# door close (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover door close. Page: Feed: --- ## [Till Death](https://www.sherryning.com/p/till-death) _2026-08-19 · Sherry Ning · Marzchipane_ On infinite freedom being the progenitor of willing limitation; the ultimate realisation of love being giving its infinitude to one person; and optionality being only meaningful when it is wilfully circumscribed ## [I like 'em thick](https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick) _2026-08-19 · Adam Mastroianni · Marzchipane_ On the nature of good art as responsive to your efforts, of full of choices, and requiring sacrifice; and then on the fading of criticism and the rise of poptimism; and on longevity as the key marker of greatness ## ['Men are Slaves to the Women Here'](https://www.ggd.world/p/men-are-slaves-to-the-women-here) _2026-08-19 · Alice Evans · Marzchipane_ On foreigners' perceptions of gender relations in 17C-19C Europe as vastly more egalitarian and free ## [Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-im-staying-out-of-the-substack) _2026-08-19 · Scott Alexander · Marzchipane_ On the similarities between religion and conspiracy theories, and simplicity vs complexity ## [I'm a man who likes to talk](https://www.thechatner.com/p/im-a-man-who-likes-to-talk) _2026-08-19 · thechatner · Marzchipane_ On talking to kids, and talking to people, and the goodness of work and conversation ## [What did Indian Women make of Victorian England?](https://www.ggd.world/p/what-did-indian-women-make-of-victorian) _2026-08-18 · Alice Evans · Marzchipane_ On a comparative analysis of the social and cultural roles for women in England and colonial India, focusing on greater education, independence, and gender intermingling ## [I Cried So Hard I Laughed](https://everyoneisagirl.substack.com/p/i-cried-so-hard-i-laughed) _2026-08-17 · Tessa Sagner · Marzchipane_ On the deep connection between tragedy and comedy in pop culture, from Futurama to Mitski ## [In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years](https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/) _2026-08-11 · Stephen Wolfram · Marzchipane_ On the life and death of Wolfram's wife: heartbreakingly written and tender ## [What Nobody Teaches You About The Holocaust](https://mamathemagazine.com/what-nobody-teaches-you-about-the-holocaust/) _2026-08-10 · Barry Weiss · Marzchipane_ On the vast majority of Jews who died in the Holocaust being murdered in the hundreds of thousands by their friends and neighbours on the Eastern Front, and on our continual focus on the concentration camps as a result of the single evil and survivorship bias ## [Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/breakdown-in-pakistan) _2026-08-10 · Scott Alexander · Marzchipane_ On the nature of top-down NGOs, and the complexity of nation-building: flooding grassroots organisations with money and resources can destabilise and hollow them out, so any such interventions have to be extremely carefully considered ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Rp52KCGkXiq0) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## [More Bounce to the Ounce!](https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/more-bounce-to-the-ounce) _2026-08-10 · Maciej Cegłowski · Marzchipane_ On the nuclear pulse rocket, its history, its science and feasibility, and on its beauty ## [explain to me how gears are machined!](https://kremlin.enterprises/post/616163773634494464/explain-to-me-how-gears-are-machined) _2026-08-10 · @kremlin · Marzchipane_ On the incredible precision engineering behind gear machining, in particular the pressures and tolerances involved ## [Rains Over Babel](https://marzchipane.com/reviews/movies/rains_over_babel) _2026-07-28 · Marzchipane_ I watched this at the independent cinema on the 28th of July, 2026. It's a Colombian magical-realism film about a nightclub in Colombia called Babel, which is Purgatory, and a few characters who converge on it one night. It's a fundamentally queer film, with storylines about a pastor's son hiding… ## [Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actually](https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/immortality-sounds-pretty-good-actually) _2026-07-27 · Paul Bloom · Marzchipane_ On counterarguments for arguments against immortality, including not getting bored, not having goals, and incoherent 'every story has an end' claims ## [We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/war-in-space/) _2026-07-27 · Robert Wilbin · Marzchipane_ On how the attack-defence balance shifts in an interstellar theatre, different types of space-based weapons and defences, and civilisational strategies for survival ## [Suspicious Discontinuities](https://danluu.com/discontinuities/) _2026-07-27 · Dan Luu · Marzchipane_ On how thresholding effects can cause odd-looking shifts in otherwise smooth distributions, from p-hacking to voting, grades, birth months, and so on ## [The Glass Backbone: Why the Army's Logistics Will Break in the Next War](https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-backbone-why-the-armys-logistics-will-break-in-the-next-war/) _2026-07-27 · Jonathan Buckland · Marzchipane_ On the ongoing operational failure of the US Army to sufficiently prioritise logistics, supply, and sustainment as theatres become nonlinear and distributed ## [the door close button](https://computer.rip/2023-03-13-the-door-close-button.html) _2026-07-27 · J. B. Crawford · Marzchipane_ On why lift door close buttons don't seem to work, and a deep-dive into the programming flow behind them ## [The Empresa de China & the Hapsburg Bid for World Supremacy](https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/the-empresa-de-china-and-the-hapsburg-bid-for-world-supremacy/) _2026-07-27 · Nathan Goldwag · Marzchipane_ On the fascinating global politics of the 15th century, including the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, South America, Japan, and China ## [The Beam Engine](https://glinscott.github.io/beam-engine/) _2026-07-26 · Gary Linscott · Marzchipane_ On the machine that made the first Industrial Revolution possible: the beam engine, with interactive animations ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pOz9Ca0yJKo1) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## [The Sheep Detectives](https://marzchipane.com/reviews/movies/the_sheep_detectives) _2026-07-25 · Marzchipane_ I watched this on the plane from Guangzhou to Heathrow on the 25th of July, 2026. This was a lighthearted romp, a whodunnit set in a small town, centering on a flock of sheep trying to solve the murder of their shepherd.… ## [Lady Bird](https://marzchipane.com/reviews/movies/lady_bird) _2026-07-25 · Marzchipane_ I watched this on the plane from Sydney to Guangzhou on the 25th of July, 2026. It's a very sweet bildungsroman starring Saorise Ronan, set in a small town in America, and I really loved it!… ## [Good Will Hunting](https://marzchipane.com/reviews/movies/good_will_hunting) _2026-07-25 · Marzchipane_ I watched this on the plane from Sydney to Guangzhou on the 25th of July, 2026. I can't believe I haven't watched this before, are you Kidding Me.… ## [Conversations With Friends](https://marzchipane.com/reviews/books/conversations_with_friends) _2026-07-24 · Marzchipane_ Like all of Rooney's novels, this was almost compulsively readable, and I finished it almost obsessively over two days in Sydney in July 2026.… ## [Dune Messiah](https://marzchipane.com/reviews/books/dune_messiah) _2026-07-19 · Marzchipane_ I read this over a few days in Sydney in July, 2026. The original Dune is an acclaimed masterpiece: a treatise on power, religion, economics, and ecology, dressed in wildly imaginative worldbuilding, written with a distinctively circumlocutive style which wraps its nuggets of information in cloaks… ## [The Fall and Rise of Screwworm](https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-screwworm) _2026-07-14 · construction-physics · Marzchipane_ On the absolute scourge that was screwworm, the extensive government efforts to eradicate or halt it, and its immediate resurgence after funding was cancelled ## [Confining Insiders, Raping Outsiders](https://www.ggd.world/p/confining-insiders-raping-outsiders) _2026-07-14 · Alice Evans · Marzchipane_ On the pattern of internal female seclusion and external exploitation and rape, repeated across societies through time, and how in the modern world some states have developed capacity to reduce this, while others have institutionalised it