@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 17:10:42
Virginia Democrat flips seat in state legislature by taking on datacenters
John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents:
the cost of energy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n
@carl@heath.social2025-11-29 19:06:06
Hamnade visst i SVT Rapport ikväll, om X och algoritmers påverkan.
https://www.svtplay.se/video/e5dZYRQ/rapport/ikvall-19-30?video=visa&position=207
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-10-30 16:06:28
The least frightening films ever – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/30/the-least-frightening-films-ever-ranked?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-28 21:56:21
Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as category 5 storm
It dropped to a category 4 cyclone as it exited the island
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/28/hurricane-melissa-live-u…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-28 17:07:02
In style, as in life, timing is everything:
Brigitte Bardot became the poster girl for that sweet spot of postwar France in which the storied heritage of Gallic culture was electrified by the Bohemian spirit of Paris in the 1950s and 60s.
https://www.…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 16:57:29
Donald Trump’s hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday
blaming immigrants for crime, “social dysfunction” and economic hardship
is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics,
which show clearly that immigrants dramatically bolster the US economy
and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 20:49:19
The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 17:47:48
At a time when the majority of Americans distrust big tech
and believe artificial intelligence will harm society,
Silicon Valley has built its own network of alternative media
where CEOs, founders and investors
are the unchallenged and beloved stars.
What was once the province of a few fawning podcasters
has grown into a fully fledged ecosystem of publications and shows
supported by some of the tech industry’s most powerful.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 17:15:16
In what may be close to an impossible job,
the “head of preparedness” at OpenAI
will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecurity and biological weapons.
That is before the successful candidate has to start worrying about the possibility that AIs may soon begin training themselves amid fears from some experts they could “turn against us”.
“This will be a stressful job,
and you’ll jump into …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 17:07:43
Just a day after hosting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump will host Israeli prime minister #Benjamin #Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago at 1pm ET.
It is the fifth meeting between the two leaders in the US this year and comes amid concerns over progress on Trump’s fragile