Left, right, Harris, Trump: all prisoners of political nostalgia in an era few understand | Rafael Behr https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/left-right-trump-harris-prisoners-political-nostalgia-extremism?CMP=share_btn_url
Pete
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Erik Uden đ©What pubs charge these âfor twoâ prices like this, and when, if they are âspecialsâ? Who shops for meals at home like this? If you need yet more evidence that too many journalists and editors are out of touch with ordinary peoplesâ real lives:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/31/sydney-pub-meal-specials-prices-test
Trying to engage young people on the subject of online surveillance and tailored offering by Google, Meta etc. Responses:
âI donât care.â
âBut they all do it.â
âIt doesnât affect me.â
âI like the targeted ads/ news.â
âIâve got nothing to hide.â
And generally a lack of interest in any discussion of the subject. SO to all those saying we need to engage more: how, exactly? I am yet to find a plausible answer.
âI donât care.â
âBut they all do it.â
âIt doesnât affect me.â
âI like the targeted ads/ news.â
âIâve got nothing to hide.â
And generally a lack of interest in any discussion of the subject. SO to all those saying we need to engage more: how, exactly? I am yet to find a plausible answer.
We started a group chat to help fellow doctors in Gaza. Then it went quiet https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/we-started-a-group-chat-to-help-fellow-doctors-in-gaza-then-it-went-quiet
Having agreed, about a month ago, to take part in a survey about engagement with #charities we are now being subject to up to 30 telephone calls per week. Add to this multiple calls each day regarding #solarsubsidies. We have ceased to answer any land-line calls. Madness.
Euan
Area of #Gaza compared to area of Sydney. Imagine 30,000+ bombs exploding on this area of Sydney.
Photo from Newsweek article comparing various cities with Gaza strip.
@johnfugelsang"...some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system." - Pope Francis
Prof. Sam LawlerTomorrow I'm teaching this paper https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0029 about how probably every civilization on every planet marches faster and faster toward burnout, UNLESS they realize that collapse is coming and radically restructure.
This is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox: most civilizations don't last long, and the ones that do are undetectable: "A sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from Nature."
Welp, my mind is totally blown for the day. Time to go snuggle some animals.
Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox? | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Previous studies show that city metrics having to do with growth, productivity and overall energy consumption scale superlinearly, attributing this to the social nature of cities. Superlinear scaling results in crises called âsingularitiesâ, where ...