The Worst Form of Government

I’m not certain that democracy is definitely the worst form of government. Certainly, representative democracy is making a powerful claim to the noscript, and it’s true that the more the franchise expands, the worse the elected governments get. But it is certainly a lot easier to understand why the American Founding Fathers were so skeptical […]

https://voxday.net/2023/12/03/the-worst-form-of-government/

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"You know how image generation went from blurry 32x32 texture patches to high-resolution images that are difficult to distinguish from real in roughly a snap of a finger? The same is now happening along the time axis (extending to video) and the repercussions boggle the mind just a bit. Every human becomes a director of multi-modal dreams, like the architect in Inception." -- Andrej Karpathy

JUST IN - Pentagon says an American warship and multiple commercial vessels have come under attack in the Red Sea.

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Arhaven Spotlight: Gorgo 2

I will be seeing Godzilla Minus One this weekend if it freaking kills me. Which it may, and I don’t care. I. Will. Do. This. Thing. In the meantime, we will be looking in on the Kaiju movie that never was: Gorgo 2 Here’s what I had to say about the OG Gorgo. For some […]

https://arkhavencomics.com/2023/12/02/arhaven-spotlight-gorgo-2/

Good morning & happy Sunday! Count 'em. We got Winter Storm Warnings in eleven states out there.

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🏫 🇺🇸 At Yale, 92% of grades in women's studies classes are either A or A-. Only 55% in mathematics are.

🔶️ "You couldn't ask for a better metaphor for what ails American academia and culture."

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FBI Raids Catholic Family After 15 Year Old Posts "Offensive" Memes In Group Chat

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Are we truly safe in the eyes of the law or do we fall prey to overreaching authorities? This episode brings to light a gripping narrative of a humble Christian family whose lives were turned upside down over a teenage boy's involvement in a private group chat. Aggressive FBI investigations, home raids, and exorbitant legal fees pushed this working-class family into a financial abyss. As we examine this trend of disproportionately targeting traditionalist Catholics, we call attention to the pressing need for vigilance in these uncertain times.

Shifting our focus to social media platforms, we uncover Instagram's ominous algorithm that seems to inadvertently promote harmful content to adults following young influencers. We explore the unsettling findings of The Wall Street Journal's investigation, revealing a covert network of predators on Instagram. As we connect the dots between Instagram's disturbing content promotion and the FBI's surveillance on traditionalist Catholics, we urge listeners to safeguard their children from these perils. Together, let's stand by families such as the Rufini's, who faced unimaginable hardships under the FBI's scrutiny. Remember, awareness and unity are the torches we can carry to light the path away from such unspeakable tragedies.

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Same movements, different movies! These incredible clips show how animation artists can mirror & incorporate previous work. 😮

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The Spire has returned to the Notre Dame

The rainbow circles in this illusion aren't actually changing shape or moving at all. Sorry! 😝 
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Link to the memoirs in question: https://www.universalinternetlibrary.ru/book/69917/chitat_knigu.shtml
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From the memoirs of an officer of the Life Guards Cossack Regiment EI Balabin during the visit of Emperor Nicholas II festive dinner in Dunkirk in 1901:

"The billionaire Rothschild offered Emperor Nicholas to repay the Russian debt to France in exchange for equal rights for Jews in Russia. The Emperor refused, saying that the Russian people are very gullible and with equal rights would immediately fall into bondage to the Jews. Moving away from Rothschild, the Emperor said: "I have now signed my own death warrant.""

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Tennis Icon Martina Navratilova Sparks Woke Drama For Saying Transgender Biological Men Can’t Be Lesbians

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Bearing patience with our kinsmen

"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him. For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away."

Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations.
Art: Robert, H. (1733-1808). Washerwomen by the Statue of Marcus Aurelius.