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Marx and Lenin fail to consider human nature. There is not one section of the communist manifesto that describes someone scrolling on their phone for 12 hours feeling sad

26.09.2025 07:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Maybe we need more than just stern words to avoid war crimes

22.09.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Who called it โ€œfilming a workoutโ€ and not โ€œgymming the cameraโ€?

15.09.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You got what you voted for

14.09.2025 10:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œNobody should be killed for their political beliefsโ€ vs โ€œevery child in Gaza is potentially a terroristโ€ is a fun contrast

11.09.2025 08:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We are all going to die

10.09.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The โ€˜beating heartโ€™ of Labour was told to leave in 2023, thereโ€™s the door, shaking off fleas, etc

10.09.2025 13:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Final nail in the coffin?

27.08.2025 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Metaโ€™s AI rules have let bots hold โ€˜sensualโ€™ chats with children An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giantโ€™s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

Things that are acceptable to Meta:

- Flirting with a child
- Arguing black people are dumber than white people

Things that are unacceptable to Meta:

- Sharing information about the genocide in Gaza

www.reuters.com/investigates...

14.08.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I agree (the parts about having a recognisable name that is your opposite)

13.08.2025 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Teachers Have Become AI Super-Users The chatbot takeover of education is just getting started.

Teachers are under so much stress and have so little time that integrating AI into the classroom is almost certainly going to make things "better" but damn if I'm not worried it's going to shock and awe kids into outsourcing their thinking completely

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

12.08.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Huawei watches had (still have?) a puck that plugs into the USB-C cable, and I donโ€™t know why Apple and Google havenโ€™t stolen that design yet

02.08.2025 11:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We always knew there was no difference but side by side it is just so obvious

22.04.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We could be a proper country again

09.04.2025 09:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New from me: predicting an earthquake is a white whale for seismologists, but AI is helping them find smaller quakes that went under the radar. The more they find, the more lives can be saved.

"We are living a revolution in understanding the Earth."

08.04.2025 13:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Volunteers on 'right side of history' fight Trump data purge | Context U.S. volunteers restore health and climate data deleted by Trump administration - for everyone to use

New from me: In defiance of an executive order that wiped reams of data from U.S. government websites, volunteers are reversing "this act of official vandalism" and ensuring open access to the censored climate, LGBTQ+ and health stats.

And you can access it all too

www.context.news/digital-righ...

07.04.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Syria's tech experts ignite hope for future after Assad, civil war | Context After decades of Assad's rule, the tech sector offers hope to Syrians, but sanctions and a weak economy are obstacles to growth

Entrepreneur Ahmad Bayram figures Syriaโ€™s tech scene wonโ€™t match Gulf money, but it could handle back-office gigs. Thereโ€™s real drive to build something bigโ€”if the infrastructure comes together, companies might show up. www.context.news/digital-divi...

31.03.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Syria's tech experts ignite hope for future after Assad, civil war | Context After decades of Assad's rule, the tech sector offers hope to Syrians, but sanctions and a weak economy are obstacles to growth

Sanctions are a headache, though. Damascus entrepreneur Mouaz Hakki says they mess up payments and scare off investors. The UK and EU have dialled back some restrictions, but Syriaโ€™s economy has still taken an 84% hit since 2010. www.context.news/digital-divi...

31.03.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Syria's tech experts ignite hope for future after Assad, civil war | Context After decades of Assad's rule, the tech sector offers hope to Syrians, but sanctions and a weak economy are obstacles to growth

When Assad was toppled, Syrian tech folks in Silicon Valley, like Jude Khouja, didnโ€™t just sit there. They pulled off SYNC '25 in Damascus by Februaryโ€”Syriaโ€™s first open tech conference in ages www.context.news/digital-divi...

31.03.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Explicit or educational: Is Big Tech censoring women's health? | Context Women's groups worry Big Tech algorithms suppress words and products related to women's health

When the manosphere is rising, online platforms are censoring womenโ€™s health information.

We need people talking about this now more than ever.

www.context.news/big-tech/adv...

26.03.2025 11:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Best Programming Language for the End of the World Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forthโ€”and a new operating system called Collapse OSโ€”may be our only salvation.

Continuing the apocalypse themeโ€”I had a lot of fun editing this Tiffany Ng story on Virgil Dupras, who's built an operating system designed to run on scavenged hardware in a post-collapse society. An OS for the end of the world.

www.wired.com/story/forth-...

26.03.2025 11:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The hypocrisy is absolutely astonishing

24.03.2025 12:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

please, more

13.03.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tech experts Trump fired from U.S. watchdog say consumers at risk | Context Experts, former staff say consumers face greater risks from tech and financial firms after Trump fires technologists at watchdog

Big tech and - shock - Elon Musk are all getting into fintech

So DOGE fired all the technologists investigating how AI and algorithms might exploit US consumers

Hereโ€™s whatโ€™s they had to say

https://www.context.news/big-tech/tech-experts-trump-fired-from-us-watchdog-say-consumers-at-risk

21.02.2025 16:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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looking into this

19.02.2025 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As Trump hits delete, the race is on to save LGBTQ and climate data Thousands of government web pages are being altered or deleted following executive orders targeting โ€œgender ideology extremismโ€ and environmental policies.

my piece on archival efforts to save US government data, picked up by NBC www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

13.02.2025 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Man thatโ€™s crazy

28.01.2025 09:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The fact that nobody is sure what will happen to TikTok despite the ruling is another reminder that the law does not work like physics.

Just because something is legal or illegal does not mean any government has to do anything. Cause and effect does not exist.

17.01.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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European search engines seek domestic control, taking on Google | Context Europe's Ecosia, Qwant unite to create their own search index, targeting Google as it grapples with anti-trust legislation

Would love to see more companies do this because Google sucks and Bing is worse

www.context.news/big-tech/eur...

17.01.2025 09:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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