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  1. Apr 2025
    1. the main reason consumers are buying the cheapest food rather than the best healthiest is because they are not being paid a living wage

      for - inequality - oligarchy - effects on consumerist habits - buying the cheapest - suggestion - migrate from corporation to cooperation model - private company to cooperative - new meme - corporation to cooperation

    1. Ask yourself what is the main purpose of storing this data? Do you intend to actually send mail to the person at the address? Track demographics, populations? Be able to ask callers for their correct address as part of some basic authentication/verification? All of the above? None of the above? Depending on your actual need, you will determine either a) it doesn't really matter, and you can go for a free-text approach, or b) structured/specific fields for all countries, or c) country specific architecture.
    1. for - youtube - The New Denialism - Kevin Anderson 2025 - climate crisis 2025

      adjacency between - Kevin Anderson - true scale of required decarbonization - climate justice - colonialism justice - polycrisis - intersection of climate and colonialism justice - social constructs - Douglas Rushkoff on Weirdness - understanding Deep social construction - Oliver Sacks - Deep Humanity - BEing Journeys - 2 level tree structure - MAGA shallow socially constructed story - stops at birth of the US but before colonialism - omit the story of the genocide and enslavement of indigenous genocide on two continents - in the Americas and Africa - myth of "money buys happiness" - new story - true happiness does not depend on any material

      adjacency relationship

      Summary - Kevin explains the true scale of decarbonization required - It is basically the same argument he has been making for decades but updated for 2025

    1. for - youtube - carbon inequality - Tax the Rich - Kevin Anderson - wealth2well - Deep Humanity - Deep Education

      question - decarbonization - redistribution - is there any research with concrete decarbonization rates that are just across the entire class spectrum?

      wealth2wellth - Deep Humanity Wealth2Wellth program advocates Deep education of the elites to voluntarily share their economic and carbon wealth with the 99%

    1. for - colonialism - impacts - Americas - little ice age - cause - genocide of indigenous people in 17th century - abandoned fields - stats - colonialism - genocide - 55 million people - cooling of planet - MAGA - How to make the Americas great again - colonialism - justice - to - paper - Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 - https://hyp.is/fHnyIBL3EfCpcmfnGW26DA/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261

      comment - The MAGA movement needs to deeply reflect on this - They claim national pride but do not go further back in history than the establishment of the United States - They need to recognize how the US was established on genocide in order to live in cultural truth - This reality creates a contradiction to their entire theme of white national power - It makes the elimination of DEI hypocritical as indigenous peoples have a far more legitimate claim than they do

    1. What is it that delivers the air that we can breathe? Guess what? It's all the green things on the planet. Surely that should-- does that have a value in our economic system? Guess what? Economists call that an externality. And what I found out is, they don't care about that. It's considered so vast it's irrelevant to our economy.

      for - quote - air is a resource so vast has no value in the economy - David Suzuki

    2. if you're going to talk about a shift in our paradigm, it is to recognize what indigenous people have always known, that we are created out of the elements of Mother Earth. And those should be our greatest responsibility, to protect them for ourselves and the rest of life on Earth.

      for - quote - intertwingledness of living beings and the earth - David Suzuki

      quote - intertwingledness of living beings and the earth - David Suzuki - if you're going to talk about a shift in our paradigm, it is to recognize what indigenous people have always known, - that we are created out of the elements of Mother Earth. - and those should be our greatest responsibility, to protect them for ourselves and the rest of life on Earth.

    1. I have included code from others trusting that it would work, and that they would fix reported problems. And often that is true, there are quite a few faithful contributors. But sometimes someone just wants to get his feature in, and as soon as the things he uses are working, he disappears. And then I end up having to fix problems. These days I’m a lot more careful about including new features. Especially when it’s complex and interferes with several existing parts of the code. I’m insisting more often on writing tests and documentation before including anything.
    2. A lot of it feels like someone who doesn’t like the old code and wants to do it “right.” I can agree that the old code is ugly. But it will take an awful lot of effort to make a new implementation. It’s a lot like what happened to Elvis: A rewrite was going to make it much better, but it took so long, during which Vim added more features, that eventually there are not so many Elvis users. And the rewritten Elvis may have nice code, but users don’t notice that.
    1. the point of futuring is that you need to connect facts and fictions because that is how this these future Visions become socially performative

      for - meme - futuring - connect - present facts - to - future fictions - quote - The point of futuring is that you need to connect facts and fictions because that is how this these future Visions become socially performative - Maarten Hajer

    2. featuring I would then argue is the attempt to shape the space for action by identifying and circulating images of the future a process by which relationship between past present and future are enacted

      for - definition - futuring - the attempt to shape the space for action by identifying and circulating images of the future (in the present) - a process by which relationship between past, present and future are enacted - Maarten Hajer

    3. the future is obviously a strange topic to study right it is not there so how can you study it so that's but you can of course because it's very active in terms of the images of the future in the present and these can be studied empirically we cannot study the future but we can study claims about the future in the in the present

      for - quote - the future is a strange topic - we cannot study the future but we can study claims about the future in the present - Maarten Hajer

    1. Einer neuen Modellierung zufolge sind die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der globalen Erhitzung deutlich gravierender, als es bisher von vielen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften angenommen wurde. Eine globale Temperaturerhöhung um 2° wird danach das Bruttosozialprodukt weltweit um 16% senken. Bei einer Temperaturerhöhung um vier Grad wären die Menschen auf der Erde durchschnittlich 40 % ärmer als ohne diese Erhöhung. Die neue Modellierung bezieht die Folgen von Extremereignissen und anderen Auswirkungen der Erhitzung ein, die bisher meist nicht berücksichtigt wurden. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/01/average-person-will-be-40-poorer-if-world-warms-by-4c-new-research-shows

      Der Bericht eines britischen Instituts für Versicherungsmathematik geht davon aus, dass die Folgen der globalen Erhitzung das Bruttosozialprodukt um 15% verringern werden, wenn die aktuelle Politik fortgesetzt wird.

      Studie: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adbd58 Bericht von Institute und Faculty of Actuaries der Universität Exeter: https://actuaries.org.uk/planetary-solvency

    1. This article, then, has three aims.

      for - futuring - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - from - collective imagination toolkit https://hyp.is/i3N9KA_DEfCsXivEzv3w5A/www.collectiveimagination.tools/ - purpose of the paper - how images of the future gain performative traction - objectives: how images of the future gain performative traction: - present insights and weaknesses of leading social-theoretical futures work - fill some gaps by - imagining the future via - social practices - performance of reality // question- what does this mean?// - develop performative understanding of futuring via - dramaturgical analysis that investigates ow actors - actively bring the future into the present through performance of particular: - narratives - settings - configurations

      Summary - This is a very insightful paper on futuring and how activity in the present realizes imagined fictions, which don't yet exist, and bring them into being in our (future) present - One thing to note is that there is a huge swath of human activity not explicitly discussed which is intrinsically futuring, and that is the birth of any new idea in general, including scientific, mathematical and technological. - Human progress is the sum total of countless individual futuring projects that imagine some fictitious, nonexistent idea and work to incrementally bring it into existence.

    2. The Anthropology of the Future, there are at least six types of affective relationships with the future: anticipation, expectation, speculation, potentiality, hope and destiny – with utopias and dystopias as particularly powerful affective motivators (Moore, 1966; Sliwinski, 2016).

      for - book - The Anthropology of the Future - Bryant and Knight (2019) - affective relationships with the future - anticipation - expectation - speculation - potentiality - hope - destiny

    3. ‘the future is real in so far as social actors produce representations of the future which have an effect on others’ actions in the present’ (Tutton, 2017, p. 483)

      for - quote - the future - the future is real in so far as social actors produce representations of the future which have an effect on others’ actions in the present - Tutton, 2017, p. 483

    1. This blog from the University’s Careers Service gives helpful examples of how you can evidence your digital capabilities when updating your CV.

      Student specific - is there a staff alternative to this blog post?

  2. Mar 2025
    1. The goal of Lucia v3 was to be the easiest and cleanest way to implement database-backed sessions in your projects. It didn't have to be a library. I just assumed that a library will be the answer. But I ultimately came to conclusion that my assumption was wrong. I don't see this change as me abandoning the project. In fact, I think it's a step forward. If implementing sessions wasn't easy, I wouldn't be deprecating the package. But why wouldn't a library be the answer? It seems like a such an obvious answer. One word - database. I talked about how database adapters were a significant complexity tax to the library. I think a lot of people interpreted that as maintenance burden on myself. That's not wrong, but the bigger issue is how the adapters limit the API. Adapters always felt like a black box to me as both an end user and a maintainer. It's very hard to design something clean around it and makes everything clunky and fragile, especially when you need to deal with TypeScript shenanigans.
    1. Redefining Progress: New Frontiers for the Field of Social In

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Redefining Progress: New Frontiers for the Field of Social Innovation - Stop Reset Go - Progress traps - Cosmolocal production - commons - Deep Humanity - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Aligning Profit and Purpose - adjacency - progress trap - Deep Humanity - Cosmolocal production - social innovation

    2. Delegate Led Discussion - The Changing State of AI, Media

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 2-3:15pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - The Changing State of AI, Media - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go - TPF - Eric's project - Skoll's Participatory Media project - relevant to - adjacency - indyweb - Stop Reset Go - participatory news - participatory movie and tv show reviews - Eric's project - Skoll's Particiipatory Media - event time conflict - with - Leadership in Alien Times

      adjacency - between - Skoll's Participatory Media project - Global Witness - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go's participatory news idea - Stop Reset Go's participatory movie and TV show review idea - Eric's media project - adjacency relationship - Participatory media via Indyweb and idea of participatory news and participatory movie and tv show reviews - might be good to partner with Skoll Foundation's Participatory Media group

    3. Philanthropy at a Crossroads: Can We Fund

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Philanthropy at a Crossroads: Can we Fund at the Speed of Impacts? - Fellowship of the Sacred Commons - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Building Citizen-led Movements - solution - watch one live and the other recorded - funding the commons

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    1. Longer term, divorce is rarely turns out to be as a great deal for women as they think. Books like Eat, Pray, Love – at least for a while a staple of women leaving their husbands – fill their heads with the possibilities of the future.  The media loves to extol this, creating myths such as the “cougar” (an older woman who dates much younger men) that sell them on the idea that life will be better after they divorce their husbands.

      Women and "possibilities of the future"

    1. Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago

      for - meme - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago - Comparison - meme - Ronald Wright - 50,000 years - Richard Heinberg 10,000 years - quote - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago -Richard Heinberg

      Comparison - meme - Ronald Wright - Richard Heinberg - Richard uses the 10,000 year figure while Ronald Wright uses 50,000 years. - Who is more accurate? Check with anthropologist.

      Quote - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago -Richard Heinberg

      • Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago;
        • but our current
          • habits,
          • expectations, and
          • beliefs
        • are almost entirely tied to
          • machines,
          • infrastructure,
          • energy sources, and
          • artificial materials
        • that have only recently come into existence.
      • Compared to our hunter-gatherer forebears,
        • we might as well be from another planet.

      New idea - Deep Humanity communication - comparison modern be ancient - I like Heinberg's articulation. It's good to use in my own communication. - Perform a detailed comparison of - world view - mental models - behaviour and habits - between - ancestors from 10,000 / 50,000 years ago - modern humans

    1. 30% der Arktis emittieren inzwischen mehr Treibhausgase als sie aufnehmen. Außer dem Schmelzen von Permafrostböden ist dafür auch Zunahme von Waldbränden verantwortlich. Die amerikanische Forschungsbehörde NOAA spricht davon, dass die Arktis „in ein neues Regime“ gekippt ist. 2024 war in der Arktis das zweitwärmste Jahr seit Messbeginn und das Jahr mit den zweihäufigsten Waldbränden. In einem langsamen, aber sich beschleunigenden Prozess wird immer mehr der 1460-1600 Gigatonnen im Arktisboden gespeicherten organischen Kohlenstoffs freigesetzt. Insgesamt entsprechen sie dem Doppelten der in der Erdatmosphäre gespeicherten Menge https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/en-arctique-la-toundra-nest-plus-un-puits-de-carbone-20250122_VZUZXLOHEZESBKJHXGYU7OPYME/

      NOAA Arctic Report Card 2024: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-02234-5 Studie zu den CO2-Emissionen arktischer Waldbrände: https://arctic.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ArcticReportCard_full_report2024.pdf

    1. Serbia is such an important player in this part of the world. And this isn't the first round of student protests. They played a big role in the 1990s as well.

      for - question - Serbia - student protests - how to avoid making the same mistake? - People make the same mistake, - big protests give opportunity for the next authoritarian leader to game representative democracy - Something must be done fundamentally differently to prevent this from happening in the future

    1. BeChange: Sustainability education and leadership development : Assessing the links between inner development and outer change for transformation

      for - climate crisis - bridging inner and outer transformation - Christine Wamsler - homepage - Lund University - paper link - BeChange: Sustanability education and leadership development: Assessing the links between inner developoment and outer change for transformation - to - paper - BeChange: Sustanability education and leadership development: Assessing the links between inner developoment and outer change for transformation - This paper is in Swedish and requires translation. - https://hyp.is/4SfZlAPjEfCsqg_enwDOfg/www.iiiee.lu.se/gustav-osberg/publication/d0067af4-fc92-4c15-80e4-0d91bc4aa9d1

    2. for - Christine Wamsler - Lund University - homepage - from - youtube - Mindfulness World Community - Awareness, Care and Sustainability for Our Earth - https://hyp.is/GCUJ1APHEfCcr_vvv3lAFw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUc_0GroGM

      research areas - sustainable cities - collaborative governance - city-citizen collaboration - citizen participation - sustainability and wellbeing - sustainability transformation - inner development goals - inner transformation - inner transition - existential sustainability

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    1. Reply to Hajo Bakker on LinkedIn

      Hajo Bakker Exam vs. Test -- Een examinering moet veel vanafwegen en niet regulier gebeuren.

      Een test (toets) mag vaker gebeuren, en moet weinig vanaf hangen... Geen ouders die straffen voor een laag cijfer (of cijfers afschaffen), geen adviezen die daarvanafhangen, etc.

      Het doel van een toets is om je aan te geven wat je krachten en minder sterke punten zijn, dus waar je je op moet focussen met toekomst leren. Dit kan alleen op het moment dat je een toets nabespreekt en op individueel niveau. Klassikaal bespreken heeft vaak weinig nut.

      Daarbij komt ook dat een student moet snappen WAAROM het helpt om na te bespreken, de wetenschap erachter. Op het moment dat je de waarom achter het hoe niet goed snapt heeft het hoe minder effect. (dit is waarom in het 4C/ID model ze in een scaffold beginnen met de laatste stap, waarin de informatie van voorgaande stappen is gegeven. Dit zodat als je de vorige stap gaat leren, je een beter idee hebt waar het uiteindelijk voor gebruikt gaat worden en je er dus een betere invulling aan kan geven.)

      Semantische verschillen zijn vaak uiterst nuttig om complexe stof te begrijpen. Op het moment dat ze exact hetzelfde waren heeft het weinig nut om meerdere termen te hebben en zouden ze synoniem zijn.

      "Exam" is geen synoniem van "test".

      Genuanceerde verschillen zijn vaak nuttiger dan "umbrella terms" om goed te communiceren, als uiterst subliem wordt beargumenteerd in "Science of Memory: Concepts" van Roediger III et al.

      Daarnaast komt uiteraard bij kijken dat neurocognitieve wetenschap een blauwdruk geeft voor hoe onze brein architectuur in elkaar zit (zie bijvoorbeeld John Sweller, Cognitive Load Theory 2011, en The Forgetting Machine, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, 2017, Science of Memory: Concepts, Roediger et al., 2007, Ten Steps to Complex Learning, van Merriënboer, 2017).

      Dit is universeel toepasbaar, afgezien van mensen met een cognitieve aandoening bijvoorbeeld, dit gaat dus over neurotypische breinen.

      Leerstijlen zijn een mythe, wel hebben wij leervoorkeuren, maar door alleen in onze leervoorkeur te leren missen wij bepaalde informatie die cruciaal kan zijn voor beter begrip en meesterschap (mastery).

      Beter is het om studietechnieken te gebruiken die overeenkomen met brein-architectuur en die onder te knie te krijgen.

      Meer cognitieve belasting te gebruiken (zonder cognitieve overbelasting te veroorzaken). Als leren "makkelijk" voelt is het over het algemeen niet uitdagend genoeg en/of de techniek niet nuttig. Herlezen / samenvatten is simpel maar vrij inefficiënt. Het maken van een GRINDEmap voelt moeilijk maar is vele malen effectiever (zie ook the misinterpreted effort hypothesis).

      Zoals Dr. Ahrens al zei: "The one who does the effort, does the learning."

      Verder heb ik een heleboel ideëen voor een optimaal onderwijs dat zich aanpast aan het individu in plaats van aan het systeem, maar dit is een te complex en groot onderwerp om zo even hier neer te zetten.

  3. danielpinchbeck.substack.com danielpinchbeck.substack.com
    1. It is likely that Trump and Musk are seeking to crash the US economy to cause a Depression. This will allow transnational wealth holders — the billionaire class — to buy up “distressed assets” in the US for cheap.

      for - to - largest wealth transfer in US history - bankrupt farms - pennies on the dollar - https://hyp.is/rXHfUgHPEfC5s2-peCc-5Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg4E3Py8OT4

    1. for - adjacency - commons - funding. - how to communities can become self-sustaining - Will Ruddick - community economics - adjacency - funding the commons - Will Ruddick - Michel Bauwens - cosmolocal Summary - Will Ruddick articulates a way to use money more wisely that follows the " teach a man to fish" cliche in order to build self-sustaining communities - To mobilize a global transition requires careful analysis at multiple scales - employing cosmolocal strategy would accelerate and make Ruddick's proposal more resilient

    1. Jin's operation was based in China, and he used encrypted communications and cryptocurrencies to conduct his business. The investigation involved a team of agents from various federal agencies, including the DEA, FBI, and IRS, who worked together to gather evidence and track down Jin's associates in the US. One of these associates, Bin Wang, was arrested in 2017 and later sentenced to six years in prison. The team discovered that Jin was using a company in Tonga to ship his packages, and that he was offering a wide range of synthetic opioids, including carfentanil and U-48800. As the investigation continued, the team found that Jin's operation was linked to numerous death cases across the US, and that he was using his websites to sell drugs to customers in the US. The team eventually identified Jin as Fujing Zheng, a 35-year-old man from Shanghai, and his father, Guanghua Zheng, who was 62. The Zhengs were found to be operating a sophisticated online drug trafficking operation, using encrypted communications and cryptocurrencies to conduct their business. Despite the evidence gathered, the Chinese government refused to extradite the Zhengs to the US, citing a lack of evidence. The US government eventually indicted the Zhengs and shut down their websites, but they remain at large in China. The investigation highlighted the challenges of combating online drug trafficking, particularly when it involves foreign nationals and jurisdictions.
    2. Leroy Steele, a local drug dealer, who had been purchasing fentanyl from a Chinese chemical company using the alias Gordon Jin. Detectives found emails and phone records showing Steele's communication with Jin, who was advertising fentanyl and other illegal drugs on the open internet. The detectives ordered fentanyl from Jin as part of their investigation, which was delivered to them in the mail.
    1. Valdez-Torres began producing fentanyl instead, creating a batch of ten kilos. He warned the cartel that the fentanyl needed to be diluted 50:1 to avoid killing users, but this warning was not heeded by street dealers. The fentanyl was sold as heroin, leading to many overdoses and deaths. The case was investigated by Ryan Rapaszky, who later saw the connection between this incident and the rising opioid epidemic in the US.
    2. unknown author named Siegfried, which describes a method for making fentanyl. This method, known as the Siegfried method, was later used by underground chemists to produce the drug. Fentanyl had benefits in medicine, but it also had a darker side, as it could be produced in a laboratory and replaced heroin, generating significant profits with minimal risk. The story then shifts to Dr. Michael Rhodes, a pain doctor in Tennessee, who was prescribing large amounts of OxyContin, a narcotic painkiller made by Purdue Pharma.
    3. As a result, meth lab seizures decreased, and the cooks and workers from Apatzingán returned to Mexico. The Mexican traffickers then shifted their focus to producing meth in Mexico, taking advantage of the country's access to world chemical markets and compromised authorities. This led to the creation of the modern Mexican meth trade, with traffickers controlling production from raw materials to finished product.
    4. Methamphetamine was initially produced by biker gangs in the US, but a new recipe using ephedrine was rediscovered in the 1980s. This method was easier and allowed for mass production, democratizing methamphetamine. Donald Stenger, a middle-class, organized individual, played a significant role in popularizing this method. He was eventually caught and died in 1988, but his innovation led to San Diego becoming a major meth production hub.
    5. The project, known as "the Project," is led by a chemist known as "the Brain," who is producing fentanyl, a painkiller that is far more powerful than morphine. The fentanyl is being manufactured in a lab in Mexico and is being sold on the streets of Chicago, leading to a rash of overdoses and deaths. Rapaszky's investigation leads him to uncover the truth about the Project and the Sinaloan traffickers' involvement in the fentanyl trade.

      not produced medically, produced by and for black market

    1. The figure of the grieving mother is a collectivity, with women characterized as part of a population of mothers with a collective experience of loss. Their dissent is practiced through invocations of a dead or imperiled soldier child, who signifies the claim to associative military masculinity. In contrast, the perspective of the returning veteran is grounded in individual experience. The film depicts women as caregivers, with their dissenting subjecthood derived from their relationships with men.
    2. this narrative of personal growth and triumph is complicated by the fact that Tomas's newfound power and authority are rooted in traditional masculine ideals. The film ultimately suggests that the military peace movement is shaped by masculinized privilege, which can be both productive and limiting.
    1. White Ribbon Campaign, which originated in Canada and has a branch in England, is a group of men committed to discussing and ending male violence against women. However, there is a lack of groups of men in the anti-militarist and peace movements who analyze and resist the deformation of manhood by militarization. For war to end, men need to become self-aware and refuse the violence expected of them, and the association of masculinity with militarism. Some men, such as those in the Turkish conscientious objectors movement and South Korean anti-militarist men, are starting to listen to feminist ideas and take on board their perspectives.
    1. method and madness by [[Alan Jacobs]]

      via In which I describe my writing “methods." by [[Alan Jacobs]]

      reply:

      @ayjay Thanks for sharing this. My method is often very much like yours. Lots of internal distillation, slowly over time. I remember hearing a story that Mozart wrote music "like a cow pees" (in one giant and immediate flood and then done). I feel like large works of writing, composing, etc. springing, as if fully formed from the head of Zeus is more common than is acknowledged. Cory Doctorow hints at a similar sort of method in his own work in The Memex Method. I'm also reminded of bits of what neuroscientist Barbara Oakley calls "diffuse thinking" or a more internalized version of Michael Ondaatje's "thinkering" described in The English Patient.

    1. Globalization, rather than unite the world has split societies asunder: creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.

      for - quote - Trump is the backlash to globalization

      quote - globalization - Trump is the result - Robert Kaplan - Globalization, - rather than unite the world - has split societies asunder: - creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and - an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. - It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. - What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.

    1. Nach den Erfahrungen mit den Angriffen der ersten Trump-Administration auf die Wissenschaft haben Wissenschaftler:innen in den USA verschiedene Maßnahmen zum Schutz wissenschaftlicher Institutionen ergriffen. Die New York TImes berichtet ausführlich über diese scientific integrity policies, die wissenschaftliche Arbeit öffentlich beobachtbar machen, aber politische Einflussnahme ausschließen sollen. Die Biden- und schon die Obama-Administration haben scientific integrity policies gefördert. Zu den Maßnahmen gehören die Benennung von Verantwortlichen für wissenschaftliche Integrität in Behörden und Kollektivverträge, die die Disziplinierung von Forschenden erschweren.

      Zum „War on Science“ schon der ersten Trump-Regierung gehörte außer Entlassungen von Wissenschaftler:innen auch die Anordnung der Verfälschung von Forschungsergebnissen. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/climate/trump-government-scientists.html

  4. Feb 2025
    1. the book I tell the story of Five addicts um one is a heroin addict one's a meth addict one was addicted to pharmaceutical uh opiates um the fourth one was a British man who was an alcoholic very serious alcoholic and the fifth one was an eating disordered person

      > for - book - The Biology of Desire - Why Addiction is not a Disease - 2015 Marc Lewis - https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files4/2a48405faa052ec2b4e0c56a79e001ca.pdf

    2. London cab drivers have a hippocampus that's part of the brand in charge of uh of memory certain kinds of memory which is uh 20% more dense or more heavy than normal people why because they have to learn the location of like thousands tens of thousands of streets

      > for - formation of deep habits change the brain - example - London cab drivers - 20% heavier hippocampus

    1. The expansion of the opioid supply was facilitated by the privatization of poppy fields. The US relies on imports of narcotic raw material, mainly from Turkey and India, to produce legal opioids. Johnson & Johnson, one of the certified importers, sought to change the regulations to allow for more imports from Australia, which would give them a competitive advantage. In the 1990s, Johnson & Johnson lobbied to undermine the "80-20" rule, which stipulated that at least 80% of the narcotic raw material imported into the US had to come from Turkey and India.
    1. Die EU bezahlt Russland für fossile Brennstoffe mehr, als sie der Ukraine an Finanzhilfen zur Verfügung stellt. 2024 bezog sie für 22 Milliarden Euro Öl und Gas aus Russland und zahlte 19 Milliarden an die Ukraine, wobei Militär- und humanitäre Hilfe nicht einbezogen sind. Insgesamt betrugen die Einnahmen Russlands aus dem Export fossiler Brennstoffe im dritten Jahr der Invasion der ganzen Ukraine 242 Milliarden Euro. Der Guardian berichtet über einen neuen Report des Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more-russian-oil-gas-than-financial-aid-ukraine-report

      Bericht: https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/eu-imports-of-russian-fossil-fuels-in-third-year-of-invasion-surpass-financial-aid-sent-to-ukraine/

    1. In den Reden der Vertreter:innen von Zentralbanken spielt die Klimakrise seit 2015 eine wichtige Rolle; in etwa einem Drittel der Reden wird sie erwähnt. Drei Wissenschaftlerinnen haben diese Diskurse systematisch untersucht und modelliert. Ob und wie die Klimakrise zum Thema wird, hängt vor allem von den institutionellen Aufgaben der Zentralbanken ab.

      Wirkungen haben diese Reden immer nur kurzfristig dadurch, dass sie die Kurse von „grünen“ Unternehmen steigen lassen.

      https://theconversation.com/quand-les-banques-centrales-semparent-de-la-question-du-climat-249076

      Working Paper: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/warning-words-in-a-warming-world-central-bank-communication-and-climate-change/

    1. Lost to myself

      In line 6 of the song, the persona continuous to speak about their own failures and the sense of loss. ”Lost to myself”, this suggests that the speaker has something they want to achieve but they failed themselves. However in line 6 the speaker then says “but I'll just start again”. These two phases used in line 6 contradict themselves creating an oxymoron. The persona has lost and failed but they want to start again and keep going. This contrast, creates a sense of perseverance and an ‘never give up attitude’ from the persona.

    1. EACH NOTE CARD SHOULD BE AS PURE AND SINGULAR AN IDEA AS POSSIBLE, BECAUSE I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MOVE ALL THE PIECES AROUND

      This quote speaks to the general idea of "atomic notes" or note size and why they should be small.

      It also osculates David Lynch's idea of holding onto the essence of an idea within a story. It's almost as if the adage "take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves" were applied to the fiction writing process. If you're careful with the small pieces, the bigger piece has a stronger chance of having more authenticity.

    1. Private militias have provided criminal groups with greater mobility and fighting power, enabling them to engage in large-scale violence and seek control of criminal markets and territories beyond their home towns. The Mexican case highlights the need for democratic elites to reform authoritarian judicial and security institutions and to punish state agents who protected organized crime, in order to prevent the intertwining of democratic politics and the criminal underworld.
    2. In Mexico, the transition from authoritarian rule to democracy did not introduce major security-sector reforms, making the expansion of OCGs and the outbreak of large-scale criminal violence more probable. Subnational political alternation, particularly the variation in party alternation across subnational regions, can also contribute to the outbreak of criminal wars. The structure of informal networks of government protection for criminals forged during the authoritarian period is crucial in understanding this link.
    1. The Peña Nieto administration in Mexico proposed a government commission to spend $9 billion to combat drug violence in the most violent municipalities. The plan included longer school days, drug-addiction treatment programs, and public-works projects. The administration also focused on disrupting street gangs and criminals hired by cartels, rather than targeting top drug traffickers. However, despite initial gains, violence in rural Mexico surged again by 2017 due to Mexican cartels' increased involvement in the heroin market and the boom in methamphetamine production.
    2. The US government provided funding and training to the Mexican government to fight the cartels, but the efforts were criticized for being ineffective and corrupt. The Mérida Initiative, a $2.3 billion plan, was launched to help Mexico confront threats to its national security, but much of the money went to private US contractor corporations. Corruption was a significant problem, with cartel gunmen killing over 2,200 policemen, 200 soldiers, and scores of federal officials. The cartels also infiltrated the government, with many officials being bribed or working directly for the cartels. The drug trade was linked to Mexico's incomplete transition to democracy, and the cartels took over essential local and regional administrative functions in many regions.
    1. The Zetas' business model was based on imposing protection fees on businesses, including illegal activities such as drug trafficking, and licit businesses such as farming and shopkeeping. Those who refused to pay were killed or threatened with violence. This led to a culture of fear and intimidation, where businesses were forced to pay protection fees to avoid violence. The violence in Mexico was further fueled by the struggle between powerful groups for control of drug protection rackets and the pursuit of aggressive counternarcotics policing. This led to a cycle of violence, where struggles between rival groups sparked aggressive policing, and aggressive policing generated increasing struggles between rival groups.
    2. New organizations emerged, armed with high-caliber weapons and prepacked political creeds and religious messages. The Familia Michoacana, a Sinaloa-linked group, tossed the heads of five Zetas into a Michoacán bar, declaring that they did not kill for money, but for divine justice. The conflict continued to spread throughout Mexico, with cartels fighting each other, and soldiers and police often caught in the middle.
    1. Toypurina is quoted as saying that she participated in it because she ‘‘was angry with the Padres and the others of the Mission, because they had come to live and establish themselves on her land.’’

      Quote from to toypurina as to why she planned the attack on the mission! I love her boldness and courage to say the truth. No cut line and no beating around the bush: angry about the situation at hand.

    2. The Bering Strait Theory is one such attempt. More and more evidence is being found that dates the bodies of our ancestors before the Ice Ages. We don’t need their scientific evidence to prove we were created here, we have our stories of creation that mention in detail specific locations with landmarks, extreme weather events, stars and their locations in the sky to document our creation, existence, and so much more.

      Evidence for Natives being established before Colonialist and settler’s intruded

    1. As Ethnic Studies has recently become a requirement for the California State University (CSU) system, and soon the University of California (UC) system, California Community Colleges (CCC), and California high schools, more attention has been placed on Ethnic Studies

      Ethnic studies becomes a requirement in all California Colleges

    1. Zusammenfassender Bericht zu den Klimadaten zum Januar 2025, dem wärmsten Monat Januar seit Beginn von Temperaturaufzeichnungen. Die anhaltend hohen Temperaturen nach dem Beginn des La Niña-Einflusses schockieren Forschende. Es gibt dafür bisher keine Erklärungen. Der Klimawissenschaftler Bill McGuire spricht angesichts dieser Daten, den Überflutungen in Valencia und den Waldbränden bei Los Angeles davon, dass ein „allumfassender Klima-Zusammenbruch“ eingesetzt hat.

      https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/hottest-january-record-global-warming-climate-change-b2693479.html

      Pressaussendung zum Copernicus Bulletin für Januar 2025: https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-january-2025-was-warmest-record-globally-despite-emerging-la-nina

    1. (a) Failing to detect higher MW ions for PE is an indication of a false positive.(b) Using FTIR with low threshold matches increases the risk of false positives (by the way, FTIR only works on particles >10 µm, not nanoplastics).(c) Using microscopy without chemical confirmation of plastic particles and presenting images of unconfirmed plastics is a misleading application of the method.Altogether, these flaws render their results and conclusions fundamentally incorrect at best.

      Dusan's google scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JjcjpNEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

    2. Dusan (Matt) Materic Thanks Dusan. That makes sense. Would it be feasible/worthwhile, to try to replicate their experiment with these three issues addressed? I assume, given Gauert et al's 2025 paper, the results would still be imperfect, even with their "best" method 3 for minimizing lipid issues, but it seems worth re-testing, as an approximation? Based on their comment in the paper "refinements to the analytical techniques, more complex study designs and much larger cohorts are needed" and their response to a comment on an earlier paper, perhaps they would be game to collaborate?https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/toxsci/kfae137/7829158 …more Like Celebrate Support Love Insightful Funny Like Reply Gabriel Enrique De la Torre • 3rd+ Microplastics | Plastic pollution | Antifouling paint particles 1w Dusan (Matt) Materic this pretty much summarizes it

      Gabriel's google scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Mc00G90AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

    1. Friedman is correct, for example when he points out the importance of changes like the rise of India or China, the spatial fragmentation of the production process through offshoring or the lowering of transaction costs that makes more and more services tradable.

      This made me start to rethink whether globalization is a process of "flattening". Indeed, phenomena such as the rise of India and China, as well as production outsourcing, may seem like globalization has increased opportunities for everyone, but I think this is only superficial. There are actually many imbalances behind it, such as some places where cheap labor has become the bottom of the supply chain, while large companies in developed countries have taken the lead.