From the "Brownstone Institute"
brownstone.org/articles/the-loโฆ
Suggesting modern medicine has gotten way to complicated and fails to address the needs of the patient. Goes back to Maimonides for emphasizing health and prevention to avoid the need to treat diseases.
Lots of good stuff here.
Medicine is not failing for lack of knowledge. It is failing under weight of complexity. Nearly every aspect of patient care can be measured.Joseph Varon (Brownstone Institute)
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Timothy Snyder:
โWe are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.โ
how find actually good books, hmm (non-fiction)
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hmm, this is hard to answer... cuz a fiction book is good when it's fun to read... which is a criteria everyone can recommend smth on probably
But a non-fiction book imo, is read to learn smth... and there it rly depends on what you want to learn. Furthermore, while there can be better or worse books about a given topic, if you are seriously trying to learn smth, you will probably need to look into a lot of different books. Not all subtopics will be treated with the same rigorosity in each book. Some explainations of a given subtopic might be confusing to you. Etc... In these cases you'd need to look up the same subtopic in another book
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the problem is that all popular nonfiction books that arent basically just scientific papers are pretty much selfhelp slop now
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how find actually good books that arent selfhelpslop hmm
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From the "Manhattan Contrarian"
manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2โฆ
Asks the question is the economy in China growing or shrinking? It depends on how you measure it (and the quality of the data...).
Back in May 2024, I had a post titled โSo How Are Things Going In China?โ The post was inspired by a New York Times article of April 15 of that year that had reported that Chinaโs economy had grown โmore than expectedโ in the first three monthsโฆFrancis Menton (Manhattan Contrarian)
WHAT A DISGRACE.
Not a single mention of Israel in the UK Government's "independent" review into foreign interference in British democracy. No surprise given that the minister in charge has taken undeclared links to a pro-Israel lobbying group.
Nazis on the rise again, but instead of Hitler we get Netanyahu.
Israel needs to receive the same treatment as Nazi Germany to protect everyone else. Who is Israel going to bomb next with this inbred orange cunt in charge of my shithole country bending over for Israel's insatiable genocidal lust?
Some local stories
coloradosun.com/2026/04/05/colโฆ
Child care assistance in CO facing a funding freeze with about 14K kids waiting to get in.
coloradosun.com/2026/04/05/oilโฆ
Carman opinion piece claiming Trump funders are getting huge profits.
coloradosun.com/2026/04/05/tinโฆ
Littwin opinion piece wants CO Governor Polis to not pardon Tina Peters etc. And bash Trump.
coloradosun.com/2026/04/05/titโฆ
Nicolais opinion piece describing the Colorado Title Board - affecting voter initiatives.
The April Title Board is the stateโs oft-overlooked clearinghouse for citizen initiatives. Coloradans should pay attentionMario Nicolais (The Colorado Sun)
A supermajority of people in the US support trans folks' civil rights.
"In a new survey of over 1,000 respondents, 85% of Americans believe that 'transgender people should have the same rights and protection as everyone else.' The sentiment was agreed upon by 92% of Democrats, 76% of Republicans and 87% of independents. The survey was conducted by research firm SSRS and funded by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation."
them.us/story/transgender-righโฆ
The research suggests that right-wing attacks on trans protections are not aligned with the countryโs values.Mathew Rodriguez (Them)
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@hfaust >the one gentoo user still running a modern linux distro on an early 90s PC
It's over
Cartoons for today
creators.com/read/tom-stiglichโฆ
Tom Stiglich with Trump's "Easter message" to Iran. Glory be to GOD!
racketcartoons.substack.com/p/โฆ
Daniel Medina has "Happy Easter" (a MAGA couple praying for more dead in Iran and rapture)
SO THEY'RE JUST GONNA MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY TO SURVIVE I GUESS. ARGENTINA SHOULD BE BOMBED. A confidential report from the Argentina Secretariat of Strategic Coordination & Assistance in Emergencies has been leaked to the press outlining a plan toโฆDarknessToLight.111 (Bitchute)
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MAGA Don doesn't speak
No new items on the White House web site.
Several tweets on X about the speech tomorrow, the pilot's rescue from Iran, Easter, looking at Earth from space, and other topics. No mention of the 48 hour deadline on Truth Social.
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Itโs fascinating to me to learn that most of the far side of the #moon to date has been so poorly photographed, if at all.
So itโs also fascinating to me that #Artemis2 was launched during a full moon, where most of the far side would still be shrouded in darkness.
I know the mission had been delayed multiple times, but I wish theyโd launch during a new moon, so we get some well-lit images of the other side.
@bitsavers Youโre right! โOver the course of one year, the Lunar Orbiters photographed 99 percent of the Moonโs surface, producing more than 2,000 images of unprecedented clarity and precision.โ
metmuseum.org/art/collection/sโฆ
I think my confusion was that the far side is seldom seen by *human* eyes.
โNasa said its image marked "the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes". Even Apollo astronauts didn't see the Orientale basin completely because of their orbit and illumination conditions.
Nasa is emphasising the significance of human eyes rather than robotic explorers.โ
bbc.com/news/articles/clye6j0gโฆ
The story behind the beautiful pictures beamed back to Earth from the Artemis II astronauts.Georgina Rannard (BBC News)
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You do know when the fuel runs out we won't even have green power
Hugz & xXx
The fuel won't "run out". Production has been reduced, which means that at some point consumption will need to be reduced - but it won't be eliminated.
It'll be annoying, and a brake on economic activity, but it won't be an existential threat on a civilisation level.
(It also doesn't _have_ to be a brake on economic activity, but capitalism will capitalism)
Itโs official: The Federal Government is bankrupt.According to Treasury, $6 trillion in assets, $48 trillion in debt, and another $88 trillion in off-balance sheet debt.And it grew $12.5 trillion last year. pic.twitter.Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (X (formerly Twitter))
Morning Star Maid
x.com/uenrura/status/204092707โฆ
#GoodMornibgStar ๐ซใ ใใใใชใใใใพใ๐ข pic.twitter.com/eXXmLAcSQfโ ่ฟ้ ใใ (@uenrura) April 5, 2026่ฟ้ ใใ (X (formerly Twitter))
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Capitalists: "We really oughta run the whole country like a business!"
*hides workplace fatalities and financial losses*
*hires cronies and mouth-breathing halfwits*
*embezzles and funnels funds to themselves*
*diminishes product safety and value for profit*
*mysterious fires in facilities leads to insurance money*
*quietly moves overseas where there isn't an extradition treaty*
Capitalists: "We've suggested all of this for years!"
*everyone looks at the capitalists and picks up a brick*
Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outageโฆthere is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And Iโm not sure how, and Iโm not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind ofโฆsomething, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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Please read all of this powerful thread. "Weโre it. Weโre all weโve got. If we donโt stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it."
Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outageโฆthere is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.And Iโm not sure how, and Iโm not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind ofโฆsomething, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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AI data centers are popping up like dandelions. Great Lakes Compact leaders need to crack out the weed b gone.
chicagobusiness.com/forum/ccb-โฆ
#DataCenters #Hyperscale #Water #Energy #GreatLakes
Hyperscale data centers have water policy experts, residents adjacent to proposed sites and environmentalists concerned about massive water usage and extreme energy consumption in the Great Lakes region.Steve Hendershot (Crain's Chicago Business)
Trump said that they are going to bring Iran back to the stone age...
During an address from the White House Wednesday night, President Donald Trump said the US is on track to complete all of its military objectives in Iran and...CNN (YouTube)
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IWW: Racist Hate Not Welcome Here!
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่ชไฝใฌใผใถใผๅฐๆใทในใใ ใฎๅ่ทฏ้จใ็ดนไปใใพใใไปๅใฎๅ็ปใงใฏใใทในใใ ใฎไธญใงใ้่ฆใชใฌใผใถใผใฆใใใใฎๅ่ทฏ้จใใฏใญใผใบใขใใใใฆ็ดนไปใใฆใใพใใใฉใฎใใใชๆงๆใงๅใใใฆใใใฎใใใฉใใชๅทฅๅคซใๅ ฅใใฆใใใฎใใ่ฆใฆใใใใๅ ๅฎนใงใใใใฎใฌใผใถใผๅฐๆใทในใใ ใฎใใญใฐใฉใ ใฏ GitHub ใงๅ ฌ้ใใฆใใพใใ่ๅณใฎใใๆนใฏ...JSK-Studio (YouTube)
Breaking down the epic rescue mission in Iran and what was essentially the first ground battle between Iran and America in Operation Epic Fury that resulted ...The David Chapman Show (YouTube)
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Perhaps the orange man is the one prophesied to bring balance to the farce!
Taking to the internet to threaten the bombing of civilian infrastructure so that they will be โLiving in Hellโ on Easter morning isโฆ
Well itโs about as offense as topless troons on the white house lawn to โCelebrateโ Easter.
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And now youtube blocks me bc I might be a bot.
Know what? Fuck you.
Every POLITICIAN in America, past and present, should be very ashamed about their part in the health care system of America.
How can we spend over a billion a day in a war and not provide basic health care for our people? We can't afford it?
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NASA Starting To Think Stocking Ship With Chipotle Might Have Been A Mistake - Babylon Bee
babylonbee.com/news/nasa-startโฆ
HOUSTON, TX โ With the toilet about Artemis II breaking for the second time, NASA began to wonder if stocking the shuttle with Chipotle may have been a mistake.
With the crew being forced to resort to "collapsible contingency urinals", NASA Director Jared Isaacman could not help thinking that Chipotle was a poor choice.
"We may have screwed the pooch on this one," sighed Isaacman. "The meal all being wrapped into one aluminum container, it just sucked us in. We probably should have known better. I mean, it is Chipotle. I may have been drunk when I made that call."
At publishing time, NASA had announced a great new partnership with Immodium.
In order to flash new firmware onto a PineTime, you can use the GadgetBridge Android app.
Gadgetbridge be like: in order to findyour device, Gadgetbridge needs to conduct an anal probe. Allow anal probe? [yes/no]
๐จ BREAKING: The now-rescued F-15 WSO evaded Iranian forces by hiking away from the wreckage, hiding on a ridge, and putting out an emergency beacon, and using SERE training to survive, per FoxDespite an intense firefight, NO AMERICANS were kiIIed in โฆNick Sortor (X (formerly Twitter))
A little perspective: The cost of rescuing that airman in Iran (lost aircraft and all) was a fraction of the cost of Somali fraud in Minnesota.โ Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 5, 2026Margot Cleveland (X (formerly Twitter))
@Hoss
>OPEN IT NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
x.com/centcom/status/204083394โฆ
TAMPA, Fla. โ On April 4, U.S. forces successfully completed the rescues of two American service members from Iran after their F-15E fighter jet was shot down April 2 during a combat mission.
The service members were safely recovered during separate search and rescue missions.
U.S. strikes into Iran continue as U.S. Central Command forces dismantle the Iranian regimeโs ability to project power beyond its borders.
t.co/Rq3EMMJylmโ U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) April 5, 2026U.S. Central Command (X (formerly Twitter))
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Antonio Banderas FULMINA a Sรกnchez: "Una cosa es cambiar de opiniรณn y otraโฆ"
youtube.com/watch?v=64UIE6HAoMโฆ
El actor Antonio Banderas ha dejado uno de los momentos mรกs comentados de la temporada televisiva tras su paso por El Hormiguero, donde no ha dudado en lanz...Pรญldora Polรญtica (YouTube)
Gen. Frank McKenzie (ret.): "If you're at Central Command, you've got to be reasonably satisfied with where you are right now.Rapid Response 47 (X (formerly Twitter))
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Nissan Leaf owners lose ability to remotely command their car because Nissan doesn't want to run a service anymore. This isn't how the Internet was supposed to work.
โShockingly Badโ: Nissan Leaf Drivers Voice Anger Over App Shutdown -- article related to The Main Page and News.soylentnews.org
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In the past 48 hours, the U.S. lost:
1x F-15E
1x A-10 Warthog
4x MH-6 Little Bird
2x UH-60 Black Hawk
2x C-130 Hercules
4x MQ-9 Reapers
These are only the losses admitted by U.S. sources (ABC, NBC & NYT)
> Dynamic webapps didnโt become the standard because developers said โhey, this is great!โ
I don't necessarily draw a causality here, but I did exist within the event horizon of one of those companies at the time. Yes, developers totally did. Especially when you said the magic word AJAX, which, for a while, was the holy grail to solve every problem in computing.
You're right that every company wanting to carve out their own walled garden was a major contributing factor. But it would never have worked if people weren't dazzled by "responsive design" and dynamic *everything*.
Unfortunately, computer users are gnats when it comes to deciding between the shiny thing and the productive thing.
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