My new book is out with Bloomsbury: LiveJournal and Russian Disinformation: The Rise of Epistemic Sabotage. It uses LiveJournal as an early case of how platform affordances were weaponized and develops a framework (“epistemic sabotage”) for knowledge-system destabilization. If you want access without the academic price tag, please request it through your library. bloomsbury.com/us/livejournal-… #disinformation #platformstudies #mediastudies #libraries #digitalhumanities #Bookstodon
The progress of the WV National Guard sergeant who was shot in the head on duty in DC is “miraculous,” his family members say medical professionals have told them.
The Amazon rainforest is moving toward a hotter and drier climate, with droughts of a frequency and intensity not experienced on Earth for tens of millions of years—threatening large-scale tree mortality and undermining the planet’s ability to buffer rising atmospheric CO₂. byteseu.com/1622304/ #Science
Better than science fiction: a modified anopheles mosquito, unable to spread #malaria. But it spreads this inability into the anopheles population & could at least locally suppress Malaria. nature.com/articles/s41586-025…
Engineering of local Anopheles gambiae under containment enables the generation of a transgenic strain equipped with non-autonomous gene drive capabilities that robustly inhibits genetically diverse Plasmodium falciparum isolates obtained from natura…
Phoebe Gates, Bill Gates' youngest daughter, has raised $30 million for the AI shopping app she built in her Stanford dorm room with classmate Sophia Kianni.
Holy smokes! If our poll is accurate, things are looking bad for the U.S. games in next year's World Cup, the Olympics 2028, and tourism in general. Of the respondents, 14% said the news that U.S. Customs might require tourists to provide DNA and social media details would make them reconsider traveling to the country. 84% were already not even thinking about going to the U.S. And the 2% of respondents who chose the "something else" option were Americans who are advising friends from other countries not to visit, and folks who have close family living in the USA who can't themselves travel. "I live here but would not travel someplace with this requirement," said @tallastro.
Holy smokes! If our poll is accurate, things are looking bad for the U.S. games in next year's World Cup, the Olympics 2028, and tourism in general. Of the respondents, 14% said the news that U.S. Customs might require tourists to provide DNA and social media details would make them reconsider traveling to the country. 84% were already not even thinking about going to the U.S. And the 2% of respondents who chose the "something else" option were Americans who are advising friends from other countries not to visit, and folks who have close family living in the USA who can't themselves travel. "I live here but would not travel someplace with this requirement," said @tallastro.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection could soon demand tourists' DNA, in response to an Executive Order by Donald Trump for visitors to be "vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible." The new proposal also requires applicants who enter on ESTAs to provide social media details, names, dates and places of birth of close family members, and more. There are 42 ESTA countries including the U.K., France, Australia and South Korea. Here's more from @Independent. We want to know: If you don't live there, has this new proposal affected your desire to visit the U.S.?
Sunset-lit clouds this evening above Silksworth Pond in Sunderland, NE England. The location is part of a large landscape reclamation scheme that took place after the closure of Silksworth Colliery in the 1960's. As well as an artificial ski-slope, there were numerous other leisure and sports amenities created. Two ponds, fed by a natural water course, added another dimension to the reclaimed landscape. #england #sunderland #sundet #landscape #december #photography
President Trump’s push to redraw congressional maps in Republicans' favor hit a major roadblock in Indiana Thursday when Indiana Republican state senators joined Democrats to vote against a plan that would likely have created two new Republican seats…
Besides communicating the importance of vaccination, where available, the government should be explicit about not mixing with others when ill, using effective face-coverings in an appropriate manner, and making use of ventilation, to avoid spreading airborne viruses. Data: gov.uk/government/statistics/n…
⚠️ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.
There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.
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is this for real? someone said they accidentally reported my account and said to contact this person now they say they want me to change my email address
edit: confirmed scammer. do not respond to a text like this
Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system.
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