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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
I’ve been in a rabbit hole this week, watching Larry Lawton’s YouTube videos. Larry spent 12 years in the American prison system, which is pretty screwed up as far as I understood (check Mark DeFriest’s story). If you would like to get a taste of life behind bars, here’s a clip of people smoking synthetic marijuana in prison. I’ve also watched this, this, this, this, this, this, this.
Accelerationism: the dystopian philosophy you’ve never heard of
Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses
Why smart people smoke (poetic, but there are some caveats) - one can skim through the Neurocognitive consequences of cigarette smoking in young adults–a comparison with pre-drug performance or Cognitive test scores in male adolescent cigarette smokers compared to non-smokers: a population-based study.
[60 fps] Laborers in Victorian England, 1901
Bored Ape Nazi Club - what might possibly be the greatest troll in internet history. Respect the grind?
The nuclear-powered sky hotel concept
In 2016 a Florida man attempted to run from Boca Raton, FL to Bermuda in a home-made, inflatable plastic bubble
The Importance of Failure - Interview with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora
Why do you waste so much time on the internet — reading this whilst also spending a lot of time on the internet
The Gateway Process: CIA report investigating if people can leave their physical bodies to travel through space and time using Gateway Experience’s low frequency sounds and relaxation techniques. See regular people doing this.
Random Mosaic – Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice
Are things really that bad? Actually, no.
The strangeness of everyday things
Read Something Interesting is celebrating great writing on the web by allowing you to discover random but exquisite pieces of writing.
Mouse accuracy & reaction timing practice
justwatch allows you to search the name of any movie or tv series and locate where you can watch it online
myfridgefood: recipes using ingredients you already have in the kitchen
20 Hardest to Kill Houseplants
YouTube essays
Why the World is getting better than we are being told
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.
How people lived in the occupation. Zdvyzhivka. Borodyanka. Nebrat.
What are the key differences between Russian and Chinese propaganda?
American Soldiers arrive in Romania to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank
🇺🇦 You can donate to support the people in Ukraine.
All funds will be used to help those in need, affected by armed conflict, blood collection, mobilization of volunteers and resources, and emergency activities.
Disclaimer: There is no such thing as unbiased news. You can call it “less biased news”. There are numerous other biases that can influence news reporting too.
Overt political bias is probably the least concerning aspect of a democracy because it is simple to identify and weigh.
The more concerning biases in news reporting today are those that are more subtle, such as financial incentives and self-censorship of topics. Many topics are simply not covered, and the mainstream media does not question why.
Feel free to send me counter-propaganda too.
Other places
(͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°) Telegram group for me to save & share random stuff that might be useful —
👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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How’re you and yours doing this week? Any major changes to your status quo, or are things fairly locked-in and predictable at the moment? I respond to every email I get—consider sending me a message.