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cross-referencing 17 theories

reticulating splines

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months:

"This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Meanwhile...

Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit — Jennifer Aniston's 'happy dance' animation ate up 377 gigabytes of data due to ... Admins were not happy. Initial attempts to resolve the issue by replacing files with hardlinks also failed due to ext4’s 65,000 hardlink limit.

#ACCELERATE

The Ozempicization of Everything Biohacking, gambling, and war

The Ozempicization of the Economy

What's the point of hardbacks? Error: consider reformatting

That's easy. Hardbacks are for arranging behind you on Zoom calls

Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran The Bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?

Terrifying

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

What I learned from my first few weeks as a Green MP? Most politicians have no clue how tough things are out there | Hannah Spencer With this escalating cost of living crisis, so many are really suffering – yet Labour lacks the imagination, boldness and will to do anything about it, says Green party MP Hannah Spencer

More of this, please

What I learned from my first few weeks as a Green MP? Most politicians have no clue how tough things are out there | Hannah Spencer With this escalating cost of living crisis, so many are really suffering – yet Labour lacks the imagination, boldness and will to do anything about it, says Green party MP Hannah Spencer

More of this, please

The War Against Misinformation Is Over. The Lies Won | The Walrus New research suggests people know images and headlines are false but share them anyway

Unfortunately the lack of 'truth' to this image is not only irrelevant, but perhaps entirely the point

World’s first lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000 In a major breakthrough for synthetic biology, researchers on Thursday unveiled a new form of lab-grown leather created from reconstructed Tyrannosaurus rex protein sequences. The material is the main component of a new, luxury handbag shown off in a debut at Amsterdam's Art Zoo Museum, which is expected to fetch hundreds of thousands of euros when it eventually hits the auction block.

World’s first lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000 | NL Times

Oooooh, intrigued!

Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader Score one for the fediverse.

I've been extremely disappointed with the uses Bluesky's protocols have been put to, so far. This is just more of the same i.e. a visually chunky feed scroller. Yawn

I love this story. Truly a parable for our times

Scientists Say the Inca May Have Invented the World’s First Computer System 600 Years Ago Before silicon, before writing, the Inca were computing. Scientists just proved their 600-year-old knotted cords can run spreadsheets, encryption, and file systems.

Scientists Say the Inca May Have Invented the World’s First Computer System 600 Years Ago

His Majesty's Pop Life: Prince Interactive Some thoughts on a Prince-themed adventure game from 1994.

This is extremely relevant to my interests

The right is good at this & actively monopolises viral trends, as well as having outrage on their side to 'naturally' mobilise attention

I'm not saying these problems are easy... but waving your fist at a small team of recent graduates hired by the BBC to run their front page is patently ridiculous

The 2nd, and very connected problem: the Left (or antifascists or whatever label you want for a vast swathe of different people, movements, and ideologies) needs to organise and mobilise at the narrative level more actively and collectively.

Changing the front page of the BBC is not the problem. The problem is twofold: media is more about attention, clicks and narrative than it has ever been. The old model of monolithic media outlets with grand narratives to peddle is dead.

I meant that a news story about something negative i.e. the far right, is going to get more attention. People are drawn to bad news, outrage etc. This is surely a condition of our times. The BBC front page is there to draw attention and reflect readership figures, just as much as it is to inform.

BBC news extract

The article makes the claim, taken from London police numbers

More people want to read/did read about the far right protest. People like bad news & don't like fascists. You think that the team running the BBC frontpage conspired against anti-fascism because of some internal BBC rightwing policy? I think they are trying to post stuff that people want to read.

The estimated number of people at the protest on Saturday is about 50,000. Not the half a million the protestors claimed (the article actually says this). That's significantly smaller than the far right protest, if size alone is any indication of front page worthiness.

Thousands gather for anti far-right march in London Organisers of the Together Alliance march say 500,000 people attended but a police estimate put the figure closer to 50,000.

It happened yesterday. You won't find it on the front page today. But here is the coverage

Swings and roundabouts

The Sam Kriss Problem The latest witch-hunt is against “male feminists”

Is that the writer Sam Kriss describing himself?