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It's Friday, and that means it's time for #LetterboxdFriday. Watched a bunch this week, but my #Last4Watched here is a mix.. free to watch on YouTube stuff - some short, some not - some strange 70s stuff, etc. Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds is super weird, man 😂 And finally, the making of Wil…

If you want to understand Musk, give this a listen. Great podcast limited series from the CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor

The Making of Musk: Understood | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
Understood takes you deep inside the seismic shifts reshaping our world right now. From online porn and crypto chaos to the rise of tech oligarchs, deepfake AI, and the broken promises of the internet — we explore the stories that define our digital age with hosts and characters embedded in the heart of the action. We value your input! Fill out our listener survey here [https://cbc.ca/UnderstoodSurvey]. Season 1 - The Naked Emperor: the rise and fall of bitcoin king Sam Bankman-Fried. Seas…

X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side…

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

A new study suggests that #dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain.
Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive,
disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue.
When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned.
This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in …

Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia
A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive, disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue. When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned. This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in dementia.

X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side…

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

Jokaisessa Suomen maakunnassa on villiinnytetty lähiympäristöä – katso oman maakuntasi tilanne https://wwf.fi/uutiset/2025/10/jokaisessa-suomen-maakunnassa-on-villiinnytetty-lahiymparistoa-katso-oman-maakuntasi-tilanne/…

Jokaisessa Suomen maakunnassa on villiinnytetty lähiympäristöä – katso oman maakuntasi tilanne
WWF:n Ala villiksi -kampanjan toinen kausi päättyy hienoihin lukuihin. Luonto on saanut tilaa suomalaisten lähiympäristössä yli kuusi miljoonaa neliömetriä, ja kampanjaan on osallistuttu Suomen…

Senate panel to question car safety improvements that are ‘making vehicles too costly’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/senate-committee-vehicle-safety-costs-b2872613.html

Days after starting his second term, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders that targeted DEI programs and policies for elimination, decrying them as illegal and immoral.
Museums across the country scrambled to react
— and in many cases, comply.
Within days, Washington’s National Gallery of Art announced it would close its office of belonging and inclusion
and remove the words “diversity, equity, access and inclusion” from its list of values on its website. …

This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’
The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and the truth.

If you:
🔸create an entangled pair of particles,
🔸and then separate them by a very large distance,
🔸and then measure the quantum state of one of them,
🔹the quantum state of the other one is all-of-a-sudden determined,
-- not at the speed of light, but rather instantaneously.
This has now been demonstrated across distances of hundreds of kilometers over time intervals of under 100 nanoseconds.
If information is being transmitted between these two entangled…

Quantum entanglement wins 2022's Nobel Prize in physics
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.

As recently as Thursday, Vladimir Putin told a Kremlin demographic conference that increasing births was “crucial” for Russia.
Putin has launched initiatives to encourage people to have more children -- from free school meals for large families to awarding Soviet-style “hero-mother” medals to women with 10 or more children.
“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven, eight, and even more children,” Putin said in 2023.
“Let’s preserve and revive these wonderful…

Russia's population is getting smaller and older. Putin sees that as a national security threat
Russia has grappled with a shrinking and aging population for decades, with President Vladimir Putin viewing it as a threat to national security. Yet despite efforts like cash incentives and family-friendly policies, the number of deaths now outpaces births. Economic uncertainty, restrictions on immigration and the war in Ukraine are making the crisis worse. Desperate to reverse the trend, Russian authorities are also rolling out a wave of restrictive laws, such as banning "child-free propagand…