@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-01-11 07:30:06
The Land of Via Claudia Augusta
(Pre-sunset light on New Year's eve, overlooking a small part of the northern Alps, a view which I imagine was already enjoyed by the Romans who had built a settlement on this hill in 13AD...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@rigo@mamot.fr2026-03-10 08:31:03
Plus blanc que blanc de Coluche se refait avec Meluche 😜. Qui est plus gauche que gauche ?
https://www.franceinfo.fr/politique/la-france-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-10 05:47:03
New Mexico House Dist. 38
will have nobody on the primary ballot for either party.
GOP incumbent was disqualified, too late to file as a write-in.
Dem primary only has one write-in candidate.
If they get at least 50 votes, they'll be unopposed for the general election in a very competitive district.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2026-02-10 17:01:28
Wonderful to have Dr. AnneMarie Mingo with us last week to deliver our Parks-King Lecture for 2026, titled "The Courage to Imagine Freedom." Here's a video of the event if you could not join us or you want to relive the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvhsCnPBXho
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-04-08 05:09:12
Every time leftists talk about escalating against Trump, liberals point out that Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke the insurrection act. This is true. But they don't notice that he's the least popular president in history and the military has largely already made it clear that they won't be used against civilians. That risk assessment completely lacks context.
Trump could not possibly win against an insurgency because the only thing he could possibly offer to end it would be his own resignation. If Trump tried to escalate to civil war he would either lose or be removed.
More importantly, Trump compulsively escalates. He will continue to start wars because he thinks he's doing a good job and he's a hero. When he gets frustrated at some foreign enemy because he's actually completely incompetent and only able to win against incompetent and wildly unpopular opponents, he threatens war crimes.
I am familiar enough with history to fully believe that he ordered a nuclear strike last night and people said "no." Humanity has been saved multiple times by people refusing to follow orders, and you don't find out until years later. (This is also not the first story of a president dangerously deep in mental decline. Reagan lost the nuclear football.)
The longer this goes on, the greater the risk that eventually someone will actually let him do something unthinkable. But that's significantly less likely if he's trying to fight within the US border.
Just looking at things from a risk perspective, "he's going to invoke the insurrection act" is not nearly as big of a threat as democrats think it is, and it's about time they think realistically about this fact.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-03-04 19:20:57
Strong Majorities of Democrats & NYC Voters Support Gov. & Leg. Giving NYC Ability to Raise Income Tax on Its Residents Earning At Least $1M (Siena Research Institute)
https://sri.siena.edu/2026/03/04/strong-majorities-of-democrats-nyc-voters-support-gov-leg-giving-nyc-ability-to-raise-income-tax-on-its-residents-earning-at-least-1m/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p98#a260304p98
@annsev@troet.cafe2026-04-08 12:23:57
Darth #Trump is lying to the American people in every way imaginable. The full extent of his mismanagement will likely only become apparent once the Republicans are no longer in power and the legal investigations into breach of trust, embezzlement, fraud, and other criminal activities come to light.
Then there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Quite biblical—spoon-fed to the evangelicals.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-02 11:55:50
xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days (@…)
https://x.com/xai/status/2018164753810…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-06 18:56:53
The “neural fingerprint” of psychedelics was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca,
pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.
The finding emerged from a major study that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world
in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.
Dr Danilo Bzdok and his colleagues analysed more than 500 brain scans from 267 p…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-08 03:41:38
