"A short interaction with a chatbot can meaningfully shift a voter’s opinion about a presidential candidate or proposed policy in either direction, new Cornell research finds." https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ai-chatbots-can-effectively-sway-voters-either-direction
The WH is obviously correct here, and all Western media and politicians can do is the usual name-calling instead of doing even the bare minimum of fact checking. Spain is an extraordinary example in itself. But it isn't only Europe. Japan and Australia/NZ are also being targeted. https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-05/trump-tells-europe-it-is-facing-civilizational-erasure.html
Infrastructure disappear, buildings disappear, even memories disappear. In one hundred years many of our developments and new towns will have faded away for ever as even the last digital records of them ever existing quietly dies on some hard drive in an attic.
You like astrophysics? Thank an English Dominican Friar. https://theconversation.com/how-a-medieval-oxford-friar-used-light-and-colour-to-find-out-what-stars-and-planets-are-made-of-262652
"We have discovered the only insect native to Antarctica!" "We regret to inform you that it is getting sick from eating micro-plastics." https://news.mgcafe.uky.edu/article/university-kentucky-finds-antarcticas-toughest-insect-already-eating-microplastics
At @StrongTowns, @Edward_Erfurt writes about zoning as a homage to Léon Krier. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025-12-09-zoning-and-the-erosion-of-civic-life-notes-inspired-by-leon-krier
"The study estimates that 2,406 buildings in Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai are already at high risk of structural damage. If current subsidence trends continue, over 23,000 buildings could face a very high risk within the next 50 years." https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/09/science-sinking-Indian-megacities.html
They think we can have order without hierarchy. They believe we can have progress without vision. They believe in education without learning, in health care with neither health nor care. They believe we can have safety with vigilance and law without justice. They ask for freedom without accepting obligations. Yet they will receive the opposite of everything they ask for. Theirs are the ruins, and all we can do is to remain standing.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want more children and more families you give young men a higher income.
RT @michael_diamant@twitter.com:
🇹🇷 THEY ARE ALSO TIRED OF MODERNISM: A beautiful thing with internet is how ideas spread like wildfire. In architecture people have realized all over the globe that they are not alone in disliking modernism and yearn for a beautiful and meaningful built environment.🧵
🇹🇷 THEY ARE ALSO TIRED OF MODERNISM: A beautiful thing with internet is how ideas spread like wildfire. In architecture people have realized all over the globe that they are not alone in disliking modernism and yearn for a beautiful and meaningful built environment.🧵
The ongoing Cultural Revolution in the West: "The data paints a troubling picture of U.S. adults stretched thin between societal division and personal disconnection." https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2025/11/nation-suffering-division-loneliness
Article from 2021 but the situation in America is getting worse year by year. Rising estrangement in families and among relatives is probably a key factor in the explosive rise in homelessness. https://theconversation.com/family-rifts-affect-millions-of-americans-research-shows-possible-paths-from-estrangement-toward-reconciliation-165781
Finally some nice words for neolithic farmers: “Where there was once mainly forest, there were now smaller patches of forest...A farmed Europe had a wider range of habitats for plants to live in than an unfarmed Europe.” https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/research/farmers-boosted-europes-biodiversity/
I will never understand the obsession with 'gun deaths'.
The 20 years after the gun buyback had more deaths in Australia (in total and per capita) from 'mass casualty events' than the 20 years preceeding port Arthur. It's true that before the gun buyback, they were mostly (but not exclusively) perpetrated with firearms, and after the buyback they rarely (though not 'never', as the cathedral often claims) were committed with firearms. But why does anyone care how mass violence is committed?
Without guns to defend themselves, more people died
Yes, but they didn't die from guns, so it's cool.
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