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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
Now that proper researchers say what we've been repeating for at least a decade, wi…

A post from the archive 📫:
View the origin of a repeating call stack
#debugging

Trump says first lady 'hates when I do this' in public -- the moment he can't help repeating (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-first-lady-hates-when-i-do-this-public-moment-he-cant-help-repeating
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p74#a260106p74

"The study of programming history might not be the solution to all the problems in our industry, for sure. It is also worth pointing out that most university curricula simply do not include any mention whatsoever of such subjects. Maybe it is time to start providing such information to students."
https://dep…

History Repeating
Somehow we all agree about the importance of history in our society. We teach it to our younger ones, we quote it in our speeches, we talk about it during our dinners. Maybe it is because we had to memorize the names of battles fought ages ago, and we expect to capitalize on that fact to appear wise (if not arrogant) to others. We might even agree with history itself, shaking our heads in dismay to some extent, as we see the events unfolding nowadays. A phenomenon which, by all measures, tends …

Magnetars in Binaries as the Engine of Actively Repeating #FastRadioBursts: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1023 -> A Unified Explanation for Fast Radio Bursts: https://aasnova.org/2025/12/10/a-unified-explanation-for-fast-radio-bursts/

"Actuellement, l'Europe est en train de se suicider par peur de la mort. Au lieu d'avoir peur de tout, l'Europe devrait partir de deux hypothèses certes discutables : la Russie est trop faible pour conquérir l'Europe, et les États-Unis sont trop faibles pour dominer le monde."
https:…

Adolf Hitler was an evil, destructive monster responsible for unimaginable human suffering, and the uneducated people who rally behind the American Hitler today are repeating history out of ignorance, fear, and willful blindness.
#Fascism #USA

What @… says here always bears repeating.
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https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/115832301674822499

Lately, my life has become an ocean of words—nothing but words, words, words to the vast horizon. This has me longing to just look, just see.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/just-seeing-vija-celmins

Just Seeing: Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins repeating ocean surfaces

“It bears repeating that President Zelenskyy agreed to a Christmas truce,
but Putin declined,
yet he directs soldiers to continue to commit brutal crimes of aggression on one of Christianity’s holiest days.
“Even for countries at war, there is a long history of Christmas ceasefires, including notably during World War I.
Today’s decision by Putin to launch attacks rather than hold fire is a sobering reminder for us all:
Putin is a ruthless murderer who has no inte…

Ranking Member Shaheen, Senators Tillis, Rosen, Barrasso, Coons, King, Moran, Merkley, Van Hollen Statement on Russia’s Christmas Bombing of Ukraine | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), Jacky Rosen...

Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

It needs repeating time and again—the "clash of cultures" isn't about "differing opinions".
One side wants to treat people respectfully and be welcoming and kind and have a fun time.
The other side wants to remove (deny medical care, disenfranchise, lock away, deport, kill, genocide etc.) people they don't like.
This isn't politics, and when someone claims it is and you take them at their word, you've already lost.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Propellerheads:
🎵 History Repeating (feat. Shirley Bassey)
#Propellerheads
https://propellerheads.bandcamp.com/album/history-repeating
https://open.spotify.com/track/56jlrdCvA7Ih13L9OMcfDS

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/features/825207/semiconduct…

The new silicon valley (literally)
The US wants to make its own chips again. Will it bring back manufacturing jobs? Or guzzle up too much water in the desert? Can the semiconductor industry avoid repeating the same mistakes it made in Silicon Valley?  

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Propellerheads feat. Shirley Bassey:
🎵 History Repeating
#Propellerheads #ShirleyBassey
https://propellerheads.bandcamp.com/track/history-repeating-ankle-length-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/56jlrdCvA7Ih13L9OMcfDS

The Global Industry Summit is bringing together an unprecedented coalition to solve a critical challenge: how can developing nations raise living standards without repeating the fossil-fuel mistakes of industrialized countries?
Governments, business leaders, and innovators will collaborate on low-carbon alternatives that deliver prosperity without the pollution. It's about finding climate solutions that work for both people and the planet.

"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"

Good on Biffa. Their renewed commitment to customer service means they won't 'action' my email. Instead I can use their portal, only I can't because I'm not an existing customer. But that's okay because I can use their phone line instead, which forever send me through a loop of repeating menus and never puts me through to someone. Well done Biffa, you are beyond parody and clearly don't want any new customers. And I thought Veolia were shit. Well they were, but B…

My TL is full of people making these connections: white supremacy, oligarchs ending democracy, the US has never been a democracy for everyone, Jim Crow was the model the Nazis followed, etc. All important. All worth repeating over and over.
(“Broken record therapy,” my dad says: just keep saying it until they hear it.)
I’m bookmarking this particularly essay for the way it gathers the pieces in one place, the way it brings the history and the present into a single clear picture.
/end

Recommendations include —
•Avoid repeating misinfo w/o correction
•Leverage trusted sources to counter misinformation & provide accurate health info
•Debunk misinformation often &repeatedly w/ evidence-based methods
**•Fund basic & translational
research on the psychology of health misinformation , including effective ways to counter it **

Sander van der Linden (@profsanderlinden.bsky.social)
Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - https://awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2026-77135-001.pdf

A brilliant feature in Mastodon to be able to filter away keywords.
I see you all next week w/r to certain outages. A bit tiring to have a flood of messages repeating basically two things: there's an outage and i didn't know Signal's servers were in the US.
Back to interesting content!

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Moody Urbanity - Action Required III 🧭
情绪化城市 - 行动指南 III 🧭
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Shirley Bassey:
🎵 Something
#ShirleyBassey
https://1000percentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/history-repeating-theres-something-about-mary

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Part of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol