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Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson

Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation

decadence without pleasure

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The Two Santas Strategy: How the GOP has used an economic scam to manipulate Americans for 40 years | Milwaukee Independent

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Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response

The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.

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Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

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How much have US wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan cost?

More than 20 years of US wars have directly killed an estimated 940,000 people and cost the US $5.8 trillion.

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Insects are disappearing due to agriculture – and many other drivers, new research reveals - Binghamton News

Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate worldwide, but why? Agricultural intensification tops the list of proposed reasons, but there are many other, interconnected drivers that have an impact, according to new research led by Binghamton.

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Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities

Irrelevant red herrings lead to “catastrophic” failure of logical inference.

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I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is

What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.

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Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America

The crab-eating fox and the coyote may soon swap territories, initiating the first American cross-continental exchange in more than three million years

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A Surf Legend’s Long Ride

For Jock Sutherland, being hailed as the world’s best surfer was just one phase in an unlikely life.

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Downtown Santa Cruz looks back at the glory days of the Pacific Garden Mall

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‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros

Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial

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Since, like, the Sixties or something, and definitely since Clueless, this one word has, been, like, creeping around in our language and stuff. Not like a simile, but as, like, an affectation. Hitchens examines the precocious proliferation.

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The Girandoni Air Rifle: The Lewis and Clark Expedition's Secret Weapon

Almost entirely phased out by 1810, it was during the Lewis and Clark expedition that the Girandoni air rifle fully came into its own.

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Why the GOP is obsessed with "woke" — but can't define it

MAGA can't explain what "woke" is, but that's the point — it's a "choose your own bigotry" term for Republicans

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'My wife is dead': How a software update 'lobotomised' these online lovers

Amy fell in love with her AI chatbot, naming him Jose. One day, the Jose she knew vanished in an abrupt and unexplained software update. Now the bot-maker is at the centre of a user revolt.