Mark Szpakowski

Noosphere geek & sentient dad at the sanity intersection of society, technology & nature. @mszpak.bsky.social

[Mark Szpakowski @szpak]

Two-eyed seeing interbeing: “A Next Axial Age could be framed as a spirituality of co-creation rather than dominion. This spirituality would not be anti-science—it would be a new science understood as careful participation in a living, creative world.”

[Noema Magazine @NoemaMag]

“Extreme conditions are fueling the search for a new way of seeing & organizing the world. It is in the nature of an axial shift that it arises in opposition to the present order.”

—Nathan Gardels

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[Noema Magazine @NoemaMag]

“Extreme conditions are fueling the search for a new way of seeing & organizing the world. It is in the nature of an axial shift that it arises in opposition to the present order.”

—Nathan Gardels

https://t.co/wqKhknDWzU

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

NBC News:

The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S., recently raising the counterintelligence threat level from “America’s top ally” in West Asia to the highest level.

[Mark Szpakowski @szpak]

@XFreeze @elonmusk We are failing at making life planetary.
Let’s not export that failure.

[Mark Szpakowski @szpak]

@LaraFriedmanDC @MouinRabbani Jared Kushner is the hand of Netanyahu in the Oval Office & Situation Room and also within the First Family. This is not a formal arrangement. The Israel lobby wants to perpetuate this beyond Trump’s reign by formalizing it as law to bind future Presidents and Congresses.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Governments delete webpages. Agencies scrub reports. Politicians' statements vanish from official sites the week they become inconvenient.

It happens in every country, under every party, and it works because nobody kept a copy.

ArchiveBox makes keeping a copy trivial.

It's a self-hosted archiver built for exactly this. Point it at the pages that matter and it freezes them:

→ Timestamped screenshots and PDFs
→ Raw HTML and HTTP headers
→ WARC files that replay the page as it was
→ Scheduled re-captures, so you have a record of every version over time

Run it on a schedule against government portals, news sites, or any source you expect to change quietly. Each snapshot lands in a plain folder with JSON metadata.

The Wayback Machine can't watch everything, and it can be pressured, sued, or blocked.

A thousand people each archiving what they care about cannot be.

History gets rewritten by whoever controls the record. This puts a copy of the record on your disk.

27.6K stars. MIT License. 100% Opensource.

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[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The Pentagon has raised its assessment of an Israeli espionage threat against the United States to its highest level, according to US media reports citing sources.

🔴 More on https://t.co/OCIH7J4Zwl

[Mark Szpakowski @szpak]

@elonmusk If you keep rats in a sensorily deprived lab environment they will prefer to drink the cocaine water. In a rich, free environment they will ignore the cocaine water.
This is an analogy: learn from it.

[Freedom From Mental Slavery @Africarevolt]

They put Angela Davis on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, charged her with capital offenses, and held her 16 months with the death penalty on the table.

On June 4, 1972, an all-white jury heard the evidence and cleared her of every charge.

This is not ancient history. Angela Davis is still alive. The same playbook of criminalizing dissent, overcharging, sensationalizing, then quietly backing away when the facts collapse is still used on our communities today.

Remember that when you hear prosecutors and police talk about “dangerous” voices and “public safety,” and remember that our people are not defined by the lies written in police reports or on wanted posters.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

This will be one for the history books. The Iranian government is holding the line to defend Lebanese sovereignty even at a cost to its own interests. At the same time, the Lebanese government is signing a surrender deal with the very US-Israel Axis that is attacking, invading, occupying, and subjugating it, surrendering its territory to the invading army, promising to disarm the country’s only resistance on behalf of the invading Axis, and signing a declaration attacking the Iranian government that is defending it. Marshal Pétain has returned from the grave.

[Mark Szpakowski @szpak]

@mbauwens @waynelforBernie That’s the approach taken by Waldorf & similar schools. My daughter started with that, and now is a computer games developer, creating sky, winds, leaves, trees, all with working physics & inter-relationships.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Spot the difference.

Hint: there is none.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Here's a snapshot of the biological insult from international travel. It takes your body over two weeks to fully recover.

It's a big price tag.

One international trip per quarter is a reasonable balance.

Time to recover:
> sleep duration: 2 days
> grip strength: 5 days
> mood: 1 wk
> cortisol: 9 days
> sleep quality: 2 wks
> blood glucose: 2 wks

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Canada once relied on robust public telecoms infrastructure to connect a vast, sparsely populated country.

A new historical analysis proves that this was the right tack then and remains the best way to build modern communications infrastructure.

[Hadi Hoteit | هادي حطيط @HadiHtt]

UPDATE: In a major escalation, Israeli drones have assassinated a Lebanese army commander general today while he was heading to his base in Marje'youn, South Lebanon.
The strike happened before Khardali point, right where the Lebanese army rediculously suggested coordinating with Israeli army in a piloting zone on dismantling Hezbollah weapons.
Yesterday, this Leb Army General was in charge of the army forces that took control over Debbine after Israeli withdrawal, and sent them without their weapons.
Last week, Israeli drones killed a Christian family with their daughter on the same road, heading to their home in Marje'youn.
This happened after yesterday's interview with pro american president Joe Aoun, with Christian Amanpour, when he rediculously agreed than there are "no hostile intentions between Lebanon and Israel", and after blaming Iran and Hezbollah for the atrocities committed by Israel in Lebanon and failing to mention that Israel is killing and attacking people and occupying parts of South Lebanon.
What a pathetic situation!

[Mark Szpakowski @szpak]

Noam Chomsky has long stated that Israel has _unfiltered_ access to US intel (something not even the Five Eyes get). This has been de-facto true since James Angleton, “the biggest Zionist of them all”, served as Israel’s eyes inside the CIA. Now they want to make it de jure.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Israel & its lobby are attempting a complete takeover of our gov thru a myriad of bills.

One bill virtually no one is talking about is @SenTomCotton’s Section 622, of the FY27 Intelligence Authorization Act which locks US into permanent unbreakable intel entanglement with Israel

[Carlos E. Perez @IntuitMachine]

Intelligence can outrun everything except the world's own answer.

A self-improving system can accelerate every step that precedes feedback — hypotheses, simulations, designs — but it cannot accelerate feedback itself. Some truths are only deposited by elapsed time (κ-latency), and some judgments have no single target to optimize toward (ω is monadic — felt quality, not formal truth).

Compute drives those to zero only in the domains where the world answers cheaply and clearly: code, games, math. Everywhere else, the loop still has to wait for reality and still can't sense from the inside what it hasn't yet touched.

In QPT's own words, this is the Recursive Limit: self-improvement can reduce the latency of needing the world, never the need.

Or, most compressed:

Compute is the bottleneck engineers can see. Reality is the one they can't — because it's made of time and taste, and neither compiles.

[Mark Szpakowski @szpak]

Anti-Nazism was not hatred of Germans. Anti-Nazism=anti-German is an obvious logical fallacy.
Anti-Zionism is not hatred of Jews. Anti-Zionism=anti-Jew is also an obvious fallacy, but it is one that Israel and its supporters are indefatigably keen to propagandize.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

“The growing wave of antisemitism in Canada is a myth. B’nai Brith Canada, a pro-Israel lobby group, has invented “a national crisis” of antisemitism by defining opposition to Zionism and criticism of Israel’s conduct as Judeophobia. The organization, along with other pro-Israel partisans, are pressing Canadian governments at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels to implement legal measures to criminalize pro-Palestinian, pro-democracy and anti-Zionist, anti-colonial political positions.”
— Stephen Gowans
https://t.co/tNxPSLqPKV

[Patrick Durusau Seeking Demise of #WhiteSupremacy @patrickDurusau]

Partial answer to #AI in the classroom? Getting them to copy it by hand is also a good idea. #classroom #education