The ECDC has declared January cervical cancer awareness month which we support 100%. We also want encourage local skeptical actions such as speaking up when companies promote nonsense and Pontus gives us an example of how easy it can be, if you just take a few minutes and speak up. We also mention that the planets are lined up in a cool way at the moment, so turn your eyes to the skies! In TWISH we hear about Vladimir Bekhterev who was at least as significant in psychology as Pavlov was, but made the mistake to talk badly about Stalin and as a result was almost entirely written out of history. Then, we look at the news:

• INTERNATIONAL: It’s confirmed: 2024 was the first year with an average temperature 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
• INTERNATIONAL: Pro-Russia disinformation pops up on BlueSky
• BALTIC SEA: Damaged cables in Baltic Sea not Russian sabotage?
• EU: X asked to disclose internal documents about algorithms over fears that far right gets boost
• UK: Meta and the scrapping of fact-checking

The Croatian deputy prime minister Josip Dabro confirms all our preconceived ideas regarding stupid populist politicians and gets the week’s award for being Really Wrong.

Enjoy!

https://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-463.html

Segments:

0:00:27 Intro

0:00:50 Greetings

0:15:50 TWISH

0:25:46 News

0:45:49 Really Wrong

0:49:16 Quote

0:53:17 Outro

0:54:32 Outtakes

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