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Wild story from Czechia: a prankster posing as the operator of an anonymous conspiracy account contacted Foreign Minister Petr Macinka. Within hours, Macinka agreed to meet him secretly, without police protection, at a site staged with fake weapons and explosives. https://t.co/xIPVe43wWT #Czechia #prank #conspiracy #CZ

🚨 DATAREPUBLICAN.COM STRIKES AGAIN: TRUMPBLOGS, FORMERLY KNOWN AS NOBLOGS 🚨 🏴 THE ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL ON NOBLOGS, MAPPED — EVERY BLOG, EVERY CELL, EVERY CITY. 🌍 The militant far-left has spent years hiding in plain sight on Noblogs.org — the anonymous blog network that quietly powers antifa, anarchist, squat, and "solidarity" cells around the world. So on my own time, for free, I scraped the whole thing. Because I kick commie *** for fun and need no government funding or sanction for it. Introducing an interactive map of 7000+ blogs across many countries and languages — antifascist, anarchist, ecological, prisoner-solidarity, migrant-border, revolutionary. Every one classified, geolocated, and searchable down to the verbatim quote. * 🔥 Verified quotes. Every claim is a receipt — their words, not mine. * 🌐 4000-plus blogs pinned to a live world map — zoom into your own city. * ⚔️ Many blogs classified "operational." * 🕸️ Click any blog, author, or cell and walk the network one tie at a time. No grant funded this. No client asked for it. I do this for free, on my own time, because someone should. 🖥️ Data-heavy! Best viewed on desktop. 📖 A preview of what's coming: DataRepublican v2.0 — full site redesign — launches soon, ahead of my and @JoshuaLisec book UNELECTED (Passage Press, Oct 13). And yes — if I can map the anarchist international in my spare time, I can map anything. https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2094285318170018166

Empathy, Compassion, and the Limits of Emotional Moral Judgment Empathy is widely regarded as a foundation of morality, but psychological research suggests that it is not an unqualified virtue. Paul Bloom (2017) argues that affective empathy—the experience of sharing another person’s feelings—has important limitations when used as a guide for moral judgment. First, empathy is biased. We respond more strongly to suffering that is vivid, identifiable, and psychologically close. Research on the “identifiable victim effect” shows that people can be more willing to help a specific individual than anonymous victims, even when the latter represent a much larger number (Kogut & Ritov, 2005; Lee & Feeley, 2016). Emotional salience therefore does not necessarily correspond to moral significance. Second, empathy is innumerate. Human emotional responses do not naturally scale with the number of people suffering. A single identifiable victim can evoke a powerful response, while thousands or millions of anonymous victims may produce comparatively little emotional engagement. This creates a problem when moral decisions concern suffering on a large scale (Bloom, 2017). Third, empathy can be exhausting. Repeatedly sharing the distress of others may produce empathic distress and emotional fatigue. Research suggests an important distinction between empathic resonance and compassion: while empathic engagement can increase negative affect, compassion can promote positive affect, motivation, and prosocial behaviour (Klimecki et al., 2014; Weng et al., 2013). The implication is not that we should care less. Rather, caring and feeling are not the same thing. Compassion allows us to recognize suffering and remain motivated to alleviate it without necessarily absorbing the suffering ourselves. Empathy may therefore be valuable for human connection, but it is a poor stand-alone system for making large-scale moral decisions. When millions of lives, limited resources, and competing needs are involved, compassion must be combined with reason, evidence, and deliberate judgment. The goal should not be to feel everything others feel. It should be to care deeply enough to help, while remaining clear-headed enough to help effectively. References: Bloom (2017); Kogut & Ritov (2005); Klimecki et al. (2014); Lee & Feeley (2016); Weng et al. (2013). Empathy and Its Discontents https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27916513/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

@LianaFix The US is not changing its (pivoting, pull-out) policy toward Europe. Its Big problems are in Iran. And what Russia is doing there. I doubt there was any discussion of "baltics". That was gaslighting by anonymous officials to avoid tough questions on Russia providing targeting #USPolicy #Russia #Iran #US #IR #RU

🚨 I think this news around Ox Alpha is much more important than it looks because its emergence says something much deeper about the actual state of the AI industry. 📈 Ox Alpha appeared anonymously on OpenRouter with around 1 million tokens of context, multimodal capabilities https://t.co/rft3YB92Td #AIIndustry #OxAlpha #OpenRouter #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Mass trials without due process in El Salvador: Judges are afraid. They’re convicting everyone — Prosecutors and the courts are securing convictions based on opaque police files, anonymous allegations and trials conducted behind closed doors https://t.co/P7vXnJwxK5 #ElSalvador #HumanRights #JusticeSystem #SV

Anonymous has offered five tips to protest against Sony's end of physical video game disc sales, urging players to buy games in physical format before 2028, to inform themselves about the purchase terms, to back up their content, and to choose stores that respect user ownership. (translated)

"It’s true that there is an anonymous mob with practically unlimited power on the platform. But this is only one dimension of Wikipedia’s problems. Let me explain." Read the truth behind the founder's ban: #Wikipedia #Censorship #AnonymousPower #Nospecificcountrycodesfoundinthetweet.

I Oslo har kokainbruk blivit utbrett och allvarligt, vilket avspeglas i både en ökning av beslag och en kultur av normalisering av drogen, där även samhällsprofiler som bonusprinsen Marius Borg Høiby är involverade, vilket har lett till en ökad medvetenhet om problemets allvar och behovet av stödgrupper som Cocaine Anonymous. #kokain #Norge #CocaineAnonymous

RT @OrevaZSN: Idea: An anonymous “vote to end meeting” button on Teams where if 50% of people press it, the meeting ends immediately. #MeetingEfficiency #RemoteWork #ProductivityTools #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweetyouprovided.Thus #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.