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#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
SOOLIN: Just like that.
AVON: More or less. He is strongly identified with rebels, you see, and very popular with rabbles. They will follow him, and he will fight to the last drop of their blood. [smiles] Idealism is a wonderful thing. All you really need is someone rational to put it to proper use.

from my link log —
Self-distancing: what it is and how you can use it to make better decisions.
https://effectiviology.com/self-distancing-rational-decisions/
saved 2019-05-26

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@btp/116145130797507813
In a rational world, this would torpedo any hope Newsome has for the Presidential nomination on account of how utterly stupid and ignorant it is.
If only we lived in a rational world.

Medienkompetenz ist wichtig, da Parteien wie die AfD sich immer gegen Ereignisse positionieren und in jeder Darstellung ihre Ansicht als selbstverständlich, rational, oder normal darstellen, anders als alle anderen welche „ideologisch” oder „politisch” sind. Die AfD doch niemals!
Dabei haben sie über ihr Framing diese unreale Situation lediglich erst geschaffen, um sich dann über ihre selbst konstruierte Welt aufzuregen.
In ihrer öffentlich ausgetragenen Wut wird demnach nicht…

Inte helt originellt, liknande teorier finns ju sedan tidigare, men ändå tänkvärd text. ”Rational depends on the system you’re in. So if you’re in the spheres-of-influence system, this might not appear rational, but if you’re in this neo-royalist structure, it’s perfectly rational.” https://www.

Last night, I was reading a book that contained this passage about Mussolini, and it took me an hour to fully grasp what this meant:
"[his 2-year stay in Switzerland] had initiated Mussolini to a form of revolutionary socialism based not on materialism or orthodox Marxism, but on a cocktail of voluntarists and anti-rational principles derived from Pareto, Le Bon, Nietzsche, and Sorel"

A theory of why Mark Carney's speech at Davos mattered: because it countered Trump's attempt to impose a new conventional wisdom, at the place where he knew everyone who mattered would be, by standing up to him and giving a name to concepts that had previously been vague and inchoate. Because the time and place where the king says "you all understand that I'm the King" is precisely where you have the greatest opportunity to reject that narrative.

Rachel Dratch also has a podcast now as of 8 days ago and it only has 600 subscribers on youtube!
#comedy

RE: https://mastodon.art/@NickEast_IndieWriter/115949652542395796
Interesting quote.
I wonder how much of science actually happens in this way, while we all think we're being such rational intellectuals.

Link to Bill McKibben's always worthwhile site
https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/we-interrupt-the-madness-for-a-note?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Feal:
🎵 THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
#TheFeal
https://themurderburgers.bandcamp.com/album/the-murderburgers-rational-anthem-make-a-deal-to-do-cool-shit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aBdEdM0HV5x0hJwtuoZqW

Already 6 years old, so not even taking into account post-2022 hyperscaling, this is a sobering, very rational and well argued 20 min presentation for some cold flush reality check of the hot fever dreams of AI proponents (and all YOLO energy/resource guzzlers of any walk/standing):
Blip (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd…

E-Autos laden ist nicht wie Tanken – und genau das macht die Sache kompliziert. 🚗⚡
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11111843

@… if you say I’m the same as someone who has directly endangered my loved ones, who I paid a significant social cost for calling out when nobody else was, I’m not going to be calm and rational about it! I’m okay with looking like an asshole about it!

Jesus fuck. We don’t suddenly expect rational, well-considered options from Reddit of all places now, do we? https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115907834493594403

Reversible Weighted Automata over Finite Rings and Monoids with Commuting Idempotents
Peter Kostol\'anyi, Andrej Ravinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09409 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.09409 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.09409
arXiv:2601.09409v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reversible weighted automata are introduced and considered in a specific setting where the weights are taken from a nontrivial locally finite commutative ring such as a finite field. It is shown that the supports of series realised by such automata are precisely the rational languages such that the idempotents in their syntactic monoids commute. In particular, this is true for reversible weighted automata over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_2$, where the realised series can be directly identified with such languages. A new automata-theoretic characterisation is thus obtained for the variety of rational languages corresponding to the pseudovariety of finite monoids $\mathbf{ECom}$, which also forms the Boolean closure of the reversible languages in the sense of J.-\'E. Pin. The problem of determining whether a rational series over a locally finite commutative ring can be realised by a reversible weighted automaton is decidable as a consequence.
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Minimize dependency on the irrational nation states, build deterrence against aggression, build alliances with other trustworthy rational nations.
The UNSC has been less and less relevant and is now largely useless.

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Minimize dependency on the irrational nation states, build deterrence against aggression, build alliances with other trustworthy rational nations.
The UNSC has been less and less relevant and is now largely useless.

"In deutschsprachigen Qualitätsleitmedien taucht der Begriff Demenz in Verbindung mit dem Namen Trump in jüngerer Zeit kaum auf."
Sanewashing der Medien im Falle Trump: Irrwitzige Aussagen und Handlungen werden von Qaulitätsmedien "rein gewaschen", werden rational dargestellt und emotionalisiert . Die Boulevardmedien und die asozialen Medien zuspitzen sagen emotional zu.
Meinung: Sascha Lobo: Donald

Full disclosure in computer security still exists and is complementary to other disclosure models. The evolution of vulnerability disclosure is not linear from full disclosure to responsible disclosure to coordinated disclosure. These models coexist and all need to be taken into account.
You can’t just say “the legal framework will solve it” or “just do coordinated disclosure.” Vendors, researchers, and users are not all rational actors playing the same game.
Vulnerability disclo…

Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against
flu-like illnesses including Covid,
and should be replaced by respirator-level masks
– worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient,
according to a group of experts urging changes to World Health Organization guidelines.
There is “no rational justification remaining for prioritising or using”
the surgical masks that are ubiquitous in hospitals and clinics globally,
given …

Steve Shives is a gift of rational thought in an increasing depressing & often toxic fandom.
I hated Star Trek Section 31. It doesn't mean it's "not Star Trek".
▶️ To Haters of New Star Trek
https://youtube.com/shorts/O8QIfxNkp54?si=9unevELSzVMrT…

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
JUSTIN: Well, there's no need. I've developed painless brain grafts for the others. All Og needs is psycho instruction.
DAYNA: You're so rational about it all.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/243 B7B4

It may well be that the so-called political elite surrounding Darth #Trump is currently incapable of rational thinking and is causing a lot of damage (including to US interests). But I believe that there are still strategists, particularly in the military (who are not related to Trump ;-), who will ultimately step in to put the brakes on.
Trump's EU policy is also damaging US interests enormou…

I recently watched a Veritasium video that touches on Braess's Paradox[1]: sometimes removing connections (eg roads) makes things faster.
The part that caught my attention was "even though every driver made a rational decision to minimize their own time, collectively it made the situation worse."
IOW, proof that adding up everyone's self interested actions does NOT lead to the best outcome. aka,

Partial fraction decompositions on hyperplane arrangements
Claire de Korte, Teresa Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06531 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06531 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06531
arXiv:2602.06531v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We initiate the study of partial fraction decompositions (PFDs) in several variables using tools from commutative algebra. We give criteria for when a rational function with poles on a hyperplane arrangement has a desirable PFD. Our criteria are obtained by examining the primary decomposition of ideals coming from hyperplane arrangements. We then present an algorithm for finding a PFD that satisfies properties desired by physicists, and demonstrate the effectiveness of this algorithm for computing large examples coming from Feynman integrals.
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On Dynamic Programming Theory for Leader-Follower Stochastic Games
Jilles Steeve Dibangoye, Thibaut Le Marre, Ocan Sankur, Fran\c{c}ois Schwarzentruber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05667 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05667 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05667
arXiv:2512.05667v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Leader-follower general-sum stochastic games (LF-GSSGs) model sequential decision-making under asymmetric commitment, where a leader commits to a policy and a follower best responds, yielding a strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) with leader-favourable tie-breaking. This paper introduces a dynamic programming (DP) framework that applies Bellman recursion over credible sets-state abstractions formally representing all rational follower best responses under partial leader commitments-to compute SSEs. We first prove that any LF-GSSG admits a lossless reduction to a Markov decision process (MDP) over credible sets. We further establish that synthesising an optimal memoryless deterministic leader policy is NP-hard, motivating the development of {\epsilon}-optimal DP algorithms with provable guarantees on leader exploitability. Experiments on standard mixed-motive benchmarks-including security games, resource allocation, and adversarial planning-demonstrate empirical gains in leader value and runtime scalability over state-of-the-art methods.
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