The book is, in fact, extremely interesting

sabra and shatila ii

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump

@katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world

Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER
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It’s not a great look but I can’t lie, LLMs are like a prosthetic for people with shitty executive functioning. using it exclusively for like, scheduling, has saved me significant amounts of time. this has yet to blow up in my face

By Fernando Cidoncha

This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

One of the most disturbing things about aging is how, once mitochondrial function declines to the point of effecting ATP synthesis, the material of the cell starts undergoing a phase transition to a more gel like state. Then you can’t rope off ancient retroviral elements and its a mess

Note from Otto Warburg asking for money.

Otto Warburg's grant application: "I need 10,000 marks".

Since people love lore these days, More people should be into cell bio, ever paper is a deep cell drop

"Damn coilin interacting with core snRNPs, what were the developers cooking?"

The people yearn for intrinsically disordered proteins

this absolutely psychotic war has got to end immediately, what the fuck do they think they’re doing

frightening

after talking to some people today… woof… fairly vicious antisemitism is… a lot more common now than it was before.

rolling my eyes and telling people to read theory (Helmholtz, Karl Friston)

Consciousness (probably) isn’t even required for regular intelligence lol. we constantly learn without awareness of what is being learned, see without awareness of what is being seen… intelligence (I think) is about predictive modeling of the world, and having it propel action

From Jahan Malek Khatun. They say that the Shirazi poets can’t properly be translated (I guess translating Hafez is like translating Shakespeare[?]) and I’m inclined to believe them, but I’ve nonetheless been enjoying Dick Davis’s attempt with Khatun. Real Le Ton beau de Marot hours

Wow, Piranesi, what a book!

An esteemed tradition dating back to Lynn Margulis herself

similar dynamic with bioelectricity stuff imo. it’s very woo friendly

Oh well. At least Nick Lane doesn’t have a Twitter account

omg someone else annoyed by Picard 😭 bro this guy studied under Doug Wallace. his labs work on cristae alignment is incredible. I was heartbroken when I found out he is a complete MAHA schmuck apparently now spamming LLM written twitter posts

This vibecoding thing with Claude and Colab is so fun. I don’t know shit about fuck about coding but the data visualization stuff you can do here is neat

incredible how many anticapitalists' anticapitalism consists of not even believing capitalism exists

The Passionate Ones

This album is incredible… I don’t even usually fw bedroom pop but folks… it is good

Very interesting. A lot of GLPs work to lower blood glucose by stimulating insulin secretion and improving sensitivity right? Type II diabetes like doubles your risk of Alzheimer’s iirc. There’s old idea about Alzheimer’s as having a lot to do with brain insulin resistance and calcium signalling

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”

(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...

Sigh… I’m gonna have to read the Zurek book

Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.

Resolving the "measurement problem" in quantum mechanics would be a huge deal. Doing it without any exotic assumptions or additions to standard QM would be amazing. Now, I'm not reckless enough to say that is what has been achieved here, but...
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This site is weird and incorrect about AI in general for sociological reasons