So I build something fun for my book website. An interactive chronology with 330+ events that influenced the pandemic origin discourse; both scientific papers and disinformation campaigns. Check it out: www.lab-leak-fever.com/interactive-...

"In some cases, employees said, they felt as though their employers had started living in a completely different reality. The workplace had become a constant battle between their version of reality versus the AI’s — and their boss, these workers said, always chose the latter."

NEW: Workers say their bosses are becoming obsessed with AI and essentially turning the entire workplace into an exercise in AI psychosis -- making absurd pivots, communicating only in AI slop, and even asking ChatGPT who to fire futurism.com/artificial-i...

The work was done with @martinmckee.bsky.social , two fab research assistants, @uclpolicylab.bsky.social and @unchecked-uk.bsky.social . Thank you also to @instituteforgovernment.org.uk for their input along the way! Substack on it is here: christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-new-guid... 7/7

We also provide more detail on what a body does and how it fares under each of the six domains, and provide links to each bodies website and key sources (such as accounts documents or its framework document with govt). 4/7

We've now gone into detail for 33 scientific public bodies and 11 scientific advisory committees and scored them for each domain, and assigned an overall vulnerability rating. Each body has a set of key takeaways on its importance, why a govt might want to intefere and how it could. 3/7

This builds on our Oct'25 report which identified 6 domains of vulnerability for the UK's scientific & evidence-generating public bodies: 1. statutory status 2. who appoints its leadership 3. security of funding 4. who sets priorities 5. accountability mechanisms 6. Freedom to publish 2/7

📢NEW RESOURCE: A new web resource and accompanying report to explore the vulnerabilities to political interference of 33 key UK scientific public bodies & 11 scientific advisory committees! unchecked.uk/public_body_... 1/7

Quick 🧪 and law note. The SCOTUS decision in Slaughter today has *profound* implications for US science, cancer cures and the economy. Sotomayor dissent: “Put simply, today the majority reshapes our Government… shifting tremendous power over broad swaths of American life into the President’s hands”

When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va...

Climate.us 💥🌪️☀️❄️🌬️💦💧🌊🍀

KI halt doch keine industrielle Revolution Acemoglu „estimates that roughly 0.55% in total factor productivity gains is what AI will actually deliver over the next decade, a fraction of … euphoric projections. He estimates only about 5% of tasks will be profitably automated in the near term.“

The weird thing about today´s information environment is that once an audience for a topic has been created, it becomes this self-sustaining narrative that manipulators, algorithms & crows keep perpetually alive. ... despite it being completely disproven. www.lab-leak-fever.com

RECORD YEAR: 2025 was the biggest year ever for renewables. A record 692 GW was added, mostly solar. More importantly, non-fossil sources generated 43% of the world's electricity and fossil generation fell. More in Bright Spots: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

Grateful to have been able to interview @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social with my co-host Ashley Duffany @nafoteacher.bsky.social on our In Front of Us podcast Current preparedness if COVID-19 the sequel were to strike, RFK Jr. , Autism, Flu outbreaks, Ebola, vaccines and more Thank You, Dr Hotez

This is what it looks like when one of the country's most prominent anti-vaxxers takes full control of the CDC. Emails show how CDC staffers like @drdemetre.bsky.social struggled to maintain the agency's duty to protect public health. Shoddy "reports" cited, flu vaccine campaigns pulled & more

Vile and reprehensible petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible...

So I build something fun for my book website. An interactive chronology with 330+ events that influenced the pandemic origin discourse; both scientific papers and disinformation campaigns. Check it out: www.lab-leak-fever.com/interactive-...

Ever wonder how the lab leak narrative ended up dominating origin discourse and public imagination despite being false? I plotted most key moments; papers, news articles, viral tweets, political statements on one interactive map. Watch the narrative actually form. 🧵 youtu.be/F2WANnGq6EI

This week @ucs.org launches a new interactive tool on the staggering 574 attacks on science so far under the Trump Administration. It's hard to convey the full scope and severity of what's happening but this tool helps us make sense of it and what we can all do about it: www.attacksonscience.org

I tried to explain to myself the behaviour of some people who only seem to reheat one another's ideas — and are the same people still on X today, irrespective of political alignment. berjon.com/rt/

@robin.berjon.com enshittification is best marketing for @eurosky.social Reporting from tech journalist @adfichter.bsky.social

Wichtiger ist, wie sehr die Tech-Oligarchen Elon Musk und Mark Zuckerberg ihre eigene Kundschaft vergraulen: durch toxische Inhalte, Propaganda und ein immer schlechteres Nutzer­erlebnis.

Gemeinsam mit Mastodon bewirbt Eurosky die Deklaration «European Social» für neue europäische soziale Netzwerke – dezentral, interoperabel, open source. Die Betonung auf open source liest sich als Seitenhieb gegen das profit­orientierte W Social, das bisher mehr Medien­aufmerksamkeit erhalten hat

💡 Eurosky, eine Non-Profit-Initiative der nieder­ländischen Modal Foundation, nutzt die Vorzüge der offenen Protokolle besser. Mit dem Eurosky-Konto soll man sich auf vielen Anwendungen anmelden können. Eurosky plant eine andere Form von Verifikations­prozess, der ohne ID-Kontrolle auskommt.

💩 Kurz: enshittification ist bestes Marketing für Eurosky. ✉️ Wer den ganzen Text lesen möchte, hier meine neueste CTRL-Newsletter-Folge: www.republik.ch/2026/06/24/c...

Their business model for the last 600 years is bribe politicians, steal our resources, enclose the commons and then rent-seek and charge a toll for the privilege of using the value we created to begin with.

Tulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

Superb speech by Nina Jankowicz in Lithuania about the need to defend truth and democracy:

The first thing about X-Labs is it's an alt model that retains all the things people hate about science. It's Big Science: lots of money for few people. The overhead and paperwork will be dizzying. There will be little academic freedom, and big incentives to chase hype and not open source results.

"KI-Firmen kaufen Antiquariate leer – und vernichten die Bücher Werden vergriffene Bücher im grossen Stil zu Altpapier vernichtet, konzentriert sich das analoge Erbe unwiederbringlich als exklusive Datenmasse in den Händen weniger Unternehmen –still,systematisch und bisher ohne öffentliche Debatte"

wtf www.srf.ch/kultur/gesel...

"Unexpected shift in funds..." Unexpected? Really? NSF is being turned into a Silicon Valley incubator led by hedge fund managers, so I very highly doubt anybody finds this "unexpected"...

Der Ebola-Ausbruch in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo hat die Vertriebenenlager inmitten des Kriegsgebiets im Osten erreicht. Dort mangelt es an allem.

This video took over TEN YEARS to make! So you know it's a good one It summarizes a major avenue of research that took me from PhD student to Postdoc to now Don't miss out on it! It's educational and fun youtu.be/mn_51q5mTM8?...

“A single Tomahawk cruise missile runs about $3.6 million, roughly what it takes to fund one scientist’s multiyear grant. The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

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Fascinating exposé on the cult processes behind the cultist crank who ran America’s intelligence services until this week. Tulsi Gabbard is a thoroughly untrustworthy puppet. The only question is who is the puppet master at any given point in time. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Sonntagslektüre: Ich habe darüber geschrieben, wie die Trump-Regierung intern ganz offen diskutiert hat, eine Diktatur zu errichten – und was wir daraus über dieses Regime lernen können. Diese Woche in Demokratie Americana (auf Deutsch!):

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Jeden Tag diese Karte rausholen und dann kurz hinterfragen, ob das gegeneinander Ausspielen von Klimaschutz und Wirtschaft (unter dem Deckmantel der Entbürokratisierung) zielführend ist und wer die Folgen der Klimaerhitzung am Ende ausbaden darf.

Stripes... showyourstripes.info/l/europe/swi...

Just me ranting about how lab leak conspiracy mongers are stupidmaxxing. Probably not safe for work in between 😅 www.twitch.tv/videos/28015...

Going to try to chat a bit live about the latest Tulsi - Intelligence Agencies - Fauci conspiracy stuff. www.twitch.tv/protagonist_...

In this paper we applied organic chemistry methods to archaeological materials to test two different hypotheses about the nature of the ancient Greek economy. Our results are literally rewriting ancient history And some people say archaeology isn't a science? They're stupid

In the conspiracy mirrorworld, the usual suspects of client propagandists and regime apparatchiks desperately try to cook up another lab leak conspiracy myth for the base... Anything that distracts from the utter Iran disaster I guess. Tulsi... lel

@michaelemann.bsky.social et al dishing out some truths one the technofantasists promise of quick-fix geoengineering [and venture funded for profit start-ups]. If the incentives are wrong, science is lacking, do we really want to let the "move fast and break"-people have a go at our only planet?

20,000 on Eurosky and growing! Switch to @eurosky.social, try out @mu.social — the future of social is coming and we're barely getting started.

EXCLUSIVE A former ice cream salesman, whose only medical training is watching videos online, treats stage 4 cancer patients in his central London clinic by sealing them naked in a plastic bag and gassing them with toxic bleach www.wired.com/story/pseudo...

I think we are at the point where the facts are correct but unpopular.