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Italian lawyer and academic (born 1977), independent United Nations human rights expert

The author argued that the concern was not opposition to corporations, but preventing large companies in technology, pharmaceuticals, insurance and consulting from controlling markets and, especially, politics.

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Gerd Leonhard 8h
German futurist and writer

The author shared a link describing Jensen Huang’s image as shattered, asked whether he could be pushed out at Nvidia and said they believed he would not survive the situation.

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Sam van Rooy MP 8h
Belgian politician

The author called on the minister to monitor social media for people who, according to him, openly glorified sharia or jihad. The author also expressed great concern about safety at airports and emphasized that it concerned all staff. (translated)

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Joscha Bach 20h
cognitive scientist

The author said Kennedy had sought to remove the herbicide glyphosate from food because it appeared to disrupt gut flora, but that Trump later approved new subsidies for it. The author suggested this was likely because then-chief of staff Susie Wiles, who had since been ousted, was beholden to lobbyists.

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Greek Journalist

The post referred to a publication about a note from an elderly man, which had been shared on social media by his doctor. According to the title, the elderly man expressed his wish to die in his own home and not be moved elsewhere. (translated)

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Sabine Hossenfelder 1d
German theoretical physicist

The author argued that humans had become dominant through their ability to adapt quickly by learning rather than through natural selection, but said this could leave them unaware of change. They wrote that the world was changing rapidly and would become more turbulent, urging people to stay alert.

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Barry Malone 2d
Journalist and editor

The author said the recipient controlled access to aid and, citing the U.N. and aid agencies, had blocked it for more than three years.

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Ivan Gabal 2d
Czech member of Czech Parliament (2013–2017) and sociologist

The author stated that the Krakow tragedy showed that even in stable conditions, there are people who arm themselves and kill. He also questioned whether the government needs politicians who bully the media, journalists, and non-profit organizations, in which, according to him, 80,000 people work professionally and 1.5 million voluntarily. He challenged how these groups harm the government. (translated)

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Italian journalist and engineer

The author said Heritage had done Rector a favor by preventing his respected name from becoming further associated with its declining brand.

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Robert Pszczel 3d
Polish diplomat

The author wrote that information had been confirmed that the bodies of three of the shooter’s family members had been found in his home. They said this suggested the shooter was extremely depraved and argued that, had police officers not stopped him, he could have killed more people.

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António Guterres 3d
Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017

The author wrote that, for the first time in history, gender parity had been achieved across all leadership positions and across the UN’s international staff. They described this as only a first step and said decisions should include women who had been excluded for centuries.

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Tomasz Sommer 3d
Polish journalist

The author wrote that such events cannot be predicted or completely avoided, as they occur sporadically. He warned that they can be easily exploited to tighten repressive governance, which he considered the greatest danger at present. (translated)

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon 3d
French politician (born 1951)

The author called for putting global nuclear disarmament back on the agenda, region by region, starting, when the time comes, with the most armed countries. He also advocated for organizing and rallying the majority of nations for biological disarmament, which he presented as one of the major causes to defend. (translated)

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Mariusz Gierszewski 3d
Polish journalist, musician

The author recalled the letter from the deputy police commander and wrote that the services had information about a high probability of sabotage or an attack. (translated)

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Maarten Boudry 3d
Belgian philosopher

The author argued that much of the decline in public trust in science, experts and institutions was deserved, saying people sensed that researchers and academic journals were using their scientific authority to advance an unspecified cause.

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Fabrizio Romano 3d
Italian football journalist

Roberto De Zerbi said young players should delete social media and concentrate on working hard and developing their football careers. He argued that social media could portray a player as top-class one day and unable to play the next, which he said was unhealthy.

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Bartosz Fiałek 4d

The post described research into whether orally delivered magnetoelectric particles, activated by an external magnetic field, could stimulate the vagus nerve without surgery, potentially offering a non-invasive approach relevant to Parkinson’s disease.

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Isabella M Weber 4d
German economist

The author asked why an economic bill of rights was needed and cited FDR’s warning about a possible return to the laissez-faire capitalism of the 1920s. The post’s quotation ended mid-sentence as FDR began discussing the prospect of having conquered the country’s enemies.

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Jürgen Schmidhuber 4d
German computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher

The author said they had been thinking about the subject since the 1970s and pointed readers to Section 20 of reference [1]. They wrote that superintelligent AIs would begin by transforming the solar system using countless self-replicating, self-improving robot factories, but the post ended mid-sentence.

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Marek Meissner 5d
journalist (1963-)

The author wrote that the reactions of analysts from funds and banks he observed formed a coherent picture. According to him, for the past two months, there had been signals that only perhaps one third of the investments planned for 2026 had started, and costs were rising sharply. He added that banks were beginning to think about something, but did not specify what. (translated)

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