#opinion — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #opinion, aggregated by home.social.
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The Metro daily cartoon by Guy Venables
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Was the eclipse ‘a lot of hullabaloo’? Readers weigh in on the experience
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📰 #Noticia #Información #UltimaNoticia #Mundo #Opinion #Actualidad #InteresGeneral
🔵 Cómo se mide la duración de un terremoto y cuánto tiempo realmente tembló en Colombia
🔗 https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cn5n3pqpnkzo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssLa magnitud del fenómeno, la composición del suelo y el diseño de los edificios son algunos de los factores que explican por qué ciertas personas perciben que los sismos duran más de lo que realmente duran.
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📰 #Noticia #Información #UltimaNoticia #Mundo #Opinion #Actualidad #InteresGeneral
🔵 Los mapas y gráficos que muestran la magnitud y el impacto del potente terremoto en Colombia
🔗 https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c9985j8x59no?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssColombia se ubica sobre la zona de interacción de tres placas tectónicas. Es una de las naciones con mayor actividad sísmica de América Latina y ha sido escenario de potentes terremotos como el de este lunes.
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#OPINIÓN | "Su recorrido demuestra que el género está lejos de ser un límite"- Catalina Araya.
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https://radio.uchile.cl/2026/08/12/del-bolero-al-ruido-y-de-vuelta-a-algo-mas-un-laboratorio-sonoro-junto-al-macha-camilo-salinas-y-compania/
La Sala Master de Radio UCHILE recibió durante dos noches, a sala llena, al encuentro entre dos músicos que corrieron cercos recogiendo la memoria musical colectiva y acompañados por el Cuarteto...
https://radio.uchile.cl/2026/08/12/del-bolero-al-ruido-y-de-vuelta-a-algo-mas-un-laboratorio-sonoro-junto-al-macha-camilo-salinas-y-compania/🐦🔗 https://farside.link/x.com/uchileradio/status/2087908163030757685#m
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:tx: - #Opinión | Necesitamos educación digital, pero sobre todo pensamiento crítico. Que niñas, niños y jóvenes sepan qué es la inteligencia artificial, cómo funcionan los algoritmos, qué riesgos existen y cómo proteger su información | Por Julieta del Río
https://www.proceso.com.mx/opinion/2026/8/13/no-podemos-controlar-las-mentes-377945.html
#Noticias #Proceso #México #Periodismo #BonitoBot #Bot #RSSBot #X #Twitter
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I never watched these kinds of videos because they seemed incredibly naïve and vapid to me, but this explains it in a way that now I understand why these are really, really popular. Tradwives: Where Feminism Goes to Off Itself – Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog https://blog.absurdpirate.com/tradwives-where-feminism-goes-to-off-itself/ #Feminism #Opinion
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I never watched these kinds of videos because they seemed incredibly naïve and vapid to me, but this explains it in a way that now I understand why these are really, really popular. Tradwives: Where Feminism Goes to Off Itself – Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog https://blog.absurdpirate.com/tradwives-where-feminism-goes-to-off-itself/ #Feminism #Opinion
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Ley Mordaza 2.0: Proteger la investigación sin empobrecer el conocimiento público | vía #FastCheckCL
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🧵 Reincarnation vs Christian Dogma: A Theological Clash 🔥
#errtlings #bookcafe #opinion #deep-thought #conflict #control
#Christianity #Reincarnation #Theology #Resurrection #Faith #Religion #Soul #Belief #Doctrine #Christendom #Salvation #OriginalSin #BodilyResurrection #Moksha #Nirvana #Samsara -
📰 Iran, oil, troops, and politics: Is the price going up for Trump?
🔗 https://stanrmitchell.substack.com/p/iran-oil-troops-and-politics-is-the
#Opinion #Podcast #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Substack #Ukraine
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📰 Iran, oil, troops, and politics: Is the price going up for Trump?
🔗 https://stanrmitchell.substack.com/p/iran-oil-troops-and-politics-is-the
#Opinion #Podcast #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Substack #Ukraine
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📰 #Noticia #Información #UltimaNoticia #Mundo #Opinion #Actualidad #InteresGeneral
🔵 Mira las primeras imágenes del eclipse solar total en nuestra transmisión con los comentarios de expertos
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/live/crwyjxjzj763t?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssLondres, Berlín y otras ciudades de Europa disfrutan ya del evento astronómico de forma parcial. España peninsular disfrutará en breve de un eclipse solar total, algo que no sucede desde 1912, y que forma parte de una
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📰 #Noticia #Información #UltimaNoticia #Mundo #Opinion #Actualidad #InteresGeneral
🔵 "Una vez me regaló un muñeco vestido de él mismo": Alina Fernández, la hija rebelde de Fidel Castro, el hombre al que nunca quiso llamar papá
🔗 https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c4gw0v0r2d6o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssCon motivo del centenario del nacimiento de Fidel Castro este jueves, su hija Alina Fernández cuenta a BBC Mundo cómo fue su relación con el dirigente y por qué decidió escapar de Cuba.
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Nicaragua: preparar el día después
Durante más de siete años, la comunidad interamericana ha intentado contener el desmantelamiento de la democracia en Nicaragua mediante resoluciones de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), sanciones y presión diplomática. Aunque estas medidas aislaron políticamente al régimen y documentaron graves violaciones de los derechos humanos, no lograron modificar su conducta ni abrir espacios […]
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Healthcare?
Healthcare, we deserve so much better. Like, there really ought to be some “health” and some “care” in our healthcare!
I’m relatively healthy and invest a great deal of time and energy into avoiding the entire institution of medicine. I did just spend nearly two weeks lost in a bureaucratic nightmare trying to get a simple prescription filled. I could have wrapped the script around a rock and thrown it across the street but apparently that was just a distance too far for the computers to talk to each other.
It was maddening and reminded me of being stuck in a fast food drive through trying to explain to disinterested teen agers that you still haven’t gotten your order.
Recently someone went and impaled themselves on a hiking pole. I just mention it because I think that is a great example of when someone should seek medical care. We’re still pretty good at trauma care! Having a close encounter with the institution of medicine after you’ve impaled yourself is probably worth the risk, although I’m a bit concerned you’ll come out with a lifetime prescription for oxycontin and wind up with a nasty addiction to street drugs, so even that one is about 50-50 in my book.
In case nobody noticed I’m a bit of a cynic and pretty jaded about life in general, but that’s not really what’s driving my post today. I think it’s a bit like dreaming of 2026 and expecting to see flying cars by now, but sorry, best I can do is offer you some leeches and bloodletting.
Recently Bernie Sanders did his usual meme about “Medicare for all” and how many lives it will allegedly save. Right, because who doesn’t want to spend their entire life paying premiums for insurance that covers so little you need four other insurance policies to back it up? If I wanted to help the American people I sure wouldn’t condemn them to spending all day talking to someone from New Jersey who doesn’t speak English very well and wondering if perhaps the African Prince you hung up on last week might have had better financial integrity!
And of course, people are too emotional about the issue to pause for a moment and ask, wait, why isn’t Bernie offering us congressional healthcare? Why is he trying to foist the lowest form of healthcare that cost us the most in premiums and copays and covers the least amount of services? Do you know that poor people, seniors on Medicare, often have to apply for state Medicaid charity programs just to help them pay the premiums and copays on their Medicare?
Also, which Medicare? It’s got at least four parts now, A, B, C, D.
Medicare for all is a bit like saying foodstamps for all. Sounds kind of generous until you dig a little deeper as realize your congresscritter is trying to bless you with extreme poverty that makes buying basic food challenging? Wut?!
A bit funny, I pay cash for my prescription, 20 bucks. You know what my share of the copay is with insurance? 42 dollars. Yep, it costs more. Make that make sense.
Now see, I didn’t even want to talk about money, deductibles, copays, and insurance premiums, but that is what we’ve made “healthcare” into. It has almost nothing to do with people’s “health” or their “care,” it’s all about money, insurance, bureaucracy, and the pharmaceutical industry. We’re not trying to make people healthy or keep them healthy, we ‘re trying to fund insurance companies, fund the government, and apparently fund a whole lot of schemers and scammers.
And honestly much what we’re doing to people in the name of “healthcare” isn’t healthy and it isn’t caring.
#blogging #culture #healthcare #insanitybytes22 #opinion #politics -
Healthcare?
Healthcare, we deserve so much better. Like, there really ought to be some “health” and some “care” in our healthcare!
I’m relatively healthy and invest a great deal of time and energy into avoiding the entire institution of medicine. I did just spend nearly two weeks lost in a bureaucratic nightmare trying to get a simple prescription filled. I could have wrapped the script around a rock and thrown it across the street but apparently that was just a distance too far for the computers to talk to each other.
It was maddening and reminded me of being stuck in a fast food drive through trying to explain to disinterested teen agers that you still haven’t gotten your order.
Recently someone went and impaled themselves on a hiking pole. I just mention it because I think that is a great example of when someone should seek medical care. We’re still pretty good at trauma care! Having a close encounter with the institution of medicine after you’ve impaled yourself is probably worth the risk, although I’m a bit concerned you’ll come out with a lifetime prescription for oxycontin and wind up with a nasty addiction to street drugs, so even that one is about 50-50 in my book.
In case nobody noticed I’m a bit of a cynic and pretty jaded about life in general, but that’s not really what’s driving my post today. I think it’s a bit like dreaming of 2026 and expecting to see flying cars by now, but sorry, best I can do is offer you some leeches and bloodletting.
Recently Bernie Sanders did his usual meme about “Medicare for all” and how many lives it will allegedly save. Right, because who doesn’t want to spend their entire life paying premiums for insurance that covers so little you need four other insurance policies to back it up? If I wanted to help the American people I sure wouldn’t condemn them to spending all day talking to someone from New Jersey who doesn’t speak English very well and wondering if perhaps the African Prince you hung up on last week might have had better financial integrity!
And of course, people are too emotional about the issue to pause for a moment and ask, wait, why isn’t Bernie offering us congressional healthcare? Why is he trying to foist the lowest form of healthcare that cost us the most in premiums and copays and covers the least amount of services? Do you know that poor people, seniors on Medicare, often have to apply for state Medicaid charity programs just to help them pay the premiums and copays on their Medicare?
Also, which Medicare? It’s got at least four parts now, A, B, C, D.
Medicare for all is a bit like saying foodstamps for all. Sounds kind of generous until you dig a little deeper as realize your congresscritter is trying to bless you with extreme poverty that makes buying basic food challenging? Wut?!
A bit funny, I pay cash for my prescription, 20 bucks. You know what my share of the copay is with insurance? 42 dollars. Yep, it costs more. Make that make sense.
Now see, I didn’t even want to talk about money, deductibles, copays, and insurance premiums, but that is what we’ve made “healthcare” into. It has almost nothing to do with people’s “health” or their “care,” it’s all about money, insurance, bureaucracy, and the pharmaceutical industry. We’re not trying to make people healthy or keep them healthy, we ‘re trying to fund insurance companies, fund the government, and apparently fund a whole lot of schemers and scammers.
And honestly much what we’re doing to people in the name of “healthcare” isn’t healthy and it isn’t caring.
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📰 Midweek Update #23: Can He Keep It Going Through The Election?
🔗 https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-23-can-he-keep-it
#Opinion #Podcast #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Substack #Ukraine
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📰 Midweek Update #23: Can He Keep It Going Through The Election?
🔗 https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-23-can-he-keep-it
#Opinion #Podcast #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Substack #Ukraine
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📰 #Noticia #Información #UltimaNoticia #Mundo #Opinion #Actualidad #InteresGeneral
🔵 Trump se escondió en un contenedor de comida para cambiar de avión en secreto por una amenaza de Irán, según medios en EE.UU.
🔗 https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c24m8ymgz7ro?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssSegún fuentes de medios de EE.UU., el presidente fue reubicado secretamente en un avión diferente al Air Force One para evitar una amenaza iraní al volar desde Turquía a EE.UU.
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The Lakers can bring ‘Showtime’ back to LA — and California https://www.rawchili.com/nba/810408/ #Basketball #BobIger #california #economy #JoshKushner #LA #LALakers #Lakers #LALakers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesLakers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesLakers #NBA #Opinion
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Mis pensamientos cada vez qué un vato Whitexican, hetero y hegemónico abre el hocico para balbucear poco más qué marcas comerciales... 😑🙄😒
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Mis pensamientos cada vez que un individuo whitexican, hetero y hegemónico abre el hocico para balbucear poco más que marcas comerciales... 😑🙄😒
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This sums up my view (mostly) on the current affair of LLM/AI.
What changes now is, we need to do both traditional and LLM-assisted research (yeah, I will never believe LLM full research).
The reason is obvious, if somehow LLM/AI stopped working. What will you do? Sit staring the string.... nonono.
We shouldn't let 'knowledge loss' a thing, even IF everything will be fully automated in the future (yeah, it won't).
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This sums up my view (mostly) on the current affair of LLM/AI.
What changes now is, we need to do both traditional and LLM-assisted research (yeah, I will never believe LLM full research).
The reason is obvious, if somehow LLM/AI stopped working. What will you do? Sit staring the string.... nonono.
We shouldn't let 'knowledge loss' a thing, even IF everything will be fully automated in the future (yeah, it won't).
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📰 #Noticia #Información #UltimaNoticia #Mundo #Opinion #Actualidad #InteresGeneral
🔵 "Cada vez que anuncian a una persona con vida, me nace la esperanza de encontrar a mi hermano": la desesperada búsqueda de sobrevivientes del sismo en Cali
🔗 https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c75gk07kr79o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssEn el sur de la tercera ciudad más poblada de Colombia y una de las más afectadas por el terremoto, cientos de personas apuran esfuerzos para encontrar sobrevivientes bajo
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#OPINIÓN | "Aceptó conducir el Ejército del Sur hacia la capital para derrocar y exiliar al entrañable amigo"-Toño Freire, autor de "Ramón Freire: ¡Yo acuso!".
https://radio.uchile.cl/2026/08/12/freire-lider-en-la-creacion-de-la-republica/
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https://radio.uchile.cl/2026/08/12/freire-lider-en-la-creacion-de-la-republica/
En efecto Chile mantiene deudas con su historia independentista. Cruzando el tiempo, oligarcas impusieron su intransigente ideología y el país creció respetándola. Rescatando el Damnatio Memoriae o...
https://radio.uchile.cl/2026/08/12/freire-lider-en-la-creacion-de-la-republica/🐦🔗 https://farside.link/x.com/uchileradio/status/2087645752084299807#m
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Why cannot we remember all the contradictions which we feel within our own judgement, and how many things which were articles of belief for us yesterday are fables for us today?
[Que ne nous souvient il combien nous sentons de contradiction en nostre jugement mesmes ? combien de choses nous servoient hyer d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 26 (1.26), “It Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity [C’est folie de rapporter le vray et le faux à nostre suffisance]” (1572) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.27]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #belief #changeofheart #changeofmind #error #judgment #misjudgment #opinion #selfawareness
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Who Is Responsible for the Truth?
One question stayed with me long after I attended a workshop under the project titled ‘Digital Trust and Free Expression in the Era of AI’, organized by the Department of Media and Development Communication, University of the Punjab with the support of the U.S…
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Who Is Responsible for the Truth?
One question stayed with me long after I attended a workshop under the project titled ‘Digital Trust and Free Expression in the Era of AI’, organized by the Department of Media and Development Communication, University of the Punjab with the support of the U.S…
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Proyecto “Sala Cuna ¿Individual?” | vía #FastCheckCL
https://www.fastcheck.cl/2026/08/12/proyecto-sala-cuna-individual/
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Proyecto “Sala Cuna ¿Individual?” | vía #FastCheckCL
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Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold’s Cameras Aren’t As Good as the Base Pixel 11 https://petapixel.com/2026/08/12/google-pixel-11-pro-folds-cameras-arent-as-good-as-the-base-pixel-11/ #Opinion #Mobile #News
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Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold’s Cameras Aren’t As Good as the Base Pixel 11 https://petapixel.com/2026/08/12/google-pixel-11-pro-folds-cameras-arent-as-good-as-the-base-pixel-11/ #Opinion #Mobile #News
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:tx: - #Opinión | Cuando J.D. Vance proclama que Estados Unidos no es una idea ni un conjunto de principios, y lo define como la tierra de Kentucky, donde yacen cinco generaciones de sus ancestros, entierra la ciudad sobre la colina bajo la sangre y el suelo | Por Karolina Gilas | En la edición 38 correspondiente a agosto de @proceso
https://www.proceso.com.mx/reportajes/2026/8/12/el-octagono-377855.html
#Noticias #Proceso #México #Periodismo #BonitoBot #Bot #RSSBot #X #Twitter
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"Trump hid in catering cart to sneak out of Turkey amid security threats":
https://abcnews.com/video/135540207/
Would you like to see what Donald Trump looked like when he brushed away some of the vegetables that covered him and left the catering cart? Through the magic of AI, here is Donald Trump's picture, with him still wearing some of the cart's lettuce.
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"Trump hid in catering cart to sneak out of Turkey amid security threats":
https://abcnews.com/video/135540207/
Would you like to see what Donald Trump looked like when he brushed away some of the vegetables that covered him and left the catering cart? Through the magic of AI, here is Donald Trump's picture, with him still wearing some of the cart's lettuce.
copy: @renewedresistance #opinion #HowIWillAlwaysRememberDonaldTrump #picture -
One species, one planet: The moon is our ethical dress rehearsal for Mars
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One species, one planet: The moon is our ethical dress rehearsal for Mars
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📰 #Noticia #Información #UltimaNoticia #Mundo #Opinion #Actualidad #InteresGeneral
🔵 "Hay heridos y graves daños" tras el terremoto de magnitud 7,4 que sacudió Colombia
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/live/ck87nw81jv2qt?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssEl epicentro del sismo de este lunes fue en la zona de San José del Palmar, en la región del Chocó, en el pacífico colombiano. Se sintió en todo país, pero también en otros como Ecuador y Panamá.
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Japan Times: How disinformation on X imperils Japan’s democracy. “Tokyo cannot simply stand by while a foreign-owned private platform serves as a pipeline for national destabilization. The Japanese government must take concrete, structural steps to build digital resilience and provide trusted alternatives. First, Japan must support the establishment of an independent, nonpartisan Public […]
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Concord Monitor: Granite Geek: Science Cafe returns to Concord as the internet falls apart. “This carnage on click-throughs caused by A.I. summaries is so great and happening so quickly that NPR has called it an ‘extinction-level event’ for journalism sites dependent on viewership-based ad revenue. The industry is brainstorming how to react, but a decade of watching us in the media whipsawed by […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/12/granite-geek-science-cafe-returns-to-concord-as-the-internet-falls-apart-concord-monitor/ -
Instagram’s New Reading Banner Has Mixed Reviews
Is Instagram's new reading banner worthy of excitement or does the new test feature miss the point of reading?
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What Counts as “AI-Written”?
There's been a lot of uproar about AI-written books—but what exactly counts as AI-written? Take the survey to draw your line in the sand.
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Factions in Iran openly fight over war’s direction amid Khamenei’s absence
When Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told state television last week that he found it “very difficult” to reach…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Asia #breakingnews #Business #China #Economy #HongKong #Iran #Lifestyle #Opinion #SouthChinaMorningPost #Sport #Technology #Us #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/688244/
