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The unintended discovery that cast the Iron Age ScienceDaily
Getting into the Forcefield: How Language Shapes Actuality Neoliberal Feudalism (Chuck L)
I took an introductory theoretical math course (I had thought-about math as a area of focus). I truly didn’t badly, given the givens. However even at my simply above child degree, I used to be conscious of getting to enter a distinct state of consciousness of to suppose by the proofs. I’ve had PhD mathematicians make comparable observations.
Douglas Hofstadter wrote about his expertise of operating up in opposition to an “abstraction ceiling” in his personal mind whereas pursuing a PhD in arithmetic.
As Hofstadter describes, the abstraction ceiling will not be a “exhausting” threshold, a degree at which one is abruptly incapable of studying… https://t.co/uKJayGiRH7 pic.twitter.com/rzHJ5aWeMn
— Justin Skycak (@justinskycak) September 27, 2025
#COVID-19/Pandemics
⚠️ BREAKING:
New Covid variant BA.3.2 ‘evades antibodies’ and is ‘probably rising’ says World Well being Organisation
UK Well being Safety Company has restated Covid recommendation together with ‘sporting masks’ if you happen to get it. pic.twitter.com/4FxY6Okajj
— SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) (@COVID19_disease) September 30, 2025
“In solely 5 years, Lengthy Covid has surpassed bronchial asthma as the most typical continual situation in younger kids… we don’t know what is going to occur after we reinfect kids time and again.” Thanks Violet Affleck in your advocacy, & organizer @DrBronKing pic.twitter.com/betSZQDLof
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 28, 2025
Local weather/Atmosphere
3°C of worldwide warming by 2050 might result in >4 billion deaths.
Nobody would put their household on an airplane that has a 5% (or 0.005%) likelihood of crashing.
Whereas most are complacently contributing to the destruction of our international life help system.https://t.co/nc3lbOIbPt pic.twitter.com/mlj7GisIg5
— Leon Simons (wanting up) (@LeonSimons8) September 26, 2025
Biodiversity loss, excessive climate and water shortage’ is Europe’s future, report warns EUObserver
Annually, the Gulf of Panama depends on seasonal upwelling to deliver chilly, nutrient-rich water that sustains marine life & coastal communities.
In 2025, for the primary time on document, it didn’t occur.
Local weather change is disrupting the pure techniques on we rely to maintain life. pic.twitter.com/FGCK2PF2zB— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) September 28, 2025
Istanbul faces water disaster as dam ranges drop to crucial 30% Every day Sabah
TROPICAL EXCEPTIONAL HEAT
By no means ending document warmth within the Pacific and Indian Oceans:
Yesterday Min 28.6C Male AP
MALDIVES SEPTEMBER HOTTEST NIGHT IN HISTORY (damaged for the third time in few days)Min. 28.2 Mannar SRI LANKA File once more!
Min. 25.9C Kupang INDONESIA Sept File pic.twitter.com/2QXXt7N6qq— Excessive Temperatures Round The World (@extremetemps) September 29, 2025
Namibia comprises large Etosha wildfire that devastated greater than one-third of nationwide park: Atmosphere minister Anadolu Company
Cracked apples and bland grapes: Local weather change reshapes Korean farms and dinner tables Korea Instances
China?
China and North Korea agree to withstand ‘hegemony’, Overseas Ministry says Aljazeera
Will rising Philippines-Vietnam naval ties reshape South China Sea diplomacy? South China Morning Publish
China’s manufacturing unit exercise possible slows once more amid weak demand, commerce tensions Reuters
The Belt and Highway 2.0 Phenomenal World (guurst)
Okay, I regarded into this as a result of typically claims that “China invents Y” will be considerably exaggerated. However that is actual, and fully insane.
This expertise known as “Bone 02” (impressed by the well-known “502 glue” in China) has been developed for the previous 9 years by a workforce of… https://t.co/EPE9nyvZPK
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) September 29, 2025
India
Deep roots of rage as India’s Ladakh seeks self-rule Japan Instances
India wants a cultural revolution to do away with the American Dream M Ok Bhadrakumar, Deccan Herald. From final week, nonetheless germane.
Africa
Madagascar protesters collect as soon as extra, days after unrest started LeMonde
Ethiopia claims its dam helped scale back Sudan’s floods as hypothesis it triggered the deluge rises Washington Publish
Exxon Desires Authorities Ensures for Mozambique LNG Venture OilPrice. resilc: “‘merikin troops quickly….”
South of the Border
Peso Disaster Drives Mortgage Charges to fifteen%, Upending Milei Agenda Bloomberg
Peru: Second weekend of mass protests and repression FreedomNews
Trump-appointed diplomat accused of protecting El Salvador’s president from regulation enforcement ProPublica
European Disunion
EU Quick-Tracks Transformation into Army Bloc Underneath Von Der Leyen’s Unaccountable Management Simplicius
🇩🇪 The wealthy metropolis of Ingolstadt is dealing with the worst monetary disaster in its historical past.
The principle motive for the distress lies within the disaster of the automotive trade. The times when Ingolstadt was thought-about a financially wholesome municipality due to autobauer Audi are lastly over.… pic.twitter.com/R3O2kOnOEs
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) September 27, 2025
Moldova’s Professional-EU Social gathering Wins Vote Due To Manipulation And EU Interference Moon of Alabama. Essential as a result of if nothing else it exhibits desperation, shamelessness, and scapegoating.
Outdated Blighty
Recession fears develop as job adverts droop and excessive road suffers Telegraph
Labour convention votes to recognise Gaza genocide, leaving Starmer wanting like a idiot Council Property Media (resilc)
UK authorities will underwrite £1.5bn mortgage assure to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack Guardian. I hope knowledgeable readers can opine. The worldwide standard automobile enterprise is in dire straits. I’ve issue believing that the size of the shutdown was as a result of a cyber assault, versus an absence of demand. Recall the UK made concessions to the US in its commerce deal to get a ceiling for US purchases that was just about the identical because the latest import degree
Israel v. the Resistance
People’ Assist for Israel Dramatically Declines, Instances/Siena Ballot Finds New York Instances (resilc). We now have been saying for years that Israel had a generational drawback, that younger Jews and younger People had been at finest detached to Israel. That had been offset efficiently for some time by stoking Zionism amongst Evangelicals. Too many pictures of bony infants and information of Israel killing Christians seems lastly to be turning that round.
‘Resounding diplomatic failure’: Smotrich breaks silence on Trump proposal Jerusalem Publish
Donald Trump’s Proposed Peace Plan for Gaza is D.O.A. Larry Johnson. Comprises a prolonged chart with details. It might’t be stated typically sufficient {that a} two state answer won’t ever by no means by no means occur. There are over 450,000 Israeli land-stealers, um settlers, within the West Financial institution and over 220,000 in East Jerusalem. Most if all are armed. They must be evicted by power.
A breakdown of Tony Blair’s weird proposal to run Gaza Center East Eye (resilc)
Trump’s Gaza plan is a sport of bluff poker James Dorsey
* * * The place Mideast Envoy Pitched Peace, His Son Pitched Traders New York Instances (Kevin W)
* * * Thriller fleet of US Air Drive tankers crossing Atlantic stirs echoes of Iran strike forward of secret army assembly Every day Mail (resilc)
Iran threatens battle with US if attacked by Israel once more Iran Worldwide
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine Takes Out Key Russian Electronics Manufacturing facility in Cruise Missile Strike Army Watch
Vance calls on Russia to ‘get up’ and settle for actuality RT (Kevin W)
Tomahawks for Kiev: A Harmful Concept Stephen Bryen (guurst)
Moscow Warnings As US/NATO Talk about Tomahawks To Kiev, Firing Russian Plane; Russia West Warfare Worry Alexander Mercouris, YouTube. Mercouris has a really informative dialogue of Tomahawks on the high of his presentation.
Implementation of Trump’s plan for Gaza might have an effect on Ukrainian battle — envoy TASS. Extra wishful considering.
Poland briefly closes airspace as NATO will increase presence within the Baltic Sea Aljazeera
Swedish hawks need their very own nuclear weapon The Instances
Why the World Can’t Simply Wean Itself Off Russian Nuclear Gas OilPrice
Syraqistan
The web has been fully shut down in Afghanistan Vzgylad through machine translation. Micael T: “I‘m unsure I’m in opposition to banning web, however banning chess? What are they presupposed to do with on a regular basis on their fingers not wasted on the web?”
Trump 2.0
That is legit hilarious: based on the US Secretary of Agriculture herself, Trump’s bailout of Argentina signifies that US taxpayers at the moment are successfully subsidizing Argentinian soybean exports to China – the very market American farmers have been shut out of.
All of the funnier when… pic.twitter.com/71oBWi7T7L
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) September 30, 2025
YouTube to pay $22 million to Trump to settle post-January 6 ban case Enterprise Insider. YouTube has each proper to droop accounts. I think about their settlement, which nobody truly reads when signing, is extraordinarily permissive. So that they will need to have been involved about embarrassments in discovery.
Immigration
US Companies To Take into account Shifting Work To India As Trump Hikes H-1B Visa Payment NDTV
H-1B Visas Have Issues. Trump’s $100,000 Payment Received’t Repair Them. New York Instances (resilc)
Tariffs
1000’s of staff in limbo as US-Africa commerce deal set to run out BBC
Shutdown
What’s going to occur if there’s a authorities shutdown at day’s finish Related Press
Right here’s what’s so completely different concerning the brewing authorities shutdown CNN
Charlie Kirk
Candace Owens found Turning Level was burning by rather more cash than they need to’ve been and Charlie Kirk needed to know the place the cash was going
He despatched out a memo to workers saying they’d be doing an audit
It was despatched out September 2nd. 8 days earlier than his homicide… pic.twitter.com/pXbS7ClfKw
— Wall Road Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 29, 2025
Police State Watch
Wowsers. However then once more, I recall that the Swedish Central Financial institution Nobel Branded Prize winner Amartya Sen was late to an INET convention in Cambridge (this might have been round 2013). He was over 80 then and regarded like he would possibly weigh as a lot as 100 lbs. He’d been detained and strip searched at Heathrow (I heard this instantly from the top of INET who was additionally the organizer of the convention):
MONOLOGUE: What has Gayatri’s fingernail acquired to do with terrorism?
The within story from contained in the locked room of the Galloways Gatwick arrests, though the police wish to name it detention. From the absurd to the ridiculous, however with legal penalties
Observe #MOATS 486… pic.twitter.com/dLDWgYsbUH
— George Galloway (@georgegalloway) September 28, 2025
Haig had a “should learn” hyperlink on this, however necessary to not miss:
🚨 Trump has signed NSPM-7, a nationwide safety directive that dramatically expands federal powers in opposition to what it calls “home terrorism.” It orders a nationwide technique to “disrupt” people or teams “that foment political violence,” together with “earlier than they lead to… https://t.co/QifVpUpg6l pic.twitter.com/3JP3WU5iz2
— Drop Website (@DropSiteNews) September 28, 2025
Mr. Market is Moody
U.S. Inventory Market hits costliest valuation in historical past, surpassing the Dot Com Bubble and the run-up to the Nice Despair 🤯 pic.twitter.com/sK1V4IajHc
— Barchart (@Barchart) September 27, 2025
Echoes of 2007 develop louder as dangerous debt, buyouts elevate considerations Enterprise Normal
AI
The Case Towards Generative AI Ed Zitron
Sam Altman and copyright, then and now: A Tolkiensesque journey Gary Marcus
Class Warfare
An Economic system Not Constructed For The Younger Looking for Alpha (resilc)
Antidote du jour (through):
A bonus:
I would by no means see this once more. pic.twitter.com/xTL0F36aYm
— Magnificence Of Nature 🌳 (@ShouldHaveAnima) September 30, 2025
A second bonus:
In the meantime in Nara, Japan a deer is
posted up like safety outdoors of a restaurant.🦌😭 pic.twitter.com/fbwk0ixVLc— Nature & Animals🌴 (@naturelife_ok) September 29, 2025
And a 3rd:
Dimension of this moose
pic.twitter.com/RGJjqYrIeA— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) September 29, 2025
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.