shapeless

We knew a million things we could hardly understand.

[Luce @lucyshow11]

What did I cry? 🥹

[Commentary Recommends @CommentaryRec]

July 17, @jpodhoretz recommends Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young by Zayd Dohrn

[徐老猫 @raycat2021]

下面的影片还原了末代沙皇全家被杀的残酷场景。不得不说，老毛子下手无情。满清皇帝退位，给足了体面和生活补助。
这是俄罗斯自己于2000年拍的历史影片《罗曼诺夫王朝》。
1918年7月17日夜间，布尔什维克在叶卡捷琳堡一处地下室处决沙皇全家的场景。片子被认为较为忠实于历史。
沙皇一家人和随从在深夜被叫醒，告知由于白军逼近，他们将被转移到楼下以确保安全。
他们被带到地窖，皇后和患血友病的皇太子阿列克谢还备了椅子。
指挥官宣读处决令，枪决场面混乱。行刑队补了子弹和刺刀，随后尸体被处理并藏匿。

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

Competing for Soft Power by Maria Repnikova
Repnikova examines China's ambitious but uneven image-making in Africa, and the role of the West in mediating this encounter.
https://t.co/KA5ItmIVbM

[Zaur @AbrekZaur]

Mostly some that have been fundamental in the development of my political thought after being for years in the intellectual swamp of classic Stalinism/Maoism.

[Urbaneblob 🇵🇸🌹 @urbaneblob]

still thinking about this book 😌

[Laura Palmer Raids @Marxicology]

I feel as if these all found their ways into my hands at the exact moment I needed them to.

[Brian Highsmith @bd_highsmith]

heard we’re talking agrarian populist movements

[ちくま学芸文庫 @ChikumaGakugei]

【重版情報】山之内靖著、伊豫谷登士翁・成田龍一・岩崎稔編『総力戦体制』第3刷。「戦後のゆたかな社会は敗戦によりもたらされたのではなく、その基礎は戦時動員体制において形成された。論争的な問題提起により、戦後体制の本質のみならず、近代的知のあり方までも問うた著者の代表的論考を精選。」

[The Market Mind @Market_Mind_]

The 6 Processors Powering Modern AI

CPU — Orchestration & Preprocessing (Best for general tasks and OS management)

GPU — Training & Deep Learning (Best for massive parallelism and CUDA workloads)

TPU — Google-Scale Tensor Workloads (Highly efficient for large neural network scales)

NPU — Edge & Mobile Inference (Low power consumption directly on mobile hardware)

LPU — Real-Time LLM Serving (Ultra-low latency inference using on-chip SRAM)

DPU — Data Center Infrastructure (Frees up CPU by handling network traffic and storage)

Navigating hardware efficiency means selecting the specialized processor designed exactly for your workload.

[Paul Krause @paul_jkrause]

Augustine’s Confessions is a life-changing book. So is teaching it.

[Roland.W @rwayne]

我刚开咖啡馆的时候，用了一个非常非常笨的办法去看这个地方到底能不能开店，但后来证明最笨的反而是最有效的

我们坐在车里，买了一个空姐计数器，预计高峰时段从早上七点开始一直维持到晚上七点

从早上七点一直蹲到了晚上七点，工作日蹲两天，周末两天也要蹲

通过计数器去做人流的真实记录，里面还要扣除无效人员，比如清洁工、外卖小哥、年纪特别大的人

这个就是你这个店如果没有任何引流能力的状态下，自然客流的情况

大家在做这些事情时候千万不要自己骗自己，你已经挺想在这开了，就去做一些事情验证你想开这件事——这是常见误区

我们一般会算的转化率大概是百分之五到十，也就是百分之五到十的人会过来买你的产品

经过这四天之后，我们对这个位置周围的客群画像有了一个极其清晰的认知，后来证明这个选址极其成功

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

El Estado moderno

Basado en la teoría del Estado continental europeo, este libro de Vesting sostiene que el Estado occidental moderno tiene tres capas superpuestas: el Estado constitucional, el Estado de bienestar y el Estado en red

Información y Cap 1: https://t.co/JW1VPIq2E2

[Alexander @Mdkhurshed76417]

10. The part that stings

Every one of these defaults exists because it benefits Netflix's engagement numbers, not your experience. Autoplay increases watch time. "Auto" quality saves them bandwidth. A messy Continue Watching row means more potential clicks. Stale viewing history still drives recommendations even when it's wrong.

Her last line: "None of this is broken. It's working exactly as designed. It's just designed for their metrics, not your Tuesday night."

[Alexander @Mdkhurshed76417]

7. She cleared his Continue Watching graveyard

18 titles sitting in that row — shows abandoned three minutes in, a documentary he misclicked, half a season he forgot about. All of it pushing real recommendations further down the page.

Three-dot menu on each title → "Remove from Continue Watching." Two minutes, gone.

Netflix doesn't auto-clean this row because more items sitting there is more potential taps — clutter serves their engagement numbers, not your browsing experience

[Alexander @Mdkhurshed76417]

5. She showed him the hidden genre codes

She typed https://t.co/Lc8ZRIYZcT… into his browser. A wall of thrillers he'd never seen on his homepage appeared.

Netflix organizes its full catalog with over 2,000 hidden category codes — the homepage only ever shows the ~30 rows the algorithm thinks will keep you scrolling longest. The rest exists, fully browsable, if you know the URL trick.

She bookmarked the genre index page for him. Told him to search it whenever the homepage felt empty.

[Alexander @Mdkhurshed76417]

4. She reset his entire recommendation profile

Account → Profile → Viewing Activity → Hide All.

Everything he'd ever watched — a rom-com his ex picked, three seasons of something he fell asleep to constantly, his nephew's cartoons from a holiday visit — was still shaping his 2026 recommendations.

One button wiped it. The algorithm rebuilds itself over the next 48 hours based only on what he watches going forward. Free reset, no new account required.

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

The importance of stupidity in scientific research

[power of books @Powerofbooks3]

4 Books Worth Reading In 2026

1. Magnetic Influence