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@Discoplomacy

Work on geotectonics + AI + China. Ian Dunross disciple. Care deeply about Britain’s place in the world. Great Man Theory maximalist.

Views, regrettably, my own. Katılım Nisan 2019
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Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
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'He's tiny! It's blue!' Charles Darwin Foundation scientists discover a new species of octopus nearly 1,800 metres (5,900 feet) down on the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands. No bigger than a golf ball, the blue octopus has stubby little arms with only one row of suckers u.afp.com/SRvN
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BDSM Mondays with my LLMs
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Vague collection of dipshit memories from that time
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Hot weather, sweat sticking to your skin and dry dirt swirling and clinging to your face and down into your throat. Reminds me of my first summer in London after uni. Moved down here. Worked some freelancing gigs, bar jobs, living in a tiny room with a window you could climb out and climb onto the roof and drink and smoke from. Every experience felt new. I had lived in other huge cities by then, but London felt different. There was something in that heat. Sort of a humming buzz that wraps itself around most of your early twenties actually. Eyes darting in different directions from your brain, constantly on the tube to see where your mates live, drinking in the sun, in the park, back on the tube, sweat on your back, to a different friend’s flat, saying hi to five strangers, into the shower, out to a rooftop bar or club. Repeat. Days blurring into evenings blurring into days blurring into each other, May into June into July, yeah it’s 28 degrees this weekend yeah even hotter than last weekend. Listened to Tom Misch’s The Journey many times that summer.
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@sebkrier Attended a Zoroastrian ceremony wedding a couple of years ago in Devon of all places.
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Séb Krier@sebkrier·
Important news: GDM has chosen the side of Zoroastrianism. More to come soon.
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Ian Hogarth is a legend
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Struck again by a Great Man of History referencing the ending of an era in critical public comments. Reminds me of Henry Kissinger’s comments on Donald Trump nearly a decade ago: “I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences. It doesn’t necessarily mean that he knows this, or that he is considering any great alternative. It could just be an accident.”
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Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

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If Anthropic is the Catholic-aligned frontier company, which is aligned to Scottish Protestantism? Which will emerge as the technological partner of Islam?
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Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex·
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
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“They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.” At some point in the 1950s or 1960, the Kastom people around the villages of Yaohnanen and Yakel on the southern Tanna Islandin Vanuatu began believing in the divinity of Prince Philip. It remains unclear as to the origin of this belief, but the villagers viewed the Prince as slotting in to their own belief systems. This has been well covered in various mainstream media outlets over the last few decades. What has been discussed less is the pathway for our Eccentric Britons this could offer. Don’t forget: we are world leading at producing Eccentrics.
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Courtney Mares
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV published his landmark encyclical on artificial intelligence "Magnifica Humanitas,” comparing the attempt to build an AI future that excludes God to the "Tower of Babel" and underlining the need to safeguard human dignity as it is "threatened by new forms of dehumanization." "The risk of dehumanization -- of building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means -- is an ancient and ever-new temptation that today takes on a technical guise," Pope Leo said. "In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.”
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@BenRamanauskas Pouring one out for your dad this evening. I got given a grog cup (?) by my gran ages ago. Got it somewhere in the flat
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@Discoplomacy My dad was gutted that the Royal Navy abolished the rum ration just before he joined.
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