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Hoarding syndrome is considered a psychiatric condition, not a crisis for democracy itself
-- with one giant exception:
When people with hoarding syndrome are born with or come into massive wealth
-- suddenly what was once a personal, psychiatric issue can become a crisis for all of society.
It happens every few generations.
It’s what drove the fascist oligarchs of the Confederacy to reach out and try to conquer the entire United States in the 1860s.
It …

The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat
How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.

Look, even Venezuela manages to look like the adults in the room now.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/europe-news-vn516gnfz/-/a-prgqbz7fTrSLB18YxgsiGA:a:89340020-/0

Venezuela warns citizens not to travel to US
Caracas also urged Venezuelans living in the US to return, calling it a 'dangerous country'. The Venezuelan government has told its citizens to avoid …

"How farmers are becoming unexpected heroes in the bird migration crisis"
#Birds #Farming #Agriculture

How farmers are becoming unexpected heroes in the bird migration crisis
Across the Americas, rice and crawfish farmers are helping keep migrating birds alive by transforming their land into makeshift wetlands.Lela Nargi reports for Knowable Magazine.In short:Bird populations like ducks, cranes, and sandpipers are plummeting as wetlands vanish due to climate change and d...

Paris' public prosecutor says it charged 25 people, including six minors, over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting crypto executives (Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2

France charges 25 suspects in crypto abduction cases
The Paris public prosecutor said 18 people were placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday after a spate of kidnappings, successful and attempted, related to those in the crypto world.

Fuck Liz Truss
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKWtxobNcx_/

Christian Stöcker on Instagram: "Quiz Questions: Who wrote this deranged but familiar sounding treatise about a „globalist“ (read: Jewish) conspiracy that „hates western civilization“ and is trying to take over the world? I‘ll give you a second to think about it. The answer is: @trussliz, the former (salad survival length) Prime Minister of the UK. The (very real) international conspiracy of far right pro fossil fuel crazies is taking root everywhere. It showed its face at #CPAC. These people want what #Trump does, but everywhere."
22 likes, 0 comments - chrisstoecker on June 1, 2025: "Quiz Questions: Who wrote this deranged but familiar sounding treatise about a „globalist“ (read: Jewish) conspiracy that „hates western civilization“ and is trying to take over the world? I‘ll give you a second to think about it. The answer is: @trussliz, the former (salad survival length) Prime Minister of the UK. The (very real) international conspiracy of far right pro fossil fuel crazies is taking root everywhere. It showe…

The Ultimate Test of Superintelligent AI Agents: Can an AI Balance Care and Control in Asymmetric Relationships?
Djallel Bouneffouf, Matthew Riemer, Kush Varshney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01813

The Ultimate Test of Superintelligent AI Agents: Can an AI Balance Care and Control in Asymmetric Relationships?
This paper introduces the Shepherd Test, a new conceptual test for assessing the moral and relational dimensions of superintelligent artificial agents. The test is inspired by human interactions with animals, where ethical considerations about care, manipulation, and consumption arise in contexts of asymmetric power and self-preservation. We argue that AI crosses an important, and potentially dangerous, threshold of intelligence when it exhibits the ability to manipulate, nurture, and instrumen…

Collimation of Fast Radio Burster 20201124A; Repeaters vs. Apparent Non-Repeaters
J. I. Katz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24082 https://

Collimation of Fast Radio Burster 20201124A; Repeaters vs. Apparent Non-Repeaters
The recent report of a period in the active repeating Fast Radio Burster 20201124A and measurement of its spindown rate place bounds on the solid angle of its emission on the basis of energetics. The bound depends on the (unknown) efficiency of conversion of rotational energy to coherent radio emission and implies a lower bound on the Lorentz factor of the radiating charges. Bursts may be emitted along the magnetic dipole axis, in repeaters aligned with the rotational axis and the line of sight…

Exploring the keV-scale physics potential of CUORE
CUORE Collaboration, D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso, A. Armatol, F. T. Avignone III, O. Azzolini, G. Bari, F. Bellini, G. Benato, M. Beretta, M. Biassoni, A. Branca, C. Brofferio, C. Bucci, J. Camilleri, A. Caminata, A. Campani, J. Cao, C. Capelli, S. Capelli, L. Cappelli, L. Cardani, P. Carniti, N. Casali, E. Celi, D. Chiesa, M. Clemenza, S. Copello, A. Cosoli, O. Cremonesi, R. J. Creswick, A. DAddabbo, I. Dafinei, S. DellOro, S.…

Exploring the keV-scale physics potential of CUORE
We present the analysis techniques developed to explore the keV-scale energy region of the CUORE experiment, based on more than 2 tonne yr of data collected over 5 years. By prioritizing a stricter selection over a larger exposure, we are able to optimize data selection for thresholds at 10 keV and 3 keV with 691 kg yr and 11 kg yr of data, respectively. We study how the performance varies among the 988-detector array with different detector characteristics and data taking conditions. We achiev…

Simulating Complex Crossectional and Longitudinal Data using the simDAG R Package
Robin Denz, Nina Timmesfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01498 https://

Simulating Complex Crossectional and Longitudinal Data using the simDAG R Package
Generating artificial data is a crucial step when performing Monte-Carlo simulation studies. Depending on the planned study, complex data generation processes (DGP) containing multiple, possibly time-varying, variables with various forms of dependencies and data types may be required. Simulating data from such DGP may therefore become a difficult and time-consuming endeavor. The simDAG R package offers a standardized approach to generate data from simple and complex DGP based on the definition …

Turkish authorities ordered the detention of several opposition party members in Istanbul
and raided opposition-run municipalities on Saturday, state media said,
part of a widening legal crackdown against the opposition and city's jailed mayor.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is also President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and leads him in some polls, was jailed in March pending trial over charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, all of which h…

Turkish authorities order detention of dozens of opposition officials in widening crackdown
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish authorities ordered the detention of several opposition party members in Istanbul and raided opposition-run municipalities on...