Lucien 🇺🇦

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you

"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

Google’s complete indifference to the quality of search experience is almost impressive at this point.

Search results are crap now, AI results boxes are worse, and Google dgaf.

Photograph of Tom Lehrer

Oh no. Tom Lehrer gone. At his great age, it’s not a tragedy, I know, but it just does feel bad not having his genius in the world.

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ [FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
www.ft.com/content/6c74...

Tens of thousands defy Hungary’s ban on Pride in protest against Orbán Crackdown on Pride is part of effort to curb democratic freedoms ahead of a hotly-contested election next year

Numbers unclear: organisers hoped for 35k to 40k to defy the threat of legal consequences. “We believe 180,000 to 200,000 people attending,” Viktória Radványi told AFP. “It is hard to estimate because there have never been so many people at Budapest Pride.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

amazing q&a with paul krugman

they just assaulted a sitting united states senator and dragged him out of a press conference

"opposition legislator violently removed by regime thugs" would be an accurate description if you saw it anywhere else.

How Gaza’s food queues turned into kill zones Dozens of Palestinians have been shot dead trying to reach a US and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme

"This isn't aid. It's a mouse trap." - important, harrowing piece this:

Financial Times editorial on Israel, calling on Europe to recognise a Palestinian state www.ft.com/content/8856...

The Austrian equality guy is back!!!

Nvm, Stefan Raab has been spotted, consider Germany crossed off that list

Rooting for Ukraine and Iceland but would be happy with Austria or Germany (I know) too

Have people not perceived the effort put in by the lovely handsome sweaty hot singer in a tank top with a pretty smile who's cute?!?

Excuse me?! Justice for Cyprus pls

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

this continues to be the most useful metaphor I’ve seen

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

Mein Gott but the FDP were a malign and destructive actor in German and European politics, who deserved to end up far further below the 5% threshold than they did. Literally a week after removing their influence and vital stuff gets done.

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world, writes Martin Wolf. www.ft.com/content/b46e...

Michel Friedman tritt aus der CDU aus Stand: 30.01.2025 18:28 Uhr Nach der gemeinsamen Abstimmung von Union und AfD im Bundestag verlässt Michel Friedman die CDU. Der Publizist jüdischen Glaubens sprach von einer "katastrophalen Zäsur" und einem "unentschuldbaren Machtspiel".

Nur konsequent... Eine historische Grenzüberschreitung und ihre Folgen

Well, I guess we’ll just never know whether it was a Nazi salute or not…

Sharepic mit Sahra Wagenknecht: Jetzt bist Du gefragt! Werde Online-BSW- Wahlkämpfer! Komm in unseren Infokanal und mache den Unterschied!

Screenshot der Dateiübersicht einer BSW-Cloud

Hitler, Wehrmacht, Hasspropaganda - Ich habe mich beim #BSW als "Online-Wahlkämpfer" angemeldet und erhielt Zugang zur Wahlkampf-Cloud vom "Team Sahra #Wagenknecht". Dort fand ich NS-verharmlosende Hetze gegen Grüne und Selenskyi. Wer dahinter steckt? Die Spur führt direkt zu Sahra Wagenknecht. 🧵

Meta’s new hate speech rules allow users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill Changes to its hate speech guidelines were among broader policy shifts Meta made to its moderation practices.

Absolutely disgusting. How is it free speech to not allow people to call others mentally ill UNLESS they are LGBT+? That's just discrimination.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

Happy birthday!! 🎂🎈

#BreakingNews: 🚨Azerbaijani government sources have exclusively confirmed to Euronews on Thursday that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Aktau on Wednesday.

You will be pleased (and unsurprised) to know that I did my gay duty and voted in favour of the ESC bill

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