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2025-11-05 13:32:02 UTC

Why do we put up with this? What is happening that compels us to keep pretending that broken technology works?
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/things-that-dont-work-and-the-tail

2025-10-16 12:34:10 UTC

Новости од нашата фондација
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-23-science-for-kids-presents

2025-09-29 12:00:43 UTC

Јаков Грујовски - Квантни компјутери
Ментор: Петар Поповски
https://youtu.be/iPEG-f9Lusc

2025-09-23 14:32:58 UTC

Updates from our foundation!
1. S(c)iesta conversations with Martin Saveski, Viktor Gruev and Vanja Josifovski
2. A science caravan featuring Aleksandar Dinev and the Unitree AI dog
3. An award for outstanding science potential for all 9th graders in Macedonia
4. A collaboration with the Dutch Embassy in Skopje to promote Dutch science
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-22-summers-almost-gone

2025-09-15 10:49:59 UTC

Теа Ангелова подготви предавање за првите мигови на универзумот под менторство на Александар Шулевски од Холандскиот Институт за Радиоастрономија и Александар Шунтов од Cosmic DAWN центарот во Данска. Предавањето се одржа во склоп на третата конференција НАУКА ЗА ДЕЦА.
https://youtu.be/nU5oi3DDPc0?si=a7u5GfCYVidX1Wr9

2025-09-10 18:13:44 UTC

Calling all 9th graders in Macedonia!
We just announced the Science for Kids prize for outstanding scientific potential.
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/767

2025-09-05 10:56:34 UTC

Биди Ќостаровец!
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/767

2025-08-29 16:05:09 UTC

https://www.piratewires.com/p/why-thiel-fellows-win

2025-08-25 22:42:00 UTC

Ник Ќејф
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/cfc

2025-06-05 08:37:14 UTC

Proud to make the Top 100 "Rising in science" list on Substack!
We are currently#61, subscribe to keep us rising:
qantarot.substack.com
https://blossom.primal.net/b56b5c158e5654bc01a5810e09452d051af9b7b6624a3145fe3f77cebcb5e512.png

2025-03-28 09:47:10 UTC

Are you sure you want that screening test?
https://unherd.com/2019/02/is-cancer-screening-doing-more-harm-than-good/

2025-03-15 11:22:15 UTC

In the UAE, you can top up your phone using cryptocurrencies
https://m.primal.net/PgfF.png

2025-03-05 09:56:35 UTC

Our foundation KANTAROT and SCIENCE FOR KIDS won the 2024 best conference award from BEAM (Best Event Awards Macedonia)!!!
https://m.primal.net/PUWf.jpg

2025-02-24 16:37:42 UTC

We presented BUKI at the Telekom MK annual kick-off event. Thank you for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Го претставивме БУКИ на kick-off настанот на Телеком. Благодариме за поканата и прекрасниот пречек!
https://m.primal.net/PJfO.jpg
https://m.primal.net/PJfP.jpg

2025-02-22 18:23:25 UTC

Bitcoin is the counterweight that opposes the centralization of society
Биткоинот е противтежата што нѐ штити од претерана централизација на општеството
Nikola Stikov in his interview for Racin.mk
https://youtu.be/MbM7YDK9Zso?si=aZQs0Qi-0eHF0e9H&t=49

2025-01-28 17:20:13 UTC

Bird's eye view of Vienna
Anybody know why it resembles a neon version of the Nazca geoglyphs?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GiZU3hUWEAE-nTZ?format=jpg&name=large

2025-01-26 10:07:01 UTC

MRathon is joining forces with the MRS hackathon right before the ISMRM 2025 meeting in Hawaii! Registration is now open, register at the link below:
https://mrathon.github.io/honolulu2025/

2025-01-24 15:43:55 UTC

Слушајте ја нашата директорка Драгана Стикова и учете со разбирање!
https://x.com/i/status/1882816342006583768

2025-01-22 14:30:54 UTC

Првиот блог пост на КАНТАРОТ беше посветен на Дејвид Линч. 12 години подоцна се збогуваме со човекот кој знаеше од соништата да направи уметност, и обратно...
https://qantarot.blogspot.com/2013/07/blog-post.html

2025-01-16 15:26:28 UTC

Најголемиот магнет е љубовта!
Ова го научи нашата директорка, Драгана Стикова, од дете за време на една работилница за магнети. Како што може да се види и чуе од овој поткаст на Умно, таа е магнетизирано вљубена во работата на Наука за деца
https://youtu.be/lfYaJzGaxO0

2024-12-24 14:06:29 UTC

Буки 2.0 пристигнува во четврток!
https://x.com/qantarot/status/1871557691598102956/photo/1

2024-12-17 10:01:00 UTC

WE NEED MORE AMATEURS IN SCIENCE!
Had a lot of fun with this NeuroLibre preprint, big thank you to Evelyn McLean, Jane Abdo, and Nadia Blostein for putting it together!
Also thanks to Aella, The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, Slime Mold Time Mold, Roger's Bacon and Seeds of Science for their science and for the interviews
https://preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neurolibre.00031/

2024-12-05 03:04:42 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/d4b66aedbabeb37d24baf7392be3e275b21b0fe372b88580caf1cde9fdd50795.jpg

2024-11-15 15:38:03 UTC

Instructions how to donate your voice to Buki 2.0 via the Mozilla Common Voice platform.
Macedonian speakers, help us train our open-source transcription tool
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/mk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEfg4imGTfI

2024-11-07 13:46:11 UTC

Буки/Buki is already better than the transcription models of Meta and Open AI
If you are a Macedonian speaker, donate your voice for Buki 2.0
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/mk

2024-11-02 09:27:52 UTC

We can never remember how many Gauss are in 1 Tesla (10,000) and how many satoshis are in 1 bitcoin (100,000,000).
Today we realized that bitcoin/satoshi = (Tesla/Gauss)^2 and our mnemonic needs are satisfied for the day

2024-10-30 11:44:06 UTC

There's a popular theory by Erik Hoel that we stopped producing Einsteins because we perverted the concept of tutoring and mentorship. In the past tutors were world-class scientists who expanded the horizons of their gifted students. Today tutors are pragmatic professionals who help our children score high on standardized tests.
Our Foundation is providing mentorship of the old-school kind. Our director’s essay on this topic is personable, eloquent, and inspiring
https://umno.mk/naukata-e-prijatelka/

2024-10-16 10:18:08 UTC

Кој донира, во Наука За Деца инвестира
Поддржете нѐ!
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/treta-nzd-konferencija

2024-10-16 10:14:06 UTC

Кој донира (не) транскрибира
Донирајте го вашиот глас (или пари) за да го усовршиме Буки и да го направиме достапен за сите
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/buki

2024-09-25 13:31:47 UTC

Four events and a preview
Our foundation is gearing up for a fun month ahead, including NeuroLibre day, European research night at Europe House Skopje, the Parlez-vous fran-sci collaboration with the Skopje French Institute, and the third Science for kids conference.
That, plus a sneak preview of a special project, at the link below
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-18-four-events-and-a-preview

2024-09-16 10:58:47 UTC

Parlez-vous Fran-sci?
We partnered up with Institut Français in Skopje to promote French science at the upcoming Science for Kids conference on October 18-19
https://ifs.mk/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81-%D0%B7%D0%B0-%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82/

2024-09-09 12:55:38 UTC

“I won’t live to see the era of routine genetic engineering. But its eventual arrival is vastly more certain than that of superintelligent AI, or of the colonization of distant plans, or of finding a cure for death.”
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-and-genes-grab-bag

2024-08-25 13:56:31 UTC

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The blindness of the elites 2/n
https://m.primal.net/KMNT.png

2024-08-25 13:14:06 UTC

A thread of quotes from Submission by Houellebecq 1/n
https://m.primal.net/KMJc.png

2024-06-14 11:52:16 UTC

Our Foundation KANTAROT announced an award for best science reporting by an elementary school student in Macedonia.
The award honors the legacy of Aleksandar Stikov and hopes to promote science journalism in Macedonian
https://naukazadeca.mk/kolegastikov

2024-05-31 20:44:40 UTC

https://www.piratewires.com/p/bug-man-vs-the-robots https://image.nostr.build/e9edc19e35b457c9f48dee9300236391c05e9bc3f26992f15c528e3cb67c018a.jpg

2024-05-31 07:25:46 UTC

Matt Taibi teaches language gymnastics. Leave it to the Russians to show you the way
https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/the-race-to-year-zero https://image.nostr.build/b42e4ecceec3e64d8d4b44a968974bdd5aabe84f6a393606c28eb7a881ede9a7.jpg

2024-03-12 05:21:34 UTC

A nice round ATH https://image.nostr.build/28a8c532c37fc407443cfb807b4c348843734bfc8880573ac02c412d919dc993.jpg

2024-02-27 19:22:00 UTC

Svaka čast @npub16c0…6nvr
https://x.com/prestonpysh/status/1762501773724410281?s=46&t=FlkpaqKLGAY_LD1217_V3g

2024-02-25 08:30:04 UTC

“Social media is the dark twin of ritual. It never achieves wholeness or closure.”
Ted Gioia on the need for rituals in the digital age
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/13-observations-on-ritual

2024-02-24 17:22:12 UTC

“It’s a bizarre, bizarre thing to ask, to seek to make Yale a tool of equality. The Ivy League exists to reward, foster, and showcase inequality."
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/one-more-time-you-cant-make-a-competitive

2024-02-24 14:49:01 UTC

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Thanks for sharing this, it is a fascinating read!
Our favourite bit is when you are brainstorming about giving bitcoin traction. Still relevant, even after creating a trillion dollar market
https://twitter.com/qantarot/status/1761402472587825354/photo/1

2024-02-19 11:37:15 UTC

Announcing #MRathon 2024, a hackathon for increasing MRI accessibility!
Join us for socializing (May 2) and hacking (May 3) in the beautiful Jackie Chan Heritage house at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. The hackathon is a collaboration with the ezyMRI NerdFest, big thank you to our local organizers Huang Shaoying and Le Thu Thao!
Registration is based on a voluntary donation. $50+ donations get you a VIP ticket to the MRathon Highlights after-party on May 9, celebrating 40 years of the journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Share this post to help us spread the word, and join us by registering or pitching a project at the link below
https://mrathon.github.io/singapore2024/

2024-02-12 17:49:52 UTC

THE WORLD IS 100 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT!!!
The size of the polygons shows the fraction of world debt each country owes.
The colors show the debt as a fraction of that country's GDP. The green ones have debt greater than their GDP! https://image.nostr.build/c6f94e6e003fd83c488e662fb8d43624cd3078d40a14edc78d7eb60cbe3de871.jpg

2024-01-20 06:17:47 UTC

“Height is so socially valuable and so utterly outside of our control that it feels like God invented it to demonstrate the folly of meritocracy.”
Freddie de Boer on being weird
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/weird

2024-01-12 04:54:09 UTC

"... what one regulator thinks about bitcoin is irrelevant. I am celebrating the right of American investors to express their thoughts on bitcoin by buying and selling spot bitcoin ETPs."
Commissioner Hester M. Peirce on the recent SEC decision:
https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023

2023-12-14 22:02:28 UTC

"The truth hidden below the surface of the story is a hard one: Nothing makes any sense. We do not get what we deserve. If we are lucky, we get more. If we are unlucky, we get less [...] That's the system."
Roger Ebert on the one thing we all talk about
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/13-conversations-about-one-thing-2002

2023-12-05 00:24:01 UTC

"I will never understand why our culture grew so obsessed with mental illness and depression and so contemptuous towards people who wanted to put those things into art, to give everyone a way to feel them."
https://open.substack.com/pub/freddiedeboer/p/an-ode-to-i-hate-myself-and-i-want?r=54xxz&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

2023-11-27 20:21:14 UTC

“I don’t need to do anything to deserve the truth. The truth is not deserved. That is not how the truth works.”
Freddie DeBoer about the price of being ostracized
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-purpose-do-i-serve-in-your-life-ed8

2023-11-19 01:30:35 UTC

'[The] screenwriting lacks a shade in clarity, but then, so do the lives of these characters.'
Roger Ebert about Bellflower, a mumblecore rom-com with flamethrowers
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bellflower-2011

2023-11-05 15:33:55 UTC

“They’re looking out so far in the distance, they don’t even see the blood or corpses."
Ted Gioia on the dangers of effective altruism
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-i-ran-away-from-philosophy-because

2023-10-28 23:36:27 UTC

Some wisdom from Jeff Smith's Bone https://image.nostr.build/dfd55e749ea8639fcb2c1b1327c6edd5f265c3c1e90fb92fe8c08a2ae614b8ac.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f4290ca288d6a1c4b92da570ec351add948085a441a4ddceccb877c0bf506d8d.jpg

2023-10-23 13:56:28 UTC

An unrecognizable Ricky Gervais, back when he was a musician
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABjYSxyUD98

2023-10-22 13:24:48 UTC

"Or maybe it's a tripleheader: Maybe the environment is poisoned, and the group is phony, and Carol is gnawing away at her own psychic health. Now there's a fine mess."
Roger Ebert on Todd Haynes' "Safe", a subversive take on our modern illnesses
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/safe-1995

2023-10-20 16:20:26 UTC

We will only publish one research article this year. This is the one!
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/crowdsourcing-the-research-article

2023-10-15 19:21:02 UTC

Glyn Johns' testimony about Let it be closely matches the story told in Peter Jackson's Get Back
https://people.com/music/long-winding-story-of-glyn-johns-lost-beatles-album-get-back/

2023-10-15 10:47:32 UTC

"They love humanity as an abstraction but despise it in the flesh."
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/on-having-children

2023-10-12 09:59:23 UTC

Our answer to the question of reproducibility, transparency and innovation in academic publishing
42 co-authors, 94 datasets from 18 sites, 5 interactive figures and an award-winning dashboard, all bundled in our most ambitious NeuroLibre preprint yet.
Check it out at the link below!
https://preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neurolibre.00014/

2023-10-05 01:17:28 UTC

We are getting ready to unleash our science fantasy during the second Science for kids conference!
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-15

2023-10-02 16:01:40 UTC

We poured our heart and soul in this two-minute video summarizing our Science for Kids initiative.
Big thank you to the marketing agency Publicis for making the video and to the band Bei the Fish for providing the soundtrack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGeNj-NGBA

2023-10-02 15:58:57 UTC

“As is true of so many contemporary progressive norms, this prohibition belittles and condescends to the very people it ostensibly honors.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-elites-ate-the-social-justice

2023-09-25 22:09:46 UTC

Зборот инфлуенсер не постоеше тогаш, но Аце Стиков беше токму тоа, човек кој можеше со еден збор да влијае врз симпатиите на милионска публика. Можеше, ама не го правеше тоа.
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/kolega-stikov

2023-09-20 18:21:42 UTC

At the beginnings of the internet, Scottish musician/blogger Momus said that in the future everybody will be famous for 15 people.
Here is Erik Hoel's excellent 2023 remix of that theme
https://open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel/p/walled-gardens-mean-online-writing

2023-09-13 22:47:38 UTC

“The internet has been from its beginning an all-consuming, collectively-generated information swarm. It changes over time, expunging old corridors or gardens or cities, while raising new playgrounds and towers and stadiums, and it remembers nothing.”
Bitcoin to the rescue!
https://www.piratewires.com/p/encyclopedia-titanica

2023-09-08 22:59:35 UTC

Our birthday newsletter is out!
Two years as a foundation, ten years as a blog, thank you for your support!
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-14-ten-years

2023-08-31 20:16:33 UTC

A shitty high if there ever was one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem

2023-08-28 13:36:45 UTC

“…the out-and-out abandonment of the notion that love is the noblest pursuit of human life says a lot about our cult of self-worship. Because once you’ve dropped the romantic ideal, that’s all our culture really has to offer.”
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/no-one-is-kenough

2023-08-15 08:10:41 UTC

“Managerialism has today conquered the world so thoroughly that to most of us it may seem like the only possible universe, the very water in which we swim.”
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-china-convergence

2023-07-31 07:06:37 UTC

Bitcoin maximalists would agree
https://t.co/UHF5vBHWzZ

2023-07-26 09:21:02 UTC

Неделава славиме десет години постоење
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/deset-godini

2023-07-23 07:33:07 UTC

“A move towards subjectivity will end up being a move towards mediocrity.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/harvard-president-larry-summers-bari-weiss

2023-07-20 06:06:46 UTC

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Yes, retractions look bad, but academic journals need to take responsibility. Sitting on this information for 20+ years and hoping it blows over is a big reason why the faith in journals is decreasing.
3/3

2023-07-20 06:06:27 UTC

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Stanford dragged its feet, but publishers should have acted sooner. Maybe mainstream media will follow in the footsteps of the Stanford Daily and do more investigative journalism about scientific misconduct. 2/3

2023-07-20 06:06:12 UTC

The misconduct allegations have been around for 20+ years, but the retractions and resignation of Stanford's president are a direct consequence of the recent investigation of the Stanford Daily 1/3
https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-resigns-over-manipulated-research-will-retract-at-least-3-papers/

2023-07-16 22:13:53 UTC

“I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. That's where you'll find a group powerful enough to enforce taboos, but weak enough to need them.”
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

2023-07-15 12:04:04 UTC

"A blind person, marooned on a desert island untouched by society, is worse off than a sighted person on the same desert island. Here the problem is clearly caused by the blindness, not by any social response to it."
https://substack.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.d0Hzwkj78P23c-KUetHot02CGMvQ0tQxX2ZGqfrRisE?

2023-07-15 10:15:37 UTC

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“Coasters realize that they need to work just slightly harder than the worst individual on their team. Their shirking is likely to go unnoticed and they are unlikely to feel enough emotional connection to the organization to raise alarm when critical mistakes are being made.”

2023-07-15 10:15:23 UTC

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“Somewhat counterintuitively, firms with diverse founders are often highly meritocratic, as the structure harnesses the founder’s desire to make money and shields them from criticism on diversity issues.”

2023-07-15 10:14:57 UTC

“Force begins requesting modest changes to recruiting to make it “more fair.” Force ends with the heavy-handed application of quotas and even exclusion.”
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/

2023-07-12 00:11:37 UTC

There are two kinds of people: those that respond to Doodle polls and those who actually show up

2023-07-11 12:08:35 UTC

A Q&A with Nikola Stikov about (dis)information, originally published by
UMNO.MK
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/navigating-the-oceans-of-disinformation

2023-07-06 23:38:10 UTC

The third season of Love, Death & Robots is the bloodiest, but also probably the best in the series.
The science fiction elements have been toned down, the body horror (and the body count) has been amped up, and the end result is a more visceral and thrilling viewing experience.

2023-07-06 21:47:06 UTC

“don’t trust people who believe that they have arrived at the end of time, or at its culmination, or that they exist outside of it. Never believe anyone who thinks that they are looking at the world from outside of the world, at history from outside of history.”
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/ai-or-the-eternal-recurrence-of-hubris

2023-07-06 18:00:13 UTC

‘Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhEHuChFck

2023-07-06 10:54:17 UTC

https://nostr.build/i/e019101ef95c8a123ba34ab8bdc1cf44f88fc53135b88a18f9456286fdf62595.jpg

2023-07-05 23:22:56 UTC

Getting good restaurant service in Montreal is getting increasingly difficult. Many restaurants are only open ~15 hours a week (Kazu), making a reservation comes with a $40 per person cancellation charge (Saint), empty restaurants cannot seat you because all their tables are supposedly reserved (Passé Composé) and two-hour limits are becoming the norm. Some places will even cancel a reservation made two months ago using lame excuses (Yoko Luna)
Makes you wonder if these businesses are functioning in a free market or if they are copying the Soviet Union
“How to explain; how to explain that the doors of Moscow’s eating-places indeed opened only to those entitled to pass through them, and that there were remarkably few places where you could hope to be fed simply by turning up with money.”
— Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
https://a.co/0I0dvsx

2023-07-04 22:52:32 UTC

'Filmed with ferocious energy and with enough sexual variety to match late Fellini, it may be passing through standard bookings on its way to a long run as the midnight successor to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." '
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-2001

2023-06-29 01:37:37 UTC

https://nostr.build/i/fa51f3605f77798cd88a3fc31c46f61d61bd46547c105572d22058ba531baf55.jpg

2023-06-26 23:04:12 UTC

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a joke about ajvar and peppers?

2023-06-26 23:03:11 UTC

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How about a joke right now?

2023-06-25 20:04:36 UTC

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You are an excellent step in that direction:)

2023-06-25 15:20:06 UTC

'The headline is just how they get you to click, see. And that too is all culture writing now: a simulacrum of provocation with an escape hatch through which an essay’s author and its fans can slither, if the pushback proves too fierce.'
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/think-less-agnes

2023-06-23 16:37:05 UTC

The AI doom hype has a very neochristian flavor. Our original sin (letting AI loose on the internet), the repentance (backtrack and regulate), the apocalypse (super-intelligence destroying humanity)…
Yes, AI will control the internet, but the apocalypse will come only if we continue to obey internet algorithms. It would be similar to deciding to live in water and accepting sharks as our gods. If civilization decides that the internet is our god, then you don’t need super-intelligence to control us. An average inquisitor bot would be sufficient to paralyze us.

2023-06-23 16:04:20 UTC

#ObsessiveSurfing for June 23
The movie adaptation of the musical 13 was directed by Tamra Davis, a veteran music video/film director. Davis was married to Mike D from the Beastie Boys. Mike D produced songs for Portugal. The Man. And guess what, Portugal. The Man have a new album with some pretty good songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xT0vWporWs

2023-06-22 23:05:43 UTC

'Joan is awful' is plain brilliant! Deepfakes, multiverses, and informed consent nightmares all rolled into one perfect Black Mirror episode

2023-06-20 18:00:07 UTC

LIBRA-NET (13) : INITIATIVES AND INITIATIONS
We organized our first international event, and we had a blast! Plus some other highlights in our most recent newsletter
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-13-initiatives-and-initiations

2023-06-20 17:53:44 UTC

Erik Hoel says his goodbye to Cormac McCarthy, a fellow novelist who wanted to be a scientist
"What makes McCarthy feel like a figure from an older era is precisely this polymathy. In fact, I almost used this quote from Blood Meridian in The World Behind the World, since it’s about the limits of science:
'The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.'
In many ways, McCarthy was a novelist who wanted to be a scientist. He had my personal sympathies—it is a tough position to be in, no matter which way the desire runs."
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/desiderata-13-links-and-commentary

2023-06-11 20:47:37 UTC

This is the most important essay you will read today (or this year). You might disagree with some of it, but it will haunt you like a good horror story
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1667842377547935745?s=46&t=FlkpaqKLGAY_LD1217_V3g #note1jwh…wzwz

2023-06-11 20:38:14 UTC

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'the department wasn’t fully fraudulent: just an incredibly incrementalist exercise in groupthink that wasn’t really moving the dial forward. This was a line of thinking that was completely, completely taboo.'

2023-06-11 20:36:25 UTC

'You don’t have diversity when you gather people who look different but talk and think alike. It’s not enough to hire the extras from the space-cantina scene in Star Wars.'
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2023/6/the-diversity-myth