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Prófessor í heimspeki og réttlætissinni
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George Monbiot
1 day ago
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
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Carrie Leilani
6 days ago
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How to Leave Big Tech | The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide (Browsers, Cloud, Social Media & More!)
YouTube video by Laura Malvoyante
https://youtube.com/watch?v=z1Qtq-v_W6Y&si=soPAheRUpKqu4f-V
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Senator Bernie Sanders
7 days ago
Will AI become smarter than humans? If so, is humanity in danger? I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question. Here’s what they had to say:
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AI Expert Tells Bernie: “The Humans will be Discarded”
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
https://youtu.be/1oS35oWWl28?si=HB5oMTMJ1ane_6Sy
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Quit feeding the doomsday machine!
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Xela Hart
7 days ago
Cartoon by Brendan Loper
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The real Dubai
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Birgitta Jonsdottir
8 days ago
The ghost Marlboro man is everywhere. I too, a recovered tech optimist, have never used a glorified search engine ai something chat chat chatter bot and will rather bathe in asbestos.
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Mark Jacob
8 days ago
While we fend off the Trump regime's repeated lies about its attack on Iran, let's not forget that the regime is covering up FBI interviews of a woman who says Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor. (NYT gift link)
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Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/trump-epstein-files.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O1A.K_Xi.IEmqgLze83TA&smid=url-share
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Oh no, not Dubai
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Xela Hart
12 days ago
@deadder.bsky.social
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
12 days ago
Life imitates art. 29 years ago, Wag the Dog told the story of a US president mired in sex scandal that threatened to undermine his presidency so he decided he needed to concoct a make-believe war to boost his support.
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David Harvey
15 days ago
Thanks to
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
for publishing an extract from my new book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, published by
@versobooks.bsky.social
today, February 24.
jacobin.com/2026/02/davi...
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David Harvey on Marxism for the 21st Century
Karl Marx developed his critique of capitalism by studying England’s “satanic mills.” But, as David Harvey writes, he understood capitalism as a global system. Were he alive today, he would insist tha...
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/david-harvey-marxism-21st-century
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Kolefnisförgun er húmbúkk
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16 days ago
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George Monbiot
17 days ago
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
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KZ-lager, American style: warehouse
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John Lubbock
30 days ago
Fake and AI generated 'experts' are being quoted in articles in the UK press. "Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in The Sun, Daily Express, Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Star in 2025 and late 2024, 28 experts do not exist".
pressgazette.co.uk/news/faces-o...
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Faces of fakery: More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media
New research from Press Gazette has uncovered a fresh tranche of likely fake and AI-generated experts making their way into UK publications.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/faces-of-fakery-more-fake-and-ai-generated-experts-con-their-way-into-media/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Ben Phillips
about 1 month ago
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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They need the data
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about 1 month ago
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Alex Callinicos
about 1 month ago
‘“Over the last few months, the market has clearly shifted from the ‘every tech stock is a winner’ mindset to something far more brutal: a true winners and losers landscape,” said Deutsche Bank analyst Jim Reid in a note to clients this week. Now, it looks rather like tech is “eating itself”.’
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The Verge
about 1 month ago
"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." Read more from
@lopatto.bsky.social
:
bit.ly/4kF9C1j
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Data Workers’ Inquiry
about 1 month ago
🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨 In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards. ➡️
data-workers.org/france
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Jan Rosenow
about 1 month ago
"But what about China?" has been a throwaway comment made many times to justify inaction on climate change or criticise decarbonisation policies. Well China is now by far the world's largest manufacturer, installer, and user of clean energy technologies.
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Senator Bernie Sanders
about 1 month ago
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Book Jawns
about 1 month ago
I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.
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"The rich will find ever more sophisticated ways to protect themselves. The only way to bring them down is to smash their system."
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Capitalism is over?
www.euronews.com/2026/02/02/c...
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Varoufakis: Capitalism has already ended and we don’t even know it
Speaking to Euronews after his panel at Web Summit Qatar, the former Greek finance minister said the world could be heading toward another crisis like 2008, driven by the rise of stablecoins and power...
https://www.euronews.com/2026/02/02/capitalism-has-already-ended-and-we-dont-even-know-it-yanis-varoufakis-warns
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Mark Jacob
about 1 month ago
The Trump-Epstein-Russia connections demand far more investigation. Which is the last thing Republicans want.
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VT Commons
about 1 month ago
The President of the United States is compromised. It is time for Congress to act. Now!
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The word-guessing program!
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Paris Marx
about 1 month ago
“Technical failures, cyber-attacks and natural disasters can all bring down key parts of the internet. And as the US government makes increasing demands of European leaders, it is possible to imagine Europe losing access to the digital infrastructure provided by US firms.”
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Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
As the US increases political pressure on Europe, it’s possible to imagine the continent losing access to key computing services.
https://theconversation.com/europe-wants-to-end-its-dangerous-reliance-on-us-internet-technology-274042
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Mark Jacob
about 1 month ago
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to Elon Musk in 2012: “If you find some time, come visit me on my island.” Musk to Epstein: “Sounds good, will try to make it.”
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Musk and Epstein Exchanged Emails About Visiting One Another, Documents Show
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/elon-musk-epstein-emails.html?smid=url-share
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Viðskiptagreindar?
@ruv.is
about 1 month ago
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)
about 1 month ago
Liam Ramos is 5 years old He lives in Minnesota He and his father were taken by ICE-and sent to Texas But not before agents allegedly used him as bait to arrest more of his family Liam and his dad came here legally. They’re “following the rules” ICE doesn’t care FIVE YEARS OLD
#NoWarrantNoICE
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Meanwhile in Spain...
www.euronews.com/2026/01/27/s...
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Spain approves plan to grant legal status to thousands of migrants
The measure will affect those living in Spain for at least five months and who applied for international protection before 31 December 2025.
https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/27/spain-approves-plan-to-grant-legal-status-to-thousands-of-migrants-lacking-right-to-stay
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Davis Bickford
about 1 month ago
a quick doodle about two frogs
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Mark Jacob
about 1 month ago
All of us can find ways to stand up against fascism.
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Philip Glass cancels Kennedy Center symphony premiere in protest of Trump's leadership
Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has canceled the world premiere of his symphony about Abraham Lincoln at the Kennedy Center.
https://apnews.com/article/philip-glass-kennedy-center-cancellations-d29fda6fa3ea80dcdc7ded1033d6c04e
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Rob Bluebird
about 2 months ago
Denmark Orders Public Officials to Turn Off Their Bluetooth Due to High Risk of Being Spied on by U.S. Intelligence - view wireless accessories such as headsets, laptops & smartphones as potential points of entry for remote eavesdropping & data interception
indiandefencereview.com/denmark-warn...
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Denmark Orders Public Officials to Turn Off Their Bluetooth Due to High Risk of Being Spied on by U.S. Intelligence
Denmark’s urgent Bluetooth crackdown reveals deep fears about invisible surveillance in a high-stakes geopolitical hotspot.
https://indiandefencereview.com/denmark-warns-officials-turn-off-bluetooth-us-spying-concerns/
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Gary1955
about 2 months ago
Hey NRA, are you good with this? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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Farrukh
about 2 months ago
Journalist, "Do you consider being called woke an insult?" Zack Polanski, "No, not in the slightest. I think we need to go back to the meaning of the word, which is awake to injustice"
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Led By Donkeys
about 2 months ago
Board of Peace - Season 1
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Dagbladet Information
about 2 months ago
Trump var Europas højrenationalisters forbillede. Nu er han blevet deres forklaringsproblem.
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Når MAGA bliver for nationalistisk for Europas nationalister
https://www.information.dk/indland/2026/01/naar-maga-nationalistisk-europas-nationalister
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Free Liam Ramos
about 2 months ago
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Senator Bernie Sanders
about 2 months ago
The idea that a U.S. president would threaten to invade Greenland because Norway didn’t give him a Nobel Prize is pathetic. This has nothing to do with foreign policy. It’s a president acting like a narcissistic spoiled child because his feelings got hurt. Unacceptable.
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Sense of guilt, Freudian slips: he's thinking of his own ICE-land
about 2 months ago
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Did you know about AI and water consumption?
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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AI’s growing thirst for water is becoming a public health risk
AI’s rapid expansion is placing growing pressure on water supplies and public health.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/21/ais-growing-thirst-for-water-is-becoming-a-public-health-risk
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about 2 months ago
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Það sem þau eru að segja
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