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#paradigm

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

i guess "god's wrath will throw fire upon the sodomites" is what passes for a #libertarian take in 2025, because this is one of the main guys trying to build the #NetworkState.

(he's the CEO of #Praxis, "the world's first digital nation" that's funded by a lot of the crypto bros including Peter Thiel, #Balaji, Joe Lonsdale, the #Winklevoss twins, #Paradigm (big crypto fund), a #Worldcoin guy, and a bunch of others). cc: @gilduran.com @gilduran

* the tweet: x.com/drydenwtbrown/status/193
* more on Dryden Brown: motherjones.com/politics/2023/

#pride#lgbt#Thiel
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“Several days on, the cause of #Europe’s biggest #blackout in two decades is still being investigated. Spain’s grid operator, #RedEléctrica, says a loss of generation in the country’s south-west led to a sudden cascade of failures.

What tripped off, why, and how this escalated so dramatically is unclear.

But the fact that an entire peninsula could be plunged into #darkness in a matter of seconds has caused alarm around the world, raising urgent questions about the stability of #EnergyUInfrastructure at a time when many countries are switching to low carbon #electricity instead of burning fossil fuels”

“Our power systems were conceived for an era of centralised, predictable generation,” says #XavierDaval, chair of France’s #renewable energy trade association #SOLERSER. “But the emerging electric world is #distributed, #digital, and #adaptive. This is not a glitch to patch — it’s a #paradigm that must be rethought.”

<archive.md/JOyS3> / <ft.com/content/3b807eff-fdaf-4> (paywall)

jan
“The mechanistic view of the universe was what made sense to Newton. In his clockwork universe, God makes the clock and winds it up. … Scientists since Newton were led astray by the mechanistic viewpoint… If the world was (like) a machine, then, they reasoned, the understanding of the world had to be reduced through analogies to machines.
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
#newton #paradigm
#paradigm
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

A handy list of large crypto donors to Trump’s inauguration fund, which is basically an unregulated pot of money the president can do whatever he wants with. A few translations are in order:

* Circle = world’s 2nd largest stablecoin after Tether (USDC), closely linked to #Coinbase
* Foris Dax = Crypto[.]Com
* Fred Ehrsam = #Paradigm (and co-founder of Coinbase)
* #Payward = #Kraken
* #KyleSamani = #MulticoinCapital
* #HaydenAdams = #Uniswap (more on Uniswap: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-)
* Charles Cascarilla = #Paxos, the stablecoin issuer behind the #Binance stablecoin #BUSD that was summarily executed by regulators for #moneylaundering
* Yuga Labs = #BoredApeYachtClub (the infamous monkey JPGs)

#NFTs#corruption#crypto
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Bibiana Prinoth (moved!)

Next up, we’ve got Nikku Madhusudhan on the #hycean #paradigm in the search for #life.

Our current observations are limited to mass/radius, so the interior structure is somewhat hidden from our knowledge. Their study of K2-18 b suggested that there is a possible scenario where water could be liquid on the surface: a Hycean world as a new regime for planetary habitability.

This was all theoretical so far; but they used #JWST to check it! #ExSSV

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Ricardo Harvin

Paraphrased: "If it's not useful and #accessible to the #poor and #disabled, it's neither #radical nor #revolutionary"

The U.S., and most of the "West" / #GlobalNorth, no longer has a radical or revolutionary mindset.

Neither #VentureCapital nor #HedgeFunds have or can deliver bold, #innovative results, only #vampiric variations on what exists.

Until that #paradigm is demolished, we can't hope to build the new #world we all desperately need.

#ReimagineEverything

youtu.be/5Mn5jNx4dbc

YouTubeWhy We Need More Skybridges Between BuildingsBy Stewart Hicks
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Ruth Mottram

Final #Antarctica tab (for now). The much missed David Vaughan's complete overview of #WestAntarctic #IceSheet instability.the fall and rise of a #paradigm

Essential reading to understand why scientists like me worry about abrupt #SeaLevelRise

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link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkWest Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse – the fall and rise of a paradigm - Climatic ChangeIt is now almost 30 years since John Mercer (1978) first presented the idea that climate change could eventually cause a rapid deglaciation, or “collapse,” of a large part of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS), raising world sea levels by 5 m and causing untold economic and social impacts. This idea, apparently simple and scientifically plausible, created a vision of the future, sufficiently alarming that it became a paradigm for a generation of researchers and provided an icon for the green movement. Through the 1990s, however, a lack of observational evidence for ongoing retreat in WAIS and improved understanding of the complex dynamics of ice streams meant that estimates of likelihood of collapse seemed to be diminishing. In the last few years, however, satellite studies over the relatively inaccessible Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica have shown clear evidence of ice sheet retreat showing all the features that might have been predicted for emergent collapse. These studies are re-invigorating the paradigm, albeit in a modified form, and debate about the future stability of WAIS. Since much of WAIS appears to be unchanging, it may, no longer be reasonable to suggest there is an imminent threat of a 5-m rise in sea level resulting from complete collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet, but there is strong evidence that the Amundsen Sea embayment is changing rapidly. This area alone, contains the potential to raise sea level by around ~1.5 m, but more importantly it seems likely that it could, alter rapidly enough, to make a significant addition to the rate of sea-level rise over coming two centuries. Furthermore, a plausible connection between contemporary climate change and the fate of the ice sheet appears to be developing. The return of the paradigm presents a dilemma for policy-makers, and establishes a renewed set of priorities for the glaciological community. In particular, we must establish whether the hypothesized instability in WAIS is real, or simply an oversimplification resulting from inadequate understanding of the feedbacks that allow ice sheets to achieve equilibrium: and whether there is any likelihood that contemporary climate change could initiate collapse.
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