@datascience@genomic.social2025-07-16 10:00:01
Beside the {report} package (yesterdays note) there are more tools in the easystats collection. #rstats
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-07-16 22:25:58
War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-09-16 08:07:00
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-16 17:35:43
Gerald Epstein, a leading expert on finance and financial crises,
warns that Trump’s executive order on retirement accounts
not only comes with high risks,
but the so-called alternative assets deliver, at best, average returns.
https://truthout.org…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-09-15 19:50:07
Ex-Justice Minister Stefanishyna assumes role as Ukraine’s ambassador to US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/exjustice-minister-stefanishyna-assumes-role.html
@eichkat3r@hessen.social2025-08-16 19:42:19
es gibt ein pico-8 fangame über luigi aus dem super mario franchise wo man einen depressiven klempner spielt der nur nach oben gucken oder rauchen kann
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2232
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-15 21:26:05
A Google executive says users increasingly want "contextual answers and summaries", but Google is not going to abandon the model that provides "10 blue links" (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/778306/google-ai-summaries-penske-…
@rufposten@social.tchncs.de2025-08-16 09:42:05
Gerade die letzte Folge durch: Die sechsteilige Serie House of Scam ist ein irrer Dauer-Kopfschüttel-Podcast, aber sehr zu empfehlen. Was Kriminelle für Geld so machen, wenn man sie nur lässt. Mit absurden Verbindungen, die mir so nicht klar waren.
Zu abonnieren über den Podcast "Legion":
https://www.rbb-online.de/legion/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-07-16 20:16:31
Agent's Take: Breaking down exactly why Bengals' Shemar Stewart remains only unsigned 2025 first-round pick
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agent…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-16 14:30:39
Jensen Huang says "I don't think I changed" Trump's mind on the US' China export rules, and "it's my job to inform the president about what I know very well" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/business/nvidia-j…
