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The Link Between Intrusive Sleep And ADHD Intrusive sleep is something that is mostly experienced by people with ADHD and can be quite detrimental if not managed properly

Apparently, "intrusive sleep" is a sudden onset of drowsiness or sleep triggered by abrupt disengagement from an activity or conversation due to boredom or loss of interest.

It's really interesting, and it explains a few things about someone I know who has ADHD.

#ADHD

'Reality is one of the hundred or so tabs I keep running at any given time.'

#MaladaptiveDaydreaming #ADHD

The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

"In order to determine who is a child, all users, no matter who they are, will be forced to turn over vast troves of valuable biometric data and for ever link their offline identity to their online behaviour."

This article emphasises the main concerns and implications of the new bill.

Mark Zuckerberg’s $300M Doomsday Fortress: Bunkers, Burial Grounds & Big Tech’s Apocalypse Plan The Nerd Reich · Episode

Gil Duran: 'Every compound is a confession. These guys don't believe in society, they just want surveillance, stockpiles, and escape plans.'

AI is going to be used for surveillance and policing and authoritarianism. As people get poorer, they will also be more censored and less free.

Because they're not actually engaging with the broader public or the real world, it allows them to fully dehumanise the public, whom they don't see as equal people with equal agency. It's disturbing and narcissistic.

Their wealth also distorts democratic processes everywhere they go.

Why Are Silicon Valley’s Utopians Are Prepping for Collapse? Taylor Lorenz and Guthrie Scrimgeour Discuss Mark Zuckerberg's $300M Hawaii bunker on The Nerd Reich podcast

Taylor believes that billionaires see themselves as fundamentally superior to the gen. public, whom they refer to as NPCs or 'normies'.

There's a divide between the doomsday bunker-building tech elites and the masses, and they feel no need to associate, socialise, or even live among regular people.

Palantir is well on its way to conquering Europe - Euractiv The controversial US tech company has longstanding relationships with many authorities throughout the EU.

Feeling uneasy about this arrangement 😟 This US tech company's reach is very wide.

"Earlier this year, the Western military alliance, NATO, made headlines for choosing Palantir for its Allied Command Operations, the alliance's war room, to ease decision-making and military planning."

#Privacy

About the PURL initiative that Zelenskyy references in his post.

🇺🇦 Zelenskyy: I spoke with 🇱🇻 President Edgars Rinkevics.

We discussed Ukraine's path toward 🇪🇺 integration. Ukraine has done everything required. It will be fair to open the first negotiating cluster for us and Moldova simultaneously. Latvia firmly supports our membership in both the EU and NATO.

No Facebook (MI tulk., manis rediģēts).

Vai kost un mukt ir pretlikumīgi?
Kāpēc cilvēki nav aktīvi naktī?
Kāpēc cilvēki bļaustās mana nakts skrējiena laikā?
Kā izlikties guļam, kad cilvēki lien bužināt?
Labākās slēptuves putekļsūcēja uzbrukuma laikā.
Kāpēc mana aste dzīvo savu dzīvi?
Kāpēc sarkano punktu nevar noķert?
Kur pazūd mana kaka?

🐾 Ja kaķi mācētu lietot Google...

Vai par mīlīgumu pienākas alga?
Vai varu būt gan plēsējs, gan bēbis?
Kā pārliecināt cilvēkus, ka neesmu barots?
Ko nozīmē 'kss‑kss‑kss'?
Vai Uber Eats piegādā putnus?
Putni manā rajonā.
Kāpēc putni mani ķircina caur logu?
Kā pārdot suni eBay?

Is it illegal to bite and run?
Why are humans not active at night?
Why do humans scream during my night-time zoomies?
How to fake sleep when humans want cuddles.
Best hiding spots during vacuum attacks.
Why is my tail possessed?
Why is the red dot uncatchable?
Why does my poop disappear?

🐾 If cats could use Google...

Should I be paid for being cute?
Can I be both predator and baby?
How to convince humans I haven't been fed.
What does 'pspspspsps' mean?
Does Uber Eats deliver birds?
Birds near me.
Why do birds mock me from the window?
How to sell dog on eBay?

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We are witnessing the silencing of American media | Robert Reich From the Washington Post to CBS, companies are caving to Trump. This is how democracy dies

Shame on any media outlet or university that allows Trump to silence it. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/trump-silencing-of-american-media

I Know Exactly What They Are Doing Rural foresight

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”

I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Kemp warns of leaders who are "walking versions of the dark triad" – narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism – in a world threatened by climate crisis, AI, nuclear weapons, and autonomous warfare.

He's pessimistic about the future, but optimistic about people.

I want to read this!

#BookSky

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Damian Carrington at The Guardian covers Luke Kemp's new book "Goliath’s Curse", published in the UK on 31 July by Viking Penguin.

#BookSky #Books

Šī nav mana pirmā vizīte Ukrainā, kopš Krievija uzsāka savu brutālo karu. Man personīgi ir svarīgi uzsvērt – Ukraina nav viena šajā cīņā pret agresoru. Latvijas tauta ir kopā ar Ukrainas tautu.

🇺🇦 This is so lovely. The thoughtful young kid looks completely shell-shocked!

What an incredible honour, and so well-deserved. Heart-warming. 💛💙

Why is it always the same belligerents behind these acts of aggression?

I can't wait for a slow news day. Fuck's sake.

💙💛 #StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

🇺🇦 Zelenskyy rightly calls out the hypocrisy: Russia condemns attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities while relentlessly striking civilian infrastructure across Ukraine with Russian-Iranian missiles and drones. Five apartment buildings hit in Kyiv last night, according to Zelenskyy's official channel.

"At this point, the biggest threat to the free world is itself, which will sacrifice everything to ensure that not a single challenge to its power is allowed to pass."

"Forgive me, but is that the same free world that backed unilateral attacks on four Middle East territories by Israel, a country whose leader is wanted by the international criminal court?"

"Support for Israel can only be defended by facile, logic-defying references to its right to defend itself even when it is the aggressor, and Iran's "threat to the free world"."

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

A sharp take on this geopolitical issue: "This default position is so naked in its hypocrisy, so ignorant & parochial in its worldview, so clear in its disregard for human life, that it represents a colossal erosion of sophistication in political discourse, and a new low in contempt for the public."

The UK's bumblebees are in crisis - Bumblebee Conservation Trust Find out why bumblebees are so important, how you can help bumblebees in your own garden, and how to support the Bumblebee Conservation Trust

The original poster declined a beer for themselves and instead shared a donation link for fellow nature lovers to donate:

From the BestofRedditorUpdates community on Reddit: The tale of a wingless bumblebee (Beelinda) and a soft hearted human Explore this post and more from the BestofRedditorUpdates community

🐝💛 A small reminder to be gentle with all living things.

Wishing the thoughtful human behind it all the best. They are good people!

This Reddit thread includes some adorable bumblebee photos!

🐝💛 #Nature #Bumblebee #Conservation