Frank Witte
@alarcos.bsky.social
Prof. UCL Econ. Computational Economist & ex-Theoretical Physicist, Alpine Glacier hiker, born: 30 Messidor CLXXIV.
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Frank Witte
@alarcos.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Fauré : Automne Op.18 n°3
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A rainy October 19th, 1812.
From a burnt and looted Moscow, an emaciated army of some 100,000+ soldiers from over a dozen nations, losing every day a hundred men or more to Cossack raids, began its retreat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMz...
From a burnt and looted Moscow, an emaciated army of some 100,000+ soldiers from over a dozen nations, losing every day a hundred men or more to Cossack raids, began its retreat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMz...
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The far-right fetishization of cruelty at work here. 👇 Keep these people as far away from power as possible!
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The far-right fetishization of cruelty at work here. 👇 Keep these people as far away from power as possible!
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❗️The 🇺🇸Pentagon has ceased all communication with the 🇩🇪German Ministry of Defense, including discussions related to 🇺🇦Ukraine — The Atlantic, citing German General Christian Freyding.
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
❗️The 🇺🇸Pentagon has ceased all communication with the 🇩🇪German Ministry of Defense, including discussions related to 🇺🇦Ukraine — The Atlantic, citing German General Christian Freyding.
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Few movements in Western democracies have waged war on women as relentlessly as MAGA has in the US.
They're a coalition of incels, patriarchal conservatives & religious fundamentalists led by a man accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women.
The Trump Administration are violent, toxic misogynists.
They're a coalition of incels, patriarchal conservatives & religious fundamentalists led by a man accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women.
The Trump Administration are violent, toxic misogynists.
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Few movements in Western democracies have waged war on women as relentlessly as MAGA has in the US.
They're a coalition of incels, patriarchal conservatives & religious fundamentalists led by a man accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women.
The Trump Administration are violent, toxic misogynists.
They're a coalition of incels, patriarchal conservatives & religious fundamentalists led by a man accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women.
The Trump Administration are violent, toxic misogynists.
There's no lack of folks who opt to make political use of yje assisted dying debate to promote their causes. It's one of the reasons I'll do everything I can to leave the UK before I die and have a peaceful end where they understand this. 🇳🇱
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed | Gordon Brown
Palliative care is deeply underfunded and unequal. Assisted dying cannot go ahead until politicians right that wrong, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
There's no lack of folks who opt to make political use of yje assisted dying debate to promote their causes. It's one of the reasons I'll do everything I can to leave the UK before I die and have a peaceful end where they understand this. 🇳🇱
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I want to share a hopeful moment with you : remember that Kyiv coffee place that Russia hit 6 times - and they restored it all these 6 times ? Today I had a coffee there✨☕️
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want to share a hopeful moment with you : remember that Kyiv coffee place that Russia hit 6 times - and they restored it all these 6 times ? Today I had a coffee there✨☕️
Most of the AI developers are totally out of touch 😄
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?
www.pcgamer.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Most of the AI developers are totally out of touch 😄
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Vaccines work.
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Vaccines work.
Another delicious roast of a Telegraph article about someone "ruined" by a tax hike 🤭 Turns out the Telegraph can't add & multiple and neither can the article's subject.
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Another delicious roast of a Telegraph article about someone "ruined" by a tax hike 🤭 Turns out the Telegraph can't add & multiple and neither can the article's subject.
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David Glosser, Stephen Miller’s uncle, told CNN his nephew is an “immigration hypocrite”:
“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
David Glosser, Stephen Miller’s uncle, told CNN his nephew is an “immigration hypocrite”:
“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
I don't know whether the UK Gov needs to hear this: but to most continental ears that last paragraph reads as a covert "we're an ally as long as we can make money out of it!".
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I don't know whether the UK Gov needs to hear this: but to most continental ears that last paragraph reads as a covert "we're an ally as long as we can make money out of it!".
Between September and late November this year, my parents would have each turned 100. I find that thought somehow quietly unsettling. A bit like when as a kid I realised one of my grandmother's had been born in 1897, and a grandfather in 1899. My father lived to 78, my mum to 92, me & my 3 siblings
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Between September and late November this year, my parents would have each turned 100. I find that thought somehow quietly unsettling. A bit like when as a kid I realised one of my grandmother's had been born in 1897, and a grandfather in 1899. My father lived to 78, my mum to 92, me & my 3 siblings
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“And the only question that should have been asked of him was what in the world did you just say to our colleague? We will return to the questions after you apologize to her. That’s it, that’s the only question that should have been asked.”
It is never okay to demean women…
It is never okay to demean women…
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
“And the only question that should have been asked of him was what in the world did you just say to our colleague? We will return to the questions after you apologize to her. That’s it, that’s the only question that should have been asked.”
It is never okay to demean women…
It is never okay to demean women…
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
It has the Charles Moore foreword 🫠
Disclaimer: Don't ask me for Forth-code clues as I have none ... but I had a classmate who went Forth in early 80s while I opted straight to Pascal.
Disclaimer: Don't ask me for Forth-code clues as I have none ... but I had a classmate who went Forth in early 80s while I opted straight to Pascal.
github.com/ryu10/M5Card...
MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. Now to see if I can code myself a Forth-based simplest-imaginable CYOA-style interactive text adventure on an m5stack Cardputer v.1.1
I was prepared to spend the next decade learning ESP32 assembler but this is probably faster...
MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. Now to see if I can code myself a Forth-based simplest-imaginable CYOA-style interactive text adventure on an m5stack Cardputer v.1.1
I was prepared to spend the next decade learning ESP32 assembler but this is probably faster...
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It has the Charles Moore foreword 🫠
Disclaimer: Don't ask me for Forth-code clues as I have none ... but I had a classmate who went Forth in early 80s while I opted straight to Pascal.
Disclaimer: Don't ask me for Forth-code clues as I have none ... but I had a classmate who went Forth in early 80s while I opted straight to Pascal.
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github.com/ryu10/M5Card...
MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. Now to see if I can code myself a Forth-based simplest-imaginable CYOA-style interactive text adventure on an m5stack Cardputer v.1.1
I was prepared to spend the next decade learning ESP32 assembler but this is probably faster...
MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. Now to see if I can code myself a Forth-based simplest-imaginable CYOA-style interactive text adventure on an m5stack Cardputer v.1.1
I was prepared to spend the next decade learning ESP32 assembler but this is probably faster...
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
github.com/ryu10/M5Card...
MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. Now to see if I can code myself a Forth-based simplest-imaginable CYOA-style interactive text adventure on an m5stack Cardputer v.1.1
I was prepared to spend the next decade learning ESP32 assembler but this is probably faster...
MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. Now to see if I can code myself a Forth-based simplest-imaginable CYOA-style interactive text adventure on an m5stack Cardputer v.1.1
I was prepared to spend the next decade learning ESP32 assembler but this is probably faster...
#LondonTravelChaos ... that's the skeet 🤷♀️
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
#LondonTravelChaos ... that's the skeet 🤷♀️
People:"Nature would be so much better off if there were no humans."
Nature:
www.youtube.com/shorts/IbUzw...
Nature:
www.youtube.com/shorts/IbUzw...
Greedy Seagull - Ozzy Man Quickies
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November 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
People:"Nature would be so much better off if there were no humans."
Nature:
www.youtube.com/shorts/IbUzw...
Nature:
www.youtube.com/shorts/IbUzw...
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A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X.
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
NOS plaatst vanaf vandaag geen nieuwsberichten meer op X - Over NOS
De NOS en Nieuwsuur (NOS/NTR) zijn gestopt met posten op X. Het platform past niet meer bij onze visie op...
over.nos.nl
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X.
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
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If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….
I think this view understates the continuing absurdity of a US President de facto acting as an internediary for the Russian President, while the US Gov spends all its time covering that simple fact up, and never being held to account over it.
The Trump cycle on Russia-Ukraine. Some pro-Russian plan emerges. Instant commentariat renew their "Trump as Russian plant" stories. Plan is amended under EU (and US) pressure. Putin rejects it. Instant commentariat is puzzled. Rinse and repeat. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
How Rubio Tried to Bring a Pro-Russia Peace Plan to Middle Ground
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I think this view understates the continuing absurdity of a US President de facto acting as an internediary for the Russian President, while the US Gov spends all its time covering that simple fact up, and never being held to account over it.
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Nice toolkit supported by one of our small grants for how science communicators can make their messages memorable through understanding how people remember things. By @hanachronism.bsky.social
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
Storytelling for Science Communication Toolkit: Cognitive Biases, Memory & Objectives
Humans have used stories to understand the world around us for millennia, from folktales to news stories, and from movies to the gossip we collect in the local pub. Science communicators have long bee...
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nice toolkit supported by one of our small grants for how science communicators can make their messages memorable through understanding how people remember things. By @hanachronism.bsky.social
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/
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Paradox ist ja, dass im Erinnerungsweltmeisterland noch immer Teile der politischen, wirtschaftlichen & medialen Meinungsführer es für unvorstellbar halten, dass Menschen Faschismus à la AfD einfach genau so wollen. Also nicht aus Protest, Unwissenheit Verführung. Sondern aus abgrundtiefem Wollen.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Paradox ist ja, dass im Erinnerungsweltmeisterland noch immer Teile der politischen, wirtschaftlichen & medialen Meinungsführer es für unvorstellbar halten, dass Menschen Faschismus à la AfD einfach genau so wollen. Also nicht aus Protest, Unwissenheit Verführung. Sondern aus abgrundtiefem Wollen.