When #reality is a #caricature: "Know Your #ICE Agent" https://boingboing.net/2025/07/01/tom-the-dancing-bug-know-your-ice-agent.html by @rubenbolling aka #TomtheDancingBug
As a historically informed #German, this is really very similar to the #Nazi-#Gestapo : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo#Ranks_and_uniforms (GeStaPo = Geheime StaatsPolizei = Secret State Police)
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Reality,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/77270…
This documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis doesn’t feel nearly 10 years old. “HyperNormalisation wades through the culmination of forces that have driven this culture into mass uncertainty, confusion, spectacle and simulation. Where events keep happening that seem crazy, inexplicable and out of control…”
The 2016 film (duration 2:50!) is available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to72IJzQT5k
(warning: contains some gruesome scenes)
This isn't really satire, because it’s high probability of being true. #sature #humor #psychology #fascism #narcissism #reality #lunatics #meme
The past, shaped by memory, is gone. The future, formed by imagination, is not yet here. Even the present, when clung to, becomes a fleeting object of attachment.
Laplace's demon. Entry X-0: THE UNSEEN FLAW
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-8768-6194-6423-d85260939288
@freyablekman "This" paper...? Thank you for your opinion, but where's the link so we can read it and think for ourselves??
Oh dear, you work at #CERN, that explains a lot. I'll be there in September. Perhaps we could have a discussion about how your expensive equipment keeps trying to find #darkmatter and failing because you worship the dogma of #physical #reality (obviously a monotheistic belief).
Humans are #NotThatSmart with a multitude of #laws for how we *think* #reality works, that we then selectively pick and choose ("#CafeteriaPhysics") when it suits us (#physics' GR/SM).
Adding to our ignorant hubris, we proclaim that #math is the language of the #cosmos + the #universe is constant and immutable! Yet we fail #algebra: the same variable **is the same value** in a system of equations:
E = mc^2
E = hf
Therefore, mc^2 = E = hf (basic algebra, transitive and commutative properties)
An amazing read- 'You are both the poison and the antidote' (and huge thanks to @Catlynn for tipping me off to it): https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/a-broad-view-you-are-both-the-poison-and-the-antidote
#Truth & #Credibility - #Obliterated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IktCGRL-mCw
Fox host turned #TrumpVIrus performer, #Hegseth ,,,, vs #reality #sobriety #depth
So it's "You bad #media !! Whaaaa!
Leak real documents, & question our lies!"
Holy WMD, Batman! Seems like deja vu, like the wonderful cast of "Iraq War"/Bush
I'm visiting some friends, and we just came up with an idea for a new reality show:
Trumps in Space!
Where the Trump family are relocated to a space station without any personal assistants.
I wonder how long they would last!
"IN SHADOW: A Modern Odyssey" is a stunning short film #exploring the dark side of modern #reality.
I keep rewatching it for the hauntingly powerful #soundtrack.