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The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion
Robert Frank, Wealth Editor - CNBC
Stephan: When I tell you the United States has become a neo-medieval authoritarian oligarchy society, this is what I mean.
Robert Frank, CNBC Wealth Editor. Credit: CNBC- The top 10% of Americans added $5 trillion to their wealth in the second quarter as the stock market ra … ⌘ Read more
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Well, that was fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxNq8zOEbM8
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting, yes. I didn’t know that.
No AI being used is really great. However, the same clips shown over and over again and some images being mirrored was quite annoying to me. Also, there were some quite terrible computer animations and sometimes the narration and picture didn’t match at all. Talking about the medieval period and then showing an image from the 18th hundred or so. What the heck?
These production issues made me sceptical pretty much early on. So I quickly crosschecked Wikipedia. But it seems spot on from what I’ve read. Very good. Also, the narrator’s voice was really nice to listen to.
Eels are fascinating creatures. :-)
As feiras medievais são “reconstruções históricas” do que nunca existiu - e ainda assim espalham-se pelo país como momentos de convívio e folia. Em Lamego tem a particular característica de ser promovida como contendo uma recriação histórica das #cortes de Lamego*, ainda que estas nunca tenham existido.
Mas para mim a feira #medieval de #Lamego é aquela altura do ano em que vou até à praça e bebo #hidromel. E quem diz que essa não é uma boa tradição a manter e celebrar? ;-)
The New Dark Age
Adam Serwer, Contributing Writer - The Atlantic Magazine
_Stephan: I was very happy to find this article, because I had been thinking I would need to write something on this. Adam Serwer has laid out very well the rise of what I have been calling neo-medievalism, what Serwer calls The New Dark Age. The United States is going into a catastrophic decline because of Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and the oligarchs who are funding this all, because American voters were not smart enough … ⌘ Read more
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
Anna Clark, Staff Writer - ProPublica
_Stephan: I have been telling you since the Trump Republican Party coup began that one of its most notable features is the rise of American neo-medievalism, in which the wellbeing of the peasants is of little interest. Do you get your water from the Great Lakes? If you do I would do some rese … ⌘ Read more
‘It’s bad’ MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow slams Trump for ‘killing miracle’ drug
Erik De La Garza, Staff Writer - Raw Story | MSNBC
_Stephan: Yet further proof that psychopath Trump and his MAGAt servants care nothing for the wellbeing of Americans. I just don’t understand how this could get any clearer, nor how Americans fail to understand we are becoming a neo-medieval society. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, particularly young people who use drugs, are aliv … ⌘ Read more
$1 Trillion of Wealth Was Created for the 19 Richest U.S. Households Last Year
Juliet Chung, Reporter - The Wall Street Journal
_Stephan: When I tell you the United States is now a neo-medieval society, I am neither kidding nor exaggerating. Medieval societies were authoritarian, and ruled by a despot. There was a very small group that had most of the wealth. The king and they rich wanted deference, submission and obedience, and had little conce … ⌘ Read more
Money Worries: Just 13% of Americans Feel Confident About Their Finances
Study Fiinds Staff, - Study Finds
_Stephan: Financial insecurity and stress, as this study shows, are hallmarks of American society. We are truly becoming a neo-medieval culture with The population the United States is 347,275,807. In 2025, the United States has 902 billionaires, which is the highest number of billionaires in the world, according to [Forbes](https://www.google.c … ⌘ Read more
Editor’s Note
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Stephan:
These Are Four Things You Can Do to Save America_Like billions of others across the planet I have been watching for months now as the entire social order of the United States of America is dismantled in an attempt to create a neo-medieval oligarch owned white supremacy, male dominant, authoritarian fascist state. [1], [2], [3] As I write this we are not the same country we were before January 2025, and the destruction of the na … ⌘ Read more
FOSDEM 2025
I recently attended the large Free and Open Source Software conference
FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. I went there by train, of course,
via Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Cologne. The same route back.
I lived in the rather expensive, allegedly fancy hotel Le Châtelain in
Brussels. It was really not that fancy, but they had a … ⌘ Read more
Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment
Angela Hart, Staff Writer - MedPage Today | Kaiser Family Foundation
Stephan: In so many ways psychopath Trump, who sees himself as a kind of medieval lord, makes it clear he couldn’t care less about those whom he sees as American peasants. I see example after example of his attitude in the choices he makes; this article reports on his views of the homeless.
Stephan: Yet another example of the neo-medieval trend that is socially reshaping the United States. You have probably never heard of Bradbury, California, and that is the way the residents want it. It is the richest city in California.
Stephan: The MAGAt monarch and the White oligarchs who seek to create a neo-medieval authoritarian state are doing everything they can to end genuine democracy in the United States. Here is the latest. ⌘ Read more
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
Annie Waldman and Sharon Lerner, Staff Writers - ProPublica
_Stephan: An important part of the psychopath “king” Trump’s coup and strategy to create a kind of neo-medieval society owned and controlled by Trump’s oligarch aristocracy, is to dismantle and disable any attempt to prepare for climate change. This report describes the coup group’s latest move. Why is this happening? The an … ⌘ Read more
Here’s One Big Way You’ll Know if We’re in a Presidential Dictatorship
Frank Bowman, Staff Writer - Slate Magazine
_Stephan: Donald Trump the first convicted multiple-felon, convicted sex offender, multiple-bankrupt to ever be elected President has framed and put his mugshot in the entry to the Oval Office in the White House to show his disdain and contempt for the law. It is his way of showing the world he sees himself as above the law, like a medieval … ⌘ Read more
10 Ridiculous Riffs on Robin Hood
Robin Hood is practically synonymous with heroism. In the face of oppression in medieval England, this folk figure stands up to the malicious Sheriff of Nottingham and the malevolent Prince John. His example helps rally the commoners into a formidable fighting force. Together with his band of outlaws, Robin takes from the rich and gives […]
The post 10 Ridiculous Riffs on Robin Hood appeared firs … ⌘ Read more
Wealth of World’s Richest Has Doubled Over Past Decade
Julia Conley, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Yet another fact shows that the United States has become a neo-medieval oligarchy. This was all done by the Republicans rigging the tax code to favor the rich grotesquely. Think about it: “The wealth of the four richest people in the U.S.—Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—has hit $1 tril … ⌘ Read more
The classical book reprinting site is live! LindyPress.net
For a while, I’ve hinted that I’ve been contributing to a project to reprint out-of-print classical and medieval texts that are of hidden value, sometimes even in their original languages. I’ve worked on this project for a while and now it’s live and you can browse the first five books available.
See the site at https://lindypress.net. All works have been reformatted in XeLaTeX so that … ⌘ Read more
Academic
Here are some old academic papers that I mostly wrote as term papers and such in graduate school. People occasionally ask out of interest.
By the time I got a year or so into my Ph.D. at Arizona, I had pretty much not intention on continuing in t … ⌘ Read more
We Want Our 4 Causes Back!
Aristotle, a medieval depiction
Aristotle, in his Physics argued that there are four causes behind everything that exists. These causes answer the question of “How” or “Why” something is the way it is.
The Material CauseThe material from which something is made. E.g. the stone of a statue.The Efficient CauseThe external force that causes something to be made. E.g. the artisan and his tools who make a statue.The Formal Cause … ⌘ Read more
Medieval people were surprisingly clean (apart from the clergy) | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/medieval-people-were-surprisingly-clean-apart-from-the-clergy
Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files https://gizmodo.com/delete-never-the-digital-hoarders-who-collect-tumblrs-1832900423
The Secret Meanings Behind the Beasts in a Medieval Menagerie - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-bestiary-allegories
The Artful Imperfection of Medieval Manuscript Repair - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-manuscripts-embroidery
The Deep Roots of an … https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deep-roots-italian-song-sounds-like-english-american-medieval-comedy-nonsense
Getting down and medieval: the sex lives of the Middle … https://aeon.co/essays/getting-down-and-medieval-the-sex-lives-of-the-middle-ages
How to Think Like a Medieval Monk | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk
How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow? – For the Wynn https://forthewynnblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/how-many-colours-were-there-in-a-medieval-rainbow/
The Modern Lives of Medieval Monster Scholars - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mearcstapa-medieval-monster-scholars
The Etymology of ‘Sabbath’ - Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages UCL Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/calendars-ancient-medieval-project/2015/07/15/the-etymology-of-sabbath/
Medieval Scholars Believed in the Possibility of Parallel Universes - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-multiverse-theory?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2aa8411428-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-2aa8411428-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_22_2017)&mc_cid=2aa8411428&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d