Why did past societies build so much "useless" beauty everywhere — and why did we stop?

It might be a measure of a culture's health... (thread)
https://x.com/Culture_Crit/status/1814299829947806004?t=RO2-Dfkeww9_fWyoVp6eBg&s=19

Today the FBI director alluded to waiting on a "foreign" encrypted messaging app to release the would be Trump assassin's communications.

The top two companies providing these services are Signal, an American company and Telegram, which is not.

Wray went on to bitch about the FBI's "inability" to penetrate these services on multiple occasions throughout his hearing.

Just saying, telegram may be getting a sizeable amount of increased attention very soon.

Don't fedpoast

Wisdom.

A courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism, The Wise of Heart updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the 21st century. https://amzn.to/4cYd3eI

"Defending the philosophy that led to the brutal murders, Krylenko remarked, “We must condemn once and for all the formula ‘chess for the sake of chess,’ like the formula ‘art for art's sake.’”"

https://salvomag.com/post/leisure-and-its-discontents

"pillbot" what could possibly go wrong?

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇱🇧 The US Embassy in Beirut calls on its citizens to leave Lebanon

@Megatron_ron

Cast Iron 101.

A convoy of Wagner and Malian government troops was hit hard in an ambush yesterday; there have been heavy casualties (judging from the videos, at least two dozen). The Tuareg also took prisoners, some of which have reportedly already been ransomed; negotiations are ongoing about freeing the others.

From what I can tell so far, they went (too) deep into Islamist-held tribal territories, pursing enemies towards the Algerian border, and drove straight into a trap with IEDs taking out several of the vehicles immediately and a VBIED hitting the convoy. Air support came too late due to a sand storm.

JNIM, the local Al Qaeda branch, is taking credit for the attack, alongside other Tuareg groops.

NEW - CIA denies that the spy agency used MKUltra-like mind manipulation on Trump shooter.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/bv83vow6ya/

@disclosetv

Major new study finds heart failure surging among people who have been “vaccinated” with Covid mRNA shots

"The bombshell study revealed that cases of myocarditis have surged by 620% among people who received Covid mRNA injections"

"For the study the researchers used a dataset with a total of 9,258,803 individuals who received at least the first dose of an mRNA COVID-19 shot"

"The peer-reviewed study, published in the world-renowned Nature Journal, also found that Covid shots caused a 175% spike in pericarditis"

https://slaynews.com/news/heart-failure-surges-620-among-covid-vaxxed/

An American woman offering herself as a potential partner at a "Marriage Market" in Shanghai with the promise of a U.S. citizenship to the highest bidder.
https://redd.it/1e67fh3
@r_interestingasfuck

"The transformation of journalism from rank advocacy to lukewarm “objectivity” and back to even ranker political propaganda (nearly all news stories today are couched in political terms, including those about pop music and sports) is one of the principal subjects of this book. Accordingly we have assembled a corps of forty-two journalists—some grizzled veterans, some newcomers, some of whose primary occupations lie in the wider fields of book publishing, fiction, non-fiction, television, and even Hollywood—to analyze the startling changes that have come over the profession in our lifetimes."
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/our-vile-lying-propagadist-media#:~:text=The%20transformation%20of,in%20our%20lifetimes.

A Carthaginian Counterattack

Simplicius posits that the devastation of the West is the revenge of the Carthaginian remnant on the heirs of Rome: Why do current Western leaders seem to be intent on destroying their own countries? One strong possibility is that the fanatical messianic leaders of Israel view all of the West as the descendants of Rome. […]

https://voxday.net/2024/07/29/a-carthaginian-counterattack/

"It’s easy to see who belongs to Clown World and who doesn’t. Because athletes become successful almost entirely through their own talent and efforts, they aren’t as easily controlled by Clown World as the actors and writers, who can be manufactured and then controlled. And, if necessary, protected when their wrongdoings come to light, as we’re currently witnessing in the case of Neil Gaiman."

https://voxday.net/2024/07/30/why-the-media-hates-aaron-rodgers/

"That risk when investing in new technology always exists; you can never evade the possibility that you make the investment in a "new" form of technology without a proven revenue model and never make anything. But in the case of computer-related technology where there is no current revenue model there is the near-certainty, which has been repeatedly demonstrated on an unbroken basis over the last four decades, that the computing-related capacity tomorrow will be faster, cheaper and use less power than the last go-around -- and in a large-scale environment the latter is enormous due to the fact that you not only need to run the computer you have to get the heat out of the room too so you pay for the power twice."

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251774

Singapore Approves 16 Insect Species for Consumption

Singapore has approved 16 insect species for food consumption. The list includes house crickets (Acheta domesticus), African migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria migratorioides), silkworms (Bombyx mori), and honey bees (Apis mellifera). These insects, and products made from them, can be used as food, raw materials for the food industry, or as livestock feed. Additionally, some species can be imported live and bred locally.

It’s worth noting that Singapore is not the first country to allow insect consumption. The European Union, for example, has approved food from four insect species in recent years. Such measures aim to provide a sustainable protein source for the growing global population and reduce the environmental impact of agriculture.

⚛ @science