Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the Brit...

Ya know, free food for primary & secondary school students -- btw, pioneered by the Panthers -- has been scientifically studied hundreds of times.

The most negative conclusion: "surprisingly positive effect".

The general consensus: "most effective advance in education since compulsory schooling".

The GOP isn't trying to save money. It is trying to prevent our young people from learning enough to oppose the oligarchy.

Dammit Robin, get your head on straight!!

We will reach all 50 states, and we started in one of the most beautiful -- West Virginia. https://www.wvva.com/2025/10/22/silicon-valley-entrepreneur-launches-guaranteed-income-program-west-virginia/

The Cheney endorsement is funny in an enjoyably snarky way, but I feel that Goldman Sachs giving the money class permission to vote Harris/Walz is a bigger deal

Wow — that was fast.

Picture 1: One of the hundreds of posts supporting Russia from Tim Pool.

Picture 2: Post right after the Justice Department shut down Putin’s Tenet operation in the US.

Note: I am in Denmark, so the posts are shown with a date format of day/month/year.

"None of the NRA loons are able to reasonably explain how a 14 year-old had access to a firearm in an environment with supposedly adequate gun laws, so instead, they'll yell as loudly as they can that an amendment written in the time of muskets is more important than your kids' lives."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/its-impossible-for-a-child-to-steal

“Being a woman in tech is insane. We do not work in the same moral system model as most of the people that we interact with daily and we can’t talk about it, because when we do, we are the ones portrayed as crazy or hysterical.”

This is such an excellent piece by @irene – you should spend a few minutes today reading it.

#womeninstem #womenintech #compsci

https://www.sigops.org/2024/the-moral-implications-of-being-a-moderately-successful-computer-scientist-and-a-woman/

Anyone noticed that the swallows gathering? It is really mind-blowing when you realise what they are about to do...

Correction: The image turns out to be the migration of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) and not Swifts (Apus apus) as I had been led to believe. The source is the Eurasian African Bird Migration Atlas https://migrationatlas.org/node/1843

Do people who are pissed off by the Cheneys’ endorsement not see how much better off we’d be if many more horrendous wingnuts were similarly outraged by Trump’s hamfisted coup attempt?

Most of them were for like 5 minutes after Jan 6. Imagine if that sentiment had stuck?

#cheney #HarrisWalz2024 #trump #Election2024

The Venn diagram of people who say 'facts don't care about your feelings' and people whose entire worldview is based on feelings is the most geometrically perfect, beautiful and flawless circle ever known to humankind

Colt Gray murders 4—arrested alive

Dylan Roof murders 9—arrested alive

Payton Gendron murders 10—arrested alive

Nikolas Cruz murders 17—arrested alive

Patrick Crusius murders 23—arrested alive

Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eric Garner—all unarmed & innocent—killed immediately

While Black people are only half as likely to be armed as are white people—police kill Black people at 3.23X the rate as white people. A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

"Revisionist"? No. Holocaust denier. This is the last crime for which you should invent a white-gloved euphemism, #BrokenTimes.
Tucker Carlson Criticized for Hosting Holocaust Revisionist https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/business/media/tucker-carlson-holocaust-interview-biden-administration.html?smid=tw-share

Love that Elon Musk is still claiming to this day that he and the right has stayed in the same place and the left has grown more extreme, in the face of VICE PRESIDENT DICK FUCKING CHENEY voting for Kamala Harris because Trump is too abusive with executive power.

Biden just announced the biggest investment in rural (and clean) electricity since the New Deal.

This means thousands of permanent jobs and benefits to 80% of all rural homes and buildings and major reductions in electricity costs for 10 years for rural Americans. This is what investment in America should look like.

Biden funds largest electrification effort since FDR's New Deal:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/05/biden-electrification-rural-new-deal/75076260007/

If done right: "A study published late last year found that insect abundance had tripled over five years on test plots at two other Minnesota solar sites. The abundance of native bees grew twentyfold."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/climate/solar-power-pollinators-wildlife.html

EXCELLENT by Rebecca Solnit: "The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media is that they worked hard to earn it."
Did the media learn nothing from its disastrous coverage of Trump and Clinton in 2016?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/trump-clinton-harris-election

Wait.... so they *could* have been doing more and arresting CEO's *does* work?

Whoodathunk it?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24237254/telegram-pavel-durov-arrest-private-chats-moderation-policy-change

Accurate