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From Valhalla to mind uploads, why does the notion that death is not the end of consciousness refuse to kick the bucket?

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Understanding why negative views persist in the face of contradictory evidence could help inform depression treatment

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Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing

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A North Carolina facility’s record of violations undercuts the dream of plastics recycling.

The post They Promised “Advanced Recycling” for Plastics and Delivered Toxic Waste appeared first on The Intercept.

Federal banking regulators have issued updated guidance on funding and liquidity risk management to include the importance of contingency funding plans.

The economist and author’s latest book considers how 21st-century capitalism resembles feudalism, and offers an alternative Yanis Varoufakis – former Greek minister of finance, economics lecturer and prolific writer of books – has often admitted that the left is good at critiquing capitalism but not so good at suggesting alternatives. “When Margaret Thatcher coined ‘Tina’ […]

The post The MONTHLY reviews my TECHNOFEUDALISM appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

Tom Mutch meets those left rebuilding their lives following Russian attacks in Kharkiv Oblast

Poor conditions and a lack of resources won't stop the Government blaming staff, writes one former prison officer

Efter att ha misslyckats med att få in Sverige i euron på demokratisk väg försöker nu marknadsliberaler andra metoder. ”Jag ser inget behov av en ny folkomröstning om euron” säger Liberalernas ordförande Johan Pehrson.  I en debatt i TV4 Nyhetsmorgon (14/9) tog även Timbros nya chef PM Nilsson av sig masken. Han hade pratat med […]

As Canada’s top officials express embarrassment for honoring a WWII Nazi collaborator in parliament, the leader of the country’s military, Gen. Wayne Eyre, refuses to apologize for his standing ovation. The Canadian military has trained Ukraine’s notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion for years. Canadian politicians have been in frantic damage control mode since feting a former member of the Waffen-SS during a parliamentary reception for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 22. The Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, Anthony Rota, […]

The post Nazigate: Canada’s top general won’t apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Nazigate: Canada’s top general won’t apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet appeared first on The Grayzone.

I read an interesting report this morning, which resonated with some other work I had been looking into earlier in the week. The Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) released a report yesterday (September 27, 2023) – Inequality in Australia 2023: Overview – which shows that “The gap between those with the most and those…

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This is truly astonishing: This is a really good exchange. MAGA's current rage at the top brass is all about the fact it wouldn't back the coup. https://t.co/c6PKCeVovX — Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 27, 2023 Fox didn’t question any of the kids table about this at the debate last night. In fact, they didn’t mention anything about Trump at all, not the indictments, the fraud verdict, the rape trial or any of it. And the kids table didn’t offer anything. What cowards. All of them.

I’ve watched all the interviews with Cassidy Hutchinson and they’re just riveting. I thought this one with Lawrence O’Donnell was very good: She is brutally honest about her own culpability and the emotional journey she’s been on in emerging from Trumpworld. You have to remember that she was only 24 years old on January 6th. There are a whole lot of more experienced, wealthy men in her situation who are despicable cowards. Watching Nicole Wallace interview her I see more skepticism. As a Never Trumper from 2016, who left the Republican party, Wallace saw the danger from the beginning and she isn’t open to the idea that you can still be a Republican and not be an enabler of Trump and Trumpism. Hutchinson still is. When you look at it from Wallace’s perspective, Hutchinson is still mind-bogglingly naive. It doesn’t take anything away from her courage. But the veil hasn’t entirely lifted.

Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.

The post The Worth of Wild Ideas appeared first on Nautilus.

You might not know as much about science as you think.

The post A Little Bit of Science Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing appeared first on Nautilus.

Low rating Sky News host, Peta Credlin, has sent former Victorian Premier Dan Andrews a thank you note after his resignation led her to achieve the greatest orgasm of her life. ”I’m not actually a smoker but after that I... Read More ›

Probably not. And that’s a problem. The new, large sample Economist/YouGov poll has Biden up 5 points over Trump 45-40. The new, large sample CNN poll of NH has Biden up over Trump by 12 points, 52-40. In dozens of specials across US this year Dems are outperforming 2020 by 8 pts. Have a nice day. pic.twitter.com/m5SSK2jXyw — Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) September 27, 2023 You can feel the febrile excitement in the media when a poll comes out that shows Trump beating Biden. They simply can’t help themselves. That poll that came out over the weekend was admittedly an outlier and they did it anyway. It’s going to be close. We have to face that fact. But the idea that Trump is running away with it is ridiculous. We’re not that far gone …. yet.

Mayor Andre Dickens said he wants residents to be heard on Cop City — but his own administration is slow-walking a possible vote on it.

The post Atlanta Mayor Dismisses Cop City Referendum as “Not an Election” appeared first on The Intercept.

Civil war is coming to America. At least that’s the view sizable numbers of Americans...

The Democratic Party is far from perfect to be sure. There are times when they frustrate me beyond reason. It wasn’t all that long ago that I pretty much held mot powerful Democrats in contempt at least part of the time. But they have improved in recent years and I think it’s important to recognize that. The party has dropped much of its reflexive centrist dogma and, at least is more flexible ideologically. That the old dog Joe Biden could change his spots says everything about where it was and where it is today. And let’s get serious. Compared to the neo-fascist MAGA party they are sane which, at this point, is all that really matters. Here’s a Never Trumper: On Monday I argued that the Democratic reaction to Menendez—which has picked up steam since then—was a sign of a reasonably healthy institution. In response I’ve been told that I overstated the case. That the Democrats’ reaction is highly contextual. That if Menendez was a D in a state with a Republican governor who would appoint his replacement, then Democrats would be just as corrupt and unhealthy as Republicans. It’s really all about power. Both sides.

The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage. I do not know much about covert CIA operations—no outsider can—but I do understand that the essential component of all successful missions is total deniability. The American men and women who moved, under cover, in and out Continue reading »