@clive Thank you for this thread, I am going to follow all the links and buy the related books pre-load them for Double Anxiety Week next week.

More evidence -- this time with audio tapes from the original experiment -- showing that the Stanford Prison Experiment was rigged to encourage terrible behavior by the guardsIn Medium: https://gen.medium.com/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/K7gMNTalking about this with my son, I was struck by how many pieces of major science/theory/culture in the mid-20th-century insisted that they "proved" humanity was inherently, natively selfish -- but turned out to be much less true1/x

Check out the work of the anti-Trump PAC that is placing ads on porn sites warning that "Trump and Vance's Project 2025 will ban porn," adding "enjoy it while you can"Turns out doing political advertising on porn sites is not only pretty cheap, but you can target swing states easily and be assured of reaching a lot of young men who are, statistically, likely Trump votershttps://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5168877/2024-election-pac-trump-porn-sitesProject 2025 mentions banning porn on page 5 of the intro: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-porn-ban-lgbtq-transgender-rcna161562

Behold the work of Darya Kawa Mirza, a self-taught Kurdish photographer who produces astonishingly detailed pictures of the moon ...... by zooming in close on individual tiny craters, taking over 80,000 shots of those, then compositing them together into individual, incredibly detailed landscapesItem #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-26-cryptophasia-wigner-crystals-and-how/

Behold a custom-made 21-segment LED that uses a font design from 1898Item #14 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-25-the-third-thumb-prairie-strips-and/

This letter written by Charles Babbage in 1840 is fascinating ...... since it appears to be his earliest ever attempt to describe computational recursion in plain languageHe *had* to use plain language -- the very concepts he was struggling to enunciate didn't yet have namesAs Bruce Sterling puts it, this passage is “a breathless, painful description of the unique ability of software to operate on itself”Item #12 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-25-the-third-thumb-prairie-strips-and/

@clive I would normally check the Great 78 Project on the Internet Archive but, uhhhhhhhhh

"If you are a weatherperson, you’re a target. The same goes for journalists, election workers, scientists, doctors, and first responders. These jobs are different, but the thing they share is that they all must attend to and describe the world as it is. This makes them dangerous to people who cannot abide by the agonizing constraints of reality"Charlie Warzel on the flood of hurricane-related bullshit https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/PhRvu

"Hurricane Helene was NOT geoengineered by the government to seize and access lithium deposits in Chimney Rock."There are so many right-wing, pro-Trump conspiracy theories about this hurricane season that yesterday, Chuck Edwards -- a Republican congressman in North Carolina -- put up a page of debunkings: https://edwards.house.gov/media/press-releases/debunking-helene-response-mythsIt's pretty wildDisinfo experts predict that lies and conspiracy theories will worsen this season: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/november-election-hurricane-disinformation/680202/Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/7RJUj