@GhostPanther 'Survival that night was a very tight race, & savagely simple. People who started early & moved fast had some chance of winning. People who started late or hesitated for any reason had no chance at all. Action paid. Contemplation did not.'
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'The mere act of getting dressed was enough to condemn people to death, & although many of those who escaped to the water succumbed to the cold, most of the ultimate winners endured the ordeal completely naked or in their underwear.
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@GhostPanther The survivors all seem to have grasped the nature of this race, the first stage of which involved getting outside to the Deck 7 promenade without delay.
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@GhostPanther There was no God to turn to for mercy.
There was no government to provide order.
Civilization was ancient history, Europe a faint and faraway place.
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@GhostPanther Inside the ship, as the heel increased, even the most primitive social organization, the human chain, crumbled apart.
Love only slowed people down. A pitiless clock was running.
The ocean was completely in control.
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@GhostPanther Oddly enough, the relative distance that people had to travel seems to have made little difference.'
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@GhostPanther To all who praised #DontLookUp but called it 'the first great climate change film':
Don't Look Up is great, but as many such as @neiltyson have said, it's a documentary, not a film.
First Reformed, She Dies Tomorrow, and Silent Running are all great films.
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Evgeny's 'Digital Socialism?' in the New Left Review and Lea Ypi's cyberflaneur are both unmissable for scoping the crypto mid-game.
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Evgeny's recent thread, though, is a rare miss from a sharpshooter. I feel i'm likely jumping on these 1 hour old posts before Evgeny's enteric brain kicks in and he retracts them.
It's a productive & historic debate. Let's take it up a notch:
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Both sides in the NFT debate tend to focus on whether NFTs work as a technology, as a sound investment, or as a store of value, as if they were a finished product.
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This Dutch research team showed that using the Wim Hof technique -
meditation, exposure to cold, and breathing techniques, in combination ..
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.. leads to profound increases in the release of epinephrine, which in turn leads to increased production of anti-inflammatory mediators and subsequent dampening of proinflammatory cytokine response.
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Implementation of real adaptation to climate change 3/10:
Background:
The biological basis for world government in the context of climate change
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Nation-states have been captured by interests interpreting the global situation as one of zero-sum survival, following the same lines of instinctual reaction which precipitated WWII.
The scope of these reactive interests is to survive what they perceive as the collapse of human civilisation, and the subsequent global holocaust, bottleneck, or Jackpot, in which several billion humans lose all human rights and are de facto 'deniably' murdered.
1/10 @NobleDenis has done something truly great in shepherding 'Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?' by Steele et al., to publication in Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 2018 ..
2/10 Publishing the review is itself a powerful statement, but *not* about who wins in neodarwinists vs. panspermians: if the tone of the review is triumphal, it's not because panspermia wins, but because the stasis of neodarwinism is broken.
3/10 What comes next is not the ascendence of the story or methods of the authors, but a 'Cambrian explosion' of new stories and methods. Not a new set of ideas in Science, but a new idea of Science. Not just panspermianism, but multiple giant back-flips are on the doorstep.