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PlayStation News reported that Tom Henderson had indicated that the next Battlefield was in the early stages of development. He added that Henderson had not specified whether the game would be set in the past, present, or future. https://t.co/3FpdAW86GX #Battlefield #juegos #videojuegos (translated)

Fut Sheriff said the full Team of the Week 05 had been announced, listing Russo, Anderson, Watkins, Henderson, Patri Guijarro, Isco, Thauvin, Nkunku, Charles, Beerensteyn, Noslin, Rente, Dahl, Holse, Romero, Kössler, André Henrique, Ba Loua, Reynolds, Cambiaghi, Cherif, Campaz and Acheampong. #FC27 #TeamOfTheWeek #Football #Soccer (translated)

Actu Foot reported that Chelsea had beaten Bournemouth 5-1 at Stamford Bridge. Jordan Henderson and João Pedro had each scored twice. According to the account, this victory had temporarily propelled the Blues to 5th place, with 10 points. https://t.co/kMKsIhvkP4 #ChelseaFC #PremierLeague #Football (translated)

“aceitar as exigências do ministro ou correr o risco de ser classificado como uma ameaça à segurança nacional”Num voto de vencido, a juíza Karen Henderson avisou que a decisão poderá obrigar qualquer fornecedor a escolher entre “aceitar as exigências do ministro ou correr o risco de ser classificado como uma ameaça à segurança nacional”. #InteligênciaArtificial #Pentágono #Tecnologia

Matyáš Šapovaliv 20➕ minut na ledě SJS. Druhá lajna, krásně proměněný nájezd. Loni v závěru sezony v Hendersonu měl se 5+9 v 13 zápasech. Mluví se o víc jiných 🇨🇿, ale není mnoho, kteří by mohli být blíž. Zodpovědná defenzivní hra tam totiž byla vždy. https://t.co/X7fLvEh36T #hokej #českýhokej #SJS

Donc là, Enzo Fernandez 🇦🇷 S’EN VA. 👋 ET CHELSEA NE PEUT NI FAIRE MANU KONÉ 🇫🇷 NI LAMINE CAMARA 🇸🇳. ❌ Vous avez pas un milieu pour eux à trouver en 2 heures maximum ?! Les milieux de Chelsea cette saison : 🇪🇨 Moises CAICEDO 🇦🇷 Valentin BARCO 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jordan HENDERSON 🇧🇪 Romeo LAVIA (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Reece JAMES) #ChelseaFC #Transferts #Football

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The Politics of Pity For a decade, the West has argued whether empathy should be its highest value. Some praise it as a superpower; others call it harmful. Gad Saad’s “Suicidal Empathy” topped the New York Times list. Elon Musk called empathy a weakness; John C. Reilly called it a superpower. Ideas should be judged by consequences. Compassion-justified policies have coincided with worse addiction and homelessness, rising crime, mass migration, social fragmentation, higher living costs, and controversial medical interventions for gender-dysphoric minors. When these fail, advocates often claim it was not implemented “strongly enough.” ## An Inversion of Truth A quote often attributed to Hannah Arendt claims “the death of human empathy” precedes barbarism, but no source supports it, and her writings argued almost the opposite. Arendt contrasted the American Revolution’s institutions and law with the French revolutionaries’ “politics of pity.” Pity is not compassion: it ranks “fortunate” and “unfortunate,” grants the pitier moral authority, and overrides rights. Arendt argued this enabled Robespierre’s Terror. ## The Trojan Horse Empathy can become projection—imposing your values as if they were others’ needs. Adam Smith warned about the “man of system.” Nietzsche described societies so “soft and tender” they side with those who harm them. Orwell noted equality preaching alongside elite privilege. Rob Henderson calls these “luxury beliefs.” I call it suicidal narcissism: acquiring moral status by appearing compassionate while policies erode the foundations others rely on. The reward is immediate; the damage comes later.

Compassion as a Weapon Western civilization is increasingly trapped in a culture of entitlement, where victimhood can become a route to status, privilege, and power. Some elite universities report unusually high disability registrations—e.g., 20%+ at Brown and Harvard and around 40% at Stanford—far above community colleges. Whatever the causes, it raises a troubling question: when systems meant to protect the truly vulnerable become incentives, what happens to everyone else? Rob Henderson describes how accommodations can turn into “status games.” Extra time, special housing, and exemptions can make diagnosis feel like the logical choice, and the lesson travels outward: tomorrow’s leaders in journalism, HR, law, academia, and politics may learn that displaying weakness is rewarded. Research links habitual victimhood displays with traits associated with the Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy). That doesn’t mean genuine victims are manipulative—it means rewarding victimhood gives manipulators an incentive to enter. In the “virtue game,” grievance becomes currency. Pity can also function as covert power: the weak person gains leverage, while the giver gains moral superiority. When compassion is treated like a currency, it can become a mutually reinforcing racket. The danger isn’t helping the weak. It’s teaching that appearing weak is the surest way to gain power.

The Victimhood Economy: Why Young People Prefer Socialism Western civilization is increasingly shaped by entitlement and a culture that rewards displays of victimhood. At elite universities, disability claims have risen: 18% of male and 22% of female undergraduates report a disability, and 54% of non-binary students, with higher rates at some wealthy schools than at community colleges. The issue isn’t genuine disability; it’s what happens when accommodations become status and advantage. Extra time, separate housing, and exemptions can turn diagnosis into leverage. When weakness is rewarded, some will learn to perform it. This matters because today’s students become tomorrow’s institutional elites. If grievance produces rewards, the lesson may spread into journalism, government, HR, academia, and business, letting beneficiaries inherit the power to expand the system. Research on victimhood signaling raises uncomfortable questions: people who habitually emphasize victim status, on average, show higher narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—not to say genuinely suffering people are manipulative, but that systems rewarding victimhood create incentives for manipulators to exploit the category. Rob Henderson describes this as a status game: in elite institutions, grievance can become the currency of virtue signaling. For some, the rational strategy is to manufacture grievance and convert it into status. Nietzsche similarly argued that displays of helplessness can become covert power, while pity can create moral superiority for the caregiver. The danger isn’t compassion; it’s a culture that turns suffering into currency and teaches ambitious people that the easiest route to power is to claim they are powerless.

Leftist “Empathy” Is Actually Narcissism Leftist “empathy” is often narcissism, not real compassion. Over the past decade, Western politics has debated whether empathy is the highest value—yet many policies justified in its name have produced serious unintended consequences: safe-supply programs, lenient bail, mass migration, identity-based social policy, and gender medicine for minors. Hannah Arendt helps explain why. In *On Revolution*, she contrasted the American Revolution’s focus on institutions and limits on power with the French Revolution’s “politics of pity,” an effort to eliminate suffering through political action. Robespierre’s compassion for the masses helped justify terror. Pity isn’t compassion: it creates a hierarchy between the person who pities and the person pitied. Once you claim to represent “the oppressed,” you can stop listening to real people. Much progressive “empathy” projects idealized versions of others, erasing cultural differences and treating disagreement as ignorance or prejudice. Adam Smith warned about the “man of system,” who thinks society can be rearranged like chess pieces, ignoring human wills. Dostoevsky argued abstract love is easy; loving real people is hard. Nietzsche described a morality that flatters weakness and condemns what rises above the herd, while Orwell questioned whether some socialist intellectuals truly loved workers or simply used them to vent resentment. Rob Henderson calls these “luxury beliefs”: status-providing ideas for elites that impose costs on those below them. The moral prestige is immediate; the damage unfolds over decades. So “suicidal narcissism” may fit better than “suicidal empathy”: projection, superiority, and power disguised as compassion.

Mass Migration as a Path to Expanding State Power Western governments have incentives for mass migration. Increasingly staffed by progressives, the state wants to expand its authority over social relations and the economy. Wealth redistribution and equitable representation are easier to claim once the state controls the levers. Many see rising living costs as a failure; for those harmed, it makes sense. From the state’s perspective, however, faster arrivals than can be housed, schooled, or treated strain the system. The state then responds with more spending in those areas, exerting economic control. A state failure becomes the pretext for expanding the state. Higher population also enables misleading “per-capita” narratives. If five people live together making $50,000 each, GDP is $250,000. Add five more and cut everyone to $45,000: GDP becomes $450,000—nearly double—despite lower individual income. Competition for rooms, food, and yard space raises prices while people earn less, producing fewer earnings and higher costs. Rob Henderson calls these “luxury consequences.” Mark Wiseman, co-founder of the Century Initiative, backed a goal of 100 million people in Canada by 2100 (~800,000 per year). What happened in 2022–2024 exceeded targets. After disaster, Wiseman “failed upwards,” later joining Prime Minister Mark Carney’s advisory council. If the state directs social and economic life, it must also prevent revolts when planning fails. Fragmenting society into factions and encouraging their differences weakens cooperation—divide and conquer. The state’s interest was never a thriving citizenry, only a growing one.

V létě 1968 odjel osmnáctiletý Ondřej Křivánek z Prahy na několik týdnů do Anglie, aby si procvičil angličtinu. Měl se vrátit na matematicko-fyzikální fakultu (@matfyz). Pak přišla noc z 20. na 21. srpna. Tanky Varšavské smlouvy obsadily Československo. Otec mu před odjezdem řekl jedinou větu: „Jestli přijdou Rusové, nevracej se.“ Zůstal. O téměř šedesát let později, v březnu 2026, stál tentýž muž v Brně při slavnostním otevření nové laboratoře UltraSTEM v Ústavu přístrojové techniky Akademie věd ČR (@Akademie_ved_CR). Přivezl technologii, kterou spoluvytvořil a která teď poprvé stojí v Česku. Křivánek se narodil 1. srpna 1950 v Praze-Bubenči. V osmnácti reprezentoval Československo na Mezinárodní fyzikální olympiádě. Po invazi a nucené emigraci získal stipendium na University of Leeds, vystudoval fyziku s vyznamenáním a pokračoval na Cambridge u Archieho Howieho. Doktorát obhájil v roce 1976. Pak následovala klasická vědecká pouť špičkového vědce: postdoky v Kjótu, Bellových laboratořích a Berkeley. V Berkeley postavil svůj první spektrometr pro elektronovou energetickou ztrátovou spektroskopii. Později v Gatanu vyvinul systémy, které se staly standardem. Klíčový problém elektronové mikroskopie byl starý přes padesát let: sférická aberace. Elektronové čočky nedokázaly zaostřit paprsek dost ostře, aby bylo možné spolehlivě vidět jednotlivé atomy. Mnozí experti tvrdili, že to nejde. Křivánek s Niklasem Dellbym to v Cambridge v roce 1997 dokázali. Vznikl první funkční korektor aberací pro skenovací transmisní elektronový mikroskop. V roce 2000 dodali první komerční verzi do IBM. Rozlišení překročilo hranici jednoho ångströmu. V roce 1997 založili firmu Nion a postupně z ní udělali výrobce celých mikroskopů UltraSTEM. Ty dnes umožňují i vibrační spektroskopii a zobrazování lehkých prvků včetně vodíku bez poškození vzorku. V roce 2020 Křivánek získal Kavliho cenu za nanovědy. Nion později koupil Bruker (@bruker). Křivánek dnes působí jako jeho vědecký poradce a afilovaný profesor na Arizona State University (@ASU). Do Brna přijel v březnu 2026 jako host. Nová laboratoř UltraSTEM je vybavena špičkovým elektronovým mikroskopem Nion, který je prvním přístrojem svého druhu v Česku. Pracuje s nízkými energiemi elektronů a pokročilými metodami, jako je 4D-STEM a ptychografie. Umožňuje zkoumat citlivé materiály i biologické struktury atom po atomu, aniž by je zničil. Mikroskop stál přes 50 milionů korun a laboratoř je otevřená vědcům z celé Evropy. Pro české a evropské výzkumníky to znamená konkrétní posun. Brno už dlouho patří mezi silná centra elektronové mikroskopie. S tímto přístrojem získává nástroj, který dovoluje studovat materiály a biologické vzorky na úrovni, kde dříve hrozilo jejich zničení. To otevírá cestu k přesnějšímu výzkumu nových materiálů, polovodičů, katalyzátorů i biomolekul a posiluje mezinárodní spolupráci. Křivánek na otevření osobně představil historii firmy a technologií, které se staly standardem. Vedle něj seděl nositel Nobelovy ceny Richard Henderson. Příběh se tím uzavřel: chlapec, kterého invaze „uvěznila“ venku, se po téměř šedesáti letech vrátil s know-how, které změnilo obor. Sám zůstal v Americe, ale jeho technologie teď stojí v Brně a slouží dalším generacím. Elektronová mikroskopie není jen o ostrých fotkách. Umožňuje pochopit, proč materiály fungují, jak se chovají defekty v polovodičích, nebo jak vypadají biologické struktury na úrovni, kde rozhoduje jeden atom. Díky korektorům aberací se z „Hubbleova dalekohledu před opravou“ staly nástroje, které vidí ostře – a teď i u nás. P.S.: Každý den sem dávám alespoň jeden zajímavý pozitivní příběh. Pomozte je šířit – like, komentář, sdílení, bookmark a hlavně follow, ať vám neuniknou ty příští. Co vás na tomhle příběhu zaujalo nejvíc? #historie #věda #inovace