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What the flock?! such smart names!

Science should let more cartoonists name things. That how we got the thagomizer and the Rube Goldberg machines. Anyways! SHERLOCK CROWMES!!!!!

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CW: analysis of war (no imagery)

The date is June 6th, 2025, and recently a wave of discussion has been sparked by Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb on June 1st pre-empting (according to Igor Sushko on bluesky) an intended record-breaking missile strike on Ukraine that same night, meant to intimidate ahead of negotiations the following day.

This comes at a time when general onlookers have been doubting sustainability of Ukraine's resistance efforts due to supply reduction from the States, and undisputably cements in the public's minds that it is indeed possible to inflict extremely disproportionate damage to military equipment in terms of dollar-per-dollar commitment needed, by making use of small but precise and most importantly cheap FPV drones to take out entire bombers, escorting fighters, and helicopters, some of which Russia literally cannot produce replacements for at this time. There's various other warblogs you can go to for analyzing the precise operational details and intricacies of planning and operational secrecy, but for me the highlight is the asymmetry. The US has seen drones used in various conflicts in the 21st century, to publicly controversial and politically bipartisan ends, but those were still comparatively expensive and used on definitely not disproportionately expensive military equipment. It's also seen asymmetrical warfare tactics in Vietnam, where creative underdog locals made taking over literally hell, but that was due to technique rather than technology. The things these are most comparable to, I think, is how cost-effective it is to make good use of anti-tank missiles, but even then these can be literally hundreds of times cheaper than that, and definitely cheaper than blowing up an area by brute force. Rather than shelling out in high explosives and artillery, going in the direction of being more effective by hitting a greater area, using technology that only hits the small target areas in those typical blasts you actually care about, Ukraine has shown a significant force multiplier for the resources it does have to minimize its own rate of attrition, as well as call into question the efficacy of reliance on only high-expenditure equipment and the rough comparisons of defense strength by military spending.

I'm not here today to call for everybody to shuffle their militaries or start drone operator training programs or whatever, obviously the situation varies country to country, force to force, and I'm not a military expert.

What I am here for, is to point out that the principle of cost reduction compared to brute force via increased specificity can be seen in more peaceful domains like the Event Horizon Telescope, which combined telescopes from all over the planet to form a tiny subset of an effectively Earth-sized telescope, in order to create the first black hole picture in 2019 as well as our own Milky Way's black hole's picture in 2022. It's seen when downgrading stellar-scale megaprojects like Dyson spheres to tiny practical versions like a partial Dyson swam of satellites reflecting more sun at solar generators on Earth, or away from equatorial Global South countries asymmetrically impacted by climate change, and when that is combined with meteorological models to smoothen impacts on the planet. It's seen when instead of obliterating an entire region of your body that hopefully contains every fibre of a metastasized tumour of cancerous cells we try to target just the malignant cells specifically, via nanobots or specific chemical candidates. There is power in specificity, efficiency, and increased understanding. In war, astronomy, infrastructure, medicine, and society, where addressing specific community needs if accurately done can be so much more sustainable than throwing catch-all solutions at an entire province or even nation. It is for this reason I advocate for more granular study of specifics, and autonomous teams of assessment/input closer to on-the-ground situations, and I hope people learn to appreciate power in local governance more if nothing else from this today.

This is part of a series on overarching themes of how understanding spectrums, specialization, nuance, and being open to hidden options broadly help us all in the end, even those who consider themselves mostly in the majorities! Feel free to ask me anything in the notes, and l’ll catch you on the next flight.

yours,

borb

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This is why I advocate for studying self-defense before getting involved in any type of conflict! Physical, mental, thaumaturgical, cyber, and rhetorical-- if you're going to f*** around either by your own volition or because you are forced to, prepare yourself for the find out part as best you can! For those who have yet to be drafted into the math war or at least yet to be sent to the frontmanifolds, I recommend familiarizing yourself with

over at

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Shit man, this math war is fucked. I just saw a guy draw a commutative diagram and say "one point compactification" or some similar shit, and everyone around him got folded into a 3-sphere and vanished into 4d-space. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is casting ε-δ and quotient spaces. I think I just heard "infinity-groupoid coskeleton tower" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

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You ever think about how Fight, Flight, or Freeze was supposed to be like an additional thing not traditionally discussed because it’s associated with people just being Womanly ™️?

Cause even then you still mostly hear Fight or Flight, right? Maybe some of you haven’t even heard of the third F. Or maybe you have, but you haven’t heard the fourth: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn?

In fact, now that I bring this up, where has Fawn been this whole time? Is it not a new thing being made up to retroactively call something you enjoyed bad?

Wellll the thing is, it’s been hidden under the term Stockholm syndrome, a name for processing positive feelings under prolonged threat thing, a syndrome so prevalent, relatable, and memorable that we commonly mistake short-term Fawn responses for it or simply fail to perceive it, due to the comparative tendency to stabilize into longer-term situations.

Combine that with the false dichotomist framings we instinctively fall back on when we allot fewer processing resources to due to need, exhaustion, inexperience, or laziness, and we get erasure! And with erasure, we fail to understand and be aware of when we might experience prolonged exposure to a Fawn response, leading to eventually feeling what we pretend, love for an abuser, as happens for many psychological things our brains can fake until we make.

This is part of a series on overarching themes of how understanding spectrums, specialization, nuance, and being open to hidden options broadly help us all in the end, even those who consider themselves mostly in the majorities! Feel free to ask me anything in the notes, and l’ll catch you on the next flight.

yours,

borb

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oh wow! hey if you take pills check this out. new medicine taking meta just dropped.

according to these models, out of the 4 tested postures, the best position to digest pills is laying on your right side. standing upright has a similar time to laying in your back at twice as much as laying on the right side, and laying on the left side is the slowest by far.

laying on right side: pill dissolves in around 10 minutes.

standing: pill dissolves in 23 minutes. laying on the back has a similar time.

laying on left side: pill dissolves in up to 100 minutes.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877

definitely worth a lot more research.

if you want your medicine to kick in fast, try laying on your right side! if you want your medicine to kick in slower, try laying on your left side.

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You know how broadly open art popularity contests like that one drawing competition where an iconic doodle beat a photorealistic frog, or the intended televoting part of Eurovision, or the the stuff that makes it across your feed on various algorithms, all tend to favour sillyposts over serious matters, with serious stuff having a narrower but more engaged audience?

I wonder if that’s for the same reason as the trope about how the darker a piece of media is the sillier its fandom, cause like people who have a lot of silly love a bit of serious and people who have a lot of serious love a bit of silly, and… what could be more common for us all than to have a lot of serious and need for levity in this day and age?

Anyway yeah Espresso Macchiato is a good song lol kbye

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Who else up thinking about bjj black belt craig jones saying You can give anyone steroids. Despite our best efforts we are yet to give anyone autism.

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Aaaah I got blessed on the way home with such a gorgeous feather, and I forgot to post it t_t

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Context

Over the years I feel like I've talked about my perspectives a lot, and it's become increasingly apparent I need a place to put things up so I can refer to them, both to save my voice and my poor little bird wrists.

There's a lot of nuance, depth, complexity, but also common themes that are important to abstract about the world. Be it circumstance or common, I don't see many of my themes discussed much about, let alone consciously opposed, so I hope this will be of use to someone for developing their ideas, or of use to me in further developing mine. Welcome to my blog, all ye brains and bodies and hearts and souls. I’ll catch you on the next flight.

Yours, borb

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kageyama gets interviewed

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