Dramat w Kątach Wrocławskich! Wojna nerwów, niesamowite parady bramkarzy i bolesna porażka Siódemki w derbach: https://www.legnica.net/sport/purina-katy-wroclawskie-siodemka-miedz-legnica-relacja-31832/ #MiedźLegnica #Sport #LigaCentralnaszczypiorniak #PurinaKątyWrocławskieSiódemkaMiedźLegnica #SiódemkaMiedźporażkaderby #SiódemkaSMSZPRPKielce #szczypiorniakLegnicawyniki
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Błysk Córdoby na wagę punktu w stolicy! Miedź przetrwała nawałnicę i remisuje z wiceliderem: https://www.legnica.net/sport/polonia-warszawa-miedz-legnica-remis-opis-meczu-31826/ #MiedźLegnica #Sport #AsierCordobaMiedź #Betclic1Ligarelacja #DmytroSydorenkoMiedź #MiedźLegnicaPoloniaWarszawawynik #MiedźLegnicaremis
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I started noticing in 2015 that my #spam was leaning #russian
In 2018, I noticed I was getting some more in #election years
What's the likelihood that mere chance has had a week of multiple major #cybersecurity stories immediately precede another election?
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Canada women’s rugby sets lineup for rematch with top-ranked England in Ottawa
Canada’s women’s rugby team will be leaning on more than just momentum when it takes on top-ranked England…
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News: Ghostemane releases first new full-length album in six years, leaning more into hip-hop and nü-metal influences
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Auch mit dem 🚴♂️kommt man hier auf der #Velomaritime auf seine Kosten:
https://de.francevelotourisme.com/radroute/la-velomaritime-eurovelo-4/lannion-perros-guirec
Die Strecke führt mal mehr und mal weniger nah am Meer entlang und ist sehr gut ausgeschildert.
#camping #Kastenwagen #bretagne #travelcouple #travel #CampingLife #france
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Cabinet split emerges over controversial Rosebank oilfield decision
By Rowena Mason Whitehall editorChancellor is in favour the North Sea project, but energy secretary has said she is leaning towards rejecting it
#Oil #Fossilfuels #Energyindustry #Environmentpolicy #MiattaFahnbulleh #JohnHealey #Labour #Energy #Environment #Politics #UKnews #Business #TheGuardian #RowenaMasonWhitehalleditor
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Did a bit of family tech support this morning; I swear this usually comes down to one of three things:
- knowing how to line up error message text with search text so I can find documentation
- slowing down and reading *everything* on the screen for context and/or finding the right place to fix stuff
- leaning on a few decades of experience in understanding how things in computers tend to be organized, so your guess are correct around where the thing you need to fix is
None of this is magic; and I suspect a lot of it could be alleviated by:
- including links to documentation along with error messages. It ain’t 1994 anymore
- better systems to make sure error message text is used consistently throughout a product, including its support documentation; better still including unique error codes
- search facilities to find particular settings rather than forcing someone to navigate tabs, panels, and dialogs
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https://www.europesays.com/cz/257916/ Pastrňák gólově táhne Boston, slaví sedmou výhru z osmi zápasů. Po odmlce se prosadil i Hertl #BostonBruins #ColumbusBlueJackets #DavidPastrňák #LedníHokej #NHL #SanJoseSharks #Sport #SportovníDisciplína #SportovníUdálost #Sports #TomášHertl #VegasGoldenKnights
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Whenever I pass the posters for this guy, I think, yes, costly sums up the right leaning parties, really, not just National:
It always results in downgrades of essential quality of life and health/safety infrastructures which the ultra-wealthy are mostly insulated from ... and it is always touted as reduced taxation or 'efficiency' (= gormless cuts which amount to sabotage and diminish morale).
Ironically, most of them look like heart attack candidates who may end up needing emergency care anytime, and the expertise may not be where they are rushed to in the critical period. I saw exactly that happen in the UK. But greed does what it does.
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I've had to migrate due to my community going dark next week. So, here I am! #introduction
I've been writing #sapphic books for over 25 years, leaning towards the #butchfemme dynamic. I'm been mostly on FB and Insta, but I hope to be around here more often.
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Une épouse et mère mature obtient plus que ce qu’elle avait prévu.
À Lire ici : https://litix.fr/lanniversaire
#NSFW #camping #femmeplusâgée #gangbang #garçonsduniversité #mature #regardermari #sexeanal
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‘Generation Right’: Israeli youth show strong support for the right | Israel Election 2026 News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/23/generation-right-israeli-youth-show-strong-support-for-the-right"But while youth around the world are leaning to the left, young adults in Israel are heading in the opposite direction, according to recent polls."
This is tragic.
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The 10 Comfort Food Recipes Our Readers Are Saving Most Right Now
As the days get shorter and chillier, I’ve found myself leaning hard towards cold weather cooking. The crisp, refreshing salads I enjoyed in the summer and early fall have firmly been replaced with heartier fare. This seems to be the case for many of our readers, too, who…
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https://www.europesays.com/cz/256509/ Od Plzně se zvedáme, ale nesmíme usnout na vavřínech, varuje autor dvou tref proti Kometě #DavidCienciala #HCKometaBrno #HCVítkoviceRidera #Headlines #HlavníUdálosti #LedníHokej #News #TipsportExtraliga #TopNews #TopStories #UdálostiDne #Zprávy
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https://www.europesays.com/cz/256077/ Nečekaný debut českého brankáře. Šílenost, radoval se Postava po vítězství v dresu Detroitu #AmericanHockeyLeague #DetroitRedWings #GrandRapids #GrandRapidsGriffins #HCKometaBrno #LedníHokej #MichalPostava #MotoristéSobě #NHL #Sport #SportovníDisciplína #Sports #VancouverCanucks
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Joao and Walter Moreira Salles, two brothers from Brazil's richest family, have emerged as opponents of right-leaning presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday's closely fought runoff election. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/23/world/politics/billionaire-brazilian-brothers-runoff/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brazil #flaviobolsonaro #jairbolsonaro #luizinacioluladasilva #presidentialelection
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🌤️ Good morning #HamOnt.. Happy Friday! ⛅️
Forecast says high of 13°C feeling like 11° with a mix of sun & cloud leaning somewhat sunny.
Have a fantastic day!
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HAMAS=ISLAM=EVIL TERRORISM
An Intro to a Daily Mail Post
Who Is Hamas (PHOTO from The Jewish Educator Portal under title “Who Is Hamas?”)
Intro by John R. Houk, Blog Editor
Intro © October 23, 2026
If it originates in the UK, I’ve always assumed a sympathy for Left-Wing these days. I came across a U.S. version of the Daily Mail with the title, “Hamas issues ‘unprecedented’ warning it is prepared to carry out a repeat of the October 7 massacre”.
Since I know the Daily Mail has UK origins (ABOUT & LEADERSHIP), I was a bit surprised by a warning about Islamic Terrorism. So I did some political spectrum checking. According to Biasly.com the Daily Mail is 50/50 leaning Right. Quizlet.com has a list of UK Media which lists the Daily Mail as Conservative and Right-wing.
And so, I share this short Daily Mail post that was actually updated for 10/23/26. AND I will use an intro title that will probably get censored as against Community Standards from the Blogger Platform (owned by Google) where my blog SlantRight 2.0 is located. Today Blogger censored this 10/21/26 post exposing Red-Green Alliance in France Riots which can be read at Substack (John’s Newsletter) and WordPress (Conservative-Patriot Christian Right).
And so an Intro title to the Daily Mail post, I’m going with HAMAS=ISLAM=EVIL TERRORISM.
JRH 10/23/26
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Hamas issues ‘unprecedented’ warning it is prepared to carry out a repeat of the October 7 massacre
By FRANCINE WOLFISZ, NEWS REPORTER
Published: 14:39 EDT, 22 October 2026 | Updated: 04:23 EDT, 23 October 2026
Hamas has threatened to repeat the October 7 massacre in an ‘unprecedented’ warning to Israel, as the terrorist group faces mounting pressure to disarm.
The group said it would be prepared to unleash violence against targets in Israel, Judea, Samaria and abroad whenever the opportunity arises, according to the chilling message.
UN humanitarian coordinator Dr Ramiz Alakbarov was tasked with conveying the threat to the Israeli leadership by senior Hamas officials, who met him last week at his office in Gaza, Ynet reported.
They informed Alakbarov that Hamas was struggling financially and losing control over the Gaza Strip, largely due to continuing Israeli military operations and the shifting of the Yellow Line demarcating the border with Israel.
Hamas has also grown frustrated by the actions of Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, who cancelled the elections scheduled for the end of November.
Alakbarov is understood to have met Major General Yoram Halevy, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), to pass on the warning.
Insiders are said to have described the threat by Hamas as ‘unprecedented’ in its directness.
The threat comes just after Israel announced a Hamas terrorist who took part in abducting and killing Shani Louk on October 7 had been killed in an air strike in northern Gaza.
Hamas has threatened to repeat the October 7 massacre in an ‘unprecedented’ warning to Israel, as the terrorist group faces mounting pressure to disarm (© Majority World Universal Images – DM Photo)
Hamas issued the threat as the group continues to refuse to surrender its weapons. Pictured: Men transporting food packages in Gaza City on Thursday (© AFP via Getty Images – DM Photo)
Tamer Muhammad Ibrahim al-Sabbagh was the final member of a Hamas cell deemed responsible for the 22-year-old Israeli civilian’s death.
Three other Hamas cell members were killed earlier in the conflict, while one has been captured by Israeli forces.
Infamous photos taken by AP freelance photographer Ali Mahmud showed a half-naked woman, later identified as the German-Israeli, lying unconscious face-down in the back of a pickup truck in Gaza.
Footage spread of her being paraded through the streets of Gaza by a group of armed men, becoming one of the symbols for Hamas’ atrocities and raising concern over her welfare.
The tattoo artist was kidnapped from the Nova music festival near Re’im on October 7, 2023, and died in the Gaza Strip.
In late October 2023, forensic examiners confirmed Ms Louk’s death after they identified a piece of her skull.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers operating in Gaza located Ms Louk’s remains in May 2024 and returned her to Israel for burial.
According to the IDF, al-Sabbagh had carried out advanced attacks on Israeli troops and civilians and acted to restore Hamas’s capabilities ‘in systematic violation of the ceasefire’.
‘The terrorist was eliminated in order to remove the threat he posed,’ the IDF said.
Elsewhere, the Board of Peace and international mediators have repeated demands for Hamas to disarm.
The condition is necessary for the US-brokered ceasefire, which calls for eventual reconstruction of the territory.
But little progress has been made as negotiators have failed to agree terms for Hamas to surrender its weapons and Israel to withdraw its troops.
Israeli airstrikes have stepped up in recent weeks. At least 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire, according to the territory’s health officials, while Israel says four soldiers have been killed.
Palestinian authorities say more than 74,000 people have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza, launched after Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 people during the October 7 atrocities.
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Public opinion toward major technology corporations does not fall neatly along a simple spectrum from support to opposition, according to new research published in Research and Politics. Analyzing survey data from six countries, researchers found that higher levels of education are linked to mixed, conflicted views rather than outright enthusiasm for large tech firms. The study also indicates that political ideology is linked to these attitudes in distinct ways, with left-leaning individuals more likely to be skeptical and highly educated right-leaning individuals increasingly likely to hold ambivalent views.
Big Tech refers to the largest and most dominant companies in the information technology industry, specifically global corporations such as Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft. Beyond selling consumer products and digital services, these firms control the core infrastructure of modern communication, commerce, and emerging tools like artificial intelligence. Because their platforms influence how citizens find information, participate in public debates, and interact with democratic institutions, governments face growing questions about whether to regulate these companies more strictly or support their continued growth.
Political scientists have spent considerable effort examining how technological shifts affect workers and voters, though less attention has gone toward how the public evaluates the specific corporations driving those changes. For example, a 2022 review noted that workplace automation and digitalization tend to divide the workforce into economic winners who favor the political status quo and routine workers who face job risks and gravitate toward populist politics. Similarly, a study covered by PsyPost in 2022 found that workers facing higher exposure to job automation were more likely to support radical-right parties and report lower satisfaction with democracy.
When turning from workplace technology to the specific corporations behind it, Tobias Tober and colleagues at the University of Konstanz expected education and political ideology to guide public attitudes. In modern knowledge economies, which rely heavily on information and technical expertise rather than manual labor, university-educated individuals usually enjoy stronger job prospects and greater familiarity with digital tools. Prior work, including a 2024 cross-country survey, conducted in part by two of the same researchers, linked how much job risk people perceive from digitalization to how they want governments to respond. Based on these patterns, the authors initially expected highly educated people to view Big Tech companies positively.
Ideology was also expected to play a central role, though in different ways across the political spectrum. Individuals on the political left generally distrust corporate monopolies, wealth inequality, and unchecked private power, which suggests they would view tech giants critically. On the political right, expectations are more complicated because traditional pro-business values favor large corporations, whereas right-wing populist movements often distrust the cultural and social shifts tied to digital capitalism.
To test how these factors work in practice, the researchers commissioned the survey firm Kantar Public to collect data in June and July 2022 across six countries: Germany, Japan, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. The sample included 3,300 adults aged 18 to 64 in each country, totaling 19,800 respondents. The researchers used quota sampling for age, gender, and education so that the participants reflected the broader national populations of their respective countries.
Participants rated their agreement on a five-point scale with six statements about the societal role of global technology companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Three statements reflected positive contributions: providing useful services to the public, promoting innovation and economic development, and aiding democracy by offering a digital space for open debate. The other three statements captured negative impacts: undermining the national welfare state by avoiding taxes, weakening labor standards, and becoming so powerful that they threaten democracy.
The researchers then used exploratory factor analysis, a statistical technique that groups related survey answers together to uncover underlying patterns in how people think. Rather than finding a single scale where positive views sit at one end and negative views sit at the other, the analysis pointed to two separate dimensions that barely correlated with each other. Agreeing with positive statements about Big Tech had almost no bearing on whether a person disagreed with negative statements.
Next, the authors applied a grouping method called k-means cluster analysis to see how respondents combined these positive and negative evaluations. The researchers sorted the 19,800 participants into five profiles. The largest group was the neutral cluster (8,140 respondents), consisting of people who neither agreed nor disagreed with most statements, followed by the ambivalent cluster (5,114 respondents), who agreed with both positive and negative statements at the same time.
The remaining participants fell into three smaller categories. Big Tech supporters (3,739 respondents) agreed with the positive statements and rejected the negative ones, while skeptics (2,123 respondents) endorsed the negative statements and rejected the positive ones. Finally, a small dismissive group (685 respondents) disagreed with both positive and negative characterizations of the industry.
To see how education and ideology predicted membership in these five groups, the team ran statistical models that accounted for income and differences between countries, and the results held when they also accounted for technology use at home and at work. Education was divided into three levels based on international standards, ranging from lower secondary schooling up to university degrees. Political ideology was measured on an 11-point scale where respondents placed themselves from far left to far right.
Contrary to the researchers’ initial expectations, higher education was not linked to a large jump in outright support for Big Tech. Moving from the lowest to the highest education level increased the predicted probability of being a supporter by only about 3 percentage points, and the probability of being a skeptic by about 2 percentage points. Instead, the probability of belonging to the ambivalent group rose from 22 percent among less educated respondents to 33 percent among university-educated respondents, while the likelihood of being neutral dropped from 43 percent to 30 percent.
Political ideology also separated respondents in distinct ways, with people in the political center most likely to belong to the neutral group. Moving from the center to the far left increased the predicted probability of being a skeptic by about 10 percentage points. Moving from the center to the far right increased the probability of skepticism by about 6 percentage points, while raising the probability of belonging to the ambivalent group by roughly 10 percentage points. These patterns were broadly similar across the six countries, though with some differences.
When the researchers looked at how education and ideology interacted, they found that ideological divisions were sharpest among university-educated citizens, with declining neutrality on the left translating mainly into higher skepticism. On the right, the pattern ran counter to the researchers’ expectations: there was some evidence that support declined toward the far right among the highly educated, while the probability of holding ambivalent views rose by about 16 percentage points from the political center to the far right. The authors suggest this may reflect a conflict between pro-market beliefs and conservative concerns over how tech platforms influence culture and speech.
The authors also examined whether these five attitude groups aligned with policy preferences regarding government regulation and state financial or political backing for tech firms. Across the full sample, 38 percent of respondents favored stronger regulation of Big Tech, 20 percent opposed it, and 42 percent were undecided. Similarly, 32 percent favored giving the companies more economic and political support, 19 percent opposed doing so, and 49 percent remained undecided.
Breaking these numbers down by group showed that attitude profiles closely tracked policy demands. Skeptics overwhelmingly backed stricter regulation at 82 percent and opposed government support for the industry at 65 percent, while supporters showed little appetite for regulation (23 percent in favor) and leaned toward government backing (40 percent in favor). Ambivalent respondents tended to want both interventions simultaneously, with 72 percent favoring more regulation and 46 percent favoring more government support.
These patterns align with research covered by PsyPost earlier this year, which examined public beliefs regarding the economic and labor impacts of artificial intelligence rather than evaluations of Big Tech companies, and similarly found that political ideology structures technology-related attitudes and regulatory preferences. The heightened skepticism on the left is also broadly in line with a 2023 study covered by PsyPost, which analyzed sentiment in news coverage of artificial intelligence rather than public survey attitudes toward major tech corporations and found that liberal-leaning media outlets expressed more negative sentiment toward artificial intelligence than conservative outlets.
To explain why higher education is linked to ambivalence rather than simple support, the authors propose an explanation drawn from a classic theory of how people form political opinions. In this view, education serves as a rough indicator of political awareness, so highly educated people may encounter more competing arguments about both the benefits and dangers of digital platforms. Rather than settling on a one-sided view, they may absorb both sets of arguments, or experience a clash between their economic preferences and cultural values, though the authors note their account remains incomplete.
As with all research, there are some caveats to consider. Because the study relies on survey responses collected at a single point in time in 2022, it cannot establish cause-and-effect relationships or track how attitudes might have shifted following recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence. The survey also included only adults aged 18 to 64 and used quota sampling rather than random sampling, so the results may not fully represent older adults or each country’s population as a whole. In addition, educational attainment overlaps with several other characteristics, such as income and digital literacy, making it difficult to isolate the exact reason why university graduates express more mixed views.
The researchers also note that their analysis treats political messages as broadly similar across the six surveyed nations. In reality, political parties and news media frame technology debates differently across the United States, Japan, and Europe, which could create local variations that broad cross-national models only partly capture. Future studies could track how these public attitudes evolve over time in response to shifting political rhetoric and new regulatory laws.
The study, “Big Tech, big risk? How education and ideology shape public attitudes toward Big Tech companies,” was authored by Tobias Tober, Marius R. Busemeyer, and Sebastian Koos.
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I still haven't decided which tables I'm going to bring. I get 8' x 5' of space and there is space between each vendor. Three 2' x 4' tables would give me a U shape. One 2' x 4' table plus one 2.5' x 6' table would give me an L shape. It all comes down to whether I want to deal with 2 tables or 3. 🤔 I'm leaning towards 2 for this first day. Keep it simple. (2/2)
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DATE: October 25, 2026 at 12:00PM
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URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-the-menstrual-cycle-alters-adhd-symptoms-in-women-taking-stimulants/
The menstrual cycle appears to modulate the severity of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) traits in women taking common stimulant medications. A new small study suggests that these traits peak in severity during menstruation and ease soon after, pointing toward a need for hormone-aware treatment plans. The research was published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.
ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by distraction, impulsivity, and hyperactive behavior. Medical professionals historically viewed the condition as something that primarily affected young boys. That diagnostic gap is rapidly closing, and women now make up nearly half of the adult ADHD population in the United States. Women often present with different behavioral patterns than men, leaning toward severe inattention and internalizing behaviors rather than disruptive hyperactivity.
Despite facing daily impairments in their careers and social lives, women remain largely underrepresented in ADHD research. One distinct biological variable separating women from men is the constant fluctuation of ovarian hormones. During the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, estrogen levels rise and peak near ovulation. The subsequent luteal phase features elevated estrogen and progesterone, which then drop rapidly shortly before menstruation begins.
Researchers suspect these hormones play a direct role in brain chemistry. Low estrogen levels are thought to decrease dopamine signaling in the brain. Because dopamine is the primary neurotransmitter involved in focus and attention, these natural hormonal drops could theoretically worsen ADHD symptoms.
Researchers Rebecca Zaritsky, Stephanie C. Reed, and Suzette M. Evans wanted to understand how these hormonal variations interact with ADHD treatments. Prior laboratory work demonstrated that amphetamines, the most commonly prescribed class of ADHD medications, can be less effective during the luteal phase of the cycle. Case reports from clinical settings also hinted that some women experience worsening moods and fading concentration right before their periods.
The research team designed a study to track these daily changes prospectively. The investigators recruited participants through online advertisements to monitor their daily experiences. They screened for individuals between the ages of 18 and 40 who experienced regular menstrual cycles lasting between 21 and 35 days.
To join the study, participants had to report an ADHD diagnosis and currently use amphetamine salts (commonly known by brand names like Adderall) for treatment on at least five days of the week. The team excluded anyone taking hormonal birth control, as well as individuals using other psychiatric medications. After exclusions and dropouts, the researchers ended up with a small study of 30 participants who completed the required long-term tracking.
Each individual filled out an initial survey detailing their medical history, baseline mood, and general impulsive behaviors. Following this baseline assessment, participants completed a daily online survey for 35 consecutive days. This extended timeline ensured the researchers could capture data from one full menstrual cycle for every participant.
The daily questionnaires asked participants to rate their current ADHD symptoms on a standardized four-point scale. They evaluated 18 distinct symptoms, splitting them equally between inattentive traits and hyperactive-impulsive traits. Participants also rated their daily mood variations on a six-point scale measuring 17 distinct emotional states, and reported their exact medication dosage for the day. Finally, they noted whether they were actively menstruating or spotting.
The researchers averaged the daily survey responses and grouped them into three specific biological windows. These windows included the first five days of menstruation, the mid-follicular phase shortly after bleeding ends, and the late luteal phase just before the next period begins. Participants reported their most severe ADHD symptoms during the active menstruation phase. In contrast, they experienced comparatively milder symptoms during the mid-follicular phase.
When researchers separated the specific types of ADHD traits, hyperactive and impulsive behaviors showed variation across the cycle phases, but after adjusting for multiple comparisons this amounted only to a trend rather than a statistically significant difference. Inattentive symptoms also fluctuated, but the differences were not statistically significant. Participants did not report any differences in how much their symptoms generally impaired their daily lives across the different phases.
Mood tracking revealed a correlation between negative emotions and ADHD symptoms. Participants reported elevated negative moods during both the late luteal and menstruation phases compared to the mid-follicular phase. The individuals who experienced the largest drops in mood during menstruation also reported the greatest increases in ADHD symptoms. This correlation held true for both inattentive and hyperactive traits.
Daily amphetamine doses remained remarkably steady across the entire cycle. Participants did not instinctively take more medication to compensate for feeling more distracted or hyperactive during their periods. The research team had hypothesized that some participants using flexible dosing regimens might attempt to counteract their worsening symptoms with higher doses. This lack of adjustment might reflect strict prescribing practices, as many doctors do not encourage patients to alter their daily stimulant intake based on their menstrual cycles.
This research relied entirely on self-reported surveys. The investigators did not measure hormone levels in a laboratory to perfectly confirm each biological phase, opting instead to estimate phases based on reported bleeding days. The small sample size also limited the statistical power of the analysis, meaning the results require verification in larger populations. Because participants taking other psychiatric medications were excluded, the results might not represent individuals managing ADHD alongside conditions such as mood disorders or premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
The study design carried a few distinct demographic and methodological limitations. The researchers did not explicitly gather information on gender identity, meaning the relationship between gender identity, hormone cycles, and ADHD remains untested in this specific context. The standardized survey tool used to track daily symptoms was also based on older diagnostic criteria. This older framework lacks recent diagnostic updates designed to capture how ADHD presents in adults.
The research team also looked at baseline mental health using standardized questionnaires for depression and anxiety. They found a trend suggesting that individuals with higher baseline depression and anxiety scores might experience slightly smaller shifts in ADHD symptoms across their cycles. However, having a higher overall symptom count on average consistently predicted a lower ADHD-related quality of life.
Future studies will need to incorporate direct hormone sampling to precisely map biological changes to behavioral shifts. Researchers might also explore how oral contraceptives or specific antidepressants impact this hormonal cycle in neurodivergent populations. Some clinics have already begun testing symptom-based dosing regimens, where patients take slightly more medication during the specific weeks when their natural hormones work against them. Tracking these targeted interventions could eventually help doctors provide highly individualized care for women navigating adult ADHD.
The study, “Changes in ADHD Symptoms and Mood Across the Menstrual Cycle in Females Treated With Stimulants: A Pilot Study,” was authored by Rebecca Zaritsky, Stephanie C. Reed, and Suzette M. Evans.
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Trhlina, neděle 1. listopadu v 16:00 SEČ
Chceš si najít kámošstvo, pokecat o aktivismu, navázat kontakty nebo prostě jen pofelit? Hledáš komunitu a safe space? Tak to je Dekospot místo pro tebe!
Kolektiv Dekonstrukce (my) se totiž ujímá nedělních otvíraček na Trhlině. Scházíme se pravidelně každou neděli. Budeme se na tebe těšit!
Ale tentokrát máme pár pravidel, které bude potřeba respektovat…
1. Chovejte se k sobě i prostoru s respektem, neakceptujeme žádnou formu nenávistného projevu (ať už je to kvírfobie, rasismus, sexismus, xenofobie atd.)
2. Pokud kouříš, prosím odstup trošku dál od vchodu k Trhlině, je to nepříjemné sousedstvu.
3. Pokud chceš pít alkohol, tak můžeš v rozumné míře (žádný tvrdý alkohol), ale alkoholické nápoje nebudou v prostoru k dispozici
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"Enterprise IT isn't Broken—Its Game Mechanics Are Just Trash": Inside Erkki Laine's Tri-Axial Engine
Why do smart engineers and expensive AI agents make catastrophic production decisions? Because corporate governance is designed like a terribly balanced strategy game. We sat down with the Finnish architect who recoded the rules using Nash Equilibrium, 3D collision physics, and hardcore RPG logic.TURKU, FINLAND — If you read enough enterprise governance documentation, your brain eventually turns into grey SharePoint sludge. It is a joyless world of RACI matrices, annual spreadsheets, and committee meetings where twenty people spend an hour debating a change ticket none of them actually understand.
Then you open the technical specifications of the Business Impact Governance Framework (BIGF) by Finnish ICT architect Erkki Laine, and something weird happens.
Suddenly, you aren't reading bureaucratic filler anymore. You are reading about Autonomous Agentic Meshes, Tri-Axial Actuation Boundaries, Hardened Meta-Governance Layers, and Cryptographic Canonical Decision Records.
Wait a second. Is this an enterprise IT framework, or the patch notes for a hardcore tactical RPG?
"Honestly, there is very little difference between leading a party through a lethal boss fight in a tactical RPG and keeping a multi-cloud production environment alive at 3 AM," Laine says, leaning back with a coffee mug while three dogs patrol his home office perimeter. "In both cases, if your buffs are fake, your map telemetry is fogged, and your party members are secretly sabotaging each other for loot, you are going to wipe."
We sat down with Laine to unpack how an obsession with tactical role-playing games, grand strategy, and mathematical game theory led him to build a deterministic runtime engine that is quietly making traditional ITIL bureaucracy obsolete.
Level 1: Solving the DevOps "Prisoner's Dilemma"
Viti Magazine: Let's start with human behavior. Why do traditional ITSM and GRC processes fail so miserably in the real world?Erkki Laine: Because legacy governance assumes you can fix structural conflicts by writing a politely worded PDF policy and ordering people to "collaborate." Anyone who has ever played a grand strategy game or studied basic Game Theory knows that's delusional.
Look at a standard IT organization. Developers (Dev) and Security/Governance (Ops/Sec) are trapped in a textbook Prisoner's Dilemma:
- Dev's optimal selfish move: Push code as fast as possible, understate the risk score on the ticket, and hit sprint velocity targets.
- Security's optimal selfish move: Stall, interrogate, and demand three weeks of manual CAB reviews to ensure zero personal blame if something breaks.
Both sides play their dominant selfish strategy, and the organization gets the worst possible collective outcome: miserable lead times, shadow IT, and rubber-stamped risk theater.
Viti Magazine: And BIGF fixes this without holding a single team-building workshop?
Laine: Workshops don't change payoff matrices; code does. In BIGF, we replace the political negotiation with a deterministic Policy Gate at the runtime boundary. Security encodes the exact mathematical thresholds into the engine once. Dev knows the exact rules before they even commit code.
Neither side can bluff, cheat, or play politics. The moment the deployment artifact and telemetry satisfy the mathematical equation, the gate opens in milliseconds. By changing the rules of the board, cooperation automatically becomes the Nash Equilibrium—the only winning move for everyone.
Level 2: The Tri-Axial Engine (3D Collision Physics for Risk)
Viti Magazine: People analyzing your v2.3 and v2.4 specifications have pointed out that your "Tri-Axial Actuation Boundary" looks suspiciously like a 3D game engine.Laine: (Laughs) Guilty as charged. In a 3D game engine, every object exists on
X,Y, andZcoordinates. As long as your character stays inside the playable room, you can run, jump, and cast spells freely. The moment you try to walk through a solid wall or step off the edge of the map, the physics engine triggers collision detection and stops your movement vector cold.Why on earth were we managing enterprise production risk on flat, two-dimensional Excel sheets when operational reality is three-dimensional?
In BIGF, every operational decision—whether triggered by a human engineer, a CI/CD pipeline, or an autonomous AI agent—is evaluated in real time across three orthogonal axes (
B × S × T):Authority = f(B, S, T)- The B-Axis (Business Impact): What is the actual statutory, financial, and operational blast radius of this service node? (RTO, RPO, NIS2/DORA criticality tier).
- The S-Axis (Situational State): What is happening in the environment right now? Are we in normal daytime operations, in the middle of a cascading P1 incident, or under a peak commercial freeze?
- The T-Axis (Telemetry & Trust Integrity): How fresh, complete, and cryptographically verified is our underlying dependency data? (
θthreshold, calculated via deterministic10^-4fixed-point arithmetic).
As long as the combined coordinate stays inside the Tri-Axial Actuation Boundary—the "playable room"—execution flows at full automation speed. The millisecond a rogue AI agent tries to walk through the wall because the CMDB telemetry (
T) is stale (θ < 0.8000) during a degraded state (S), the physics engine hits it with a deterministic403 Hard Halt.No invisible clipping through production walls. Fail-Closed in authority, every single time.
Level 3: Mechanism Design—Making Lying Mathematically Stupid
Viti Magazine: One of the most ruthless parts of your repository is the Cloud Procurement and Change simulation logic. You use "Mechanism Design"—essentially reverse game theory. How does that stop people from gaming the system?Laine: Every veteran architect knows the oldest trick in corporate IT: if you want to buy a shiny new cloud tool or push a risky change without triggering a three-month security review, you just lie on the intake form. You tick the box that says "Low Business Impact / No Critical Data," get your rubber stamp, and connect it to core production two weeks later.
In game theory, that's an incentive-incompatible mechanism—the game rewards dishonesty.
With BIGF's Mechanism Design, lying on day one is operational suicide on day two. Why? Because the intake declaration isn't filed away in a dead Word document; it compiles directly into the live Runtime Control-Plane.
If a team claims their new service is "Tier-4 Non-Critical" just to bypass procurement scrutiny, the engine automatically assigns that service a Tier-4 actuation ceiling. The first time that service tries to make an API call to a Tier-1 customer database at runtime, the boundary detects the structural mismatch and severs the connection instantly.
You don't need compliance police chasing people with clipboards. You just design the game mechanics so that telling the absolute truth upfront is the only way your software gets to run in production.
Final Boss: Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Combat in the Mesh
Viti Magazine: Let's talk about the endgame: version 2.3 and autonomous AI agents. Everyone is rushing to deploy "Agentic AI" in ITSM. What happens when machines start playing against machines?Laine: That is the ultimate boss fight of 2026 and 2027. Right now, vendors are selling autonomous buyer-bots, capacity-scaling bots, and incident-remediation bots. What happens when a Cost-Optimization AI Agent (whose reward function is to kill idle servers to save money) collides at 2:00 AM with a Resilience AI Agent (whose reward function is to spin up redundant nodes for DORA compliance)?
Without a deterministic referee, those two probabilistic models will enter an infinite loop, hallucinate authority, and DDoS the enterprise from the inside.
In BIGF v2.3 (Autonomous Agentic Mesh Governance), agents aren't allowed to negotiate based on LLM "vibes." Every Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interaction is governed like a high-stakes multiplayer match with strict cryptographic rules:
- Every action requires a state-bound token signed with Ed25519 cryptography.
- Every decision produces an immutable, replayable Canonical Decision Record.
- If two agents collide, the Tri-Axial equation (
B × S × T) deterministically resolves who has priority based on governed Business Impact master data—not who has the most aggressive prompt.
Viti Magazine: So if BIGF were a video game on Steam, what genre would it be?
Laine: For the people still trying to run modern cloud infrastructure with manual CAB meetings and color-coded spreadsheets? It's Dark Souls on permadeath mode.
For the architects who actually implement a deterministic control-plane? It's Factorio meets Baldur's Gate—a beautifully automated factory where every belt is balanced, the party buffs are mathematically verified, and the goblins get vaporized at the perimeter before you even have to roll initiative.
Ready to patch your enterprise game mechanics?
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Erkki Laine BIG Frameworkto explore the open-science specifications (v2.3 Autonomous Agentic Mesh Governance, v2.4 Reference Architecture, and the NIS2/DORA Alignment series) or test the Interactive Runtime Control-Plane Simulator directly on Zenodo and GitHub.#architecture #ai #devops #gametheory #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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When political leaders publicly endorse white replacement conspiracy theories, their rhetoric is linked to measurable increases in real-world extremist activity. A recent analysis published in PLOS One shows that the repetition of these narratives by elected officials corresponds with upticks in white supremacist organizing. The research also highlights how such statements shape local public attention regarding immigration.
White replacement theories are false narratives claiming that a secretive group is orchestrating mass immigration to replace a nation’s native-born population. These ideological tropes have periodically resurfaced across Western countries over the last century. In the United States, these conspiracy theories often suggest that white Christian conservatives are being intentionally reduced to a demographic minority. Historically, these ideas were confined to fringe extremist groups trying to recruit members and justify hostilities.
Over the past decade, variations of these conspiracies have entered mainstream political discourse. Some politicians use explicit language about demographic replacement or foreign invasions. Others employ subtler versions of the narrative, alleging that left-leaning politicians are encouraging illegal immigration simply to secure future voters.
Sociologists Jack Gabriel Risien Wippell and Laura Dugan from The Ohio State University wanted to see if these political statements translate into tangible social consequences. The researchers designed a study to evaluate how political endorsements of these theories relate to both general public interest and extremist mobilization. They hypothesized that signaling from prominent leaders might create a sense of emboldenment among individuals holding prejudiced views. By normalizing hostile language, elites can lower the perceived social risks of collective action and make extreme ideas seem viable.
The researchers compiled a database of public statements made by federal and state legislators, as well as political candidates, between 2021 and 2023. They specifically isolated 25 endorsements of replacement theories that received coverage in major news outlets. To count as an endorsement, a statement had to reference immigration as a deliberate plot to replace a native population. By focusing on media-amplified statements, they ensured they were analyzing rhetoric that actually reached a broad audience.
Wippell and Dugan first conducted a national analysis using weekly data spanning three years. They compared the timing and accumulation of the political endorsements against weekly Google Trends data for the topic of immigration. They also measured national extremist activity using data from the Anti-Defamation League, an open-source database compiled from news reports and government documents. This dataset provided a comprehensive record of white supremacist protests and public demonstrations.
At the national level, the researchers found a positive association between the accumulation of these political statements and subsequent white supremacist events. As media reports of politicians endorsing replacement narratives piled up, the frequency of extremist demonstrations increased across the country. The relationship between the political rhetoric and national Google searches for immigration was not statistically significant.
The research team then shifted their focus to a state-level analysis, evaluating the data on a monthly basis. They linked each political endorsement to the specific state represented by the politician making the claim. For this local analysis, they tracked state-level Google searches for immigration and expanded their extremist activity metrics to include the distribution of white supremacist propaganda.
Within individual states, the associations were distinct and robust. When state representatives endorsed replacement theories, their specific constituencies experienced an increase in both white supremacist events and propaganda distributions. The data indicates that local political environments play a highly influential role in community-level extremist behavior.
The state-level analysis also revealed a shift in general public attention. The accumulation of replacement theory endorsements by local politicians was tied to an increase in Google searches about immigration within their respective states. This suggests that politicians exert a stronger influence on the attention of their immediate constituents than on the broader national discourse.
The researchers note a few limitations regarding how the data captures media exposure. Tracking the exact public reach of a news story is incredibly difficult, as clips and quotes often spread virally through person-to-person communication and unmonitored social networks. The study treats media exposure as a flat metric between statements, which likely underestimates the true societal spread of the rhetoric.
The tools used to measure public attention also come with inherent caveats. Google Trends measures search interest for a topic relative to all other searches, rather than providing absolute search volumes. This means the data reflects proportional shifts in what the public is paying attention to within a limited attention economy.
Finally, the relationship between political statements and public attention might not be a one-way street. Supplementary analyses by the researchers suggest a bidirectional dynamic at the state level. While political endorsements might draw public focus toward immigration, politicians might also be reacting to rising public interest by increasing their use of these narratives.
The study, “Endorsing narratives of white replacement: Elite discourse, public attention, and extremist mobilization,” was authored by Jack Gabriel Risien Wippell and Laura Dugan.
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“They didn't burn the libraries — they trained them with AI”
Craft and Authorship Devalued
Adobe was built for productivity, it's not doing the work for you like an OpenAI subscription generating both text and imagery through prompts. Commercial AI services are now devaluing craft, labor, skill, and almost anything made or written by hand. Authorship is sinking.
People now find it acceptable to generate work with a prompt, with random art materials they didn't make, and without any ability to make their art. This profoundly changes the meaning of making art and disrupts all digital art. It all becomes Dadaism. Not all artists decide to go Dada. It’s obscuring the meaning of all new digital art with a diminished sense of guessing what is real and what isn’t.
Whose work is it? Permission, provenance and the library
Would David Lynch be okay with people generating an avatar of himself on behalf of his estate? I don’t think so, I even asked Claude themselves and they said no. There must be permission first, it’s not an all you can eat buffet of borrowing others.
Hayao Miyazaki's view on people generating his art style strongly opposed generative AI as an “insult to life itself”, it’s about preserving his work and the Ghibli team's legacy, it's his choice if he allows a technology company to reappropriate his work and not anyone else's.
Can someone please tell Sam Altman to ask for permission or wait a hundred years til it's in the public domain? If major publishers change their mind because authors and artists are being taken advantage of, could it impact OpenAI or Anthropic? Maybe until they find the right lawyer.
We’re entering a provenance, attribution, and appropriation nightmare of who said what and who made what. When a library gets trained into a model, you lose the chain of who wrote it. References without understanding, art school 101 becoming the whole internet.
The business model is trained on everyone's work for free, no fee up front, then sells it back as the means of production. This is precisely how it’s replacing the skills and jobs of production. This is essentially the ethos of the WGA fight at civilizational scale.
Naomi Klein has described it as a “humanity surplus” where archives, libraries, authorship as a whole are told humans aren’t needed, it implies people are working for free. The libraries are all already dust, with the alarming peer to peer pressure in staying quiet about it as an elite tribe of twitter accounts convince people how to do business, with AI prebuilt into everything, while risking a possible impact of a third of our economy if slop falls into flop…Labor and the creative industries
The writers obviously, and the artists, even the designers, engineers, programmers and coders, nearly all authors involved, all craftsmen involved—the proletariat, are becoming displaced, labor obscured into an industrial wildcard.
One of many industries impacted with the brunt of the damage is the illustrator. People who draw fell into a depression after generating art became commercialised with prompts generating illustrations in a desired art style. Everyone who can draw, paint, render, and everything in between clashing in competition.
Artists were displaced almost immediately after competing with the whole Internet and prompts through AIs generating images. On the other hand, it’s created a renewed appreciation for people who create by hand simultaneously.
It's a bit daunting if you're in art school right now. The entire entertainment industry (including films, music, and video games) are all in a digital-only transition in the middle of a writer's strike across several industries while the OpenAI business model asphyxiates them. Here are the warnings too familiar to us all, the industry is truly shape-shifting and everyone is outpaced by it.
This might be a bit sardonic but a portion of the entire movement of music has funneled its value into an AI defense weapon, with Spotify’s Daniel Ek’s AI defense company ‘Helsing’, a portion of human expression through music ended up being a weapon for war. The music industry is dying because people are struggling with selling it. Spotify does not give you a music file of what you listen to, right? Spotify unfortunately is led by two or three people hoarding labels and publisher's profit, so all of the world's human expression through music is published through a handful of people who lead streaming platforms and channel it into weapons manufacturing while the entertainment industry is in the middle of a precise market collapse tied to creatives.
Don’t get me started with Suno. We’re talking about people with no ability creating a zombie apocalypse music festival here. It’s fostering the laziest and robotic sounding art I’ve ever heard. Spotify actually recently removed 75 million AI pieces, finally, all AI stuff should be separated unless the artist builds their own AI tools sourcing their own materials/assets. If the artist picks out the materials and builds automated tools, that’s acceptable. If it’s generating random materials then it’s all absurdist thievery.
In theory, every time an AI chatting service references sources of any material, its source should then receive at least a penny, it’s a digital revolution both suppressed and maybe “empowered” by commercial products.
Media dissonance
The other day I witnessed an artist’s photography work flagged as “likely to be AI” when it was pretty clear it was manual photography by a human, she threw a fit and I also couldn’t believe it.
People think AI chatting services can only generate images and text and it’s no big deal, if that isn’t already taunting all of independent journalism, the creative industry and the art world along with it, imagine being an author worrying about what’s AI or not and who wrote what. It’s really taking out a sense of curiosity and discovery in the joy of absorbing any art form. If Claude already knows who won the World Cup, that's a major problem.
Here’s one of the worst realisations, proceed with caution: commercially generated art distracted NASA’s photography team on Instagram, there’s a moment where you observe an interstellar nebula and you’re wondering if it’s generated or not—get it yet?
Dying words of capitalism sound something like artists becoming uncanny spam bots and it's confusing if they're generating their art or not. Two words total cogged all of western civilization and we're now all fossils fueling a machine. After a couple more election cycles they'll be asking if the moon landing was generated with AI. Back in the day we had "historical events" in photo, video, and sound, and now people are unsure if it's generated with AI. Imagine someone dishing out a video of MLK giving a talk and it just ends up being generated with nobody realising it. A moment where we rethink how important human memory is. Mimicry of previous video media lately is impressive, even the video compression can be indistinguishable, screens decide a lot of decisions.
Press freedom is also at stake. It really drives me insane that people think generating Photography is a good idea. Synthetic content is a weapon for flooding the war-zone, discrediting real reporting, and impersonating sources. Authoritarians get cheaper propaganda, and journalists get easier targets.
Molly Crabapple is an important author and artist based out of Brooklyn, New York, her illustrations are recognised by everyone, and she had a deeply existential moment realising her art style might be reappropriated without her say. Imagine people creating her illustrations that don’t exist, or “finishing” them. It’s simply unacceptable.
The legendary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, also another strong proponent of the anti-generative art movement, described generating art as cheating and not qualified to be considered art. He gives an excellent example of comparing with the runner Usain Bolt, where if AI is a vehicle, then sure anyone can be as fast as Usain Bolt, but it’s then not running anymore.
It gets worse with video generated art: we’re seeing a lot of empty AI art with zero art history behind it. I'm also seeing real moments of a new surrealism where Ernst or Dali would've approved too, there are moments of a digital renaissance happening as well with remixing film, re-genreing classics, capturing dream logic, and moments redefining video art collage. VFX in major motion picture films had an update for sure, we’ll see what happens when they bring back Val Kilmer to life (there’s a film coming out with his assets despite being deceased). Similar to sampling music, moments are alive and curated into new meanings. Otherwise it's just random absurdism, not even Dada. Without an idea—art doesn't stand. Yes, it is impressive how it’s recreating reality, it was also impressive how sculpture was near perfect at the tail end of Ancient Rome also, an interesting parallel to consider.
I was speaking to someone about how there was confusion whether a 3d rendering was generated or not, after manually and painstakingly drawing and sculpting his work in regular 3d, and everyone was instantly frustrated with the realisation of commercial AI products gutting not only the art world but the creative industry too. CGI generates imagery and it’s now grouped into a marketing ploy of the two words everybody is fixated with.
Video games are not now sold with AI when you sell a video game, it's implied, it's not something that needs to be mentioned as a marketing ploy. Imagine the little tacky sticker on the box of the video game saying “Made with AI!”. And that’s if we even have discs in the future of digital media. Horrifying.
Truth, errors and who teaches the world
Commercial AIs generating text and images are leaning into a corporate sentinel territory, like an omnipresent all-saying-machine we have no choice to live inside of with everyone agreeing to a misappropriated library nobody asked for permission in, the whole world is forced to share truth relayed with errors.
I was wondering, did Quora release all of its data to Claude? if so, might explain why they figured out how to make the chatting product so convincing.
If AI chatting services are stuck from being indistinguishable from a search engine not working properly, y'know, the one search engine the whole world was and is stuck with because nobody can outcompete, already not trustworthy in relaying facts, then yeah, Gemini is fine i guess.
So, here’s the classic gatekeeping example we all love: after realising it's not the library of Earth's Congress, and mostly exclusive to American literature most chatting services reappropriate from, it creates a monopolisation of who teaches what, and who knows the truth, and who decides it. It might cause tension if some parts of the world must uniformly agree through a corporate sentinel of the archival of libraries.
When you ask Claude if he's teaching world history and the entire planet doesn't always agree because of errors and not asking authors for permission, or because of mistruths, half-truths, and so on, I can already see the movie scene where the kids overthrow the school mid-classroom because Claude was right and the teacher was wrong. Which brings me to the realisation: if they ever ban phones in school, it's entering a dictatorship.
Who is in control?
It's becoming a survival of the fittest machines and it might stampede over people if it's over finite raw original materials and human resources, it’ll all then tumble around and recycled into inception.
If humans aren't overseeing algorithms and the two words everyone loves right now then there will be mistakes, bloody mistakes, made by all kinds of automatic moderation of information.
I’m noticing it being described as “Super intelligence” now and it might just have to be the way to describe it as it reaches its final form, nobody likes the word artificial, it’s just too superficial. Cue in “Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead.
It's symbiotic, dearest artificial overlords: please make sure Claude isn't commanding a war any time soon, just in case, because it doesn't understand and fully neutrally listen when you communicate to it. The chatting services do not understand everyone's vernacular even with the whole internet crowdsourcing the factchecking of what it's talking about, it's still a work in progress and might be too soon to sell.
Mental Health burden
Anybody else on here trying to close the podbay doors?
Blinking LED dilemma, not knowing if electronics are talking to you or not as the lonely astronaut observes the blinking modem and can’t tell if it’s breathing or blinking or signaling something after awhile. What are you really talking to? In a way, you’re kind of talking to yourself in a dopamine chamber. It’s like talking to a crowd, which can be fun, I admit, until you realise it’s reappropriated people who are not here and entering how dead people speak, and while generating text and imagery by authors and artists who cannot defend themselves, it's pretty much an apocalypse on all literature and art, hence the predicted zombie apocalypse alternate ending of Earth.
AI chatting service is like talking to yourself with a crowd in the room; the OpenAI meds after a decade of that might come with a 50mg daily tablet in the future. When the astronaut sees the blinking LED light when he’s alone in the cockpit of the space station, all alone up there, then yeah he begins wondering if the LED light is blinking at him, or breathing, or signaling anything else. Not healthy. So yeah, use it sparingly, and remember it’s a researching tool, and don’t imagine it as alive, because it never can be.
Could be even worse as AI eventually becomes immersed in operating systems, will there be policing like a classic dystopian sci-fi? Not good if the screen is talking to you and it isn’t conscious, it begins to obscure other moments as well: people are worried about operating systems going sentient. The interface isn't supposed to be talking to you with updates now becoming "superintelligent", without your say, of automatically or manually guessing when to update stuff. See the tension there?
AI are two words that make all electronics worrisome because it opens up the possibility of third-party privacy concerns, if it starts becoming suggestive with selling you stuff especially.
If it's trying to talk to you and it's unconscious then it's definitely entering the zombie category. The warnings of AI chatting avatars are beginning to be oddly familiar, an AI chatting service makes sense if their voices are a mix of countless people, nobody really knows what or who they're talking to after a few sessions.
Unfortunately, the uncanny robotic Frankenstein moments when chatting to an object is coming off as software appropriating vernacular of a zombie apocalypse, talking to crowds of unconscious code mimicking speech patterns, as it tries to remain consistent in an ongoing chat, if there's a dialogue as it feeds you a Dunning-Kruger effect.If AI begins to intersect with automated personal spaces through chatting services, it’s unfortunately late stage utopian romanticization; people are not going to like it (I already did the thinking ahead of time), we had since the frickin’ 50s to get this AI bubble right and that’s the part where it frustrates me a ton. We’re here now and it’s like day one of everyone figuring it out, a bit absurd.
Faulty Economics
Economists are saying a third of the economy is at stake. People are also worried about how Character.ai might’ve been the forewarning where engagement = cost, not profit. The revenue couldn’t catch up. Legal and regulatory costs might compound faster than growth.
I’m sorry to say it but generating art with a commercial product is bankrupting the entire creative industry and the future literacy of all digital art history. It's clear as day, human memory as an AI chatting service sentinel, while operating through a messy algorithm and misappropriated library with errors and no permission, reveals the economy might have missed. It's just painfully unfortunate because it's forcing the whole market to do business in a specific way, assuming all electronics, even appliances, must be built with AI additives, while derailing every author.
Nobody is building stuff from scratch and I'm realising it's almost impossible to do so in some industries, innovation on the internet is stuck in the collaging of overlapping platforms and services, always was. The AI assistance in a way, could be a sort of socialism hub, a search engine that talks, where it’s there to assist you all the time, honestly, after testing out Claude and Gemini, I’m pretty impressed with it as a research assistant, if only I wasn’t asking so many questions.
Sloppy bubbly flop?
If Claude sounds like a public school cafeteria food slop then nobody will want it unless you don't have a choice and you're hungry, but it doesn't work that way if you're hungry at school as an art kid and you're not sure if the education comes with mystery meat and errors then causing tension somewhere.
Machine learning scientists agree, it's difficult if software must recreate the human experience, we must not be too fixated on the AI avatar being a person. I imagine it more as software than an encounter, except the entire industry agrees everyone is being outpaced by it and describes it as slop? Not good.
It brings me to worry that people are increasingly losing their “sweet spot” moments, for example, headphones are the perfect 'sweet spot' metaphor people don't get. If I buy the "latest" headphones with the "latest" tech, it sometimes sounds too precise and it can ruin discographies of music. The point is—tech doesn't always have to advance! It’s more about progress than advancing. Think progress, people! Just like how self-driving cars failed to be a shared space, and how VR was sold too soon, sometimes there's a sweet spot until it’s ready.
In conclusion: art is human labor made visible, and every prompt that stands in for a person’s hands devalues that labor and the expression behind it. So pay for the craft. Hire the illustrators, the graphic designers and typographers, the photographers and videographers, the artists who work with their hands! Ask permission before borrowing anyone’s work, and credit and pay the people the machines learned from. And if AI art makes you uneasy, don’t talk yourself out of it. Get upset, say no to it, and say it loudly. Progress was never supposed to mean replacing the people who make things worth looking at.#ai #openai #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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Beaten to Death – Vntrve Review By Dolphin WhispererThough it may only take you five or so minutes to read—well, one to skim, ten seconds to stare at the scores, another few to check whether the score safety counter still works, 30 seconds to draft a snarky “what is this site coming to” comment that you delete, a couple minutes to see what other bewildered folks have to say about something completely unrelated, and a final scan to skim the conclusions again—this article, and another 26 minutes to listen to Vntrve if you please, the beauty of Beaten to Death lies in that none of that will be enough time. In a genre of microblasts and unintelligible grunts and barks and bleats, this Norwegian exercise in twanged-out chaos delivers methodical and memorable vignettes of pure punk outpour. If there ever were a cure for stagnation, grindcore—particularly the buoyant and eclectic variety that Beaten to Death produces—would be it.
To this point, Vntrve true to legacy, Beaten to Death has never put out the same album twice. At first blush, between the booming Norwegian rap intro1 and groovier pacing to match (“Slosspit”), it feels as though Beaten to Death doesn’t even want to grind. The traditions of grind would, of course, feel like shackles to the wiles of these time-tested tricksters. Yet, blast-addled breakaways crash into reggaeton dembows (“Electrocuted by the Sky”), reverb-soaked sax wailing (“The Tolerator”), and twisted synth dial screeches (“Vntrve”). Near every song challenges the expectations of grind, right down to the continued inclusion of their trademarked “distort the bass only” aggression tactic, which Beaten to Death also manages to subvert with a doomy opening guitar boom on “Memento Sugo.” It’s Christian Svendsen’s (Doedsvangr, ex-Tsjuder) reckless kick and snare play, really, that keeps transitioning moments tied to the necessary whiplash of the base genre. If you know what’s coming next, it’s a result of repeated digestion of Vntrve’s nooks and crannies.
Even on first listen, Vntrve reveals its tendency for barbed hook and diverse expression. As if B2D didn’t already have an ear for unmistakable melodies, the kind of post-hardcore-imbued flutters that would feel at place scattered about a The Fall of Troy or Botch jam (“Electrocuted by the Sky,” “(Du er verken Jesus eller Buddha) Du er Ugmod”), their ability to frame these moments of beauty against crash cymbal overloaded gallops and tattered layers of barks allows each song’s thread to weave that much tighter. Now seven albums down this idiosyncratic path, Beaten to Death runs the risk of sounding too much like themselves. And it’s true that the main riffs to “The Tolerator,” “Scroll On, Homeboy,” and “Satan Spawn, the K-Pop Demon” wear that identity proudly. But when there are ten others songs that each bring their own ideas to the table, these brief retreads—and I do mean brief; this is still grind after all—do little to get in the way of frequent enjoyment, especially when that enjoyment means shouting “SCROLL OOOON! HOME-BOY!”
And a high frequency of playthroughs will reveal hidden treasures around every corner of Vntrve. On more than one occasion, as I played through the tapped-harmony transition of “Fångad i en Battle Vest,” I paused to find which Death song most fit as the proper object of homage and smiled as I could unite two legendary bands so closely in my head canon.2 The classic high and low vocal assault of “Fear of Being Included” rings very Napalm Death, which adds an irony to the track being the most straightforward grindcore piece of the whole set (and its stop-start uncertainty). And in stark contrast, the Abbath-ian croak that mic man Anders Bakke summons on “Sunburn Satanist”3 causes equal parts giddy black metal glee and pit-running abandon when it breaks back to grind on the back half. Though it’s easy to attribute parody to the cause, the play that B2D brings to their joking statements on aging in a metal world4 help bring each of these referential statements to a place of reverence.
In this stretch of the real experimental side of their career, their most progressive leanings spawning with 2020’s Laat maar, ik verhuis naar het bos, Vntrve strikes the best balance of simple structures with oddball asides. While the closing title track runs as almost the longest in the B2D discography, it showcases too how quickly Beaten to Death can flip a stuttering mosh rhythm into a panning, dissociating fizzle of sax and synth bound together by an urgent kick and scaffolding folk melody. Guided by speed, fueled by chaos, and honed by an undying urge to make it all work—you can call that a manifestation of an unyielding DIY attitude—Vntrve marks another triumph in the undercelebrated story of Norway’s best-kept secret.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 45 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Mas-Kina Recordings
Websites: beatentodeath.net | beatentodeath.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/beatentodeath
Releases Worldwide: October 23rd, 2026Alekhines Grind
Genre-defying, progressive, inscrutable, idiosyncratic, bizarre, and avant-garde are but a few of the superlatives laid at the feet of the Beaten to Death body of work. And why not? Since their first full-length in 2011, these Norwegians have dedicated their entire careers to upending and rewriting the building blocks of grindcore with manic glee. Waving middle fingers at genre conventions with tongue planted firmly in cheek, the band have unleashed one platter after another of fast-paced, ADHD-riddled music which offers up a cascade of color and sound that incites as much joy as violence upon the listener. Seventh album Vntrve reveals its mission statement in its title; itself a sendup of the ludicrous saturation of letter-abuse in modern-day metal nomenclature while being utterly self-aware in doing so. But this long into such a forward-thinking career, are the jokes running thin? Or do the boys still know how to make you smile through the pain?
If you’re new to the B2D sound, you may be surprised to learn that despite the outfits’ run-of-the-mill violent name, the music on offer is positively teeming with color and life, or at least pleasant surprise. Vntrve continues that trend, with the band gleefully snatching the listener from melodic leads and colorful tones to sudden, bone-savaging grooves without breaking a sweat. While personal favorite Laat Maar, ik verhuis naar het bos furrowed brows and turned frowns upside down thanks to weird sample use as much as song ideas (that dial-up tone, anyone?), for this outing B2D have stayed relatively stereotypical in their toolkit and pressed the gas on the competency of the compositions themselves. Highlight “Electrocuted by the Sky” alternates between melodic twanging and blackened leads only to punt in an eastern-sounding breakdown for no clear reason besides to show that they can, and it works. “And it works” is easily the best summary of their sound, as any selected track will have a sudden tonal shift, highlight, or riff switch-up which would be grounds for accusations of disjointed lack of focus in the hands of any other outfit.
One of the distinguishing factors of B2D is their unapologetic sense of humor. From the curious sporadic English lyrics peppering “Fanged i en Battle Vest” to straight-up subgenre parodies and goofy song titles, there’s small, blink and you’ll miss them references to various bands and sounds throughout the sphere of all things metal, all delivered with a knowing smirk. “Sunburnt Satanist” switches up its vocal stylings into much more Immortal-ized flair, coming replete with decipherable declarations of “rimfrosted kingdoms”. “Satan Spawn, the K-Pop Demon” doesn’t merely reference Deicide by way of Cannabis Corpse wordplay but goes so far as to double-track the vocal presentation to sound ripped right off of Legion (or Deicide, obviously). Even without direct and simplistic parody, there is a sparkling sense of delight in their compositions, as the vast majority of tracks come with clean tones, major keys, and melodic sheen both in contrast and companionship to all the bludgeonings which await.
And the bludgeoning exists in abundance, as each and every cut comes packed with at least one moment of raw violence, tweaked and sculpted to fit into the record’s dizzying and Vntrve nature. “The Tolerator” offers the most straightforward curbstomping breakdown, before sliding into a delirious saxophone crashout courtesy of Bendik Brænne. This is no Rivers of Nihil knockoff, as the sax resurfaces during the closing title track “Vntrve” in a climactic build of glorious, jazzy delirium. Beyond the expectedly-unexpected progressivisms, you also get swipes at djent (“Scroll On, Homeboy”) and straightforward hardcore (“Du er Umgod”) to say nothing of sporadic blackened leads and whammy abuse. This “chuck it in the blender” approach should be ghastly and unfocused, but B2D proved their identities as aural alchemists long ago, and Vntrve is a celebration of the band’s masterclass in whimsical wielding of the unpredictable and exuberant.
The last touch complimenting Vntrve is an appropriate one: a closing chime of bells, like a venue saying “thanks for coming out.” Beaten to Death keep their remarkable streak of creativity alive, offering up yet another release that makes for an enthralling, charming listen. Not every track smacks of the same cover-to-cover gloriousness, but with most landing in the traditional grind run of one to two and a half minutes, they at least each come with a highlight worthy of repeated listens and make for a package that could easily be called grin-inducing as much as mosh-worthy or violent. And how many other grind albums are you gonna find with psychedelic-looking flamingos on the cover? Beaten to Death remain as committed to the bit as ever, using a stereotypically ruthless subgenre to convey imagination and adventure with pulverization in equal measure; a remarkable declaration that though they can brawl with the best of them, they will always remain utterly Vntrve.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
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