Janus Rose via The Verge:

‘The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess….’

Rob Beschizza via Boing Boing:

‘S301 loops around Sagittarius A* every 8.7 years, hitting 25,000 kilometers per second at its closest approach….’

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing:

‘Usha Vance told him he could be VP or have a fourth child, and he says he got both….’

Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing:

‘The Bureau of Lost Culture podcast curated a list of 1960s counterculture films, from The Graduate to Eraserhead, tied to an interview with The Bad Trip author James Riley….’

Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing:

‘The tracker rates the threat from 1 to 5, working on the theory that people with access to private jets will flee first….’

Big Think via Big Think:

‘Ryan Haule outlined what Jung believed were the key characteristics of a complex:

1. It has a sort of body with its own physiology so that it can upset the stomach, breathing, heart
2. It has its own willpower and intentions so that it can disturb a train of thought or a course of action just as another human being can do
3. It is in principle no different from the ego which is itself a complex
4. It becomes dramatized in our dreams, poetry, and drama
5. It becomes visible and audible in hallucinations
6. It completely victimizes the personality in insanity

Like much of Jung’s work, complexes have not been scientifically validated in the ways that other psychological concepts and tests have, like operant conditioning or the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. One reason is that it would be impossible to study complexes directly. Jung believed, after all, that complexes primarily exist in the personal unconscious, a subdivision of the psyche we cannot access directly in everyday waking life….’

Devon Halliday via Devon Halliday:

‘I am so frustrated with contemporary literary fiction. Everything I’ve tried lately has been, not just bad in the sense of “Oh, that book didn’t really come together in the end,” but bad in the sense of “I can’t imagine why anyone would give this book more than five minutes of their time.”…’

Arash Azizi via The Atlantic:

‘The office of Iran’s supreme leader has fallen quiet, fueling uncertainty in a country with decisions to make….’