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Drew Struzan has passed away at the age of 78
He created many iconic movie posters
He created many iconic movie posters
October 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Drew Struzan has passed away at the age of 78
He created many iconic movie posters
He created many iconic movie posters
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A psychology professor argues that young people, especially Gen Z-ers, are facing an “epidemic of perfectionism,” largely fuelled by social media.
The Pain of Perfectionism
It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews, but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes.
www.newyorker.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A psychology professor argues that young people, especially Gen Z-ers, are facing an “epidemic of perfectionism,” largely fuelled by social media.
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Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇
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October 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇
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Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes.
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
www.newyorker.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes.
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Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
October 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
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🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
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🇨🇳 Three Chinese reconnaissance satellites flew over the Lviv region 9 times today from 00:00 to 11:30. The satellite was also detected in the morning over Dnipro.
Earlier, intelligence had already warned that China was providing Russia with satellite data for missile strikes.
Earlier, intelligence had already warned that China was providing Russia with satellite data for missile strikes.
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🇨🇳 Three Chinese reconnaissance satellites flew over the Lviv region 9 times today from 00:00 to 11:30. The satellite was also detected in the morning over Dnipro.
Earlier, intelligence had already warned that China was providing Russia with satellite data for missile strikes.
Earlier, intelligence had already warned that China was providing Russia with satellite data for missile strikes.
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1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation.
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.
defenddemocracy.eu
October 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation.
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
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🕯️💔A house near Lviv has been completely destroyed, four people are known to have died and four injured, — State Emergency Service.
October 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
🕯️💔A house near Lviv has been completely destroyed, four people are known to have died and four injured, — State Emergency Service.
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There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.
E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.
E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.
E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.
E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.
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President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...
October 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...
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How I feel having Long Covid since March 2020
December 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM
How I feel having Long Covid since March 2020
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🇫🇷🕯️🇺🇦 Macron: Our compatriot, photojournalist Antoni Lallican, accompanied the Ukrainian army on the resistance front.
I learned with deep sadness of his death, the victim of a Russian drone attack.
I extend my heartfelt condolences to his family, his loved ones, and all his colleagues…
I learned with deep sadness of his death, the victim of a Russian drone attack.
I extend my heartfelt condolences to his family, his loved ones, and all his colleagues…
October 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🇫🇷🕯️🇺🇦 Macron: Our compatriot, photojournalist Antoni Lallican, accompanied the Ukrainian army on the resistance front.
I learned with deep sadness of his death, the victim of a Russian drone attack.
I extend my heartfelt condolences to his family, his loved ones, and all his colleagues…
I learned with deep sadness of his death, the victim of a Russian drone attack.
I extend my heartfelt condolences to his family, his loved ones, and all his colleagues…
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RFK’s words: “I am 100% committed to finding treatments for Long COVID."
RFK’s actions:
RFK’s actions:
May 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
RFK’s words: “I am 100% committed to finding treatments for Long COVID."
RFK’s actions:
RFK’s actions:
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Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still grappling with long covid. Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.
Long covid patients are desperate for treatments. These trials may help.
Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still grappling with long covid. Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.
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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
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Five years after the pandemic’s start, long-Covid patients young and old continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties
Is Covid Rewriting the Rules of Aging? Brain Decline Alarms Doctors
Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties.
buff.ly
April 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Five years after the pandemic’s start, long-Covid patients young and old continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties
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Conclusions: Our findings highlight alterations in B cell dynamics among individuals with long COVID, which may contribute to autoimmune processes.
www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/47...
www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/47...
www.mdpi.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Conclusions: Our findings highlight alterations in B cell dynamics among individuals with long COVID, which may contribute to autoimmune processes.
www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/47...
www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/47...
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Covid is not just the flu - it’s a weird disease and causes long term damage to your immune system - especially in long COVID patients
Conclusions: Our findings highlight alterations in B cell dynamics among individuals with long COVID, which may contribute to autoimmune processes.
www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/47...
www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/47...
www.mdpi.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Covid is not just the flu - it’s a weird disease and causes long term damage to your immune system - especially in long COVID patients
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The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Great piece in @washingtonpost.com:
“The risk of #LongCovid remains:
@erictopol.bsky.social.. said he knows people who have been infected within the last three to four months who have long covid. ‘It’s nonstop. People are still getting it,’ he said.”
“The risk of #LongCovid remains:
@erictopol.bsky.social.. said he knows people who have been infected within the last three to four months who have long covid. ‘It’s nonstop. People are still getting it,’ he said.”
April 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Great piece in @washingtonpost.com:
“The risk of #LongCovid remains:
@erictopol.bsky.social.. said he knows people who have been infected within the last three to four months who have long covid. ‘It’s nonstop. People are still getting it,’ he said.”
“The risk of #LongCovid remains:
@erictopol.bsky.social.. said he knows people who have been infected within the last three to four months who have long covid. ‘It’s nonstop. People are still getting it,’ he said.”
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter