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I guess my strategy of not having social media, not commenting, and getting offline to read books is a pretty extreme form of critical ignoring. Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental…

The world Lynch depicts is one where something has gone profoundly wrong. It’s not an optimistic, progressive sensibility. Some of Lynch’s anxieties are ones liberals share: a distrust of petty tyrants, dread at the awful reality of the atomic bomb, a horror at the costs of sexual violence and degradation. But where liberals look for…

If it holds up, the antiquity of Luca seems to overturn some earlier arguments for why the universe is largely lifeless. “These have been based on the evidence that it took about a billion years for life to emerge on Earth, meaning that these early steps were hard and/or unlikely,” says Donoghue. But a 4.2bn-year-old…

la conviction de John Stuart Mill, rappelée en 1919 par Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, est mise à mal par le développement des plateformes. Lorsque des informations non vérifiées ou délibérément fausses sur le Covid ou l’assaut du Capitole se répandent massivement, le « marché des idées » reste-t-il vertueux ? Une question essentielle se pose : où se situe…

transformer les objets et les occurrences les plus banales en hiéroglyphes qui composent un autre texte que celui qu’offre la réalité. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/article/2020/07/28/twin-peaks-le-livre-des-morts-de-david-lynch_6047523_3451060.html

The great American film-maker died this week, leaving behind a body of work unmatched in its seductive strangeness and transcendent mystery. We put it in order — Read on www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/17/david-lynch-films-and-tv-shows-ranked

Lynch saw that if the US dreamed of safety and prosperity and the suburban drive and the picket fence, it also dreamed of the opposite: of escape, danger, adventure, sex and death. And the two collided and opened up chasms and sinkholes in the lost highway to happiness. Lynch was a film-maker who found portals…

Lynch appreciated robins and worms equally, as few others have before. — Read on www.avclub.com/david-lynch-death-earnestness-blinding-light-love

“Well,” Lynch said, “imagine if you did find a book of riddles, and you could start unraveling them, but they were really complicated. Mysteries would become apparent and thrill you. We all find this book of riddles and it’s just what’s going on. And you can figure them out. The problem is, you figure them…

We’re running through generations of cultural learning within each cycle. Like selective breeding of the mind We, as intentional creators, can force AIs to learn our 50k years of intellectual development in a fraction of the time. Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1…