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"Once you have seen the working of coercive state power up close, you realize that slogans like #defundTHEpolice do one vital thing—challenge the coercive power that ultimately sets the playing field on which we bargain.
If we want truly democratic politics, the question of what kind of safety we want and how it is to be secured, how we wish to preserve order, how we fund and equ…

Chartbook 280 The state as blunt force - impressions of the Columbia campus clearance.
Last night, up close, on the barriers on Broadway barring the approaches to Columbia campus, I witnessed riot police crush protestors, driving them out of the way, pinning them against walls. Somewhat further away, on Amsterdam through the haze of drizzle and flashing lights we glimpsed what looked to be disheveled young people being herded into police buses.

Birth of “Sympathy for the Devil”
https://www.didiermary.fr/birth-of-sympathy-for-the-devil/
Sympathy for the Devil (originally titled One Plus One or 1 1 by the film director and distributed under that title in Europe) is a 1968 film shot mostly in c…

Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones & Godard
Creative Process seen through the lens of Jean-Luc Godard filming the Rolling Stones' work in studio for "Sympathy for the Devil"

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Predictive processing also sheds considerable light on a wide range of typical and atypical forms of human experience. A good starting point is to notice that there are two very broad ways for such processing to go wrong. The first is for the brain to underweight predictions and expectations. This will make it hard to detect faint but predictable patterns in a noisy or ambiguous environment. But the second general way to go wrong is for the brain to overweight expectations. In extreme cases, overweighting results in hallucinations. You seem to see and hear things that aren't there, just because […] they are at some level strongly expected.
Autism spectrum condition was initially thought to reflect a specific imbalance of the first kind — a systematic underweighting of prior expectations. […] Underweighting prior knowledge would make weak or elusive patterns hard to detect, and hard to learn too. Such patterns would include things like facial expressions, intonation, or body language, things that delicately hint, in context, at other people's mental states and attitudes. An imbalance of that kind would also make it very hard to learn these patterns in the first place, and even harder to recognize them in situations that are complicated or ambiguous. Recent evidence casts subtle doubt, however, on this bald initial hypothesis. Rather than weakened predictions, intriguing evidence is emerging that suggests that the core issue involves (not underweighting knowledge-based predictions but) actively overweighting the incoming sensory evidence.
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She doesn't just feel "hunger," instead the more fine-grained specifics of the bodily signals dominate. You are feeling a whole lot of something — but what is it? According to the overweighted sensory information theory, autism spectrum condition individuals constantly encounter an excess of highly detailed and apparently very salient sensory information of this kind, coming from both inside their own body and the outside world. This sensory excess impedes the moment-by-moment identification of the broader context or scenario (in this case, hunger). In other words, the emphasis on every aspect of sensory detail effectively makes it impossible to spot the larger forest for the trees.
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(Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality)
#ActuallyAutistic

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Birth of “Sympathy for the Devil”
https://www.didiermary.fr/birth-of-sympathy-for-the-devil/
Sympathy for the Devil (originally titled One Plus One or 1 1 by the film director and distributed under that title in Europe) is a 1968 film shot mostly in c…

Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones & Godard
Creative Process seen through the lens of Jean-Luc Godard filming the Rolling Stones' work in studio for "Sympathy for the Devil"

Next part of my dad's HiFi is trying to understand his home built amp; it needs a bit of a front clean but was working OK. It's dated 1977, but has obviously been tinkered with over time - the power transistors on the back are dated from early 70's before I was born, but then there's a little preamp in there from mid-90's; so I need to figure it out.
#electronics

Ik weet af en toe echt niet wat ik lees. Dan denk ik: hoe is dit in vredesnaam mogelijk in een land als NL??
bron heb ik even niet, sorry, screendump van TwiX.

My favorite @… talk is by @…. It stuck with me and pops up randomly in my mind since 2013.
“We have to balance the current stuff with trying the weird new stuff cause that’s where all the joy comes for us.”
“You won’t know the end until …

This weekend it's "days of open atelier" in Brandenburg country. We've visited the wonderful place of Silke Schmidt. It's quite magical #Uckermark