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For the second time in one week, the NBA’s broadcast partner displayed an incorrect graphic in the final moments. Neither the Heat nor the Knicks had a timeout.

When Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, it was actually less accurate than Ptolemy's geocentric model - a system refined over 1,400 years with epicycles precisely tuned to match observed planetary positions. It took another 70 years before Kepler, working from Tycho Brahe's unprecedentedly precise observations, replaced Copernicus’s circles with ellipses - finally making heliocentrism empirically superior. Terence Tao's point is that science needs a high temperature setting. If we only fund and follow what's most state of the art today, we kill the ideas that might need decades of work to surpass some overall plateau.

Day after day, night after night, Jewish terrorists attack, wound, kill, and loot Palestinian communities in the occupied territories. The Shin Bet and the Israel Police are turning a blind eye. The Shin Bet has all the tools needed to stop this, yet under David Zini it is choosing not to act, allowing these war crimes to continue unchecked while official Israel remains silent. A profound disgrace.

Ok crash course in complexity thinking. There are some major drivers of complexity, they are: Scale - the more connected agents and systems, the greater complexity becomes. Information passing between agents increases the system wide connections. Interdependence - if one agent, or system changes, it affects many other agents in the system. We’re now in a world where a Trump tweet can change millions of lives. Not only are we interdependent we’re hyper interdependent. Our global system is centralised around hyper agents that can instantaneously change the whole system in seconds. Diversity - the more different each agent or system is, the greater the complexity. Diversity is actually a strength because complexity isn’t always bad, but it means you get the outcomes of complexity more obviously. High interaction variety is perhaps the biggest driver of complexity. Incongruent systems create conflict and unforeseen events. Dynamics - speed of change. The greater the pace of change in the system the more rapidly complexity manifests. Everything is changing fast. And this is not just the new normal it is ACCELERATING. Opacity - the more one area of the complex system changes and the rest of the connected systems don’t see it, the more likely you are operating under radical uncertainty. Eventually information is revealed and massively disruptive outcomes happen at scale because the change happening was shielded from the wider system. We have seen a massive unprecedented ramp in all of these drivers in an incredibly short space of time. This means we get non-linearity, far from equilibrium dynamics, which means unpredictability, black swans, overnight changes, unforeseen events again and again. In complex systems we get radical emergence, sometimes good sometimes very bad, but whatever it is you don’t see it coming. This is why every system which is still operating on a governance paradigm created before the radical complexity ramp is collapsing. We simply don’t have the ability to operate under uncertainty at this scale. So every decision is bad. This is why governance everywhere needs to be upgraded and quick.

U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for: 700,000 public housing units 500,000 low-income kids receiving health care 500,000 veterans receiving VA care 600,000 kids in Head Start Combined.

More and more Americans understand that support for the racist Netanyahu government is not only immoral, it is a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars. We should not provide billions to a government that shoots starving people waiting for food. NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.