On the final Friday of every month I curate a number of the observations and insights that have been shared on social media. I name these Friday’s Finds.
“Seize your pens and shovels, rabble rouser rebels. Take to the streets. Dig in for the lengthy haul! Globally, communities of inventive resistance are saying no to bullies. Artists and scientists, homemakers and caretakers, employees and kindreds in kindness and LOVE. — Unite. CREATE! Think about. Concern not!” —Sheree Fitch
A authorities can take away your rights, however nobody can take away your perception in these rights. The primary factors of problem to fascism are reminiscence and historical past.” … “I typically quote my buddy Invoice McKibben [the environmentalist]. We have been sitting on a concrete ground at an activist house throughout the Paris local weather treaty course of [the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015]. Any individual walked up and requested him a query he will get requested on a regular basis. ‘What’s the most effective factor I can do as a person?’ He stated, ‘Cease being a person.’ You might have your personal quirky playlist and eye-makeup methods, however you even have this solidarity. While you act, you act with others.”
Adults Lose Abilities to AI. Youngsters By no means Construct Them
An grownup selecting to dump a activity they perceive is making a tradeoff between lowering effort and rising effectivity. The capability to do this activity independently exists. The selection is deliberate. The atrophy is (in all probability) recoverable.
A toddler offloading a activity they’ve by no means realized to carry out is just not making a alternative. They’re skipping a developmental step that was by no means developed. The capability doesn’t exist but. The foreclosures could also be everlasting—and since they haven’t any unbiased baseline, they can’t acknowledge what they’re shedding.
The draw back of grownup offloading is individuals get much less sharp. The draw back of adolescents rising up delegating to AI is a era that was by no means sharp to start with. Defending the house our kids have to develop the foundational expertise of pondering is now a non-negotiable.
Ultimate report of the Skilled Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal
The investigation concludes that the blackout resulted from a mix of many interacting components, together with oscillations, gaps in voltage & reactive energy management, variations in voltage regulation practices, speedy output reductions & generator disconnections in Spain, and uneven stabilisation capabilities. These components led to quick will increase of voltage & cascading era disconnections in Spain, ensuing within the blackout in continental Spain & Portugal.”
Postal banking as soon as made Canada Publish worthwhile — and will once more
Canada Publish provided “postal banking” for greater than a century.
And it was an enormous money-maker, though Canada Publish sometimes provided its banking clients increased rates of interest on their financial savings accounts than the personal banks did. The personal banks by no means appreciated the competitors, and frequently pressed Ottawa to finish postal banking, which it did in 1969.
I’m Russian. Right here’s how propaganda actually works (YouTube)
propaganda doesn’t have to make you silly, it solely must make you drained”
A inhabitants that’s disengaged, cynical, and emotionally exhausted is much simpler to handle than one which’s offended and curious.”
propaganda teaches you that paying consideration is pointless”
