The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Deutschland ist auch 2025 eines der sichersten Länder der Welt. Der Dank geht an die AfD, Welt, Bild und Nius, dass ein großer Teil der Bevölkerung das nicht glaubt.

This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Im November war ich faul.

This poll dropping 24 hours after so many people freaked out at Jamelle for saying that front-facing social media was the best way to reach persuadable citizens is pretty funny Also, lol Twitter

“A JetBlue jet bound for NY took evasive action on Friday to avoid a mid-air collision with a US Air Force tanker plane near Venezuela“ "They passed directly in our flight path... They don't have their transponder turned on. It's outrageous," the JetBlue pilot said. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

This is outrageous! Why the hell do immigration authorities want personal information about my family or my phone numbers & email addrsses? Unfortunately, I would need to visit archives in the US for my current book project. But it looks like I will not be able to do so. It's just too dangerous.

Those sanctions on Russian oil Trump got public praise for? Never really materialized. No enforcement on Russia’s customers. As critics warned, the Trump admin pressures Ukraine but never puts real pressure on Russia, especially not if it requires effort. Because they’d like to see Russia succeed.

Das, was Nico sagt!

Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass diese Kampagne weiter geht. Im Moment gibt es hohe Interaktionsquoten für Accounts, die ausflippen, weil in der gerade erschienen Doku das Wort „Israel“ fällt (ein Fan zählt auf welche anderen Fans aus welchen Ländern sie getroffen hat). Ein völlig kaputtes Ausmaß.

Free speech continues to deteriorate in the US under Trump. The regime ordered the increase to rejections of European travellers, especially those who criticize Trump, Russia, or Israel on social media. Travellers are being forced to reveal 5 years of social media history.

Den beiden Schlussabsätzen zur in jüngerer Vergangenheit eher noch gestiegenen Bedeutung des Verbotsgesetzes würde ich besondere Beachtung wünschen. (Korrekter Link zum Artikel: www.doew.at/neues/neue-a...)

Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

Ich bin mir ja zu 100% sicher, dass das niemals missbraucht werden wird...

ICE is using "live targeting" in and around Portland, signing warrants only after arrests, submitting false reports to justify arrests, and using Spanish language as the basis for their arrests. How many constitutional violations can ICE commit in each arrest? www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Boy does it hear good to hear a mayor talking like this.

When I was writing my book To Die With Such Men, following an Int'l Legion unit in Ukraine, I once thought I could end with a reference to this story from the Kherson offensive. I don't expect to hear a reaction like this for a long, long time. But I hope Minna is right in her strong piece below.

»Matwijtschuk nannte russische Kriegsverbrechen in Tschetschenien, Moldau, Georgien, Mali, Libyen und Syrien, die nie bestraft worden seien. Moskau habe gelernt, dass es alles dürfe.«

The UK will no longer be a place that offers safety and shelter to those in need, just like in the 1930s. #fascistUK

Just had an ai generated looping video of ww1/2 soldiers horribly sexually assaulting female prisoners play itself at me when I tried to read an online recipe, in case anyone wants to know how the ole tech revolution is going.

Rick goes thru the potential specifics of the deal which are byzantine and designed to avoid paying taxes and we should also be talking about how bad these deals are for us as a citizenry when corps do massive deals that allow them to enrich a handful of already rich people at the cost to **us**

I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too: "There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done." All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.

BREAKING: Michel Friedman fordert ein Verbot der rechtsextremen AfD. Und er spricht über die Notwendigkeit der völligen Abschottung vom Faschismus: Weil die Demokratie durch jede Berührung mit ihm stirbt!

The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC. Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.

„Kurz gesagt, Europa wird signalisiert, dass die alte Sicherheitsvereinbarung ausgedient hat und es sich auf Interventionen in Bezug auf seine Selbstverwaltung (die EU) und die zugrunde liegenden Prinzipien (seine Demokratie) vorbereiten sollte.“ Weiterer Thread zum verstörenden MAGA Dokument

Heute vor 14 Jahren ist der begnadete Fußballer Sócrates gestorben, von dem meine Lieblingsäußerung aus diesem Sport stammt.

The US “peace” plan not only had Ukraine giving up land—including some Russia hasn’t been able to take—it also demanded a weakened Ukraine that can’t decide its own foreign relations and isn’t allowed real outside support, leaving it vulnerable for whenever Russia regroups. Who would accept that.

Gießens Oberbürgermeister hat es schön gesagt: "Gießen hat nicht gebrannt, sondern geleuchtet – durch die vielen Augen derer, die auf die Straßen gegangen sind und fröhlich und friedlich ihre Unterstützung unserer Demokratie gefeiert und ihrer Sorge vor einem Rechtsruck Ausdruck verliehen haben."

Gonna be vague with this one on purpose but I had a recently uncomfortable personal incident with someone who is not a bad person or even a CEO but **very much** of an executive mentality and… now that interaction makes a LOT of sense when contextualized with this 😔

Mit der Einordnung breitester Proteste gegen die AfD als Kampf zwischen ganz links und ganz rechts, zeigt Merz wieder einmal: Er ist ein kurzsichtiger und instinktloser Spalter, der lieber das Spiel der AfD spielt als mit Zusammenhalt die Zerstörung der Demokratie zu verhindern.

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

Putin will nicht "etwas Land" sondern die Existenz der Ukraine beenden. Man muss endlich aus der Illusion heraus, man müsste nur die Ukraine zur Abgabe von etwas Land drängen und dann gäbe es Frieden. Damit die Ukraine überhaupt verhandeln kann, braucht sie Sicherheitsgarantien.

ich könnte jeden Tag ins Kissen schreien. Wo bleibt das verkackte Verbotsverfahren?

There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home. They are lawless bestial scum.

Darf man einen Bundeskanzler eigentlich zurechtweisen? Egal, ich mache einfach. Sind Sie des Wahnsinns fette Beute? "Kampf zwischen rechts und links" am Arsch. Da gründet sich die Nachfolge der Hitlerjugend und die Demonstranten macht die Arbeit der Regierung, die das hätte verhindern müssen.

This shit has been escalating for over a decade. I've probably posted about it 50x: Nazi runes (and actual neo-Nazis) at CPAC, sieg heils, campaigning with Hitler's car, and, just the other week, we saw that the head of ICE literally cosplays as a Nazi SS officer. There's too much to even remember.

The historian’s curse: May your research be relevant to contemporary events

Faschisten bekommen jetzt halbe Städte in Deutschland zugeteilt, in denen niemand mehr gegen sie protestieren darf. #Gießen

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."

Just as horrifying: I polled my students a couple years ago and almost all of them admitted to watching the movies I assigned them at 2x the speed!

Incredible, damning reporting by @ellenwapo.bsky.social and @alexhorton.bsky.social

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Wenn Autohersteller in ihrer Werbung auf gezeigte Sonderausstattung hinweisen müssen, warum dürfen Airlines ihre Flüge mit Service aus der First Class bewerben, ohne dass zu kennzeichnen? #nurmalso #anmerkung

Das ergänze ich hier gerne.

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