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Taylor Lorenz and Akela Lacy on how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.
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Sci-fi master Adrian Tchaikovsky on evolution, other minds, and the politics of science
The post What We Misunderstand About Robots appeared first on Nautilus.
But why?
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Road ecology meets community science
The post What If Every Roadkill Had a Memorial? appeared first on Nautilus.
Drupal effectively has two default administration themes: Claro for core, and Gin for Drupal CMS. This causes difficulty for UX designers and product managers, because new features must work well with both themes.
Gin is no longer an experimental fork of Claro to experiment with new ideas. It has matured into a state-of-the-art admin theme, while Claro has fallen behind, as evident by the decision to use Gin as the admin theme for Drupal CMS. As a result, we feel it is time for Gin to become the default theme for Drupal core.
We are aspiring to have this work completed by November 2025 in order to get Gin into core for the release of 11.3 in December.
A new stage version of the award-winning novel at London's Almeida Theatre in October is the most likely chance of this seminal work finding a new generation of fans, writes Tim Walker
Lawmakers quietly added a line that effectively subsidizes Wall Street buying up companies, slashing wages, closing factories, and firing workers.
Several months ago I wrote two essays on Russian grand strategy. (My apologies on never completing the nuclear one, an extremely necessary but far too grim subject for my taste.) In that series of essays I made a few assertions I want to bring to your attention again in a more contemporary context. First, that the result of wars tend to confirm strengths of the coalition arrayed against the main combatants before the war even started. This is, in fact, not an assertion, but an iron law of warfare that still exists in chimpanzee warfare. See Strategy: a history, chapter one, by Freedman if you disagree.
Second, that big global dustups tend to run in about 100 year cycles these days.
So, take a look around–got a big hot war in the Ukraine slightly analogous to the Sino-Japanese war of the 1930s. Next, you got weird, unresolved shenanigans in the Middle East that have a weird reverse-appeasement type feal.
It’s back. Season 3 of the – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money – produced by MMTed begins today (June 20, 2025) and will run for the next 12 months, with episodes updated every month. The recession has deepened and the government is in chaos, with its chief advisor Professor Raul Noitawl insisting…
Pro-natalism (the idea that people, or rather, women, should have more babies than they choose to do at present) has become an established orthodoxy,[1]. The central claim is that, unless something changes soon, human populations both global and national, are going to decline rapidly, with a lot of negative consequences. This is simply not true, […]
Some Democrats are fighting to stop war with Iran, but party leaders are silently acquiescing or, worse, supporting an attack.
The post How Democratic Party Leaders Quietly Support Trump’s March to War With Iran appeared first on The Intercept.
Writer Matt Fitton offered some new details on Big Finish's Doctor Who audio dramas, featuring the return of Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill.
#Soroka Hospital is located between two major Israeli military sites: the IDF’s main intelligence headquarters and a central command facility, both of which are situated in the Gav-Yam Technology Park. These installations reportedly serve as critical hubs for Israel’s cyber operations, digital command systems, and military intelligence infrastructure (including IDF C4I and C4ISR systems). While the hospital sustained shockwave damage from nearby blasts, it was not directly hit, Iranian reports emphasize.
New research finds that disproportionate coverage of the relatively low numbers crossing the English channel is turning British people against all incomers
Happy Martini Day! I promised in the French Springtime Brunch post that I’d be sharing with you the recipe for Mr. Sauce’s welcome drink: The iconic cocktail from Vanderpump Rules, the PUMPTINI! So, how did we end up making drinks from a Bravo reality TV show about a group of LA restaurant workers (who areContinue reading For National Martini Day: The Pumptini
He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empire that made him, by the year 1030, the greatest of all the Viking kings. At that peak of power, he ordered his courtiers to place a throne on the seashore. There, according to a contemporaneous account, he shouted at the rising tide: “Thou, too, are subject to my command, as the land on which I am seated is mine and no one has ever resisted my commands with impunity. I command you then not to flow over my land, nor presume to wet the feet... Read more
Source: America’s New Industrial Revolution appeared first on TomDispatch.com.
Does Doctor Who really need fixing? If it does, we've got a four-point plan that might just work (but some of you are going to hate it).
Gone are the days of storming the gates. In this new era of resistance, we A/B test the gates, analyze the bounce rate of our demands, and push our uprising to GitHub for feedback.
Yes, the revolution is here.
No, it is not televised.
It’s currently available as a limited-access newsletter
and a lightly branded Discord server.
We don’t burn flags—we adjust brand guidelines.
We don’t chant—we run sentiment analysis.
We don’t topple systems—we disrupt them gently, with curated UX flows and tasteful earth tones.
Core Pillars of the Optimized Revolution:
1. Personalization
Each citizen receives a tailored resistance journey based on their cookies, voting record, and Spotify Wrapped.
2. Seamless Integration
Our protests sync with Google Calendar. Choose “in-person,” “virtual,” or “spiritually aligned.”
3. Performance Metrics
Anger is tracked via Fitbit. Tear gas exposure now counts toward your Apple Health goals.