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Musste bei dem Video von Sabine Hossenfelder, deren "no bullshit"-Haltung ich sehr mag, gerade an "What is real?" von Adam Becker (https://bookwyrm.social/book/27179/s/what-is-real) denken. Das fand ich sehr spannend und anregend.

She 'has drawn criticism from some conservatives for vowing, during an interview with Newsmax's Rob Schmitt in February, that "every single penny" of RNC money "will go to the number one and the only job of the RNC — that is electing Donald J. Trump as president of the United States and saving this country."'
'Not playing games': Lara Trump warns Republicans to support father-in-law’s campaign — or else - Alternet.org

'Not playing games': Lara Trump warns Republicans to support father-in-law’s campaign — or else
Friday, March 8 will mark the end of Ronna Romney McDaniel's time as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), and former President Donald Trump is recommending Michael Whatley (who chairs the North Carolina GOP) as McDaniel's replacement and Lara Trump (his daughter-in-law) as RNC co-chair....

Some Winnability Results for the Neighborhood and Group Labeling Lights Out Games
Brittany Doherty, Christian J. Miller, Darren B. Parker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02202

Some Winnability Results for the Neighborhood and Group Labeling Lights Out Games
We look at both the \emph{group labeling lights out game} and the \emph{neighborhood lights out game}. Our main focus is to determine necessary and sufficient conditions for when the group labeling lights out game on path graphs, cycle graphs, and complete bipartite graphs can be won for every possible initial labeling. In the process of solving this problem, we demonstrate a new proof for when the neighborhood lights out game on complete bipartite graphs can be won for every possible initial l…

She 'has drawn criticism from some conservatives for vowing, during an interview with Newsmax's Rob Schmitt in February, that "every single penny" of RNC money "will go to the number one and the only job of the RNC — that is electing Donald J. Trump as president of the United States and saving this country."'
'Not playing games': Lara Trump warns Republicans to support father-in-law’s campaign — or else - Alternet.org

'Not playing games': Lara Trump warns Republicans to support father-in-law’s campaign — or else
Friday, March 8 will mark the end of Ronna Romney McDaniel's time as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), and former President Donald Trump is recommending Michael Whatley (who chairs the North Carolina GOP) as McDaniel's replacement and Lara Trump (his daughter-in-law) as RNC co-chair....

Community Detection on Block Models with Geometric Kernels
Konstantin Avrachenkov, B. R. Vinay Kumar, Lasse Leskel\"a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02802

Community Detection on Block Models with Geometric Kernels
We consider the community recovery problem on a one-dimensional random geometric graph where every node has two independent labels: an observed location label and a hidden community label. A geometric kernel maps the locations of pairs of nodes to probabilities. Edges are drawn between pairs of nodes based on their communities and the value of the kernel corresponding to the respective node locations. Given the graph so generated along with the location labels, the latent communities of the nod…

We’re doing it again.
SMH this country. We’re doing it again.
Also, this is another reminder to never elect a cop into public office. Eric Adams may be a Democrat, but he is a cop at heart. A cop will reach for the same tools to solve every problem, every time. https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven…

Mango (PC)
Highly surrealist FP adventure exploring a mind losing touch with reality.
This game is easily in the top ten weirdest games I've ever played list. It's a bit hard to recommend it? You have to be willing to overlook some rather wonky looking art/assets. Also there's a lot of backtracking. Plus some sensitive subject matter, and a bunch of strobe lighting effects. I enjoyed it, but it's likely an acquired taste.

Racist and sexist citations from Darwin
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On the subject of sexual differences, so often a surrogate for racial attitudes, Darwin writes in The Descent of Man (and with direct analogy to cultural variation):
"It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception, and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man; but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a past and lower state of civilization. The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than woman can attain — whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands."
Darwin attributes these differences to the evolutionary struggle that males must pursue for success in mating: "These various faculties will thus have been continually put to the test, and selected during manhood." In a remarkable passage, he then expresses thanks that evolutionary innovations of either sex tend to pass, by inheritance, to both sexes — lest the disparity between men and women become ever greater by virtue of exclusively male accomplishment:
"It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes has commonly prevailed throughout the whole class of mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the peahen."
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(Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies, essay 18: The Moral State of Tahiti — and of Darwin)
Cited as a historical testimony to the scientific thought of the Victorian era, not as something to appreciate. I wish we could just laugh at that as a relict of weird past…

Russia aims to knock out Ukraine's power grid in new wave of attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/26/russia-aims-to.html

I am planning on a short road trip south into Ohio to witness totality.
“Planning” may be a strong word. I’m an adult, it’s a few hours, what takes planning? Obviously I’ll scrub if the weather sucks bad enough, but I’m willing to chase a break in the clouds a few hundred miles. A bucket list item. Might never come back if I miss it. …