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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)

Dick is dead.
#deadDick

War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84, With Blood of Millions on His Hands
Cheney’s legacy more than outlives him; he reshaped the very structures of war and authoritarianism at home and abroad.

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

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

FBI Reportedly Mulling a Comey Perp Walk With ‘Large, Beefy’ Agents
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi-reportedly-mulling-comey-perp-022538470.html

Climate change inaction costs millions of lives each year, report warns #environment

Climate change inaction costs millions of lives each year, report warns
The 2025 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveals that climate inaction and continued dependence on fossil fuels is resulting in an immense human cost, with millions of lives lost each year due to heat, air pollution, disease spread, and worsening food insecurity.

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interact…

🧬 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.

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.

A joint Databroker Files investigation shows commercially traded mobile phone location data allows the tracking of millions of Europeans, including EU officials (netzpolitik.org)
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-targeting-the-eu/

Databroker Files: Targeting the EU
Precise locations and revealing movement patterns: the mobile phone location data of millions of people in the EU is up for sale. Collected supposedly only for advertising purposes, this data can also be used for espionage. European data protection is failing – even top EU officials in Brussels are affected. The EU Commission says: 'We are concerned.