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Richard Howard 🇮🇱 retweeted
Nice work here from @_RHoward and Optimistic Tech.
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Is it possible that that AI’s insatiable demand for energy and it's ability to produce intelligence could finally crack fusion???
This happened before. As explored at Risk & Progress, the Newcomen Steam engine drove demand for coal, while also making it possible to automatically pump water from mines, enabling us to mine more coal.
The history of technology is often defined by feedback loops and ASI/Fusion look like a tight pair.
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Tablet is one of the few outlets that cuts through the noise — publishing fact-based, data-driven work that actually shifts the conversation.
In a new investigation, @ZachG932 exposes how the media played a key role in mainstreaming the “genocide” lie in public discourse 🧵
Richard Howard 🇮🇱 retweeted
Building machines that can suck 1million tonnes of Co2 out of the air.
Turning it into jet fuel and vodka.
Let's fucking go @MissionZeroTech
Read about them in my latest newsletter - optimistictech.substack.com/…
#e/acc #climate #Startups #TechForGood
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Russia started a war that’s killed over a million people.
Russian diplomats aren’t murdered.
China runs concentration camps.
Chinese diplomats aren’t targeted.
Iran funds terrorism across the globe.
Iranian diplomats aren’t gunned down.
Turkey bombs civilians and jails dissidents.
Turkish diplomats aren’t hunted.
Sudan is collapsing in genocide and famine.
Sudanese diplomats aren’t executed.
Pakistan harbors terrorists and persecutes minorities.
Pakistani diplomats aren’t ambushed.
Syria used chemical weapons on its own people.
Syrian diplomats aren’t shot outside museums.
North Korea starves its citizens and threatens nuclear war.
North Korean diplomats aren’t attacked.
The list is endless.
But out of all these countries, only Israel provokes such obsessive hatred that someone would throw away their entire life just to murder two innocent Israelis in their 20s.
Today is a terribly sad day.
May their memories be a blessing.
Richard Howard 🇮🇱 retweeted
Every week I write about 1 company doing amazing things to build a better future. This week I wrote about
@mastreforest
- Reforesting after wildfires
- Storing carbon in dead trees underground
- Raised over $130m from fantastic investors including @sevensevensix
Link 👇
Richard Howard 🇮🇱 retweeted
Every week I write about 1 company doing amazing things to build a better future. This week I wrote about @zipline :
- 101m miles flown
- 20m vaccines delivered
- Over 50% reduction in maternal deaths
Zipline creates infrastructure where there isn't any. Link 👇
Richard Howard 🇮🇱 retweeted
Theo Von talking to Candace Owens. Stephen A Smith defending her. Ian Carroll going on Rogan. Now this. Antisemitism is breaking through to the mainstream.
I tried to explain to influential Jewish friends once that their battle is not against antisemitism narrowly, but the general problem of the rise of Low Human Capital.
Once stupidity is accepted in the public square, antisemitism is the natural corollary. There’s no version of the universe where you have a Rogan who doesn’t go in this direction.
Richard Howard 🇮🇱 retweeted
Doesn't matter what happens at the Oscars,
This is the best movie of the year.
Richard Howard 🇮🇱 retweeted
Wholeheartedly endorse this message. Can’t say this loudly enough.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
For Clarity since this may end up misleading viewers:
This video is AI generated. Here’s how it’s confirmed:
1. The AI of Steven Spielberg has an extra finger for a split second. (0:07)
2. The AI of Mark Zuckerberg is using an old image - Mark has curly hair now.
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Richard Howard 🇮🇱 retweeted
sorry i just cant get over this movie’s erasure this award season, arguably the best movie of the year and its been so underappreciated
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This is the first and likely the last time I’ll retweet an ad, but I love it.
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you’re canceling our plans? in the middle of the male loneliness epidemic???
