This article contains the best metaphor ever for Hansonism

https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/hanson-is-just-the-tip-of-the-oligarchs-far-right-iceberg/

#Auspol #Hanson #TheShot

Disturbing and terrifying rhetoric like this surrounds the average right-wing media viewer every single day.

I've done several podcast episodes on the violent, apocalyptic rhetoric of Fox and other places. Here's one: https://plus.flux.community/p/theory-of-change-082-julie-millican-311

Someone’s lunch is about to get eaten 🤣: Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/

RFK Junior has been completely sidelined within the Trump regime, with OMB Director and administration kingpin Russell Vought basically controlling the Health and Human Services department.

The promises to get rid of toxic chemicals are out the window.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/maha-maga-alliance-fracture-robert-kennedy-jr-1235582070/

@ChrisMayLA6 @MostlyTato

I think not meeting ReformUK on their own ground is really important. Farage et al keep making outrageous announcements and both the left and centre keep getting outraged - and make themselves, and the media, complicit in creating the impression that politics is all about the right's culture wars. It isn't. Immigration is not in fact a significant issue at all - but while everybody is talking about that they're not talking about what the left is really interested in, and has a lot to say about: exploitative work, rents and house prices, not being able to see a doctor or dentist, how Big Oil broke the weather...

lol 😂 was filed under “US diplomacy”: [trump regime] US government adds Alibaba, BYD, other Chinese tech champions to military company blacklist

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3356419/us-adds-alibaba-byd-and-other-chinese-tech-champions-military-company-list

Poland Could Be Targeted by Russian Provocation to Test NATO’s Resolve https://militarnyi.com/en/news/poland-russia-provocation-test-nato-resolve/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=poland-russia-provocation-test-nato-resolve

Gannet colonies could take 15 years to recover from bird flu

The 2022 outbreak led to an "unprecedented deadly blow" to the seabird colonies in #Scotland and Wales.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wylj128qlo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

(c) #BBC #News

New citizenlab report: a member of a European Parliament committee tasked with investigating spyware abuses was himself hacked with Pegasus. 🔍🛡️ The findings raise serious questions about accountability and surveillance. #spyware #Pegasus #cybersecurity https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/

@anderspuck I disagree with the time limit on edits, simply because it has never been a problem on Mastodon that there is no time limit.

And even if we one day saw a wave of bad edits that reversed the meaning of posts, we could just block those accounts exploiting the edit function this way.

@SuiGeneris3722

Spain's conservatives and far-right Vox increase ties with Andalucia coalition

#SpainRegionalPolitics #PeoplesParty #Andalucia #ConservativePolitics #Vox

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/03/spain-conservatives-pp-far-right-vox-party-andalucia-coalition-deal

Tackle workplace sickness to unlock hidden growth, former John Lewis boss says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq61j11r577o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-BBCNews

"Ethnic Cleansing 3.0: How Israel Became the Transfer State"

"After the successful cleansings of 1948 & 1967, the next stage of the Zionist enterprise... has arrived. Everything is going according to the phased plan."

Israel is something worse than an apartheid state; "it is a transfer state. Apartheid in South Africa never intended to clear the country of its indigenous inhabitants. Israeli apartheid does."

Haaretz: https://archive.is/jnt9b

#USPol #EUPol #palestine #IsraelTransferState .

Ukraine's pressure campaign exposed Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko's increasingly constrained position between Russia, China and Ukraine as he seeks to avoid deeper involvement in the war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/03/world/zelenskyy-calls-russias-belarus-bluff/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #belarus #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #europe #russia #volodymyrzelenskyy #alexanderlukashenko #vladimirputin #xijinping #nato #un #china

Germans must now have doctor’s note to call in sick to work: ‘Extraordinarily high levels of sick leave’

“We can no longer accept the extraordinarily high levels of sick leave in our companies” - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

Source: https://archive.md/apPod

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy they claim there’s “exorbitant levels of sick leave in companies following the pandemic”

The pandemic isn’t over.

The pandemic isn’t being mitigated.

The sick leave is because we’re in a mass disabling event that most people are choosing to ignore.

It will only get worse.

It's impressive how many things Microsoft has managed to fuck up with GitHub. Not the good kind of impressive.

"Both Google and Amazon released their sustainability reports this week, and the numbers aren’t pretty. Each company has pledged to zero-out its carbon emissions in the coming years, but AI has made those goals a lot harder to hit. Google’s total carbon emissions are up 25% since last year, Amazon’s are up 16%."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/a-warning-sign-about-ais-real-cost-courtesy-of-google-and-amazon/

This is a massive environment-destroying crisis caused by Big Tech. What are we going to do?

Claude Science is not “yet another AI chatbot”. It is an AI workbench that sits inside real lab workflows, with audit trails and reproducibility baked in. I wrote about what that means for day‑to‑day research.

https://katecarruthers.com/claude-science-a-practical-ai-workbench-for-real-scientific-workflows/

EU lawmaker investigating surveillance hacked by Israeli spyware, report says https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/3/eu-lawmaker-investigating-surveillance-hacked-by-israeli-spyware-report-says?traffic_source=rss