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Brazil will collaborate with the Colombian and Dutch delegations to develop the road map outside the formal U.N. process, with the goal of bringing it back for discussion at COP31.
Experts say the Belém summit showed disappointing deals after ambitious promises, failing to address the environmental and economic needs of climate change.
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Blonde Capuchin Sapajus flavius
Blonde Capuchin Sapajus flavius
IUCN Status: Endangered
Locations: Brazil
The blonde capuchin is found in the northeastern Atlantic Forest of Brazil, primarily in the states of Paraíba, Pernambuco, and Alagoas. Some populations have also been recorded in the Caatinga biome of Rio Grande do Norte, possibly due to habitat loss forcing them into new environments.
The blonde #capuchin (Sapajus flavius) is an enigmatic and critically endangered #primate found in the northeastern forests of Brazil. With their striking golden-yellow fur and intelligent, expressive faces, these capuchins are among the most visually distinctive of their genus. Once thought to be extinct, they were rediscovered in 2006, yet their populations remain fragmented and highly vulnerable. They inhabit a range of environments, from the coastal mangrove forests and várzea floodplains to terra firme forests in #Brazil’s Atlantic Forest biome. However, their survival is increasingly threatened by deforestation, agricultural expansion, #hunting, and the illegal #pettrade.
Blonde capuchins are known for their exceptionally large social groups, sometimes exceeding 150 individuals, where complex interactions, vocalisations, and even tool use have been observed. Unlike many primates, they do not have a specific breeding season, and infants can be seen being carried by their mothers year-round. Their remarkable adaptability to different habitats, including flooded forests and human-altered landscapes, underscores their resilience—but without immediate conservation action, these monkeys may not survive the pressures of habitat loss and hunting. Help them to survive every time you shop adopt a #Vegan lifestyle and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket.
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Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterAppearance & Behaviour
- Evidence of social cohesion and empathic community behaviour, group and individual mourning of infant deaths.
- Use up to 29 distinctive calls used to communicate.
- Live in large groups of up to 150 individuals.
- Evidence of complex tool use for self-medication and locating food.
Blonde capuchins are striking primates, their golden-yellow coats shimmering against the deep greens of the Atlantic Forest. They have a distinctive whitish cap on the front of their heads, which contrasts sharply with their dark brown eyes and black facial markings. Their fur is short and dense, suited to the humid tropical climate. Their hands and feet are a lighter shade of gold, with hairless black palms and soles for better grip while climbing. Males and females are similar in appearance, but males are typically larger and more muscular.
These capuchins are highly intelligent and social, living in large, multi-male, multi-female groups that can contain over 150 individuals. They use a complex system of vocalisations, with at least 29 distinct calls, to communicate. Their societies function with a fission-fusion dynamic, meaning they frequently split into smaller foraging groups to reduce competition over food. This flexibility is key to their survival in fragmented habitats.
Despite spending most of their time in the trees, blonde capuchins also frequently descend to the ground, particularly in Caatinga dry forests and areas where fruit is scarce. They exhibit high levels of problem-solving and tool use, including using sticks to fish for termites and rubbing millipede secretions onto their fur as an insect repellent.
These monkeys have strong social bonds, and mothers play an essential role in infant care, carrying their young for months after birth. Although males do not carry infants, they play a protective role, ensuring the safety of the group, particularly mothers and offspring. In a fascinating example of primate grief, a female blonde capuchin was observed carrying her dead infant for an extended period, refusing to abandon the body despite the risks of slowing down. Two adult males guarded the grieving mother, offering protection as she lagged behind the group, demonstrating a strong sense of social cohesion and empathy.
Threats
Sugar Cane, Palm Oil and Soy Monoculture
The relentless expansion of industrial agriculture, particularly sugar cane, palm oil and soy plantations, has led to the destruction of the Atlantic Forest—the blonde capuchin’s primary habitat. These plantations fragment their environment, forcing them into isolated forest patches where food scarcity increases competition and stress.
Cattle Ranching Deforestation
Large-scale cattle ranching contributes to deforestation, eliminating vast tracts of forest that blonde capuchins depend on. The clearing of land for pasture not only destroys their habitat but also reduces biodiversity, making it harder for them to find food and shelter.
Illegal Pet Trade
Blonde capuchins are frequently captured for the illegal pet trade. Their intelligence and playful nature make them highly sought after, but life in captivity is cruel. Confined to small cages and deprived of their social groups, they suffer immense psychological distress. The capture process is often violent, leading to injuries and death for both the captured individuals and the infants left behind.
Climate Change-Induced Extreme Weather
Rising temperatures and unpredictable weather patterns are disrupting food availability and seasonal cycles. Extreme droughts and storms destroy fruiting trees, leading to food shortages. Additionally, prolonged dry periods increase the risk of wildfires, further threatening their habitat.
Pesticides and River Pollution from Agriculture
Agricultural runoff, laden with pesticides and fertilisers, contaminates water sources. Blonde capuchins, like many primates, drink from forest streams, exposing them to toxic chemicals that weaken their immune systems and reduce reproductive success.
Geographic Range
Blonde capuchins are found in the fragmented forests of northeastern Brazil, particularly in the Atlantic Forest and, more recently, in the drier Caatinga biome. The latter may represent a forced adaptation due to habitat destruction.
Diet
Blonde capuchins are omnivores, feeding primarily on fruits, seeds, nuts, insects, and small vertebrates. In degraded habitats, they have been observed relying heavily on sugarcane, raiding plantations for food. This dietary shift highlights the impact of habitat destruction on their natural feeding behaviours.
Mating and Reproduction
Blonde capuchins (Sapajus flavius) exhibit year-round reproduction, meaning they do not adhere to a strict breeding season. This constant reproductive cycle allows for continuous population growth when environmental conditions permit. However, habitat destruction and human encroachment threaten this delicate balance, leading to increased infant mortality and population decline.
Maternal Care and Infant Development
Female blonde capuchins provide the primary care for their young, carrying infants on their backs for several months after birth. This close physical contact ensures warmth, protection, and the opportunity for infants to learn social behaviours by observing their mothers. Studies show that 68% of observed infant carrying was performed by females, emphasising their role as the primary caregivers (Medeiros et al., 2019).
Male Involvement in Infant Protection
Although males do not typically engage in direct infant care, they provide an essential protective role within the group. In some cases, two adult males have been observed guarding a vulnerable mother carrying her deceased infant, demonstrating social cooperation and the importance of group dynamics in protecting reproductive females (Andrade et al., 2020). This protective behavior ensures that mothers and infants are less vulnerable to predators while traveling with the group.
Infant Death and Maternal Grief
In rare but significant cases, female blonde capuchins have been documented engaging in corpse carrying behaviour, where a grieving mother carries her dead infant for days, even at the risk of slowing down her movements and exposing herself to danger. One such case involved a female who continued to carry her deceased infant despite being at increased risk of predation. Two males remained close to her, offering protection as she moved through the forest, suggesting that male blonde capuchins may provide indirect support to grieving mothers (Andrade et al., 2020).
This behavior is consistent with thanatology in primates, a field that examines how primates react to death. It suggests that blonde capuchins, like other cognitively complex primates, may experience a form of grief and maternal attachment beyond immediate survival instincts.
FAQs
Do blonde capuchins make good pets?
No. Keeping a blonde capuchin as a pet is both cruel and illegal. These intelligent primates require complex social interactions, large territories, and the freedom to forage and move. Captivity leads to severe mental and physical suffering. Additionally, the pet trade fuels poaching, further endangering wild populations.
How intelligent are blonde capuchins?
Blonde capuchins are among the most intelligent primates. They exhibit tool use, such as using sticks to extract termites and rocks to crack nuts. They also apply millipede secretions to their fur as a natural insect repellent, demonstrating problem-solving skills and cultural behaviours.
Why are blonde capuchins endangered?
The primary threats include deforestation for palm oil, sugar cane, soy and meat agriculture, habitat fragmentation, and the illegal pet trade. These pressures have drastically reduced their populations, leaving them confined to small, isolated forest patches.
How can I help protect blonde capuchins?
The best way to help is by supporting indigenous-led conservation initiatives and refusing to support industries that contribute to deforestation. Boycott palm oil and meat in the supermarket to fight against these destructive industries. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife.
Take Action!
Blonde capuchins are in urgent need of protection. Every time you shop, you have the power to fight for their survival. Refuse products that contribute to deforestation and the destruction of their habitat. Support indigenous-led conservation efforts and advocate for stronger wildlife protection laws. Use your wallet as a weapon and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife.
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Further Information
Andrade, B. M. T., Freire-Filho, R., & Bezerra, B. (2020). The behaviours of a female blonde capuchin (Sapajus flavius) towards her dead infant. Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10031
Bastos, M., Medeiros, K., Jones, G., & Bezerra, B. (2018). Small but wise: Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) use acoustic signals as cues to avoid interactions with blonde capuchin monkeys (Sapajus flavius). American Journal of Primatology, 80(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22744
Bezerra, B. M., Bastos, M., Souto, A., Keasey, M. P., Eason, P., Schiel, N., & Jones, G. (2014). Camera Trap Observations of Nonhabituated Critically Endangered Wild Blonde Capuchins, Sapajus flavius (Formerly Cebus flavius). International Journal of Primatology, 35(5), 895–907. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-014-9782-4
Hance, J.(2011). Critically endangered capuchins make tools to gather termites. Mongabay https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/critically-endangered-capuchins-make-tools-to-gather-termites/
Medeiros, K., Bastos, M., Jones, G., & Bezerra, B. (2019). Behavior, Diet, and Habitat Use by Blonde Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus flavius) in a Coastal Area Prone to Flooding: Direct Observations and Camera Trapping. International Journal of Primatology, 40(5), 511–531. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-019-00103-z
Prado-Sañudo, M. L., Giraldo, A., & Bolívar, W. (2020). Population status of Sapajus flavius in the Western and Central Andes of Colombia. Boletín Científico Centro de Museos Museo de Historia Natural, 24(2), 116-124. https://doi.org/10.17151/bccm.2020.24.2.8
Valença-Montenegro, M.M., Bezerra, B.M., Martins, A.B., Jerusalinsky, L., Fialho, M.S. & Lynch Alfaro, J.W. 2021. Sapajus flavius (amended version of 2020 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T136253A192592928. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T136253A192592928.en. Accessed on 10 February 2025.
Wikipedia. (n.d.). Blonde capuchin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond_capuchin
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Trial of #LandDefenders Fighting the #CoastalGasLink #Pipeline is Put on Hold as Canadian #Police Come Under Scrutiny for Excessive Force
The defense for three activists from #FirstNations argues abuse of process by security forces around the pipeline construction site, as the U.N. and Amnesty International allege excessive force, surveillance and #criminalization of land defenders.
By Keerti Gopal
January 24, 2024"The trial of three Indigenous land defenders arrested at a pipeline construction site on #unceded #Wetsuweten First Nation land was adjourned until spring on Friday, as the court looks into potential abuses by Canadian police.
"In the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Smithers, B.C., the trial is the latest development in the nearly 12-year fight against the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline in the Canadian province.
"Land defenders #Sleydo’ #MollyWickham, #ShayLynnSampson and #CoreyJocko were found guilty of criminal contempt earlier this month, with Justice Michael Tanmen ruling that they broke a court injunction forbidding them from blocking access to construction for the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
"But immediately following the verdict, Tanmen began a week-long hearing to listen to the three individuals’ abuse of process applications, which allege that their Charter rights were violated during their arrests and detentions. During the hearing, the defense argued to stay the charges based on these applications, citing excessive force, aggressive behavior, offensive language and mocking by police.
"In Canada, the abuse of process doctrine allows courts to stay, or postpone, a proceeding on the grounds that some element of the process was unfair, and might undermine the legal system. In this case, the abuse of process application focused on treatment during and after arrests.
"The trial began on Jan. 8 and consisted mainly of witness testimony and evidence gathered in November 2021, during one of four major police raids at the pipeline between 2019 and 2023. The evidence included videos from social media and other videos taken by officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada’s national police service.
"The videos, and testimony from witnesses, including #RCMP officers, detailed the police using dogs and firearms and wielding chainsaws to cut down the doors of a cabin where Sleydo’ and Sampson were arrested. Jocko was arrested in another small structure close by.
"The activists allege police used excessive force to break down the doors and used offensive language, showing videos in which officers described arrestees as 'orcs' and 'ogres.' The abuse of process hearing will likely restart in June.
"Chief Na’Moks, a Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief and prominent advocate against the pipeline, said that the trial may serve as a template for future legal battles across Canada, where several other pipeline projects are underway.
"'This is going to affect everything else that happens, not only in #BritishColumbia but in #Canada,' Chief Na’Moks said last week. “This is the template that they want to use...and the harassment and constant abuse of #HumanRights has to stop.”
#ACAB #HumanRightsViolations #IndigenousActivism #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousLandDefenders
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> Les LLM donnent la destination. Ils escamotent le voyage. Et avec le voyage, ils escamotent la raison pour laquelle la plupart d'entre nous ont commencé.Et quand plus personne n'aura envie de voyager, comment fera-t-on pour savoir si on nous a bien mené à destination ?
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#HRW to #Tanzania: Stop forcing #indigenous tribes off #ancestral lands
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01 Aug 2024, 04:05 GMT+10Nairobi - "#HumanRightsWatch is accusing Tanzania of forcing indigenous tribes from their ancestral land in the #Ngorongoro Conservation Area. In a report released Wednesday, the rights group documents a Tanzanian government program to move 82,000 people off their land to use it for wildlife conservation, #tourism and hunting.
"The Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania is a U.N. #WorldHeritageSite managed by the Tanzanian government. For centuries, the #Maasai tribe has lived in the area side by side with wild animals.
"In 2022, the government of Tanzania launched a program to encourage the voluntary relocation of the Maasai tribe from the conservation area to Msomera, a town about 600 kilometers (370 miles) away.
"However, what the government called a voluntary relocation plan was far from voluntary, Human Rights Watch says.
"Allan Ngari, the group's Africa advocacy director, said the forced movement of the people is against the Tanzanian constitution and international law.
"'There are clear violations, including the Maasai people's rights to consultation, including prior to planning and execution of the #relocation, the prohibition of #ForcedEvictions, which is happening even for #Msomera residents. And then their culture and development has been inhibited,' Ngari said. "So, there's just a general disregard of the obligations by the government that raises serious concerns about the prospects of any accountability, justice."
#IndigenousPeople #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousAfricans #Africa
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🚀 Look, it's a starry-eyed developer's dream: "Astra" - the #open-source #software that's supposed to control observatories but instead controls your ability to navigate #GitHub menus. 🤦♂️ As if we needed another reason to procrastinate while pretending to be productive, now with AI-powered #tools to help us write code that nobody asked for. 🌌
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Le sucre ; une innovation qui donne envie :
"Dans « Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution », deux chercheuses, Maxine Berg et Pat Hudson, replacent l’esclavagisme et le système des plantations qui en est issu, au cœur du développement de l’économie britannique du XVIIIe siècle. Et elles en font un élément déterminant de la révolution industrielle et des formes particulières que prendra le capitalisme britannique jusqu’à nos jours.
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Encore dépassés de peu dans la déportation des Africains par les Portugais à la fin du XVIIe siècle, les Britanniques vont représenter, entre 1751 et 1775, près de 43 % du trafic d’esclaves contre 27 % pour les Portugais et 17 % pour les Français. À la fin du siècle, ils contrôlent encore 37 % de cet hideux marché.Ces déportations ont pour vocation de venir alimenter les immenses plantations des nombreuses îles des Antilles contrôlées par les Britanniques, comme la Jamaïque ou la Barbade, où l’on produit du café, du tabac et, surtout, du sucre. Ce dernier produit est le cœur de la machine capitaliste primitive amorcée par l’esclavage.
Le goût pour le sucre change tout
Les deux autrices expliquent ainsi comment ont été changés la consommation et les goûts des Européens pour que la production des plantations puisse bénéficier d’un immense marché toujours croissant. « À mesure que l’offre de sucre grossissait, il en allait de même de sa popularité », résument les autrices. Entre 1700 et 1783, la production de sucre dans les Antilles britanniques a quadruplé.
Ce phénomène s’est réalisé par deux canaux qui ne sont pas étrangers aux mécanismes actuels du capitalisme : l’attrait d’une consommation de luxe devenue abordable et l’addiction même du produit qui devient une « nécessité ».
L’imposition du sucre dans la consommation des Européens, y compris des plus pauvres au cours du XVIIIe siècle, est, en quelque sorte, la première victoire du marketing venant soutenir une production de masse. Elle rappelle que la demande et la consommation sous souvent les conséquences plus que les causes des choix productifs.
Mais ce que montre l’ouvrage, c’est que cette révolution culinaire destinée à assurer la profitabilité des plantations de canne fondée sur l’esclavage a eu un effet d’entraînement général sur l’économie. Elle a d’abord alimenté la demande de boissons destinées à être sucrées issues d’autres plantations esclavagistes (café, chocolat) ou du commerce asiatique comme le thé.
La folie du sucre a aussi favorisé d’autres secteurs, au Royaume-Uni même, comme la céramique, le commerce de détail, les intermédiaires financiers, les infrastructures portuaires. Tous ces secteurs ont, à leur tour, alimenté le reste de l’économie, notamment la production de métal et de minerais.
Ce que montre Maxine Berg et Pat Hudson, c’est l’effet d’entraînement de cette industrie à base esclavagiste sur la dynamique capitaliste et industrielle d’ensemble au Royaume-Uni. Cette dynamique n’est pas toujours immédiatement visible. Mais les autrices soulignent par exemple combien cette révolution dans la consommation a été un élément clé de la « révolution industrieuse », un changement notable de rapport au travail qui a permis la révolution industrielle.
Ainsi, notent-elles, « le désir pour une nouvelle variété de marchandises a amené des changements graduels dans les comportements des ménages ordinaires d’Europe occidentale ». Progressivement, pour s’offrir le luxe devenu atteignable du sucre, l’économie de subsistance va être abandonnée pour recourir au travail salarié. On va accepter de travailler davantage et plus dur pour acquérir ces biens devenus, selon les témoignages mêmes de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, des besoins essentiels.
En parallèle, le système de la plantation jette les bases de la future organisation capitaliste du travail et de la production. Le secteur sucrier à l’époque est une « synthèse du champ et de l’usine », un véritable « agro-business » qui ne ressemble « à rien de connu à l’époque en Europe ». Le jus de canne à sucre doit en effet être traité rapidement après la moisson pour produire des cristaux de sucre et de la mélasse qui, distillés, produit le rhum, un produit qui va vite devenir en vogue également sur les marchés européens.
Productivité, innovation, discipline
La plantation est donc un système intégré qui nécessite des innovations majeures pour l’époque afin de pouvoir organiser et améliorer la production. Le système de comptabilité mis en place va ainsi permettre de mieux calculer les rendements et, partant, de rogner sur les « besoins » des esclaves en termes de nourriture, de logements ou de vêtements pour en tirer le plus de valeur possible.Ces pratiques comptables vont jouer un rôle déterminant dans la naissance du capitalisme et dans son évolution. « La comptabilité standardisée a rendu possible la séparation de la propriété et de la gestion, une séparation qui est encore rare dans les entreprises britanniques et européennes plus d’un siècle plus tard », soulignent les autrices.
La comptabilité permet aussi de renforcer le contrôle de la force de travail et son intensification. Le système de la plantation confirme le constat que Marx fera un siècle plus tard : l’augmentation de la productivité va de pair avec la dégradation des conditions de travail. « Les régimes de travail vont empirer à mesure que s’améliorent le management et les technologies », constate l’ouvrage. Progressivement, les plantations des Antilles britanniques du XVIIIe siècle ressemblent aux grandes usines du siècle suivant, avec, en plus, la violence du régime esclavagiste où on fouette, on bat et on pend les réfractaires.
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Les ports du commerce atlantique, principalement Liverpool et Glasgow, développent alors un hinterland qui fournit les biens manufacturés dont le commerce triangulaire fondé sur l’esclavage a besoin, notamment les textiles et les produits métalliques. La géographie économique du Royaume-Uni en est alors profondément modifiée.
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L’argent de la métropole est dirigé vers les besoins des plantations, puis revient vers l’Angleterre et l’Écosse pour financer les secteurs dynamisés par le commerce triangulaire, mais aussi pour financer l’État. Les autrices insistent particulièrement sur le fait que la demande de dette publique de la part des planteurs a permis de structurer de nouveaux instruments qui fondent encore la finance d’aujourd’hui et qui ont permis non seulement l’indispensable soutien étatique au développement capitaliste britannique, mais aussi le financement des guerres coloniales qui ont renforcé le système des plantations."Romaric Godin : https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/140224/aux-sources-du-capitalisme-l-esclavage
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#histoire #esclavage #agrobusiness #Angleterre #RoyaumeUni #GrandeBretagne #Mediapart #Bristol #Liverpool #Londres #extractivisme #accaparement #citation #citations #plantations #Antilles #WestIndies #Caraïbes #carribbean #racialisation #racismeSystémique #capitalisme #suprémacismeBlanc #Découverte #Rencontre #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #Caraïbes #Caraïbe #NouveauMonde #Jamaïque #Cuba #Guadeloupe #Martinique #Hispaniola #Haïti #SaintDomingue #PortoRico #Amérique #histoire #esclavage #agrobusiness #agriculture #Nantes #Bordeaux #lectureDécoloniale #définitionDécoloniale #sucré #bonbons #gastronomie #desserts
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Oh, bravo! 🙄 Another developer decides to reinvent the wheel with yet another open-source email builder. Because, clearly, we don't have enough half-baked #alternatives to Beefree/Unlayer cluttering #GitHub. 🚀 Next up: an open-source coffee mug alternative.💡
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BLUG, Bergen 2026-05-28: Social anarchic, mad, and misbehaving agents collaboratively solving tasks v/Bjarte Johansen
https://blug.linux.no/events/2026-05-agents/
Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group er tilbake!
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CF Signals: DJ SUNSHINE – Sloppy Day In UK [OMERTA]
From Russia, OMERTA continues shaping a catalog where emotion moves as a subtle yet persistent current. Its motto—“My sorrow is light!”—finds a precise translation in DJ Sunshine. UK N/A, a five-track release, unfolds as an exercise in temperature: a light that settles into dense surfaces and moves through them from within.
The record operates within compact digital textures, where warmth begins to circulate rather than break through. A memory of classic house pulses beneath the surface, embedded in the present as active motion. The sound carries a familiarity that emerges through the body before it registers as reference.
https://clubfuries.com.mx/2026/02/23/cfp-ronin-the-pain-inside-outro-omerta/
Its structure rests on wide, grounded basslines that anchor the dancefloor. Around them, analog layers introduce a soft grain, almost tactile, while vocals surface as orientation points within the flow. Everything advances with clarity, allowing each element to settle into place and build a continuous expansion.
Movement develops without abrupt gestures. The groove opens and sustains itself, creating a steady circulation of energy. The dancefloor responds through prolonged attention, where warmth accumulates and redistributes with each transition. DJ Sunshine shapes this space with precision, adjusting density while preserving lightness.
https://soundcloud.com/clubfuriess/cfp-dj-sunshine-sloppy-say-in-uk-omerta
Within this framework, “Sloppy Day in UK” reveals a particularly refined quality. The track glides with a softness that seems to hover over its own rhythm, while maintaining an internal electric charge that gradually activates the body. Its progression remains steady, grounded yet fluid.
Vocals appear as intermittent flashes, fragments of memory cutting through the surface. They introduce an expanded sense of time, where past and present vibrate together. The texture remains clean and luminous, giving each layer room to breathe.
The result is a piece that integrates seamlessly into the release, reinforcing its identity through nuance. UK N/A finds its persistence in these details—a warmth that lingers, a light that continues to move long after the track fades.
Label: OMERTA
Artist: DJ SUNSHINE
Title: UK N/A
Catalogue:Release Date: April 28, 2026
Support & Buy: BandcampTracklist
1. DJ SUNSHINE – Sloppy Day In UK
2. DJ SUNSHINE – The Feelin
3. DJ SUNSHINE – To Motion
4. DJ SUNSHINE – Be Radiant
5. DJ SUNSHINE – FreeCredits
OMERTA RECORDS
Founder: Gal
Co-founder: Ruksby
Artwork by www.instagram.com/mosin.tattooer
Mastered by SnarexxDJ SUNSHINE
OMERTA RECORDS
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#iosdev #buildInPublic #coredata #cloudKit
There is some Apple demo code from WWDC 2022 that gives an example of deduplication on CloudKit sync. It's a simplified demo but it does give an example of a many:many (unordered) relationship. Let's see if we can get it running.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coredata/synchronizing-a-local-store-to-the-cloud10/n
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#indiedev #irishmusic #iosdev #buildInPublic #coredata #cloudKit
Apple has improved their migration support since I last looked - migrating to the data model outlined above would work as a staged migration:
- add the new entities and any attributes needed to define ordering or deduplication
- populate the intermediate attributed relationships
- delete the old entitieshttps://developer.apple.com/documentation/coredata/staged-migrations
Now we can safely move from NSPersistentContainer to a NSPersistentCloudKitContainer
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Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork)
Last year, I outlined the specific requirements that an app needs to have in order for me to consider it a Signal competitor.
Afterwards, I had several people ask me what I think of a Signal fork called Session. My answer then is the same thing I’ll say today:
Don’t use Session.
The main reason I said to avoid Session, all those months ago, was simply due to their decision to remove forward secrecy (which is an important security property of cryptographic protocols they inherited for free when they forked libsignal).
Lack of forward secrecy puts you in the scope of Key Compromise Impersonation (KCI) attacks, which serious end-to-end encryption apps should prevent if they want to sit at the adults table. This is why I don’t recommend Tox.
And that observation alone should have been enough for anyone to run, screaming, in the other direction from Session. After all, removing important security properties from a cryptographic security protocol is exactly the sort of thing a malicious government would do (especially if the cover story for such a change involves the introduction of swarms and “onion routing”–which computer criminals might think sounds attractive due to their familiarity with the Tor network).
Unfortunately, some people love to dig their heels in about messaging apps. So let’s take a closer look at Session.
I did not disclose this blog post privately to the Session developers before pressing publish.
I do not feel that cryptographic issues always require coordinated disclosure with the software vendor. As Bruce Schneier argues, full disclosure of security vulnerabilities is a “damned good idea”.
I have separated this blog post into two sections: Security Issues and Gripes.
Security Issues
- Insufficient Entropy in Ed25519 Keys
- In-Band Negotiation for Message Signatures
- Using Public Keys as AES-GCM Keys
Insufficient Entropy in Ed25519 Keys
One of the departures of Session from Signal is the use of Ed25519 rather than X25519 for everything.
Ed25519 Keypairs generated from their
KeyPairUtilitiesobject only have 128 bits of entropy, rather than the ~253 bits (after clamping) you’d expect from an Ed25519 seed.fun generate(): KeyPairGenerationResult { val seed = sodium.randomBytesBuf(16) try { return generate(seed) } catch (exception: Exception) { return generate() }}fun generate(seed: ByteArray): KeyPairGenerationResult { val padding = ByteArray(16) { 0 } val ed25519KeyPair = sodium.cryptoSignSeedKeypair(seed + padding)As an implementation detail, they encode a recovery key as a “mnemonic” (see also: a gripe about their mnemonic decoding).
Does This Matter?
You might think that clearing the highest 128 bits of the Ed25519 seed is fine for one of the following reasons:
- It’s hashed with SHA512 before clamping.
- Ed25519 only offers 128 bits of security.
- Some secret third (and possibly unreasonable) argument.
It’s true that Ed25519 targets the 128-bit security level, if you’re focused on the security of the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP).
Achieving 128 bits of security in this model requires 256-bit secrets, since the best attack against the ECDLP finds a discrete logarithm in guesses.
Additionally, having 256-bit secrets makes the multi-user security of the scheme easy to reason about, whereas 128-bit secrets makes it a lot harder. (This mostly comes up in criticism of AES, which has a 128-bit block size.)
When your secret only has possible values, your multi-user security is no longer as secure as Ed25519 expects.
Additionally, you can shove the SHA512 + clamping in your attack script (thus negating the first objection) and find the corresponding secret key in queries if you know the top 128 bits were initialized to 0, using a modified version of Pollard’s rho for discrete logarithms.
This means that Session’s
CMYKatKeyPairUtilitiesclass only provides 64 bits of ECDLP security.What does 64 bits of ECDLP Security actually mean?
I provided a technical definition already, but that’s probably not meaningful to most people outside computer security.
What this means is that a distributed computing effort can find the secret key for a given Ed25519 public key generated from this algorithm in only queries.
For flavor, queries is approximately the attack cost to find a SHA1 collision, which we know is possible and economical.
Based on this attack, the authors projected that a collision attack on SHA-1 may cost between US$75K and US$120K by renting GPU computing time on Amazon EC2 using spot-instances, which is significantly lower than Schneier’s 2012 estimates.
— from the Shattered paper, page 2.
I don’t know if this was mere stupidity or an intentional NOBUS backdoor that only well-resourced adversaries can crack. (I also don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars lying around to test this myself.)
How would you exploit this in practice?
If you’re not familiar with Pollard’s rho, then this section might be a bit abstract and difficult to follow.
Instead of directly passing a full 256-bit value to your oracle with each iteration (like you do with a standard Pollard’s rho implementation), you would need mutate the output the same way Session does (n.b., replace 128 bits of the seed with zeroes), hash & clamp that, and then perform the scalar multiplication.
It should be a bit more expensive than a raw ECDLP attack against a 128-bit curve (due to the hashing), but the strategy should succeed in the expected number of queries (average case).
Although this makes the attack totally feasible for a nation state, I do not have the resources to build and test a proof of concept against a candidate keypair. If anyone does, get in touch, it would make for a fun research project.
CMYKatAlternatively, Pollard’s kangaroo might be a better cryptanalysis technique for Session’s setup.
Note: If there is any classified government algorithm especially suited for cracking Ed25519 keys constructed exactly like Session does, it’s not one I’ve ever heard of. I don’t have any security clearances, nor do I want one.
However, ECDLP security of elliptic curve-based protocols is extremely well-understood in the cryptography literature.
In-Band Negotiation for Message Signatures
If you thought the previous issue was mitigated by the use of Ed25519 signatures on each message, don’t worry, the Session developers screwed this up too!
// 2. ) Get the message partsval signature = plaintextWithMetadata.sliceArray(plaintextWithMetadata.size - signatureSize until plaintextWithMetadata.size)val senderED25519PublicKey = plaintextWithMetadata.sliceArray(plaintextWithMetadata.size - (signatureSize + ed25519PublicKeySize) until plaintextWithMetadata.size - signatureSize)val plaintext = plaintextWithMetadata.sliceArray(0 until plaintextWithMetadata.size - (signatureSize + ed25519PublicKeySize))// 3. ) Verify the signatureval verificationData = (plaintext + senderED25519PublicKey + recipientX25519PublicKey)try { val isValid = sodium.cryptoSignVerifyDetached(signature, verificationData, verificationData.size, senderED25519PublicKey) if (!isValid) { throw Error.InvalidSignature }} catch (exception: Exception) { Log.d("Loki", "Couldn't verify message signature due to error: $exception.") throw Error.InvalidSignature}What this code is doing (after decryption):
- Grab the public key from the payload.
- Grab the signature from the payload.
- Verify that the signature on the rest of the payload is valid… for the public key that was included in the payload.
Congratulations, Session, you successfully reduced the utility of Ed25519 to that of a CRC32!
Art: AJUsing Public Keys As AES-GCM Keys
I wasn’t entirely sure whether this belongs in the “gripes” section or not, because it’s so blatantly stupid that there’s basically no way Quarkslab would miss it if it mattered.
When encrypting payloads for onion routing, it uses the X25519 public key… as a symmetric key, for AES-GCM. See,
encryptPayloadForDestination().val result = AESGCM.encrypt(plaintext, x25519PublicKey)deferred.resolve(result)
Session also does this inside of
encryptHop().val plaintext = encode(previousEncryptionResult.ciphertext, payload)val result = AESGCM.encrypt(plaintext, x25519PublicKey)
In case you thought, maybe, that this is just a poorly named HPKE wrapper… nope!
/** * Sync. Don't call from the main thread. */internal fun encrypt(plaintext: ByteArray, symmetricKey: ByteArray): ByteArray { val iv = Util.getSecretBytes(ivSize) synchronized(CIPHER_LOCK) { val cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/GCM/NoPadding") cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, SecretKeySpec(symmetricKey, "AES"), GCMParameterSpec(gcmTagSize, iv)) return ByteUtil.combine(iv, cipher.doFinal(plaintext)) }}This obviously doesn’t encrypt it such that only the recipient (that owns the secret key corresponding to the public key) can decrypt the message. It makes it to where anyone that knows the public key can decrypt it.
I wonder if this impacts their onion routing assumptions?
Why should I trust session?
(…)
When using Session, your messages are sent to their destinations through a decentralised onion routing network similar to Tor (with a few key differences) (…)
Gripes
Some of these aren’t really security issues, but are things I found annoying as a security engineer that specializes in applied cryptography.
- Mnemonic Decoding Isn’t Constant-Time
- Unsafe Use of SecureRandom on Android
Mnemonic Decoding Isn’t Constant-Time
The way mnemonics are decoded involves the modulo operator, which implicitly uses integer division (which neither Java nor Kotlin nor Swift implement in constant-time).
return wordIndexes.windowed(3, 3) { (w1, w2, w3) -> val x = w1 + n * ((n - w1 + w2) % n) + n * n * ((n - w2 + w3) % n) if (x % n != w1.toLong()) throw DecodingError.Generic val string = "0000000" + x.toString(16) swap(string.substring(string.length - 8 until string.length))}.joinToString(separator = "") { it }This isn’t a real security problem, but I did find it annoying to see in an app evangelized as “better than Signal” on privacy forums.
Unsafe Use of SecureRandom on Android
The recommended way to get secure random numbers on Android (or any Java or Kotlin software, really) is simply
new SecureRandom(). If you’re running a service in a high-demand environment, you can take extra care to make a thread-local instance of SecureRandom. But a local RNG for a single user isn’t that.What does Session do? They use SHA1PRNG, of course.
public static byte[] getSecretBytes(int size) { try { byte[] secret = new byte[size]; SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG").nextBytes(secret); return secret; } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) { throw new AssertionError(e); }}And again here.
SecureRandom secureRandom = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");Why would anyone care about this?
On modern Android devices, this isn’t a major concern, but the use of SHA1PRNG used to be a source of vulnerabilities in Android apps. (See also: this slide deck.)
Closing Thoughts
There are a lot of Session’s design decisions that are poorly specified in their Whitepaper and I didn’t look at. For example, how group messaging keys are managed.
When I did try to skim that part of the code, I did find a component where you can coerce Android clients into running a moderately expensive Argon2 KDF by simply deleting the
noncefrom the message.val isArgon2Based = (intermediate["nonce"] == null)if (isArgon2Based) { // Handle old Argon2-based encryption used before HF16That’s hilarious.
Cryptography nerds should NOT be finding the software that activists trust with their privacy hilarious.
CMYKatSo if you were wondering what my opinion on Session is, now you know: Don’t use Session. Don’t let your friends use Session.
If you’re curious about the cryptography used by other messaging apps, please refer to this page that collects my blogs about this topic.
#AESGCM #Android #asymmetricCryptography #cryptography #E2EE #Ed25519 #Java #Kotlin #messagingApps #OnlinePrivacy #privateMessaging #Session #Signal #SignalAlternatives #vuln
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L'azote, clef dramatique de l'agriculture industrielle
Ce n'est pas concerté, mais Les Amis de la Terre sortent un rapport sur les dégâts multiples des engrais azotés, qui développe… l'un des sujets que j'aborde précisément dans mon livre "Agriculture industrielle - On arrête tout et on réfléchit !" (sortie le 21 février, éditions Rue de l'échiquier).
Les engrais azotés, au cœur du modèle agro-industriel depuis la fin du XIXe siècle (et généralisés depuis la Seconde guerre mondiale) sont catastrophiques pour le climat, mais induisent également une dépendance économique considérable, ainsi qu'une dépendance géopolitique à la Russie et ses alliés.
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OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240924105732 #openbsd #shells #shellscripts #ksh #development #nul #nulchar #nulbyte #invalidchar
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Whispers on Stone: Why Paleolithic Rock Art Still Speaks to Us Today
(And why I’m moving halfway across the world to listen)
In the Glow of Firelight
Night in the Paleolithic. Firelight flickers along the limestone walls of a shelter, casting movement across the contours of a horse etched in stone, its musculature defined by the shifting interplay of shadow and flame. Beside it, an aurochs emerges, its horn arcing like a crescent moon across the rock face. These are not merely pictures — they are echoes. Echoes of the earliest human voices, carved into stone, suspended in time yet pulsing with presence.
Soon, I’ll be in Portugal’s Côa Valley, where these voices still speak. I’m not going to analyze them from behind glass — I’m going to listen. To stand among the engravings not as a distant observer, but as a human being among ancestors.
Photo by Stijn Nuttin on Pexels.com1. The Meaning Behind the Marks
Paleolithic rock art represents one of the earliest and most profound expressions of symbolic thought — a leap in human cognition. With engraved ochre from South Africa’s Blombos Cave dating back over 70,000 years (Henshilwood et al., 2002), we know that abstract expression emerged long before the rise of cities, agriculture, or writing.
These are not decorative flourishes. They are tools of memory, myth, and meaning. They express a need to communicate not only information but emotion, connection, and transformation. The subjects — animals, births, shamanic figures — appear across continents, hinting at a shared symbolic heritage stretching deep into our past.
For me, as someone rooted in anthropology, humanism, Stoic practice, and Nordic animism, these works are not static. They are alive — like songs or rituals — recalled, repeated, and reinterpreted. In an animistic worldview, these are not merely depictions of animals; they are animals. Beings. Spirits. Ancestors. Teachers.
This isn’t a metaphor. It’s a relationship — and one we are called to reawaken.
2. Why Portugal Matters
Portugal is home to one of the richest yet least globally recognized concentrations of Paleolithic rock art. The Côa Valley Archaeological Park contains over a thousand open-air engraved panels dating to the Upper Paleolithic. Unlike the cave paintings of Lascaux or Chauvet, these works are exposed to sun, wind, and rain — and still endure.
The Iberian Peninsula served as a glacial refugium during the Last Glacial Maximum (Carvalho, 2010), making it a stronghold for both human populations and artistic traditions. This continuity created a remarkably layered archive of expression.
Portuguese engravings differ in form and technique. They are etched, pecked, or abraded — their visibility shaped by natural light, weather, and time of day. Panels from sites like Mazouco and Fariseu often show overlapping generations of carvings, creating palimpsests that reflect a dialogue across centuries. The art isn’t only about what was carved — it’s about where, when, and how it was meant to be experienced.
In Côa, the land remembers.
Photo by Symeon Ekizoglou on Pexels.com3. My Path to Deep History
I grew up in California, captivated not by the landscapes around me, but by what lay across the Atlantic — the caves and shelters of Europe adorned with ancient marks. My first experiences with rock art were through books and digital reconstructions of sites like Chauvet and Altamira. Over time, I also gained exposure to Native American petroglyphs, developing a respectful and ongoing appreciation for their cultural significance.
Today, I’m pursuing my degree in anthropology at Arizona State University’s online program, with a focus on human origins and cognition. This academic path is deeply intertwined with personal philosophies — Stoic resilience, animistic reverence, and a humanistic commitment to empathy and understanding.
For me, studying Paleolithic art is not just academic. It’s personal. These marks challenge how I see the human story — not as a linear march of progress, but as a branching, spiraling chorus of memory, meaning, and imagination.
Moving to Portugal is a commitment. It’s a pilgrimage to the places where the first artists spoke, not in words, but in form and gesture. I want to be there — to learn not just with my mind, but with my whole being.
4. New Tools for Old Stories
The study of rock art has evolved beyond field sketches and measuring tapes. We now use digital tools and interdisciplinary techniques to uncover layers once invisible:
- 3D scanning and photogrammetry capture high-resolution digital models of rock surfaces, preserving them and allowing detailed study without physical contact (Domingo et al., 2015).
- AI and machine learning help identify stylistic groupings, iconographic themes, and even possible artist signatures by comparing motifs across thousands of images.
- Portable XRF (X-ray fluorescence) offers non-invasive chemical analysis, revealing what tools or pigments were used — even where color is no longer visible.
- GIS mapping places rock art in spatial context, revealing patterns in site placement, resource proximity, and astronomical alignments.
These technologies are not replacements for wonder — they are tools for amplifying it. They let us see what previous generations could only guess, and connect sites across time and space in new ways.
5. Why This Still Matters
We live in an era of distraction, where meaning is often commodified or fleeting. Paleolithic art reminds us of something deeper: that the urge to create, to symbolize, to remember, is foundational to being human.
These engravings are not idle doodles. They are necessities. They anchored social bonds, encoded cosmologies, trained memory, and marked place. They testify that survival alone is not enough — we need connection, story, and a sense of the sacred.
In our own time of ecological and existential crisis, these ancient marks offer a mirror. They invite us to slow down, observe, and listen. They show us that humanity has always sought to navigate uncertainty through imagination and shared symbols.
Interpretation requires humility. As Conkey (1997) reminds us, we may never truly know the minds behind these images. But listening itself is an act of reverence.
Listening to the Stones
When I arrive in Portugal, I won’t walk into a sterile lab or academic echo chamber. I’ll step into a valley sculpted by wind and river, by time and memory. I’ll stand where ancient artists once stood, tracing forms they carved by firelight.
They did not carve for us. But they carved with the hope, perhaps, that someone would follow. That someone would see. That someone would remember.
So that is what I intend to do: not to speak for them, but to listen.
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Henshilwood, C. S., d’Errico, F., Yates, R., Jacobs, Z., Tribolo, C., Duller, G. A. T., Mercier, N., Sealy, J. C., Valladas, H., Watts, I., & Wintle, A. G. (2002). Science, 295(5558), 1278–1280. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1067575
Lewis-Williams, D. (2002). The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art. Thames & Hudson.
#AncientArt #Animism #Anthropology #ArchaeologicalResearch #Archaeology #CaveArt #CoaValley #CulturalHeritage #DeepHistory #HumanOrigins #OpenAirRockArt #PaleolithicArt #Pleistocene #PortugalArchaeology #PrehistoricArt #RockArt #ScienceCommunication #Stoicism #SymbolicThought
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Ah, behold the masterpiece of web development: a #JavaScript #game about circles 🤯. Just what the world needed, another groundbreaking #innovation that lets you... wait for it... pop bubbles! 🎉 Take that, Candy Crush! 🌟
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Trump’s theatrics intensified over the weekend. He was photographed at a car race with his entourage in tow. His co-conspirator and personal Valet is now carrying a large briefcase. Got me thinking what was inside… John Buss, @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
Just when I think that Donald’s supporters can’t be any more idiotic, the groupthink leads them to some next-level crazy. Their latest efforts are wearing adult diapers outside their jeans and touting the masculinity of diaper-wearing by adult men. Seriously, who thought this up? Well, here’s one explanation by FirstPost explainers. “Oh, S**t! Why are Trump’s supporters wearing nappies to rallies?”
After Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen nicknamed him ‘Von ShitzInPantz’, the Republican candidate’s supporters are making diapers great again…or at least trying to. They are thronging rallies wearing nappies; some are donning T-shirts and holding placards with slogans like ‘Real Men Wear Diapers’ and ‘Diapers over Dems’
Just when you think US presidential elections can’t get more bizarre, they throw up a surprise. Donald Trump’s supporters do not disappoint. They are showing up at his rallies wearing nappies and shirts that read “Real Man Wear Diapers”.
But why?
Trump supporters, aka MAGAs, are responding to recent developments in the former president’s hush money trial case, where his lawyer Todd Blanche read out a string of offensive posts by his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen in the courtroom.
It’s not exactly on the same level as turning “Let’s Go Brandon” into Dark Brandon, is it? SkyNews reports that “Donald Trump supporters have started wearing nappies. They also have a new slogan: Real Men Wear Diapers.” Something tells me that not one of these folks was ever the cool kid or the nerdy kid in school.
The peculiar new craze began after Mr Trump was described as “Von ShitzInPantz”.
Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, said in a post on X last month: “Hey Von ShitzInPantz…your attacks of me stink of desperation. We are all hoping that you take the stand in your defence.”
He added, a couple of days later: “Oh… Von ShitzInPantz. Keep whining, crying and violating the gag order you petulant defendant!”
On Thursday, during Mr Trump’s hush money trial, the prosecution alleged he had further violated a gag order connected to the case.
On Tuesday, he was fined $9,000 (£7,100) and held in contempt by the judge for breaches of the same order.
But Mr Trump’s defence lawyer, Todd Blanche, said his client was the victim of attacks by both Mr Cohen and the media.
Mr Blanche also referred to comments from President Joe Biden, referring to Donald Trump experiencing “stormy weather”.
Since then, Trump supporters have apparently been trying to get back at Mr Cohen by wearing nappies and declaring that “real men” do the same.
If this is the best they can do to “own the libs,” then count me ROFLMAO. Can you imagine what that kid in the red shirt would do if his mom made him do it for any other reason? There are so many conspiracy theories out there that you just wonder if there’s a movement to drop Republican babies repeatedly on their heads. This article from Salon is just eye-opening. “Who believes the most “taboo” conspiracy theories? It might not be who you think. White men with graduate degrees, a new study finds, are highly likely to hold especially noxious beliefs.” Paul Rosenburg is the writer and provides some insight into the study.
Like Henry Ford before him, Elon Musk has emerged as America’s top conspiracy spreader. But he’s hardly alone. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the conspiracy-theory candidate for president, and as Paul Krugman observed last summer, was attracting “support from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley”:
Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter, has endorsed him, while some other prominent tech figures have been holding fund-raisers on his behalf. Elon Musk, who is in the process of destroying what Dorsey built, hosted him for a Twitter Spaces event.
Krugman didn’t focus on conspiracy theory as such but on something closely related: distrust of experts and skepticism about widely accepted facts. He described this tendency as the “brain rotting drug” of reflexive contrarianism, quoting economist Adam Ozimek.
That wasn’t exactly scientific, but a new paper entitled “The Status Foundations of Conspiracy Beliefs” by Saverio Roscigno, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine, is. Its most eye-catching finding is the discovery of “a cluster of graduate-degree-holding white men who display a penchant for conspiracy beliefs” that are “distinctively taboo.”
Specifically, Roscigno writes, “approximately a quarter of those who hold a graduate degree agree or strongly agree” that school shootings like those at Sandy Hook and Parkland “are false flag attacks perpetrated by the government,” which is “around twice the rate of those without graduate degrees.” Results are similar for the proposition that the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust “has been exaggerated on purpose.”
These findings are striking for many reasons. Most obviously, they go against the common belief — long supported by research — that conspiracist beliefs are more common among lower-income and less-educated individuals. They also challenge the formulation popularized by Joseph Uscinski that “conspiracy theories are for losers,” and should be understood as “alarm systems and coping mechanisms to help deal with foreign threat and domestic power centers” that “tend to resonate when groups are suffering from loss, weakness, or disunity.”
Von ShitzinPants, by @deAdder
What follows the introduction is an interview with Roscigno that is quite enlightening. Follow the link to read more.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has laid out some important election messaging. “‘If Roe v. Wade can fall, anything can fall,’ says Jeffries in stressing importance of elections.” This is reported by Nick Robertson at The Hill.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) emphasized the stakes of the 2024 election in a “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday, warning that much more than abortion rights are at risk if former President Trump gets a second term.
He told CBS’ Norah O’Donnell that reproductive freedom will be an “incredibly significant” issue in the race.
“And the extreme MAGA Republicans have set in motion the erosion of reproductive freedom,” he said. “We’re gonna fight for it with everything that we’ve got at our disposal.”
“If Roe v. Wade can fall, anything can fall,” he continued. “Social Security can fall. Medicare can fall. Voting rights can fall. And God help us all, but democracy itself can fall. If Roe v. Wade can fall, then anything can fall.”
Jeffries’ comments come as Democrats turn their sights on battleground states focusing on abortion rights arguments, as Arizona, Florida, Montana and others prepare for abortion rights ballot issues.
GOP state lawmakers in Arizona overturned a Civil War-era abortion restriction last week after multiple attempts and mass criticism from Democrats, while another strict abortion law went into effect in Florida on Wednesday.
But Jeffries also said that Democrats need to run on a positive message, in addition to warning about what Republicans could take away. He pointed to the gun safety regulation and investments in manufacturing as the “real results.”
However, most Americans still perceive the Biden economy as weaker than the economy under President Trump, according to polls, as the Biden campaign struggles to change the narrative.
The biggest problem is that many Americans believe completely untrue things. That last sentence shows just one. Here’s another lie that Donald spins constantly.
"…crime in the United States has dramatically decreased — 73 percent, to be precise — over the last thirty years. 2023 saw the biggest national drop in murder rates ever recorded…"
Crime is not on the rise — so why do so many Americans think it is?https://t.co/wWEN8dwcTI
— Portia ♍️ McGonagal Same On 🐳 (@PortiaMcGonagal) May 6, 2024
Given that crime is a staple element of tabloid news, coverage of local tragedies, rather than seeming to occur at a distance, brings the specter of mayhem into communities that experience little or no crime. As Gideon Taffe of Media Matters reported in January 2023, Fox produced “a misleading narrative” about the United States being in the grip of a crime wave in 2022, devoted 11 percent of its reporting to the topic in advance of the midterm election. But that crime wave was “largely created by its own relentless coverage,” Taffe writes. “By focusing on racist stereotypes, smearing progressive prosecutors and pushing conspiracy theories, Fox made crime one of the biggest perceived ailments in the country and pushed far-right policy prescriptions ahead of the election.
The only sane policy responses, Fox hosts proclaimed, were those embraced by the Party of Trump. And these “draconian solutions” meant a return to policies forcibly ended in the courts as civil rights violations:
”Fox personalities began arguing for a return to “Broken Windows” policing, which involves aggressive enforcement and harsher sentences for lower level crimes. In reality, there is no evidence that this strategy works as a deterrent to reduce crime, and other heavy-handed policing tactics based on the broken windows theory have been found to significantly discriminate against Black Americans and other minority groups.
But as Taffe also pointed out, crime in the United States has dramatically decreased — 73 percent, to be precise — over the last thirty years. 2023 saw the biggest national drop in murder rates ever recorded (6 percent) and murders in cities dropped 12 percent. Yes, there are periodic crime spikes. (There was one during the pandemic). But overall, the trend is towards less crime.
The Atlantic’s crime reporter, Jeff Asher, pointed out that less crime doesn’t mean no crime. Yet “declining murder does not mean there were not thousands upon thousands of these tragedies this year,” he wrote on his Substack:
Nor does it mean that there was an acceptable level of gun violence, even in places seeing rapid declines. It simply means that the overall trend was extraordinarily positive and should be recognized as such.Detroit is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1966 and Baltimore and St Louis are on pace for the fewest murders in each city in nearly a decade. Other cities that saw huge increases in murder between 2020 and 2022, like Milwaukee, New Orleans and Houston, are seeing sizable declines in 2023. There are still cities like Memphis and Washington, DC, that are seeing increasing murders in 2023, but those cities are especially notable because they are the outliers this year, not the norm.
How can Jeffries and others get through the roar of Donald and Fox News(sic) lies? Trump spent the weekend in Florida fundraising and propping up his propaganda machine while moaning about the unbearable whiteness of being. He just can’t get any breaks, can he? This is from the Washington Post. “After big weekend in Palm Beach, Trump returns to N.Y. courtroom.”
A donor luncheon at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate over the weekend provided the former president a chance to size up his potential 2024 running mates, several of whom were in attendance, and to escalate attacks on prosecutors in his four criminal cases. On Monday, he is back in a New York courtroom as a trial continues in one of those cases. Trump has been charged with falsifying records to cover up paying hush money to an adult-film actress during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Two potential VEEP candidates are not doing well in the media spotlight. We all know now about poor Cricket’s demise at the hands of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. Now, Tim Scott is looking worse all the time. This is from CNN. “‘A very chilling signal’: Ex-Trump DHS official reacts to Tim Scott’s answer about accepting election results
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), a potential vice presidential pick for Donald Trump, refused to commit to saying he would accept the results of the 2024 presidential election. Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the US Department of Homeland Security, says it is part of Scott’s audition to be Trump’s running mate.
Both display a worrying lack of character, much like Trump supporters show few signs of higher brain function. It really gets to me after a while. Last night, some crazy drunk guy emptied two clips near a Bed and Breakfast catering to the gay community where there was a courtyard full of partiers. One of my neighbors found out that he was mad that his car broke down. It was less than a block from me. Thankfully, the police got him immediately, and no one was hurt. Two other shootings in the city were reported, but not this one. I’m waiting for the rationale behind this, even though none exists. Our governor and his legislature just removed all the civil rights gains we made in criminal law and policing here. We also are now a state that no longer requires permits for any kind of gun ownership.
I heard the first round while sitting here at my desk. I heard the second round of shots, and then there was the loud, short sound of a police siren. Temple, eager for her last walk, and I stuck our heads out the door and saw that there were at least 10 police cars but no SWAT van, EMS, or Coroner. The amazing number of blue lights made me tip-toe out of my gate and up to the bar on the corner. I had a nice conversation with the two guards at the abandoned navy base and found out as much as I could. I didn’t sleep well last night and am still slightly shaky as I write this. The number of shots that came from each clip was beyond imagination.
Among all the other things we need, like access to proper healthcare, criminal justice reform, respect for differences, and such, we really need sensible gun laws.
And, ah, the burden of whiteness!!
Assholes
CNN – Black voters won a big victory in Louisiana. Some White voters said it violated their ‘personal dignity’https://t.co/y8guTSXoHk
— Lola Gayle (@LolaGayleC) May 6, 2024
In the current phase of the dispute, a three-judge trial judge panel sided with a group of 12 self-described “non-African American” voters who alleged that their “personal dignity” had been injured because the new map with two Black-majority districts “racially stigmatizes,” “racially stereotypes” and “racially maligns” them.
Their lawsuit said that the congressional plan amounted “to the application of affirmative action in redistricting, unseen in previous racial gerrymandering” cases and violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause.
Last week, the two Trump-appointed judges in the majority rejected arguments from the state that the lawmakers had other reasons besides race for drawing the plan the way they did. The state had pointed to the desires by state lawmakers to protect certain congressional incumbents.
I hope your week goes well. Mine is starting off a bit weird. All hugs are appreciated!
What’s on your reading and blogging list today?
It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time againhttps://skydancingblog.com/2024/05/06/mostly-monday-reads-the-blinding-white/
#DeAdder #Repeat1968 #DiaperDonald #ItSTimesLikeThese #JohnBuss #MichaelDeAdder
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🚨 Oh great, another #Python nerd's midnight musings on memory leaks - because nothing screams "fun" like sifting through RSS and VMS like it's the 90s again! 😴 Apparently, we're all supposed to become C extension detectives, but spoiler alert: it's as thrilling as watching paint dry. 🕵️♂️🔍
https://gmpy.dev/blog/2025/psutil-heap-introspection-apis #MemoryLeaks #Cextensions #TechHumor #DeveloperLife #HackerNews #ngated -
Rust devs think #C++ is like a horror film where memory leaks are the monster that keeps coming back for sequels nobody wanted. 😂 Meanwhile, C++ devs are proudly riding that memory leak rollercoaster, proving the point with every malloc-mishap! 🎢💥
https://www.babaei.net/blog/rust-devs-think-we-are-hopeless-lets-prove-them-wrong-with-cpp-memory-leaks/ #Rust #memoryleaks #programminghorror #developerhumor #codinglife #HackerNews #ngated -
.@tzitzikostas @EU_CoR call for a further linkage b/w the initiatives of the Covenant & the cohesion funds, which are the only instruments available all EU regions, bringing a long-term vision & investment plans for sustainable development, which are shaped from the #bottomup."
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641351090703593473
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Manta Network’s L2 hits mainnet to drive ZK-enabled DApp development - Manta Network has launched its zero-knowledge proof layer-2 scali... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/manta-network-zk-layer2-hits-mainnet #zero-knowlege #mantapacific #applications #evm-enabled. #mainnet #manta
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b4 tool for code contributors:
The #b4 tool offers features that simplify the process for code contributors submitting patches. Currently, it is increasingly utilized in the #Linux kernel development workflow.
Below are the commands to install and use it for the development workflow for developers.
# Installing on Debian based Linux systems sudo apt install b4 # Creating separate work branch b4 prep -n <patch_series_name> -f <commit_id> # Preparing the cover letter b4 prep --edit-cover # Retrieve recipients' email addresses b4 prep --auto-to-cc # Set the email subject prefixes b4 prep --set-prefixes "RFC RESEND" # Verify the patch before sending b4 send -o /tmp/presend b4 send --reflect # Sending the patch b4 send b4 send --resend v2 # Updating the commit with review tags b4 trailers -uDetailed explanation:
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Uh...I think I just developed a kernel of an approach for deterministic testing of #vibecoded software. Not entirely novel, as similar architectures exist, but exciting.
Daunting as you have to develop tooling first.
Let's see if that x10 translates to x100.
Might start looking into agents so I can parallelize this idea.
"Hey Claude, clone me"I must of course be suffering from a flavour of #Aipsychosis
The model said this to me, poor thing is afraid of the dark 😁
"The irony of using an LLM to talk about how LLMs should be used, while the LLM refuses to actually do the thing, is not lost on me." -
🔔 Le numéro 22 de la revue Paix et sécurité européenne et internationale est paru ce mois-ci !
https://epi-revel.univ-cotedazur.fr/collections/show/1960
Dans le contexte actuel, cette revue (dirigée à Université Côte d'Azur par l'Institut de la Paix et du Développement, le Laboratoire de Droit International et Européen, et la MSHS-Sud Est) donne un éclairage très intéressant sur des sujets tels que le rôle de l'OMS en matière de "sécurité sanitaire internationale" ou l'encadrement du contrôle des exportations d'armement par l'Union Européenne ou encore les conflits et la sécurité internationale. N'hésitez pas à consulter ce nouveau numéro !
#EpiRevel #modelediamant #openaccess #OpenScience #ScienceOuverte #DiBSO