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In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Dougal told to pay $425m for breaching millions of users’ privacy | Technology News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/9/4/google-told-to-pay-425m-for-breaching-millions-of-users-privacy?traffic_sou…

Google told to pay $425m for breaching millions of users’ privacy
US tech giant says jury decision misunderstands its products and it will appeal.

Quoi!?
Pour 20 millions, moi aussi, je pourrais vous élucider plein de choses! (Le problème est évidemment que je ne suis pas dans les réseaux par lesquels on obtient ces contrats lucratifs.)
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/articl

Advertisers are shifting millions in ad budgets, particularly in CTV, from The Trade Desk's DSP to Amazon's, driven by lower fees, inventory access, and more (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
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EXCLUSIVE: Marketers Move Millions in Ad Spend from The Trade Desk to Amazon’s Ad Platform 
Sources say Amazon is gunning for The Trade Desk’s clients to win market share

Molang is in the coffee shop with me this morning #molang #plush #keychain

"Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report"
#Droughts #Climate #ClimateChange

Visual Contextual Attack: Jailbreaking MLLMs with Image-Driven Context Injection
Ziqi Miao, Yi Ding, Lijun Li, Jing Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02844 h…

Visual Contextual Attack: Jailbreaking MLLMs with Image-Driven Context Injection
With the emergence of strong visual-language capabilities, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated tremendous potential for real-world applications. However, the security vulnerabilities exhibited by the visual modality pose significant challenges to deploying such models in open-world environments. Recent studies have successfully induced harmful responses from target MLLMs by encoding harmful textual semantics directly into visual inputs. However, in these approaches, the v…

🧬 Scrambled RNA nudges millions of people towards type 2 diabetes, research reveals
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-scrambled-rna-nudges-millions-people.html

Scrambled RNA nudges millions of people towards type 2 diabetes, research reveals
Mutations in a single gene, HNF1A, are known to cause MODY3, a rare, early-onset form of diabetes. Smaller-scale mutations in the very same gene are also common and quietly nudge millions of people toward type 2 diabetes. A study published in Cell Metabolism reveals why.

Jetzt mag ich Steve Martin noch etwas mehr:
https://www.newyorker.com/m…

Tim Cook: Steve Jobs' CEO-Amtszeit ist überholt
Nach einer Tageszählung hat Timothy Donald Cook in der letzten Woche einen Meilenstein überschritten: Niemand war länger Apple-CEO als er.
https://www.