@inquiline and in San Jose, 4:30 pm at City Hall:

high street is full of alluring cafés, most are chains & products taste the same. We step into the dark of the cinema hoping to be taken somewhere new, but the journey follows submerged tracks like a theme park ride, and the only destination is back home

https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-every-film-and-tv-series-seem-to-have-the-same-plot

it’s how patriarchy creates itself. Erasing women makes men into the main characters in life and in history, and women into supporting cast, or caste.

https://time.com/7284644/trumps-erasure-of-women/

many users who ask themselves why a much older, familiar technology continues to thwart their attempts to complete apparently simple tasks. Dropping and positioning an image in a word document often leads to audible groans of frustration.

https://stripepartners.substack.com/p/this-months-frame-using-w-brian-arthurs

whatever -
political views -
if-we-the-people -
can resource it --
and we want it -
we can provision -
ourselves -
with it -
​And maybe -
that's the real -
wicked-problem -
how do we -
enact a common -
sensing -
of a common -
valuing -
#MMT -
#micropoem

https://theconversation.com/what-is-modern-monetary-theory-an-economist-explains-how-it-could-help-canada-256868#
MMT democratizes money - demystifying idea that money is inherently scarce. It emphasizes that government spending is constrained by the availability of real resources, not finances.
“What do we need, and how can we mobilize our resources to achieve it?”

Brain regions can participate in multiple networks simultaneously and shift their roles as needed

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-human-brain-is-like-a-murmuration-of-starlings

“interregnum,” a notion invoked frequently in aphoristic terms as a moment during which “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” In such a moment, “a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

https://activehistory.ca/blog/2025/05/15/diseased-neoliberalism/

an experiment with all the proper controls and found that bees biting plants made their flowers bloom as much as thirty days earlier than they would otherwise

https://www.delanceyplace.com/index.php

The goal is not to ask “What would Kant make of driverless cars?” or “what would Heidegger lament about Large Language Models?” but rather to allow for appearance and cultivation of a new school of philosophical/ technological thought

https://research.antikythera.org/

biological evolution “generates its own extended possibility space which cannot be reliably predicted or captured via any deterministic process from prior states. So life evolves partly into the unknown.”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402/

finding new uses for existing components is what evolution does - making use of what’s available.
constantly creating both new types of organisms & new possibilities for organisms, ones that could not possibly have existed in earlier stages of evolution

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402/

Biofilms, then, are somehow both unicellular and multicellular — and simultaneously neither.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofilms-strange-shape-emerges-from-cellular-geometry-20250421/

A lawsuit filed in February accuses Tesla of remotely altering odometer values on failure-prone cars, in a bid to push these lemons beyond the 50,000 mile warranty limit:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite

“A bird with a 10-gram brain is doing pretty much the same as a chimp with a 400-gram brain,” said Onur Güntürkün, who studies brain structures at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. “How is it possible?”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals-20250407/

new material that, by harnessing the power of sunlight, can clear water of dangerous pollutants.
These nanomats can be used as a power generator, or as water remediation tools. In both ways, you have a catalyst with the highest efficiency reported to date

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-3d-nanotech-blankets-path.html

Second child died from measles-related causes in West Texas, where cases are nearing 500 https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/2025/04/06/second-child-died-from-measles-related-causes-in-west-texas-where-cases-are-nearing-500

Anyone claiming to love "free markets" loves the rule of law. Predictability of laws-based society is necessary precondition for capital formation, long-term investing, & use of contracts to coordinate business within a transparent, known set of rules.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/04/anything-that-cant-go-on/#forever-eventually-stops

evidence that modern humans are result of genetic mixing between two ancient pop that diverged 1.5 million yrs ago. About 300,000 yrs ago, they came back together, 1 group contributing 80% the other 20% of genetic makeup of modern humans

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-genetic-reveals-hidden-chapter-human.htm