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ME/CFS & the history of bad science
Some nice understated pointiness in this piece from last year, reviewing a paradigm shift which is very much still in progress.
"Short-term and low-cost interventions such as GET and CBT are attractive not because of their evidence base, which has been exposed as flimsy and unconvincing, but rather because of their seemingly plausible and easily replicated approach..."
#MECFS #LongCovid #MEAwarenessDay

Data analysis from the hydroacoustic stations of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
has unveiled distinctive pressure signals linked to aircraft crashes of varying sizes in the ocean.
Notably, these signals were detected at distances ranging from two to five thousand kilometres,
highlighting the efficacy of underwater acoustic technology in event identification and classification in marine environments.
In this study, we investigate the plausibil…

Underwater acoustic analysis reveals unique pressure signals associated with aircraft crashes in the sea: revisiting MH370 - Scientific Reports
Data analysis from the hydroacoustic stations of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization has unveiled distinctive pressure signals linked to aircraft crashes of varying sizes in the ocean. Notably, these signals were detected at distances ranging from two to five thousand kilometres, highlighting the efficacy of underwater acoustic technology in event identification and classification in marine environments. In this study, we investigate the plausibility of an aircraft, such as M…

"Since the 17th century,a rationalist world view prompted by philosophers such as #Descartes increasingly saw things from a mechanical perspective, comparing the workings of the universe to a great machine. Rather than any kind of divine spirit inhabiting the natural world, this perspective emphasised the split between the human mind & physical matter."

A new campaign wants to redefine the word ‘nature’ to include humans – here’s why this linguistic argument matters
The meaning of nature has shifted since the word was first used in the 15th century. But is changing the dictionary definition a good idea?

I had a thought about taking medicine, in a scenario where you're not entirely sure how much it's helping. Let's call it "Placebo-at-Home". The idea would be: You get a bunch of pills from the doctor. But you don't know if they are your medicine or your placebo. Yet, each pill contains a code. You take a pill. Some time later you enter the code into a web service, and tell it whether you think it's the medicine or the placebo. It tells you if you were right.

The Brains Blog || This Week on Brains: Wayne Wu, Movements of the Mind
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/03/11/this-week-on-brains-wayne-wu-movements-of-the-mind.aspx

(yes there are ways to get bulk downloads on things, like bulk downloading ASN CSVs, or bulk downloading common crawl, or other APIs with no rate limit whatsoever, this was an engineering design philosophy query, not specific to this question necessarily
e.g. - if you did buffered channels, you'd fill up)
maybe SQL order by is a valid queueing system...

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Paul Jabara:
🎵 Thank god it's friday : Disco queen
#PaulJabara
https://open.spotify.com/track/68THfJXwe9Bgl3qG7aiFGF

2/ Hat mir gerade jemand geschickt. Also #Philosophie scheint auch die Schnauze voll zu haben und sagt Tschüss. Sehr schön! #PoliticalPhilosphy #Wiley
„Die Open Library of Humanities hat jetzt Political Philosophy im Angebot. Political Philosophy ist ein großes Ding, jedenfalls in der theoretischen Politikwissenschaft. Es geht aus dem Wiley-Journal The Journal of Political Philosophy hervor, das aktuell kein Editorial Board hat.
Wiley hat den Editor in Chief, Robert Goodin, gefeuert, als dieser sich weigerte, mehr Artikel pro Jahr in dem Journal zu veröffentlichten. Daraufhin hat der Rest des Boards, ebenfalls sehr respektable Leute, hingeschmissen. [1] Du wirst Robert Goodin wahrscheinlich mögen, er hat u.a. ein Standardwerk zur politischen Theorie von Grüner Politik verfasst.
Wiley versucht offenbar, die Steuergelder abzuschöpfen, die in Gold-OA-Gebühren fließen. Diese Praxis kannte ich bisher nur von MDPI oder Frontiers. Die Preise bei Wiley für das Journal: $3840 oder 3190€. Ich glaube wir alle wissen, wie diese Preise zu bewerten sind ...“
[1] https://dailynous.com/2023/04/27/wiley-removes-goodin-as-editor-of-the-journal-of-political-philosophy/

2022 retro-link! https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/09/bet-you-cant-solve-these-9-dependency.html - 9 puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence.

Since it came up in another thread I thought it'd be useful to quote W.E.B. Du Bois on the American Dream. This is from Black Reconstruction in America:
"Behind this extraordinary industrial development, as justification in the minds of men, lay what we may call the great American Assumption, which up to the time of the Civil War, was held more or less explicitly by practically all Americans. The American Assumption was that wealth is mainly the result of its owner’s effort and that any average worker can by thrift become a capitalist. The curious thing about this assumption was that while it was not true, it was undoubtedly more nearly true in America from 1820 to 1860 than in any other contemporary land. It was not true and not recognized as true during Colonial times; but with the opening of the West and the expanding industry of the twenties, and coincident with the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, it was a fact that often a poor white man in America by thrift and saving could obtain land and capital; and by intelligence and good luck he could become a small capitalist and even a rich man; and conversely a careless spendthrift though rich might become a pauper, since hereditary safeguards for property had little legal sanction.
Thus arose the philosophy of “shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves,” on which the American theory of compensated democracy was built. It asked simply, in eighteenth century accents, freedom from government interference with individual ventures, and a voice in the selection of government officials. The continued freedom of economic opportunity and ever possible increase of industrial income, it took for granted. This attitude was back of the adoption of universal suffrage, the disappearance of compulsory military service and imprisonment for debt, which characterized Jacksonian democracy. The American Assumption was contemporary with the Cotton Kingdom, which was its most sinister contradiction. The new captains of industry in the North were largely risen from the laboring class and thus living proof of the ease of capitalistic accumulation. The validity of the American Assumption ceased with the Civil War, but its tradition lasted down to the day of the Great Depression, when it died with a great wail of despair, not so much from bread lines and soup kitchens, as from poor and thrifty bank depositors and small investors."
#AmericanDream #WEBDuBois #Reconstruction #BlackReconstructionInAmerica