This commentary takes a somewhat contrary view from many, but it is a useful reminder that while the US has been great (honestly) in many ways, the darker side has resulted in crap and chaos.
Tisdall's swan song as the Observer gets dismantled?
Some magazine covers are more memorable than others.
Observer • May 12, 1968 • Now in my collection.
Better to Remain Silent...
#POD #silence #words #Felon47 #wisdom #thoughtful #clever #observer #quote #humor #philosophy #quietpower #thinkbeforeyouspeak #intelligence #mindfulness #selfcontrol
Act Out Tees is where creativity meets self-expression ~ www.actouttees.com
Jay Rayner (restaurant critic and food write) has written his last column for Observer Food Monthly, and it's a gem. Everyone, absolutely everyone who eats should read it. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/feb/20/jay-rayner-final-ofm-column-buffets-clean-eating-what-not-to-serve-food-on
#Observer #Food #JayRayner
Excellent, and rather worrying, blog from Carole Cadwalladr. An investigative journalist who I greatly admire. Best known for exposing some of the darker powers behind Brexit, and being greatly punished as a result:
'In 2016, I stumbled on a story about social media, data and ‘fake news’. That led me on a fantastical journalistic journey that turned into the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal and a long-running investigation into Trump, Brexit and Russia. This was a story that was so far above my pay grade, it was unreal. I kept on hoping for a crack team of investigative reporters of the type that you see in the movies to turn up. They never did.
The one big lesson I learned was that investigative journalism = journalism + time. Keeping going is the key. I’m hoping that this newsletter will help in the mission. Help me keep me going. And help me to connect to a network who cares about the same issues that I do.'
#broligarchy #musk #USpol #elon #trump #guardian #observer #carolecadwalladr #DOGE
What reality does quantum theory describe? QBism has a radical answer.
Explore how #QBism reframes #science by placing the #observer at the heart of #quantum #reality.
❛❛ But what, exactly, is that story? The #orthodox view is #science provides a #narrative of the #Universe without us. ❜❜
https://BigThink.com/13-8/qbism-quantum-reality/ 2024 Jan 25 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism … #QuantumBayesianism
Observing from the outside, it's been driving me nuts, too. The USA has constitutional law, statute law, regulations, procedures, norms against so much of what your new administration has been doing for the last two weeks.
And ... no one's doing anything about it. You may as well not have any prohibitions on any of it at all -- if you don't enforce the laws, they're not laws. If a tree falls in the forest, etc, etc.
Musk's monkeying with the money machinery is just the latest example - clearly exceeding any legal authority he might have, and ... crickets. The Democrats aren't even making a peep about most of this stuff.
Between the "stupid evil" nature of the threat and the existing systems, I thought that it would at least slow them down some, but it's like no one's even trying. I'm no longer confident that any significant remnant of the US experiment will exist in four years.
Observer | Horror Movie | the Terror Channel
#horror – #Trailers – #horrormovies – #Observer – @Terror_Films – A troubled youth who recruits for human traffickers gets in over her head and is kidnapped along with her little brother. The brother’s cries are heard, and his guardian angel embarks on a journey to save them from a secluded estate. There, she battles a […] …
#ad #horror #Observer #Trailers
https://horrornerdonline.com/2025/01/observer-horror-movie-the-terror-channel/
Seth Lloyd describes to Robert Lawrence Huhn some of the puzzling aspects of a #Quantum #Observer. [4th in a #series]
❛❛ Does the #concept of #observation have deep relevance in fundamental physics? What about in #QuantumPhysics where some kind of observation seems to be needed to transform #WaveFunction probabilities into actual events? ❜❜ 12-min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nugmzlNMM0 2023 Jun 18 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Lloyd https://CloserToTruth.com
#Who or #What is a #Quantum #Observer? [2nd in a #series]
#Philosopher of #physics David Z. Alpert describes in 4 mins how #QuantumMechanics has altered our #ideas of #passive #observation. And, how these findings are often misread and #extrapolated unjustifiably. #video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6fAcigk3Ys 2014 Oct 14 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Albert … #DavidAlpert
'Kristrún Frostadóttir, who entered #politics just four years ago, speaks to the #Observer about #feminism, the #farright and reopening talks on joining the #eu .'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/12/a-welfare-state-with-a-budget-on-the-right-side-of-zero-icelands-youngest-ever-prime-minister-has-a-plan-for-a-new-kind-of-governance
#Who or #What is a #Quantum #Observer? [1st in a #series]
The #KrononautMoon Project promotes #experimentations, #observations & #celebrations of #TimeTravel. #Observing one's #world or #cosmos is just part of #CommonSense — right? Maybe not at the #QuantumLevel. 3-min. #video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqh6CH1Hlvo 2024 Jun 17 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) … #Physics https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(quantum_physics) … #QuantumPhysics
“Can you imagine the number of #Guardian or #Observer journalists over the years who’ve been ringing #ScotlandYard about a story that isn’t really in their [the #police’s favour]? What I suspect is that that the same thing has happened to them in order to find the sources.
Extremely disappointed with @TheGuardian as I had to figure out by the fact that no article was signed that its staff is on strike today (and apparently yesterday) to avoid selling its Saturday publication, The Observer, to some dubious media group. You'd think they'd inform its readers in the front page? Here's some info. Don't open The Guardian today.
