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Loving the world could address the climate crisis and help us make sense of changes to come

This January, the world watched as Los Angeles burned. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” one police chief told reporters, a sentiment echoed by front-line firefighters.

The Conversation

‘He is world’s leading free speech hypocrite’: Elon Musk’s battle with Wikipedia is part of his war on truth

Elon Musk is angry at Wikipedia for reporting on his alleged ‘Nazi salute’. But his attacks are part of a long and troubling history of trying to suppress information he finds inconvenient, writes Io Dodds

The Independent UK

Over 100 Reddit communities ban X links after Elon Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’ controversy

‘Given Musk’s actions on Monday, it may be time to rethink how we engage with the platform,’ one subreddit’s moderators wrote after Musk’s inauguration apperance

The Independent UK

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Laura Ingraham defends Elon’s Musk salute - years after she was accused of a similar move at the RNC

Laura Ingraham performed a similar gesture at the Republican National Convention in 2016 while speaking in support of Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Musk, Wikipedia Founder In Row Over How To Describe 'Nazi Salute'

The gesture was controversial enough, but now come the sub-controversies: Elon Musk is trolling Wikipedia and encouraging its defunding after a description of his recent flourish, seen by some as a Hitler salute, appeared on the encyclopedic website.

International Business Times

Elon Musk Among Tech Billionaires Aiming to 'Defund' Wikipedia, Calling It 'An Extension of Legacy Media Propaganda'

Elon Musk and a cohort of tech billionaires are rallying together to delegitimize Wikipedia.

Latin Times

Elon Musk’s daughter gives fiery response to ‘Nazi salute’ accusations

Vivian Wilson, who often criticizes her estranged father, has responded to Elon Musk’s controversial gesture at Trump’s inauguration rally

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Elon Musk furious after Wikipedia page calls his controversial gesture a ‘Nazi salute’

‘Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!’ Musk spouted on his social media platform X

The Independent UK

Meta shift from fact-checking to crowdsourcing spotlights competing approaches in fight against misinformation and hate speech

Meta’s decision to change its content moderation policies by replacing centralized fact-checking teams with user-generated community labeling has stirred up a storm of reactions. But taken at face value, the changes raise the question of the effectiveness of Meta’s old policy, fact-checking, and its new one, community comments.

The Conversation

How to politicize the truth on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia

Control the arbiters of facts and you wield truth itself as a cudgel

The Guardian - US

Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars'

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, actor Mark Ruffalo, and more have endorsed Free Our Feeds.

PC Gamer

The dynamics that polarise us on social media are about to get worse

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced big changes in how the company addresses misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Instead of relying on independent third-party factcheckers, Meta will now emulate Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) in using “community notes”. These crowdsourced contributions allow users to flag content they…

The Conversation

From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages

With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them

The Guardian - UK

'No More Donations to Wikipedia': Elon Musk Slams Site Over Alleged Erroneous Deletions to Bill Clinton's Page

Musk quote-retweeted a video from the user @BGatesIsaPyscho and stated, 'No more donations to @Wikipedia until they start being truthful'.

International Business Times UK

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Can animals make ‘art’? These examples from nature suggest so

According to Britannica, “art” can be described as something “consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination” – whereas Wikipedia defines it more narrowly as a human activity. But are humans the only species that makes art?

The Times of India

'Father of ...': Sam Konstas' Wikipedia page gets doctored after onslaught against India at MCG

Australia's 19-year-old batting prodigy, Sam Konstas, stole the spotlight on the opening day of the fourth Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Thursday with a scintillating half-century on debut. The teenager's fearless strokeplay and audacious attitude left fans in awe and sparked an unusual flurry of activity on…

The Independent UK

Fact check: Misleading Google search results on UK asylum seeker crime rate

Full Fact has seen what appear to be screenshots of Google results on this topic shared on social media in recent months.

The Conversation

Ferns’ ability to evolve ‘backward’ offers insights into the meandering path of evolution

Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each generation would look distinct from its predecessors. This is the process of evolution in its simplest form: descent with modification.

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How to catch a supernova explosion before it happens – and what we can learn from it

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the Universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies on nuclear fusion — primarily using hydrogen as fuel — to generate energy and counteract the…

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70 Horrifying Things From American Schools That Foreigners Find Shockingly Weird

Bad lunches, questionably graded tests, and the horrifying state of school bathrooms – all things that show how messed up the US education system really is. The post 70 Horrifying Things From American Schools That Foreigners Find Shockingly Weird first appeared on Bored Panda.

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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Thursday, December 12 (#550)

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #550 on December 12.

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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Wednesday, December 11 (#549)

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #549 on December 11.

Autosport

Seven things we learned from the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

And breathe. Formula 1's 24-race marathon is done, dusted, and to be firmly ensconced in the history books; it's already gone from present to past tense on Wikipedia.

Benzinga

Most Visited Wikipedia Pages In 2024: Trump, Harris, Musk, Swift, Politics And Netflix Dominate List

Wikipedia has released a list of the top 25 visited pages in 2024. A look at the list and trends like politics and entertainment dominating the list.

Fortune

Exclusive: Corpora.ai unveils a new AI 'research engine'

It's among a growing crop of AI tools aimed at researchers. But inaccurate summaries remain an issue.

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