NielsPloug
@nielsploug.bsky.social
Economist - senior analyst at WELA - Wellbeingeconomy Laboratory in Copenhagen - Denmark. Lecture Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Major fan of the UN and international collaboration
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At a time when many social-media sites have abandoned their safeguards against mis- and disinformation, Wikipedia is a bastion of transparency and accessible knowledge. So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has been attacking it.
Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia
Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
www.newyorker.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
At a time when many social-media sites have abandoned their safeguards against mis- and disinformation, Wikipedia is a bastion of transparency and accessible knowledge. So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has been attacking it.
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Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 18, 2025 ~ With canaries!
"We are not sleepwalking into the apocalypse—we’re charging toward it with full awareness of what’s at stake."
climateuncensored.com/has-global-w...
"We are not sleepwalking into the apocalypse—we’re charging toward it with full awareness of what’s at stake."
climateuncensored.com/has-global-w...
Has Global Warming Accelerated – a short response to Hansen et al - Climate Uncensored
I was asked by Bob Berwyn of Inside Climate News for my thoughts on James Hansen and colleagues’ recent paper Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the
climateuncensored.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 18, 2025 ~ With canaries!
"We are not sleepwalking into the apocalypse—we’re charging toward it with full awareness of what’s at stake."
climateuncensored.com/has-global-w...
"We are not sleepwalking into the apocalypse—we’re charging toward it with full awareness of what’s at stake."
climateuncensored.com/has-global-w...
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to reverse the “accidental” firing of several employees responding to an avian influenza outbreak. While the CDC says the public risk is low, the crisis is hitting the agriculture sector hard, driving egg prices to record highs.
February 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to reverse the “accidental” firing of several employees responding to an avian influenza outbreak. While the CDC says the public risk is low, the crisis is hitting the agriculture sector hard, driving egg prices to record highs.
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Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?
February 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?