Shelley's poem "The Masque of Anarchy" again entered the category "Texts to be Read Aloud" (cf. "A Mammal's Notebook" by Eric Satie). Read it aloud, and it will make you cry, give you hope, and provide you with power: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...

Paul Revere's Ride still works! As flowers beneath May’s footstep waken, As stars from Night’s loose hair are shaken, As waves arise when loud winds call, Thoughts sprung where’er that step did fall. Ye are many – they are few. Ride like the wind, to be free again.

So after giving in on Greenland, he brags about his achievements: #transphobia, #xenophobia, and #kleptocracy, in this sequence!

The new cover and feature @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

We thank reviewer #2 for disclosing their identity in the word.doc properties, indicating they spent no more than 6 minutes to write the review. We further thank the LLM for deeming our manuscript an important advance in the field, "ready for publication", while demanding several months of work. 🤷

Not funny: Academic debate has now been replaced by algorithmic publications, which are then "Removed by author", if somebody is calling BS. @callingbullshit.bsky.social

Trump et al. are not "mad"! They know exactly what they are doing! They can't control or predict socio-cultural dynamics! Yet, they can induce noise, and "predict" the resulting destabilization! They use noise induction as a weapon! We must attenuate the noise.

Ich wünsche mir so einen Kanzler:

Just in case you wonder what it would look like if Denmark 🇩🇰 buys California 🧸: solvangusa.com/things-to-do...

"Pandora's birth, vase image in Oxford"

Nine years ago the stinkbug took office. "Stinkbugs are temporary. Love is forever."

The shading of visual intuition has to stop! Nothing about this node-link diagram is "ridiculous": "we can visualize and describe the distribution of corruption risk [...] find that highly centralized markets tend to have higher corruption risk [...] In all EU [...]". #netsci #visualization

The Onion post suggesting a "Segregation Score" on the Zillow real estate platform looks satirical and funny ... ... until you realize: It's #NotTheOnion but bitter reality. Such data is readily available in the US and used to buy homes, develop effectively segregated services, and to gerrymander.

For everybody who needs this today: Alice Coltrane – Turiya and Ramakrishna 🦋 🎶 ♥️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMu...

Racist von Däniken died.

Check this out: The US Dept. of Labor literally quotes the Nazi slogan "One People, One Realm, One Leader", replacing the leader with "Heritage" as the "Foundation". PS: Remember the Washington bust is done by Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon, and as such is actually French.

TL;DR: the huge amounts of funding put into the human genome project meant researchers kept chasing funding to find genetic causes of disease, but it’s looking more and more likely that only a minority of disease is caused by genetics—even diseases that can be genetic are more often environmental.

Open Source Software 🏠🔥👀

🔥 This brilliant image is not just #iconic! Project 2025 bros will feign a transphobic hissy fit, while their Opus Dei daddies will pee their pants: As they will cry blasphemy, the more educated among them will recognize that she reflects their own usurpation of ancient religion. She is spot on.

This is a pure example of the #EvilGloating trope. cf. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik... s.v. Evil Gloating Behold the grin & eyebrows exchange between Vance & Rubio at second 20, behaving like altar boys enjoying a bit of blasphemy, while the priest turns away to the altar in pre-Vatican-II liturgy.

Everyone, with Rage Against the Machine in the 1990s, will chuckle seeing David Bowie chased by Trent Reznor in this video. David Bowie died 10 years ago today. Trent Reznor, the American 💔🇺🇸, did this awesome remix. Neither of them were ahead of their time. They just had the courage to point it out.

Bets are taken for a third anniversary "joint keynote" at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston 2026: 1. Girvan & Newman? 👫🥋 2. Faloutsos, Faloutsos & Faloutsos? 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 3. Joint lighting keynote session featuring 10 speakers of the Boston Joint Network Seminar 2010-2012, moderated by Maksim Kitsak? 🔥🎉

Since Plato is in the news: What was Plato's status at the Nazified university? This 1934 diagram from the journal "Völkische Kultur" shows one response. It puts Plato in a cosmopolitan lineage of degradation leading to Kant which was, in a common antisemitic trope, portrayed as suspiciously Jewish.

🔥 General Stanley McChrystal #TeamOfTeams 🎉

"With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins." As a 4-time ERC panelist, I think at least 60% of proposals could be funded without damage. Funding the top 10% only is a massive waste of societal potential.

@callingbullshit.bsky.social on this figure: The German term "Lage" does not imply "layer", as in cake, but "position", as in network, topology, or frame of reference. Society, Economy, and Nature are non-orthogonal. Collective value, direct benefit/exploitation, and (in)direct drivers are n:n.

The transfer function of academia is "yes but", while the transfer function of science is "yes and". #PSA

"Tradition" – US Republicans defund Corporation for Public Broadcasting, #PBS, #NPR; – #NASA tosses away books of largest library; – #Bavarian public broadcaster #BR throws away their #tape (now lost), #vinyl & #CD archives (temporarily salvaged).

"Expert-service regarding the situation in Venezuela following the US intervention. The following scientists are available for interviews without honorarium (list to be extended):"

50 years after "The Logic of Questions and Answers" by Belnap & Steel, human Q&A is "delving" into the ground:

"So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it." – Molly

Remember this song, if someone is "nice" to you, while supporting and living out their #kleptocracy, #nepotism, #xenophobia, #misogyny, #homophobia, #transphobia, and #science denial behind your back: "Nice is the little sister of crap!" "Nett" – Jacques Palminger www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOZ...

The inconvenient truth comes in a simple line plot. #infovis

Fun fact: Classic Venezuelan typewriters have a BS key. @callingbullshit.bsky.social

It really would be a coup if Braunschweig University of Art would hire @weirdmedieval.bsky.social for her outstanding "expertise and extensive international networking in the field of Cultural Animal Studies"! 🎨🌰🐿️🔥 www.hbk-bs.de/fileadmin/Ho...

Aretha Franklin & @carolekingofficial.bsky.social 🔥

Hey, we're fine. FM4 is still there: radio.garden/listen/orf-f...

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25 years old & the last thing you should hear this year: Andreas Dorau & Moritz R Der letzte Popsong des Jahrhunderts "The last pop song of the century, unsurpassed & much admired. A new word we need, pop that's it & is no more." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loed... ex www.discogs.com/release/1077...

Wait, why is there no video like this for all books? Click, hold, and scrub on the video timeline and you feel like in a book shop (ok, trading some resolution for low latency). This is so good:

🇪🇪 sunrise 9:19 am 🌥️ sunset 15:29 pm 🧊

Brought the original #chocoladehagel from Amsterdam, and now I have to think about #percolation #theory every morning (and #finite #resources). 🤷

#ADHD meds "associated with changes in arousal and reward, but not attention systems, suggesting that they enhance performance by increasing vigilance and perceived task value, not attentional capabilities" & "reversed the behavioral and brain effects of sleeping less."

The final 2025 FM4 Unlimited "Zwischenzeit Mix" by DJ Functionist & DJ Beware is so classic and soo... good! 🎵🎶🥁👏 fm4.orf.at/player/20251...

Happy holidays @elisabethbik.bsky.social

"Hello from the children of planet Earth." It is a good time to contemplate our nativity diagram in image 52, which we sent to space on the Voyager Golden Record: The gazelle top-middle is a prey animal, ganged up on by two male hunters in images 60 & 61. Woman bystander says hi. goldenrecord.org

The German CEOs of @hateaid.org are sanctioned and denied entry into the United States. Their motto: "Because human rights also apply digitally. We are committed to supporting victims of online hate and promoting democracy online."

Knödelbrotification of French Baguette completed. Bavarian pork roast countdown start. T-10hrs

Search "CECOT" and watch the 60 minutes report. It is a concentration camp. You can see it with your own eyes. You should also learn what a "Vernichtungslager" is. They at least give captives the impression it is. What a disgrace. To Americans & VISA holders trying to rationalize: It is a disgrace!

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.