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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5d

👁️ Have a great week
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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 5d

William Powell for The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

Someone made a lot of money through insider trading. On the international betting site Polymarket, the eventual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Maria Corina Machado went from rank outsider to 70% favourite in the early hours of Friday before the award was announced.

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 40m

As part of our strand celebrating Ida Lupino we will be screening:
The Ghost Camera (1933)
High Sierra (1941)
Road House (1948)
Woman in Hiding (1950)
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Beware My Lovely (1952)
While the City Sleeps (1956)

Passes available here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 2h

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel

Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

www.nrk.no

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 33m

The World Fantasy Convention will be meeting in Brighton at the end of the month and I hope they’ll be considering Trump’s health report released after his six-monthly annual examination yesterday.

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 59m

👁️ Autumn trials in #medialiteracy.👌

Susieus Maximus @susieusmaximus.bsky.social · 5h

Also, it's a good idea to look carefully at videos you know to be AI so you can start noticing how they look. There's often a combination of exaggerated expressions on the faces of the primary characters and almost expressionless, unmoving faces on the people in the background, for example.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Fascists like Trump are capitalizing on all of this. In both directions, unfortunately.

Plausibly calling real videos fake is as much a danger as people believing fake videos are real.

Trump in Sept: “If something happens really bad, just blame AI.”

Trump Blames AI for Weird Video of Stuff Being Tossed Out White House Window

gizmodo.com

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15h

⚡️Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero.

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities."

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

kyivindependent.com

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montygibbon.bsky.social @montygibbon.bsky.social · 7h

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18h

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner dedicates her award to Trump

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Machado 'for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15h

It's time for the rich to pay.

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 2h

Who has pumped millions into his operation? It's a small world...

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 4h

The Winter diet...

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 4h

Quotas first.
THEN the law.
Maybe.
🇺🇲⛈️☠️

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14h

“I got out of my car and tried to explain that I was a U.S. citizen and an Army veteran just trying to get to my job. They didn’t care.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

I’m a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here’s why you could be next

OPINION: “No matter your race, background or beliefs — none of us should have to fear being silenced, detained or dehumanized by the very government meant to protect us.”

www.sfchronicle.com

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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 10h

Fantastic thread (and pre-print) on Critical AI Literacy in Psychology.

The final line from the introduction is brutal: “Ultimately, current AI is research malpractice.”

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 8h

Congrats to President Trump for getting his updated COVID-19 booster. I wonder if he thought about how many MAGA voters still believe the conspiracy theories he started while he rolled up his sleeve.

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 8h

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h

He's only able to stand because of those COVID boosters?

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 7h

Does he know her name?

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10h

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21h

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 20h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 8h

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 8h

👁️ Superman.

AND with COVID booster.

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 10h

From Dec 2024...

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t worry your heads ladies, the menfolk are handling pharmaceutical pricing

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 10h

Any questions about that medical check?