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Cognitive scientist & translation researcher • social cognition • directionality • research methodology • stats • open science

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US attorneys handpicked by Pam Bondi were appointed illegally, judge rules

Federal judge said prosecutors picked to replace Alina Habba repeated error of bypassing congressional approval

10.03.2026 14:59 👍 44 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 1
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For the First Time, U.S. Sides With Russia and China in Ukraine Energy Dispute Washington opposed a resolution backed by many of its allies over the danger posed by attacks on Kyiv’s nuclear energy.

www.wsj.com/world/for-th...

05.03.2026 20:45 👍 112 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 3
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1/ Civilian donations to the Russian army are said to have collapsed ahead of the imminent ban on Telegram. It's a consequence, predicted by warbloggers, of the Russian government's apparent decision to ban the app. The impact on the front line is likely to be severe. ⬇️

07.03.2026 09:23 👍 393 🔁 105 💬 13 📌 13
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I'll say this for Trump, he makes good on his pledges

07.03.2026 15:07 👍 509 🔁 114 💬 13 📌 4
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1/ Messages hacked from a Russian general's phone illustrate the sweeping scale of corruption at all levels of the Russian army. They highlight a top-to-bottom pyramid of extortion and bribery to obtain promotions and influence, plus scams and theft of military resources. ⬇️

09.03.2026 11:18 👍 347 🔁 92 💬 6 📌 10
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1/ Vladimir Putin's popularity ratings, as measured by a state-aligned pollster, are at their lowest point for years. Russian commentators blame the 'bad boyars' around Putin and say that "there's complete degradation all around" in Russia. ⬇️

10.03.2026 12:24 👍 194 🔁 38 💬 8 📌 5
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There are no heroes in commercial AI When it comes down to it, Dario Amodei isn’t all that much different from Sam Altman

Dario is no saint either:
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

08.03.2026 20:24 👍 64 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 3
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BREAKING: Sam Altman’s greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him It’s about time

Breaking: Altmans’ lack of character, which I have been warning about for years, has finally caught up with him:

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

07.03.2026 19:02 👍 65 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 1
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Clinical trial reforms that once seemed radical How randomized controlled trials, preregistration, and results reporting became standard practice.

New post!

It may seem ambitious to ask for individual patient data from clinical trials to be shared, anonymized, for use by other researchers.

But the history of medicine shows us that clinical trials have already undergone a series of transformations that once seemed equally bold:

04.03.2026 16:57 👍 75 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 3

I kayaked to work every day for 3 years

05.03.2026 12:47 👍 91 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 1

More like Rch villain

07.03.2026 13:21 👍 39 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 3
HTML table of countries that have eliminated malaria

HTML table of countries that have eliminated malaria

If you're deciding between a PowerBI dashboard with no download button and a boring HTML table, please dear god choose the HTML table. At least it contains information people can use.

08.03.2026 10:08 👍 47 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

YES. In the same sentence he said the war was complete, he proposed a policy that would vastly enlarge the war! Media reported the first half, and then later reported a different part to make it seem like a change! But it was incoherent, nonsensical slop all along.

This, too, is sanewashing!

09.03.2026 23:27 👍 1334 🔁 269 💬 20 📌 4
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The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

08.03.2026 14:30 👍 3006 🔁 1377 💬 284 📌 289

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

09.03.2026 16:04 👍 2436 🔁 925 💬 76 📌 23

It’s fine for Russia to use drones to freeze out your population — by the way, can you give us your drone defenses? This is the actual US position.

09.03.2026 16:14 👍 1264 🔁 589 💬 48 📌 12

'It is amazing to see the top of the US government immediately jump to Russia’s defense as the Russians are helping Iran try to kill Americans.'

08.03.2026 09:16 👍 151 🔁 42 💬 4 📌 2

What this further confirms is that the Trump administration knows Russia is helping Iranians try to kill Americans, but is doing nothing to stop it. How about sanctions or more arms sales to Ukraine?

08.03.2026 13:02 👍 1172 🔁 448 💬 93 📌 24

Trump is today telling every member of the US military that it is ok with him if Russia helps Iran kill them--every one.

Once again Americans, Trump looks at US military personnel as suckers and losers that he can sacrifice for his own glory and profit. This is who leads

08.03.2026 15:20 👍 674 🔁 238 💬 21 📌 11
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Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

09.03.2026 05:24 👍 2290 🔁 1178 💬 91 📌 122

Just a reminder it’s been two days since reports came out, later acknowledged by Trump and his Administration, that Russia has been helping Iran to try and kill US military personnel.

And the Trump response so far has been...drum roll please...to reduce sanctions on Russia!

09.03.2026 11:45 👍 381 🔁 127 💬 12 📌 6
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If this is actually the new set of strategic goals, the Trump administration is admitting that they have strategically failed and this has been a disaster.

09.03.2026 18:25 👍 937 🔁 219 💬 69 📌 55

So far, I wd say Putin is winning the Gulf War. Oil prices are up, & the US has relaxed pressure on India to stop buying fm RU, so budget revenues will increase, making the war easier to fund. And UA will now be an even lower priority for US air defence munitions, so an easier target for RU strikes.

06.03.2026 11:41 👍 91 🔁 41 💬 2 📌 2
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

08.03.2026 10:27 👍 106 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 13
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Astata boops (what a name lol)
Also know as the Shieldbug wasp as the Shieldbug is their main prey
Nikon Z9 and Z105mm
SS1/3200 F9 ISO3200

08.03.2026 19:41 👍 60 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

One thing Trump has done is imbue one of his core beliefs into government practice: frivolous legal actions are powerful.

Threaten to sue someone. Actually sue them! He did this a lot as a businessman. Now DOJ does it. Does not matter if they lose - the legal hassles imposed are the punishment.

08.03.2026 15:58 👍 811 🔁 247 💬 10 📌 7

Just a lot of war crimes today.

08.03.2026 16:34 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin Trying to Ban Abortion Nationwide Amy Littlefield profiles moral crusader Mark Lee Dickson in this first except from Killers of Roe.

Mark Lee Dickson is a pastor who helped end abortion in Texas before the fall of Roe v. Wade and he's intent on reviving a 19th-century anti-vice law as a federal ban.

Read the first excerpt of Amy Littlefield's book, Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights

08.03.2026 16:14 👍 70 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 9
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From Abraham Lincoln to… Donald Trump? A history of the Republican Party – Part I: From anti-slavery origins to white conservative domination, 1850s to 1990

Democracy itself has become a partisan issue. The Democratic Party is the country’s sole (small-d) democratic party – while the GOP is firmly in the hands of an ethno-nationalist movement.

@thomaszimmer.bsky.social

08.03.2026 13:28 👍 46 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 1