Scientific American is a prime example of how autocracy silences free speech...and as long as journalism is not self-sustained in a capitalist society, it will have to bend to commercial pressure.How much could donations-driven journalism take us out of this? The successful examples are very limited yet.thenation.com/article/society/@nepravda

 

The contrasting disaster responses in Nepal and Chinese Tibet reveal why a healthy state needs free speech“The government needs journalists to uncover uncomfortable truths because it needs accurate information in order to govern effectively,” they say. “But if journalists are given completely free rein to uncover and publish those truths, they may expose things that are politically uncomfortable or challenge the interests of the state.”theguardian.com/world/2026/sep@nepravda

 

The Guardian decided to ignore the rules about what constitutes news and start writing about positive climate storiesAnd so was born the Alternatives, a weekly news column where we cover these different projects. We’re constantly amazed by some of the things we learn. Norway has heat pumps in two-thirds of its homes. China’s sponge cities are targeting 70% rainwater reuse. Paris is building a gigantic cooling machine using river water.theguardian.com/membership/ng-@climatehope

 

Unsurprisingly, beavers are the much needed firefighter volunteers"Beavers build dams, dig channels and transform small streams into broad wetland areas. This helps keep plants lush and green, even throughout long periods of drought""The study “conservatively” estimates that beaver dams have the potential to store a total of 120 mln cubic metres of surface water and create 2200 square kilometres of fire resilience in high fire risk areas"euronews.com/2026/07/29/how-be@wildfire@wildfirescience

 

This community is approaching 100 subscribersWith 97 subscribers, this is the largest community on feddit.bg and the main justification for its sustained existence. Thank you for your support and the countdown to 100 is on. 3 more subscribers to go!If you're reading this from mastodon and are interested in what is going on in Southeast Europe, just follow the community's handle: @balkanika

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I am not anti-AI. I build and ship AI products every day. What I object to is the pattern where a CTO wins applause in Q1 for bold AI-driven headcount cuts, and then in Q4 is quietly rehiring those same roles through an offshore agency while attributing the reversal to "integration challenges." That is not progress. That is a career arc dressed up as transformation. And it is costing shareholders, employees and customers at the same time.@artificial_intel

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    Here is what makes this worse than a normal bad tech bet. Most of these decisions were not made by people who understood the limits of the technology. Visier's head of research, Andrea Derler, put the problem bluntly, noting that senior executives have not taken the time to understand what AI can and cannot do, according to PeopleMatters. IBM's CEO survey confirmed it. 64% said the fear of falling behind drives them to invest in technologies before they understand the value.@artificial_intel

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    The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, And CTOs Are Going To Pay It Twice>We keep talking about vibe coding and AI adoption as if the only question is whether developers will be replaced. That framing misses the story. The story is that a specific kind of executive, the one who needs a progressive headline every quarter, has been running an uncontrolled experiment on your workforce. The data on that experiment is now in, and it is not flattering.forbes.com/councils/forbestech@artificial_intel

     

    Bulgaria's pro-Russians seek place after Radev win> "He exploited divisions in society and, through his silence, managed to tell everyone what they wanted to hear," said political analyst Ildiko Otova, an expert on populism and the far right.> Bechev said some Bulgarians also feel resentment towards the West which "translates into a view of Russia as an alternative but even more importantly Bulgaria's 'Super Ego'".france24.com/en/live-news/2026@balkanika

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    @ekZepp @matdevdug "Instead it became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access. This became personally relevant when Trump threatened to invade Greenland, which is the kind of sentence I never expected to type and yet here we are. It would be funny if I wasn't a tiny bit concerned that my new home was going to get a CIA overnight regime change special in the middle of the night."

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    @ekZepp @matdevdug "So in this complete breakdown of the press came in the Fediverse. It became the only reliable source of information I had. People posted links with a minimal amount of commentary, picking and choosing the best content from other social media networks. They’re not doing it to “build a brand” because that’s not a thing in the Fediverse. It’s too disjointed to be a place to build a newsletter subscription base."

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    @ekZepp funny, I thought this is what Google search is nowadays:"Threads was worthless because it’s the most boring social media website ever imagined. It’s a social media network designed by brands for brands, like if someone made a cable channel that was just advertisements and meta commentary about the advertisements you just saw. Billions of dollars at their disposal and Meta made a hot new social media network with the appeal of junk mail." @matdevdug

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    @mapto@feddit.bg turns out Macedonia is not the country with the least developed railways, and the link to Bulgaria is not the only one missing. It also has no links to Greece and Albania. Neither do these two countries have a link.balcanicaucaso.org/en/cp_artic

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    An extraordinary combination of evidence that Epstein operated a Russian honeytrap and it directed Trump as a Russian asset

    US capitalism has been extremely effectively exploited by the Russian deep state to a level that the whole Republican party is covering it up legally and commercially. The evidence is so overwhelming, it is full of admissions of so many people involved.

    https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-russia-2675069424/
    @nepravda

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    @mapto@feddit.bg @foufoutos do you know more? If I understand correctly, they sentenced the foreigners (a sentence that probably cannot be enforced) and in a separate trial covered up the politicians and administrators. There seems to be one Greek sentenced (Yiannis Lavranos), but I don't understand for what. Do they allege that he ordered the spying? If there's noone guilty of spying, how do they link a purchase of software services to particular deployments of these services?@balkanika

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    Mass migration of US scientists to Europe"According to data from the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union’s premier funding agency for basic research, applications from the United States for its starting, consolidator and advanced grants to individual researchers — worth up to €2.5 million apiece over five years — rose by 120% in its most recent round of calls, compared with an overall rise in applications of 17% (see ‘Choosing Europe’)."nature.com/articles/d41586-026@science

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