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Sabine Barthold
@sabinebarthold.bsky.social
Urban Scholar, Social Scientist, Open Science Enthusiast, Digital Transformation, Global Cities, Climate Change
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👉 Just published: "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies" - Book of Abstracts of the Weizenbaum Conference 2025. #WIConf25

➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗
September 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Reuters reports on our Eurosky initiative whose goal it is to establish a full, legally compliant #ATProto stack in Europe. But not only that - we’re working on a commons moderation service that can act as an incubator for smaller ATProto devs.
European project Eurosky aims to reduce reliance on US tech giants
A group of European technology entrepreneurs has unveiled the Eurosky initiative, a government-backed project to create infrastructure for social media offerings and reduce reliance on U.S. tech giants.
www.reuters.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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"Natural scientists have been far too naïve about how their equivocal comments about large-scale CDR and other geoengineering approaches will be used by policy makers to argue against the rapid phase out of fossil fuels." - Prof. @jamesgdyke.info, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
The climate centre is barking mad
The climate movement will fail if it doesn't respect both political and physical realities
jamesdyke.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

🔗 www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...
‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
www.404media.co
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A house divided.
Since May:

Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.

Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.

A judiciary at war with itself.
June 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Pope Francis, who died on Monday at 88, was a strong and vocal environmental advocate and used his papacy to help inspire global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. He framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action.
How Pope Francis Helped Inspire the Global Movement Against Climate Change
Francis framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Two years ago today, 🇷🇺 launched a full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦, escalating a 10+ yr war of aggression. Upon learning about it, we knew that the fog of war would be thick & there would be a need to quickly separate facts from misinfo. So we spent the night building conflictmisinfo.org
Russia-Ukraine ConflictMisinfo Research Portal
conflictmisinfo.org
February 24, 2024 at 2:23 AM