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  • London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service

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  • Having a number of different editors allows manipulating the discussion and concensus protections built into Wikipedia.

    Depending on the topic, it may not be necessary. A complimentary article about a new technology product or company founder just takes a few press releases that get picked up. Manipulating world events and leaders requires more coordination.

  • London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service

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  • Although manipulating the sources cited is a great way to manipulate Wikipedia. You have to recruit 10-40 people to act as a group of editors to manufacture concensus across topics. Or you can just create a website or series of press releases.

    "Hey, this small-town museum has an article about a historical event. It must be true. Link it at the bottom." Or "well, this local newspaper article says it is happened, so into the article it goes."

    Even more effective, especially for political groups, is just publish dozens of supportive articles, while miring competing articles in edit wars and the bureaucracy that comes with it. For sources, just cite expert books that are favorable. It's not easy, but hiring or recruiting 10-40 editors is trivial for political entities.

  • Chomp!

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  • London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service

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  • We honestly need to end the myth that Wikipedia is some impenetrable white tower. It can and has been infiltrated by corporate and political groups, and even creative vandals.

    It's the most valuable digital property in the world. You think people break into the Louvre but can't touch Wikipedia?

  • Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. And yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene, following his Hippocratic Oath, was denied.

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  • Law enforcement officers have a legal obligation to render aid, which may include allowing a physician to treat an injured person at the scene of a shooting.

  • Hey Microsoft, How's it going?

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  • I had the same reaction! I had to log into the screwy web portal and test it to realize it was something else entirely.

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    Hey Microsoft, How's it going?

  • House Democrats' support for impeaching Kristi Noem is exploding

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  • They literally will and are.

  • Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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  • If they built out a Mastodon network with government support, then it would.

  • House Democrats' support for impeaching Kristi Noem is exploding

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  • This has not been voted on to my knowledge. This article is just about the cosigners officially submitting the bill.

  • Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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  • Uh, Mastodon exists?

  • How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do

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  • So the people killing women for partially uncovering their hair are the good guys?

    The people murdering thousands of protestors are the good guys?

    So the religious fundamentalists imposing doctrine at gunpoint are the good guys?

    I think the people protesting for their lives and freedoms are the good guys, but that's just me.

  • House Democrats' support for impeaching Kristi Noem is exploding

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  • Not exactly.

    For context, a bill only needs one sponsor. Most bills have about 2 or 3 cosponsors. Signing a bill as a cosponsor is not the same as voting, which hasn't happened yet.

  • House Democrats' support for impeaching Kristi Noem is exploding

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  • Yes, thank goodness we saved Gaza by keeping those dems out of office.

    Do you get that literally has nothing to do with what we are talking about here?

  • Nova Launcher Changes Ownership

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  • My top customizable FOSS launchers:

    KvaesistoSearch-based with native-themed widgets and app drawer. Lots of integrations, reliable, and my personal daily driver.

    LawnchairDrop-in replacement for Pixel launcher with some friendly features. Very active development.

    Ion LauncherAutomatic app folders by category and decent customization options.

    Einstein LauncherHighly customizable and built from scratch. It's under 3MB and already pretty capable, although it's a young project and still in alpha

  • The average 'murican who refuses to protest or organize

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  • Oh boy, the doomerism that drove low turnout among the left in the Presidential election is back!

    Hey, nothing bad happened from skipping the last election right?

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Cuts in USAID funding cripples healthcare in Malawi

    www.africanews.com /2026/01/20/cuts-in-usaid-funding-cripples-healthcare-in-malawi/
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    House Democrats' support for impeaching Kristi Noem is exploding

    www.axios.com /2026/01/20/kristi-noem-impeachment-ice-minneapolis-democrats
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    Sudan: Aid arrives in Port Sudan as war rages on

    www.africanews.com /2026/01/20/sudan-aid-arrives-in-port-sudan-as-war-rages-on/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Petro Cuts Colombian Congress Members Salaries by Decree

    colombiaone.com /2026/01/20/colombia-petro-cuts-congress-salaries-decree/
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    DOJ subpoenas Minnesota Gov. Walz and other officials in obstruction investigation

    www.pbs.org /newshour/politics/doj-subpoenas-minnesota-gov-walz-and-other-officials-in-obstruction-investigation
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    What Iranians Want From Trump

    www.theatlantic.com /international/2026/01/trump-khamenei-iran-protests/685680/

  • Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these?

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  • People don't read them but I think that's not usually the point. The people I know who have written them usually end up with boxes in their garage that they eventually give at to friends and family.

    It's still a nice accomplishment and a good personal growth thing.

  • Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol

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  • I actually have no recollection of why some records had the big holes in the first place. Were there players with a chonky spindle in the middle?

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    ‘She found her after 700 bodies’: Australian man recounts ordeal to retrieve the body of a relative killed in Iran

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2026/jan/20/australian-man-recounts-ordeal-to-retrieve-body-of-relative-killed-in-iran
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    Teenager among Iranian protesters sexually assaulted in custody, rights group says

    www.theguardian.com /global-development/2026/jan/19/iran-protesters-teenager-sexually-assaulted-in-custody-rights-group

  • At least 5,000 people killed in protests in Iran, official says

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  • Keep protesting for the people of Iran. Keep pressure on Western governments to act and support the Persian people. The Iranian people never wanted to live under a fundamentalist terror state.

    Economic isolation against every individual official and commander killing their own people is the most important tool we have.

    Keep the information channels open at all costs.

    London:

    Berlin:

    Paris:

  • ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism

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  • Just to be clear, companies know that LLMs are categorically bad at giving life advice/ emotional guidance. They also know that personal decision making is the most common use of the software. They could easily have guardrails in place to prevent it from doing that.

    They will never do that.

    This is by design. They want people to develop pseudo-emotional bonds with the software, and to trust the judgment in matters of life guidance. In the next year or so, some LLM projects will become profitable for the first time as advertisers flock to the platforms. Injecting ads into conversations with a trusted confidant is the goal. Incluencing human behaviour is the goal.

    By 2028, we will be reading about "ChatGPT told teen to drink Pepsi until she went into a sugar coma."

  • News @lemmy.world
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    ‘Shoot to Kill’: Accounts of Brutal Crackdown Emerge From Iran

    www.nytimes.com /2026/01/13/world/middleeast/iran-protester-deaths.html
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    ‘At Least 12,000’ and ‘Possibly’ 20,000 Iranian Protesters Have Been Murdered According to Bombshell Report

    www.mediaite.com /media/news/at-least-12000-and-possibly-20000-iranian-protesters-have-been-murdered-according-to-bombshell-report/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance

    itsfoss.com /news/eu-open-source-strategy-call-2026/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Uganda vote overshadowed by detentions, intimidation and fears of violence | Africanews

    www.africanews.com /2026/01/12/uganda-vote-overshadowed-by-detentions-intimidation-and-fears-of-violence/
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    Venezuela Frees 24 More Political Prisoners, Rights Group Says

    www.nytimes.com /2026/01/12/world/americas/venezuela-political-prisoners-freed.html
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    A hidden brain signal may reveal Alzheimer’s long before diagnosis

    www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2026/01/260112001041.htm
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    Thousands of nurses go on strike at several major New York City hospital systems

    www.pbs.org /newshour/nation/thousands-of-nurses-go-on-strike-at-several-major-new-york-city-hospital-systems
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Petro Insists on the Creation of 'La Gran Colombia'

    colombiaone.com /2026/01/12/petro-gran-colombia/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Owner of Swiss Bar Where 40 Died Is Ordered to Jail as a Flight Risk

    www.nytimes.com /2026/01/12/world/europe/switzerland-fire-bar-owner-detention.html
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    Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk's chatbot Grok over sexualized AI images

    www.pbs.org /newshour/world/malaysia-and-indonesia-become-the-first-countries-to-block-musks-chatbot-grok-over-sexualized-ai-images
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    Chilling First for Ecuador: Violence Signals a New, Cartel-Style Phase in the Country’s Security Crisis

    colombiaone.com /2026/01/12/five-human-heads-ecuador/