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Sir Patrick Stewart, 1940-2026. #SirPatrickStewart ...

2026-10-30T18:46:48Z

Sir Patrick Stewart, 1940-2026.

#SirPatrickStewart

So no, I don't need flying cars. I need studies that include ...

2026-10-25T09:58:19Z

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So no, I don't need flying cars. I need studies that include women, account for the cycle and actually get funded.

// Iris Josephina //

Until 1993, women in the US weren't required to be included ...

2026-10-25T09:56:45Z

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Until 1993, women in the US weren't required to be included in clinical trials. In 1977, the FDA went further and recommended excluding women of childbearing age from early-stage drug trials altogether.

Our hormones were considered too "complicated," so researchers studied men and assumed the results would apply to us.
That's a big part of why so much of what we know about medication doses, heart attack symptoms and even basic physiology is based on male bodies. It's also why something as common as endometriosis still takes an average of 7 to 10 years to diagnose, and why so many women are told their symptoms are normal, stress-related or in their head.

The menstrual cycle isn't a complication to design around. It's a vital sign, and it affects how we sleep, train, metabolise and respond to medication. We need a perspective shift in research so our health isn't treated as something unimportant or secondary.

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2026-10-25T09:54:50Z

#WomensHealth

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2026-10-25T08:02:48Z

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https://www.merkur.de/politik/ruege-im-bundestag-gruenen-politiker-legt-gegen-afd-nach-muss-verboten-werden-zr-94545177.html

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2026-10-25T08:01:21Z

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2026-10-25T08:00:03Z

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2026-10-25T07:58:27Z

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#noAfD #UlrichSiegmund #TimonDzienus #DieGrünen ...

2026-10-25T07:55:11Z

#noAfD #UlrichSiegmund #TimonDzienus #DieGrünen

#abuse #GenderbasedViolence ...

2026-10-23T16:33:44Z

#abuse #GenderbasedViolence

#AI #ChatGPT #Claude #SydneyJHarris ...

2026-10-23T15:22:01Z

#AI #ChatGPT #Claude #SydneyJHarris

Research shows blue whales are singing less, and this silence ...

2026-10-18T09:54:01Z

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Research shows blue whales are singing less, and this silence screams louder than any song ever could. our oceans are in crisis.

Acoustic studies off California revealed a shocking 40 percent drop in whale vocalizations during marine heat waves.

Warm water events called "the blob" devastated krill populations, the sole food source these magnificent creatures need to survive.

When krill disappears, hungry whales spend their days scrambling for scraps instead of singing. Unlike humpbacks with flexible diets, blue whales depend entirely on dense krill swarms.

Climate change is starving them. Here is hope though. when krill bounced back over three years, the songs returned. Recovery is possible if we act. But time is running out as ocean warming accelerates.

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2026-10-18T09:49:35Z

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2026-10-11T02:01:48Z

Not all men rape. But all men have been raised inside a sexual ...

2026-10-03T16:39:38Z

Not all men rape.

But all men have been raised inside a sexual culture that teaches them to pursue women, watch women, judge women, and imagine access to women.

You do not have to commit the worst act in that culture to have absorbed its lessons.

And you cannot declare yourself innocent of a script you have never examined.

// RH //

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2026-10-03T07:13:59Z

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2026-10-03T07:11:48Z

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2026-10-03T07:10:19Z

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#Cornell #TheCornell7 ...

2026-10-03T07:06:36Z

#Cornell #TheCornell7

A string of femicides across Italy has brought attention to the ...

2026-10-01T16:22:25Z

A string of femicides across Italy has brought attention to the country's ongoing crisis of violence against women. Then in September, that crisis hit especially close to home for Italian football club US Lecce.

Lorena Isceri, a woman from nearby Squinzano in Italy's Puglia region, was brutally killed by her ex-boyfriend.

Before a recent match, US Lecce broke with its pregame tradition, bringing young women from the region onto the field with red handprints painted across their faces as a symbol of violence against women.

In a country where football commands enormous attention, the club used its platform to put that attention somewhere it urgently belongs: on the women whose lives have been taken, and the violence that continues to put others at risk.

Photography Credit: Giovanni Evangelista/LaPresse

#USLecce #femicide #VAWG #Italy #LorenaIsceri #Squinzano #Puglia #LaPresse

“Cornell Won’t, We Will” #Cornell #TheCornell7 #VAWG ...

2026-10-01T13:59:07Z

“Cornell Won’t, We Will”

#Cornell #TheCornell7 #VAWG #journalism #CornellDailySun #RapeCulture

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2026-10-01T06:32:20Z

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#RapeCulture

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2026-10-01T06:30:55Z

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2026-10-01T06:29:33Z

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2026-10-01T06:28:26Z

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2026-10-01T06:26:19Z

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2026-10-01T06:00:03Z

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2026-10-01T05:59:14Z

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🧵 by Tova Leigh #Cornell #TheCornell7 #RapeCulture #VAWG ...

2026-10-01T05:56:36Z

🧵 by Tova Leigh

#Cornell #TheCornell7 #RapeCulture #VAWG

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2026-09-30T05:44:39Z

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2026-09-30T05:04:43Z

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#Cornell #Cornell7 #RapeCulture #misagony #VAWG ...

2026-09-30T05:02:38Z

#Cornell #Cornell7 #RapeCulture #misagony #VAWG

Often an image comes to my mind that I feel just needs to be ...

2026-09-29T05:20:28Z

Often an image comes to my mind that I feel just needs to be drawn. In many ways, this cartoon doesn't make sense. In many ways I wish it did. There aren't seven men by accident.

// David Hayward //

#DavidHayward #Cornell #Cornell7 #ChiPi

#feminism #sexism #MaisieWilliams ...

2026-09-18T13:56:11Z

#feminism #sexism #MaisieWilliams

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2026-09-07T11:39:19Z

#ElisaKlinkenberg #democracy ...

2026-08-23T16:17:25Z

#ElisaKlinkenberg #democracy

Es wird ca. 40 qm Wand gesucht. Die Briefe müssten vor Ort ...

2026-08-14T14:25:42Z

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Es wird ca. 40 qm Wand gesucht.
Die Briefe müssten vor Ort beaufsichtigt werden, weil sehr wertvoll. Und der Ort müsste Walls of Shame für mindestens einen Monat aufnehmen. Die Organisatorin bräuchte jeweils 2 Tage für Auf -und Abbau, also auch Schlafplatz, gerne im Ausstellungsort plus die Fahrtkosten.

Ich finde dieses Projekt unglaublich mutig und wichtig. Lasst uns helfen einen neuen Ausstellungsort zu finden.

Habt ihr Ideen?

#FediHelp #FediAsk #FediArt #WallsOfShame

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2026-08-14T14:21:31Z

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#WallsOfShame

690 perpetrators #WallsOfShame ...

2026-08-14T14:18:26Z

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690 perpetrators

#WallsOfShame

Wenn du von sexualisierter Gewalt betroffen bist oder warst, ...

2026-08-14T14:14:14Z

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Wenn du von sexualisierter Gewalt betroffen bist oder warst, kannst du einen Brief schicken oder komm im Paula vorbei:

Paula Panke
Walls of Shame
Langhansstraße 141
13086 Berlin

Wichtig ist, dass du die Rückseite unbeschriftet lässt, damit du anonym bleibst und der Brief zur Installation hinzugefügt werden kann.

Schreibe den Namen des Täters auf!

Jeder Täter = ein Brief

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2026-08-14T14:11:37Z

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Schweigen schützt die Täter. Nicht die Betroffenen. ...

2026-08-14T14:10:00Z

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Schweigen schützt die Täter. Nicht die Betroffenen.

„Walls of Shame" ist eine Kunstaktion von Betroffenen von ...

2026-08-14T13:44:40Z

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„Walls of Shame" ist eine Kunstaktion von Betroffenen von sexualisierter Gewalt. Betroffene schreiben den Namen des Täters oder der Täterin - oder eine Beschreibung - auf einen Zettel, verschließen in in einem blickdichten Umschlag und hängen ihn anonym in die Sammlung. Die Briefe bleiben für immer verschlossen. Es werden keine Namen veröffentlicht.
Vor Ort könnt ihr die Sammlung während der Öffnungszeiten erweitern. Wenn ihr nicht persönlich kommen könnt, könnt ihr euch ebentalls beteiligen - schreibt uns über unsere Social-Media-Kanäle für weitere Informationen zur Zusendung. Jeder Brief bekommt seinen Platz. Und mit jedem Umschlag wird sichtbar: Wir sind viele.

#WallsOfShame #KunstAktion #WallOfShame #GewaltGegenFrauen #SexualisierteGewalt

"Walls of Shame" is an art initiative created by ...

2026-08-14T13:42:04Z

"Walls of Shame" is an art initiative created by survivors of sexualized violence. Survivors can write the name of the perpetrator - or a description - on a piece of paper, seal it in an opaque envelope, and anonymously add it to the collection. The letters will remain sealed forever. No names will ever be published.
On site, the collection can be expanded during opening hours. If you are unable to attend in person, you can still participate — please contact us via our social media channels for information on how to send your envelope.
Every letter has its place. And with every envelope, it becomes visible: we are many.

#WallsOfShame #Berlin #SexualisedViolence #art

In Rheinland-Pfalz werden von der AfD kostenlos Materialien für ...

2026-08-09T17:00:42Z

In Rheinland-Pfalz werden von der AfD kostenlos Materialien für Kämpfe ausgeteilt…

Am Wahlkampfstand in Koblenz wurden gestern Kubotans verteilt. Das sind massive Metallstäbe mit Griffrillen, die als Schlagwaffe oder Druckpunktverstärker eingesetzt werden können. In anderen Ländern (z.B. Australien, Kanada, Schweiz) sind diese als Waffen eingestuft und verboten!

Wir sind entsetzt, wie hier Gewalt befördert und normalisiert wird. Schluss damit!

- Omas Gegen Rechts

#AfdVerbotJetzt

#OmasGegenRechts #OmasGegenRechtsNW #Kubotan

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2026-08-05T06:35:51Z

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https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/mexico-in-numbers-women-representation-politics/

50% of Sheinbaum’s cabinet members are women

Women currently serve in the roles of:

• Interior minister, generally considered the second most powerful position in the Mexican government

•Welfare minister

• Environment minister

• Energy minister

• Agriculture minister

• Anti-corruption and good governance minister

• Agrarian development and urban planning minister

• Culture minister

• Tourism minister

• Science, humanities, technology and innovation minister

• Legal counsel to the federal executive

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2026-08-05T06:33:51Z

#Mexico

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2026-07-29T19:16:26Z

#MinaPoorkazemi #France #Bordeaux #Gironde #Spain #Madrid ...

2026-07-27T20:00:26Z

#MinaPoorkazemi #France #Bordeaux #Gironde #Spain #Madrid #Valencia #Ávila #Toledo #Italy #Gargano #Puglia

#Porto #Portugal #PublicTransport ...

2026-07-23T17:49:04Z

#Porto #Portugal #PublicTransport

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2026-07-22T12:28:38Z

If intelligence is a necessary precondition for stupidity, and ...

2026-07-13T14:00:09Z

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If intelligence is a necessary precondition for stupidity, and intelligence and stupidity scale together such that it takes real intelligence to be spectacularly stupid, then super-intelligence will be the opening act to an era of super-stupidity.

AI hallucination might be the first evidence of this dynamic. Large language models produce fluent, confident, detailed text that is, with some regularity, factually wrong. And this is not a simple bug but a structural feature of systems that optimize for appeal and plausibility rather than truth. And the danger is not that the AI will be wrong, after all, humans are wrong all the time, but knowing this, humans have invented means to detect and correct errors. We call this the scientific method.

The danger is that an AI will be wrong in ways humans can no longer detect because the very capacities that would catch the error have been outsourced to the machine or exceed the capacities of human minds.

airplane. Nikola Tesla rejected quantum mechanics and the theory ...

2026-07-13T13:58:16Z

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airplane. Nikola Tesla rejected quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity and argued that future human civilization would run on the energy of the Earth through “earth resonance.”

And Percival Lowell used his telescopes to map “canals” on the surface of Mars that he claimed were alien irrigation ditches. These are all examples of the overcommitment, and overdevelopment of an idea, far from the territory in which an idea once grew and flourished or from which it was unceremoniously banished.

Artificial intelligence is by design the most powerful cognitive artifact ever created. It is engineered to minimize user effort by performing tasks that humans would otherwise find time consuming or impossible. The problem of course is that the better the tool gets the less the user needs to think for themselves. And in a vicious spiral, the less the user thinks the more dependent they become on their tools. That is until the tool disappears and the whole system collapses.

The fungus Ophiocordyceps infects carpenter ants and coopts their ...

2026-07-13T13:57:22Z

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The fungus Ophiocordyceps infects carpenter ants and coopts their behavioral circuitry. An infected ant climbs to a precise height on a plant stem, clamps its mandibles onto the underside of a leaf, and dies, ideally positioned for the fungus to disperse its spores. The ant’s behavioral program has been hacked. The ant is performing a sophisticated sequence of actions, including climbing, orienting, and gripping in the service of another organism. This is an ant perfectly captured by Bonhoeffer’s idea of competence co-opted by a malicious agent to solve the wrong problem. Perhaps specialization produces local intelligence that when overextended can generate global stupidity. This would be a change in scale and domain that corresponds to the moth’s change of environment.

The physicist Lord Kelvin marshaled all his physics knowledge to prove that heavier than air flying machines are impossible less than a decade before the Wright brothers flew a heavier than air

behavior obsolete. For millions of years, maintaining a fixed ...

2026-07-13T13:55:47Z

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behavior obsolete.

For millions of years, maintaining a fixed angle to a distant celestial light source, the moon and the stars, proved to be a vital navigational heuristic across the animal world. It is efficient, reliable, and requires minimal neural hardware. Once humans invented artificial illumination, a strategy that had worked for eons became suicidal. A moth spiraling into a candle flame is not failing to navigate, it is using a time-tested rule-of-thumb rendered catastrophically wrong by a change in context.

Intelligence and stupidity turn out to be chronometrical. A brilliant heuristic and a fatal one can be the same heuristic, separated by an unexpected shift in the world. Sea turtles have followed moonlight to the ocean for 100 million years and now they orient toward the artificial illumination of mushrooming beachfront condos. Albatross have evolved to scoop fish from the ocean surface and now unknowingly collect floating plastic and feed it to their chicks.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from a Nazi prison in 1943, suggests ...

2026-07-13T13:54:40Z

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from a Nazi prison in 1943, suggests that stupidity is not a cognitive defect but an imposed sociological structure. People under the spell of power tend to surrender their capacity for independent judgment and become “stupid” instruments. And Carlo Cipolla, an Italian economic historian, in the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity published in 1976, defined a stupid person as someone who causes losses to others while deriving no gain, or even harm, for themselves. Cipolla was daring enough to propose that the proportion of stupid people is constant across all populations, from professors, plumbers, generals, and janitors. I would suggest, in line with the speculations of Swift and Musil, that it only gets worse with complication.

If stupidity is costly to its practitioners why does natural or perhaps even cultural selection not eliminate it from populations of organisms? One obvious possibility is a change in the environment that renders a previous

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2026-07-13T13:53:09Z

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deploying considerable verbal intelligence to deepen general confusion.

Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow describes a vast bureaucratic and military apparatus of World War II that functions as a machine for converting rational planning into catastrophe. Pynchon’s cartels and rocket engineers are not unintelligent, quite the opposite, and their competence is the V-2 rocket, that threatens to annihilate the war-ravaged cities of the West. Pynchon describes a world in which institutional intelligence becomes a form of collective stupidity.

A number of philosophers have sought to provide a framework for understanding this perverse phenomenon. Erasmus, in 1511, in The Praise of Folly, suggests that folly is the engine of human accomplishment. Without self-delusion and overconfidence, nothing would ever get attempted. The challenge for Erasmus was not whether a civilization produces stupidity, but whether it will produce the kind that can be survived.

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These are forms of intelligence trapped in frameworks so rigid that they produce outcomes that are worse than doing nothing. In the sky city of Laputa, brilliant mathematicians and accomplished musicians apply projective geometry in order to build with no right angles and chefs prepare meals based on geometric figures. These are abstractions of exquisite subtlety and power in mathematics that become helpless when directed at the wrong practical problems.

William Gaddis in his The Recognitions presents a society of forgery, misattribution, and counterfeiting in which enormous ingenuity is expended in the service of inauthenticity. The protagonist, Wyatt Gwyon, produces forged Flemish paintings that require more skill and knowledge than original compositions. His forgeries are technically masterful, art-historically impeccable, and completely fraudulent. Each of his many characters talk past one another in dialogues of escalating misrecognition,

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2026-07-13T13:49:22Z

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A student who cannot follow a mathematical proof is not stupid in Musil’s sense. A math professor who builds an elegant theoretical edifice to defend a proposition a child could see is false is intelligently stupid.

Musil was not alone in taking stupidity seriously. Novelists have long understood the intelligence-stupidity relationship with a clarity that most scientists choose to ignore. Perhaps because fiction can show the process by which an intelligence can devour itself, a rather unpalatable spectacle to a rationalist.

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels describes the Academy of Lagado, whose researchers deploy a variety of elaborate experimental methodologies. One is extracting sunbeams from cucumbers while another softens marble into pillows. A third colleague breeds naked sheep. Swift’s satire is obviously targeted at a variety of forms of misdirected systematic inquiry.

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2026-07-13T13:47:56Z

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could often have achieved in an afternoon what the cybernetic apparatus was struggling to model in weeks. The intelligence of the cybernetics as a framework for control of simple systems is unquestionable, but its application to the economy inflated the difficulty of the problem it was meant to solve.

The Austrian novelist and essayist, Robert Musil, in a 1937 lecture, “On Stupidity,” described what may be the most important distinction in the whole literature of stupidity. He separated “honorable stupidity,” which is a simple cognitive limitation, or the inability to grasp a difficult argument, from “intelligent stupidity,” which he considered far more dangerous. This insight is the central concern of my favorite novel of Musil’s, The Man Without Qualities. Intelligent stupidity marshals all the resources of the intellect in the service of an error. It is not the failure to think; it is thinking flamboyantly and systematically in the wrong direction.

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2026-07-13T13:45:42Z

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and to use real-time feedback to optimize production and distribution.

Unfortunately, an economy is not a servomechanism. The feedback loops in a national economy involve millions of adaptive agents with private information, conflicting goals, and a tendency to evolve their preferences. The seduction of applying cybernetic methods to complex systems is described beautifully by my Santa Fe Institute colleague, the writer Francis Spufford, in his novel Red Plenty: “The world was lifting itself up out of darkness and beginning to shine, and mathematics was how he could help. It was his contribution. It was what he could give, according to his abilities. He was lucky enough to live in the only country on the planet where human beings had seized the power to shape events according to reason.”

A simple behavioral intervention, such as adjusting a price, changing a regulation, or God forbid, simply asking people what they need,

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2026-07-13T13:43:16Z

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This flies in the face of the purpose of science, which is, as the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach described it, “the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.”

The early cybernetics movement offers a similar cautionary tale. Norbert Wiener and his colleagues at MIT developed a powerful framework for understanding feedback, control, and communication in machines and organisms. The mathematics was original, the engineering applications impressive, and the cybernetic enterprise even provided the groundwork for the development of complexity science.

Then the management consultant Stafford Beer and others tried to apply cybernetic control theory to the management of entire national economies, most famously in Salvador Allende’s Chile, where Project Cybersyn attempted to run the Chilean economy through a network of telex machines. The idea was to model the economy as a dynamical system with inputs and outputs,

of subatomic particles, despite its truly counter-intuitive ...

2026-07-13T13:41:19Z

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of subatomic particles, despite its truly counter-intuitive requirements.

But there is a small cottage industry of thinkers who have tried to apply quantum mechanics to human consciousness, decision-making, and psychology to explain why people are indecisive and why they eventually make up their minds. There is nothing wrong with the mathematics and the physics is sound. But the application is peculiar. What was an elegant and parsimonious description of photons and electrons becomes, when imported into psychology, an absurdly over-complicated way of saying that people sometimes change their minds. A phenomenon that a novelist could illuminate in a paragraph has been buried under a formalism designed for a completely different scale of reality. The theory did not become less intelligent, it was asked to solve a problem it was never designed for, and in the process, it made that problem harder to understand, not easier.

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2026-07-13T13:39:57Z

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Life, uniquely among physical systems, has the capacity to be wrong. Stupidity is a very special species of failure and not all errors qualify. People err from ignorance (insufficient data), from noise (a signal is distorted), or from the honest misapplication of a rule to a novel situation and changing context. These are the misfortunes of our lives about which we should be forgiving. Stupidity begins where error is elaborated, defended, refined, institutionalized, and made the foundation for further action. Stupidity makes everything progressively worse. And it is this elaboration of erroneous belief and behavior that demands, paradoxically, the prior existence of intelligence.

Some of the most impressive feats of stupidity consist in applying a perfectly good theory to the wrong problem. Some would argue that quantum mechanics is one of the most “intelligent” inventions of physics, one that provides a framework of extraordinary precision for describing the behavior

and adopting strategies that reduce its cost, then stupidity ...

2026-07-13T13:38:41Z

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and adopting strategies that reduce its cost, then stupidity means making a problem of difficulty X harder. And contrary to expectations, the most reliable way to make an easy problem hard is to bring to bear an impressive apparatus of complicated theories, elaborate beliefs, and sophisticated algorithms that sound tremendously convincing but perform worse than doing nothing. A person who does not know the answer to a question is merely ignorant. A person who constructs an ingenious hundred-page argument for the wrong answer is stupid. As great writers, artists, and philosophers throughout time have understood, such constructions require intelligence of a high order.

Consider this analogy. When a meteor collides with the Earth, there is no sense in which it is doing anything wrong. It is obeying classical mechanics, and that is all there is to say about it. But when a bird flies into a glass window, something different has happened, something we can with justification call an error.

Researchers from all fields without any knowledge of intelligence ...

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Researchers from all fields without any knowledge of intelligence research and its history have become self-declared “thought leaders” in natural and artificial intelligence.

Yet stupidity gets almost no attention at all. It is treated as a mere absence, as if once we subtract intelligence what remains is stupidity. It is likened to a form of psychological darkness experienced after you have switched off the lights of deliberation. But this is a mistaken belief. Darkness does not do anything pernicious in the way that stupidity does. Stupidity takes an easy problem and, with great effort and misdirected ingenuity, makes it hard. That effort is the key to grasping stupidity, in that you need sophisticated machinery to be genuinely, consequentially stupid.

Here is how I like to think about this from a scientific perspective. If intelligence means making a problem of difficulty X easier, by deploying tools, using mathematics,

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2026-07-13T13:34:13Z

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And perhaps surprisingly, the degree of stupidity available to any system scales directly with the intelligence that system possesses—more intelligence begets greater feats of stupidity. It would be a stretch to call a bacterium stupid, and we know that cats and dogs achieve modest feats of it. But human beings, equipped with language, abstraction, technology, institutions, and ideology, can be stupid on a truly civilizational scale. This is not a joke; it is close to a law of nature. A law that might very well be our undoing.

We have thousands of research programs on intelligence, and not all of them are intelligent, including studies of IQ, AI, animal cognition, and collective problem-solving. These take place in celebrated departments and are published in prestigious journals devoted to understanding how minds make hard problems easy. These days we cannot take a step without crashing into another article on intelligence and AI.

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https://nautil.us/what-makes-humans-stupid-1282459?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio

What Makes Humans Stupid
It takes intelligence to get things spectacularly wrong. An essay on our undoing.

By David C. Krakauer
July 8, 2026

I have never heard a rock described as stupid. And the same would be true of a river, a hurricane, and even a thermostat. Stupidity seems to be a sophisticated form of behavior despite its ignominious associations.

Human beings can land autonomous rovers on Mars, sequence a genome in hours, and engineer nanometer circuits. And yet conspiracy theories, anti-scientific political movements, and institutional hatred proliferate on a scale that might embarrass the meager success record of a medieval alchemist.

One might say that stupidity implies a capacity for getting things right before it can get them spectacularly wrong. Stupidity is not the opposite of intelligence but its evil twin, the dissimulating Cain to a cerebral Abel.

Stupidity is in the air. Who can deny it?⁠ ⁠ But then ...

2026-07-13T13:23:38Z

Stupidity is in the air. Who can deny it?⁠
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But then it's always been in the air. And led to cataclysm.⁠
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Why do we keep making the same mistakes? First, we need to explain what stupidity is, what in human nature causes it.⁠
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That's just what David C Krakauer, President and William H Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute | @sfiscience, does in a new essay for Nautilus.⁠
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In "What Makes Humans Stupid," David writes, "Stupidity is not the opposite of intelligence but its evil twin." We think it's one of the most original and important essays you'll read this year. ⁠
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~ Nautilus Mag

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#AgnessMkandawire #fishing #LakeMalawi

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#fisheries #PublicHealth #Malawi #SocialJustice #HumanRights #GeorgeJobe

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#FishForSex #Luwuchi

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2026-07-12T07:17:10Z

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#Malawi #women #FishForSex #ThePolisProject #RaphaelMweninguwe

Malawi’s Women Fishers Cast Their Nets Beyond Tradition Toward ...

2026-07-12T07:10:15Z

Malawi’s Women Fishers Cast Their Nets Beyond Tradition Toward Sustainability and Empowerment

By Raphael Mweninguwe
July 1, 2026

In northern Malawi, where patriarchy runs deep and women are relegated to domestic chores, Mkandawire was determined to break the yoke.

“I refused to accept what all people were saying that I should not do,” she said.

Her determination inspired several other women in her village. At present, more than 12 women own fishing gear in Tukombo.

Several of them are also part of the Beach Village Committees (BVCs), organizations committed to protecting the environment and women from exploitation. In Tukombo, six of the 11 executive committee members are women, said Mkandawire.

These government-regulated committees protect fisheries and promote sustainable fishing practices, such as banning the use of small-mesh fish nets, enforcing the closed fishing season, and ensuring fair auctions for fish sales to end the fish-for-sex trade.

https://thepolisproject.com/read/malawis-women-fishers-nets-sustainability/

The Guardian view on xenophobic violence in South Africa: ...

2026-07-03T21:50:29Z

The Guardian view on xenophobic violence in South Africa: anti-migrant politics can’t fix domestic problems

Foreigners are not to blame for unemployment, crime and the state of public services. Leaders should have the courage to say so more clearly

Just over 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela expressed his sadness and anger at the rising hatred of foreigners in South Africa. “We had a legacy of unity and solidarity here,” the president told an African National Congress rally. “We are not victims to the influx of foreign people.”

Since then, xenophobic violence has periodically erupted. In 2008, anti-migrant attacks killed at least 62 people. Now a new wave is sweeping the country. Thousands marched in the streets on Tuesday – the arbitrary “deadline” that campaign groups had set for migrants to leave the country. More than 25,000 people did so in the run-up, with some countries evacuating their nationals and individuals fleeing in fear.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/the-guardian-view-on-xenophobic-violence-in-south-africa-anti-migrant-politics-cant-fix-domestic-problems

More than 900 arrested during South Africa’s antimigrant ...

2026-07-02T07:09:35Z

More than 900 arrested during South Africa’s antimigrant protests

Wave of arrests made across South Africa as xenophobic tensions erupt into nationwide marches.

South African police have arrested more than 900 people during nationwide antimigrant protests that were mostly peaceful but at times turned violent with shops looted and one person shot dead.

The demonstrations on Tuesday were organised by a coalition of more than 20 civil society groups, including the March and March movement. They were called to mark an unofficial “deadline” for undocumented migrants to leave the country.

#SouthAfrica #MarchToMarch

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/7/2/more-than-900-arrested-during-south-africas-antimigrant-protests

Son of Norway’s crown princess convicted of rape and sentenced ...

2026-06-26T14:42:56Z

Son of Norway’s crown princess convicted of rape and sentenced to four years in prison

#MariusBorgHøiby found guilty of ⁠two counts of rape, one count of domestic violence and other ⁠crimes

Høiby faced 40 charges, including four counts of rape and assault, several breaches of restraining orders, as well as drug and driving offences. One charge of violating a restraining order was later overturned.

He was found guilty of 34 offences – including two counts of rape, serious bodily harm, abuse in close relationships, physical assault, threats, six counts of sexually offensive behaviour and three counts of violating a restraining order.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/son-norway-crown-princess-convicted-rape-marius-borg-hoiby

Bram Koese is one of the best freshwater zoologists of the ...

2026-06-24T13:50:13Z

Bram Koese is one of the best freshwater zoologists of the Netherlands and lives in a town, surrounded by wetlands and canals, some 30 kilometers south of Amsterdam where speeding cars often hit wildlife. He saw entire families of graylag geese (Anser anser) and barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) being mowed down.⁠
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Prompted by these sad encounters, and curious about the actual impact of the traffic on wildlife, he began logging his roadkill sightings. For a whole year, on average every other day, he would ride up and down the road, scanning with a headlamp if it was dark, and record and photograph every dead animal. His sightings amounted to 642 carcasses. Shocked by the volume of his data, and disenchanted by the lack of response he got from the municipality, Koese then hatched a secret plan for a clever guerrilla campaign.⁠
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A new Taliban law on divorce declares that the silence of a ...

2026-05-24T16:32:41Z

A new Taliban law on divorce declares that the silence of a “virgin girl” who has reached puberty can be interpreted as marital consent.

🔸This applies only to girls, who begin puberty between the ages of 8 and 14, as the law adds that silence by a boy or an adult woman does not constitute consent.

By linking the minimum marriage age for girls to puberty, the Taliban has effectively legalized child marriage, according to the UN.

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#MaryPipher #rape #ViolenceAgainstWomen

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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a ...

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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

-Maya Angelou

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Morgens kein Zwitschern, kein Flattern mehr vor dem Fenster. Wir merken erst, was wir verlieren, wenn es still ist.

Wo wir Flächen entsiegeln, Hecken pflanzen und Lebensräume schaffen, reagieren Vögel sofort. Am Liesingbach ist der Eisvogel wieder heimisch, am Wienfluss zeigt sich der Graureiher – diese Erfolge beweisen: Geben wir der Natur Raum, retten wir die Vögel!

https://greenpeace.at/petitionen/voegel-renaturierung/

From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is ...

2026-03-23T19:03:48Z

From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces

Chiselled jaws, pouty lips, hunter eyes: everything is up for grabs in the quest to increase ‘sexual market value’.

Looksmaxxing has existed for at least a decade, but has exploded in recent months from obscure forums and Reddit pages into mainstream social media – and TikTok in particular.

#BoneSmashing #Looksmaxxing #TikTok

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/15/from-bone-smashing-to-chin-extensions-how-looksmaxxing-is-reshaping-young-mens-faces