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  • TIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933

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  • I remember learning about this as a kid from, of all places, a 1976 detective show called City of Angels (starring Wayne Rogers). Ten-year-old me thought it was so cool they would even broach such a topic on TV. As ways to become radicalised go ...

  • TIL about Real Tennis, the thousand-year-old precursor to tennis. “If you wanted to design a game that was going to put people off from playing it, you would probably design a real tennis court.”

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  • This Video (French) says it's a thousand years old, but that seems not to be the case, more like like 4-500 years.

    I think the NYT is mistaken, as here's an engraving of «jeu de paume» from the 16th C

  • TIL about Real Tennis, the thousand-year-old precursor to tennis. “If you wanted to design a game that was going to put people off from playing it, you would probably design a real tennis court.”

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  • According to the very long and exhaustive wiki

    "The term real was first used by journalists in the early 20th century as a retronym to distinguish the ancient game from modern lawn tennis", and, is it happens, 'It is also known as court tennis in the United States, royal tennis in England and Australia, and courte-paume in France."

    I think the kings were pissed when they started playing tennis outside. "That's not real tennis", they probably said.

  • Capitalism Is Draining the Life From Our Culture Industries

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  • TIL that Nile Rodgers, one of my favourite artists, is now a corporate shil/POS. Re: 'Hipgnosis', a firm that purchases song rights for use in ads, etc.

    Company partner and funk legend Nile Rodgers has presented it to investors as an opportunity “to establish songs as an uncorrelated asset class with attractive risk[-adjusted] returns”

  • Donald Trump is the Tyrant George Washington Feared

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  • Seared Tuna with Cumin Butter and a Corn/Tomato salad.

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  • Good tip, thanks!

  • Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture

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  • Dear Nitwit,

    A reduced faith in science might, hear me out here, ••might•• have something to do with science, ya know, killing the planet and what not. You wanna get some faith back? Maybe apply these new technologies to human happiness, or even, who knows human survival.

    One more thing, nimrod. The real risk averse culture? It ain't your unwashed "zero-sum thinking Millennials" No, it's your hyper capitalist who's rigged the system to the point where taking financial risk is erased by government bailouts. They're the ones who want to eliminate risk.

    And it's that, plus their increased control of what is and is not researched in practised science that leads to our dismay. See above: "planet dying" Imagine something like pencillin, developed entirely within an academic risky environment, getting made today.

    There's risk in true critical thinking, instead of lazy "Kids Today" hand-wringing. So, in future, take a fucking risk.