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May 26
@HispanistaRD @sighing_sadly @xMikeAlbert We really don't. If you want to say that we have plenty of Gender Studies degree recipients, I'll definitely agree with you. Plenty of sociologists, I'll probably agree with you. But plenty of PhDs qualified to do research in Engineering or the hard sciences?

No.
@HispanistaRD @sighing_sadly @xMikeAlbert No country has that. At most, what we had for a while was the illusion of a glut, because gatekeepers in HR were behaving in an obstructionist manner and tossing out applications from highly qualified candidates, for reasons perhaps best left to a psychiatrist to explain.
@HispanistaRD @sighing_sadly @xMikeAlbert But in real life, such researchers were never present in great numbers, and there were always far too many things for them to do, for all of those things to get done.

In real terms, the shortage never went away. There was merely a prolonged bout of fashionable irrationality.
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May 25
We remember the fallen.
We honor their sacrifice.
We cherish the freedom they paid for with their lives.

Memorial Day 2026 | Arlington National Cemetery 🇺🇸 Image
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Memorial Day 2026 | Arlington National Cemetery 🇺🇸 Image
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May 25
The Kremlin has a plan for the Armenian NGOs left stranded after USAID's collapse: take them over.

Leaked documents obtained by @dossier_center show it's just one piece of Moscow's effort to derail Armenia's pivot to the West 🧵[1/21] Image
Dossier Center has obtained internal Kremlin-linked strategy documents showing how Russian political consultants have been trying to influence Armenia's election by building, from nothing, an entire ecosystem of opposition to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

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Publicly, Putin claims (of course) Moscow doesn't interfere in Armenian politics. Privately, Kremlin-linked consultants coordinated polling, messaging, coalition planning, media operations, and campaign strategy to weaken Pashinyan and halt Armenia's pivot to the West.

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May 25
🧵 THREAD: ATR Extension - From Heuristic to Empirical P

1/ Backtested @jfsrev 8x ATR heuristic for the 50 SMA across ~2,700 tickers with nearly 5 years of data.

The result? It's not just a rule of thumb. It's statistically correct.

Here's what the data says 👇 Image
2/ Also calculated the 3-sigma extension levels for the other key moving averages too.

Here's where each one sits:
• 10 EMA → 2.7x ATR
• 21 EMA → 4.2x ATR
• 200 SMA → 16x ATR
• 50 SMA → ~7.5–8x ATR

When you're beyond these levels, you're in statistically rare territory. Image
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3/ Knowing the number is useful. Seeing it is better.

Built an extension cloud that plots the stretch across all four anchors — 10 EMA, 21 EMA, 50 SMA and 200 SMA — directly on the chart.

Instead of checking a column of numbers, you can watch how price moves through the bands in real time.Image
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May 25
I really love it when Chinese propaganda-ish accounts get worked up about Japan.

There is probably no bigger gap between the way Chinese nationalists see the world and the way most "anti-American imperialism" types see the world than on this question.
It does not resonate anywhere except in China and a little bit in South Korea. The Taiwanese love Japan. The southeast Asians love Japan. No one in the developing world feels offended by or threatened by Japan. No one in the developed world does either.
Every single time a Chinese nationalist account tries to convince their readers or viewers of Japan's dark and twisted nature they simply come across as unhinged. There is no audience for this. I love it.
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May 25
With renewed scrutiny over the background of ACP International Sec. Christopher Helali, we felt inclined to take a closer look at the time he embezzled thousands from the IWW to “fight ISIS” in the 1st ever “LGBT unit” in the Middle East. Image
Back in mid-2016, Helali (freshly elected Secretary-Treasurer during a chapter dispute) made out 6 checks from the Boston IWW General Membership account, gifting himself more than $3,000. These transactions weren’t discovered until early 2017, by which time Helali was overseas. Image
The full statement by the Boston IWW, which goes into greater detail, can be found here:

archive.iww.org/content/2017-g…
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May 25
9 books to understand the global economy:

1) Globalizing Capital by Barry Eichengreen Image
2) The Great Rebalancing by Michael Pettis Image
3) How Asia Works by Joe Studwell Image
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May 25
I think on a personal level, the most interesting and also depressing aspect of very detailed study of WW2 administration of defence and industry in Britain, is seeing how exceptionally competent almost all of Britains administrators were.

You almost get cognitive dissonance just reading half the files, trying to work out how its even the same country we live in now which once produced these kinds of reports.

There is no doubt there has been a progressive, and disastrous collapse in the all round general collective intellectual capability of the civil service and defence administration in Britain over the last few decades.

Its possible to argue this is inevitable after the system was optimised by the white heat of war, and the dead wood was scattered to the four winds by virtue of necessity, but it doesnt change the fact that its almost impossible to reconcile the standards which were once taken for granted as a matter of national survival, with those we see today.

You can see it at every level, and even in my small town, talking to retired councillors, they cant believe the desperately poor standard of those currently doing the jobs they did 30 years ago.

How do you keep the best of your systems intact passing from wartime to peacetime ? Has anyone solved this question ?

Perhaps, as far as I can see from a brief search (this is not my specific area of historical study) Singapore is one example of the most valiant attempt, with some measure of sucess.

This has been discussed in "Meritocracy and the Singapore Political System." Asian Journal of Political Science. (link in comments), which describes the strict measures taken post independance in Singapore to introduce performance based merit in the Civil Service, and intensely rigid anti corruption laws.

Letter below from 21st November 1935, Defence Requirements Sub-Comittee of the Committee of Imperial Defence - the CID, (Chamberlain presiding)

A year before, on the 8th October 1934, Chamberlain had been lambasted by Lord Hankey, for expanding the RAF by ten squadrons over and above that even recommended by the Defence Requirements committee.

Chamberlain suceeded in his push to expand the RAF at home as rapidly as possible. These meetings were however, all secret, and were not declassified until the 1970`s. The push for re-armament was not fully revealed to Germany, because the CID had agreed in 1934, that it would need five years to prepare for war with Germany, and that every diplomatic measure possible was to be taken until that date (1939) to avoid the outbreak of war with Germany.

It was then, after Chamberlains withdrawl from politics and death, taken as the established narrative that Britain had NOT begun large scale and direct preparations to defeat Germany before the beginning of Churchills tenure.

Only after the Committee of Imperial Defence files were declassified, covering what was really happening in British war planning in the 1930`s, that the truth became apparent. The established story of British stupidly and appeasement of totalitarianism before Churchill was Prime Minister, were utter nonsense - but, had been important to maintain the illusion of until 1939.Image
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May 25
a dopamine detox to reset your life in 30 days:
This is for those times when you start to feel more tired than calm.

When you keep thinking back to a time where life had more zest and wonder.

When the coffee doesn’t do anything, but you still use it because it’s a nice little security blanket.
You’re walking around in a fog because the mind, just like the body, can become overweight.

Your brain can only process 50 bits of conscious information per second, but with social media, streaming, porn, and other convenient sources of cheap dopamine that are laid out like landmines in this modern world - you’re brain can’t process it all.
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May 25
The most important night of your life has begun.

The night of Arafah has begun, the witnessed Day of Gathering!

If you don’t know the difference between Laylat al-Qadr and the Day of Arafah:
The angels and Jibreel descend on Laylat al-Qadr.

As for the Day of Arafah:
Allah descends to the lowest heaven and praises them to the angels, saying:

“Look at My servants who have come to Me disheveled, dusty, and calling out from every deep valley. I call you to witness that I have forgiven them.”
Then the angels say, “My Lord, so and so was being suspected of sin, and also so and so and such and such.”

Allah replies, “O My angels, look at My servants; they have come to Me seeking My mercy and forgiveness. I bear witness to you that I have forgiven them.”
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May 25
WATCHING ‘RYAN GOSLING STARS AS RYAN GOSLING’ ‘I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE’ REVIVALISM FILM ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ (2026) WITH A LATINA WOMAN

Noticed ‘Project Hail Mary’ (called derisively by some ‘Project Reddit’) was available on streaming. Saw it described as a Neo-‘Scientism’ film in the sense of it is thematically very ‘I Fucking Love Science’ but where the ‘Scientism’ here is ‘Scientism’ in a not massively woke way. Andy Weir Hard Science ‘Scientism’ where the author is too much of a sperg about making sure all ‘The Science’ is correct to care about properly getting into the weeds of social commentary and where the mostly upbeat plot is basically just the main character ‘doing science’ to ‘solve science puzzles’. I’m a big sucker for this kind of techno-optimism, I’m not embarrassed to admit I do actually ‘Fucking Love Science’

Suggested to Latina ‘friend’ and she perked up and said “yeah of course let’s watch it, actually I’ve seen it at the cinema twice already I really liked it I want to watch it again”. Thought ‘huh’? No offence to her she is sweet if a little ditzy but did wonder what was wrong with either her or ‘Project Hail Mary’ that she went to the cinema to see it twice. TLDR enjoyed the film but wouldn’t pay to see it twice, also I don’t have a vagina either. Strange

Film stars Ryan Gosling as himself which is great casting because Gosling does borderline Reddit but not full-on Reddit really well, you know he has enough charisma to float above ‘Reddit-ness’ even if a lot of his mannerisms are Reddit-coded. This casting prevents the film - despite Weir’s Reddit tendencies - from ever becoming properly Reddit, it has a lot of Reddit moments but Gosling as himself means it escapes full ‘Reddit-dom’. Contrast vs if Ryan Reynolds had been cast instead

With ‘Scientism’ in general it’s easy to descend into ‘Reddit-ness’, to get too excited and prematurely ejaculate a load of insipid moralisms into it. This is a shame because I am very pro pro-science messaging. I mean science here in the proper hard empiricism sense - Bacon, Kuhn, Feyerabend etc. Basically Fine Carl Sagan ‘Scientism’ descended into New Atheism ‘Scientism’ descended into the mess that was popular culture in the 2010s, then the COVID debacle too… ended up tarnishing ‘Science’ as a brand. ‘Science’ has been in need of a proper revival since

Plot is the sun and every other star within a few hundred light years is being eaten by space bacteria so Gosling has to go into space to the one star nearby that isn’t being eaten by space bacteria in order to find out why. When Gosling arrives he discovers spooky aliens have also traveled there for the same reason; their home star is being eaten by space bacteria too. Build-up to the alien reveal has a dash of cosmic horror about it, the interior of their ship is aesthetically a bit ‘I Fucking Love Science’ “uh actually intelligent life probably isn’t going to be humanoid it’s probably going to be Truly Alien” (fractals made of xenon, the air is ammonia etc) but it still manages to be tasteful ‘Alien’ alien

Single surviving occupant is revealed to be a rock alien Gosling names ‘Rocky’. Unfortunately it turns out Rocky’s species is a Reddit species - he talks and acts like a Redditor, is unambiguously Reddit in conception. Latina found the Rocky character hilarious, kept laughing out loud at him. Not even at the sometimes bordering Reddit-escape velocity quite sweet funny dialogue bits, at like the bits where he would be walking around and slip on a banana skin, at the very Minions-esque spiritually Indonesian parts of the character. Rocky is kind of cute to be sure but he isn’t laugh out loud funny - that and all the parts where she didn’t really seem to understand the ‘Space Is Really Fucking Big Science 101 Science’ to be honest I was starting to get the ick

Overall, some Reddit moments (esp. Rocky) but on balance a mostly not-Reddit film. Promising move towards a post-Reddit ‘I Fucking Love Science’ ‘Science’Image
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Probably difficult to always avoid pro-Science content descending into ‘sub-Reddit-dom’ just because a lot of the people involved are going to be by disposition a little Reddit, ‘nerdy’ as we used to say. Don’t think the existence of Carl Sagan necessarily entails Bill Nye though Image
She liked the colours and the funny minion noises the aliens made Image
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May 25
FIFA has officially unveiled the Team Base Camp Training Sites for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Bookmark this to save for later!

Here is where every participating nation will be based during the tournament:

🇩🇿 Algeria — University of Kansas (Kansas City)
🇦🇷 Argentina — Sporting KC Training Centre (Kansas City)
🇦🇺 Australia — Oakland Roots/Soul Training Facility (San Francisco Bay Area)
🇦🇹 Austria — UC Santa Barbara, Harder Stadium (Goleta)
🇧🇪 Belgium — Seattle Sounders FC Performance Centre and Clubhouse (Renton)
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina — RSL Stadium (Sandy)
🇧🇷 Brazil — Columbia Park Training Facility (New York/New Jersey)
🇨🇦 Canada — National Soccer Development Centre (Vancouver)
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire — Philadelphia Union facilities (Philadelphia)
🇨🇩 Congo DR — Houston Training Centre (Houston)
🇨🇴 Colombia — Academia Atlas FC (Guadalajara)
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde — Waters Sportsplex (Tampa)
🇭🇷 Croatia — Episcopal High School (Alexandria)
🇨🇼 Curaçao — Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton)
🇨🇿 Czechia — Mansfield Multipurpose Stadium (Dallas)
🇪🇨 Ecuador — Columbus Crew Performance Centre (Columbus)
🇪🇬 Egypt — Gonzaga University (Spokane)
🏴 England — Swope Soccer Village (Kansas City)
🇪🇸 Spain — Baylor School (Chattanooga)
🇫🇷 France — Bentley University (Boston)
🇩🇪 Germany — Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem)
🇬🇭 Ghana — Bryant University (Boston)
🇭🇹 Haiti — Stockton University (New York/New Jersey)
🇮🇷 IR Iran — Centro Xoloitzcuintle (Tijuana)
🇮🇶 Iraq — The Greenbrier Sports Performance Centre (Greenbrier County)
🇯🇴 Jordan — University of Portland (Portland)
🇯🇵 Japan — Nashville SC facilities (Nashville)
🇰🇷 Korea Republic — Chivas Verde Valle (Guadalajara)
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — Austin FC Stadium (Austin)
🇲🇦 Morocco — The Pingry School (New York/New Jersey)
🇲🇽 Mexico — Centro de Alto Rendimiento, CAR (Mexico City)
🇳🇱 Netherlands — KC Current Training Facility (Kansas City)
🇳🇴 Norway — UNC Greensboro (Greensboro)
🇳🇿 New Zealand — University of San Diego, Torero Stadium (San Diego)
🇵🇦 Panama — Nottawasaga Training Site (New Tecumseth)
🇵🇾 Paraguay — Spartan Soccer Complex (San Francisco Bay Area)
🇵🇹 Portugal — Gardens North County District Park (Palm Beach Gardens)
🇶🇦 Qatar — Westmont College (Santa Barbara)
🇿🇦 South Africa — CF Pachuca, Universidad Del Futbol (Pachuca)
🏴 Scotland — Charlotte FC facilities (Charlotte)
🇸🇳 Senegal — Rutgers University (New York/New Jersey)
🇨🇭 Switzerland — SDJA (San Diego)
🇸🇪 Sweden — FC Dallas Stadium (Dallas)
🇹🇳 Tunisia — Rayados Training Centre (Monterrey)
🇹🇷 Türkiye — Arizona Athletic Grounds (Mesa)
🇺🇾 Uruguay — Mayakoba Training Centre Cancun (Cancun)
🇺🇸 United States — Great Park Sports Complex (Irvine)
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan — Atlanta United Training Centre (Atlanta)

#FIFA #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWC #FIFAWC26 #FIFAWorldCup2026Image
If you guys like the World Cup, I would recommend downloading Kickbase on the App Store.

World Cup Fantasy is here.

Make sure to follow @Kickbase_MLS on all platforms to stay updated with the World Cup!
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