The false dichotomies are just distractions. To the best of our means and ability, each of us must maximize the potential of imperfect solutions in the context of the highly dysfunctional systems that we are in, while striving together to improve them. x.com/xoiiku/status/…

from Agnès Varda’s (recently rediscovered) footage of Pasolini walking around Manhattan in 1967

Amore Giulio Cesare veniva chiamato ‘principessina di Bitinia’ dalle sue truppe durante i trionfi perché si faceva sodomizzare da Nicomede IV Filopatore

Italian Franca Viola was just 15 when she became engaged to 23-year-old Filippo Melodia. However, Melodia's involvement in criminal activities led to Viola breaking off the relationship. After Melodia's release from prison, he sought to reconcile with Viola, who had already

A steadily growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" claims do not reflect transgender adolescents’ experiences and that “social contagion” is not causing more young people to seek gender-affirming care. trib.al/nSQ70Fq

we suffer from landscape amnesia - as a child I have seen these huge tuna in italy

📰New on the blog! 🌎Yesterday, the 4th international degrowth movement assembly voted to adopt a new formal structure, launching the International Degrowth Network 🐌Read about it here: degrowth.info/en/blog/the-bi…

“The latest data on forest fires confirms what we’ve long feared: Forest fires are becoming more widespread, burning nearly twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago.” wri.org/insights/globa…

Biologists have shown that the tiny and simple aquatic creatures called hydra, which do not have brains, periodically drop into a rest state that meets the essential criteria for sleep. (From 2021) quantamagazine.org/sleep-evolved-…

The black hole information loss paradox really shouldn't be called that way. The word "information" in this context doesn't mean what most people (even in physics) thinks it means. All it means is that the process seems to be fundamentally irreversible: You cannot infer the

ARTISTS, Twitter (X) IS going to use all our data to train their AI. Either GLAZE all of your work or stop posting here. I know we all love to post high res art here, but those days are over. You will be exploited, and your work WILL be used against you. techcrunch.com/2023/09/01/xs-…

How can we do transformative social policy and rapid decarbonization in a post-growth scenario? Don't we need growth to fund the transition? We have a new paper out in Ecological Economics that addresses this question. Free to read: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

90 years later, a German court has finally acknowledged the persecution that trans people faced under the Nazi regime smithsonianmag.com/history/new-re…

Sam Altman “To believe in progress is to believe that, by using the new powers given to us by growing scientific knowledge, humans can free themselves from the limits that frame the lives of other animals. This is the hope of nearly everybody nowadays, but it is groundless. For though

it’s called a shitpost, Gilles

New paper: "How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all?" Is it possible to realise this vision without exacerbating ecological breakdown? Yes! But it requires a totally different approach to the question of growth and development. 🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Source: nature.com/articles/s4158…

"Heisei-era Internet Anxiety" is maybe the best genre of film that exists.