Interesting episode. youtu.be/7DG4XeMUaA4

liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... (cartoon from the archives)

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Europe has already cut its energy bill by 29% but nobody talks about it. EU energy use in 2024: 854 Mtoe. Without efficiency gains since 2000 it would have been ~1,103 Mtoe. That's energy nobody had to generate, import or pay for. New policy brief out today 👇 www.janrosenow.com/uploads/4/7/...

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Let’s clear up the persistent rumors about biological labs in Ukraine. Yes, they exist—just like they do in almost every developed country. They are used for routine public health, disease surveillance, veterinary monitoring, and vaccine development. 🧵 1/5

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i am obviously not from the British Isles so my perspective here is biased, but I see this as essentially a question of national sovereignty. X is run by a man agitating for the overthrow and subversion of a foreign government and is protected from consequences by the geopolitical power of the US

We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.

Elon Musk is unambiguously calling for a violent race war. This is far from unprecedented. The Rwandan Genocide was stoked and enabled by Felicien Kabuga, the wealthy owner of the RTLM radio station that helped coordinate the genocide and used euphemisms like "go to work" to signal attacks.

Russia lost the election in Armenia, which is good news for the whole world

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Vincent Bolloré, a French billionaire and media tycoon. He’s best known for building a powerful media empire and for reshaping editorial lines across French media and publishing, pushing them toward far-right and pro-Kremlin positions. 1/25

That said, part of why Korean conservatism is so insane at the moment is (like everywhere else) because of AI brainrot and a general disregard for truth

OK! So my suspicion here is that the role of AI in this fiasco is overexaggerated because the company is trying to find a scapegoat that isn't "Korean Starbucks is run by conservatives and Korean conservatives' brains have rotted from the inside out."

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

This is very good news. share.google/AqAtyIB2O3zW...

So Starbucks in South Korea ran a set of ads for a 'tank' coffee thermos and used words that seemed to disrespect the protests which has led to a boycott, CEOs stepping down, public apologies, and now, arrests. Buried in the article below is the reason: AI www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

June 6th is the National Day here in #Sweden. A few things Sweden was first country in the world to do/have: 1766: Constitutional Freedom of the Press and legally abolishing censorship 1974: Paid Paternity Leave giving fathers right to paid leave with kids 1979: Criminalise spanking children

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

Silicon Valley's plan to buy up all the power and remake the world is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Hopefully, it will help people in politics and media understand what's now unfolding. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

this really is wild they just asked Meta AI chatbot support for access to high profile accounts and it obliged comes after Google complete broke its search results these are not serious, capable companies deserving of professional respect. they rushed shit product to market.

Good essay www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Ukrainian friend just got drafted. Puts things into perspective, to say the least

All the solar panels are up. We are now self-sufficient on electricity, 50% of the year. Taking a break and reading Polostan by Neal Stephenson. Not wild about it, so far. "Hello, I'm famous historical person X, I have 0 effect on plot but my precence signals historical gravitas" *exit stage right*

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Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov threatened Denmark, Germany and Britain, and joined head of RT Margarita Simonyan in mocking Japan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m6Z...

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From their own words; the now infamous on here "I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" quote was specifically in response to seeing a slaveowner auctioning off his own barely teenaged daughter

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ridiculously interesting thread here -->>>

Absurd. Thick as Thieves, Mörk Borg, Mechanicus 2, Zero Parades for Dead Spies, Phonopolis all released on the same day. By the time I've finished one of them 50 more interesting games will have released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvKV...

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Another thing that’s happened is the tech industry spent the last 15 years perfecting the techniques and infrastructure of technicized propaganda, mass influencer media, and hype as a service—and now they no longer know how to sell products in any way that isn’t an undue influence campaign

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Lifted a sheet in the backyard, found a gorgeous copper lizard playing dead. Looks like a snake but you can see by their tiny mouths that they are lizard

"Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act evil." Oh really? So the stuff you stole because you are a dystopian fucked up company has fucked up your dystopian fucked up company?

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Told Austrian TV how Russian fighters in Africa have committed atrocities while propping up juntas & how they’re weaponizing the continent as a launchpad for disinformation ops flooding Europe with lies to sow chaos and division. Africa is paying in blood. Europe in instability

I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have

Two solar panels out of 8 in place on our garage. That was scary, they are heavy, unwieldy, expensive and made of glass and it was high up. #greensky

The AI rot is worse than you think in academia. Our own administrators (and sometimes colleagues) who have drunk the genAI KoolAid and are insisting students have a right to use AI "responsibly" in doing their assignments. The fight is hard enough without fellow academics betraying us.