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Jason, Coffee Shop Oligarch
Jason, Coffee Shop Oligarch@jasonc_nc·
Effectively all growth in corn production over the last 20 years is for ethanol. ~20 million acres of conservation land, grassland, and soybean rotation was turned into corn monoculture that effectively strip mines the topsoil. Meanwhile it’s the most fertilizer dependent crop with only a 40% uptake rate. So ~1.7 million tons of nitrogen runoff flows into the Mississippi basin annually while also polluting their own water supplies. This runoff ends up expanding the Gulf deadzone, which is also where 40% of domestic seafood comes from. It’s hard to find a worse way to create fuel, with a wicked level of waste and downstream consequences.
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45% of US corn production is for fuel ethanol and related. In other words almost half of the market is a form of ag subsidy with negative effects.

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Arnaud Bertrand
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand·
So to sum up: - the EU cut itself off from Russian oil and gas - is suffering from unprecedented energy supply issues from the Middle-East - has industrial energy costs 2-3X higher than its competition - produces 40% LESS electricity than the US despite having 33% MORE people (and 75% less electricity than China) And their move - right now, in this context - is to deliberately raise the cost and slow the rollout of Chinese solar, the cheapest and fastest-deploying form of electricity in the market, on the flimsy pretext it's a "security threat." You'd think the bigger "security threat" would be having your industrial base relocate to countries that didn't voluntarily price themselves out of energy. Or, for that matter, ensuring that any new AI infrastructure or industrial projects gets built anywhere but Europe. Beyond parody.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv

JUST IN - EU blocks funds for key Chinese solar energy parts from Nov 1st, citing "security concerns," as imported inverters could be used to manipulate energy networks and gain unauthorised access to operational data, which could lead "to countrywide blackouts." — FT

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Nav Toor
Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
Researchers at EPFL proved your AI is lying to you. Not sometimes. Most of the time. They built one of the hardest hallucination tests ever made with Max Planck Institute. 950 questions. Four domains where being wrong actually hurts. Legal. Medical. Research. Coding. Then they ran every top model on it. The results. GPT-5. Wrong 71.8% of the time. Claude Opus 4.5. Wrong 60% of the time. Gemini 3 Pro. Wrong 61.9% of the time. DeepSeek Reasoner. Wrong 76.8% of the time. These are the smartest AI models on Earth. The ones you trust with your career. Your health. Your money. You think turning on web search fixes it. It doesn't. Claude Opus 4.5 with web search. Still wrong 30.2% of the time. GPT-5.2 thinking with web search. Still wrong 38.2% of the time. The internet attached. Still lying to you in 1 out of every 3 answers. Now the part that should scare you. Medical questions. The one place being wrong can kill you. GPT-5 hallucinated 92.8% of the time on medical guidelines. Claude Haiku 4.5 hallucinated 95.7% of the time. Gemini 3 Flash hallucinated 89% of the time. Nine out of ten medical answers from popular AI models. Wrong. It gets worse. The longer you talk to it, the more it lies. Early mistakes cascade. The model starts citing its own earlier hallucinations as facts. Your third message is more wrong than your first. The paper, in its own words: "hallucinations remain substantial even with web search." This is what hundreds of millions of people are doing right now. Asking software that lies in the majority of its answers. About their health. About their job. About their legal case. About their code. Most are not checking. Most never will. But please. Keep using ChatGPT for medical advice. The doctors need a break. arxiv.org/abs/2602.01031
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The Resonance
The Resonance@Partisan_12·
Just a reminder a 5-year-old boy in a bunny hat spent more time in jail than any billionaire pedophile on Epstein's client list
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barbarism critic
barbarism critic@barbarismcrit·
Everything is shit across the board but I think if I had to name the single thing that has made me feel most insane in our present reality, it’s that no one powerful ever, ever, ever faces consequences no matter what they do. There are simply zero mechanisms for accountability.
Alex Thompson@AlexThomp

Scoop: Nat Sec Action—the foreign policy hub for the left co-founded by Jake Sullivan and Ben Rhodes—is rebooting ahead of the 2028 Dem primary with a new director, and more. Nat Sec Action became a key source for staffing the Biden admin. axios.com/2026/05/03/dem…

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Aaron Maté
Aaron Maté@aaronjmate·
The world’s most powerful, privileged people spend considerable time and energy trying to hurt the world’s most vulnerable.
Drop Site@DropSiteNews

🇨🇺 Trump signs executive order dramatically escalating "sanctions" on Cuba, targeting energy, finance, and security sectors President Trump signed an executive order Friday, marking one of the most sweeping expansions of US economic pressure on Cuba in decades, blocking the US assets of foreign individuals and entities operating in Cuba's energy, defense, financial services, metals, mining, and security sectors, as well as anyone acting on behalf of the Cuban government. The order also authorizes sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct significant transactions with designated Cuban entities, potentially cutting them off from US correspondent banking. This move could further isolate Cuba from the international financial system, limit foreign investment, and exacerbate the island's already severely restricted access to medicine, food imports, and basic goods. The order builds on Trump's January declaration of a national emergency over Cuba — the same legal basis used to justify the ongoing fuel blockade. Researchers at the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that US unilateral coercive measures had driven Cuba's infant mortality rate to its highest level in decades, rising 148% since 2018.

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𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉@OrevaZSN·
Why is it that actual human jobs like baker, florist, teacher, and childcare worker barely pay a livable wage, while fake jobs like AI specialist bootlicker, marketing campaign parasite, and synergy consultant are pulling six figures?
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Joe Wrote
Joe Wrote@joewrote·
Riley Gaines and Libs of TikTok are complaining about medical bills. David French says adopting a Black child opened his eyes to systemic racism. Laid-off TPUSA employees say workers need stronger protections. Conservatism is the rejection of empathy for others. Once an issue affects them personally, they adopt the progressive position.
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‏ً@omgsidewalks·
Actually, you don’t earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a Doctor, a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.
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Aidan Regan
Aidan Regan@Aidan_Regan·
Ireland is privately rich, publicly poor. Successive governments have shown neither the leadership nor the state capacity to close the gap.
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Babak
Babak@ChronicBabak·
Obama slow walks JCPOA sanction relief despite Iranian compliance Trump tears up JCPOA Biden fails to re-enter JCPOA Trump bombs Iran during negations Trump bombs Iran during negations again Robin Brooks: how do you bring Iran to the negotiating table in good faith?? smfh
Robin Brooks@robin_j_brooks

@RKelanic What's your alternative to a blockade if you want to bring Iran to the negotiating table in good faith?

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James Tate
James Tate@JamesTate121·
This is the face of Evil. At the farm bill hearing, Representative Austin Scott boasted about how he was going to pick up a gallon of glyphosate on his way home and spray around his pool and happy that his wife uses it too. When Zen tried to talk to him about the science afterwards, he called her a “crazy lady”.
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𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉@OrevaZSN·
It's really funny how debt is forgivable when it's tied to yachts, hedge funds, or failed businesses, but suddenly becomes a character flaw when it's tied to education, healthcare, or survival.
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Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz·
This makes me sick to my stomach. Pigs develop friendships, they have rich emotional lives and even show empathy when other pigs are in distress. They’re smart and can do puzzles. They feel sadness and pain. To do this to them is so evil.
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Jenni
Jenni@hashjenni·
In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive. Just thought y’all should know.
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Colin McCarthy
Colin McCarthy@US_Stormwatch·
This is unprecedented. 99.8% of the Southeast US is now in drought, obliterating the previous record of 87%. 94% is in severe drought (previous record: 71%). By far the worst drought the region has seen in the 21st century.
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