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every tweet has an omission for the sake of brevity: what do you think?
Katılım Mart 2016
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@cxgonzalez what was the first major news event you remember as a kid
what was your favorite movie as a kid
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cant retweet enough. all the people from parents generation got very online (indian perspective)
Thorne 🌸@ExistentialEnso
This is definitely a big reason everything feels crazier post-pandemic A lot more people got Very Online
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Reminder: all mechanical watches are totally mogged by this fucking thing
space Ξ@spacexbt
Cashed out axiom rewards and met today with @watchking69 in Geneva after 1h of negotiations we found a fair price and shook hands crazy time piece, always love to do business with wk
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"To read the essay, the professor had to carefully heat the paper over a gas stove, slowly bringing the hidden words to life."
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"So uh, gonna have to give you a failing grade... I couldn't read your report."
"What!? I told you how to read it didn't I?"
"Yeah, yeah, the gas stove thing. See what happened was—"
"You torched it by accident."
"Oh in a heartbeat. I've never seen something burn so quickly."
ArchaeoHistories@histories_arch
A history assignment about ninjas took an unexpected turn in 2019 when a Japanese university student decided to submit her essay in a way that would have impressed the very people she was studying. The student, who was studying ninja history at Mie University, wrote her entire report using invisible ink. Instead of regular ink, she used a traditional technique made from soybeans. When the liquid dries, it becomes nearly impossible to see on paper. The text only appears when heat is applied, causing the organic compounds in the soy solution to darken and reveal the writing. To read the essay, the professor had to carefully heat the paper over a gas stove, slowly bringing the hidden words to life. The idea was not just a clever trick. It was meant to demonstrate a real historical technique associated with espionage and covert communication. According to the professor, the creativity and effort behind the assignment perfectly reflected the spirit of ninja ingenuity. Even without fully revealing every line of the essay, the professor was impressed enough to award the student a top grade. #archaeohistories
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@VoidAsuka I wonder how books would be when we unfurl scrolls from herculaneum
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I just want to go to theaters a lot 😊
Nick Zednik@NickZednik
Nolan. Spielberg. Villeneuve. Iñárritu. I prayed for times like this. We’ve all already won this year.
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Boom . There it is
*TRUMP WAIVES JONES ACT IN BID TO CURB HIGH FUEL PRICES
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🇳🇱 Farm in the Netherlands uses Bitcoin mining to keep stable temperatures inside the greenhouse 👀
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We're going to have two categories of robots in the future:
1. Humanoids, which we'll always call robots (because of sci-fi).
2. Literally every other electrified machine.
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YouTube
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Today’s guest on the Free Radicals podcast is @ArtirKel, head of theory @RetroBio_ and blogger nintil.com.
Jose is a prolific blogger, covering a wide breadth of topics across economics, philosophy, progress studies, science funding, much more, and of course longevity. His works have been published by @a16z, @WorksInProgMag and @ASI.
Our conversation is wide ranging, spanning a deep dive on Retro’s work to replace and engineer microglia to rejuvenate the brain and how our cells have the ability to turn back the aging clock but choose not to. We also covered the technological stagnation and why biological engineering is the new frontier of progress, as well as philosophical topics like transhumanism and how a future of total biological control might impact our values and way of life.
Be sure to follow me and @EricDai_BioE to stay up to date on the latest news in longevity biotech! And Special thank you to @NFX & @omri_drory for lending us their beautiful podcasting studio!
0:00 Intro
2:49 What is aging & why cells have a tough choice to make
9:02 When cells choose to reverse aging themselves
12:43 Cellular vs Organismal Aging & the magic wand experiment
18:31 What is reprogramming
22:40 How reprogramming plays a role in DNA damage repair
25:42 Do we already know how to cure aging? FOXO3!
28:37 How to cut through the complexity of interconnected biology
32:32 Why transcription factors are so great for intervening
36:49 Does a rejuvenation program exist already in the genome
38:51 Michael Levin: from thinking in terms of genes to morphogenesis
48:14 Tech stagnation and why physics is cooked
55:03 Why doesn't the world look more futuristic
57:26 Transhumanism & asking ourselves what we want out of life
1:05:34 Do we need war for technological progress
1:09:31 Government role in science funding
1:15:06 How Jose became the Head of Theory at Retro
1:24:53 How AI might put software engineers out of a job, and push them towards biotech
1:27:28 What it takes to get a flywheel in biotech
1:29:04 Rejuvenation vs Prevention
1:34:23 Aging is the coolest hardest problem to work on
1:36:09 What does it take to cure aging
1:42:25 Delivery mechanisms for genetic therapies
1:48:53 Retro's work to replace microglia and engineer them outside the body
1:59:10 Consciousness
2:00:39 Jose's Origin Story
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@krishnanrohit yeah they changed it a few months back at least. maybe they should remove the word news and just say :inner circle
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@joodalooped @PradyuPrasad there is a theology joke here where god just gave the first push
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It is an inevitability that machines will be better than humans at intellectual work that humans themselves find interesting. The question is just about timelines
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This is the first intl trip where I feel I've done the logistics to 100% so I'm fully prepared which feels good. Also I'm finally satisfied with my System for packing my carry-on:
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@kaimicahmills is this possible as immune cells are required and hence maybe brain too?
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the ultimate solution is through technology
we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings
this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient
experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable
in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering
Lewis Bollard@Lewis_Bollard
Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates. Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023. Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state. The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices. Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at senate.gov and house.gov — it takes two minutes and it matters.
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and to think that Rest is history folks said that history is not really that useful. rare case of wrongful self undermining.
joe ⿻@joetforhire
always remember that learning about history is a powerful anti-anxiety medicine for doomscroll-induced freakout
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no we wouldn't, because evangelion GUI solves for exactly one problem: being beautiful entertainment. unless the software is literally that (i.e. Marathon) it's almost certainly not a good approach
hardmaru@hardmaru
In an alternate timeline we’d be using Evangelion GUI designs rather than CLIs
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