Noise That Keeps Space Open

it is the ethical subject who effectively threatens existing orders

The percentage of Americans reporting they or a family member postponed medical treatment in 2022 due to cost rose 12 points in one year, to 38%, the highest in Gallup’s 22-year trend. - Gallup

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln

The Financial Stability Board said the financial damage of climate shocks such as floods, droughts, fires or storms could cause a broader pullback in lending and downturn in investor confidence. “Banks could reduce lending, including for recovery to already vulnerable households and corporates,” the body, which brings together the world’s central bankers, ministers and regulators, said. “There could also be an abrupt, broad-based repricing of climate-physical risk, as the expectation of larger future losses are incorporated into current prices and impact sectors and jurisdictions not currently directly affected by disasters.” - FT

Israel Pulls Out of Gaza Strip as Barack Obama Assumes the Presidency. - January 19, 2009 PBS

Iran congratulates Hamas on victory against Zionist regime

Many Italians live at home until well into their twenties and thirties. They say they cannot afford to have children in Italy, which is the only developed country where real wages have declined in the past 30 years, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. - Telegraph

Your personal life is not a good model for understanding a national economy.

Right now in Canada people can't express themselves. Their ability to express themselves on the internet has been severely limited. It's f**ked…People like that f**khead Justin (Trudeau), that c***sucker. I don't talk this way about anybody. I genuinely despise people like that. I think it's good to say it publicly because people need to understand what these people are doing. He's leading that country on the road to legitimate communism. - Joe Rogan Experience

DAVID LYNCH IS DEAD, BUT HIS ETHICS IS MORE ALIVE THAN EVER: Today, more and more, the cultural-economic apparatus itself—in order to reproduce itself under market competition conditions—has not only to tolerate but directly to incite stronger and stronger shocking effects and products. Suffice it to recall recent trends in visual arts: gone are the days when we had simple statues or framed paintings. What we get now are exhibitions of frames themselves without paintings; exhibitions featuring dead cows and their excrements; videos showing the inside of the human body (gastroscopy and colonoscopy); inclusion of smell into exhibitions; etc. Here again, as in sexuality, perversion is no longer subversive: shocking excesses are part of the system itself—the system feeds on them in order to reproduce itself.

A molecule is shown to produce cognitive improvement in rodents with early Alzheimer's disease: “With these pharmacological treatments we could help to enhance that effect, or perhaps even apply a mixed treatment of cannabinoid drugs with acetylcholine precursors,” he suggested.

A Lot of Americans Are Googling ‘What Is Oligarchy?’ After Biden’s Farewell Speech

Lynch’s entire “ontology” is based on the discordance or contrast between reality, observed from a safe distance, and the absolute proximity of the real. His elementary procedure consists in moving forward from an establishing shot of reality to a disturbing proximity that renders visible the disgusting substance of enjoyment, the crawling and twinkling of indestructible life—in short, the lamella. Recall the opening sequence of Blue Velvet. After the shots that epitomize the idyllic small American town and the father’s stroke while he waters the lawn (when he collapses, the jet of water uncannily recalls surreal, heavy urination), the camera approaches the grass surface and depicts the bursting life, the crawling of insects and beetles, their rattling and devouring of grass….the very over-proximity to reality brings about a “loss of reality.” Uncanny details stick out and perturb the pacifying effect of the overall picture. …Every sense has to rely on some nonsensical phantasmatic frame; when we say, “Okay, now I understand it!,” what this ultimately means is: “Now I can locate it within my phantasmatic framework.” This is why Lynch’s films defy understanding; herein resides their greatness. And this is also why, although Lynch has died, he will continue to haunt us for a long time as the living dead.- Zizek

Recreational cannabis use was associated with a significantly lower risk of subjective cognitive decline in adults over 45. - Neuroscience News

Our results suggest that dispensary-obtained THC can be effective in managing a subset of NPS in patients with dementia and may decrease the requirement for antipsychotics. - UChicago

Faiz Shakir, Ex-Bernie Sanders Campaign Chief, Joins Race for D.N.C. Chair: Mr. Shakir said his mission, should he win the post, would be to redefine the Democratic Party as the party of the working class.” - NYT

“That sounds so much like Donald Trump, I wouldn’t be surprised if Donald Trump wrote it.” - Fox News host on Pierre Poilievre

Rick Mercer discussing Pierre Pollievre receiving a full government pension at 31 years of age.