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mfroomkin.bsky.social
Light in a dark time.
scottlgreer.bsky.social Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · Sep 20
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

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When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
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September 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
djoulec.bsky.social
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
August 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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olivierniquet.com
Au moins on rigole. « Deux minutes et 18 secondes : voilà l’économie de temps que feraient en moyenne les milliers d’automobilistes de la grande région de Québec avec le corridor retenu par le gouvernement Legault pour le troisième lien, selon une étude. » ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/217...
Une 3e lien pour économiser 2 minutes et 18 secondes
Deux minutes et 18 secondes : voilà l’économie de temps que feraient en moyenne les milliers d’automobilistes avec le corridor retenu.
ici.radio-canada.ca
June 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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ohdearz.bsky.social
Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭
May 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: This opinion piece in today’s Washington Post is one of the most important it has ever published.

Shadi Hamid on the urgency of calling the Gaza crimes what they so patently are: a genocide.

I don’t like violating paywalls, but make no apology for doing so for this. It’s essential.
The screenshot of the top of the article with an avatar of Shani Hamid under the Post Opinion section. The headline reads: A genocide is happening in Gaza. We should say so. We can no longer avoid these uncomfortable truths. Underneath is a photo of Palestinians travelling through Jabalia as they flee the northern Gaza Strip toward Gaza City on May 19, amid Israeli evacuation orders and strikes. The opening of the story. It reads: Throughout history, atrocities have usually been committed under cover of darkness. The perpetrators know that what they are doing is wrong. They hide it. They deny it. They speak in euphemisms. But what happens when they no longer feel the need to hide? What happens when they say the quiet part out loud? This is what is happening in Gaza today. The mask has come off. Ethnic cleansing has become the official policy of Israel. The nation's leaders are admitting it, without apology. There was barely a pretense before. But now there's not even that. And these admissions, combined with mass killing on the ground, point to something even more horrific: genocide. The end of the article which reads: Words matter because they determine action. When we avoid naming a genocide for what it is, we become complicit in allowing it to continue. Terms like "humanitarian crisis" or even "war crimes" can function as euphemisms that fall short of triggering the moral and legal imperatives that genocide demands. The power of naming isn't some academic exercise; it's practical. It determines whether the international community mobilizes to stop atrocities or simply manages their aftermath. There was a time when I would have cautioned against using a word like "genocide" too freely, worried about diluting its meaning. But we are well past that now. Shielding people from uncomfortable truths is self-defeating. Words have meaning, and they should be used when they describe reality. Otherwise, we're in denial, and atrocities at this scale shouldn't be denied. Israel's brutalization of the Palestinian population in Gaza has gone on too long. These are unspeakable - and, more important, indefensible - crimes. We cannot be complicit in minimizing them or pretending that they are not happening. Because they are. Enough.
May 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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alexandreshields.bsky.social
Il est beaucoup question d'outils à délaisser pour réduire nos émissions de GES. Les faits: le monde se dirige vers un réchauffement de plus de 3 °C. Cela provoquera une explosion des coûts de l'alimentation, en santé et en adaptation, en plus des vies humaines. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...
Les bouleversements climatiques menacent de rendre le monde «méconnaissable»
Une nouvelle infographie du GIEC insiste sur l’urgence de changements profonds pour réduire les émissions de GES.
www.ledevoir.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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anarcoco.bsky.social
Le gouvernement de la CAQ impose le vouvoiement dans les écoles. En tout cas pour un gouvernement qui était contre les toilettes mixtes, soudainement c’est VRAIMENT important les pronoms.
May 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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April 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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cinecalendar.bsky.social
Apr 25th - The perfect date, it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.

📽️📅 Miss Congeniality (2000)
2 Screenshots from the movie "Miss Congeniality" (2000): First, a beauty pageant host in a red blazer holds a microphone and stands beside a contestant wearing a sash labeled "RHODE ISLAND" among other contestants lined up behind her, with the subtitle "Describe your perfect date." Second, a close-up of the same host and the smiling contestant as she responds, with the subtitle "That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket."
April 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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utopia-defer.red
American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere
geoffdeburca.bsky.social Geoff @geoffdeburca.bsky.social · Apr 16
Here's the odds over time in Australia
April 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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burrowcrat.bsky.social
How are Americans not protesting daily? Like, the big march a week or two ago was great and all, but it just lasted one day? And Cory Booker did a performative filibuster and…that’s it? That’s the pushback? The whole country is just rolling over and accepting its fate. What a pathetic populace.
April 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
imagine explaining to someone in 2016 that Bill Kristol had united in a AOC/Bernie popular front against fascism
Bill Kristol praising Sanders and AOC
March 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Same, little pepper, same
A bell pepper in the fetal position
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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jessmarindavis.bsky.social
If Trump is serious (and who really knows), I think there are a few things to keep an eye out for:
1. Creating economic instability in the country to "soften us up" for annexation: tariffs, attacks on debt issuance, limiting correspondent banking relationships (think FATF action) and access to US$
alexpanetta.bsky.social Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · Mar 14
This is new: “A source with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News that Trump is heavily focused on Canada in conversations with aides, who believe he is completely serious about making the country the 51st state—even with Trudeau out of power”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone
Canadians and Republicans alike are confounded as President Donald Trump increasingly links a trade war to his push to annex America's northern neighbor.
www.nbcnews.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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alexpanetta.bsky.social
Poll on Canada joining the U.S. as 51st state:

Almost nobody wants this in Canada. Just 10%. Regardless of what the X algorithm would have you think

Few Americans want it either. 60% have no interest and 32% say it’s up to Canada.

angusreid.org/wp-content/u...
March 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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bhaggart.bsky.social
This is the correct framing. And it shows how naive Doug Ford is to think he’s involved in a trade negotiation. He thinks Ontario and the US are negotiating as equals. What he’s really negotiating at this point is the terms of our surrender.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it's being done in public | CBC News
Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. T...
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March 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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antihate.ca
This trade war & 51st state talk isn’t just USA vs. Canada. This is the far-right vs. all of us.

Help us give MPs a push & an exit plan by signing the petition telling them to stop using X!

Leaving X sends a message, & it helps us build community in better spaces.

www.antihate.ca/mps_stop_usi...
antihate.ca Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · Mar 5
📣 X isn’t the Twitter it once was. Under Elon Musk, a non-elected member of a foreign government that just put crippling tariffs on Canada, the hate, conspiracy theories, and disinformation have increased.

Help us tell Canadian Members of Parliament: Stop Using X! 👇
Tell Canadian Members of Parliament to Stop Using X
Help us tell Canadian MPs that it’s time to stop using X.
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March 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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scottlincicome.bsky.social
"Roughly one-third of US auto parts suppliers said they would move production outside of the US if 25% tariffs on Canada & Mexico stay in place for six months.... Nearly a quarter...said they would cut or delay investments if tariffs lasted just a month" buff.ly/KX7Od5W
March 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
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March 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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akihheikkinen.bsky.social
Backstop to prevent invasion of Canada, Panama and Greenland submitted to the US congress by rep Magaziner with 8 co-sponsors, all Democrats

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
March 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
Got mad, did another thing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's Threat To Take Over Canada Is a Scandal
Trump keeps threatening to annex Canada. Americans would never accept such talk from another country.
www.rollingstone.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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perreaux.bsky.social
We’re going to end up with nukes and a republic and down a national hockey hero out of this mess.
March 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans.

So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content:
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Executive Summary A pro-Russia content aggregation network, Pravda, appears to be set up to flood large-language models with pro-Kremlin content, The American Sunlight Project has found. Over the past several months, ASP researchers have investigated 108 new domains and subdomains belonging to the Pravda network, a previously-established ecosystem of largely identical, automated web pages that previously targeted many countries in Europe as well as Africa and Asia with pro-Russia narratives about the war in Ukraine. ASP’s research, in combination with that of other organizations, brings the total number of associated domains and subdomains to 182. The network’s older targets largely consisted of states belonging to or aligned with the West. Notably, this latest expansion includes many countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North America. It also includes entities other than countries as targets, specifically non-sovereign nations, international organizations, audiences for specific languages, and prominent heads of state. The top objective of the network appears to be duplicating as much pro-Russia content as widely as possible. With one click, a single article could be autotranslated and autoshared with dozens of other sites that appear to target hundreds of millions of people worldwide. ASP researchers also believe the network may have been custom-built to flood large language models (LLMs) with pro-Russia content. The network is unfriendly to human users; sites within the network boast no search function, poor formatting, and unreliable scrolling, among other usability issues. This final finding poses foundational implications for the intersection of disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI), which threaten to turbocharge highly automated, global information operations in the future.
February 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM