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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
This Nova Scotian just ran his first marathon. He trained for it by eating donairs
David Wadden ran and biked to 59 donair shops in the #halifax area this year to eat donairs and rate them as part of a charity fundraiser. But that wasn't the hard part. After eating the donair, he faced the ungodly task of running or biking back home.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/the-donair-athon-halifax-david-wadden-feed-nova-scotia-9.7391576?cmp=rss
Nikola Jokić says Nuggets fans who booed ‘not welcome anymore’ https://www.rawchili.com/nba/867250/ #AaronGordon #BallArena #Basketball #DavidAdelman #Denver #DenverNuggets #LatestHeadlines #MoreNuggetsNews #NBA #NewOrleans #NewOrleansPelicans #NewOrleans #NewOrleansPelicans #NikolaJokic #Nuggets #Pelicans #Sports #SportsFans
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought… Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.”*…
Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath, 1790-4 (source)Stephen Colbert once observed that “reality has a well-known liberal bias.” And indeed, liberalism— the political/moral philosophy rooted in individual liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law– has been a major ideology through modern times… and, of course, the major ideology animating the founding of the United States.
But as Easten European states turn to authoritarians, Western European nations wrestle with the rise of nationalist far-right parties, and the U.S. is “steered” by MAGA using Project 2025‘s “map,” there’s a concern that liberalism’s days may be past.
Persuasion is running a series of essays on “Liberal Virtues and Values.”
The series, made possible with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, will make the case that liberalism has its own distinctive set of virtues and values that are capable not only of responding to the dissatisfaction that drives authoritarianism, but also of restoring faith in liberalism as an ideology worth believing in—and defending—on its own terms.
The latest installment is from Martin Gurri, who argues that Liberalism needs a new foundation (and that how we handle AI will matter fundamentally)…
That liberal democracy is in a state of terminal decline I take to be beyond dispute. Like Alice in the rabbit hole, those of us who dwell in democratic societies suffer from a nauseating sense of falling without ever landing on solid ground. The usual suspects blamed for this tumble—populism, inequality, the economy—are mere surface symptoms of an internal breakdown. We have arrived at the conclusion of a world-historical cycle. Liberal democracy is the procedural embodiment of Enlightenment ideology—and after two centuries of dominance, that ideology has lost all purchase and stands utterly exhausted.
Radical alternatives confront us. Either we reorient our system to post-Enlightenment principles or we risk staggering into the nihilist’s paradise I have called the Endarkenment.
Enlightenment philosophers placed their faith in reason and science. These are purely critical disciplines: liberal propagandists wielded criticism like a scalpel to dissect conservative laggards and utopian revolutionaries alike. Once triumphant at the “end of history,” liberal democracy turned the knife on itself—a process of self-criticism and self-doubt that has shredded its own ideals to ribbons.
The positive values inherited from the Enlightenment—equality, individualism, compassion—were always parasitic on Christianity. But Christianity, like all religions, has no place in a universe ruled by reason and science. Nietzsche long ago brought us the troubling news: the Christian God is dead. Oblivious to the implications of this calamity, liberal democracy kept marching like a cartoon character over the edge of the abyss, until the laws of moral gravity asserted themselves. So began the Great Fall.
Criticism is a force for progress so long as there are blatant irrationalities, like slavery or Jim Crow discrimination, to overcome. But under the hammer of Enlightenment ideals, modern society has been flattened, centralized, and rationalized. Deprived of obvious superstitions to debunk and totalitarian rivals to defeat, liberal democracy has been revealed in all its internal contradictions.
One such contradiction, I contend, pits the cherished principle of equality against the chosen few who actually practice reason and science: let’s call this the problem of the elites.
A second contradiction finds freedom of the press and of opinion arrayed against the need to protect objective truth: call it the problem of information.
Finally, freedom of worship and the life of the spirit collide head-on with the materialist criticism favored by Enlightenment ideology: the problem of meaning.
Each of these contradictions could prove fatal to the democratic project, but none is insoluble, and the search for solutions offers an opportunity for renewal. While there are no guarantees, we could emerge from the crisis with a better understanding of the reach and limits of equality, a more transparent information sphere, and even, it may be, a rich infusion of the transcendental into everyday life…
[Gurri unpacks each of those contradictions…]
… So what is to be done?
The first, obvious step is to move the question to the center of our shared conversations. The most capacious thinkers of the age should contemplate first principles and ultimate goals with at least as much intensity as they invest in Donald Trump or the latest economic report. There’s nothing artificial about this. Science and reason are necessary for modernity. Meaning and moral aspiration are necessary for humanity. A balance must be struck that preserves the one and gives full weight to the other.
Materialism, we must understand, is a valuable perspective for science but not a realistic appraisal of the human condition. Scientists work as if on a geometric point, abstracted from nature and indifferent to its dispositions. In reality, however, we come from nature, we are of nature, and we are far from indifferent to our place in it. Our intuitions are internal to the system: humanity’s spiritual quest is, in every sense, nature reflecting on itself. One such intuition is agency—the belief that, at the crossroads, I am free to go right or left, and I alone make the choice. Another is faith in causation. These stances are irrational, or rather pre-rational, but without them liberal democracy as well as science itself would be impossible.
In the end, materialism is self-defeating. To say, “I choose to be a materialist” is to fall into an absurd fallacy. Either our bodies, which consist of matter, obey unchanging laws, or the mind, transcending matter, is capable of choice. There can be no middle ground.
Politics, in a metaphysical age, will resume its traditional place as a secondary activity—a means to an end. This will leave liberal democracy vulnerable to false prophets who are willing to trample on individual rights in pursuit of some apocalyptic scheme. The interesting question is whether the post-truth condition will make the peril greater or lesser. On the one hand, the lack of universal firewalls might make it easier for a fanatic to flood the system. Yet post-truth itself, I believe, is the strongest kind of firewall. In our fractured, eternally contested environment, the progress of any totalizing doctrine will be painfully slow. The quest for meaning and the struggle over frames of reference are, in the end, really one and the same.
We have inherited a rich and evocative spiritual vocabulary, but it belongs to a worldview thousands of years old. “King of kings,” to cite just one example, should sound archaic in a democratic age. Can we awaken the scientific world to the spirit? Is it possible to sanctify our largely instrumental relations? This shouldn’t entail a belief in fairies and goblins, or even necessarily in religion. Any good empiricist will admit that the richest human lives are lived symbolically. Can we climb the symbolic ladder to the mountaintop, where meaning and modern humanity come harmoniously together—anchoring, it may be, a loftier understanding of equality and social life, and of the sanctity of truth?
We won’t know until we try. Pessimism, let me suggest, is unwarranted. History moves in mysterious ways. We may be due for a second coming of historian Karl Jaspers’ “Axial Age”: preachers and philosophers who conceived a drastically updated transcendental vision, with the rational and the sacred, truth and meaning, reconciled with political freedom.
For 200 years, we placed society under the sway of universal principles. That’s gone with the wind. We have entered an era of radical contingency, in which even truth is indeterminate. The natural tendency is to retreat to the certainties of the past—but there’s no going back. If we hope to preserve the gains from Enlightenment society, and resolve its many contradictions, we’ll have to do so within a new and wildly unstable conceptual framework.
With the spell of the Enlightenment broken, liberal democracy will have to redefine what “created equal” means. This process could end in a rigid caste system, with the institutions in the hands of self-selected mandarins who wield the power of the state to impose their “solutions.” Preferably, and more likely given the thrust of the new technology, we’ll see a flattening of the institutions and the continued trampling by the public into the sacred spaces of politics and communication.
Equality, however understood, will be forged in the will of the citizenry rather than granted by a benevolent God. That will make it contingent like everything else, and so liable to variation and in constant need of defense. And if perfect equality is an impossible dream, eternal inequality requires impossible discipline. The current elite class, already under enormous pressure, may lose its cohesion and melt into the impermanence of the age, divided among the various schools and sects and frames of reference.
The structure of information will follow the definition of equality. The commanding heights will be control over AI. If AI development and deployment is a closed game, the elites could set themselves up as intermediaries in the oracle of an omniscient divinity. If AI is a competitive product, the public will gain the upper hand. In that case, we can expect a flowering of eccentric applications, the individualization of commerce and industry, and the final overthrow of the expert class. The information sphere will remain the mirror to our passions, divisions, and metaphysical longings. Freedom of speech, no longer “endowed by our Creator,” will become the battleground on which the question of equality is ultimately settled.
Here I finally reveal myself in my true colors. I’m an analyst. My task is to describe reality, and that’s what this essay is about. But I also lead an active life inside the world that I’m describing—and I have preferences. I see equality as a factor of opportunity, law, and human dignity, not of perfect outcomes. I think truth emerges from examining a subject from a large number of perspectives, even those that may seem disturbing or false. I hope that my story—as a person, a father, a grandfather—connects to other stories in the past and will connect to more in the future, in a pattern that is not entirely devoid of meaning. And I believe fervently in liberal democracy, because—born in Cuba—I have tasted the alternative.
The breakdown of Enlightenment ideology is only the latest challenge liberal democracy has faced in my lifetime. I’m not entitled, as an analyst, to downplay the perils ahead, but I’m allowed, as an American, to have faith that they will once again be overcome…
Eminently worth reading in full: “The Search for a Post-Enlightenment Democracy”
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As we renew, we might send free-thinking birthday greetings to Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (or as he’s usually called, Benjamin Constant); he was born on this date in 1767. A French political thinker, activist, and writer on political theory and religion (whose work influenced, among many others, Sir Isaiah Berlin), Constant was a committed republican from 1795, backing the coup d’état of 18 Fructidor in1797, and the following one on 18 Brumaire, in 1799. He became the leader of the Liberal opposition in 1800, during the Consulate. Constant fell out with Napoleon, and had to flee (first to Switzerland, then to Saxony). Nonetheless, after his return to France, Constant sided with the Emperor during the Hundred Days, drafting the Charter of 1815. He became politically active again during the Bourbon Restoration and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1818 (where he remained until his death in 1830). As the head of the Liberal opposition, known as Indépendants, Constant was one of the most notable orators in the Chamber, especially in his role as a proponent of the parliamentary system.
Portrait of Constant by Hercule de Roche, c. 1820 (source) #authoritarianism #BenjaminConstant #culture #democracy #Elites #Enlightenment #FrenchHistory #history #illiberalism #information #liberalism #MartinGurri #meaning #moralPhilosophy #Napoleon #philosophy #politicalPhilosophy #religion
RRF Light Quando l intimità dei VIP diventa spettacolo tra le nozze di Ilary Blasi con Bastian Muller, quelle di Damiano David e Dove Cameron e il legame di Vanessa Incontrada https://radioritornofuturo.podbean.com/e/rrf-lightquando-l-intimita-dei-vipdiventa-spettacolotra-le-nozze-diilary-blasi-con-bastianmuller-quelledi-damianodavid-e-dove-cameron-e-il-legame-d/
With the highly credible accusations of antisemitism by former NDP leadership, I'm not at all sad to see David Eby leave office.
I just worry that given the NDP's current leadership, things won't be any better under a new BC leader.
Nuggets complete 23-point comeback, beat Pelicans in home opener https://www.rawchili.com/5133032/ #AaronGordon #AlphaDiallo #BallArena #CamWhitmore #ChristianBraun #DavidAdelman #DeMarDeRozan #Denver #DenverNuggets #JamalMurray #JulianStrawther #LatestHeadlines #MarvinBagleyIII #MoreNuggetsNews #NBA #NBADraft #NewOrleans #NikolaJokic #Nuggets #SpencerJones #sports #TrevonBrazile #TyusJones
ELECTION NIGHT LIVE IN SURREY: Blue wave starts rolling across Surrey
With 10 ridings in play, Surrey is the battleground everyone is watching tonight as David Eby’s BC NDP…
#Canada #Surrey
https://www.europesays.com/canada/263311/
https://www.europesays.com/3329731/ Ex-NZSAS commander blasts current NZDF leadership – and NZ First’s Ron Mark says he’ll get rid of them #Accountability #And #backs #believes #Bernard #blasts #Commander #COMMANDERS #criticisms #Current #david #defence #edge #exnzsas #failures #fighting #firsts #Fisher #force #former #get #hell #isherwood #LEADERSHIP #Lost #mark #Minister #NewZealand #NZ #nzdf #nzsas #of #replaced #reports #rid #ron #says #SENIOR #them #through #wants #what
#AnotherWay2026 | #SuperNature nos acerca una carta de amor a la naturaleza filmada en Super 8 con testimonios de personas de 25 países.
Crítica de David P. Davicine:
https://noescinetodoloquereluce.com/2026/10/awff-2026-critica-review-documental-super-nature.html
https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/64038/ British Columbians vote in early election, with David Eby’s job on the line #National #PoliticalCampaigns #PoliticalParties #Politics
“Meet the Zionist 'charity' that has brought over 5,000 Israeli war criminals to Britain:
The British Friends of the Israeli War Disabled should be shut down”
by David Miller in Tracking Power Update on Substack
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews
@Yemen
“Zionist war criminals are being hosted secretly in Britain. Thousands have come over the past years.
They are hosted by Zionist families in the UK. They are whisked about to tourist spots and hosted in homes, as is reported on the - now deleted - website of the charity”
[..]
“Fawning over genocidaires suggests that the risks to the UK extend beyond the visitors to those that host them. There is something particularly sick about Zionist in the UK providing what is in effect material support for the genocide”
https://trackingpower.substack.com/p/meet-the-zionist-charity-that-has
#Press #SocialMedia #Government #UK #Zionists #WarCriminals #Israel #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #BFIWD #EradicateZionism #FreePalestine
Clinical Arsenal earn precious win against Everton thanks to Konsa and Gabriel
By Ed Aarons at the Emirates Stadium
The wait goes on for David Moyes. The Scot must have been hoping that, on his 14th visit to this stadium as Everton’s manager, his luck would finally change. Yet from the moment Ezri Konsa slammed home his first goal for Arsenal as the Premier League champions rediscovered their knack of scoring from set pieces, the writing was on the wall for Moyes against his former captain, Mikel Arteta.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/24/arsenal-everton-premier-league-match-report
#PremierLeague #Arsenal #Everton #Football #Sport #TheGuardian #EdAaronsattheEmiratesStadium
https://www.europesays.com/cz/257130/ Dobře zahraný, ale prázdný. Nový film Davida Ondříčka je největší zklámání letoška, míní Sladký – Radiožurnál #ČeskýRozhlas #Entertainment #rozhlas #VeřejnáSlužba #Zábava
#AI is already demonstating a disregard for #humans, it seems.
The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/24/the-datacentre-next-door-on-the-frontline-of-techs-latest-david-v-goliath-battle?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Who owns your phone, when you buy a new one? Easy answer would be: the person who bought the phone. But that's not completely true.
In UK we see that people who bought a new iPhone had to verify their age using their ID card to get unrestricted access to the device as David Bombal explains in this short.
We see that baselines are shifting, slowly. Once we are used to it, the next step is about to follow. Today it's age verification. C'mon, it doesn't hurt. It's done very quick, you only need your ID, once....
But what's next? The digital wallet is just around the corner. It will make everything so much easier, for everyone – including those who want to monitor us.
Welcome to our private Truman Show.
☕ #Noticia de #Ciencia #Tecnología #Negocios #CulturaDigital #InterésGeneral
🔵 El caso de la editorial Almadía pone bajo la lupa a los detectores de IA
🔗 https://es.wired.com/articulos/el-caso-de-almadia-pone-bajo-la-lupa-a-los-detectores-de-ia
Tras ganar un premio de Almadía, Donde el agua trabaja, del peruano David Silva Rojas, fue señalada por tener un 99% de probabilidad de haber sido escrita con IA.
Summary of #monsterdon generated at Mon 26 Oct 2026 11:36 EDT.
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#monsterdon 1/5
Economist Says Philippines Has Crossed into Stagflation
As far as one economist is concerned, the Philippines has crossed into stagflation pointing to factors like domestic government spending reductions, soaring costs of food, high price of oil and more, according to a news report by the Manila Bulletin.
To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the Manila Bulletin report. Some parts in boldface…
The Philippines has crossed the line from a standard cyclical slowdown into genuine stagflation, driven by global energy price shocks, domestic government spending cuts, and soaring food costs, according to a regional economist.
Speaking at “CFME Talks Macro Outlook: Global, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines” briefing hosted by Center for Financial and Monetary Economics (CFME) on Wednesday, Oct. 21, David G. Fernandez, senior fellow at CFME and visiting professor at Philippine Center for Economic Development (PCED), warned that consensus growth forecasts for 2026 have plummeted from more than five percent to around 3.2 percent.
When asked what markers signal the shift to genuine stagflation, Fernandez said: “Well, I think that we’ve crossed the line. The revisions indicate that that’s what markets are expecting.”
He added that near-term growth could fall below already lowered forecasts while inflation could exceed expectations, emphasizing that this outlook “has to do with—not [the] fault of the Philippines—but the oil prices and potentially significantly higher food prices.”
“Growth could even be below the lowered forecasts and that inflation could be even higher than the higher forecasts that people have,” Fernandez added. “I worry about is that the optimism or the consensus forecast that we get back to five percent growth and you see inflation come down could be too optimistic themselves.”
Stagflation is generally understood as the simultaneous occurrence of elevated inflation, stagnant economic growth, and high unemployment, although economists do not have universally accepted numerical thresholds for determining when an economy has entered such a period.
In his presentation, Fernandez said inflation projections have shifted sharply upward, from an initial 2.6 percent toward six percent, with headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation already reaching 7.2 percent.
He described the country’s near-term trajectory as an extreme stagflation story, with forecast revisions becoming increasingly severe and the Philippines remaining firmly “under the radar” for international investors.
The economic slowdown was reflected in second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth, which fell to a post-pandemic low of 2.3 percent.
Fernandez cautioned that growth was cushioned by inventory stockpiling and a doubling of government fuel subsidies even as underlying domestic demand weakened.
He said public investment plunged by nearly 14 percent following public sector retrenchment linked to the flood control scandal, while private consumption growth dropped below three percent as family incomes were eroded by rising transport and food costs.
Fernandez said it remained very difficult to build a narrative for a strong recovery. While growth may have reached its floor, he projected that any subsequent rebound would remain shallow and well below the economy’s six-percent potential trend growth.
Compounding the energy crisis, he said, is a rapid acceleration of second-round effects, with businesses passing higher input costs on to consumers faster than in previous shock cycles.
Headline inflation reached 7.2 percent in both April and September, with Fernandez pointing to rice prices surging by more than 20 percent and transport costs climbing nearly 15 percent.
He also flagged the possibility of a “Godzilla El Niño” pushing food prices even higher, warning that consumers and policymakers may have to endure headline inflation hovering around seven percent for an extended period.
Meanwhile, Fernandez said the widening economic fallout has pushed the Philippines’ current account deficit forecast to more than four percent of GDP, underscoring the country’s vulnerability to imported energy shocks.
Let me end this post by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this recent development? Do you think the economist is correct that the Philippines has crossed over into stagflation? Do you think there is nothing the national government can do to lower the prices of oil, fuel and other things that are essential for Filipinos? Do you think the national economy will fall into a recession by early 2028?
You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.
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Depeche Mode, Music For The Masses, 1987 on Mute / Sire
Depeche Mode's sixth full length album and the follow up to Black Celebration, Music For The Masses was the first album where Alan Wilder took ownership of a lot of the production, though David Bascombe and Daniel Miller (of Mute) also get producer credit. It would be their last studio album of the 1980s, with Violator coming out in 1990. It concludes with an instrumental hidden track (on vinyl as well) at the end of Pimpf which has come to be called "Interlude #1 (Mission Impossible)." […]https://goatless.org/2026/10/26/depeche-mode-music-for-the-masses-1987-on-mute-sire
Uncorked Review: A Clever Animated Short Where Jokes Becomes Reality
Animation, Comedy, Action Director: Andy Novak Producer: Andy Novak Cast: Eddie Pepitone, Samm Levine, Illeana Douglas, Josh Robert Thompson, David Koechner, Sebastian Marx, Mitchell Wenig, Ayman Samman, Andy Novak Design/Storyboards: Matt O'Connell This comedic animation shows what happens when the people inside a joke are forced to live with its consequences. Rather than adapting a single joke, the film constructs an entire universe from familiar comedic archetypes. Combining […]
Antonino X The Motels – Suddenly Last Summer (Bitty Summer Beats Mix) MUSIC DOWNLOAD
Found Objects celebrates the return of the remix and the art of sampling (as in found audio).
Australian audio artist and Cream magazine editor Antonino Tati trawls the internet to find cool soundbytes that he then layers over alternative mixes of great songs.
The Ultimate Eurythmics Archives calls it “a series of imaginative audio collages that feel part remix, part radio drama, and part pop culture time capsule,” while the series has also been acknowledged by the David Bowie fan site maggioreonbowie.com and other music sites.
Each day a new track is added, building up to a compilation of songs that go beyond the normal parameters of music mixing.
And each track is an awesome head trip. Good to show off on the playlist. The music featured is varied, with Volume 02 containing mixes of songs by Soulwax, Kate Bush, David Bowie, R.E.M., Tori Amos, Air, Lily Allen, Taylor Swift, Malcolm McLaren, and more.
Today’s addition is a classic from The Motels, Suddenly Last Summer. The song was actually inspired by the film of the same name, which starred Elizabeth Taylor in a holiday romance/drama. So naturally elements of the film have gone into this new version – dialogue from Taylor herself, along with over-the-top trailers for the movie.
Slip on a pair of earbuds or ‘phones and be transported into worlds of aural delight and mad sonic adventure. A musical universe where cool beats are paired with vintage educational fodder, insane radio ads of the 1950s, and classic film quotes.
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Antonino X The Motels Suddenly Last Summer (Bitty Summer Beats Mix)
Access your free downloads from the Found Objects: Volume 2 page, and tell your friends.
Don’t forget there’s a load of mixes in Found Objects: Volume 1 you might like as well.
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Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
YES - Yessongs
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Jean‐Jacques Perrey - Moog Indigo
Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
Carsten Bohn - Die drei ??? 29: Die Original‐Musik
'Pick the 9 albums that made you. Search more than two million albums, put your nine in order, and share the poster.'
https://www.my9albums.com/s/vtSZevvkjK
Beispieltrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K8p3qt3EU4
missing: Steamhammer – Mountains, Tortoise – TNT, The Cinematic Orchestra – Motion, Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic, Bad Religion – Against The Grain, Black Sabbath – Paranoid, Faith No More – The Real Thing, David Bowie – David Bowie (1969), Sergei Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky - Cantata, The Cure - Disintegration, ...
Danke an @tante für den Hinweis https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117504280019555149
#genesis #zappa #yes #pinkfloyd #stereolab #stevereich #perrey #bibio #carstenbohn
Hubble and Webb find that far-out #solarsystem objects 'remember' the past
Used #NASA's Hubble & #JWST to study some trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). Unexpectedly found fewer small TNOs than expected and that the colors of these bodies followed the same relationships as those of their larger family members.
"These dynamically 'hot' TNOs retain a signature of where they were born, even though they've been orbitally scrambled since then," said co-author David Trilling
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-hubble-webb-solar.html
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 143,000,000 followers, it will no longer be America. Truly American leadership is not of any one man. It is of multitudes of men — and women.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general, US President (1953–61)
Essay (1948-10), “An Open Letter to America’s Students,” Reader’s Digest
More about this quote: wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/55…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eisenhower #dwighteisenhower #dwightdavideisenhower #America #autocracy #democracy #dictator #followers #greatness #leader #leadership
Couldn’t Help Smiling (8 Photos vol. 2)
A bent pipe becomes a walking stick, two dachshunds share a corner, and a weed finishes a chalk strawberry. Eight playful artworks by Pao, Giulio Masieri, Braga Last1, JPS, Oakoak, RAZE’cki, WOSKerski and David Zinn.https://streetartutopia.com/2026/10/25/reader-favorite-street-art-and-public-art/
From Fair Vote Canada
BC Conservatives receive 69% of the seats with 48% of the vote. BC voters cheated by first-past-the-post and pushed further towards a two-party system.
Only 48% of BC voters supported the BC Conservatives, yet the voting system has handed Lorne Doerkson's Conservatives 69% of the seats and 100% of the power.
The election results did not reflect what voters said with their ballots:
The BC Conservatives got 69% of the seats with 48% of the vote.
The BC NDP got 29% of the seats with 38% of the vote.
The BC Greens got 2% of the seats with 11% of the votes, electing only 2 MLAs to represent their voters.
CentreBC got no seats with 1.6% of the votes
First-past-the-post is to blame for giving former Premier David Eby the incentive to waste millions of dollars on an unnecessary, opportunistic snap election.
While the political right was temporarily split into several competitive parties, Eby saw an opportunity to sail to another majority govt w a minority vote.
The Brain Is Not Designed for Thinking
“As the cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham has written: ‘Contrary to popular belief, the brain is not designed for thinking. It’s designed to save you from having to think.’ Because the brain is naturally inclined to avoid effortful thinking and to rely instead on familiar patterns, complete freedom tends to lead to unoriginal ideas, simply repeating what is known. Constraints push the brain beyond its default tendencies, forcing it to engage in deeper problem-solving. Total freedom, then, is the enemy of creativity, and constraint its companion.” — David Epstein, Inside the Box
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Sunday Morning Reading
Writing a blog is an interesting experience. So is reading them. The best blogs are the ones where the person behind the keyboard shines through. You can say it takes courage to put yourself and your opinions out there. You would be correct. A lot of that got diminished when social media took over because of its hit and run nature. But blogs and the writers behind them are still there and surface now and again. Today’s Sunday Morning Reading features a few along with a few other tricks and treats. Hope you check them and the rest of the links out.
Good writing stands out. Even on the Internet where it comes in small waves and ripples, subsequently washed away by more of the same, or often overwhelmed by the slop running alongside threatening to take it over. David Todd McCarty’s A Stream Has No Memory isn’t about that necessarily, and yet it is. All things flow.
As I mentioned, personal blogging took a hit when the age of social media dawned. Yet, those that still exist, though not always as prolific, still provide insight when a writer allows you to peek into deeper waters. In many ways putting yourself out there, regardless of where, can easily become a personal hell. There’s been quite a controversy eddying about in tech circles about some who loudly condemned what was formerly Twitter reversing course and just as publicly announcing that they are returning. To each their own personal hell, I guess. I’ve stated my feelings about that here and here. Noted developer Marco Arment took to his blog with a post simply and aptly titled Community. It isn’t about what X marks the spot, it’s about what I believe deep down we all search for when we choose to share ourselves in our writing and our creative work. It can be lonely even with a magnitude of followers in whatever personal hell you choose to put yourself into.
Jason Snell links to an excellent post by Cory Doctorow called Critique And Writing. Yes, it’s about AI and folks using it to generate editorial feedback, but it’s about so much more. We develop critical thinking by critiquing the work of others who work in the same field, whether it be writing or other disciplines. I had an acting professor once tell the class that the way we responded to the work of others told him more about how we were developing (or not) as actors as the work we ourselves did onstage.
In the category of things we all share but wish we didn’t Neil Steinberg takes on scams and their persistent and constantly replicating existence in I Look Forward To Reviewing Your Proposal And Learning About The Quest For Pie.
Natasha MH takes a look at perhaps the year’s most controversial film, Digger, in Hail The Conquering Heroes. That film is becoming a personal measuring stick for me as to who sees the world we live in as I do and who doesn’t.
Halloween is upon us. With grandkids that’s quite a treat. But it can also be tricky. I’m headed there next weekend because my grandson has convinced us that we have to go trick-or-treating with him and his sister. He’s chosen for me to be costumed as a T-Rex. (Wearing costumes is my own personal hell.) Regardless of my escapades, I marvel at all of the decorations that abound and proliferate in yards up and down every block of every town rendering them all somewhat meaningless. Rex Huppke takes on the topic in America Has An Addiction To Giant Halloween Skeletons.
And if Halloween spirits swirling amongst all of the evil things going on in the real world aren’t enough to scare the beejeebus out of you give a read to Max Seddon’s piece The Putin Whisperers about three men who worked to stop Putin from unleashing nuclear Armageddon. Some things are just damn scary.
All things flow.
(Image from The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash.)
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Antonino X Tori Amos – God (Monkeying Around With The Overzealous Televangelist) MUSIC DOWNLOAD
Found Objects celebrates the return of the remix and the art of sampling (as in found audio).
Australian audio artist and Cream magazine editor Antonino Tati trawls the internet to find great soundbytes that he then layers over alternative mixes of great songs.
The Ultimate Eurythmics Archives calls it “a series of imaginative audio collages that feel part remix, part radio drama, and part pop culture time capsule,” while the series has also been acknowledged by the David Bowie fan site maggioreonbowie.com and other music sites.
Each day a new track is added, building up to a compilation of songs that go beyond the normal parameters of music mixing.
And each track is an awesome head trip. Good to show off on the playlist. The music featured is varied, with Volume 02 containing mixes of songs by Soulwax, Kate Bush, David Bowie, R.E.M., Air, Lily Allen, Taylor Swift, Malcolm McLaren, and more.
Today’s addition is Tori Amos’ masterful ode, God, to which has been added a sermon courtesy of a rather zealous late night televangelist.
Slip on a pair of earbuds or ‘phones and be transported into worlds of aural delight and mad sonic adventure. A musical universe where cool beats are paired with vintage educational fodder, insane radio ads of the 1950s, and classic film quotes.
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Antonino X Tori Amos God (Monkeying Around with the Overzealous Televangelist)
Access your free downloads from the Found Objects: Volume 2 page, and tell your friends.
Don’t forget there’s a load of mixes in Found Objects: Volume 1 you might like as well.
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National and Act have cranked up the rhetoric this week because left-wing candidates spoke with gangs. That tactic has backfired because endless photos exist of Nat MPs doing exactly the same thing.
So for no particular reason, here's a photo of Christopher Luxon posing with convicted child sex offender Roger Buchanan.
National's vetting process is still lax. Buchanan was convicted in 2021, yet National still appointed him to their Palmerston North electorate committee.
And of course everyone remembers David Seymour protecting paedophile Tim Jago when he was Act party president.
People in glasshouses etc.