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An excellent keynote from @span pluralistic on the enshittification of everything, the policy decisions, actions, and inaction that brought us here, and what we can do collectively in solidarity to counteract it.
https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K091225/
#enshittification #tech #policy
An excellent keynote from @span pluralistic on the enshittification of everything, the policy decisions, actions, and inaction that brought us here, and what we can do collectively in solidarity to counteract it.
https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K091225/
#enshittification #tech #policy
The final hours. The last chance. But not the last fight.
Today, 🇩🇪 Germany said NO to ChatControl 💥 This could be the turning point 🔄 But it is not the end.
If tomorrow we manage to block this proposal - it will be a victory 🎉 But digital freedom does not defend itself. It must be protected. Every day. In every decision. In every update. In every voice 📢
Now is the time to do everything that is still left:
- Write to your MEP 
- Share information 🔁
- Mobilize others 🤝
- Do not stay silent 🤐
Because even if we win tomorrow - it is only the beginning. Because even if we lose - it is not the end.
Freedom does not vanish loudly. It disappears quietly 
Unless we defend it ✊
#ChatControl#FightChatControl #CSAR#EU#EuropeanUnion#Europe#Encryption#Privacy#Security#Cybersecurity#Freedom#DigitalFreedom#Democracy#HumanRights#Surveillance#StopSurveillance #StopScanningMe#Resistance#Policy
The final hours. The last chance. But not the last fight.
Today, 🇩🇪 Germany said NO to ChatControl 💥 This could be the turning point 🔄 But it is not the end.
If tomorrow we manage to block this proposal - it will be a victory 🎉 But digital freedom does not defend itself. It must be protected. Every day. In every decision. In every update. In every voice 📢
Now is the time to do everything that is still left:
- Write to your MEP
- Share information 🔁
- Mobilize others 🤝
- Do not stay silent 🤐
Because even if we win tomorrow - it is only the beginning. Because even if we lose - it is not the end.
Freedom does not vanish loudly. It disappears quietly Unless we defend it ✊
#ChatControl#FightChatControl #CSAR#EU#EuropeanUnion#Europe#Encryption#Privacy#Security#Cybersecurity#Freedom#DigitalFreedom#Democracy#HumanRights#Surveillance#StopSurveillance #StopScanningMe#Resistance#Policy
“A 2022 study in mice and ferrets showed that a universal flu vaccine NIH plans to support has promise. However, multiple studies of potential universal flu vaccines based on mRNA technology show even more potential. Such vaccines could induce broader immunity than whole-virus vaccines by eliciting antibody and T-cell responses that target an even wider range of flu viruses.”
#mrna #vaccine #policyhttps://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/115145480704948406
Those ideas are part of a 5-pg summary of a forthcoming #HeritageFoundation position paper titled “We Must Save the American Family.” It calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family” & induce couples to have more babies…
The paper represents a pivot for Heritage away from its tradition of small government & free-market conservatism toward an ideology that embraces government #interventionism in affairs as private as #procreation.
Those ideas are part of a 5-pg summary of a forthcoming #HeritageFoundation position paper titled “We Must Save the American Family.” It calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family” & induce couples to have more babies…
The paper represents a pivot for Heritage away from its tradition of small government & free-market conservatism toward an ideology that embraces government #interventionism in affairs as private as #procreation.
The #HeritageFoundation hopes to steer #funding for #childcare AWAY from programs like #HeadStart & toward individual families — specifically to encourage parents [wives] to stay home & rear children.
And the group wants #Trump to issue #ExecutiveOrders requiring ALL proposed policies & #regulations to “measure their positive or negative impacts & marriage & family” — then overhaul or end programs that score poorly [whose metrics?].
Fuck you
The group behind the #Project2025 playbook for #Trump wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies
A draft position paper from the #FarRight#HeritageFoundation proposes massive revisions to #US#EconomicPolicy. It wants lawmakers to create new government-seeded savings accounts to encourage only #heterosexual #married parents to have more children.
#pronatalism #law #policy#USpol #heterosexism#MaleSupremacy #misogyny
https://wapo.st/4p44mG3
We Ran the #CDC: #RFKJr Is Endangering Every American’s #Health
By William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky & Mandy K. Cohen
The authors previously led in the CDC, as directors or acting directors under Republican & Democratic admins.
#Trump #policy #medicine #science#ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #idiocracy #kakistocracy#RecklessEndangerment #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/cdc-leaders-kennedy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.gf0g.skHNQEL7UbKw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“We have each had the honor & privilege of serving as director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, either in a permanent or an acting capacity, dating back to 1977. Collectively, we spent >100 years working at the #CDC, the world’s pre-eminent #PublicHealth agency. We served under multiple Republican & Democratic admins—every president from Jimmy Carter to #Trump — alongside thousands of dedicated staff members who shared our commitment to saving lives & improving #health.
“What the #health & human services secretary, #RFKJr , has done to the #CDC & to our nation’s #PublicHealth system over the past several months — culminating in his decision to fire Dr. Susan Monarez as CDC director days ago — is unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency & unlike anything our country had ever experienced.”
#Trump #policy #medicine #science#ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #idiocracy #kakistocracy#RecklessEndangerment #law
We Ran the #CDC: #RFKJr Is Endangering Every American’s #Health
By William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky & Mandy K. Cohen
The authors previously led in the CDC, as directors or acting directors under Republican & Democratic admins.
#Trump #policy #medicine #science#ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #idiocracy #kakistocracy#RecklessEndangerment #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/cdc-leaders-kennedy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.gf0g.skHNQEL7UbKw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
That didn’t take long…
‘It Feels Like the #CDC Is Over’
The CDC’s departing leaders discuss the agency’s future—or lack thereof.
By Tom Bartlett
#Trump#RFKJr#ConspiracyTheories#AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation#HealthyIfYoureWealthy#Aporophobia#SocialCleansing#EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy#PublicHealth#Health #vaccines #science #medicine #policy#USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/cdc-resignations-tipping-point/684038/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxb3iptRElGDyBA80yCQGKb4
That didn’t take long…
‘It Feels Like the #CDC Is Over’
The CDC’s departing leaders discuss the agency’s future—or lack thereof.
By Tom Bartlett
#Trump#RFKJr#ConspiracyTheories#AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation#HealthyIfYoureWealthy#Aporophobia#SocialCleansing#EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy#PublicHealth#Health #vaccines #science #medicine #policy#USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/cdc-resignations-tipping-point/684038/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxb3iptRElGDyBA80yCQGKb4
"EU Member States expect to deploy at least 60 GW of new nuclear capacity by 2050 to meet its climate and energy security goals. But without greater coordination, the bloc risks a fragmented rollout of new nuclear energy: duplicated efforts, spiralling costs, underinvested supply chains, and project delays."
"EU Member States expect to deploy at least 60 GW of new nuclear capacity by 2050 to meet its climate and energy security goals. But without greater coordination, the bloc risks a fragmented rollout of new nuclear energy: duplicated efforts, spiralling costs, underinvested supply chains, and project delays."
Even in their ambitions they can’t imagine a better world. He is posting on a uniformly #antiTrump website & still can’t even imagine a scenario where the #right isn’t dictating #policy. Republicans are creating a world without the Department of #Education, & #PBS, #Dems can’t imagine no #ICE!
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#Trump#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#Progressive
I wonder why...
LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy
#LinkedIn#SocialMedia#Deadnaming#Misgendering#Hateful#Policy#Microsoft#Tech
I wonder why...
LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy
#LinkedIn#SocialMedia#Deadnaming#Misgendering#Hateful#Policy#Microsoft#Tech
"So if open source is to get sustainable funding from the EU, it should happen in lock-step with the EU pushing the use of open-source in the public sector. This fund shouldn’t act as a sleight-of-hand subsidy for big tech to coast on."
Hear, hear.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/github-eu-open-source-funding
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