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Simone @minutesimone.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Bonjour graphiste c’était mon premier boulot et non, ça fait pas le taf. Elles se ressemblent toutes donc aucune n’attire le regard des passants. C’est laid, surchargé, l’oeil ne sait pas où chercher les infos dans tout ce merdier. Bref y a rien qui va.

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damienbe.bsky.social @damienbe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Je suis le 1er à être critique notamment sur l'oligopole US, la dépendence cognitive, l'IA fantasmée comme outil de destruction du service public et de l'école, mais on n'est pas sur une inutilité manifeste comme les NFT. C'est de là que vient le danger, si c'était inutile, il suffirait d'attendre.

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damienbe.bsky.social @damienbe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

J'ai beaucoup de mal à comprendre l'intérêt de ce genre de quasi-publi-reportage pour la PME de mariages blancs / gris d'un expatrié en Russie depuis 2022 [!]. En plein psychodrame sur le risque inexistant de regroupement familial des étudiants gazaouis. www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...

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Épouser une Russe en 2026 : la paperasse, pas le fantasme

Visas, justificatifs, traductions, voyages via Istanbul : former un couple entre la Belgique et la Russie est devenu un parcours administratif. Loin des...

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damienbe.bsky.social @damienbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ce n'est vrai que pour de gros SUV (les premiers véhicules électrifiés à cause des marges) et pas pour un parc électrifié "normal". On peut diviser cette estimation par au moins 5, voire plus pour les petites citadines (theicct.org/publication/..., www.ademe.fr/presse/commu...)

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Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars in the European Union: A 2025 update and key factors to consider - International Council on Clean Transportation

The study presents a life-cycle analysis of passenger cars in all major powertrains in Europe.

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damienbe.bsky.social @damienbe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you apply this line of argument consistently, the first thing you should do is ban civil servants and teachers from elected office and party political positions. Because then they're openly expressing or subscribing to views that can make people uncomfortable.

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Benoît Mathieu @benmathieu.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

Ils n'ont peur de rien, les brasseurs belges. Les voilà qui érigent la consommation de bière en fabrique des liens et partie inhérente de notre identité. Quelle vaste blague. [1/4] #alcool #bière

Lobbying intense de la part des brasseurs belges, qui se demandent "en quoi ces moments posent-ils problème?", la photo montrant deux personnes riant et buvant une bière.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026

I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

i'm fully sick of this "racism is just another academic idea to be neutrally debated in the ivory tower" bit, it is transparent and long past tiresome

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When it comes to signing open letters about academic freedom, “We have to take a principled stand!” doesn’t work if there have been loads of other much more obvious and serious instances of violations of academic freedom to which you said absolutely nothing.

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damienbe.bsky.social @damienbe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I wonder how many of the academics currently handwringing and signing open letters because a racist and eugenicist is in trouble expressed any support for the UT professor denied tenure without justification or criticized vetting of more and more researchers by the security services in France.

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damienbe.bsky.social @damienbe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's a hyper-individualistic view of academic freedom in which the "special boys"do all the junk science they want. While the real core of it is self-regulation and jugment by your peers according to the standards of your discipline. There's a whole social/collective aspect to it as a safeguard!

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damienbe.bsky.social @damienbe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'd really like to see a Venn diagram of people who are super concerned about plagiarism and proper citation etiquette and people who think LLMs are a must-use tool for literature review because who needs to read all this stuff anyway.

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damienbe.bsky.social @damienbe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The most absurd about this clickbait article is that the lifestyles of Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. are almost universally repulsive to the average person, let alone the average critic of plutocracy. Who'd want to be like them when they all look miserable? www.christianitytoday.com/2026/07/love...

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Love Thy Trillionaires - Christianity Today

If you spend your whole life despising the rich, the greatest tax will be on your soul.

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Fanny Cohen Moreau @fannycomo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ça devient un enfer de l'IA le Youtube histoire, quand on tape "Moyen Age" 1 vidéo sur 2 est de l'IA dégueulasse remplie de clichés. On est en train de faire un énorme retour en arrière sur les idées reçues qui sont propagées :/

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We want a Shrubbery 🇵🇬 @weshrubbery.eurosky.social · 10/05/2026

Je ne vous pas ce qu’il y a de dangereux à préférer un bobun préparé en 10 minutes mais sur place et avec des légumes frais à une blanquette décongelée de chez Métro…

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Oui. Il est urgent d’arrêter de faire référence à ce graphique salaires des enseignants / smic qui est trompeur, et dont la conclusion logique est qu’il faudrait baisser le smic pour revaloriser le métier d’enseignant.

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damienbe.bsky.social @damienbe.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The most ridiculous part is that we're supposed to believe that a sport that has set up a gazillion weight classes, to be able to accommodate the huge strength differentials between a 50kg boxer and a 90kg one, cannot find a way for SRY and trans women to compete and must ban them.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/03/2026

Hazing or "dedovshchina (дедовщина)" is central to the Russian Army. It produces terrible men and even worse soldiers. It is a scourge on the army, on Russian society, and on their victims. Cruelty never makes anyone better, and few enabling environments for it that start playful stay that way.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

A propos demographic decline... I travel a fair bit through Europe with kids and I don’t know how many times @floriangkern.bsky.social has heard me saying that I am convinced Europeans are speedily losing the habit of seeing kids around and interacting with them. Now this.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Isn’t it amazing that China leaves Europe in the dust on EVs yet the EU policy response is to be more lenient on regulating combustion engine car emissions?

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I keep seeing arguments that the Government should have spent the money on services eg Sure Start rather than lifting the two-child benefit cap. The evidence for cash transfers is very strong. And cash transfers go straight to families. Their decision is completely evidence backed and valid.

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There is abundant evidence that children in low income households do less well than their peers on a range of developmental outcomes. However, there is continuing uncertainty about how far money itself matters, and how far associations simply reflect other, unobserved, differences between richer and poorer families. The authors con-ducted a systematic review of studies using methods that lend themselves to causal interpretation. To be included, studies had to use Randomised Controlled Trials, quasi-experiments or fixed effect-style techniques on longitudinal data. The results lend strong support to the hypothesis that household income has a positive causal effect on children's outcomes, including their cognitive and social-behavioural development and their health, particularly in households with low income to begin with. There is also clear evidence of a positive causal effect of income on 'intermediate outcomes' that are important for children's development, including maternal mental health, parenting and the home environment. The review also makes a methodological contribution, identi-fying that effects tend to be larger in experimental and quasi-experimental studies than in fixed effect approaches. This finding has implications for our ability to generalise from observational studies.

Keywords Poverty Family income Child development Child outcomes Maternal

depression. Causal estimates

Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-020-09782-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Kerris Cooper

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1 Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2A, England

2 Department of Social Policy and Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2A, England…

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde

This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

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Andrew G. Benson @a-g-benson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I am partial to @jensvb.bsky.social and @lausterna.bsky.social 's proposed metric of "housing frustration": share of young adults (25 - 34) living with parents or roommates (other than long-term romantic partner) + share of middle-aged (35 - 59) who rent: doodles.mountainmath.ca/posts/2024-0...

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Denis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Faudra un jour rappeler que le modèle soi disant naturel de la femme au foyer-mari qui travaille n’a véritablement existé qu’aux États Unis dans les années 1950-1960 et seulement pour les classes moyennes et supérieures…

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Not loving this. Opens up the bounds of legitimacy for tools that have known, serious problems.

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Je vois passer pas mal de discussions sur "l'IA" et je pense qu'il faut définir ce que l'on entend par IA avant de discuter plus avant, car ce terme finit par avoir une acception très large (et même trop large !) et des domaines d'applications très divers.

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Lol "n'utilisez pas mon grille pain pour toaster du pain"

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

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Léna Do 🍉🍉 @heldormo.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Rappel quand même que ça c'est la base de la socialisation (poussée à l'extrême certes mais néanmoins classique) des personnes 1) sensées nous soigner ensuite, 2) qui défendront leur classe bourgeoise 10 ans plus tard au motif qu'illes ont "fait des études longues". www.lefigaro.fr/faits-divers...

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Près de Toulouse, des étudiants en médecine retrouvés partiellement dénudés et attachés à un arbre dans le cadre d’un bizutage

55 étudiants ont été découverts par les gendarmes, le 24 septembre, dans la forêt de Bouconne, dans le Sud-Ouest de la France. Trois d’entre eux ont été transportés à l’hôpital.

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Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

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M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 06/09/2025

Great threat. This was especially bad but the field of medicine is full of publications with some of these problems. I blame the stupid number of publication rankings. Good to see a social scientist holding higher standards

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Je pense pour ma part que même à l'âge d'or dont certains prétendent qu'il a existé, 1) très peu de thèses bouleversaient le savoir ou étaient des chefs-d'œuvre 2) celles qui le faisaient n'étaient pas forcément très longues.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 03/09/2025

The difference is that the “office junior” will presumably not make up studies or mistakenly transcribe key statistics even when mistakes are pointed out, which “Deep Research” does constantly. These are errors you notice when you ask ChatGPT to produce a report on something you’re an expert in.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Ik ben zeer (aangenaam) verrast door de vele positieve reacties op mijn interview (en de vele nieuwe volgers). Ik denk dat deze impact deels op het conto van de uitstekende interviewer, Teun Dominicus, moet worden geschreven. Helaas zeldzaam dat een journalist zo goed ingelicht en voorbereid is. 👏

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Hoogleraar Cas Mudde is een van de toonaangevende kenners van extreemrechts: ‘Sociaaldemocraten hebben de PVV-kiezer niet verloren en ze gaan die ook nooit winnen’

De Nederlandse hoogleraar Cas Mudde is vanuit de VS een van de toonaangevende kenners van extreemrechts. Op bezoek in Nederland reflecteert hij op de Nederlandse politiek: ‘De gemiddelde PVV-stemmer z...

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Docteur Bagarre @docteurbagarre.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Leur seule arme relationnelle : l'injonction au "débat".

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/05/2025

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

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Vinteuil @vinteuil.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

En vrai, je suis content d'avoir fini mes études avant l'arrivée de l'IA générative accessible. Je comprends tout à fait que les étudiants choisissent la facilité, et je pense que j'aurais fait la même chose. Mais du coup, je n'aurais pas connu ce plaisir si particulier du travail intellectuel

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This was actually a point of debate when GDP was first defined. The fact that government expenditure is included is an accounting definition. GDP is not a measure of fiscal sustainability.

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Libération @liberation.fr · 06/02/2025

💊 Le «paracétamol challenge», ou comment des dizaines de médias ont écrit sur un défi «morbide»… qui n’existe pas ❌ Contrairement à ce qu’ont affirmé en chœur de nombreux articles de presse, aucune tendance sur les réseaux sociaux n’incite à la consommation excessive de paracétamol. CheckNews ⤵️

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Le «paracétamol challenge», ou comment des dizaines de médias ont écrit sur un défi «morbide»… qui n’existe pas

Contrairement à ce qu’ont affirmé en chœur de nombreux articles de presse, aucune tendance sur les réseaux sociaux n’incite à la consommation excessive de paracétamol. Et aucun décès de jeune fille ne semble y être lié.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 30/01/2025

Don’t fight parties on your extreme flank by raising the salience of their issues. If you do you lose!

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

1/ This goes beyond a criticism of the EU Digital Services Act (on the grounds that the US First Amendment should apply worldwide). It argues the EU should not apply its *competition* law to US tech companies on the EU market either. A rejection of the very idea of the EU regulation of its market.

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Denis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Le wokisme, à une autre époque, on appelait ça « les valeurs de la République », mais après la droite s’est rendue compte que ça impliquait l’égalité et la fraternité et ça lui a pas plu

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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We use a new machine learning technique to identify the most cost-effective policies to boost immunization demand in India. We evaluated 75 combos of reminders, incentives, and local community ambassadors. The most effective increased immunization by 44%. buff.ly/4j0v3IF

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