Old Man Glas

Neat stuff on Göbekli Tepe, the ten thousand year old archeological site in Türkiye.

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Annelise Baer: Göbekli Tepe
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(*I didn't say MAGA because we are at the stage where people say "I'm not MAGA, but I support...", which is similar to the people who lied and said "He won't use Project 2025's plan to destroy U.S. institutions," which of course he did immediately.)

Murky Pledges of Investment Cast Shadow on Trump’s Trade Deals

Trump worship is a cult.* (1/2)
Don't expect his supporters to believe Japan's "Uh, 5/6ths of that was loans," or Korea when it says the same.

NYT boilerplate:
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/b...

You have great faith in the Texas GOP following the law.

Quote posting in empathy.

Kinda my expectation.
But there is also the "won't go to trial, and if it does the jury won't convict" attitude reminiscent of sixty years ago and more.

Sharing.

Interesting!
(Remember that our planet didn't have much oxygen at all until the Great Oxidation Event when it was half its current 4.5 billion year old age.)

Unexpected indeed!

Sharing.
I ♡ groups like MSF, IRC, etc.

(Crashing now, hopefully, as I get up on six hours; but everything up to here looks wise to me. I am no expert, but I am someone who chooses being single and with outstanding friends over being in an awkward romantic relationship and lonely. I think your advice good.)

Black Reconstruction in America - Wikipedia

Or here is the Wikipedia entry, if you are short on time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_R...

More info here:
www.webdubois.org/wdb-BlackRec...

Control.
People encourage bigotry to manipulate others and a lot of pale and male people who look and sound like me are HAPPY to be tools if it means they get to hate someone, and then have someone powerful pat them on their hateful little heads, maybe rub their bellies, and toss them a doggy treat.

I would ask WHY we are so addicted to the transphobia that targets my friends and family, but it's obvious: this kind of hate is used to control people.

Don't know what I mean? Go find W.E.B. Du Bois' 1935 "Black Reconstruction" and read the "psychological and public wage" passage. Same thing.

Yes indeed -- not that we lack blatant evil at the moment.

But no one is complaining about the properties of Jeff Bezos or The Rock blocking routes, yet I am seeing people saying she blocked them.

In a lifetime where I saw the ERA passed as a tween but now we see the case of Adriana Smith...

Oprah Opens Maui Road to Help Residents Flee After Tsunami Warning

Excellent.

NYT 30 July 2025
"Oprah Opens Maui Road to Help
Residents Flee After Tsunami Warning" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

Associated journal article.

(1) Fedoseev, V.; Lin, H.; Lu, Y.-K.; Lee, Y. K.; Lyu, J.; Ketterle, W. Coherent and Incoherent Light Scattering by Single-Atom Wave Packets. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2025, 135 (4), 043601. doi.org/10.1103/zwhd...

Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

xpost --
I love that way of putting it!

MIT Department of Physics (July 2025)
"Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials"
physics.mit.edu/news/famous-...

Outstanding info dump, and shall follow unless you object!

(I am also minded of the Dirty Thirties / human-engineered regional climate collapse of the Dust Bowl years, and why we later had and needed so many soil conservation offices.)

Sharing --
I do find it informative that Mr. Trump's executive order imprisons the poor and homeless when shelters aren't available... and, in general, shelters are NOT available.

Locking up our poor and unwell just as an excuse to transfer tax dollars to our richest people is evil.

Ok. ^_^
(Please keep making amazing stories!)

:(
You're correct, alas

Ya, the euphemistically labeled AI "Hallucinating." Wondered the same!

Dang.

It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest Priest (The Drowning House) spins a chillingly effective ghost story. After the death of her brother, Ben, anxious Ronnie Mitche...

Need a new book? I'd like to recommend Cherie Priest's "It Was Her House First," which came out today. She is a friend and fav author, and spins a good yarn.

Publisher's Weekly
www.publishersweekly.com/9781728292854

Monsters indeed.
(The aforementioned Wade Hampton II was the father of the Secessionist General whose white supremacist Red Shirts would terrorize the Carolinas from 1876 and the end of Reconstruction through the end of the 19th century.)

Makes sense to me.
And climate affects everyone.

(I reject the last thirty years of silly pale and male talking heads saying "Nooooo, Arrhenius was wrong in 1896, and everybody else since him. And everything that physics and chemistry tells us about the greenhouse effect must be wrong, too!")

Oh no! :(
Heal quickly; is there anything that I can do?

Cultists will LIKE it if I point out how wrong this is. I wish that I knew how to reverse the trend, but we now have "conservatives" hell bent on destroying everything.