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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Democracy will not survive without strong independent media Trump and his allies are rapidly taking over our major news outlets.

The truth is that if democracy is to survive this era, we can no longer treat independent media as optional. It is essential, and we must do everything we can to help it thrive and grow — quickly. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/demo...

For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter

For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter

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The “humanness” of humans has long been an inconvenience for capitalists… human workers need food, rest, bathroom breaks, healthcare, spend time with our families, etc. Treating people as machine-like licenses bosses to ignore the human needs of employees

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Altman’s comments are a classic example of dehumanizing people: childhood and education are reduced to “training” for the purposes of economic productivity. These are obviously not the same, but Altman’s words imply the main purpose of humans is to serve capital

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you missed @jfcryan.bsky.social and Ted Dinan talking with Síle Seoige on @tg4.bsky.social last night, you can watch in on the player. They are talking about their research on gut feelings and #anxiety.
#microbiome #gutbrainaxis
@uccresearch.bsky.social

Insurrection against the parliament though

이재명 might even pardon him
at the end of his term. Kim dae jung pardoned Chun doo whan even though Chun killed 100s of people.

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He will get life. I think. Then appeals. Then 10 years?

They totally ignored the Korean team as if they didn’t even existed. Wouldn’t you pay attention to the team that’s had 7 wins in the past?

How ‘skull drains’ keep the brain safe from damage and pathogens Veins in the skull can rearrange their borders to accommodate patrolling immune cells, a strange behaviour called ruffling.

How ‘skull drains’ keep the brain safe from damage and pathogens www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Two side-by-side images depicting the nested hierarchical IPOMDP and the non-hierarchical x-IPOMDP mechanism.

What happens when we can't use recursive belief to compete? We can use anomaly detection instead!

Here, we (led by soon-to-be-Dr @nitalon.bsky.social ) devise a multi-agent account where compression & reward expectation are used to notice deception

jair.org/index.php/ja...

"Attention without feeling... is only a report."

Mary Oliver on what attention really means and her moving elegy for her soul mate: www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/17/m...

Out today, 7 years in the making — a reckoning with what makes a body a person, what makes a planet a world, and what gives meaning to our tender, transient lives: www.themarginalian.org/traversal/

Words Without Consequence What does it mean to have speech without a speaker?

LLM, fluency, competence and agency

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Descartes died on this day in 1650, having scarred the centuries with his severance of body and mind. Thank stardust for Humboldt, who reembodied the human spirit, bridging the Aztecs and AI www.themarginalian.org/2025/08/31/a...

Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs" New research radically shifts how we understand delusions, offering patients and clinicians a better way to understand these impactful experiences.

Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs"

www.iflscience.com/living-in-me...

Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity “The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”

"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."

Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/08/p...

Superb Owl Sunday X A special Sunday event: our tenth-annual photo collection celebrating these magnificent birds of prey. If you have some time before the big game (or are skipping the event entirely), we invite you to ...

These are amazing!
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Elizabeth Bishop on Why Everyone Should Experience at Least One Long Period of Solitude in Life Wisdom on the rhythms of creativity from a lighthouse daydream.

Poet Elizabeth Bishop, born on this day in 1911, on why everyone should experience at least one prolonged period of solitude in life www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/08/e...

YouTube video by Jon Ossoff Full Speech | Jon Ossoff in Atlanta | Rally for Our Republic | 02.07.2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzQY...

Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”

We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...

Hearing Spirits: The Work and Technique of Controlled Clairaudience - Durham University

IMH researcher Adam Powell has contributed a chapter to a new publication which sheds light on people's experience of hearing spirit voices.

The chapter draws on data from a study of clairaudient mediums, part of our research project Hearing the Voice.

Read more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

H.H.S. to Expand Faith-Based Addiction Programs for Homeless

Good morning! As an addiction scientist and clinical psychology PhD candidate writing their dissertation on compulsive alcohol use: THIS IS GOING TO GET PEOPLE KILLED.

Moral conceptualizations of addiction and mental health lead to shame and bad outcomes.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/h...

What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses

What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/m...

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.

...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"