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"I do not think therefore I am a moustache" Sartre, La Nausée, 1938 Interests: art, art history, culture, film/photography, history, music, science, sociology, comparative religion, technology, current affairs. * adferoafferro.wordpress.com
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No way in hell did TRUMP write that. Somebody else, maybe Stephen Miller. Vocabulary, length, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, capitalization, thought cohesion, organization, none of it is Trump. He probably okayed it, though.

◻️ #Iran #Israelk ◻️ #Iran #Israel The best graphic of the Gulf of Iran's oil and gas fields and infrastructure, including South Pars oil field drilled by both Iran and Qatar, together with those of the Gulf states. www.ft.com/content/7824...

Shopping for a laptop can be infuriating. Here’s how to sift through the acronyms, storage options, and extra features to find the best one for you. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

◻️ "...AI models are being trained with synthetic data created by AI models. Subsequent generations of AI models may therefore become less and less reliable, a state known as AI model collapse."

Bach’s fifth canon is secretly a musical Möbius strip. Debussy hid Fibonacci numbers in “La Mer”. Pollock used fractals decades before anyone knew. Daniel Rey reviews @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social’s brilliant new book, which reveals the maths behind masterpieces: www.prospectmagazine...

◻️ #47 The Marsh Family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5nX...

Fuckin LAPD at it again.. LAPD deploys mounted police and tear gas to disperse protesters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Q5...

◻️ #47 Day 146 Music to cheer up Americans Part 1 And boy what a back catalogue you have. Songs by Americans sung all over the world. Simon & Garfunkel from their 1968 album, Bookends. www.dailymotion.com/video/x13xot

◻️ #Essay #AliceBolin "Who wins, the smart guy or the crazy guy? The crazy guy, and he’s getting crazier every day." America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us Alice Bolin, Featured Essay, Guardian, 8 June 2025 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

◻️ #47 Day 145 Trump’s “21st-Century Fascist Regime” So Far: A Terrible Record Paul Street Counterpunch 12 June 2025 www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/12/t... ⚪ Lists can be cogent

◻️ #Ukraine #culture #Ukrainian_authors #ArtemChapeye "Can creativity endure under air raid sirens & military mobilization? ...what does it mean to speak to the world [..] when much of that world is only willing to listen to Ukrainians when the subject is war?" kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-au...

‘I feel like I lost 3 years’ — Ukrainian author turned soldier Artem Chapeye on culture during war Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainian writers have found themselves grappling with questions not just of survival, but of voice, purpose, an...

Robert Malone, a mainstay in conspiratorial circles, and Martin Kulldorff, a coauthor of the widely criticized Great Barrington Declaration, are two of the most concerning picks. www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

◻️ #Ukraine THE RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR BRIEF open.substack.com/pub/peregrin... ⚪ Very good go-to for the latest on Ukraine.

◻️ Probably using rubbish Palantir software. Interestingly, it was LAPD years back that first introduced early apps to keep tabs on criminal activity. What thy found was a distinctly black bias and anyone with a connection whatsoever to miscreants, however tenuous, might end up in targeting.

# #Trump #KrasnoCounter He will never last 1318 days in office. This'll largely be because the madder and disorganised it gets, the more of his wing-men breakaway, the more gittery he'll get looking for ways to get out of the mess he's in charge of creating. www.tickcounter.com/countdown/61...

◻️ #Trump Trump’s America in the middle of a coup? ~ Years covering power struggles & civil wars leads world affairs editor Sam Kiley to question [if] Trump is intentionally taking establishment apart on own home turf Independent, 12 June 2025 ⚪ Also: www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-lawle...

Groundbreaking cancer treatment which ‘destroys tumours with sound’ to be rolled out on NHS

◻️ #Trump Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Trump Greg Olear, Prevail, 31 March, 2020 --What happens when a Confidential Informant becomes President? gregolear.substack.com/p/tinker-tai... ⚪ Biog: Greg Olear