CarlBLatro 3 months ago

"This isn’t just about bad civics education or Fox News melting brains like microwaved Velveeta. It’s about early childhood trauma. Specifically: Authoritarian child abuse—and the way it wires people’s brains, early and permanently, to seek out charismatic narcissistic abusers like heat-seeking missiles launched from the tiny neglected hearts of their own bruised inner children."

Are Americans Just Stupid...

Or is it something else?

CarlBLatro 3 months ago

"In Sacramento, electricity costs under 17 cents per kWh. Down in San Diego, it costs over 45 cents. Same state. Same grid. Same sunshine. The difference is ownership structure. "

Substack

Howard Yu (@howardyu)

In Sacramento, electricity costs under 17 cents per kWh. Down in San Diego, it costs over 45 cents. Same state. Same grid. Same sunshine. The d...

CarlBLatro 3 months ago

Suddenly, it all makes sense...

The Conversation

Policy by trial and error: how Silicon Valley culture has infiltrated governments

Policies that look chaotic actually reflect a deeper shift in how governments exercise power. The consequences can be dire.

CarlBLatro 4 months ago

"When she wasn’t looking over my shoulder, I was searching for different things."

Gray Matter

My first PubMed search and the limitations of neuroscientific explanations

In the case of something as wonderfully complex as who we love, it’s unlikely we’ll find it staring back at us on an MRI, a genome sequence, or...

CarlBLatro 4 months ago

The world is slowly rebalancing...

Bluesky Social

Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas.bsky.social)

The EU and Ghana have a strong, long-standing partnership. By signing a new Security and Defence Partnership we are taking it further. This is the...

Also...

Bluesky Social

The Conversation AUNZ (@aunz.theconversation.com)

Australia has long had an awkward relationship with the European Union. But after years of often fraught negotiations, the two have finally come to...

CarlBLatro 4 months ago

"When he pointed out that 80 million households now owned DVD players and nobody wanted VHS tapes anymore, headquarters had a phrase ready: 'The customer is format agnostic.' "

Substack

Howard Yu (@howardyu)

The most profitable Blockbuster franchisee in America spent years sending detailed memos to the CEO showing the stores were failing. When he prese...

CarlBLatro 4 months ago

How to make toys and houses and diapers and such...

CarlBLatro 4 months ago

That time when NZ said no to a US destroyer... https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19850206.2.44

CarlBLatro 4 months ago

'Western' air defenses in the Middle East seem pretty crap.

7NEWS

Australians caught up in the war as Iranian drones strike base

The Middle Eastern base currently serves as the headquarters of the Australian Defence Force’s Joint Task Force 633 and supports Australian opera...

CarlBLatro 4 months ago

This is old now, from last Christmas Eve, but well worth a read.

The One Chart That Explains Everything

And the seven books that make sense of America's AI Anxiety and China's AI Optimism

CarlBLatro 6 months ago

Population collapse averted!

The Onion

Trump Issues Executive Order Reversing All Vasectomies

WASHINGTON—Telling reporters that the move would do much to combat low U.S. fertility rates, President Donald Trump issued an executive order Fri...

CarlBLatro 7 months ago

Truth Social bets its future on Green Energy! #TruthSocial #SocialMedia #Trump

CarlBLatro 7 months ago

OK. Narrowed the number of clients I'll be playing with down to three. (Meaning web clients.) From a list of eight or so. All of the three are showing reasonably new posts, which is something you can't say about a lot of the nostr clients! Pretty pleased with the progress made from a year or so ago.

CarlBLatro 7 months ago

CarlBLatro 7 months ago

CarlBLatro 7 months ago

Post test 1... (Ignore this - just trying different clients...

CarlBLatro 7 months ago

Post test 1... (Ignore this - just trying different clients...

CarlBLatro 7 months ago

CarlBLatro 7 months ago

Trying nostr again...

CarlBLatro 1 year ago

Can't like posts or reply to them, but like with messages, it may just take a while before they become active. (Weird. I thought I'd posted this yesterday, but it seems not. Let's try again ... OK: "Failed to publish Note." Sigh. )