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The Conversation U.S.

Most Americans actually like wolves, no matter their politics.

But when researchers reminded people of their political identities, Democrats became more friendly to wolves and Republicans far more opposed. It’s an interesting study in how politics and social identity can fuel partisan polarization.

theconversation.com/americans-

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The Conversation U.S.

“Environmental amnesia” lets critics focus on costs of laws, while forgetting why these laws were needed and the real benefits they delivered, according to an environmental law professor.

The “Documerica” project shows in clear photographic evidence how dirty the U.S. used to be. theconversation.com/the-us-use

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The Conversation U.S.

92% of adults view museums as nonpartisan sources of education.

This rare level of confidence gives museums both an opportunity and a responsibility to model how people might think and listen together, explains one museum director. theconversation.com/how-museum

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Pronouncing Copilot as copy-lot

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@jdp.extropian.net I personally am very sceptical that such a data-driven approach ("generating a balanced dataset of faithful (green check) and hallucinatory (red cross) responses using the TriviaQA benchmark") could even capture what model hallucinations really are. I'd think one first needs a taxonomy of hallucination types (one oldish for text-to-image is found in the limitations here: arxiv.org/abs/2206.10789). But even calling weights "neurons" is not of my liking and a flag.

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Finnish learn media literacy since pre-school to resist Russian disinfo

My highly educated family needs to do it too:
"students have been learning about fake news and disinformation for years, beginning with reading headlines and short texts... the fourth graders were tasked with coming up with five things to look out for when consuming online news to ensure it’s trustworthy. Now they are moving onto AI literacy, which is quickly becoming a vital skill"

apnews.com/article/fake-news-c
@nepravda

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The Conversation U.S.

Today’s voters don’t evaluate scandal as citizens: they evaluate it as fans. Democrats and Republicans both seek to punish misdeeds by the other side but rationalize them for their own team, explains a professor who has written a book on how politicians survive scandal. theconversation.com/voters-shr

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The Japan Times

At least 16 people have been killed during a week of unrest in Iran, rights groups have said, as protests over soaring inflation spread across the country. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/ #worldnews #iran

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@nixCraft I think Wikipedia and SO are good things to compare.

Wiki got it's annual funding targets met early the last two years. It's strategy is to be good enough that people pay to keep it going.

SO, even though I'm fond of it, follows the VC model of somehow turning lots of users into revenue and that hasn't really panned out.

There's a cohort of people who value scrutinised information and they're funding Wiki.

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Can the US ‘run’ Venezuela? Military force can topple a dictator, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy theconversation.com/can-the-us

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Mine workers roadblocks and blockades joined by union reinforcements from teachers, factory workers & neighbourhood committees; in conflict about #Bolivia economic model - control of natural resources. #Labourmovement #solidarity determines if Bolivia enters a cycle of accelerated #Privatisation of #lithium #rareearth elements, and public services.
orinocotribune.com/bolivia-gen

#COB #Cochabamba #DirectAction #GeneralStrike #LaPaz #unions

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@LevZadov @rjblaskiewicz @indivisibleteam that's an outstanding slogan for the protests, and protests are an ideal first step towards organizing a general strike

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nimu εїз🖖🏻🦝

@rjblaskiewicz syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11583254

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The Conversation U.S.

5 scenarios for a post-Maduro Venezuela — and what they could signal to the wider region theconversation.com/5-scenario

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"This is the moment that Europe needs to stand up – but it will stay sitting down as the bloody tide rises around its ankles."
From what I read, Canada an the UK certainly do keep sitting down.
independent.co.uk/news/world/a

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theverge.com/news/853765/someo

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@akamran @TheConversationUS and because he is so willing to show himself no different than Netanyahu

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The Conversation U.S.

Many across the Americas woke up to the news about Venezuela with déjà vu for the US arrest of Panama’s president in 1989.

An expert on U.S.-Latin American relations explains what’s different this time: theconversation.com/a-predawn-

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@fucinafibonacci @cultura da uno poco esposto al mondo della moda, questo articolo mi sembra poco informativo senza immagini.

Tra l'altro, c'è anche @formiche.net

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In case you ever wondered whether Israel's intervention on Gaza might ever resemble anything proportional or de-escalating. It does not.
reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PA

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