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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 8h

Read good books constantly. Make your own book diary.

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Reading Great Books is an excellent investment — COSPOLON

We highly recommend these books. We think you will enjoy them. This is far from a complete list. Visit often for more books that will broaden your mind, inform your decisions and enhance your life.

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 8h

Handwriting was a thing.

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800 Years of English Handwriting - Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 8h

In 2018, the Supreme Court repealed a 26-year federal ban on sports betting. This ruling unleashed the biggest gambling boom in America’s 249-year history. How did that happen?

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How Did Sports Betting Become Legal in the US?

In 2018, the Supreme Court repealed a 26-year federal ban on sports betting. This ruling unleashed the biggest gambling boom in America’s 249-year history. How did that happen?

www.dopaminemarkets.com

Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 9h

Soviet and neoliberal false utopianism

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Neoliberalism: A Soviet nightmare

There is an old Soviet joke, ‘Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is its exact opposite.’ On the surface, neoliberalism, with its emphasis on free markets, competition and privatis...

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 9h

Late Soviet Britain

Abby Innes goes in-depth into how neoliberalism has 'Sovietized' Britain, and the field of economics itself.

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How neoliberalism broke economics | Dr Abby Innes

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 9h

We should care more about living soil.
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Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab—and that’s been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, yet as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines run dry, the soil

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Hundreds of new bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, found in soil - News

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab—and that’s been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, yet as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines r...

www.rockefeller.edu

Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 9h

More sun might improve your heart and immune system. Just don’t get sunburnt

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The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer

More sun might improve your heart and immune system. Just don’t get sunburnt

www.economist.com

Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 9h

As a crude first approximation, one can think of human society as the interaction between entities at four different scales:

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Terence Tao (@[email protected])

Some loosely organized thoughts on the current Zeitgeist. They were inspired by the response to my recent meta-project mentioned in my previous post https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115254145226514817, wh...

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes the people who need invitations most are the ones who always decline them.

I’ll never forget what he told me: “I know she’s always going to say no, but that’s not the point. I invite her out so she’ll always feel included in the group.”

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Always invite Anna

Sometimes the people who need invitations most are the ones who always decline them.

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 10h

More Mega Engineering—another accelerant of collapse

Thermal expansion and melting glaciers endanger some of the world’s largest urban centers

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Faster sea level rise threatens China’s coastal megacities | Climate & Capitalism

Thermal expansion and melting glaciers endanger some of the world’s largest urban centers…

climateandcapitalism.com

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 10h

It's about time!

www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/29/f...

France in Crisis: an Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise

In the nine years since its founding in 2016, La France Insoumise (LFI) has become the leading left formation in France, with its current parliamentary representation at 71, ahead of the traditional p...

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 10h

A new cycle of Woo. People need to think they absolutely know a thing and if they know they can't they need a god of the gaps.

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Woo Woo Returns: 60 Minutes and the Revival of Television Gullibility

“There’s no way,” gasped NFL star Russell Wilson as mentalist Oz Pearlman seemingly plucked an ATM pin code from his mind on 60 Minutes. The venerable news program, known for hard-hitting journalism,...

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 10h

The so-called “green transition” has triggered a mining boom all over the world which is leaving conflict, environmental devastation and political instability in its wake.

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Material Dependencies | Nina Djukanović

The so-called “green transition” has triggered a mining boom all over the world which is leaving conflict, environmental devastation and political instability in its wake.

www.planetcritical.com

Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 10h

The UAE’s money, Western weapons, and the world’s indifference fuelled a genocide in Sudan.

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Sudan Burns whilst the World Watches

The UAE’s money, Western weapons, and the world’s indifference fuelled a genocide in Sudan.

open.substack.com

Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 10h

All of history has been a struggle between private interest and collective power. Even in the hope brought about by the Enlightenment and the ideas around the sanctity of the individual, we find the origins of corporate greed and economic strife.
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How neoliberalism created a bureaucratic monster | David Healy

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 13h

So the object of the game, to them, was to acquire enough money and technology to outrun the impacts of their own businesses and technologies. then the thing to do is create a fortified island paradise that doesn’t depend on a functioning democracy back at home.

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The Intentional Collapse

The elite are committed to the end of the world, but we don’t have to be.

rushkoff.medium.com

Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 13h

Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan?

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Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 23h

Good gosh, more social pathologies stemming from tech. We didn't see it coming? This is nuts.
Yet another unregulated mental health experiment.
People are developing antisocial and obsessive behavior after using AI — some have even taken their own lives.

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We Investigated Al Psychosis. What We Found Will Shock You

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Buliamti @buliamti.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, no, what really happened? We should have expected this.

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