Trump has one chance to save face: Resign now<br /> by [[Brian Karem]] in Salon<br /> accessed on 2026-06-19T17:19:03

Trump Calls Obama a “Son of a B*tch” After Disastrous Iran Deal Leaked<br /> by [[Edith Olmsted]] in The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-18T09:16:08

Angry and Rattled, Trump’s Fox Allies Blurt It Out on Live TV: He Lost<br /> by The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent on The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-18T09:13:10

Trump disputes $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran<br /> by [[Elliott Davis]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-15T22:22:29

Trump administration can't get their story straight

JD Vance Confirms Iran Will Get Jaw-Dropping Sum Under Trump Deal<br /> by [[Hafiz Rashid]] | The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-15T22:20:13

Core War 的自修改特性让它成为研究 AI 安全的理想沙盒。真实的网络安全攻击中，代码即数据（shellcode 注入、ROP 链）正是最难防御的攻击面。DRQ 在这个环境里自动演化出的攻击策略，本质上是在无监督地发现「代码-数据不区分」漏洞类的通用利用模式——这正是 Mythos 等模型的能力提升背后的相同机制。

This is the most striking factual claim in the article — AI-assisted targeting in a major military conflict causing mass casualties. Embedded in a paragraph about shareholder resolutions, it grounds the abstract governance discussion in lethal concrete consequences. The juxtaposition of 'proxy season' and 'missile strikes that killed hundreds' captures the scale mismatch between available accountability mechanisms and actual AI harms.

Criteria for the AI-assisted use of force. (Might be interesting to ask whether these should apply to non-war situations as well, like police or private security use of force.)

Interesting to connect these impacts to the "hybrid forms" of warfare 2 sentences above, like cyberattack and information ops.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1274730854845686/

A curious Series 3 Smith-Corona in crinkle tan possibly made for the war effort?

Noting that Sammy Sosa's best season was 2001 with 10.1 WAR, much better than his more famous 6.8 WAR season in 1998.

1:20:00 50 years ago, religious fanatics conspired to fight the "war on drugs".<br /> today, the same religious fanatics conspire to fight the "war on meat"...<br /> human stupidity really is a curse on this planet >: (

80% sind bei corona mitgelaufen<br /> 80% werden beim dritten weltkrieg mitlaufen<br /> menschliche dummheit ist eine naturkonstante

all wars are bankers wars

der krieg soll nicht gewonnen werden...<br /> das einzige ziel ist: weisse männer gehen in den fleischwolf

unpublished reply to u/kinga_forrester at https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/1rvqt0e/comment/oayqqbd/

Rightly or wrongly I'm sure a vanishing number of people at that time would have held your view.

You've got to remember the historical context of this ad. During World War II all but one typewriter manufacturer in the US ceased production of typewriters and the one remaining was really producing machines for the military. This ad from 1943 actually says in tiny print at the bottom: "Royal is making bullets, and parts for airplane engines, propellers, machine guns, rifles." Civilian groups did drives to collect typewriters to send them to the war effort. Many of the extant and upcoming generation of typewriter repairmen went off to the war effort. All this against the backdrop of people being used to taking their machines (especially office ones in use 8 hours a day) in for service every year or so for cleaning and adjustment. Most office typewriters of the time were in use for an average of 3 years before requiring complete overhauls or replacement. In addition to all of the other things being rationed, typewriters and typewriter service were also being heavily rationed, particularly because the manpower and steel was being diverted heavily to the war effort.

At the time, most typewriters were in the $125-200 range which is the equivalent to about $1,500 now. They were trying to help people preserve their machines and functionality. This was at a time when almost any sizeable town in the US had at least one repair shop busy with work. A city the size of Chicago probably had several dozens of repair shops working full time and that likely dropped to just a few during the war. (There's only one now, and it's only been open for a few years; it also has a wait list of several months for service because it's so busy.)

The issue of typewriter preservation was so great during the war that the U.S. Navy produced a series of videos about their proper use and maintenance of them *and other expensive office machines of the time). See videos at https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/06/typewriter-use-and-maintenance-for-beginning-to-intermediate-typists/ The government also got involved in creating maintenance manuals like Basic Typewriter Care and Maintenance, Equipment Maintenance Series No. 1 (US FWIP, 1945) and repair manuals like War Department Technical Manual TM 37-305: Typewriter Maintenance (1944) which is essentially the same as the [1945 Ames manual[(https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/AmesVol1-Standards.pdf).

Comparing this with today when the general value of typewriters is almost nil and we're lucky to have a few dozen professional typewriter repair shops still operating, but the rate of retirements and deaths has long been outstripping the replacement rate and you'll understand why self-service is necessary. Even given this, the number of typewriter fora on the internet, Facebook, Reddit, etc. the amount of tinkering knowledge is almost cripplingly bad but seems to chug along. You'll notice that there are an awful lot of people just trying to identify their machines much less carry out the most basic repairs. The number of "broken machines" I've acquired in my collection that only needed the ribbon color selector set to something besides "stencil" is a sad indicator of the state of typewriter knowledge now, much less what it may have been in their heyday, tinkering or not.

Even by 1983 as typewriters were already beginning to feel the pressure from the computer business, books like Bryan Kravitz and Nancy Gorrell's Hints for a Happy Typewriter were attempting to educate people on proper maintenance and light repair before needing to rely on repair shops that were already starting to feel the pinch.

Incidentally, IBM wasn't what put most typewriter companies out of business. It was vicious competition caused by offshoring and the cheapening of parts and materials while computers in general did the rest. And as for all those typewriter repair shops: most began selling/servicing word processors, office machines like fax machines, photo copiers, dictaphones, and even computers.

40:20 How about Europe? -- Europe is a dumpster fire

George Kennan and the Long Telegram<br /> by [[James M. Lindsay]] in Council on Foreign Relations accessed on 2026-03-12T09:44:20

Kilroy Was Here (album)<br /> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_Was_Here_(album)

relationship to World War II graffiti tag "Kilroy was here" see also notes on Immerwahr's book on Empire

Pete Hegseth’s Moral Unseriousness - The Atlantic<br /> by [[Peter Wehner]]<br /> accessed on 2026-03-07T16:52:29

https://www.reddit.com/r/belgium/comments/1ree6u1/grandfathers_dp_index_card/

This sentence shows that Reconstruction did not fail only because of Southern resistance, but also because the North gave up on enforcing equality. Once federal commitment weakened, violence and white supremacy were able to regain control, showing how fragile Reconstruction reforms really were.

The Civil War was between the North and the South. Boston is in Union territory; in the North

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Remarks at the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/233951

for - status competition - conspicuous consumption - war - waste in general

• SRG comment - status
  • luxury consumption is status symbol
  • Deep Humanity interventions

marking the official end of U.S. force commitment to the Vietnam War.

to appease antiwar sentiment by promising to phase out the draft, train South Vietnamese forces to assume more responsibility for the war effort, and gradually withdraw American troops.

triggered protests throughout the United States and Europe.

United States feared the expansion of communist influence and pledged to confront any revolutions aligned against Western capitalism.

for - adjacency - war - interbrain - self/other gestalt - dualism

for - comparison - climate crisis - need war time mobilization - like WWIi Canadian mobilization

33:55 "They torture Dominika so that she confesses she is a traitor. But you can't kill the Freedom(TM) in her! Did Russia buy out the Guantanamo franchise? For tortures by hard rock? I like that USA in their propaganda assigns to its enemies something that USA has been guilty of themselves. Soviets suddenly drop nuclear bombs on a peaceful city, use chemical weaponry, and suddenly, hard rock tortures."<br /> haha, yeah, every single time... almost as if psychological projection was some natural instinct...<br /> see also: chauvinism, group narcissm, collectivism, hivemind, meme: "Our Blessed Homeland versus Their Barbarous Wastes"

people calling for retribution without any facts

• for: symmathesy, mutual learning, mutual transcontextual learning, individual collective entanglement, Indyweb, Indraweb, Indynet, Indranet
• definition: symmathesy
  • mutual transcontextual learning in living systems

• from - youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - A neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - Alex Gomez-Marin - a third is born between two in conversation

  • https://hyp.is/MOZ6uIwUEfC1hOf5CSl5YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

• comment

  • symmathesy lay at the heart of the Indyweb and Indraweb

for - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

for - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

for - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

Summary - Interesting adjacency with another video I've been watching, that focused on a Western monk's practice of Tibetan Buddhism, who after 12 years, entered a 4 year retreat and panicked - His demons emerged in the first 2 years of the retreat and he left but returned - This monk emphasized accepting the relationship with his demons instead of averting them and how craving and desire emphasized by Western civilllization is the cause of modernity's meaning crisis - to - Youtube - Diary of a CEO - Your brain is lying to you - Interview - Gerong Tupton - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvIbLQQ1i56Y&group=world

for - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

for - progress trap - transhumanism - AI - war on consciousness

for - adjacency - AI - consciousness war - spiritual war

for - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/GEWtIovIEfCHTlOdPqfE7A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

McDonald’s (and by extension, foods like chicken nuggets) symbolized U.S. capitalist values penetrating former Communist societies, turning fast food into a geopolitical marker

WWII meat rationing shifted American meat preferences. Set the foundation for chicken’s post-war rise; shows war's long-term domestic effects.

Green Bean showcased as proof of the American standard of living and capitalist success Domestic life and food were frontline of ideological competition

Canned food like green bean symbolized survival, preparedness, and normalcy during Cold War nuclear fears Process foods become cultureally embedded as necessities for security, linking consumption to national defense

Represented middle-class suburban prosperity and American capitalist superiority during the Cold War Showcase domestic modernity and abundance against the Communist

Spam's mass production benefited US's wartime industrial expansion The need to feed both troops and civilians drove the scaling of processed food manufacturing Spam is influenced by industrialization and become a symbol of US food tech Reflects how war spurred economic recovery and transformed US industry and food system

Holocaust and genocide Show how the lack of food was used as a political and genocidal tool.

Reflect US political aid and power influence through food Strenfthen US political and cultureal influence, especially post-war food culture

Spam production influenced by military efficiency needs Improved military food logistics and inspired canned meat development

Spam represented the power of industrialized American food system Fed allied armies and demonstrated the logical strength of the US, helping post war influence

Spam provide a central food source for the U.S. and their allies during WWII Food innovation Use food to influence and dominate abroad

Mimeo-Can! The Tin-Can Wonder!

Food as a warfare tactic

Wartime food? Contribute to war efforts?

for - quote - This is the start of the undoing of the post world war II order - Eric Weinstein

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/argentinian-scientists-work-side-jobs-javier-milei

Awakening in the Age of Crisis Before Vietnam, a Mirror Cracked In a time of crisis—just before the Vietnam War—people began to wake up. A large percentage of the population was being oppressed: Native Americans, Japanese Americans, Black Americans. Ethnicity, heritage, language—these became invisible bars in a quiet prison.

This rupture sparked a renewed interest in morality—what the country "stood for." How could we claim to be good, when so much of our foundation was rotten?

Ideals Tested by Time Some ideas held up. Some didn’t. And that’s important.

Education—real education—was one of those ideals that proved resilient. But how do we teach in a way that embraces everything? That compares and contrasts knowledge without filtering it through a single culture’s lens?

Jerome Bruner and the Cultural Blindspot Jerome Bruner pointed out something brutal and honest:

"It’s hard to assess your own culture—because it’s the only thing you see."

We don’t notice the walls until we bump into someone else’s. We only start to see when we encounter others. That’s when we begin to use stats, science, stories—tools that gather local solutions from many places.

Some are good. Some are pretty awful. But the point is: it’s not about always being right. It’s about being aware.

From Local Noise to Global Signal The story of history has always been like this—messy, partial, reactive.

But now, we have a chance to move: From narrow, local views—where we assume we’re always right— To a movement, a new place, where multiple truths can sit side by side.

Where perspective isn’t a threat—it’s a tool.

overpopulation and degeneration are fixed by war.<br /> the only alternative is to legalize serial murder, aka tribe wars

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/rfk-jr-nih-scientists-medical-journals-jama-lancet-nejm-00371349

Oh man this website is so freaking useful. dr.loudness-war.info

Gives dynamic range information on albums/tracks.

https://time.com/7284644/trumps-erasure-of-women/

Als Folge der Politik der Trump-Administration wird die NOAA in Amerika ihre Datenbank mit extrem Wetter ereignissen, die mehr als eine Milliarde Dollar schaden, hervorgerufen haben, nicht weiter fortsetzen. In der entsprechenden Ankündigung wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die vorhandenen Daten erhalten bleiben.

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/les-etats-unis-arretent-leur-base-de-donnees-sur-les-grandes-catastrophes-climatiques-20250509_TYVKLFCWGFEEVFEIWATV7LQIBQ/

https://blog.wikimedia.de/2025/05/07/usa-wikipedia-unter-druck/

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-insiders-trump-dismantling-and-destroying-everything

https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/04/peter-suber-on-science-in-danger-host-your-open-and-uncensored-research-in-more-than-one-place-and-preferably-more-than-one-country/

Capitalism needs ([[Graeber]]) Bullshit Jobs, as Baran & Sweezy claimed in their 1966 book "Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order".

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00814-1/fulltext

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/health/nejm-prosecutor-letter.html

Ein Hintergrund bericht den New York Times zeigt, dass die Harvard University von einer Reihe von Großspändern gedrängt wurde und wird ein Kompromiss mit der Trumpadministration zu suchen. Darunter sind der Ölmirja der LenBlavartnig und Vertreter von KKR und Citadel, die massiv in die Öl und Gasindustrie investiert haben. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/harvard-trump-deal.html

for - adjacency - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs - youtube - Bloomberg - Trump presses China to Make Tariff Offer to Calm Trade War

adjacency between - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs

Summary - Professor Edward Fishman gives a very good explanation about the relationship between the US national debt, treasury bonds, US reserve currency and the Trump tariffs. - Watching youtubes on these topics recently has been quite enlightening and primed me for this video - I really appreciated the interviewer asking the question on behalf of the viewers

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-03/jason-stanley-donald-trump-wissenschaft-usa-timothy-snyder-kanada?freebie=22384585

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/mar/26/extreme-weather-risk-tool-fema-trump

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/19/epa-fire-scientists-staff-environmental-protection-agency-remove-research-office

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/opinion/public-health-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/climate/noaa-lease-mauna-loa.html

https://www.liberation.fr/international/amerique/trump-contre-les-scientifiques-25-on-est-a-deux-doigts-dune-dictature-20250316_LACQOMY7LJFLDATWQAPEQVC55I/

Apparently, "dual shielding" is a thing. Using one shield (big) for defense, and another (small) for offense.

Big shields were used in tight formations and for defense whereas smaller ones (bucklers) were more for deflecting close-range attacks (melee) and agility.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/epa-trump-climate-rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/climate/epa-closure-environmental-justice-offices.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://reporterre.net/Aux-Etats-Unis-les-scientifiques-manifestent-contre-une-censure-sans-precedent

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7305129367389556736

https://reporterre.net/Aux-Etats-Unis-les-scientifiques-manifestent-contre-une-censure-sans-precedent

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2025/03/07/news/usa_trump_musk_scienza_marcia_contro_tagli-424048624/

Im Standard berichtet Klaus Taschwer über die wissenschaftsfeindliche Politik der Trump-Administration und über die Protestkundgebungen österreichischer Forschender dagegen, die am 7. März in Wien und Salzburg stattfanden. Taschwer verweist auf historische Vorbilder für die US-Maßnahmen, darunter die Regime Orbáns und des Austrofaschismus. Er verlinkt aktuelle Quellen, darunter den „Trump Tracker“ des Magazins Science https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000260241/heute-wird-fuer-wissenschaft-und-gegen-trump-demonstriert

Trump-Tracker: https://www.science.org/content/article/science-trump-latest-news

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00661-8

In der Libération ruft Romain Huret, Historiker und Präsident der Ècole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, dazu auf, Forschenden, die Opfer der antwisssenschaftlichen Hexenjagd der Trump-Administration werden, Arbeitsmöglichkeiten in Frankreich zu schaffen. 2017 gab es in Frankreich ein ähnliches Programm. Huret bezieht sich unter anderem auf eine Liste mit Wörtern, die nicht in Forschungsprojekten vorkommen dürfen, die von der National Science Foundation gefördert werden. https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/sciences-sociales-la-france-doit-accueillir-les-chercheurs-victimes-de-la-chasse-aux-sorcieres-de-donald-trump-20250210_OSMF5GQVHZEXXBSG6NZH6R34G4/

Bericht über die Aktion „Stand up for Science“ in Paris am 7. März 2025. Die Beteiligung war wesentlich höher als erwartet. in Reden wurde gewarnt, dass der Autoritarismus auch in Europa eine konkrete Gefahr ist. Die Antiwissenschafts-Politik der Trump-Administration gefährdet auch den Zugang Daten (z.B. in der Genetik), die für Forschung in Europa essentiell sind.

https://www.liberation.fr/societe/nous-ne-sommes-pas-vaccines-contre-lautoritarisme-a-paris-les-scientifiques-solidaires-de-leurs-collegues-americains-attaques-par-trump-20250307_4H2FJ3BTT5AN5K4KELO7LQZBLE/

Bericht über die Schließung von Regierungswebsites mit Inhalten zur Klimakrise in den ersten Wochen der zweiten Amtszeit Trumps. Eine Richtlinie der Kommunikationsabteilung schreibt vor, jede auf den Klimawandel fokussierte Webseite zu archivieren oder zu depublizieren. Betroffen waren u.a. das Climate Change Resource Center, der Climate Action Tracker und und die National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change auf der Website des US Forest Service. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-order-usda-websites-climate-crisis

Die Trump-Rierung plant weitere 1000 Stellen bei der Klima- und Wetteragentur NOAA zu streichen. 1300 Angestellte wurden bereits entlasten. Damit würde das Personal einer der weltweit wichtigsten Institutionen für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung insgesamt um 20% gekürzt. Eine große Zahl von wissenschaftlichen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen hat gegen den Abbau der Behörde protestiert, mit dem die Administation eine Forderung des „Project 2025“ umsetzt. Der Artikel der New York Times geht auch auf die Demonstrationen zum Schutz der Wissenschaft ein, die es in vielen amerikanischen Universitätsstätten gab. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/climate/noaa-layoffs-trump.html

Aufforderung wissenschaftlicher und zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen an den Kongress: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TDwAWUPXeN5VPrLTu3wW6E7xMrJCu-a-/view

https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/defendre-la-science-cest-defendre-la-liberte-20250307_KZ2LHNFZPVDTZCTGBXLHPCTOZE/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html

for - russia-ukraine war - geopolitical analysis - Trump's strategy with Putin - to end the cold war

summary - He doesn't offer any explanation of what will become of Ukraine if Trump gets his way

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/my-interview-with-dr-michael-mann?publication_id=1223483&utm_content=watch_now_gif&triedRedirect=true