#asymmetry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #asymmetry, aggregated by home.social.
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📸 NEW: A behavioral scientist and a cognitive neuroscientist explain why people dislike #photos of themselves. A #mirror reverses the face, and repeated exposure to that reversal makes it feel correct.
Photos also freeze a single frame under #lighting and lens conditions no one chooses, which compounds the mismatch between the animated reflection and the still #image.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/why-look-different-in-mirror-photos/
#photography #perception #neuroscience #psychology #selfies #faces #asymmetry #camera #memory #science #brain
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📸 NEW: A behavioral scientist and a cognitive neuroscientist explain why people dislike #photos of themselves. A #mirror reverses the face, and repeated exposure to that reversal makes it feel correct.
Photos also freeze a single frame under #lighting and lens conditions no one chooses, which compounds the mismatch between the animated reflection and the still #image.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/why-look-different-in-mirror-photos/
#photography #perception #neuroscience #psychology #selfies #faces #asymmetry #camera #memory #science #brain
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📸 NEW: A behavioral scientist and a cognitive neuroscientist explain why people dislike #photos of themselves. A #mirror reverses the face, and repeated exposure to that reversal makes it feel correct.
Photos also freeze a single frame under #lighting and lens conditions no one chooses, which compounds the mismatch between the animated reflection and the still #image.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/why-look-different-in-mirror-photos/
#photography #perception #neuroscience #psychology #selfies #faces #asymmetry #camera #memory #science #brain
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📸 NEW: A behavioral scientist and a cognitive neuroscientist explain why people dislike #photos of themselves. A #mirror reverses the face, and repeated exposure to that reversal makes it feel correct.
Photos also freeze a single frame under #lighting and lens conditions no one chooses, which compounds the mismatch between the animated reflection and the still #image.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/why-look-different-in-mirror-photos/
#photography #perception #neuroscience #psychology #selfies #faces #asymmetry #camera #memory #science #brain
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📸 NEW: A behavioral scientist and a cognitive neuroscientist explain why people dislike #photos of themselves. A #mirror reverses the face, and repeated exposure to that reversal makes it feel correct.
Photos also freeze a single frame under #lighting and lens conditions no one chooses, which compounds the mismatch between the animated reflection and the still #image.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/why-look-different-in-mirror-photos/
#photography #perception #neuroscience #psychology #selfies #faces #asymmetry #camera #memory #science #brain
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‘It’s not science fiction’: US Air Force must build trust in AI, says expert https://www.byteseu.com/2366169/ #asymmetry #ChiefTechnologyOfficer #MichaelHiatt #Science #SpaceCyberConference
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https://www.europesays.com/ee/236176/ Richard Gere’i uus film uurib ohtlikult intiimset suhet, mis võib hävitada elu #Alice(tegelaskuju) #asymmetry #BarackObama #BedfordFallsCompany #ClayPecorin #DianaSilvers #EdwardZwick #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Entertainment #Estonia #Estonian #Ezra(tegelaskuju) #FilmnationEntertainment #LisaHalliday #MarshallHerskovitz #meelelahutus #RainmakerFilms #RichardGere #RomantilineDraama #StaceySnider
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In an effort to raise the price on #asymmetry, let's raise costs.
"Typhoons Paired With CCA Fighter Drones Armed With Meteor Missiles Eyed By UK
The emerging concepts envision Typhoon commanding loyal wingman drones with help of new radar and next-gen cockpit."#TACO #Trump #News #Politics #UN #War #ww3 #Military #Fascism #USA #Escalation #Europe #EU #Ukraine #Russia #Economy #Drones #NATO #Hybrid
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In an effort to raise the price on #asymmetry, let's raise costs.
"Typhoons Paired With CCA Fighter Drones Armed With Meteor Missiles Eyed By UK
The emerging concepts envision Typhoon commanding loyal wingman drones with help of new radar and next-gen cockpit."#TACO #Trump #News #Politics #UN #War #ww3 #Military #Fascism #USA #Escalation #Europe #EU #Ukraine #Russia #Economy #Drones #NATO #Hybrid
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In an effort to raise the price on #asymmetry, let's raise costs.
"Typhoons Paired With CCA Fighter Drones Armed With Meteor Missiles Eyed By UK
The emerging concepts envision Typhoon commanding loyal wingman drones with help of new radar and next-gen cockpit."#TACO #Trump #News #Politics #UN #War #ww3 #Military #Fascism #USA #Escalation #Europe #EU #Ukraine #Russia #Economy #Drones #NATO #Hybrid
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In an effort to raise the price on #asymmetry, let's raise costs.
"Typhoons Paired With CCA Fighter Drones Armed With Meteor Missiles Eyed By UK
The emerging concepts envision Typhoon commanding loyal wingman drones with help of new radar and next-gen cockpit."#TACO #Trump #News #Politics #UN #War #ww3 #Military #Fascism #USA #Escalation #Europe #EU #Ukraine #Russia #Economy #Drones #NATO #Hybrid
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/588143/ Richard Gere, 76, and Diana Silvers, 28, Spotted Playing Lovers in ‘Asymmetry’ Despite 48-Year Age Gap: Photos #Asymmetry #Celebrities #DianaSilvers #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #LisaHalliday #RainmakerFilms #RichardGere
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Glad I wrote about Israel
- Why I’m going to write about Israel
- The shape of attention
- Glad I wrote about Israel
Reluctance
As I’ve written before, I did not want to write this series of posts about Israel, Gaza, Zionism, war, international law, and genocide.
I did not want my Skeptic’s Kaddish blog to become a place for these arguments. I wanted it to remain mostly what it had been: a poetry space, a place for self-exploration, ethical reflection, and personal writing.
But I wrote these posts anyway. And now that I have, I am glad I did.
What I wrote
In my “The Jews” series, I had turned inward, toward Jewish identity, belonging, peoplehood, and inheritance.
In “The shape of attention”, I turned outward, toward Israel, Gaza, attention, wartime judgment, evidentiary standards, and the language people use to describe war.
The four substantive posts in this series examined asymmetry, reality, standards, and language: why Israel receives such sustained attention, what outsiders often miss about the conditions of the war, whether similar claims are judged by similar standards, and how a word like genocide can shape public understanding before the evidence has been fully tested.
Why I began
I began partly in response to anti-Israel writing I had seen in our WordPress poetry community, but not only here.
The same patterns were visible in international media, social media, political rhetoric, and ordinary conversation: a discourse that often seemed one-sided, especially around Zionism and accusations of genocide. When one view was repeated often enough, and rarely challenged in the same spaces, silence did begin to feel like agreement to me.
But for nearly two years, I could not bring myself to write about the war. I was too overwhelmed by the captivity and torture of the hostages held in Gaza, and by credible reports of sexual violence (United Nations). Until the final living hostages were released in October 2025 (AP), I could not step back far enough to write about the war in the careful way I thought it required.
Once I did, the project became more than a response to others. I got a great deal out of it myself.
What it gave me
The degree of anti-Israel messaging and sentiment around the world has sometimes made me question my own sense of reality. Not because I had no convictions, but because repetition has power. When the same accusations appear everywhere, stated with certainty, you begin to wonder whether you are the one who has lost perspective.
The research reassured me because it confirmed that what I believe is not merely emotional loyalty to my people or my country. It is grounded in facts, history, law, comparison, and context.
Since October 7, I have learned more than I ever expected to know about the peoples, history, politics, wars, movements, and power struggles of the Middle East. Much of that learning has been painful. Some of it has been clarifying. All of it has made me less willing to accept simple stories.
The same has been true in the comment sections. When someone engages calmly, I usually find that there is a rational response available. That has been empowering. It has helped me see that my perspective can be argued, defended, and tested against reasonable questions.
What the research clarified
The research also clarified why so much of the discourse has felt wrong to me.
The focus on Israel is often strikingly disproportionate. I do not blame people for being affected by what they see; images from Gaza are painful and morally overwhelming. But media and social media do not show suffering in proportion to its scale. They show what captures attention, generates outrage, and keeps people watching. That imbalance should make us pause. A 2025 humanitarian-crisis coverage study (MJRC) found that Gaza and Ukraine dominated international media attention while several severe, protracted crises received far less coverage; an LSE working paper (LSE) similarly estimated roughly 32,000 major international news articles on Gaza compared with roughly 3,400 on Sudan.
It also became clearer to me how much anti-Zionism rests on caricature: Israel as a white European implant, Jews as foreigners to their homeland, and Zionism as a slur rather than the Jewish national movement. Israeli Jews are not predominantly white European Ashkenazim. Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews are the largest Jewish subgroup in Israel, and many Israeli Jews are of mixed ancestry or come from communities outside Europe (Lewin-Epstein & Cohen). Even Ashkenazi Jews are not simply Europeans who adopted Judaism. Their history includes deep European experience and admixture, but they are also part of a people with ancestral, religious, linguistic, and historical roots in the Levant; genetic studies of Jewish diaspora populations have found shared Middle Eastern ancestry and traced Jewish diaspora communities’ origins to the Levant (Behar et al.; Atzmon et al.). That is why I am not willing to let popular discourse define my identity as a Zionist.
The same is true of the war. Hamas, October 7, Iran, Hezbollah, tunnels, hostages, rockets, and military infrastructure embedded in civilian areas are not incidental details. Reuters has reported on Hamas’s extensive tunnel network and Israeli accusations that Hamas placed tunnels, rocket-firing sites, and other military infrastructure near civilian sites and in densely populated areas; CSIS has described Hezbollah’s rocket and missile threat and the escalation on Israel’s northern border after October 7. Nor is the wider history incidental: rejection of Jewish sovereignty, wars against Israel, terrorism against civilians, and rejected or failed proposals for partition, self-rule, or statehood, including Gaza. Reuters summarizes that Jewish leaders accepted the 1947 U.N. partition plan while the Arab League rejected it (Reuters); Reuters also reported that Olmert’s 2008 proposal included 92.7% of the West Bank, all of Gaza, and land swaps (Reuters). None of this makes Israel blameless or erases Palestinian suffering. But leaving it out turns history into something closer to propaganda.
Truth and ignorance
One thing this process taught me is that the truth is not hidden.
Legal documents, historical records, demographic data, military analysis, serious journalism, and competing perspectives are widely available. That does not make truth simple, and it does not mean every source is reliable. But it does mean that people who want to understand can look.
I find ignorance harder to swallow in today’s information age than it once was. Not ignorance by itself; none of us can know everything. I write about Judaism, Jewish peoplehood, Israel, and, to a lesser extent, the United States because those are subjects I know, live with, or have studied seriously. The specific problem is ignorance combined with certainty, especially when people promote strong opinions about subjects they have not seriously examined. Some ignorance is innocent at first. People know what they have seen, heard, and been repeatedly told. But when evidence is available and people refuse to look, ignorance becomes a choice.
Gratitude and return
I am grateful to my friends in this poetry community for staying with me as I explored these subjects.
I know these were not the posts many came here to read. They were long, heavy, and far from the poems that brought many of us together. But writing them mattered to me, and I am grateful to those who read, listened, questioned, disagreed thoughtfully, or simply gave me the space to think these things through in public.
I am ready to return, mostly, to poetry. But I return clearer and steadier. I am glad I pushed past my reluctance. I am glad I did the research. I am glad I put my perspective on record.
Writing these posts helped me recover confidence in my own judgment. That was worth the discomfort.
- Why I’m going to write about Israel
- The shape of attention
- Glad I wrote about Israel
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Glad I wrote about Israel
- Why I’m going to write about Israel
- The shape of attention
- Glad I wrote about Israel
Reluctance
As I’ve written before, I did not want to write this series of posts about Israel, Gaza, Zionism, war, international law, and genocide.
I did not want my Skeptic’s Kaddish blog to become a place for these arguments. I wanted it to remain mostly what it had been: a poetry space, a place for self-exploration, ethical reflection, and personal writing.
But I wrote these posts anyway. And now that I have, I am glad I did.
What I wrote
In my “The Jews” series, I had turned inward, toward Jewish identity, belonging, peoplehood, and inheritance.
In “The shape of attention”, I turned outward, toward Israel, Gaza, attention, wartime judgment, evidentiary standards, and the language people use to describe war.
The four substantive posts in this series examined asymmetry, reality, standards, and language: why Israel receives such sustained attention, what outsiders often miss about the conditions of the war, whether similar claims are judged by similar standards, and how a word like genocide can shape public understanding before the evidence has been fully tested.
Why I began
I began partly in response to anti-Israel writing I had seen in our WordPress poetry community, but not only here.
The same patterns were visible in international media, social media, political rhetoric, and ordinary conversation: a discourse that often seemed one-sided, especially around Zionism and accusations of genocide. When one view was repeated often enough, and rarely challenged in the same spaces, silence did begin to feel like agreement to me.
But for nearly two years, I could not bring myself to write about the war. I was too overwhelmed by the captivity and torture of the hostages held in Gaza, and by credible reports of sexual violence (United Nations). Until the final living hostages were released in October 2025 (AP), I could not step back far enough to write about the war in the careful way I thought it required.
Once I did, the project became more than a response to others. I got a great deal out of it myself.
What it gave me
The degree of anti-Israel messaging and sentiment around the world has sometimes made me question my own sense of reality. Not because I had no convictions, but because repetition has power. When the same accusations appear everywhere, stated with certainty, you begin to wonder whether you are the one who has lost perspective.
The research reassured me because it confirmed that what I believe is not merely emotional loyalty to my people or my country. It is grounded in facts, history, law, comparison, and context.
Since October 7, I have learned more than I ever expected to know about the peoples, history, politics, wars, movements, and power struggles of the Middle East. Much of that learning has been painful. Some of it has been clarifying. All of it has made me less willing to accept simple stories.
The same has been true in the comment sections. When someone engages calmly, I usually find that there is a rational response available. That has been empowering. It has helped me see that my perspective can be argued, defended, and tested against reasonable questions.
What the research clarified
The research also clarified why so much of the discourse has felt wrong to me.
The focus on Israel is often strikingly disproportionate. I do not blame people for being affected by what they see; images from Gaza are painful and morally overwhelming. But media and social media do not show suffering in proportion to its scale. They show what captures attention, generates outrage, and keeps people watching. That imbalance should make us pause. A 2025 humanitarian-crisis coverage study (MJRC) found that Gaza and Ukraine dominated international media attention while several severe, protracted crises received far less coverage; an LSE working paper (LSE) similarly estimated roughly 32,000 major international news articles on Gaza compared with roughly 3,400 on Sudan.
It also became clearer to me how much anti-Zionism rests on caricature: Israel as a white European implant, Jews as foreigners to their homeland, and Zionism as a slur rather than the Jewish national movement. Israeli Jews are not predominantly white European Ashkenazim. Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews are the largest Jewish subgroup in Israel, and many Israeli Jews are of mixed ancestry or come from communities outside Europe (Lewin-Epstein & Cohen). Even Ashkenazi Jews are not simply Europeans who adopted Judaism. Their history includes deep European experience and admixture, but they are also part of a people with ancestral, religious, linguistic, and historical roots in the Levant; genetic studies of Jewish diaspora populations have found shared Middle Eastern ancestry and traced Jewish diaspora communities’ origins to the Levant (Behar et al.; Atzmon et al.). That is why I am not willing to let popular discourse define my identity as a Zionist.
The same is true of the war. Hamas, October 7, Iran, Hezbollah, tunnels, hostages, rockets, and military infrastructure embedded in civilian areas are not incidental details. Reuters has reported on Hamas’s extensive tunnel network and Israeli accusations that Hamas placed tunnels, rocket-firing sites, and other military infrastructure near civilian sites and in densely populated areas; CSIS has described Hezbollah’s rocket and missile threat and the escalation on Israel’s northern border after October 7. Nor is the wider history incidental: rejection of Jewish sovereignty, wars against Israel, terrorism against civilians, and rejected or failed proposals for partition, self-rule, or statehood, including Gaza. Reuters summarizes that Jewish leaders accepted the 1947 U.N. partition plan while the Arab League rejected it (Reuters); Reuters also reported that Olmert’s 2008 proposal included 92.7% of the West Bank, all of Gaza, and land swaps (Reuters). None of this makes Israel blameless or erases Palestinian suffering. But leaving it out turns history into something closer to propaganda.
Truth and ignorance
One thing this process taught me is that the truth is not hidden.
Legal documents, historical records, demographic data, military analysis, serious journalism, and competing perspectives are widely available. That does not make truth simple, and it does not mean every source is reliable. But it does mean that people who want to understand can look.
I find ignorance harder to swallow in today’s information age than it once was. Not ignorance by itself; none of us can know everything. I write about Judaism, Jewish peoplehood, Israel, and, to a lesser extent, the United States because those are subjects I know, live with, or have studied seriously. The specific problem is ignorance combined with certainty, especially when people promote strong opinions about subjects they have not seriously examined. Some ignorance is innocent at first. People know what they have seen, heard, and been repeatedly told. But when evidence is available and people refuse to look, ignorance becomes a choice.
Gratitude and return
I am grateful to my friends in this poetry community for staying with me as I explored these subjects.
I know these were not the posts many came here to read. They were long, heavy, and far from the poems that brought many of us together. But writing them mattered to me, and I am grateful to those who read, listened, questioned, disagreed thoughtfully, or simply gave me the space to think these things through in public.
I am ready to return, mostly, to poetry. But I return clearer and steadier. I am glad I pushed past my reluctance. I am glad I did the research. I am glad I put my perspective on record.
Writing these posts helped me recover confidence in my own judgment. That was worth the discomfort.
- Why I’m going to write about Israel
- The shape of attention
- Glad I wrote about Israel
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Glad I wrote about Israel
- Why I’m going to write about Israel
- The shape of attention
- Glad I wrote about Israel
Reluctance
As I’ve written before, I did not want to write this series of posts about Israel, Gaza, Zionism, war, international law, and genocide.
I did not want my Skeptic’s Kaddish blog to become a place for these arguments. I wanted it to remain mostly what it had been: a poetry space, a place for self-exploration, ethical reflection, and personal writing.
But I wrote these posts anyway. And now that I have, I am glad I did.
What I wrote
In my “The Jews” series, I had turned inward, toward Jewish identity, belonging, peoplehood, and inheritance.
In “The shape of attention”, I turned outward, toward Israel, Gaza, attention, wartime judgment, evidentiary standards, and the language people use to describe war.
The four substantive posts in this series examined asymmetry, reality, standards, and language: why Israel receives such sustained attention, what outsiders often miss about the conditions of the war, whether similar claims are judged by similar standards, and how a word like genocide can shape public understanding before the evidence has been fully tested.
Why I began
I began partly in response to anti-Israel writing I had seen in our WordPress poetry community, but not only here.
The same patterns were visible in international media, social media, political rhetoric, and ordinary conversation: a discourse that often seemed one-sided, especially around Zionism and accusations of genocide. When one view was repeated often enough, and rarely challenged in the same spaces, silence did begin to feel like agreement to me.
But for nearly two years, I could not bring myself to write about the war. I was too overwhelmed by the captivity and torture of the hostages held in Gaza, and by credible reports of sexual violence (United Nations). Until the final living hostages were released in October 2025 (AP), I could not step back far enough to write about the war in the careful way I thought it required.
Once I did, the project became more than a response to others. I got a great deal out of it myself.
What it gave me
The degree of anti-Israel messaging and sentiment around the world has sometimes made me question my own sense of reality. Not because I had no convictions, but because repetition has power. When the same accusations appear everywhere, stated with certainty, you begin to wonder whether you are the one who has lost perspective.
The research reassured me because it confirmed that what I believe is not merely emotional loyalty to my people or my country. It is grounded in facts, history, law, comparison, and context.
Since October 7, I have learned more than I ever expected to know about the peoples, history, politics, wars, movements, and power struggles of the Middle East. Much of that learning has been painful. Some of it has been clarifying. All of it has made me less willing to accept simple stories.
The same has been true in the comment sections. When someone engages calmly, I usually find that there is a rational response available. That has been empowering. It has helped me see that my perspective can be argued, defended, and tested against reasonable questions.
What the research clarified
The research also clarified why so much of the discourse has felt wrong to me.
The focus on Israel is often strikingly disproportionate. I do not blame people for being affected by what they see; images from Gaza are painful and morally overwhelming. But media and social media do not show suffering in proportion to its scale. They show what captures attention, generates outrage, and keeps people watching. That imbalance should make us pause. A 2025 humanitarian-crisis coverage study (MJRC) found that Gaza and Ukraine dominated international media attention while several severe, protracted crises received far less coverage; an LSE working paper (LSE) similarly estimated roughly 32,000 major international news articles on Gaza compared with roughly 3,400 on Sudan.
It also became clearer to me how much anti-Zionism rests on caricature: Israel as a white European implant, Jews as foreigners to their homeland, and Zionism as a slur rather than the Jewish national movement. Israeli Jews are not predominantly white European Ashkenazim. Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews are the largest Jewish subgroup in Israel, and many Israeli Jews are of mixed ancestry or come from communities outside Europe (Lewin-Epstein & Cohen). Even Ashkenazi Jews are not simply Europeans who adopted Judaism. Their history includes deep European experience and admixture, but they are also part of a people with ancestral, religious, linguistic, and historical roots in the Levant; genetic studies of Jewish diaspora populations have found shared Middle Eastern ancestry and traced Jewish diaspora communities’ origins to the Levant (Behar et al.; Atzmon et al.). That is why I am not willing to let popular discourse define my identity as a Zionist.
The same is true of the war. Hamas, October 7, Iran, Hezbollah, tunnels, hostages, rockets, and military infrastructure embedded in civilian areas are not incidental details. Reuters has reported on Hamas’s extensive tunnel network and Israeli accusations that Hamas placed tunnels, rocket-firing sites, and other military infrastructure near civilian sites and in densely populated areas; CSIS has described Hezbollah’s rocket and missile threat and the escalation on Israel’s northern border after October 7. Nor is the wider history incidental: rejection of Jewish sovereignty, wars against Israel, terrorism against civilians, and rejected or failed proposals for partition, self-rule, or statehood, including Gaza. Reuters summarizes that Jewish leaders accepted the 1947 U.N. partition plan while the Arab League rejected it (Reuters); Reuters also reported that Olmert’s 2008 proposal included 92.7% of the West Bank, all of Gaza, and land swaps (Reuters). None of this makes Israel blameless or erases Palestinian suffering. But leaving it out turns history into something closer to propaganda.
Truth and ignorance
One thing this process taught me is that the truth is not hidden.
Legal documents, historical records, demographic data, military analysis, serious journalism, and competing perspectives are widely available. That does not make truth simple, and it does not mean every source is reliable. But it does mean that people who want to understand can look.
I find ignorance harder to swallow in today’s information age than it once was. Not ignorance by itself; none of us can know everything. I write about Judaism, Jewish peoplehood, Israel, and, to a lesser extent, the United States because those are subjects I know, live with, or have studied seriously. The specific problem is ignorance combined with certainty, especially when people promote strong opinions about subjects they have not seriously examined. Some ignorance is innocent at first. People know what they have seen, heard, and been repeatedly told. But when evidence is available and people refuse to look, ignorance becomes a choice.
Gratitude and return
I am grateful to my friends in this poetry community for staying with me as I explored these subjects.
I know these were not the posts many came here to read. They were long, heavy, and far from the poems that brought many of us together. But writing them mattered to me, and I am grateful to those who read, listened, questioned, disagreed thoughtfully, or simply gave me the space to think these things through in public.
I am ready to return, mostly, to poetry. But I return clearer and steadier. I am glad I pushed past my reluctance. I am glad I did the research. I am glad I put my perspective on record.
Writing these posts helped me recover confidence in my own judgment. That was worth the discomfort.
- Why I’m going to write about Israel
- The shape of attention
- Glad I wrote about Israel
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11-Jun-2026
People show a natural tendency to walk to the left... as has been reported in the Guardian as well. There's a bug though. If I enter a room where I want to do a full circle, such as in a museum, I only make one decision, coming in through the door. If I turn left then, I'll have to walk clockwise from then on to follow the walls of the room. So left bias means more right turns?
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11-Jun-2026
People show a natural tendency to walk to the left... as has been reported in the Guardian as well. There's a bug though. If I enter a room where I want to do a full circle, such as in a museum, I only make one decision, coming in through the door. If I turn left then, I'll have to walk clockwise from then on to follow the walls of the room. So left bias means more right turns?
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11-Jun-2026
People show a natural tendency to walk to the left... as has been reported in the Guardian as well. There's a bug though. If I enter a room where I want to do a full circle, such as in a museum, I only make one decision, coming in through the door. If I turn left then, I'll have to walk clockwise from then on to follow the walls of the room. So left bias means more right turns?
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11-Jun-2026
People show a natural tendency to walk to the left... as has been reported in the Guardian as well. There's a bug though. If I enter a room where I want to do a full circle, such as in a museum, I only make one decision, coming in through the door. If I turn left then, I'll have to walk clockwise from then on to follow the walls of the room. So left bias means more right turns?
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11-Jun-2026
People show a natural tendency to walk to the left... as has been reported in the Guardian as well. There's a bug though. If I enter a room where I want to do a full circle, such as in a museum, I only make one decision, coming in through the door. If I turn left then, I'll have to walk clockwise from then on to follow the walls of the room. So left bias means more right turns?
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/463492/ Richard Gere & Diana Silvers To Star In Edward Zwick’s ‘Asymmetry’ #Asymmetry #Cannes #CannesMarket #Celebrities #DianaSilvers #EdwardZwick #Éire #Entertainment #FilmNation #IE #Ireland #RichardGere
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Richard Gere & Diana Silvers To Star In Edward Zwick’s ‘Asymmetry’ Based On Acclaimed Novel; FilmNation Launching For Cannes Market
#News #Asymmetry #Cannes #CannesMarket #DianaSilvers #EdwardZwick #FilmNation #RichardGerehttps://deadline.com/2026/05/richard-gere-diana-silvers-edward-zwick-asymmetry-film-1236877492/
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Richard Gere & Diana Silvers To Star In Edward Zwick’s ‘Asymmetry’ Based On Acclaimed Novel; FilmNation Launching For Cannes Market
#News #Asymmetry #Cannes #CannesMarket #DianaSilvers #EdwardZwick #FilmNation #RichardGerehttps://deadline.com/2026/05/richard-gere-diana-silvers-edward-zwick-asymmetry-film-1236877492/
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Richard Gere & Diana Silvers To Star In Edward Zwick’s ‘Asymmetry’ Based On Acclaimed Novel; FilmNation Launching For Cannes Market
#News #Asymmetry #Cannes #CannesMarket #DianaSilvers #EdwardZwick #FilmNation #RichardGerehttps://deadline.com/2026/05/richard-gere-diana-silvers-edward-zwick-asymmetry-film-1236877492/
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Richard Gere & Diana Silvers To Star In Edward Zwick’s ‘Asymmetry’ Based On Acclaimed Novel; FilmNation Launching For Cannes Market
#News #Asymmetry #Cannes #CannesMarket #DianaSilvers #EdwardZwick #FilmNation #RichardGerehttps://deadline.com/2026/05/richard-gere-diana-silvers-edward-zwick-asymmetry-film-1236877492/
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Humans have so many #biases that I think #asymmetry is rule rather than the exception. One of the main ones is related to the "fight or flight" instinct and our basic hardwired reactions to pain & pleasure. In our modern <hyper-fast> #media, both sides are used to trigger fast-thought behaviors.
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Humans have so many #biases that I think #asymmetry is rule rather than the exception. One of the main ones is related to the "fight or flight" instinct and our basic hardwired reactions to pain & pleasure. In our modern <hyper-fast> #media, both sides are used to trigger fast-thought behaviors.
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Humans have so many #biases that I think #asymmetry is rule rather than the exception. One of the main ones is related to the "fight or flight" instinct and our basic hardwired reactions to pain & pleasure. In our modern <hyper-fast> #media, both sides are used to trigger fast-thought behaviors.
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Humans have so many #biases that I think #asymmetry is rule rather than the exception. One of the main ones is related to the "fight or flight" instinct and our basic hardwired reactions to pain & pleasure. In our modern <hyper-fast> #media, both sides are used to trigger fast-thought behaviors.
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Today's Sunday grid is an 11x11 with no symmetry, but don't let that slow you down! Click below for "Sunflower Signature" and dive right in. ;)
#crossword #puzzle #game #sunflower #asymmetry #ShareThis #SundayFunday
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Today's Sunday grid is an 11x11 with no symmetry, but don't let that slow you down! Click below for "Sunflower Signature" and dive right in. ;)
#crossword #puzzle #game #sunflower #asymmetry #ShareThis #SundayFunday
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Today's Sunday grid is an 11x11 with no symmetry, but don't let that slow you down! Click below for "Sunflower Signature" and dive right in. ;)
#crossword #puzzle #game #sunflower #asymmetry #ShareThis #SundayFunday
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Today's Sunday grid is an 11x11 with no symmetry, but don't let that slow you down! Click below for "Sunflower Signature" and dive right in. ;)
#crossword #puzzle #game #sunflower #asymmetry #ShareThis #SundayFunday
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Album Review: Wheel of Time – ‘Asymmetry’
#WheelOfTime #Asymmetry #AlbumReview #NovemberReleases
Link: https://metalinsider.net/reviews/album-review-wheel-of-time-asymmetry
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Album Review: Wheel of Time – ‘Asymmetry’
#WheelOfTime #Asymmetry #AlbumReview #NovemberReleases
Link: https://metalinsider.net/reviews/album-review-wheel-of-time-asymmetry
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Album Review: Wheel of Time – ‘Asymmetry’
#WheelOfTime #Asymmetry #AlbumReview #NovemberReleases
Link: https://metalinsider.net/reviews/album-review-wheel-of-time-asymmetry
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Album Review: Wheel of Time – ‘Asymmetry’
#WheelOfTime #Asymmetry #AlbumReview #NovemberReleases
Link: https://metalinsider.net/reviews/album-review-wheel-of-time-asymmetry
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Album Review: Wheel of Time – ‘Asymmetry’
#WheelOfTime #Asymmetry #AlbumReview #NovemberReleases
Link: https://metalinsider.net/reviews/album-review-wheel-of-time-asymmetry
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/566503/ How 2 new Asian and African-focused cultural institutions are decolonising art in London #AAA #ArabSpringProtests #Asymmetry #BeauArchitects #BedfordSquare #Bloomsbury #Britain #BritishMuseum #ChinaSea #DecolonisingArtsInstitute #England #FriezeLondon #GreatBritain #HongKong #Ibraaz #london #UK #UnitedKingdom #YanDu
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Call: “Valence Asymmetries”
Isidora Stojanovic, Lorenza D’Angelo, Morgan Moyer, and Michelle Stankovic organizing a conference on “Valence Asymmetries,” which will take place at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra from March 19 to 20, 2026.
Abstracts for presentations can be submitted until September 10. The call reads:
The Valence Asymmetries ERC team is happy to announce that it will be organizing the first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference on March 19th–20th 2026 at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. The event is funded by Isidora Stojanovic’s ERC Advanced Grant “Valence Asymmetries: the positive, the negative, the good and the bad in language, mind and morality” (GA n° 101142133).
This interdisciplinary event will discuss themes which are central to the Valence Asymmetries project, including the role of valence asymmetries in perception, emotion, morality, language, and communication. Discussion will draw upon insights from philosophy, psychology, and linguistics.
There will be invited talks by Hans Alves, Frederique de Vignemont, Saif Mohammad, and Pascale Willemsen. There is also room for 4–6 additional talks, to be selected from open submissions. Each selected talk will be assigned a 50 min slot, including discussion.
We especially encourage submissions on the relation between value, valence, and polarity; theoretical and empirical accounts of valence asymmetries in language, including in negative strengthening, scalar inferences, and irony; the asymmetry between virtue and vice, and between praise and blame, in normative and applied ethics; as well as other discussions of valence asymmetries in linguistics, cognitive science, moral psychology, and cognate areas.
If you are interested in presenting your work at this venue, please submit a 2-page abstract to [email protected] by Sep 30th, with the subject line “valence asymmetries submission.”
#Asymmetry #Blame #CognitiveScience #Linguistics #MoralPsychology #Polarity #Praise #Valence #Values #Vice #Virtue
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@davidwilkins ooh, do the Renaults! 🇫🇷#asymmetry #weirdcarmastodon
