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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 10d

There's a reason this generation of kids are worried, building 'resilience' isn't pointless, but you need to give them a future they don't need to worry about.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 10d

How a high-schooler's private battle with debilitating panic attacks became Project GenZen — a public push to bring tools for resilience to an entire generation.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12d

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12d

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Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

gizmodo.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11d

Yesterday The Intercept posted the piece I wrote for them to X. That account has 800K followers. As of now, the post has 5,500 impressions, 8 likes, and the only reply includes a Pepe the Frog image and the n-word.

So yes, seems like the algorithm is working as intended!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12d

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Jared Kushner's Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts Mr. Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.

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Tiago Dias @tiagodf.bsky.social · 14d

ICYMI, Kimmel's full monologue.

Jimmy Kimmel delivers first monologue since returning | FOX 11 LA

YouTube video by FOX 11 Los Angeles

www.youtube.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14d

The curator of a museum exhibition in Thailand that criticized authoritarian governments in China, Myanmar and other countries fled to London, fearing arrest after Chinese and Thai officials pressured the museum to remove the names of artists whose works criticized China.

A Curator Flees Bangkok After China Deems His Art Show Too Provocative

A museum’s directors said Chinese and Thai officials pressured them to remove the names of artists whose works criticized China. The curator flew to London, fearing arrest.

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Dr. Ilke Toygür @ilketoygur.bsky.social · 14d

Very well written piece by Thu Nguyen & Jannik Jansen. I cannot agree more. What European leaders call strategic pragmatism is costing the EU its dignity and agency.

If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen

European leaders’ weakness is undermining the democratic principles on which the EU was built, say Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen from the Jacques Delors Centre

www.theguardian.com

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 17d

ÚLTIMA HORA | Portugal hace oficial el reconocimiento de Palestina como Estado

www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17d

Um abraço

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Aliança Social Democrata @asdprojeto.bsky.social · 17d

🔍 Portugal é um dos países europeus que menos investe na Ciência.

Orçamento do Estado português dedica apenas 0,29 % do PIB a investigação e desenvolvimento (I&D), enquanto a média na União Europeia é 0,71 %.

Países nórdicos e germânicos destacam-se pela positiva.+

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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17d

The @bsky.app app for mac is virtually unusable. Bizarre size (either minuscule or full screen), refuses to scroll down, unresponsive. What do you use on your laptops?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17d

Having mispronounced Azerbaijan & mistaken Armenia for Albania last time he mentioned this conflict, Trump has now settled on a formulation of words he is much happier with. And after all, what’s 4000 miles between friends? As the expression goes…

🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 18d

❗️Trump:We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one.

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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you very much. I’m biased but do think that several chapters advance the scholarship significantly!

Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17d

The book will be the focus of a webinar organised by culture Solutions titled “EU’s International Cultural Relations: Reality Check” (22 September, 5–6 PM CET)

I will be joined by contributing authors Avril Joffe, Alessandro Lamonica, and Andrew Murray.

Registration link below

#culturaldiplomacy

#internationalculturalrelations #euculturalrelations #culturaldiplomacy #culturesolutions | culture Solutions

📢 Reminder: EU’s International Cultural Relations – Reality Check Don’t miss the chance to join us on 22 September, 5–6 PM CET for EU’s International Cultural Relations: Reality Check — a special con...

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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you very much!

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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17d

ICYMI, The European Union as a Global Cultural Power, which I edited, is now out.

Suggesting that the EU is beginning to emerge as an enabling power that supports cultural diversity around the world and, it reflects on the global role of the EU by taking a new angle.

Please share w/ your library

The European Union as a Global Cultural Power

Although culture is increasingly recognised as a relevant focus of scholarly analysis, the European Union (EU) has not yet been examined as a global cultural power. Addressing this gap, this book offe...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18d

"They made themselves irrelevant"

Here's the source of all traffic to ACASignups.net over the past decade.

In just over a year Bluesky (top right corner) has skyrocketed from virtually none of it to nearly 40%, while Twitter has plummeted from as much as 50% to ~2%.

Traffic sources for ACASignup.net over time

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18d

these details are less memorial and more nuremberg

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18d

That speaker lineup. Former presidents don’t get this kind of treatment when they die. Also a pretty good chance that this thing gets really ugly.

apple.news/A7TJ8hcDkRlC...

What to know about Charlie Kirk's memorial service — Axios

Charlie Kirk's memorial service is expected to draw thousands of supporters, including Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, to Arizona Sunday.

apple.news

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18d

Responsible governments find their policy space very limited. Irresponsible governments seem to be able to do whatever they want.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 19d

Jenny Holzer, "Redacted (Top Secret)," 2012

Page with "Top Secret" at top & bottom crossed out, with large black horizontal bands between, ostensibly redacted text

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19d

wrote about this last year and sure I wasn't in any way the only one but imo people voting for populist politics in the 21st century *is* a sign that they do just have too much faith in institutions, as opposed to not enough - they want to have their little tantrum but assume things will just hold

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 19d

So, THIS is happening

"Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London.

Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment.

(tk u @robin.berjon.com)