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This is a great article on sports betting, but this particular paragraph deserves special mention, just a perfect description of self cannibalizing capitalism 🤌
https://defector.com/sports-is-betting-it-all-on-gambling

Defector: 'Dune' Novels, Ranked By Unfilmability
#Dune
https://defector.com/dune-novels-ranked-by-unfilmability

'Dune' Novels, Ranked By Unfilmability | Defector
This might go without saying, but: Massive spoilers for the entire series throughout, presumably including a third Villeneuve Dune film. It may be hard for movie audiences to believe, but a series that begins with Lawrence of Arabia taking the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test only gets weirder from there. I was at a low point […]

Vice leadership failed to act as responsible stewards of a good product, and instead paid themselves lavish salaries and burned through hundreds of millions (Chris Thompson/Defector)
https://defector.com/vices-avaricious-stewards-finally-succeed…

Vice's Avaricious Stewards Finally Succeeded At Bleeding It Dry | Defector
Vice was a good website. On Thursday it was killed by its private equity owners, in a characteristically cruel and sudden maneuver: Staff reportedly received an “anonymous tip” that Fortress Investment Group, which bought Vice Media out of bankruptcy in June, had decided to shutter the operation; soon management began working quietly on the backend […]

Verified. Defector Maxim Kuzminov’s Assassination. RUSpropaganda Rhetoric, debunked Written by Matt Wickham, analyst, HWAG/UCMC Propaganda Digest: This is our weekly analysis that exposes the most exa Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/verified-defec

Excellent article about how Magneto (the X-Men villain/hero/villain/hero) is a surprisingly good match for the politics of Judaism in the late 20th and early 21st century
https://web.archive.org/web/20240424230333/https://defector.com/the-ju…

The Judgment Of Magneto | Defector
Somewhere beyond death, in a realm of judgment and pain, a concrete labyrinth filled by countless names, a man walks. He is Jewish, and has been made hard and cruel by his experiences in the Nazi death camps. He’s also a mutant, gifted with the power to manipulate metal and the electromagnetic spectrum. Since his […]

A Russian Defector’s Killing Raises Spectre of Hit Squads - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/world/europe/russian-defector-murder-spain.html

A Russian Defector’s Killing Raises Spectre of Hit Squads
The death in Spain of Maksim Kuzminov, a pilot who delivered a helicopter and secret documents to Ukraine, has raised fears that the Kremlin is again targeting its enemies.

Defector: 'Dune' Novels, Ranked By Unfilmability
#Dune
https://defector.com/dune-novels-ranked-by-unfilmability

'Dune' Novels, Ranked By Unfilmability | Defector
This might go without saying, but: Massive spoilers for the entire series throughout, presumably including a third Villeneuve Dune film. It may be hard for movie audiences to believe, but a series that begins with Lawrence of Arabia taking the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test only gets weirder from there. I was at a low point […]

Bullet-riddled body found in Spain was Russian defector, Ukraine says
A man’s corpse, found riddled with bullets and run over by a vehicle in Spain last week, was identified as that of Russian military pilot Maksim Kuzminov, who flew his Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine in a dramatic defection in August, Ukrainian officials said.

His apparent murder — after a very public threat to his life last year on Russian state television — has raised questions about whether this was a Russian-o…

Bullet-riddled body found in Spain was Russian defector, Ukraine says
Maksim Kuzminov flew a Russian military helicopter into Ukraine to defect with great fanfare last year. Pro-government Russians bloggers have celebrated the killing.

Vice leadership failed to act as responsible stewards of a good product, and instead paid themselves lavish salaries and burned through hundreds of millions (Chris Thompson/Defector)
https://defector.com/vices-avaricious-stewards-finally-succeed…

Vice's Avaricious Stewards Finally Succeeded At Bleeding It Dry | Defector
Vice was a good website. On Thursday it was killed by its private equity owners, in a characteristically cruel and sudden maneuver: Staff reportedly received an “anonymous tip” that Fortress Investment Group, which bought Vice Media out of bankruptcy in June, had decided to shutter the operation; soon management began working quietly on the backend […]

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11376 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Coevolution of cognition and cooperation in structured populations under reinforcement learning
We study the evolution of behavior under reinforcement learning in a Prisoner's Dilemma where agents interact in a regular network and can learn about whether they play one-shot or repeatedly by incurring a cost of deliberation. With respect to other behavioral rules used in the literature, (i) we confirm the existence of a threshold value of the probability of repeated interaction, switching the emergent behavior from intuitive defector to dual-process cooperator; (ii) we find a different role…