A major #update to my #collection of #morphological #matrices worthy to infer #networks:
a bunch of matrices we generated and reanalysed for a paper by S. Renner, D. Sokoloff, and me dealing with ancestors, hard polytomies and seed plant evolution; depicted not as the usual cladograms (where ancestor-descendant pairs must trigger unsolvable hard trichotomies) but as a "Romerogram" (or spindle graph) that shows #dichotomy as well as #buddingEvolution, i.e., #phylogeny

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7067369

The dichotomy of businesses being evil while everything good is being fought for by activists, has to be broken

Whatever activists are fighting for are actually extremely good business models. This needs to become a basis for competition and new-age businesses that overthrow the old monopolies

#business #activists #dichotomy

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Das drückt!!
#nowplaying #BecomingTheArchetype #Dichotomy #DeepHeaven #metalcore

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Here’s a biter: The thing about #dichotomy, if you know, you know it’s pretty frustrating. The key to unlock it is this: The reason #dichotomy is frustrating is because we’re making the #circumstances the deciding factor for the solution. Hence, a solution at one event is the problem at another.#Min...

https://mastodon.social/@bhtb/115004615086284359

Even MAGA supporters would have their relatives assessed by a qualified doctor if they began to think, act and sound like Donald Trump.

Yet MAGA continues to defend and stand by Trump’s nonsense and irrational behaviour.

#mentalhealth #dementia #MAGA #republicans #democrats #trump #news #dichotomy #irony

Like gender, (popular) culture is a spectrum or complex range of possibilities:

But too much of cultural studies has continued to locate popular culture within two binary normative economies: on the one hand, the popular (as poaching, fragmented, contradictory, bodily, carnivalesque, pleasurable) versus the legitimate (as reified, hierarchical, intellectual, etc.), and, on the other hand, the popular (as stylized, artificial, disruptive, marginal, resisting) versus the mainstream (as naturalized, commonsensical, incorporated, etc.). Even Hall's often repeated warning to approach popular culture as 'the double movement of containment and resistance' has not stopped critics from distributing texts, audiences and reading practices into these dichotomous judgements.

Grossberg, L. (1998 Replacing Popular Culture', Redhead, S. (ed) The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Cultural Studies, Blackwell.

#theory #CulturalStudies #PopularCulture #binary #dichotomy

#iran #g7 : #media / #westernview / #stereotyps / #dichotomy / #manichaeism / #ideology / #prejudice / #complexityreduction

„Challenging the widespread notion that Iranian society is split between 'good' democrats and 'evil' Islamists, the Franco-Iranian researcher argues that most citizens criticize the regime not for its religious orientation, but for its repression of freedoms.“

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/06/26/fariba-adelkhah-anthropologist-the-western-view-of-iranian-society-is-binary-and-ignores-its-increasing-complexity_6742725_23.html