The appeal of alt medicine isn’t ’capitalism alienated us from healing ‘ or whatever, it’s that it has no evidential foundation so it can make claims like ‘ouchie needles are bad for you but yummy milkshakes are good’

Scam messages offering ships safe transit through Hormuz, security firm warns Fraudulent messages promising safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for cryptocurrency have been sent to some shipping companies whose ​vessels are stranded west of the waterway, Greek...

“Fraudulent messages promising safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for cryptocurrency have been sent to some shipping companies... [A]t least one ​of the vessels, ⁠which tried to exit the strait on Saturday and was hit by gunfire, was a victim of the fraud.”

For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE STANDING IN FRONT OF A DOWNTOWN BOOKSTORE SIGN IN THE BOOKSTORE WINDOW: DREAM BOOKS 10c NANCY: OH, SLUGGO .. WHY DON'T YOU BUY ONE OF THOSE BOOKS? SLUGGO: I THINK IT'S KINDA GOOFY - BUT O.K.! P2-NANCY IS LOOKING UP A DREAM IN HER NEW BOOK NANCY: I HAD A SILLY DREAM ABOUT AN ELEPHANT... I WANT TO SEE WHAT IT MEANS! P3- PAGE NANCY IS READING ELEPHANTS... BEWARE OF SMALL MAN BEARING GIFTS.. HE PRETENDS TO LOVE YOU BUT HE IS VERY FICKLE. P4- NANCY: IS THIS BOOK A GIFT TO ME? SLUGGO:SURE! P5- NANCY HITS SLUGGO ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD WITH THE BOOK WITH SUCH FORCE THAT SHE IS ELEVATED IN THE AIR, WHILE SLUGGO IS GRIMACING AND CRUMPLING TO THE GROUND

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 21,1941

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

reasons why the suez crisis happened: two empires, overextended, ravaged by war, desperately trying to hold onto the last bits of grandeur slipping through their hands

reasons why the American suez crisis happened: woman said Lara Crofts boobs were too big on youtube

eugene is definitely a real guy and the other person has like no followers and one timeline post about hating a specific paper, which is the most real social media signature of a research nerd that has ever existed

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oldest intellectual move: 'it's all just X.' token prediction this decade. neurochemistry, pop-science's X in the 90s. Foucauldian 'everything is power' saturating the 00s. test for whether you've got a theory or just a stamp: what wouldn't count as 'just X' for you? if nothing, it's a stamp.

My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.

This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!

Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Coal use fell in China, India, Africa and the EU, but grew in the US due to high gas prices

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THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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Planes still can't fly there; they're definitionally incapable of it.

Their wings just create a transient air pressure eddy which makes them temporarily appear not to fall.

You've entered definition-land, @hikikomorphism.bsky.social. Nothing new is ever learned in definition-land, and nothing unexpected can happen. It's impossible — by definition. Anything that happened would just be an event, and we've seen events before.

I’m sorry but this is an absolutely insane conclusion for the authors to draw given what they actually did

Both of my state’s senators are the worst and one is the chamber leader. Truly hope there’s a reckoning for both in the near future.

cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment

this made the rounds a month ago, so of course i have a take on it bsky.app/profile/hotr...

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

but then im also just shooting for general longevity and not to either win awards nor change my looks to look cut or anything

Google gemini as integrated in fitbit attempts to account for 1. by increasing intensity loads and duration lengths each week if you're successful throughout the week (including for weights) - but then it'll try to suggest I stay on an elliptical for 75-120minutes and I go no thanks fam

Old enough to remember when people got angry if you called these death camps.

Anyone who's even gotten the basic gist of Wittgenstein should probably have the import of this shoot through them like a light, imo.

[38] 僧問睦州和尚:如何是展演之言?州云:量才補職。又問:如何是不展演之言?州云:伏惟尚饗。 Cleary: A monk asked Master Muzhou, “What are words of exposition?” Muzhou said, “Assessing capabilities to fill offices.” “What are words of nonexposition?” Muzhou said, “Lo, the imperial cook!” Me: A monk asked Master Muzhou: "What are words exhibiting performance?" Muzhou said: "Measuring abilities, benefiting the office." The monk asked: "What are words not exhibiting performance?" Muzhou said: "I humbly offer up this sacrifice."

Or this one, which is just bafflingly incoherent in Cleary's reading because he didn't make the final line's cultural terminology connection to fixed ritual verbal formula.

Cleary makes a real howler here by reading "grasp" as "understand," when grasping is the last thing a buddhist would want to do

[56] 百丈恒和尚侍立法眼次，因請益外道問佛：不問有言，不問無言。敘語未終，法眼曰：住！住！汝擬向世尊良久處會去。恒於此大悟。 Cleary: As Baizhang Heng stood in attendance on Fayan, he asked for help with the story of the Hindu asking Buddha, “I do not ask about the spoken, I do not ask about the unspoken.” Before he could even finish the citation, Fayan said, “Wait, wait! You’re about to understand at the Buddha’s silence!” At this Heng was greatly enlightened. Me: While Baizhang Heng was standing in attendance on Fayan, he requested instruction on the heterodox who asked Buddha: "Not asking about the presence of speech, not asking about the lack of speech - "  The narration not yet completed, Fayan said: "Stop! Rest! You're about to propositionally grasp at the World Honored One's place of long silence!" Heng achieved great realization from this.

When I say that koans are unfairly read as simply mystical or anti-intellectual, this is what I mean - from my efforts translating Chan master Da Hui's compilation directly from the Chinese, after previous exposure to it in translation by the late Thomas Cleary:

what's that

(I shouldn't have missed Zhuangzi, either.)

While I greatly appreciate Whitehead, i can't really establish him within this class, given his goal is still a form of positive metaphysics, of process being a per se existent.