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Owl City has been an interesting recurring character for a long time. He fundamentally makes kinkade music, but in many instances there's something unintentionally captivating about watching a sheltered autistic christian man trying and failing to emulate the sterile neurotypical inhumanity of late 00s commercials, attempts at sincerely becoming what the squeakiest cleanest presenting factions want giving birth to an entirely different surreal alternate reality from the one he professes …

An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises (John Thornhill/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9e0e0fc6-ab7d-4b69-a8b1-5a972b82fb06
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“It’s a new regime,” Trump said in a Fox Business interview that aired on Wednesday,
referring to Iran’s new leaders.
“We find them pretty reasonable to be honest with you, by comparison pretty reasonable.”
It was the latest instance of Trump’s trying to spin a “regime change” accomplishment in Iran,
even though analysts believe the war may have only increased the internal sway of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
-- the hard-line military force that ha…

Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality
President Trump is confronting a crisis that is not bending to his narrative of a “pretty reasonable” new regime in Iran and all-but-assured victory for the United States.

#ALEYE wristband: Nonverbal cues you can feel https://hapware.com "ALEYE integrates with your Meta Ray-Bans and other smart glasses", "detect facial expressions, body language, and hand gestures";

"...solar panels and wind turbines were being installed across the peninsula. These were presented as ecological alternatives and came with this narrative that if we accepted them we were saving the planet.
... on the one hand there was this environmental discourse, and on the other hand they were dispossessing us of our territory and deforesting it. How can a project be environmentally friendly if it’s clearing a huge area of land?"
Resisting the so-called 'Maya'…

Resisting the so-called 'Maya' Train | Latin America Bureau
Indigenous activist Haizel explains to LAB contributor Isàlia McIntyre how strengthening Maya identity supports resistance to megaprojects harming communities across the Yucután. Since 2018, the Maya Train – an intercity railway line designed for tourism and cargo transport – has expanded to over 1.500 kilometers of tracks across Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, including the states of Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and Chiapas. The train, a flagship project of the previous admin…

Strong nickel enrichment co-located with redox-organic interactions in Neretva Vallis, Mars: #Mars coughs up another maybe-life clue in the form of nickel compounds: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/nickel_found_on_mars/ - Perseverance found the minerals in an ancient river channel, but researchers say geology may still beat biology.

Da ja nun der @… die virtuellen Ausstellungen weggekürzt werden, wollte ich fragen, ob jemand Ansätze aus dem #wikiversum kennt, mit dem Objektgruppen in einem narrativen Kontext präsentiert werden können. @…

There are all sorts of complex practices and laws around churches, because "religious freedom" is really a minefield. It's not that the state cares about the law, but that the narrative of the US is deeply intertwined with the narrative of "religious freedom" and "escaping religious persecution." (I probably don't need to tell anyone that the people "escaping religious persecution" were some of the absolute worst humans on the planet who were not being persecuted but wanted to be free to persecute others... but I digress.)
It is not aligning with the law that matters, nor any other sort of legal justification for their authority. Authority comes from a complex memetic fabric of woven ideas. This fabric can be attacked, these threads can be pulled out, and eventually the fabric unravels and the authority collapses.
When central authority collapses, dual power institutions pick up the pieces. They replace the faltering authority. Today, as the US government is frantically burning itself down, corporations and churches are the two most developed institutions prepared to fill that void,