@usul@piaille.fr2026-05-11 04:18:48
Pourquoi la géothermie, solution durable Š la crise énergétique, peine Š décoller : l’explication en quatre graphiques
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/artic
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-12 17:37:27
Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/android-adds-a-feature-to-stop-you-from-d…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-05-12 15:19:25
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-04-12 06:55:51
I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-11 21:15:54
Sources: new Doctor Who episodes are likely to remain off TV until at least 2028; the BBC says it will use a competitive process to find producers for Season 16 (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/doctor-who-off-air-for-years-creati…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-12 19:34:42
The messaging coming from the White House increasingly reflects an “America, fuck yeah!” approach to international politics
– a phrase from the theme tune of "Team America: World Police",
the 2004 satire by the creators of South Park, which mocked the thrusting militarism of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
For those who don’t remember,
the film follows a crack squad of puppet soldiers as they blast their way around the world,
pursuing bad guy…
@doktrock@toad.social2026-04-12 17:52:02
#Chicago treats and eats, Wicker Park edition:
Queen Mary Tavern; Café Robey; soft opening at Qing Xiang Yuan
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-11 22:25:40
Supreme Court halts order for Alabama to use US House map with 2 largely Black districts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-redistricting-supreme-court-congress-ba371351585b79c2965f9efb0332f33d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260511/p116#a260511p116
@usul@piaille.fr2026-05-11 04:11:05
@doktrock@toad.social2026-05-12 21:42:29
"#Nobel laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born 116 years ago today. The legend among legends in #crystallography, she cracked the 27 atom structure of penicillin, and then the 181 atom structure of vitamin B12, and THEN the 788 atom structure of insulin. "
See "Monarch of Crys…
