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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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February 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
February 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."
February 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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February 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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bevinearly.bsky.social
Here’s a beautifully written and extremely hopeful essay from Rebecca Solnit on the miscalculation by Musk and Trump of who we are and how we are already resisting.
We Are Not Who They Think We Are: How Human Nature Matters In This Emergency
Welcome to the emergency--or rather Meditations in an Emergency, this newsletter, not the national emergency, which is of course very unwelcome. What's striking to me about all the things our morally ...
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February 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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janeotn.bsky.social
Good morning
be the change
be the light
eat some chocolate

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February 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM