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ironspike.bsky.social
THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable.

If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.
jametc.bsky.social jess m. @jametc.bsky.social · 14d
meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years.
we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this??

between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright
slack2thefuture.bsky.social David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 14d
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.

A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
December 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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lexzard.bsky.social
Its crazy that after all this people still don't understand that the Big Tech gave mandate to Trump to dissolve the EU. Thats his primary goal in international relations. Not joking.
December 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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andrewlrjackson.bsky.social
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy

Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank

elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
Batteries support main components grid reliability. Resource adequacy: ability to meet peak demand.
Stability: critical short-term services like frequency and voltage regulation
Resilience: ability of grid to recover critical systems during outage.
rmi.org/batteries-th...
Batteries: The Workhorse of an Affordable, Reliable Grid - RMI
Batteries can support grid affordability and reliability — if only grid planners would let them.
rmi.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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tupped.bsky.social
I am extremely hesitant to insert my already socially-amplified voice into the discussion on making life easier for (and thereby acknowledging the human dignity of) trans people.

I am so far from sharing their life experiences, I am sure I will clumsy about on something meaningful.

Nonetheless…
September 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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colinelves.bsky.social
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Smajo Beso • Follow 3d • © I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about. I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here. After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face. I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again. ** Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together. I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first. My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night. I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in. One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out. So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming. While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day. I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special. I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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goatsarah.org
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
How Ireland went from first to last in the race to develop offshore wind energy

www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...
How Ireland went from first to last in the race to develop offshore wind energy
For a fleeting moment, the State was at the forefront of this technology; now it’s back of the class
www.irishtimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
this is a really beautiful video in its own right but also an example of what a real "Joe Rogan of the left" would look like: someone who can perform a positive vision of masculinity, one that's not toxic. it wouldn't be partisan or hackish or whatever they're actually imagining.
floregonian.com Jeremy @floregonian.com · Aug 12
I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity.

It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
August 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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dmitri.silverado.org
Fascinating interview with a private drone designer for the RU military. His knowledge of UKR & Western drones is limited and should be taken with some skepticism but he still presents a quite candid picture into the current state of unmanned warfare:🧵

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfN...
Why This Russian Drone Developer Isn’t Impressed by U.S. Tech
YouTube video by Real Reporter
www.youtube.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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grafvluxemburg.bsky.social
🔥

This judgment undoubtedly constitutes a landmark ruling.

Its significance lies not only in the outcome—which, contrary to Advocate General Collins’s Opinion— finds Malta in breach of EU law, but also in several important aspects of the Court’s reasoning.

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April 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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daphnek.bsky.social
I'm an expert in online speech & platform laws, so I always get asked about those. But for the current US vs. EU posturing, I think the speech stuff is a red herring.

Both US platforms and EU businesses are motivated money. Speech laws like the DSA aren't their main problem for that.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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punkrockscience.bsky.social
I won’t lie, this made me laugh an ugly laugh.
Meme of Trump holding up a signed executive order with a frankly stupid expression. In front of it is a screenshot of a tweet from @j_g_allen saying “Now economists know how scientists felt when he said “inject bleach.””
April 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.
March 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 30
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.
March 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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phdskat.org
Have we solved tax competition?

In this post, I read the tea leaves and quietly whisper, "...yes?"

phdskat.org/2025/03/26/h...

Quick 🧵 below:
Have we solved tax competition?
Does the global minimum tax mean the end of the race to the bottom? I review the emerging evidence.
phdskat.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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adrianhon.bsky.social
The TV show Adolescence is being weaponised in the effort to ban phones and social media for kids – but this only highlights the UK's abject failure to build online spaces that aren't manipulated by algorithmic gamification.
Bad Education
The TV show Adolescence is causing a rush to ban phones for kids. We can do better than that.
mssv.net
March 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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nvondarza.bsky.social
This is a meme amongst pro-Europeans and should die quickly. What would actually help Canada would be solidarity in face of the aggressor Trump, fully ratifying CETA and coordinate on eventual trade responses to the US.
aslak.bsky.social Aslak Berg @aslak.bsky.social · Mar 5
Canadian membership of the EU would not realistically solve Canada’s problems. I’ve not seen a single Canadian suggest it and Europeans should stop doing so.
March 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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simonusherwood.bsky.social
Have been reflecting on current Transatlantic problems, from a negotiating standpoint, so went back to my go-to text

tl;dr Europe is closely following a Principled Negotiation approach to Trump

PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic138

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March 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
With the news this morning, I feel it is necessary for citizens to #StepUp. u24.gov.ua
As citizens we can act now.
As citizens of the EU, USA, etc. we can send a message to our leaders that they need to do more.
As citizens of our own country we can directly support the citizens of #Ukraine. 1/2
UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
u24.gov.ua
March 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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bctallis.bsky.social
Europe’s disarmed state is …

(also) an advantage

✅… IF we use it right - by stepping up, NOW, to arm ourselves, for the ST, MT & LT future in a smart way

❌not slowly spending a fortune trying to replace US capabilities & arming ourselves to fight the last war, not the next one.
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a tank is driving down a snowy road in the woods
ALT: a tank is driving down a snowy road in the woods
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March 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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liasae.bsky.social
To make it very simplified: EU personal data is only legal to hold on US servers because of an agreement. That agreement requires a special court to exist. That court just got disbanded. An awful lot of software backends are now non-compliant with EU data protection. FUN TIMES
February 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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marietjeschaake.bsky.social
The weaponization of US technology companies means we should treat our dependence on them as a national security threat ↘️
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Feb 22
So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.
February 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM