language is problematic. english is not a good language. there is no such thing as AI, as such. intelligence is not clearly defined. artificial is ambiguous. solecism is inflammatory thank you for coming to my ted talk
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language is problematic. english is not a good language. there is no such thing as AI, as such. intelligence is not clearly defined. artificial is ambiguous. solecism is inflammatory thank you for coming to my ted talk
The EU is already the world’s biggest trading block, with 76 trading partners. Now we table two agreements that will cement this position. → europa.eu/!hYC7MJ
this is a subskeet and i am here 4 it
🇪🇺 🤝 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇺🇾 🇵🇾 🇲🇽 Today, Europe moves forward with two major agreements – with Mercosur 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇺🇾🇵🇾 and Mexico 🇲🇽. Two strategic wins to strengthen and diversify ties that will boost EU exports, jobs, and growth ↓ europa.eu/!4WT99m
The GEN is at #WRF25 session 'Building Responsibly: Supply Chain Due Diligence for Sand, Silicates and Concrete in the Built Environment', discussing how, in the face of global demand growth for these resources, supply chain due diligence & responsible sourcing can apply.
Today the European Commission proposed signing the EU-Mercosur and EU-Mexico agreements, which will strengthen political cooperation and trade and investment relations, bringing concrete benefits for citizens and businesses in Mercosur, Mexico and the EU. Read the PR: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Join us for a virtual Know Your Rights training this Friday, September 5 to get prepared and learn how to keep yourself and your community safe.
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
Definitely a lost battle under this admin, but if we do eventually return to normalcy, would really appreciate a hard requirement that every announced use of force by the state be accompanied by stating the authority under which it occured
Dangerously, President Trump and HHS Sec. Kennedy are wreaking havoc on our already broken and dysfunctional healthcare system. You don’t make America healthy again by throwing 15 million people off of their health care and undermining science. Secretary Kennedy must resign.
The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
NEW: Kremlin officials continue to deny White House statements about the prospect of a bilateral Ukrainian-Russian or trilateral US-Ukrainian-Russian meeting in the near future. 🧵 (1/7) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar090125 Other Key Takeaways ⬇️
it was very telling when Ben Smith launched a brand new media company whose VERY FIRST ACTION was to host a "trust in journalism" event that platformed Tucker Carlson as a serious journalist
Highlighting how minerals are not just commodities but are instruments of power, Clovis Freire of @unctad.bsky.social shares that the solutions to supply security and sustainability must embed sustainable development & economic diversification.
The GEN is at the #WRF25 plenary session 'Trading in Transition: Can Supply Security and Sustainability Coexist?' exploring how global trade systems for minerals and metals can reconcile supply security with sustainability. @tessforum.bsky.social @unctad.bsky.social
Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist The rushed integration of half-cooked automation into the already broken U.S. journalism industry simply isn’t going very well. There have been just countless examples where…
Putin cynically claimed that Russia "has never had, does not have, and will never have any desire to attack anyone." Russians said the same thing in the winter of 2022 - and then they invaded Ukraine.
To sustain global democratic and accountability infrastructure, we first need to solve the cowardice problem. My brief testimony to U.S. and UK lawmakers a few months ago regarding four global "meta" problems presented by mafia states & tech industry leaders. www.linkedin.com/pulse/addres...
Devastating news from Afghanistan. Hundreds have been killed and many more injured in the deadly earthquake. Humanitarians are on the ground helping save lives. We need the international community's support to scale up emergency relief efforts. t.co/fK7bYZZ2Ue
NEW: ProPublica is committed to increasing the diversity of our workplace as well as the journalism community more broadly, while ensuring equal opportunities for all. Each year we publish a report on those efforts. This is the report for 2025.
"Face-to-face communication is much more effective and is less likely to lead to my email address being used to sign up for a mailing list that somehow results in me being enlisted in a Uruguayan paramilitary guerrilla militia over the summer."
most of the Republican Party is illegal
"There is a continuity that exists from the popularity of The Biggest Loser to the current ascension of GLP-1s, one that relies on oppressing fat people while proclaiming to help them." the-flytrap.ghost.io/netflix-fit-...
kind of proud that i can honestly say who the fuck is nate silver anyway
"What to Expect Next in the Trump Administration’s Strategy to Meddle with the Vote" #prebunking www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
China will showcase a range of new weapons during a vast military parade on Wednesday, in a show of strength that is being seen as a challenge to US military dominance. u.afp.com/SAjS
An emergency NATO–Ukraine Council meeting will be held in Brussels on September 1 at Ukraine's request, following Russia’s recent large-scale airstrikes. Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said the session will focus on joint responses to Russia’s refusal to pursue peace and its escalation of terror.
🇫🇷 VIDEO: French education minister opens Paris school on first day of term French Education Minister Elisabeth Borne welcomes children at a primary school in Paris, as 12 million pupils across France return to class after the holidays against a backdrop of political and budgetary uncertainty.
#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - American Pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, and the future of Critical International Relations Theory - cup.org/4fZQXKZ - @jasonralph.bsky.social #FirstView
A Guide To Monitoring Conflict Amidst a Sea of Misinformation www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...
Ukrainian Colonel Anatoliy Shtefan "Shtirlitz" reports that a missile strike on August 26 eliminated eight officers of Russia’s FSB Border Service.
Thousands rallied across Indonesia Monday as the military was deployed in the capital after six people were killed in nationwide protests sparked by anger over lavish perks for lawmakers. u.afp.com/SAjB
#OpenAccess from Politics and Religion - Battle of sects? Iran and Saudi Arabia’s role conflict - cup.org/3K0ueCz - Babak RezaeeDaryakenari, @oz7777.bsky.social & Yasemin Akbaba #FirstView
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Ukrainian forces are targeting and destroying a Russian assault column on the Pokrovsk axis using M142 HIMARS and FPV drones.
A massive rescue operation was underway in Afghanistan on Monday, after a strong earthquake and multiple aftershocks collapsed homes onto sleeping families in a remote, mountainous region, killing more than 800 people, according to the Taliban authorities. u.afp.com/SAVX
A plane carrying EU chief Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming as it readied to land in Bulgaria on Sunday, Brussels said Monday, alleging Russia was thought to be behind the incident. u.afp.com/SAjF
3/ This archive was recently used in a new investigative report by The White Helmets detailing double-tap attacks on White Helmets volunteers throughout the ten year war. airwars.org/citation/dou...
1/ Ten years after Russia first intervened in Syria, Airwars has published the final of nearly 5,000 incidents of civilian harm from Russian military strikes in the country, bringing to an end the largest documentation campaign in the organisation’s history. airwars.org/airwars-publ...
From @juliepoole.bsky.social in 2024: For nearly two decades, the state’s Medicaid Estate Recovery Program has filed repayment claims against Medicaid recipients after they die, threatening the inheritances of vulnerable Texans.
y’all it’s never a good idea to say ‘worse than Hitler’ or ‘worse than the holocaust’ Or ‘worse than fascism’ and you don’t need to do that
#TantonNetwork
Pollution is bad for our health and planet. Take action to protect pollution safeguards and submit a public comment today: https://www.edf.org/Z6rS
Nature puts food on our tables. Nature filters the water we drink. Nature cleans the air we breathe. Nature protects us from natural disasters. Nature powers our livelihoods. Nature protects our health. And now, nature needs us.
🌍 How did ancient societies survive climate stress? 'Under Pressure?', an #OpenAccess book, gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. 🔗 bit.ly/41wbVeG #ClimateChange #BookSky
we got this 🦋♥️ 🌏☮️🌎☮️🌍
📢Check out our August GGIN Update on: ANUMDI, UNGA@80, and Pact Innovation Forum ✅ FEATURED: Second Annual Meeting of ANUMDI report ✅ UNGA@80 Spotlight ✅ Report on Informal Ambassadorial Roundtable on the Pact Innovation Forum ✅ Policy Brief from the CGC ➡Click here: mailchi.mp/stimson.org/...
"a kind of parasocial cult culture" seems like a handy phrase to remember
"Tomorrow's [disinformation campaigns] might have completely different incentives and objectives, so it seems more informative to focus on the underlying core architecture that applies to all forms of information-fueled harms campaigns in history or in the future." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePCn...
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it seems like a no brainer but still i have to hand it to you
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
NEW: Russia reportedly leveraged the August 15 Alaska Summit to stall for a planned Fall 2025 offensive. Russian forces also notably took advantage of the summit to intensify ongoing offensive operations in certain areas of the theater and to stockpile drones and missiles.🧵(1/3) isw.pub/UkrWar082925
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
IF they don’t want the UN THEN they intend to make war and commit war crimes
And that explains why the U.N. is moving out of the U.S.
In a dangerous world, Europe can count on a strong Finland. For decades, you have bravely guarded Europe’s borders. Today you teach us the art of preparedness. Not only through military strength, but through societal readiness.
just as children in gaza are systematically starved to death while tonnes of food are stored nearby so all the people of the world are partitioned away from knowledge peace will fix all that i am going to start a super mega thread now everyone is invited to join and learn here 🧵 ☮️🌍 🌎 🌏 🦋
By now it is clear that Putin is choosing war over peace. Ukraine can count on Europe - every step of the way.
In my call with President Zelenskyy today, I expressed my deepest condolences for the victims of Russia’s latest brutal attacks. We discussed ongoing efforts to reinforce Ukraine’s defences through reliable, long-term security guarantees and the need to increase pressure on Russia.
2/ 💡 The research was carried out in the framework of the #exoALMA collaboration using the #ALMA radio interferometer to resolve small details of protoplanetary discs. MPIA Director Myriam Benisty is an exoALMA Co-PI and a co-author of the study. #Exoplanets 👉 www.mpia.de/news/2025-ex...
The #UN faces its deepest financial crisis in decades, but the new UN80 Initiative could turn “less-with-less” into more-with-less. Can it make the UN more agile, tech-savvy, and impactful? Check out @richardponzio.bsky.social latest piece: www.stimson.org/2025/un80-fr...
1 in 4 people globally still lack access to safe drinking water. A new report by WHO and UNICEF highlights persistent inequalities, with vulnerable communities - including children - left behind. Media fact sheet with key findings: www.unicef.org/press-releas...
After 500 days under siege, the city of Al Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur has become an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily - @unicef.org www.unicef.org/press-releas...
Get more of the latest news on issues affecting children all over the globe, and UNICEF’s work for children, through this live and growing starter pack of UNICEF offices and staff around the world #StarterPack go.bsky.app/LwcZZvY
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1/ 🌌 A twist in planet formation: Protoplanetary #discs aren’t flat. 🪐 A recent study led by Andrew Winter from #MPIA and Queen Mary University of London #QMUL (@qmul.bsky.social) shows many discs are slightly warped instead of being highly symmetrical. #PlanetFormation #Astronomy 🔭
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posting now but i will continue to add to this thread until the cows come home😁
it is Thursday morning in Waco Texas. I am an artist. I am 67 yrs old. I am a college student at community college. I am studying math and science. please join my global revolution can we do it? @unep.org @ununiversity.bsky.social @unpga.bsky.social
a while ago i started a hashtag #PNVR Planetary NonViolent Revolution join us ☮️♥️🦋
now that i have started this thread it feels so good and so right i am going on with this follow and join this is it
remember how good twitter was then how bad well twitter could have been better than @bsky.app from day one the planetary population could be sharing all knowledge today right now freely as a planetary pop, we have that power. we have the needful knowledge/ tech right now. @undptech.bsky.social
if all the world shares all the knowledge there will be no more famine @fao.org
just as children in gaza are systematically starved to death while tonnes of food are stored nearby so all the people of the world are partitioned away from knowledge peace will fix all that i am going to start a super mega thread now everyone is invited to join and learn here 🧵 ☮️🌍 🌎 🌏 🦋
laughing just to keep from crying
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
Trump reportedly owns more than $600,000 in shares of Nvidia and Apple. Both companies have financially benefited from special concessions Trump made to them while in office. The president is profiting off the policies he sets. This is corruption in its rawest form.
@exposedbycmd.bsky.social @rightwingwatch.bsky.social
I sound like a quack conspiracy theorist because I am describing an actual quack conspiracy. I didn’t invent Project 2025. Someone did. And there are receipts. The people who built the ideology that is killing us are dead. It’s their grandkids carrying the torch now. Fred Koch did the grooming
Cruz’s daddy created a Frankenstein monster. To destroy the USA. who groomed Erik Prince? His batshit billionaire family. The Heritage Foundation Bradley Foundation 2025 agenda John Birch ALEC boys. Also Betsy DeVos and Rand Paul. I know i sound like a quack conspiracy theorist.
all this ‘grooming’ that word blew up when the haters started using it as a slur. grooming kids to be sex toys. But it has another meaning. Who groomed Ted Cruz? His father groomed him for success. ‘Success’ as a weapon. Cruz was groomed to be a scourge of democracy. He was groomed for politics 🧵
and fuck the phony ass plastic jeebus they rode in on
one thing i am white. my family has lived in the Waco area for 150 yrs. i am 67. when my grandfather was a boy 'illegal' Mexicans were valued members of this community. all these years they have always been our friends & family fuck the GOP to hell and back
they R SO scared 😱 of the brown 'invasion' their security solution? pump mexico full of US combat rifles sold illegally by smugglers FROM the US ty for yore attention lol
and then trumpf billion dollar wall goddamned gulf of america is *right there*. how far y'all want yore wall to stick out from the mainland? fucking wall doesn't even stop little kids much less terrorists and cartels. they stop and search passenger cars while drug lords breeze in on private jets
listen. here i am in waco. it is a wonder my brain works at all. i been sitting here the last 20 years watching Rick Perry and his toady stooge Greg Abbott gaslight about 'open borders' then ted cruz chimes in with sean hannity and we get gunboats & razor wire on the river KILL ME NOW
you are too kind ty
can i say the GOP couldn't secure a backyard fence in a gated community anyway? there is a glaring reason why 'immigration' ala gop bs is not a natsec issue. there IS no natsec as far as gop is concerned. and lib dems react as if bs has value other than as fertilizer and needs to be addressed. no.🤪
we are going to have to argue this case! we have to fight Hollywood and military contractors and reactionary media and our dumbass relatives and neighbors, right to show them that thinking of migration as a security question is ineffective and pathetic.
in this particular skeet i do not give a fuck If you believe me some powerful entity a cabal. board of directors of evil INCarnate Has deployed the gop as a weapon to destroy democracy it’s not a political party by any meaningful definition. It’s a suicide bomb party
peeps buying into the idea that fascist dictatorship is an efficient form of government No. murder suicide cult. they have every imaginable kind of fantasy to ‘prove’ how strong and superior they R riding the express doomwagon to the bunker crypt They R exactly as ‘efficient’ as a loose cannon
Being trans has nothing to do with "ideology."
my god this must feel good. something like the impossible dream for texas
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is headed to the Ocean State, likely to spout talking points about how Trump is “putting workers first.” She should try telling that to the thousands of union workers who Trump just fired through his stop-work order on a nearly complete wind farm in Rhode Island.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the shooter — armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol — approached the side of the church and shot through the windows toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School. https://to.pbs.org/4n50djw
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
if he cheated in ‘16 ‘24’ is not legit either
Something interesting here. He only ever lies and he always knows he is lying so… Has he got something on his own election? does he have reason to believe he really is not legit potus