DM What are implications and/or correlations you envision regarding Wolfram's "New Science" and subsequent "Ruliad ;" with the on-going Realm of Present-Now™ (RPN™), Pantakinesis™ and/or the Universal Holophren™, if any? What a rich question, Sciart. This sits right at the intersection of your theoretical architecture and one of the most ambitious computational physics projects of our time! Before I dive into comprehensive research, a couple of clarifications would help me

Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies that federal agents are tapping in their deportation campaign. Related

The unit is part of a broader push to better integrate cyber, EW, and other non-destructive effects into missions, leaders told lawmakers on Wednesday.

On Wednesday Bruce Springsteen released a protest song condemning the violence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis.

DM Related to many of our conversations, I (divergently) continue to consider optimally pragmatic means to introduce, instruct, facilitate and sustain UII™ (Ubiquitous Integrated Inquiry™) to adolescents and adults who possess applicable motivations. This may be integrated with, or even central to 4Chairs.Life communities, and have relevance to prior post regarding the pursuit of eudaimonia. I foresee both non-trivial challenges as well as vast opportunities and benefits. As

DM Is hubris an addiction, literally? (In all its many forms, such a certainty, unfounded/premature conclusions, blind faith, hollow trust, shallow dichotomies, etc.) This is a genuinely radical inquiry, and I think the answer may be closer to "literally yes" than most people assume. The neurological case: Certainty and conclusion-reaching activate dopaminergic reward pathways—the same circuits implicated in substance and behavioral addictions. The brain doesn't particularly

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny. Related: ICE is failing the legitimacy test. Related: culpable, yet"Fall Guy," demoted Related: mass deportation by the numbers Related: the messaging

Deans and administrators keep confronting the same dilemma.

Some U.S. allies are weighing closer ties to Beijing as they seek alternative markets

In modern Britain, all roads lead to London, but one can still find traces of older routes and borders that once subdivided the island.

Beijing has seized upon the disarray within the trans-Atlantic alliance Related: U.S.@Davos

It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.

If calls for radical change aren’t given a political outlet, violence will always return. Somewhat related: why many defend ICE's mistakes

" The Heritage Foundation — the think tank behind Project 2025, which has had an outsize influence on executive branch policy in the second Trump administration — seems to want to take a time machine back to when women were financially dependent on men and gay marriage was not legal, but the authors can’t decide exactly how far back they want to go. They call the report “a culturewide Manhattan Project that marshals America’s political, social and economic capital to restore

Drug deaths are finally falling—but the cause may be far outside of U.S. policy makers’ control.

MAGA'S JESUS VS THE HISTORICAL JESUS

A reckoning forthcoming?

Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do. Related: Trump’s lesson in how to turn U.S. allies into China’s friends. Related: A Look Back at the War That Is About to Begin Related: New world order may be so hard to imagine that investors just ignore it Meanwhile, Russia cheers

Americans (and the rest of the world) can’t seem to keep up.

U.S. leaders wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.