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Orbán Lost Spectacularly Because the Hungarian People Simply Stopped Fearing His Authoritarianism

They understood that his corrupt party was selling out the country to serve its own interests

The UnPopulist
Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are
https://youtu.be/ZoO9FZXUgv4?si=JJB9muEiMwj531Am
Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are

YouTube

The Active Inference Institute 2025 Symposium is now happening! Please check out our panel discussion on Friday, 18:00 UTC:
https://coda.io/d/_d08cdDbWwRy/Presenters_suF824T8#Symposium-presenters-with-Abstracts_tu7ofpxb/r36

Story Graphs: An Exploration of Use Cases In and Beyond CogNarr. To learn more:
https://coda.io/@active-inference/aii/cognitive-narrative-cognarr-ecosystem-63

Applied Active Inference Symposium ~ 2025

Coda doc by Daniel Friedman

Coda

Carl Sagan's Guide to Not Being Fooled

This video takes a look at some passages from Carl Sagan's book 'A Demon Haunted World."

Carl Sagan's Guide to Not Being Fooled

Nebula

Tomorrow’s the big event! 🎉 We’ve saved 1 trillion web pages — now celebrate The Web We’ve Built with the @internetarchive.
Explore the past & future of our shared digital world in this lively presentation, livestreaming around the world and in person in San Francisco. 🌐

📅 Weds, Oct 22
🕖 7 PM PT
🖥️ Virtual & 🎟️ In Person ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/event/the-web-weve-built-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-archived/

#Wayback1T #Livestream

Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.

Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour stacked exposure from CFHT. This was from 2022, when there were thousands fewer satellites... This is dumb.

Image credit: P. Cowan/W. Fraser/S. Lawler/CLASSY Survey Team

(The small streaks that are similar lengths are actually asteroids!)

DHS is reassigning hundreds of CISA cybersecurity experts to process deportation paperwork, pulling them off defending U.S. infrastructure from hacks.

We are gutting cyber defense for political theater, leaving power grids and networks more vulnerable.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/17/trumps-cisa-raid-pulling-cybersecurity-experts-off-critical-infrastructure-defense-to-process-deportation-paperwork/

Trump’s CISA Raid: Pulling Cybersecurity Experts Off Critical Infrastructure Defense To Process Deportation Paperwork

Last week we covered how Trump’s immigration theater was pulling federal agents off child sex crimes, drug interdiction, and terrorism investigations to chase landscapers and line cooks inste…

Techdirt
If you work in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, the new PPE Research Consortium is hosting a webinar this Wednesday on how to apply for one of its grants (ranging from $10,000 to $150,000).

PPE Research Consortium - RFP ...
PPE Research Consortium - RFP Stage 1 Overview - The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society

The PPE Research Consortium: Information WebinarWednesday, October 15, 2025, 4:00 pm ET | via Zoom  Registration Required (Click Button Below) Are you interested in submitting…

The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society
Leaf miners identified as oldest insect plague in the history of Earth
L: https://phys.org/news/2025-09-leaf-miners-oldest-insect-plague.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404868
posted on 2025.09.28 at 11:05:12 (c=0, p=4)
Leaf miners identified as oldest insect plague in the history of Earth

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with associated egg deposits, based on plant fossils. The frequency of leaf mine infestations in fossil plants is spectacular and can be described as the oldest insect infestation in the history of Earth.

Phys.org

The online store Bookshop.org is launching a platform through which independent bookshops in the UK will be able to sell ebooks as an alternative to Amazon’s Kindle offering.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/01/online-platform-independent-bookshops-ebooks-uk

‘A tool in the fight against Amazon’: independent bookshops to begin selling ebooks

A new platform will be an alternative to Kindle, and bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales

The Guardian