Cavalcade of Mammals

• MAGA
• Proud Boys
• Armed Militias
• And a guy dressed as Hitler

Back when only 1/3 of Americans were taken in by propaganda, and that 1/3 were split among different types of crazy. Fox news is the one ring that united them all.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1834690947350630

Clear ice with directional freezing
Making Flow – Interview with director Gints Zilbalodis

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” -Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” -Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism

Measles outbreak in low tax, low government capacity Texas, link

Facilitate Insight by Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
“insight problem solving task while receiving transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the anterior temporal lobes (ATL). Only 20% of participants solved an insight problem with sham stimulation (control), whereas 3 times as many participants did so (p = 0.011) with cathodal stimulation (decreased excitability) of the left ATL together with anodal stimulation (increased excitability) of the right ATL.”

Layoff announcement tracker

Beck Weathers (Mt Everest 1996 disaster) general session speech at 2015 NADA Convention

Violations of Power, Adaptive Blindness and Betrayal Trauma Theory by Jennifer J. Freyd
“DARVO—deny, attack, reverse victim and offender”

Ubuntu 24.04 was going to sleep by default. Turning it off, link.