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New favorite quote - "If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear." - G.R.

@IwriteOK There’s a Star Trek fan theory that the ship’s computer is an AGI-level system because the complexity of the systems on a starship would require something like an AI to govern the “status quo” of those systems, and the crew is just making tweaks to the AI’s parameters as needed.

@townhallcom Jfc

Every single Democrat on stage at the CA senate debate indicates that they support shutting down the last remaining nuclear power plant in the state. Barbara Lee: "I don't support nuclear power." Katie Porter: "Diablo canyon needs to be safely decommissioned." Adam Schiff: "We're gonna need to move to renewable energy."

Possibly the most interesting post I’ve read since this began, from a Gaza resident criticizing Israel, Hamas and PIJ alike. A colleague from Gaza comments that this is the majority view in the Strip today. English is my translation:

Today in 1859, John Brown did nothing wrong.

Elon’s really going mask off huh

In case you missed it, the Taliban are on the climate denial train.

BREAKING: "That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life for raping 2 women

All anyone serious needs to see right here.

There’s a new California challenge, folks.

@Kellen_Browning Shame on you

On Friday, Elicia Stratton searched desperately through the wreckage of her Lahaina home for the Rolex watch her parents gave her when she graduated college. Suddenly, her fiancé pulled it from the ashes. “You found it!” she said, choking up. It was damaged but still legible.

@jaboukie Behold - straight/str8 joy

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I heard Robocop is being dispatched to Moscow.

Whoever at @BCG thought of directly comparing how much the world spends to clean up literal 💩 versus what it would cost to clean up atmospheric CO2 at scale deserves a raise.

Twitter sucks and is depressing to use. More bots than before, more political (and hysterical) than before, and less fun than before. As soon as @Weather_West et al move along, I’m outta here.

Scientists from around the world worked on the latest IPCC report for almost a decade. But according to leaked documents, many of their recommendations were removed or altered significantly. 🧵

5/ If we continue to burn stuff we’ll hit 1.5C very soon, and every bit of warming will make all the extreme impacts we’ve seen worse. But if we stop very quickly, warming would start to noticeably slow within 20 years

Fear is the mind killer