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One thing I admired Americans for was they provided efficient and effective aid for people around the world.

I thought this made America great.

The PEPFAR program saved plausibly about 25 million lives and prevented at least 5.5 million babies from being born with HIV.

See: pepfarreport.org
February 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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"Misinformation and disinformation can no longer be viewed simply as an academic nuisance, but rather they are a societal threat. Only if we recognise that threat and act proportionately can we respond to the danger..."

- The Lancet
January 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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"Meta says it’s also scrapping a number of current restrictions around topics like immigration and gender identity, and will start phasing political content back into users' feeds"

Certainly underlines how much power these algorithm have if a company can switch on and off discussions on such topics
January 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Air Quality Stripes have long-term trends of air pollution in many cities across the world.

Here is London.

Nice work @jimmcquaid.bsky.social & @kirstypringle.bsky.social.

airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con...

h/t @edhawkins.org
November 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM