"One day, American taxpayers might wake up and demand to know why we fund research on baseless conspiracy theories rather than investing in our collective future."
This is not some dystopian future, we're already there - question is, will we allow it to continue?
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Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
Bellingcat's @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social joined CBC to discuss some of the latest propaganda coming out of Russia
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Science story about today’s Bethesda Declaration report.
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“Die Shitshow tut weh. Anständige Regeln des Miteinanders werden bewusst zerstört und das Versprechen verunglimpft, menschliche Würde gelte auch unabhängig vom Bankkonto.”
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Das Grundgefühl des Niedergangs ist strategischer Bestandteil einer autokratischen Zeitenwende. Deshalb gilt es, sich der meckernd-kapitulierenden Brandbeschleunigung zu verweigern.
A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
Almost comical
Ryan Enos
Philipp Markolin
The ultimate boss of failing upward.
CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report.nypost.com
More on the impact of proposed OMB policies:
"Who would benefit from the proposed rules? For one, politically connected industries... Other beneficiaries might include partisan think tanks, pseudoscientists or even government agencies that may shirk their legal obligations to protect the public."
Mike Boylan-Kolchin
Am Samstag halte ich an der TU Berlin einen Vortrag zum Faschismus von Björn Höcke.
Oder auch nicht.
Ein Anwalt hat der TU gedroht.
Diese überlegt, während des SDS Kongresses einige Vorträge so nicht zuzulassen.
Vor allem die nicht, die sich mit Faschismus befassen, unter anderem auch meinen Vortrag
Prevention is only visible when you break it.
Drinking water treatment and pasteurization played a critical role in the elimination of typhoid along with other diseases.
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
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Andreas Kemper
I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again.
Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed.
🧵My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/anguis...
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill.
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Europe's real moat is the one thing no hyperscaler can sell: its institutions and its deep commitment to human agency, belonging, care and dignity.
That is what makes us trusted to deploy. That is the translation layer we underwrite when we fund a medtech company.
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au.civic.ai
Opportunities and Risks of Using AI to Shape the Future of our Society.
