractions."

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TN panel recommends sweeping reforms to balance state-Union relations Follow TNM’s WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.The Justice Kurian Joseph-led high-level committee on Union–state relations, constitute

Most of the proposals her sound great, which means they will never get acted upon. ☹️

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The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

Francois Furstenberg on the modern American university. Well worth your time.

(I forgot who had shared it here)

www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

@openvibe.social @openvibe sharing links from browser/other apps on Android doesn't seem to work now.

Such an action now only starts openvibe, but earlier it would directly compose a tweet/message

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

Fantatsic! #fuckcars

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Cash, Cars, Chemicals (and Corn) | The Polycrisis Three big decarbonization plots. Green finance, EV growth, batteries, and the corn in your car.

@katemac.bsky.social and I chose this cover image for our piece because it looked cool.
Did not know that electric mopeds , e-bikes , e-cargo bikes etc are collectively crushing oil in a bigger way than electric cars!!
Https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cash-cars-chemicals-and-corn/

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

Wait what
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Truly despicable act by Russians. Sadly Science isn't immune to such shit.

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Opera's quirky website celebrates its browser’s 30th anniversary - 9to5Mac Opera’s interactive experience takes users through key milestones that helped shape the web over the past three decades.

Opera browser is 30 years old! 😱

9to5mac.com/2026/02/19/o...

India’s Dalits, Muslims Live in Isolated Housing With Poor Services: Study - Newsreel Asia A study finds that Dalits and Muslims in India live in segregated neighbourhoods with weaker access to schools, water and health services, showing deep local inequality in public service delivery.

"Muslim segregation in India is similar to but slightly lower than Black-White segregation in the United States after adjusting for neighbourhood size."

Must admit that I expected it to be much worse; @ashwan.bsky.social explained to me why it isn't.

newsreel.asia/articles/ind...

After the Earthquakes • EQUATOR The fundamental problem of the present is complicity

"The fundamental problem of the present is complicity"

www.equator.org/articles/aft...

Read an award-winning novel today. While it has its merits, would we be praising "literary fiction" if juries actually read other genres?

thank you.

hasn't that been said for 2 years now?

Today they all fawn over a man who abandoned his wife, and who is India's worst, most corrupt & most destructive Prime Minister.

Tbh I can say something similar about India.

In 2009, I had women colleagues who'd vehemently disagree with the idea of a Ramarajya, questioning how one could call a man who abandoned his pregnant wife in the forest as a 'Maryada Purushottama'.

In Aug 2009, my first weekend after moving to Tennessee, I was shocked to see someone hold a "We don't want a Black President" sign at an anti-Obamacare protest.

Today in Feb 2026, the president of the US posts an AI video of the Obamas as monkeys.

100% agree with what the prof here says. The occasional succes like AlphaFold is just not worth all the damage that is being forced upon us.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort

"I am baffled by the embrace of AI erotic relationships, and wonder if porn paved the way by accustoming so many of us to watching images of bodies touching each other while our own bodies remain untouched, except by ourselves."

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...