"This is why, despite the money and the branding and the rhetoric, the project looks like a bust. (...) You cannot build a parallel system of journalistic accountability and expect it to matter if the people you are trying to regulate simply opt out."
www.salon.com/2026/04/23/t...
(If it walks like a duck...)
"AAFS Infrastructure and Energy was incorporated in November last year and has not disclosed its owners. It is fronted by two leading members of Trump’s campaign to overturn his 2020 election defeat".
The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies. n.pr/4d0E5EA
"What sets the CoE Recommendation apart is that it inverts [the predominant] approach, and instead makes the empowerment of users and creators the starting point of platform regulation."
www.techpolicy.press/the-council-...
"Europe is building data centres at speed, with €176 billion in investment expected over the next 5 years. The rush has triggered concerns about pollution, intense energy use as well as impacts on communities and habitats." (via @investigate-europe.eu )
www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-te...
"They’re younger, more educated, higher-earning, and fiercely loyal — and they act as the word-of-mouth engine driving podcast discovery."
soundsprofitable.com/research/aud...
#OutNow in #iCS
Most research on platformed hate speech looks at text and a small set of platforms. Reviewing 145 studies, this article highlights what remains underexamined, particularly affordances and visual forms.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
"O que me interessa é o que a voz transporta, a natureza táctil da voz, o modo como uma dada voz me toca, me tacteia."
www.tsf.pt/sinais/artig...
"Chega fails to mobilise practising Catholics, suggesting a vaccine effect, whereby regular churchgoers are comparatively resistant to voting for the radical right. Instead, it draws disproportionate support from cultural Catholics, who identify as Catholic but do not attend church."
Oh, so god.
(by www.instagram.com/tom.adelsbach/)
O Pacheco Pereira achar que pode discutir ‘ideias’ e ‘propostas políticas’ e ‘História’ com um terrorista do discurso é duma ingenuidade quase incompreensível.
Young me would never-ever-ever believe the world present day me lives in 🤯
This aged well...
....mais tempo livre para vir a comícios em PT �
Isten hozott újra, Magyarország ❤️🤍💚
Propaganda looking like genuine Propaganda.
It could be AI. It would not make any difference.
🤯
Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010
My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.
In these bleak (oh-so bleak) times we must make an effort to remember what really makes America great.
(The Boss and Tom Morello in Minneapolis)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwY_...
Well done, Spain. Well done. History will surely remember that one country in Europe stood firm.
Cartoon from Europe...
Yes, please come to Europe more often...
😉
A growing number of President Trump’s supporters, fuming about the war in Iran, are sounding off in the replies to his posts on Truth Social, the social media platform he founded.
"He laid out the 12 specific patterns, the 12 warning signs, the 12 psychological and political conditions that allowed a cultured, educated, democratic nation to descend into fascism and commit genocide, Every single one of those twelve warnings is present in Donald Trump’s America. Right now."
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
"When human effort is sufficiently elastic and agentic recommendations exceed an accuracy threshold, the economy can tip into a knowledge-collapse steady state in which general knowledge vanishes ultimately, despite high-quality personalized advice."
economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
10 years after the #PanamaPapers, the offshore secrecy system is still standing. Progress exists, but so do the loopholes.
We have assessed what has changed and what hasn’t. Read more ⬇️
The $70 billion/year industry in the US with zero evidence of benefit in healthy people and thousands of paid influencers
gift link wsj.com/health/welln...
this is the most meta thing i've ever seen
