All news apps need to have a setting to hide block remove and render invisible all sports reports!
If you couldn't open "The Beacon of Democracy," here's a better link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
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Thesis: There is a single synthetic framework, a kind of directed, cohesive, linear HoTT, in which causal structure, gauge theory, and quantum duality all live naturally, and in which the apparent difficulties of each (choosing points, coherence, the zoo of linear logic models) dissolve.
![Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifdsd32pjwefxji33c5eferlek4o6kkadoosqisb5uatqjmrq4q4q)
Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power
Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead
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I started thinking about how to describe distributed computation and ended up wanting to unify gravity with quantum mechanics. Computation is locally Cartesian and globally linear just as spacetime is locally flat but globally curved. (1/4)
Silicon Valley: "Self driving cars are coming" also Silicon Valley: "Prove you are not a bot by identifying traffic lights, cars, bridges, fire hydrants, motorcycles..."
Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...
A CSAPDA (THE TRAP) - Az Orbán-korszak elvesztett lehetőségeinek története
YouTube video by Direkt36
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Every year on the first of January I get a lot of "happy birthday" messages from companies. They figure I just turned 56. #UnixTimeZero
Amazing article. both deeply moving and insightful. For anyone who has ever marvelled at the writings of Oliver Sacks. Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
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" “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought.” " www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
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"the complete perversion of the actual premise of not just social media but the internet" www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
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"people who found the simpler and more flexible game to be bland; and people who didn’t like the game getting “woke.” This is a slippery term, but it often boils down to things not being quite as racist or sexist as they used to be." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
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"More than a century ago, a wild-eyed, vegetarian, free love-promoting German entrepreneur and self-taught economist named Silvio Gesell proposed a radical reformation of the monetary system as we know it. He wanted to make money that decays over time. " www.noemamag.com/what-if-mone...
What If Money Expired? | NOEMA
A long-forgotten German economist argued that society and the economy would be better off if money was a perishable good. Was he an anarchist crank or the prophet of a better world?
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"today’s top-down, concentrated internet is, for many, an unpleasant and harmful place. Its owners are hard to remove, and their interests do not align with ours." www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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www.noemamag.com/the-last-day... "an implicit acknowledgement that the infinite scroll, stuffed with bots and synthetic sludge, is approaching the limit of what humans will tolerate...."
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
noemamag.com
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
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