So-called grassroots organisation the "World Council for Health", known for spreading COVID19 misinformation, has just jumped into infrasound as well.
Read this 👇 to find out why this conspiracy theory is rising from the dead again, and why it's already been proved - with science - to be bunk. 🧪🔌
7-OH, a synthetic kratom derivative found only in trace amounts in the natural plant, has led to a rash of poisonings that all get labelled under the umbrella of “kratom.”
But natural kratom is significantly less dangerous, and many swear by it as a safer alternative to opioids.
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Evidence for the 'flippening' is everywhere...
#TIP
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Tree characteristics change in mixed forests, leading to more wood production than in single-species plantations🌳
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We have the technological means, for sure.
Perhaps less political will than is necessary, but that can change fast, especially given the current situation.
The right combination of shared information among each industry's competitors would provide the needed data to watch supply & demand closely.
More people see (&/or report) when #LLMs spew out meme-like, grammatically correct paragraphs that confuse meaning or miss it entirely now, but it has always been part of society, just a smaller %, and moving slow enough for meaning to stay up to date by previous means.
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Using a #dynamic information spectrum, based in part on the medium / context it's in, helps define the varying meanings of Data, Info, Knowledge, Wisdom.
When we generalize *too much* detailed info away, it downgrades to Data for people who aren't familiar w/ higher parts.
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The definition of the #Information_Paradigm is that of a complex system: it often resists #reductionism.
But not always.
Complex systems can have many simple parts.
A #relational approach looks at interactions & harmonious ratios. TIP uses varying speeds for each of the DIKW model's parts.
When you don't have that previous xp / knowledge, the meaning cannot be conveyed as usual, like a paragraph of explanation.
So the rate of production of meme abstracts used to be behind the #information velocity, so knowledge also moved @ that speed. Now, memes lead, info follows, knowledge's lost.
Memes are generalizations, abstracting away information in favor of being compact. That info #entropy is lost to the general public, when that context is removed.
*Using* a meme to shorten what *you* know is 1 thing, using it as wisdom for all is another. Like AI, meaning requires pre-experience.
When the new paradigm became that of digital information, the normal ratios finally flipped.
This is like changing from absolute space & time to relativistic, or Galilean to Lorentzian methods for *simply adding velocities.*
Yes, underlying physics is same but some important changes must be added.
Because conspiring to commit insider trading is by definition, planned disinformation campaigns.
Like penny stocks & crypto, small markets are easily manipulated by large investors (whales), & now everyone knows that the 💩ump regime is all about grifting & scams, so they just mirror their actions.
We need orders of magnitude more information inputs at many different (new) points in the system that are either not measured or not available in real-time now.
Imagine how having huge arrays of seismometers were necessary to build early warning systems for earthquakes.
Nobel Economist, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, discusses his paper "The impact of AI and digital platforms on the information ecosystem," co-authored with Maxim Ventura-Bolet.
Recorded from a virtual Cambridge Disinformation Summit keynote 9 April 2026.
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It would be great to see some work done on the mainstream version that it's generally copied from.
Insider information, front running, rug pulls, etc. have been a part of capitalism from the start, but have been hidden behind closed doors rather than the more visible digital commoner's version.
Space is filling up fast: around 2,700 dead satellites and 140 million debris fragments.
EU-funded researchers are now exploring how to recycle satellites in space, or beam debris back to Earth before it spirals out of control.
Discover more: link.europa.eu/C6XbWb 🧪
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Given that #Babylonians used a base-60 number system, one is forced to wonder how much of this ancient #information was lost to the transition to base-10, where none of this is any longer immediately obvious.
The number 12 is the best/lowest bridge between them.
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It's great to see more work contributions coming out & joining the 'rising tide' of #relational #ontology!
“The whole exercise felt ridiculous to Ben. He & his father—2 people who had never been to medical school— were now arguing about cancer research. Meanwhile, his father was ignoring the advice of an actual expert.
‘What am I doing?’ he thought. ‘This is why we have doctors, *human* doctors’.”🧪🛟
Using the fundamental #physics phenomenon of #beats, trial & error, and unmatched metallurgy & bell casting skills, the Chinese assembled 12-tone chromatic bronze bell sets like below, 2000-3600 yrs ago.
Essentially 1st uncovering the mass relation to tone as well.
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The famous science communicator/historian Pythagoras passed along many great ideas, as we all know. His original cult ideas include beans & irrational numbers being forbidden.
His argument for those simple ratios is nothing more than literal #numerology. He formed his hypothesis to meet his #bias.
It's also cool that the oldest musical instruments date back to this same time.
Having some written records from then would be amazing!
The image displays the Adorant, a prehistoric figurine carved from mammoth ivory. It is a small ivory plaque depicting a human-like figure with arms raised in a pose of adoration or worship. The reverse side features orderly sequences of notches and dots, which researchers suggest may represent an early precursor to written language or a structured communication system.
Earth’s oldest ice and rocks hold a record of its deep past. Our deep past includes the discovery of the earliest symbolic writing, dating to 40,000 years ago. We consider the big picture of deep time when we go "Old School" on this week’s @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪
Listen here: bit.ly/48I8THA
The energy that made the modern world didn’t come out of nowhere. A new global trade in stimulants gave workers the energy to toil in the factories and thinkers the fuel to invent a new world. 🗃️🧵
I follow fundamental ideas wherever they take me, but do not see computer language framing going down that far.
A log of good stuff, though, w/ some overlaps to other things I follow more closely.
Mostly it's the generalization of the underlying concepts that interest me & take up my time.
The 1st step in a fractal-like, discrete sequence toward doubling (1 ➡️ 2) is the most dissonant (noise).
A fetus inside its mother is much like a cancer, causing drastic changes beginning immediately. As the baby forms, it becomes more independent over time.
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Also, in the dual feedback loops, nothing is wasted or 'bad' per se.
The phrase '1 person's signal is another's noise' holds, and from one category comes the other: a simple transposition changes dissonance back to constructive.
Let's not forget the history of #manipulation @ the dawn of the digital age, when the FTC & National Association of Broadcasters banned subliminal ads in 1958.
It's coming back now because the status quo #profit-cult economic model has found ways around this.
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