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Chinese creator Tianran Mu went viral for mimicking the eerie, unsettling aesthetic of AI videos, but his work is 100 percent human.

A Energy point of view to define physical limit of computation from mass.

It does not require much knowledge on QM or computers, just skip the specific numbers if you are unfamiliar with them, as exact numbers are irrelevant.

I got redirected to this article from another piece - https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/01/12/password-strength/

which tries to find the sufficient amount of bits for a password to be safe - assuming we use all energy in universe

Crossposted from https://piefed.social/c/science/p/1406456/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself

An interesting read about a centuries-old mathematical exploration

Nowhere is safe After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunited

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Nelson: I wrote Shadow Network out of a sense of civic duty. I observed some trends in our national life that were anti-democratic and detrimental to our public welfare. I’m deeply concerned by the epidemic of gun violence in our schools, the growing disdain for science and fact-based reporting, and, gravest of all, the campaigns against climate science and environmental protections.

Interviewer: Third, the Southern Baptist Convention was founded to defend slaveowners before the Civil War. I don’t see the issue of race playing out in the same way, but I do perceive many echoes of Civil War-era resentment of federal authority in its culture.

Nelson: Same here. Not least in the ways this movement has focused on “state’s rights.” Paul Weyrich, the key organizer of the Council for National Policy (CNP) in its beginnings, saw the importance of state governments to his goal of subverting representational democracy. What has this movement done in statehouses to ensure its agenda can move forward without popular support?

Not technically a long read, but the book being discussed is itself an excellent long read.

This is an older article from 2020, but definitely worth a read to understand the network that started to take shape with the Heritage Foundation in the 70's, Movement Conservatives, the Moral Majority and eventually grew into Project 2025 and the current Christian Nationalist movement.

More info about the Heritage Foundation and the racial strategy used by both modern conservatives and oligarchs of the Civil War

She was used to being isolated. She was one of only a few women in a fire department of about 100 employees, and even though she tried to fit in by sleeping at the firehouse two nights each week — even though she had won E.M.T. of the Year, passed all the fitness tests, registered as a Republican, collected guns and voted for Trump in 2016 — she was always defined by the ways she stood apart. A vegetarian. A bisexual. A single woman with dyed pink hair and facial piercings among a sea of mostly white, Christian, conservative men.

Ken Klippenstein is an independent investigative journalist and proprietor of Klip News. He’s published scoops on Luigi Mangione, leaks from the Trump administration, and lots of other important information you won’t find at the big news networks. He joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss how mainstream media has been captured by government sources, why national security reporting is uniquely broken, and his recent reporting on Trump’s new presidential directive, NSPM-7, a sweeping order that directs federal agencies to treat political dissent as a form of domestic terrorism.

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Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/37288228

https://web.archive.org/web/20251009173830/https://reasonstobecheerful.world/paul-stamets-granddaddy-of-all-things-mushroom/

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/DOGaS

Civility-theater liberalism is not enough, whether it’s the staged heat of campus showdowns or the cool civility of podcast tête-à-têtes. The duty is twofold: Design a forum that can carry facts, history, and counterargument into the room, and host it with someone who has done the homework to press, correct, and judge in real time. When a platform is given to arguments that narrow the circle of equal regard, pair the marquee guest with the scholar who can supply the record and with those who live with the downstream effects—the policies those arguments license and the resentments they cultivate. If the host can meet the standard, let them; if not, choose one who will—or don’t stage the show. If the format can’t do that, if it launders or airbrushes dehumanization, then don’t use it. If the platform can be rebuilt, rebuild it; if it can’t, retire it.

Building an information infrastructure like this will not be easy. It asks for coordinated buy-in—from newsroom editors and bookers, podcast hosts and producers, public intellectuals and columnists, university deans and student organizations, debate societies and conference conveners, philanthropies and civic groups that underwrite public forums. But it is necessary because America’s present moment is precarious, marked by a rising tolerance for politically motivated intimidation and attacks, and by an information market flooded with bad stock.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/640271

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A forest can walk across a landscape in the gut of a primate, traveling one defecation at a time.

Many but not all chimpanzee communities use sticks to eat ants. Others use sticks to eat termites. Many use sticks to access honey. Some use sticks to kill and eat bush babies. Bush babies are small, big-eyed, nocturnal primates with adorable little hands that look, yes, like furry babies living up and among the trees. Some chimpanzees love to eat them. Other chimpanzee populations use sticks to gather and eat algae.

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The title is a bit sensational, the article is not.