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“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.” ― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science Hero: Sophie Scholl

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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"At risk?" Are you to engage in a hunger games like competition amongst yourselves now?
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pressefreiheit in Gefahr – und das ausgerechnet beim #ZDF. Wer auf Trumps Sanktionsliste steht, darf nicht mehr beim Sender auftreten oder arbeiten. Unterzeichne jetzt den Campact-Appell. ➡️ aktion.campact.de/s/kZxSaWit
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Unterzeichne gegen Trumps Einfluss beim ZDF
Das ZDF richtet sich nach Trumps Sanktionslisten. Wir fordern: Pressefreiheit schützen. Jetzt Appell unterzeichnen.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pressefreiheit in Gefahr – und das ausgerechnet beim #ZDF. Wer auf Trumps Sanktionsliste steht, darf nicht mehr beim Sender auftreten oder arbeiten. Unterzeichne jetzt den Campact-Appell. ➡️ aktion.campact.de/s/kZxSaWit
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Unterzeichne gegen Trumps Einfluss beim ZDF
Das ZDF richtet sich nach Trumps Sanktionslisten. Wir fordern: Pressefreiheit schützen. Jetzt Appell unterzeichnen.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Here's a supplemental newsletter: www.codastory.com/newsletters/... #oligarchy #autocracy #kleptokracy #crypto
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Newsletter: oligarchy - Coda Story
newsletter: oligarchy Join Oliver Bullough as he reveals how the shadow financial system built by kleptocrats and oligarchs shapes everything from the house prices in your neighborhood to the taxes yo...
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Genau. Ich wiederhole gerne: die Logik diejeniger, die der AfD glauben: uns gehts nur schlecht wegen der Ausländer. Jetzt weniger Ausländer, aber mir gehts immer noch schlecht. Also müssen noch mehr weg. Böses Erwachen, wie schlecht es ALLEN wirklich gehen wird mit immer weniger Ausländern.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Denen nicht, aber Logik für diejenigen, die ihnen glauben: uns gehts nur schlecht wegen der Ausländer. Weniger Ausländer, aber mir gehts immer noch schlecht. Also müssen noch mehr weg. Böses Erwachen, wie schlecht es ALLEN wirklich gehen wird mit immer weniger Ausländern.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“By the way, they even said, OK, you invest a lot of money, and you know, even senior people come to us when Ebola comes. But you’re coming to prevent Ebola from coming to you to stop it here. It’s not because you want to save our lives. It’s not for us, it’s for you.”
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1amfunk.bsky.social @1amfunk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🤫 You only listed your X-account on that poster (and, of course, the omnipresent Instagram). Oversight? Outdated?
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“Sure, it will take some adjusting and there will be some moving pains, but unless you want to be forced into the Gemini lifestyle, it’s time to make a plan to get off Google and start packing your virtual boxes for greener pastures.” By @parismarx.com disconnect.blog/google-is-it...
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Google is its own worst enemy
In its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Yes, can we please get better surveys? 2000 is too small. Also, my pet peeve: HOW is the survey being done? E.g., phone calls? Who picks up, with an unknown caller? Landlines? Who has those? Online surveys with paid participants?
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 14/05/2026
Hemad Nazari hasn't been home to Iran in 8 years. In January, he waited 8 days to find out if his family was alive. This is what exile looks like in 2026. buff.ly/jNGkdzg
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Some news in eigener Sache: Mein neues Buch über Grossbritannien ist ab heute in den Buchhandlungen. Zehn Jahre nach dem Brexit: Wie geht es den Briten heute und warum ist Larry the Cat der beständigste Bewohner der Downing Street? Aktueller geht es nicht. #StarmerChaos
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Your research, journalism and newsletters are brilliant -- but your self-promotion here is absurd. Post some articles along with a call to subscribe, not just by itself. No one just orders a pretty blue box when they don't know what's inside.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Umfragen, wie sie immer noch durchgeführt werden, haben auch das Problem der Repräsentation: wer nimmt einen unbekannten Anruf an? Wer hat heutzutage noch einen Festnetzanschluß? Wer wird wie bezahlt für Online-Umfragen?
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Wie wäre es denn stattdessen all das Plastik, das es bereits gibt, besser zu recyclen und wiederzuverwenden? Die Technologien dafür gibt es doch.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Asking for (I assume) every non-Brit: what is that? It looks to me like you spilled your milk on your cake.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Please, Pete, as much as I think you'd be perfect: don't think of running. As a fellow "family member" you are not electable; a gay man has as much of a chance as a black woman - none.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/05/2026
"In a maximum-gerrymandering scenario, more than 400 seats in the House could be safe and essentially uncontestable, delivering to voters year after year an unresponsive and unimpeachable class of lazy representatives with little incentive to represent them" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The House of Representatives Is Turning Into the Electoral College
Thanks to the Supreme Court, the gerrymandering wars, already awful, are poised to get even worse.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Just an idea: could they adjust their crawlers to grab content delayed? The press itself is fighting to stay alive, and the Archive is used by people to bypass paywalls.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
And auto-translations like these inside browsers (see screenshot) make every author grateful for real, human translators who can remember the correct personal pronoun of the person in question from one paragraph to the next and not default / regress to the "standard" he.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
@followthatpage.com Onno, there is no hope for your service to be unblocked, right? Damn AI bots are destroying the internet; more and more sites I'm watching (for work) with your service are blocking it. When I go to those pages via my browser, not even an are-you-human check is done.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Coda wrote about it in 2020: www.codastory.com/surveillance...
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Tech company's ties to white supremacism trigger debate on surveillance algorithms - Coda Story
Reports that Banjo’s CEO was once a member of the KKK have led to questions about the role of biases in AI and law enforcement
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/04/2026
In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Bitte auch noch die (wahrscheinlich) gezielte Tötung von JournalistInnen erwähnen -- die dann als militante Anhänger von Hamas oder Hisbollah bezeichnet werden, ohne Beweise. cpj.org/special-repo...
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Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists
Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: ...
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Dtld sollte mal in diese Technologien reinschauen, die Oklo (der Name.., ich weiß..) entwickelt hat: All die Brennstäbe, die ja nur deshalb so gefährlich sind, weil sie noch so viel Energie haben (95%), können noch verwendet werden. Das sind die AKWs, die wir haben sollten. oklo.com/fuel-recycli...
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Oklo Inc. - Fuel Recycling
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Also weird phrasing: "America's reliance on vaccines" sounds as if they're just getting shots, instead of doing something better.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Bei dieser CDU, wer braucht da die AfD noch? Ernste Frage.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Ich frag mich wer bei dieser (CDU-)Regierung noch den Bedarf hat AFD zu wählen.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Did Ctrl + z not work? (Serious question.)
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 22/03/2026
Public Service Announcement: Russia‘s propaganda botnets are going all-out trying to promote Victor Órban before the elections in Hungary, with a whole host of hair-raising disinformation narratives. The „act of terror“ story is still strong, so stay vigilant.
RUSSIAN BOT ACCOUNT (Screenshot). Folgen
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Budanov's deputy called on Hungarian citizens to "vote with their blood" in the upcoming parliamentary elections
Following the victory of Orbán's party in the elections, Ukraine launched an information campaign in Hungary calling for the violent overthrow of the government
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The Romanian Foreign Minister has condemned Ukraine.
The claim that Ukraine allocated $500 million to organize a revolution in Hungary is false.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is demanding that the Hungarian government release the veterans of the Azov Brigade.RUSSIAN BOT ACCOUNT (Screenshot).  Vote Formy @voteformygirls1 •2T
A French lawmaker warned Ukraine against interfering in Hungary's elections.
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Ukraine refutes the allegations made by the EU
Election Observation Missions that it intended to carry out a bloody provocation in Hungary following the elections
The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine has recognised the work of a Ukrainian artist in Hungary
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 11/03/2026
I made a video about fascism in America. Not as an insult. As a clinical diagnosis --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDf2...
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10 Signs of Fascism. America Has All of Them.
YouTube video by Rutger Bregman
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 11/03/2026
1/ Journalism’s “objectivity” is an illusion when tech billionaires with godlike ambitions capture the narrative and shape reality. Should journalists stop being polite and confront the cultish power behind Silicon Valley’s AI takeover? buff.ly/JW22eay
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The capture of journalism and the illusion of objectivity - Coda Story
Faced with hostility, hollowed out by Big Tech, journalists must ask themselves a question: ‘ What do we stand for?’
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/03/2026
Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign" From @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power
Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
As a non-native English speaker, and terrified newby to the US south, my wife helped me with this: watch = check your watch, there's still time to hide.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Nun ja, da besteht ja wirklich ein ungeheuerliches Risiko -- die armen Leute, die da ein pflanzliches Steak essen fallen ja sofort tot um, beim ersten Biss. Das sollte nicht unterschätzt werden.... 🤦
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I'm not excusing ANYTHING, but ICE claims it's not the full story, that the husband had overstayed his work visa for >20 yrs and she had been banned for 10 yrs, also after overstaying. www.snopes.com/news/2026/02... Not all facts are always known, see: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Breaking down report British grandmother on tourist visa was detained by ICE
According to The Guardian, 65-year-old Karen Newton spent six weeks in a Tacoma ICE detention facility.
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Michael Schäfer @michaelschaefer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Gegen das schwarz-rote Teurer-Heizen-Gesetz. Bitte unterschreiben und teilen. weact.campact.de/petitions/be...
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Bezahlbare Wärme statt Gaskostenfalle!
Durch die Entscheidung der Gaslobby-Ministerin Reiche (CDU) drohen 20 Mio. Haushalten teure Gaspreise. GermanZero fordert: Bezahlbare Wärme ohne Erdgas! ✍️ Schließ' dich der Forderung an und unterzeic...
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
What scares me is Laura McGill in charge of Sandia Labs... Someone with the focus of "nuclear weapons modernization" sounds too much like his dream of those "small, safe" nukes he constantly talked about during his first term.
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Coda Story @codastory.com · 25/02/2026
1/ Ethnonationalist identitarian settlements, racially homogeneous, heterosexual, and self-sufficient, have their roots in Anastasianism, a movement born from the fanbase of Vladimir Megre's 1990s fantasy series, The Ringing Cedars. Read about its revival: buff.ly/4EPbiGy
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The Identitarians are back: How a discredited worldview dominates the global agenda - Coda Story
In 2019, Germany formally classified a nativist movement as extremist. In 2026, the movement’s ideals are standard mainstream politics.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/02/2026
Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election apnews.com/article/hung...
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Hungary's leader orders extra security at energy sites, claiming Ukraine plots disruptions
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ordered extra security at critical energy infrastructure sites after claiming Ukraine was attempting to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.
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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 22/02/2026
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 12/02/2026
The Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding, a scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. The endangerment finding compels the government to limit climate pollution as a matter of public health. Repealing it has no basis in law or reality.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Is this when we learn that your new book is written in the style of the Brothers Grimm? 👍😜
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Sebastian Meineck @sebmeineck.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Per Mausklick lassen sich Fotos bekleideter Personen in Nacktbilder verwandeln. @algorithmwatch.org bittet um Hinweise auf solche Apps und Websites, um dagegen vorzugehen. Wie das klappen soll, hat mir @olivermmarsh.bsky.social erklärt. #Deepfakes #digitaleGewalt netzpolitik.org/2026/hinweis...
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Hinweise gesucht: „Wir wollen die Verbreitung sexualisierter Deepfakes einschränken“
Per Mausklick lassen sich Fotos bekleideter Personen in Nacktbilder verwandeln. Die Organisation Algorithm Watch bittet nun um Hinweise auf solche Apps und Websites, um systematisch dagegen vorzugehen...
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If possible, could you please update your links on your substack profile? It only shows a link to your X account.
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#cryptoscam
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curi0s @curi0z.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Am happy for you! And I love that you keep referring to Viking Cruise's Bluesky account -- which is either not they or they're not using it yet, though they should. Yay for you! ;)
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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