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Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power.
New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/
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The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
Another terrifying step toward making A Handmaid's Tale a reality.
Oh sure it's a bad deal but the Iran War itself radically reduced the talk of the EPSTEIN FILES in media so it's a WIN for Trump. It did what he wanted it to do. Fewer people are now calling for the release of the full unredacted files. So his pedophiliac rapes recede into the background.
So what if it's choking local people with bad air? It's owned by a trillionaire and since there are shady dealings between him and Trump, well...
"We should guide these conversations so children understand they are dealing with a machine that responds to them, not a person. We need to show children what separates us from machines,... We should accompany them in these everyday interactions... helping them understand AI's limitations."
"Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it."
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Cannabis is often framed as low-risk—but the data are more mixed.
This isn’t a blanket “don’t use it.”
It’s a reminder to look at function:
→ What problem are you trying to solve?
→ What are the short- vs long-term effects?
→ Is it helping—or just changing how it feels in the moment?
#adhd
Half of young men in Switzerland are concerned that "real men" are increasingly being marginalized in society. A large-scale study by the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the Universi...
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US president says strait of Hormuz will be open from Friday but questions remain over waterway fees and Israeli breaches of ceasefire in Lebanon
The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in ...
Children are innately curious, and throughout any given day they come up with all manner of questions: Why don't fish have hair? Why do flowers wilt so quickly? Their need to understand the world—and ...
