Bah Humboldt

 Alexander Humboldt noted and praised the appearence of Carib tribespeope*. He also sanctioned cruel experiments with electric eels and was friends with Simon Bolivar.

After El liberator, Bolivar struck serious opposition he sought help from Haiti and got it.

Napoleon was discouraged after losing another army there and sold the Louisiana purchase to America.  Just some factoids learned from a library book.

Nothing hugely important.  Carry on.

* Caribs reportedly only ate every second day I read elsewhere

Degrees of freedom

 “There is something inherently poetic in consciousness that’s evading scientists right now,” Christoff Hadjiilieva told me during one of our conversations. “Most scientists don’t value the free movement of the mind, because they don’t believe anything good can come of it. They want every effort of the mind to be rewarded, preferably with a publication.”

She recently coedited The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, an anthology that includes an illuminating essay on the history of spontaneous thought. It describes the routines of several highly accomplished historical figures—including Darwin, Beethoven, Dali, and Chandler—who achieved great success despite working a relatively short day (four to five hours) followed by lots of long walks, afternoon naps, loads of unstructured time, and long vacations. It is often not until we leave our desks to wander, whether in mind or body or both, that inspiration strikes.

An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day | Lapham’s Quarterly

Ludens Homo Superior

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when we are intelligently prepared for it, that will be the kind of government we will have. 

Anarchists in denial endanger everybody

 Many anarchists elide religion and some even claim religious or spiritual sanction.

With enemies like this Theocratic states police don't need friends.

So a useful heuristic when dealing with todays anarchs is assumption of guilt.

They must be assumed agents of Jesus, Mohammed Buddha, the great spirit , whatever, until proved atheist. 

This saves a lot of time and cuts a lot of crap. Agnostic anarchists are too weakminded and worthless to breathe.

Amrite!?

The state religion

 Power and the state are the main pillars on which the system is built, and the system is the institution that is protected and developed through the state and takes root in society. Capitalism has neither strength nor power without the state. It is the state that gives it the power to grow stronger through the law, the police, the army, the intelligence network, the media, the courts, and educational institutions. All of these protect the system.

Without the state, its forces, and its laws, no corporation, company, factory, or institution can operate for very long in the face of strikes and occupations by its workers and users. It is the law, power, hegemony, and control of the state that prevent change, limit activities and freedoms, and oppose equality and social justice.

Finally, although anarchists and Marxists agree on the concept of a classless, socialist society, the root of their differences and conflicts lies in the first step toward the realization of that society. Here we see a major difference: for one side, the problem remains constant and grows, while for the other it is resolved at the root. For Marxists, class struggle requires the seizure of state power, and for anarchists, the seizure of state power creates a new form of oppression and betrays the revolution.

Hologram-like universe?

 Thought at the perineum, sorry. . . perihelion

What Does Quantum Cryptography Have to Do with Gravity? With Alex May

YT

I have dispensed with most of this since 2015.  Purely for selfish reasons, of course

Mimetic polymetal advances

 Could replace human flesh over titanium endoskeleton

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-nanozymes-nanoparticle-routes-cells-genetic.html

This work provides a high-resolution, in situ snapshot of how surface modifications influence the intracellular destinations of nanoparticles. The NPL strategy requires no genetic modification and can be applied to dissect nanomedicine-biological interfaces. It enables the study of diverse intracellular trafficking pathways and interaction networks, providing a powerful tool for the rational design and precise optimization of nanomedicines.

Soviet anarchism is not dead

 It just smells that way

Like a likely majority of the anticapitalist left which does not support Ukraine or accept that China is capitalist or that Russia is an imperialist state bent on the conquest of Europe. It includes.past and present Trotskyists, ML'ists, and CP’ers, and more numerous left social democratic groups and individuals.

Then theres two of the strongest international Trotskyist tendencies led by Alan Woods and David North, the many supporters of the DSA’s International Committee, members of the Communist Party and PSL, the followers of Greg Godels’ Marxism-Leninism Today and John Bellamy Foster’s Monthly Review, as influential public intellectuals like Michael Roberts, Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Yanis Varoufakis, and Richard Wolff, to name only those I can think of offhand.

Their lies precede them and their graves open before them.