@davidho there is an even deeper problem in saying THEY know how to do it. If something is discovered then everybody CAN know it. She is trying to create a narrative where scientific elites are hiding the knowledge from the people.
@Transportist It reminds me of an argument that Euro sceptics made when Croatia was switching to Euro (currency) "but what about all the currency exchange offices, and people working there?".
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RT by @daniel_freund: Elon #Musk ist ausgestattet mit Milliarden u. ungebändigter Kommunikationsmacht. Sein Aufruf für die AfD hat System: Er will Europa schwächen.
Es braucht Begrenzung von Macht: Kein Geschäftsmodell darf unsere Demokratie zerstören.
#Europa muss seine Macht nun konsequent nutzen.
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Elon Musk's vicious attacks on Wikipedia are only the latest in right-wing fear and loathing campaign against open, accurate information. See this @molly0xfff newsletter post on this -- the context is essential.
https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/
(Please donate to Wikipedia, too!)
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Hilarious article from my friend Amanda Marcotte on how tyrannical MAGA influencers are trying to ruin heterosexuality https://www.salon.com/2024/12/27/tradwives-incels-and-cat-ladies-the-year-maga-broke-heterosexuality/
@benfulton @Alon connecting central Europe with Adriatic see (Croatian side) would be also great.
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“We went awry by replacing, in effect, each horse on the crowded city streets with half a dozen or so mechanized vehicles, instead of using each mechanized vehicle to replace half a dozen or so horses.” — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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It's been two and a half years that mstdn.ca has been a thing.
If you see this, please reshare it and star it. I'm curious about the reach we have.
Consider this a research and proof of concept project!
@tunix goverments not goverments🙁
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#OTD in 1853.
Charles Dickens gives the first of his public readings of his own works, in Birmingham Town Hall (England) to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people and including an adaptation of A Christmas Carol; these are very successful and Dickens continues public readings until the year of his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol
Christmas Carol at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46
@straphanger Funny how he basically writes about the 15 minute city in everything but the name.
@michael_w_busch More is less by Jason Hickey and Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis. Both about how our consumer habits and economies are unsustainable and damaging to nature.
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🔎 As a reminder, our Nonprofit Explorer tool has the financial details of every tax-exempt organization in the US that files annual reports with the IRS.
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@gleick can somebody explain what is exactly wrong with safety, diversity and inclusion?
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Banksy's Christmas card from 2005, 19 years ago:
#freepalestine
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With determination getting people onto bicycles and out of cars can reduce local pollution in a few years.
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Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.
@gboussard @Goneri so you have multiple touch screens in cars, mobile phones, advertising billboards on sides of the roads, (both traditional and giant LCD screens) and drivers are distracted by and can't judge distance to a cyclist because one 5 watt blinking light??? Come on...
