Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾
@amarten.bsky.social
Nobel Prize Literature Svetlana Alexievich: Democracy is in retreat because we have convinced ourselves that we are too small to effect change, we have to convince ourselves of the contrary, each of us has to find this strength, this ability to resist.
Businesses can use dynamic pricing to deliver better deals to customers. But they also are using the new technology to jack up prices.
#shared #econsky #pricing
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#shared #econsky #pricing
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing.
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Businesses can use dynamic pricing to deliver better deals to customers. But they also are using the new technology to jack up prices.
#shared #econsky #pricing
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
#shared #econsky #pricing
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Trump administration’s cryptocurrency moves are the most significant case of strategic corruption in US history.
#NoKings #Resist #crypto
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/cryptocurr...
#NoKings #Resist #crypto
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/cryptocurr...
Cryptocurrency's Assault on America
The Tether-Lutnick-Rumble nexus - Part 1
dekleptocracy.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trump administration’s cryptocurrency moves are the most significant case of strategic corruption in US history.
#NoKings #Resist #crypto
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/cryptocurr...
#NoKings #Resist #crypto
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/cryptocurr...
Despite my focus on eating healthy and daily exercise, I have always had LDL on the high side to the point of requiring a daily statin medication.
#medicine #health 🧪 #genetics
www.sciencefocus.com/news/familia...
#medicine #health 🧪 #genetics
www.sciencefocus.com/news/familia...
Most people with high-cholesterol gene don't know they have it, warns study | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Researchers issue new warning over overlooked high cholesterol condition – here are the symptoms (and why you’re likely to miss them)
www.sciencefocus.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Despite my focus on eating healthy and daily exercise, I have always had LDL on the high side to the point of requiring a daily statin medication.
#medicine #health 🧪 #genetics
www.sciencefocus.com/news/familia...
#medicine #health 🧪 #genetics
www.sciencefocus.com/news/familia...
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If you don’t know how close this race is, this was a previously +22 Republican district! It’s now a 2 point race and likely getting closer each day. If you have extra time to spare this holiday season, check out this chance to help flip a gerrymandered district in Tennessee. Let’s Flip This Seat!
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you don’t know how close this race is, this was a previously +22 Republican district! It’s now a 2 point race and likely getting closer each day. If you have extra time to spare this holiday season, check out this chance to help flip a gerrymandered district in Tennessee. Let’s Flip This Seat!
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WE ARE GOING TO FLIP DISTRICT 7!
Let’s get one more big push for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Let’s get some leadership that actually cares about Tennessee!!!!! Early voting ends 26th, final vote Dec 2!
#deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news
Let’s get one more big push for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Let’s get some leadership that actually cares about Tennessee!!!!! Early voting ends 26th, final vote Dec 2!
#deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
WE ARE GOING TO FLIP DISTRICT 7!
Let’s get one more big push for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Let’s get some leadership that actually cares about Tennessee!!!!! Early voting ends 26th, final vote Dec 2!
#deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news
Let’s get one more big push for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Let’s get some leadership that actually cares about Tennessee!!!!! Early voting ends 26th, final vote Dec 2!
#deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news
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So, DOGE, What Would You Say You Did Here?
An exit interview
www.theatlantic.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Men are still getting married all the time bro. Maybe be a better person #deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I interviewed Aftyn Behn, who is running in a special election in TN7 — if you know anyone in the district, please remind them to vote for Aftyn.
She has a real shot to flip the congressional seat. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
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She has a real shot to flip the congressional seat. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
jesspiper.substack.com/p/feed-kids-...
Feed Kids. Fix Roads. Fund Hospitals.
Aftyn Behn
jesspiper.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I interviewed Aftyn Behn, who is running in a special election in TN7 — if you know anyone in the district, please remind them to vote for Aftyn.
She has a real shot to flip the congressional seat. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
jesspiper.substack.com/p/feed-kids-...
She has a real shot to flip the congressional seat. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
jesspiper.substack.com/p/feed-kids-...
Mariupol residents are seeing their homes demolished and resold. Researcher Ilvija Bruge breaks down her investigation in our latest Bellingchat Premium episode on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/how-ma...
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Dekleptocracy says chemicals used to make mechanical lubricants and military-grade tyres are a vulnerability that US, UK and EU policymakers could exploit.
🇺🇦 #UkrainianView #Ukraine
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
🇺🇦 #UkrainianView #Ukraine
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West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back Russia’s war machine’
US group Dekleptocracy identifies additives for military vehicles’ lubricants and tyres as potential vulnerabilities
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Dekleptocracy says chemicals used to make mechanical lubricants and military-grade tyres are a vulnerability that US, UK and EU policymakers could exploit.
🇺🇦 #UkrainianView #Ukraine
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
🇺🇦 #UkrainianView #Ukraine
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Silicon Valley’s pivot to synthetic intimacy makes sense: Emotional attachment maximizes engagement.
The real existential threat of generative A.I. is not rogue super-intelligence, but a quiet atrophy of our ability to forge genuine human connection.
#AI #GenAI
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
The real existential threat of generative A.I. is not rogue super-intelligence, but a quiet atrophy of our ability to forge genuine human connection.
#AI #GenAI
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Silicon Valley’s pivot to synthetic intimacy makes sense: Emotional attachment maximizes engagement.
The real existential threat of generative A.I. is not rogue super-intelligence, but a quiet atrophy of our ability to forge genuine human connection.
#AI #GenAI
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
The real existential threat of generative A.I. is not rogue super-intelligence, but a quiet atrophy of our ability to forge genuine human connection.
#AI #GenAI
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
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The chemical elements are the building blocks of everything around us. These four films explore the complex stories of the elements. How do they show up in your life?
Opinion | The Elements That Define Our World
A series of short films about how the elements of the periodic table shape our lives.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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What the researchers found is that the visible tip of the iceberg — the layoffs and role shifts in tech, computing and information technology — represents just 2.2% of total wage exposure, or about $211 billion
iceberg.mit.edu
iceberg.mit.edu
Project Iceberg - Workforce Intelligence for the AI Economy
iceberg.mit.edu
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
What the researchers found is that the visible tip of the iceberg — the layoffs and role shifts in tech, computing and information technology — represents just 2.2% of total wage exposure, or about $211 billion
iceberg.mit.edu
iceberg.mit.edu
The index treats the 151 million workers as individual agents, each tagged with skills, tasks, occupation and location. It maps more than 32,000 skills across 923 occupations in 3,000 counties, then measures where current AI systems can already perform those skills. #AI
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/m...
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The index treats the 151 million workers as individual agents, each tagged with skills, tasks, occupation and location. It maps more than 32,000 skills across 923 occupations in 3,000 counties, then measures where current AI systems can already perform those skills. #AI
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/m...
Please share/repost if you believe democracies have a duty to support the integrity of Ukraine's internationally recognized borders against Putin's war of aggression.
#SlavaUkraini #StandWithUkraine #NAFO
#SlavaUkraini #StandWithUkraine #NAFO
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I volunteered for three more Junior Acheivement Finance Park events with Richmond VA area HS students. My assigned students were from Brasil, Guatemala, and El Savador. I spoke to them in both Portuguese and Spanish to ensure that the students were fully engaged.
#Education #JuniorAcheivement #DEI
#Education #JuniorAcheivement #DEI
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I volunteered for three more Junior Acheivement Finance Park events with Richmond VA area HS students. My assigned students were from Brasil, Guatemala, and El Savador. I spoke to them in both Portuguese and Spanish to ensure that the students were fully engaged.
#Education #JuniorAcheivement #DEI
#Education #JuniorAcheivement #DEI
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My conversation on @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social about Elon Musk's destruction of USAID -- Trump's most lethal policy -- and what each of us can do to push back at the darkness: www.ms.now/the-last-wor... @kristofimpact.bsky.social
Kristof: Elon Musk could save far more lives than he’s costing
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof joins MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell to highlight the nonprofit organizations working to fill the life-saving global health gaps created after the Trump...
www.ms.now
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My conversation on @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social about Elon Musk's destruction of USAID -- Trump's most lethal policy -- and what each of us can do to push back at the darkness: www.ms.now/the-last-wor... @kristofimpact.bsky.social
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
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I just came across this list of 2025 pardons by #TrumpIsATraitor. With the exception of J6'ers 2020 Election Denialist, most of these convicted felons contributed $M to lobbists or directly to the trump organization.
#NoKings #Impeach #Resist #Justice
www.justice.gov/pardon/cleme...
#NoKings #Impeach #Resist #Justice
www.justice.gov/pardon/cleme...
Clemency Grants by President Donald J. Trump (2025-Present)
www.justice.gov
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I just came across this list of 2025 pardons by #TrumpIsATraitor. With the exception of J6'ers 2020 Election Denialist, most of these convicted felons contributed $M to lobbists or directly to the trump organization.
#NoKings #Impeach #Resist #Justice
www.justice.gov/pardon/cleme...
#NoKings #Impeach #Resist #Justice
www.justice.gov/pardon/cleme...
"When I shared the experience of watching Mr. Hildebrand with a friend who grew up in an evangelical church, she recognized something immediately. “What he was doing is called testimony,”
#shared #vaccines #MAHA #NoKings #Resist #healthcare 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
#shared #vaccines #MAHA #NoKings #Resist #healthcare 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion | I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"When I shared the experience of watching Mr. Hildebrand with a friend who grew up in an evangelical church, she recognized something immediately. “What he was doing is called testimony,”
#shared #vaccines #MAHA #NoKings #Resist #healthcare 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
#shared #vaccines #MAHA #NoKings #Resist #healthcare 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
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Bravo.An excellent essay by Governor @andybeshearky.bsky.social arguing that Democrats can win disgruntled rural voters but must focus on daily issues, talk about faith or purpose, and speak like normal human beings (e.g. "hunger" rather than "food insecurity." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bravo.An excellent essay by Governor @andybeshearky.bsky.social arguing that Democrats can win disgruntled rural voters but must focus on daily issues, talk about faith or purpose, and speak like normal human beings (e.g. "hunger" rather than "food insecurity." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...