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Musk points finger at Ukraine for X attack that caused major outages Elon Musk has pointed the finger at Ukraine for a major cyber attack on X (formerly Twitter), that caused outages throughout Monday. Live blog is closed.

This dickhead fires a bunch of people at X because he doesn't know what they do and then blame Ukraine for it. When you get rid of your IT people you have to change alot of passwords and it's hard to do without them. Fuck Elon and X
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Anti-migrant hate is flourishing in Germany’s ‘time of the cowards’ | Musa Okwonga This weekend’s vote will show how far xenophobia has been driving even some traditionally progressive parties

Chilling read by @okwonga.bsky.social

"Far right’s xenophobia is not at the fringes of German society: it can be found in voices at its very centre"

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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Lies and False Pieties: Don’t Buy Donald Trump’s Presidential Act He hasn’t suddenly turned into a caring, patriotic statesman who tells the truth.

This might be the first time a president-elect took the oath of office and most of America knew he had already violated it countless times in his decade of public life. Trump 2.0 is off to a nightmare start, for us and the world. My latest @thebulwark.bsky.social
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🧵 The 2 primary reasons I left MAGA were: the acceptance of avoidable deaths, suffering and trauma; and the defense and justification of Trump-inspired political violence.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Can what you eat change your mind? 🍎
My first piece in @theguardian.com on why we like what we like, and the role the gut might play in mental health. Hint: it’s probably not all about the microbiome.

Plenty of explanations have been offered by experts: the pandemic, the cost of living and the advent of social media have all placed additional pressures on the generation now starting out. But some experts in the field of mental health have raised another question: that is, is there really a mental health crisis or are young people simply not resilient enough? In other words, are they lacking the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from day-to-day difficulties that generations before them faced too?

I am no expert on this, but, from personal experience, the "man up" approach, which this smacks of heavily of, didn't mean our generation was more "resilient". It meant we were less recognised when struggling. It meant fewer people got support. 1/ #r4today

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Fame does not make you immune to mental illness or suicide.

#TW

Fame does not make you immune to mental illness or suicide.

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Didn't expect to ever have to revisit this matter, but recent tragic events have revealed that it still very much needs saying for some people

#fame #media #mentalhealth

Zuckerberg's about-face on content moderation is a pretty useful lesson for governments. Peter Kyle said government has to treat big tech like nation states because they are so powerful.

But Trump hasn't done that. He demanded they bend the knee and they have. It's worth knowing.

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Share Why being gay is not a 'mental illness' (no matter what Facebook says)

Homosexuality *was* once deemed a mental illness by the medical establishment

But then, the medical establishment once believed that mental illness was due to a detached womb blundering around the body. Thankfully, progress happened

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#MentalHealth #LGBT+

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The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

By me, in todays @financialtimes.com

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For the love of God, Guardian. Do we have to keep doing this every bloody week?

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"If something requires work, it's not worth doing" is a very interesting message to be promoting. I assume all the boomers and tech-bros who whine about 'lazy' young people and insist on walking at 4am for maximum productivity will be along to condemn this shortly

This also reveals how accruing endless wealth is ultimately pointless

You're richer than all the pharaohs combined? Doesn't mean you can buy hands that don't crumble on impact if you punch something, like a 'real man'. It just means the insecurities you develop as a result have more consequences

The man in charge of social media platforms used by billions should show some moral courage, writes @jemima.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/682c...

Opinion | Time caught up with Biden. It will also prove him right. Biden inherited a mess. He leaves the U.S. in far better shape, at home and abroad.

“I am confident that historians, with the clarity of hindsight, will focus less on Biden’s softening voice and tentative gait — and more on all that he managed to achieve in a single term. He . . . leaves the nation much better off than he found it.”
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Begun, the MAGA Wars Have It’s Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer vs. Elon Musk and David Sacks. Who you got?

“If Bannon-Musk is Iran-Iraq I’m with Bannon…He believes in the populist revolution. He’s in a different category than Musk, who has decided he should be god-emperor of the solar system. Bannon has ideological goals; Musk has personal, vaguely psychosexual desires.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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The only thing worse for your brain than having hundreds of strangers publicly saying mean things about you is when that's combined with hundreds of other people publicly worshipping you.

Some of the people Twitter drove craziest were those with both many critics and utterly fanatical fan-bases.

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Time for an end of year 🧵. Apologies for the enormous length.

Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Politics & Reportage From the return of Donald Trump—and how he pulled it off—to the story of one of the world’s most significant, most mysterious investors

Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Politics & Reportage

From the return of Donald Trump—and how he pulled it off—to the story of one of the world’s most significant, most mysterious investors...
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How to Build a Healthier Relationship With Your Screen Don’t panic, doomscrollers: It’s possible to reframe your habits and make screen time more positive and curated.

Happy new year! Here’s some tips from me in WIRED about how to build a healthier relationship with your screen tech: www.wired.com/story/health...

Christmas Timey-wimey: why it's hard to tell what day it is during the festive period That stretch of time between Christmas and New ear's Day messes with our brain's ability to keep track of time, in various ways.

Christmas Timey-wimey: why it's hard to tell what day it is during the festive period

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An evidence-based neuroscientific explanation for why we lose track of what day it is during the festive break

#brains #memory #Christmas #time #DoctorWho

Here’s what actually causes social anxiety (and how to overcome it)

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The festive season involves much 'mingling', and for many people, that's a terrifying prospect.

Here's why social anxiety is so common, and some things you can maybe do about it.

#Anxiety #Wellbeing

The year in patriarchy: coconut trees, ‘childless cat ladies’ and crimes against humanity | Arwa Mahdawi It’s now time to ‘hold space’ for everything that happened in 2024 with a list – so here are 10 of the biggest stories from the year in patriarchy 2024 was a very demure, very mindful, very dystopian sort of year. I started last year’s annual roundup by…

The year in patriarchy: coconut trees, ‘childless cat ladies’ and crimes against humanity | Arwa Mahdawi