“The single best predictor of what people believe is how many times they’ve heard it.” — FrameWorks Institute Via Urban Truth Collective
When it comes to spreading disinformation, dark money buys a lot of repetition, because repetition works.
Repetition works.
Repetition works.
Repetition works.
(Did we mention that repetition works?)
#UrbanTruth
This is nice…
Frozen Light, by Curt Stanfield
www.curtstanfield.com/collections/...
The specific Tory reject that Reform hope to foist on Wales.
The lack of respect that Reform have shown for Wales throughout this campaign has been staggering.
The text that they will still get a significant result is testament to a sense of betrayal in communities.
They will deepen that betrayal.
You see, for me, the part about "slashing staff numbers from 3,200 to 322" would right away sounds an alarm because it is 1) completely infeasible and 2) Completely immoral. The fact that someone would suggest that is a massive red flag
Interesting
Just found an old photo of my Saab 99 Combi Coupé. I owned this car from around 1997 to about 2001.
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Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers,
1874 by Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926).
Oil, canvas | 56 × 74 cm.
Location: Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation, Santa Monica, USA.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux
France is ditching US software for homegrown alternatives of Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Zoom, and Telegram
Libre Office is very good.
www.techspot.com/news/112032-...
Jokes aside, this is an incredibly important day for freedom and democracy and, most importantly, for basic common sense and human dignity, in the spirit of 1989.
France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry.
The reason?
The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore.
Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.
Daniel Garber, American (1880-1958), Springtime in the Village, 1917, oil on canvas, 77.47 x 72.39 cm, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
Wide Amsterdam street jammed with colourful cars in the 1970s.
Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.
Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
We don't spend enough time thinking about strategic planning around the actual cost of using an LLM. The AI companies are effectively borrowing $1,000 for every $1 of revenue.
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A photo of about 10 used bikes outside a cycle shop with price tags from £110
A used bike from a cycle shop can cost less than a tank of fuel, but will last for years and thousands of miles with minimal maintenance.
#BeatTheFuelCrisis
Pics from my cycle ride today. From Builth to Llyn Brianne and back.
Quite. It's 'rain' down on them for starters.
“Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia, a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer's, a 40% lower risk of young-onset dementia (before the age of 65), & a 17% lower risk of late-onset dementia.”
Connecting bike-riding with reduced dementia risk. #UrbanTruth
Octopus hauling ass on the sea floor: #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/Romania_mi...
In April 1991, Gopher system was created at the University of Minnesota as a text-based system that used the hierarchical menu structure for navigation.
In April 1991, Gopher system was created at the University of Minnesota as a text-based system that used the hierarchical menu structure for navigation.
#InternetHistory
Telling that Elon Musk, the Space CEO himself, didn't interrupt his frenzied posting even once yesterday to mention the Artemis II launch.
Justyna Kopania
Putin’s people
Trump: “We can't take care of daycare. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, and Medicare. We have to take care of one thing: Military.”
“I did not detect anything new. Essentially, it was a summary of all of the tweets he has issued over the last 30 days, almost in chronological order,” Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Quincy Institute
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A prejudice maybe, certainly not racism
