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"The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes."
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“Putin is tired of this whole thing,” Trump said on Fox News. “He’s not looking good. And he wants to look good.” In reality, it is Trump who is tired of “this whole thing,” Trump who’s not looking good, and Trump who wants to look good. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Minimalism Not much to see here. www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...

The dockyard in Chatham closed at the end of March 1984. Six months later, the dockyard in Portsmouth was reduced to being the "Fleet Maintenance and Repair Organisation". Chatham had existed since 1567, Portsmouth since 1212. It had replaced the Arsenale in Venice as the largest industrial complex.

"The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_... Ahem, LLM guys

"The term 'Existenzminimum' no longer implied dwellings that reduced housing to its essentials; instead what was discussed was a choice between two evils. It was better to have too-small homes for many people than 'good' homes for the few" marywoodarchtheory.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

I visited Albrechtsburg, Meissen recently, partly because I was curious about the exhibition design. In almost every room there's a different kind of shiny alien box, reminiscent of Mark Wallinger's mirrored TARDIS. It's a very modern layer in an old building. www.carstengerhards.de/albrechtsbur...

Some ecologists distinguish between wilderness and wildness. The former is a place, the latter a condition. Wilderness is extensive and wildness is intensive. Wildness has a meaning close to "liveness". There's also a theory of habitat fragmentation that very much complicates things.

I really prefer the Daughter cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Cp...

Ugh, this is such an MOR thing to do. www.dezeen.com/2025/05/18/w...

"If nothing is curated, how do we find things?" tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-i...

I feel that there are three phases to Internet development. The first phase lasted from the beginning until around the end of Web 1.0. It was characterized by self-selection of users, who were either academics or early adopters. This utopian phase contained a relatively tiny amount of content.

The best projection for globe gores is Cassini's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini...

A good talk about AI, from late last year. youtu.be/yPCO47oPTbY?... (by @aubreyclayton.bsky.social) The bottom line is that statistics doesn't deal in terms of causality (and, as I understand it, symbolic reasoning is a form of causal process).

Demographic pyramids for Chemnitz. Zoom in to see labels. Background: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einwohn...

The industrial museum in Chemnitz has many working examples of textile machinery: a loopwheel machine etc. Their crochet galloon machine is a kind of thing I hadn't seen before. In general, it's said that machines can't crochet, but these machines do some of it. patents.google.com/patent/US725...

I'll see your "mutual abuse is not a thing" and raise you a "conflict is not abuse". (To clarify, the first statement relates to relationships, the latter more to politics.)

Saw a lot of church bells on my recent continental trip.

Growing up as a white male in Ireland doesn't provide you with great material. It's not good for development. All young Irish musician bros suffer from this. You hear things like "Irish men are the latinas of the British Isles" which is unbelievably far from an appropriate consciousness of injustice

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