I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.
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I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.
Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay! Read Michael Engelhard's essay "Darwin's Polar Bear" looking at the often overlooked role they played in the development of evolutionary theory: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/darwin-s-polar-bear #polarbears
(Pictured: a circa 1808 etching by S. C. Miger.)
“When there is no longer any place to talk to each other, politics becomes a face-off between the isolated individual and the grand narratives of the media – and in this face-off, discourses that offer simple answers have a structural advantage,” the study adds.
YES! This is AMAZING! 🎉
Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!
IT WORKS! ✊🔒
https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/
Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.
But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.
This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.
Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.
"Recent research published in Science warns of the danger of "AI swarms." 2better understand the risk,these are systems t deploy thousands of fake profiles t don't simply repeat a slogan,but interact,adapt, &evolve 2create the illusion of a majority social consensus around an idea.
It becomes clear, then, t "synthetic consensus" is far more dangerous than a single piece of fake news,or the work t bot farms cld do before the development of AI
The Allegory of the Cave 2.0
https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2026-02-23/the-allegory-of-the-cave-20-when-ai-casts-shadows-on-the-wall