Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Kim Dotcom. https://x.com/KimDotcom/status/1860944312873468127

"What if we were willing to see poetry as a science, wedding contemplation and craft?

"That would be something to celebrate, don’t you think?!"

https://substack.com/home/post/p-152066270#:~:text=What%20if%20we,don%E2%80%99t%20you%20think%3F!

"Little did I realize that a post I threw up on X would cause Scientific American to shove editor Laura Helmut out the door for hateful post-election comments, action now ricocheting across social media and multiple news outlets. “I've decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief,” Helmuth posted on Bluesky, the social media club for liberals. “I'm going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching).”

"Pretty much every news account misreports the events that led to Helmuth’s departure, alleging Helmuth’s scalping for appalling behavior—she called members of Gen X “fucking fascists”—is a political win for “conservatives” or “Trump supporters.” These stories at the New York Times, Guardian, and NPR serve as the latest examples of how lost and divorced from reality too many journalists remain from the American public and anything that approximates actual journalism."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-151811561#:~:text=Little%20did%20I,approximates%20actual%20journalism.

"Genre expectations, what makes a hero, morality, purpose, and the meaning of good and evil, have all been bungled by the big dogs in charge and were done so long ago. If we want to move past them we're going to have to go even further back while simultaneously pulling even further ahead into uncharted waters. 

"We are close to the fringes of a new Golden Age. In fact, we are so close I can just barely see it over the horizon coming ahead. But we aren't going to get there with these old failed roadmaps. It is time to throw them out the window and leave them behind.

"Keep awake and we'll get there eventually. I just hope we can stop with all of these detours so we can get there sooner."

https://jdcowan.substack.com/p/the-true-heros-journey#:~:text=Genre%20expectations%2C%20what,get%20there%20sooner.

I've taught at a New England prep school for nearly 20 years. Families have been laser focused on top tier colleges, most of which are up here.

Except for a very few exceptional candidates, this has changed.

Dramatically.

There is another "great migration" happening, as a steady flow of middle and upper middle-class children of the meritocratic class have decided to go to college in the spirit of normalcy.

10 years ago a kid or two went south. Maybe

Now many are are headed down to the football part of the country. It'll be interesting to see how this winds up in a decade. These kids are not in a mood to tolerate NE weirdness anymore, especially since they've figured out that they are not wanted. They seem to want something normal.

https://fxtwitter.com/kalezelden/status/1858201988955340994

Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds
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"In response to recent comments made by Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken referring to Palestinian terrorists as “freedom fighters,” the government announces that it is severing all ties with the left-wing newspaper.

"Communications Ministers Shlomo Karhi’s office states that the cabinet unanimously approves his proposal to cut off all advertising and announcements of government tenders both in the printed edition and on the Haaretz website.

"The resolution states that while the government supports a free press and freedom of expression, it “will not accept a situation in which the publisher of an official newspaper calls for the imposition of sanctions and against it and supports its enemies in the middle of a war.”"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/government-says-its-severing-ties-with-haaretz-after-publisher-called-terrorists-freedom-fighters/#:~:text=In%20response%20to,of%20a%20war.%E2%80%9D

Climate scolds demanding everybody stop eating meat are lining up for the meat buffet and skipping over the vegan buffet. https://x.com/Rusty_Weiss/status/1857091722720727514

In their defense, the Climate Conference organizers don't appear to have provided a cricket and bug bar.

This is a much needed comprehensive historical survey. Our intelligence apparatus was crafted to make the world safe for America by neutralizing communism. Lately however, that same intelligence apparatus has been working to neutralize populism to make America safe for the intelligence apparatus.

Fascinating and highly recommended.

https://rumble.com/v5g4s6i-the-history-of-the-intelligence-state-mike-benz-lecture-at-hillsdale-colleg.html

Lindsey Graham: "So to any ally, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, if you try to help the ICC, we're going to sanction you."

Arnaud Bertrand: "We've finally arrived at the ultimate contradiction of the US's "rules-based order": where the "rule" now is that you're forbidden to follow the rules."

@CIG_telegram

🇺🇦 A whole video instruction from the Ukrainian army in a foreign language about not pissing on trees, otherwise enemy artillery and drones will quickly find them. They train mercenaries so they don't die so quickly.

Laika, the first dog in space. No provisions were made for her return, and she died there, 1957.

"Unless something significant changes, I’m skeptical that the decline in government funding will be reversed. Personally, I would prefer some version of private support—I think it encourages better research and accountability—but, whatever your preference, it’s extremely doubtful that we can reverse this trend by trying to manufacture a culture of celebrity around scientists. Rather, I think we should deal with the core issues of science’s PR problem, and make Americans once again feel connected to the enterprise of science. Then, maybe, we can make science in America great again."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151953621#:~:text=Unless%20something%20significant,America%20great%20again.

"Oxford anthropologist J.D. Unwin studied 86 societies and civilizations to see why some collapse and others don't.

"What did he find?

"That sexual debauchery leads to the collapse of a civilization within 3 generations. (thread) 🧵"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1860831149875999117.html

"French philosopher Henri Bergson, a contemporary of Einstein, disputed relativity’s portrayal of time by arguing that there is a difference between time itself and what clocks display. Clocks display arbitrary fractions of periodic events such as the motion of the Sun across the sky (as shown on a sundial), grains of sand moving through an hourglass, the number of swings of a pendulum, or the number of oscillations of a caesium atom (the current standard), but this is not the physical reality of time itself. The physical reality of time is the standard against which we can compare these events."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-148903938#:~:text=French%20philosopher%20Henri,compare%20these%20events.