David IsenbergThis remarkable page from Orwell's original manuscript for 1984 was posted by @jeffcolgan.bsky.social - the last two sentences, like, wow.
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I’m all about #patterns and #emergence. #NetworkScience to find non-obvious patterns in data, #Photography to capture patterns in the wild, and improvise #Music to create emergent patterns in sound.
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MistyiOS 18 holdouts: 18.7.7 is out now for devices that were eligible for the 26 upgrade. You should upgrade immediately. The security updates are significant. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/01/apple-ios-18-darksword-security-update/
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Paula KiiveriBlue anemones in March, in Finland... Anyway, now they are coming out of the ground. Pretty spots of color in the brown ground and their hairy stems and buds.
Peterthis is sharp as hell. https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/
LSM/English (unofficial)In Latvia and other European Union countries, farms are primarily run by middle-aged people; the average age of a farm owner in Latvia is 57. The trend suggests that this situation is not improving, Latvian Radio reported on 31st March. https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/31.03.2026-farmers-in-latvia-are-getting-older.a641183/?utm_source=mastodon
JA WestenbergNewcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine in 1712. It was awful. 1% thermal efficiency. James Watt showed up 57 years later and built one that worked. Newcomen got a Wikipedia footnote. Watt got a unit of measurement.
"The World's First" is not the trophy you think it is.
The World's First Bullshit
I opened Twitter this morning and three different startups were announcing "the world's first" something. An AI CMO, an autonomous AI marketer, and a design agent "with taste," which is a phrase that made me close my laptop for about ten minutes. None of them are the world's first anything.
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br00t4cThe Existential Crisis of Mainstream Economics
#MainstreamEconomicsCritique #EconomicCrisis #PoliticallyProtectedPrivateHealthcare #FirstWorldHealthTrends #DrugAddiction
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/30/the-existential-crisis-of-mainstream-economics/
The Existential Crisis of Mainstream Economics
In the United States today, life expectancy is falling as suicides, drug addiction, alcoholism, and heart disease are inexorably on the rise, contrary to the trends in other First World countries. One thing is clear. The terribly expensive and massively inefficient system of politically protected private health system is not equipped to deal with the “deaths of despair” and other manifestations of the health crisis in the richest country in the world.