‘a commodification & dehumanization of women & girls. "So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, & transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity," the experts said in a statement.’

Very good statement on the ways that extreme wealth/power concentration breeds depravity. The story of the Epstein Files, and of our time.

Weird how all of the skills were transferrable.

Celebrities and talent who do shows for Apple TV should publicly ask the company when SAVANT will be released and why they pulled a show about white supremacists and domestic terrorism? (We know why but pressure them.) www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

Long Eared Owl Europe, the Palearctic, and North America 📷: David Driver #birds

The whole sky just exploded in green here in Reykjavík. It was so bright, I didn't even need my flashlight to walk out to my neighborhood beach. It's rare when we get these whole sky engulfing shows. This season has been something else. #solarmaximum ftw! #northernlights #aurora #iceland

‘She speaks for that section of the American bourgeoisie that is unalterably committed to the war and to pursuing a direct military confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia. In this she is true to the political heritage of the DSA, founded by ex-Shachtmanites, rooted in Cold War anticommunism...’

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

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‘While his crimes against underage girls are real, horrific, & central to his story, this episode examines a dimension of the #Epstein case that much of the mainstream media has avoided: his deep & sustained ties to #Israel, Israeli intelligence, and the #globalsurveillance & #defenceindustry.’

Green room #oilpainting #art

Darwin's writing has spoken to me over the years in many ways. One rabbit hole took me deep into the writing of the historian Alfred Crosby, who found Darwin’s keen observations about the effects of plagues on the demographic destiny of peoples. www.johnhawks.net/p/investigat...

New article on Musk's stupidity re: Mars, our worsening existential predicament, and a quiz that someone created to determine how "TESCREAL" you are! I also address the question of whether our brains are computers. Fun stuff! www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/mars-colon...

‘Launched in 2017, the platform has previously faced criticism for hosting newsletters that promote extremist views. Its co-founder, Hamish McKenzie addressed its decision to host Nazi content in one of his own posts on the site in 2023.’

Been thinking a bit about the way that John Brockman acted as Epstein's scientist collector and would organize dinners where Epstein would just happen to show up and I think a lesson here for *white scientists* is if you're being invited to all-white events, that might be actively intentional 🧪

Every complaint I had against Chomsky concerned the same problem: the way he excused or dismissed atrocities committed by his team: ie regimes and forces opposed to Western hegemonic power. As his friend, Epstein was given the same pass. In other words, it's not an anomaly. It's the same story.

I teach a science media literacy module in all my courses. It includes knowing the difference between a press release and a reported news story. Here's a really interesting new research paper about public understsanding of that difference! #SciComm 🧪 jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Who Owns Your Image and Narrative? Naomi Klein & Yanis Varoufakis — Live tonight (18.30CET) Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iRc...

Talking to Yanis tomorrow about his Doppelganger trouble!

Lights #oilpainting #art

‘Read that again: technology is an alternative to politics. And that’s why we have to start to understand Palantir not as a contractor, but as what a national security expert interviewed in the Nerve this week called “a vector of malign influence”. ’ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

‘To carry out an autogolpe, you must already be in power. Traditionally, there are two reasons that you might destroy, ignore, or violate the infrastructure of a state you already control...’

Just finished Herbert Marcuse’s Counterrevolution and Revolt. Really prophetic book from the Nixon era about how left-wing movements can move on when there is no clear political agent for progressive change and far-right authoritarianism is on the rise.

I started to read Money on the Left more and more

’“We are not the sum of all of our problems,” says Dr. Sege, director of HOPE’s ... HOPE presents four broad pillars that can promote healing: supportive relationships, safe environments, opportunities for emotional growth and social engagement that promotes a sense of belonging.’

I’m busy working on lots of new ideas, keeping some quite spontaneous. I’ve got spring on my mind because I’m feeling a little tired of cold damp winter weather. I’m also enjoying using Schminke’s granulation watercolour paints #sketchbook #art #watercolour #watercolor #rabbits

Raoul Dufy The Mexican Musicians

“There’s this important question, ‘What are we aligning to?’”

How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster The famed physicist’s persistence led him to uncover shocking failures By Molly Glick nautil.us/how-richard-... Spacecraft at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #science #technology

If you're a victim of repeated flooding, you need to start looking at land use upstream. One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it. Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.

Anthropic raises concerns over AI use for U.S. surveillance & autonomous weapons . ‘The discussions represent an early test case for whether Silicon Valley can sway how U.S. military and intelligence personnel deploy increasingly powerful AI on the battlefield.’

‘commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail,‘ says @timbl.bsky.social

‘Civil liberties specialists have long argued that the bigger the scale of biometric surveillance, the more important it becomes that safeguards are consistent, enforceable and independently audited, because weak practice in one area can become standard practice everywhere.’

‘The discovery of Siberia’s last shaman is more than an archaeological curiosity. It offers rare, human-level insight into how Indigenous cultures adapt, resist, and endure. Her red dress, her horses, her lineage, and even her DNA tell a story of defiance w/o rebellion, survival w/o assimilation.’

What a proper algorithm looks like.

‘The discovery of a rare photo from the Spanish civil war raises questions about why volunteers from Australia are not commemorated’

I know not what to say after this day. Please accept some natural beauty. We are but nothing, We return to the great void, Make the best of it. #Photography #Auroraborealis #Haiku

‘In 2030 a “reality notary” is no longer science fiction; it is the person whose services we use to ensure that people and institutions are what they appear to be.’

Entsteht hier eine Eingreiftruppe mit nahezu unbegrenzten Befugnissen? Trump bläht die Abschiebebehörde ICE mit 75 Milliarden Dollar auf. Brutale Einsatzvideos erschüttern nun das Land.

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Is consistency more important than inspiration?

Please be briefly cheered up by this perfume bottle (Greek; c. 600BCE) from the Burrell Collection.

love this idea!👌🏻