Jay Alt

Now, what that says about New Age and what it says about pragmatism,

OG New Age was like 85% just logical continuation of established threads in American pragmatism

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

Introduction of 996 workdays to the US is a desperate attempt of chronically unprofitable software capital to raise the exploitation rate by lengthening the workday. It will not work because the products suck and are socially useless.

After two weekends vibe coding solid GIS and astronomical visualizations I am familiarizing myself with the open source python ecology for horoscopes, i ching, mayan calendrics, etc

“For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower"
NEW: @katemac.bsky.social and I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social write about what China's tech acceleration means for the world. Subscribe & read here: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

RAPID DECLINE OF NESTING PEREGRINE FALCONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION OF CALIFORNIA SYNCHRONOUS WITH AN H5N1 OUTBREAK https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.11.705416v1

Scaling Laws for Function Diversity and Specialization Across Socioeconomic and Biological Complex Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06487

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files Out of 'Safety of Our Attendees' DinoCon issued a statement regarding the scientists and more named in the Epstein Files, noting they were officially banned from the event.

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files

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Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.

Then covered it up again when caught.

Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.

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In a letter Friday to West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, the Federal Judicial Center said it had "omitted" the climate science chapter from its latest Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The removal marks a significant victory for Republican efforts to thwart a raft of climate lawsuits that the fossil fuel industry has warned could cost it billions of dollars. On Friday, the Republican Attorneys General Association congratulated its members on X, writing that the "Federal Judicial Center has announced they are removing ridiculous WOKE climate science from judicial manuals."

Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

FT exclusive:

“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”

via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

We will all be subjected to strange imagery as the situation develops.

For the first time in decades, the U.S. and Russia have no limits on nuclear weapons Experts warn the expiration of a long-standing nuclear arms control treaty between the two superpowers could mark the start of a new nuclear rivalry.

Experts warn the expiration of a long-standing nuclear arms control treaty between the two superpowers could mark the start of a new nuclear rivalry. n.pr/4qZGDHJ

he’s asking what happened to the CIA world factbook

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

Did Big Oil Conspire to Kneecap the EV Industry? The state of Michigan filed a lawsuit in federal court last week against major oil companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron, accusing them of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the devel...

The state of Michigan has accused Exxon and Chevron of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the development of clean energy and electric vehicles.

A letter to the director of the CIA from Senator Ron Wyden saying he has sent a classified letter that expressed concerns.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Homan cited “unprecedented” levels of cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and the Department of Homeland Security as the reason for reducing the number of federal agents on the ground.

color. lesss gren. id=as slep furious ?

Stronger case for cicada imo

There´s a lot to say about these skeets by @jwmason.bsky.social

My 5 cents: not all prices are market prices. What do I mean?

I´m investigating the Commons on the Dutch island of Ameland. As late as 1910 (when they had been officially disbanded for 14 years) one of these mustered 68 people to

Bayesianism

the moon

anyways the moon was doing this sorta shit and made me think I was gonna be abducted by aliens

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

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Graphic Designer: I invented corporate memphis as an error page filler

Fashion Studio: At long last,

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

The thief of tens of millions of dollars in crypto from the United States' stash of seized crypto assets is allegedly the son of the owner of a company that contracts with the US Marshals to manage said seized crypto.

Vulgar psychoanalysis gets twice as powerful every six months now