fw ⚗️: culture is brainwashing you
Ro.bert
here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌
a weekly list of goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
fiery stuff I've been ingesting
NASA’s Curiosity Captures Stunning Views of a Changing Mars Landscape
What do I think about network states? by Vitalik Buterin
ATOMIC POWER, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard, Color Video
The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power comes in September
Just found this video where Disney executives openly admit to pushing a gay agenda using their movies
Wittgenstein at war
The stoned ape hypothesis: did magic mushrooms influence human evolution?
Life crafting as a way to find purpose and meaning in life
Is your website climate-friendly?
The Dark Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer
Elon Musk’s NEURALINK vs Bryan Johnson’s KERNEL (No Surgery)
Homo naledi:despite its puny brain, Homo naledi purposefully interred its dead. The cave chamber was a graveyard, they concluded.
Countercultures: modernity’s last gasp
An epigenetic age reduction world record?
They asked GPT-3 to write an academic paper about Itself—then they tried to get it published
Jack Barsky: KGB Spy | Lex Fridman Podcast
States launch probe into TikTok’s effect on kids’ health
How to breathe while running
Soft-skills infrastructure, as seen from above
Check out Magnum Chrome extension by Uladzimir Yankovich. This is a browser extension that turns Chrome from just a browser into a productivity workspace.
YouTube essays
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel Levitin
tweets for thought
war materials 🇺🇦
Where once the main sources of wealth were material assets such as gold mines, wheat fields and oil wells, today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can seize oil fields by force, you cannot acquire knowledge that way. The profitability of conquest has declined as a result.
What is the future of Europe?
What single image sums up the war in Ukraine? Why did you choose this image? 6-year-old child was sleeping in her bed when missile hit their house.
A Russian commander is really frustrated by the HIMARS strikes.
getting abuducted off the street by Russian army and sent to fight
Another Russian General bites the dust
Putin Is Scammed By His Own Army Command - Russian Soldier Revealing Secrets On The Phone
Inflation? We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Who is Ilya Yashin of Russia?
Why I left Russia and cannot go back
(Not so) fresh Kremlin’s fakes
Other places
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