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"Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Heatwave

Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
Backlash from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners in response to deputy leader dismissing efforts to reach net zero

The Magnificent Loser: The Book I Wrote to Answer Two Words in Red Ink
Every writer carries a verdict he never agreed to. Mine was two words long, written in red marker across the title page of a play I cared about, by a historian whose judgment I had asked for and could not afford to ignore....

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Switch up your listening with classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including works by Jacques Offenbach, George Gershwin and Mel Bonis.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xn6v

With the midterms just months away, citizens are bombarded with misinformation about the safety of our elections and voting.
The most powerful response to confusion and intimidation is participation.
Don’t sit it out.
Show up and vote
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falls man mal virtuell strandurlaub machen will:
"magnified #sand"
https://magnifiedsand.com/ :)

Retail traders are shifting from Big Tech to stocks boosted by AI like SK Hynix and Marvell; five of the Magnificent Seven stocks trail the market this year (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/everyda

Algorithmicly generated answers,
which pull from various sources online,
have quickly become one of the biggest sources of misinformation on the entire internet.
Google’s AI models are frequently caught hallucinating easily disproven facts,
handing out dangerous “health” advice
— and gutting the media industry by discouraging users from visiting publications’ sites

Google AI Giving Staggeringly Racist "Advice" About Being Alone With Certain Groups of People
Google's AI Overviews feature is showing overtly racist responses about being alone with certain groups of people.

"Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there’s a way to counter it"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there’s a way to counter it
One way to guard against misinformation is to empower people to identify climate doom in the first place.

Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/polymarkets-f

PitchBook: California-based startups have raised ~$366B in 2026 so far across 4,000 companies, more than triple the total of all other 49 states combined (Paul Kiernan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/c…