Franchesko

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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the Brit...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right

Sky

Ya know, free food for primary & secondary school students -- btw, pioneered by the Panthers -- has been scientifically studied hundreds of times.

The most negative conclusion: "surprisingly positive effect".

The general consensus: "most effective advance in education since compulsory schooling".

The GOP isn't trying to save money. It is trying to prevent our young people from learning enough to oppose the oligarchy.

Dammit Robin, get your head on straight!!
We will reach all 50 states, and we started in one of the most beautiful -- West Virginia. https://www.wvva.com/2025/10/22/silicon-valley-entrepreneur-launches-guaranteed-income-program-west-virginia/
Silicon Valley entrepreneur launches guaranteed income program in West Virginia

Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood spoke at a kickoff for the Rural Income for Self Empowerment (RISE) program Tuesday evening at Dab’s Country Cookin.’

WVVA
The Cheney endorsement is funny in an enjoyably snarky way, but I feel that Goldman Sachs giving the money class permission to vote Harris/Walz is a bigger deal

Wow — that was fast.

Picture 1: One of the hundreds of posts supporting Russia from Tim Pool.

Picture 2: Post right after the Justice Department shut down Putin’s Tenet operation in the US.

Note: I am in Denmark, so the posts are shown with a date format of day/month/year.

"None of the NRA loons are able to reasonably explain how a 14 year-old had access to a firearm in an environment with supposedly adequate gun laws, so instead, they'll yell as loudly as they can that an amendment written in the time of muskets is more important than your kids' lives."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/its-impossible-for-a-child-to-steal

It's Impossible for a Child to Steal a Gun from a Responsible Adult

Not a chance.

Charlotte's Web Thoughts

“Being a woman in tech is insane. We do not work in the same moral system model as most of the people that we interact with daily and we can’t talk about it, because when we do, we are the ones portrayed as crazy or hysterical.”

This is such an excellent piece by @irene – you should spend a few minutes today reading it.

#womeninstem #womenintech #compsci

https://www.sigops.org/2024/the-moral-implications-of-being-a-moderately-successful-computer-scientist-and-a-woman/

The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

I recently reached a few high points in my career that coincided, not coincidentally, with some of the worst harassment of my life. It made me reflect on how my career has been defined as much in terms of misogyny as technical excellence (I’ve garnered quite a CV in both), and how I have struggled t

ACM SIGOPS

Anyone noticed that the swallows gathering? It is really mind-blowing when you realise what they are about to do...

Correction: The image turns out to be the migration of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) and not Swifts (Apus apus) as I had been led to believe. The source is the Eurasian African Bird Migration Atlas https://migrationatlas.org/node/1843

Bird Migration Atlas

This online Migration Atlas covers the huge geographical area represented by two continents, encompassing the flyways between Eurasia and Africa. Movements in time and space of 300 bird species are mapped and analysed drawing on data gathered by European Ringing Schemes over more than a century and collated by the EURING databank.

Do people who are pissed off by the Cheneys’ endorsement not see how much better off we’d be if many more horrendous wingnuts were similarly outraged by Trump’s hamfisted coup attempt?

Most of them were for like 5 minutes after Jan 6. Imagine if that sentiment had stuck?

#cheney #HarrisWalz2024 #trump #Election2024