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• Trump Reinstalls Confederate Statue Torn Down During Anti-Racism Protests

  28-10-2025 16:53 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - AmericasA statue of a Confederate general that was torn down in Washington, DC, during anti-racism protests has been reinstalled under orders from President Donald Trump. General Albert Pike's statue has long been controversial, as have many Confederate monuments. In addition, Pike "took up arms against the United States, misappropriated funds, and was ultimately captured and imprisoned by his own troops," said critic and DC delegate Eleanor Holmes...
  
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• Half of Uncontacted Groups Could Be Wiped Out in 10 Years, Report Says

  28-10-2025 07:25 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS ScienceFrom Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers—a crisis unfolding far from public view. A new report by Survival International, a London-based Indigenous rights organization, has identified 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups in 10 countries and concluded that half of these groups "could be wiped out within 10 years if governments and companies...
  
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• ChatGPT Discloses How Many Users Display Psychosis or Suicidal Thoughts

  28-10-2025 07:25 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBCNews - BusinessOpenAI has released new estimates of the number of ChatGPT users who exhibit possible signs of mental health emergencies, including mania, psychosis, or suicidal thoughts. The company said that around 0.07% of users active in a given week exhibited such signs. While OpenAI maintains these cases are "extremely rare," critics say even a small fraction may equal hundreds of thousands of people because ChatGPT recently reached 800 million weekly...
  
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