Stelios Sartzetakis

Take Trump Seriously About Greenland The Danes seem to believe him, and so should Americans.

“I realize that this entire discussion seems like utter lunacy. War against … Denmark? But Trump insists that he must be taken seriously. Americans and their elected representatives, across the political spectrum, should oblige him,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes:

Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget

🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

Europe looks to poach US researchers as Trump cuts funding Twelve EU capitals want programs to bring over American scholars.

A group of European countries is devising a strategy to poach researchers in the United States in response to American government cuts in education and research.

Handwritten notes on a metal table at the National Science Foundation, 2/18/25. The messages include "You deserve better! Thank you!"; "Thank you colleagues! This RIF is WRONG. These orders are immoral & illegal"; and "Your service will forever be remembered and deeply valued - ENG directorate".

This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪

Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️

Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI All your thoughts belong to him

By Gary Marcus: " I think it is terrifying. Everyone—and not just The Information—should be genuinely terrified... This isn’t free speech. It’s a massive, massive thumb on the scale, from one of the most powerful yet unelected people in the world. "

... garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.

Corporations want control over your digital books, ending the concept of ownership

www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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The troubling decline in brain health, cognitive capacity, and thinking skills.

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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

Wikipedia’s Elon Problem Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?

Elon Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia, Lila Shroff writes. What happens if they succeed?

Photo of grinning Kim Jung-Un with a submarine in the background and a text saying: "Me no longer craziest leader. LOL"

Sadly so.

Wire cutters: how the world’s vital undersea data cables are being targeted Carrying 99% of the world’s international telecommunications, the vulnerable lines are drawing nefarious interest

graphic: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

At least 11 Baltic cables have been damaged in 15 months, prompting NATO to up its guard NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters.

apnews.com/article/nato...

I’m telling you all again…

…we could get a massive brain gain in Europe from all this if we play it right. 🧠

Europe has everything it needs to stay in the economic race. But we have work to do.

Tomorrow, we will present the Competitiveness Roadmap, which will drive our work for the next five years.

Our plan: to make growth faster, cleaner, and more equitable.

#UnmaskingMusk

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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events Drawing the top stories around the globe.

The world’s cartoonists on this week’s events 🎨

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

European Movement We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.

Bluesky really is a phenomenal platform for community building. 🦋

Thanks to recent surges driven from Bluesky, European Movement membership has shot up to now just 250 members short of…

💥25,000 members💥

Please help us get over that milestone. 🙏🏻

YES to EU membership. NO to Trump.

με την έννοια οτι εδω πρόκειται για ξεκαθαρη σύγκρουση συμφερόντων

τι ζούμε! 🥲

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

We're getting the social media crisis wrong The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics

' Can democracy work, if a couple of highly atypical men exercise effective control over large swathes of the public space? How can that control be limited or counteracted, even in principle? ' www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a

Let's Gooo!
techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b...

Σκίτσο του Ανδρέα Πετρουλάκη (12/01/25)

Σκίτσο του Ανδρέα Πετρουλάκη (12/01/25) www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/sket...

Let's see how long Meta's "no fact checking" policy lasts.

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X.

Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.

if US bans TikTok I really see no reason why EU doesn't ban all of them (x, fb, insta, tiktok) - breaking the network effect by law is the only way to move critical mass here or in another uncontrolled and really free public space

The Rasputin Effect: Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/0lEVKi4H