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Update. PEN America (@pen_ev) is pulling together separate federal agency lists of banned words to make one, growing master list. It currently has more than 350 entries.
https://pen.org/banned-words-list/

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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You want to know what #climate scientists got wrong about #climatechange?
We were too cautious. It's happening faster than we anticipated and the impacts are going to be worse.

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You might argue that the many variations of "biological sex" represent statistical outliers, but statistical outliers like intersex and transgender people are also real people who deserve respect and protection. trans-express.lgbt/p... 2/2

The number of factors that may...

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@TheConversationUS and Sophie Scholl s birthday became not only the same as the end of the Nazi regime, it's now celebrated as the birthday of the European Union, too.
Remember her and her resistance against fascism at the 9th May...

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Techdirt: The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

„he answers questions in a manner quite similar to early versions of ChatGPT. The facts don’t matter, the language choices are a mess, but they are all designed to present a plausible-sounding answer to the question, based on no actual knowledge, nor any concern for whether or not the underlying facts are accurate.“

But over the last few months, it has occurred to me that, for all the hype about generative Al systems "hallucinating," we pay much less attention to the fact that the current President does the same thing, nearly every day. The more you look at the way Donald Trump spews utter nonsense answers to questions, the more you begin to recognize a clear pattern — he answers questions in a manner quite similar to early versions of ChatGPT. The facts don't matter, the language choices are a mess, but they are all designed to present a plausible-sounding answer to the question, based on no actual knowledge, nor any concern for whether or not the underlying facts are accurate.

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#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPlus #covid19 #covid #SARSCov2 #DavosSafe #BringBackMasks #CovidConscious #CleanAir #CovidCautious

A man wearing sunglasses and a stylish outfit, with a serious expression, stands against a blurred background. The image features two lines of text: “Hey I need to see your eyes. You’re living in fear of the sun! — If sunglasses were politicized the way masks are.”

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A comic showing a white man with a giant cake, a black trans woman with a small cupcake and a white c!s woman with a small piece of cake.

C!s woman: "This isn't okay."

Trans woman: "You're ri--"

C!s woman (at the trans woman): "You're not a woman! You're a man! You're erasing me!!"

(Cartoon by KatiKnitt)
https://linktr.ee/KatiKnitt

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Huge respect 🫡

#opensource

@TheConversationUS here you go:
https://youtu.be/sNMdRzK9Nj0

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Oh wow, I haven't shed so many tears of emotion in a long time :sparkletrans: #TransJoy

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Honestly wish I'd discovered Clive Barker sooner, especially after this direct quote.

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”

“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-clive-barker-publishing-homophobia/

#Books #Author #Authors @bookstodon

So, you voted for Trump because you had no idea what's going to happen? Didn't you see:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CvQhTbCY4xc ?

#USA #uspol #uspolitics #politics #project2025 #trump #musk

@TheConversationUS here you go:
https://youtu.be/sNMdRzK9Nj0

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Trump denied knowing much about the Heritage Foundation’s programme for power. But his first 100 days shows he is following its recommendations.
https://tcnv.link/nHKqeDh

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This year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood.
https://tcnv.link/r7nvedN

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Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared

https://xkcd.com/3081/

US PhD program timeline:
1. Meet adbisor
2. Research proposal
3. Qualifying exams
4. Propose dissertation
5. Reseaech and write
6. Submit
7. Defend
The last two steps in the timeline are crossed out and replaced -- in red -- by:
6. Get grabbed of the sidewalk by masked governnent agents
7. Be whisked out of the state before a judge has time to intervene
8. ????

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Could this $10 weightlifting supplement be a depression treatment?
https://www.vox.com/health/410049/research-creatine-powder-supplement-benefits-treat-depression?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Science @science-Vox

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🇩🇪🔌↩️ 1/ A little good news for a change: CO2 emissions of the German power sector have been at a record low in 2024, according to recently released data by the Umweltbundesamt. A few observations in a brief 🧵
#co2 #emissions #electricity #germany

@Natasha_Jay hmm, with the weird election system in the UK - what ist the alternative (outside of Scotland)?

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