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The Australian national cross country championships were held yesterday in Ballarat, and I took part in the masters (old people) division. Epic conditions on a muddy course with some challenging obstacles. I was very pleased with my run and came away with the M60 age-group win. #running #strava

Olympic Day marks continued growth of flag football around globe https://www.nfl.com/news/olympic-day-marks-continued-growth-of-flag-football-around-globe

The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.

We are watching the birth of a new category of medicine:
proactive, multi-cancer, blood-based screening
that could make comprehensive cancer detection as routine as a cholesterol panel.
An entire industry is emerging around multi-cancer early detection.
Exact Sciences’ Cancerguard launched as a laboratory-developed test in September 2025.
Abbott is acquiring Exact Sciences for $21 billion
— a signal of how seriously the pharmaceutical industry takes this c…

One Blood Test. Fifty Cancers. The Screening Revolution That Could Save Millions of Lives.
A cardiologist explains the science behind the Galleri test, why the FDA could approve it this year, and what it means for the future of cancer — and heart disease.

Cool Dad Collective.
A place for real, relatable stories and experiences around fatherhood to so you know that you are not alone...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/cool-dad-collective/

what happened when clive davis (aka siva devil c) met owsley & robert hunter, 1973. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/wake-flood-50-mississippi-half-step-uptown-toodeloo

800 Million Years Ago, a Catastrophic Asteroid Breakup Rained Fire on the Inner Solar System - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/800-million-years-ago-a-catastrophic-asteroid-breakup-rained-fire-…

After a minor disaster I had to rebook four hotels for our family summer holiday.
I just used booking.com rather than looking around, which asks about approximate arrival times as one of the questions in the final step of booking.
All the time ranges were given used AM/PM notation, which amused me but fine I can do that. I understand it well enough.
In the end it seems it is because the UI has several English options and American is the default.

There are problems for which we know the solutions - and we have evidence that the solutions work. And bad air quality is an example:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emissio…

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them

Greeting Andy Burnham after he was sworn in as an MP were a slew of cabinet ministers
- including the chief whip Jonathan Reynolds and the energy secretary Ed Miliband
- who came in flanked by two Treasury ministers, Torsten Bell and Dan Tomlinson.
Around 200 MPs were in the hall to greet Burnham, now officially the MP for Makerfield.
He arrived with Lucy Powell, the deputy Labour leader and the MP Jo Platt
- who holds Burnham’s old constituency of Leigh.
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