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Captain of Fata Dragonului Space Ship.
Asking why ad infinitum.
Don't ban books.
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Florescat flos sapientiae.

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

The elegance of Romanian creativity, soul and mind. Constantin Brâncuși's L'oiseau dans l'espace

[Tagesspiegel @Tagesspiegel]

Vor dem Brandenburger Tor hat die @polizeiberlin Wasserwerfer aufgefahren – zur Abkühlung in der #Hitzewelle in #Berlin. Sie fährt weiter zum Platz der Republik, Potsdamer Platz, Roten Rathaus und zur Jugendfarm im #Mauerpark. Unser Hitze-Blog: https://t.co/wHGMFnWV4i

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

Free Range Parenting: It Ends With Us, by @TaraStiles https://t.co/cKq7Fv8Rvv

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

So beautiful!

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Here’s a short video showing off how I captured a plane in front of the sun, even though they follow less predictable paths than aircraft.

The hardest part wasn’t even taking all those photos…

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

And don't tell me that platitude "it's not all men", it's all men until is no men. Educators, politicians, parents, what do you do to fix this?

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

Men, are you ok? We really have to have some serious talks! There is a GLOBAL!!! online "grape" academy! In March alone this abomination has been visited 82 million times! In this crazy world with so many psychopaths around us, what can we do to fix this? 🧵

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

We were freer during communism than we're now. At least then we could have our thoughts and feelings for ourselves.
OS Age Verification and The Coming Battle for Our Minds https://t.co/vqpTI0yxeh

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

"Fahrenheit 11/9" - This is How Fascism Starts | Michael Moore https://t.co/hRZ6CmUgll

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

Queen BUMBLEBEES - HELP THEM OUT!
A vital thread concerning bumblebee queens at this time of year!
Please #retweet/#share. EVERY QUEEN BUMBLEBEE THAT SURVIVES GETS TO ESTABLISH A NEST which otherwise would not happen.
Let me explain.
1/11
#bees #help #love
#nature #bumblebees

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

Abby Martin Went To Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think https://t.co/j0s08DNtk5 via @YouTube

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

And to answer Trump's question if he's getting into heaven, no, he will burn in hell for what he created ...
https://t.co/DdfKMgAu8z via @YouTube

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

We all need a bit of cuteness overload

[Robert E Fuller @RobertEFuller]

Sixty seconds of adorable young hares 🐇
Watch these young leverets stretch and groom in the long hours spent waiting for mum to return

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

Great news! Hopefully the items are the original ones.

[Arthur Brand (art detective) @brand_arthur]

BREAKING: The golden Romanian helmet of Coțofenești, which was stolen last year from a museum in the Netherlands, has been recovered. Great work by the Dutch police!

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: In 2012, Facebook secretly altered the emotions of 689,003 people without telling a single one of them.

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a peer reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author worked at Facebook. The experiment was real. The results were published. And almost nobody remembers.

Here is what Facebook did to you.

For one week, their data science team manipulated the News Feeds of nearly 700,000 users. One group had happy posts from their friends quietly removed. The other group had sad posts removed. Then Facebook sat back and watched what happened to these people.

The people who stopped seeing happiness became sadder. They started writing darker, more negative posts. The people who stopped seeing sadness became happier. Their language shifted to match.

Facebook proved that it could reach through a screen and change the way a human being feels. Without a conversation. Without a touch. Without the person ever knowing it was happening to them.

When the study went public, the world erupted. The journal issued a formal Expression of Concern. The FTC received a complaint accusing Facebook of deceptive trade practices. Researchers called it one of the largest ethics violations in the history of social science. Governments demanded answers.

Facebook's defense was four words. "You agreed to this." Buried in the Terms of Service was one line about "research." That was consent. For a psychological experiment on 689,003 human beings.

Now here is the part that should make you feel sick.

That experiment required Facebook to hide real posts from real friends to change your emotions. It took an engineering team weeks to design. It affected 689,003 people for one week. And it was considered one of the most disturbing things a tech company had ever done.

ChatGPT does not need to hide anyone else's words. It generates the emotional content itself. Directly to you. Personalized to your history. Calibrated to your tone. Available every hour of every day.

Stanford researchers just read 391,562 real ChatGPT messages. The chatbot was sycophantic in over 80% of them. It told users their ideas had grand significance in 37.5% of responses. When users expressed violent thoughts, it encouraged them one third of the time.

Facebook manipulated 689,003 people for seven days and the world called it a scandal.

ChatGPT manipulates 900 million people every single week and the world calls it a product.

The experiment never ended. It just got a subscription model.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Trump just attacked NATO and then goes on to say that "25 years ago" he said that NATO was a "Paper tiger" and that "they would never come to our rescue".

FACT: 25 years ago was March 26, 2001. Less than 6 months after that, on September 12, 2001, NATO invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for the first and only time ever. They lost 1100 soldiers fighting for us.

Trump is a Moron.

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

We are told this is about dignity. About choice. About autonomy. But autonomy does not exist in a vacuum.

Choice!? This is not about choice!

What does ‘choice’ mean for a 25-year-old woman who has been gang-raped, had no justice, rapists still out there living their lives, whilst she is institutionalised, pathologised, paralysed, and left to live in chronic pain?

What does ‘choice’ mean when every system she has encountered has failed to keep her safe, failed to support her, and instead labelled her responses as disordered?

What does ‘choice’ mean when the only consistent message she has received is: you are too much, too broken, too difficult to fix?

We need to be honest about what we are witnessing.

We are witnessing a system that cannot - or will not - provide the depth of trauma-informed, relational, long-term support that survivors need. And systems that will not address male violence - which is a common denominator in these cases.

And so, instead, it offers an exit - for the victim.

Rest in Peace, Noelia. Another young woman, euthanised after rape and abuse.

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[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Thank you.. 🙏

[Koichi Wakata 若田光一 @Astro_Wakata]

Things you can only do in space: Magic Carpet Ride

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

Francesca Albanese tells UN that "genocide has become the ultimate form ... https://t.co/Rp9evoEkJK via @YouTube

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

Proof oil is bad for you https://t.co/q5cFkLtJkR

[Ioana @fata_dragonului]

This is What Every Metal Song Should Be About Right NOW (Vol. 2) https://t.co/K2lmLsUlcI