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"The Global South is home to some of AI’s most enthusiastic and inventive users, and their experiments could help us rethink our own institutions. [In the West], a culture of fear encourages protectionism: We hunker down and romanticize legacy systems rather than ask what might replace them."
Thoughtful, and thought-provoking, from Payal Arora in @restofworld.
restofworld.org/2026/west-ai…
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loved talking tennis on the daily show
Full interview with @GiriNathan: youtu.be/BL8dNHrC_fc
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*** Nepal-Tibet Disaster Update***
Our preliminary analysis of #Sentinel-1 satellite #radar observations from January 8 to August 19, 2026, reveals measurable #downslope motion, reaching ~10 mm/month, within the #glacier/ice-rock system near the apparent source of the #August 26 #Nepal–#Tibet disaster.
Remarkably, the satellite observations extend to just seven days before the catastrophic collapse and flood.
The results suggest that the #slope was #deforming #prior to #failure and raise an important question: could satellite radar observations help #identify #developing #instability in #high-#mountain glacier and rock systems before #catastrophic #collapse?
@UNUINWEH @VT_Science @EOI_lab
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How people can help Nepal’s flood-affected communities
A list of funds and organizations taking donations, including the Prime Minister's Disaster Relief Fund.
Caution: Fundraising for disasters is a common vector for scams in the first 48 to 72 hours, so before transferring money, please verify account details directly through the official channels or Nepal’s consulate and embassy’s official website and social media channels.
kathmandupost.com/national/2…
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“If we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.” - David Attenborough, UN Champion of the Earth
His work and dedication to protect our planet must serve as an inspiration to us all. 🌏
#ActNow #OurCommonFuture
“But of course this weird moment in history does have a past. It comes from somewhere. It wasn’t inevitable. Things could have turned out differently. They still can.” theguardian.com/news/2026/au…
"Every great work of art, including architecture, is at heart an unanswered question.” virginiabusiness.com/virgini…
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"I’m trying to prove myself wrong more than anybody else."
Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter is streaming August 20.
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Abraham Lincoln remade the Fourth of July. He elevated the holiday’s significance, turning it into a day to celebrate America’s national creed, writes Allen C. Guelzo
on.wsj.com/3SuEUhn
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Before the Declaration of Independence, there was the Lee Resolution, a bold proposal that paved the way for American independence.
ALT On June 7, 1776, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee introduced the Lee Resolution, which proposed independence for the American colonies. The Lee Resolution contained three parts: a declaration of independence, a call to form foreign alliances, and a plan of a confederation.
ALT Because many members of the Congress believed Lee's actions to be premature or wanted instructions from their colonies before voting, approval was deferred until July 2. On that date, Congress adopted the first part (the declaration). The words of the Lee Resolution are echoed in the Declaration of Independence. The voting record for the Lee Resolution is displayed in this document, with 12 colonies providing affirmative votes as noted on the right. New York did not vote until the newly elected New York Convention upheld the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776.
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> Jerry Seinfeld was all over the TV
> Knicks have 3 wins in the NBA Finals
> America is about to host the World Cup
> A new computing paradigm is taking over the world
Welcome to 1994.
Happy birthday, President John F. Kennedy. Your words to the Yale University Class of 1962 echo today:
"As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality.
For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Mythology distracts us everywhere - in government as in business, in politics as in economics, in foreign affairs as in domestic affairs."
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Some words of wisdom from JFK in the age of AI: However extraordinary computers may be, we are still ahead of them & man is still the most extraordinary computer of all, his judgement, his nerve & the lessons he can learn from experience, still make him unique.
"There is a balance to be struck, and it requires the one thing that is hardest to do when you're anxious about your future: prioritizing long-term understanding over short-term output. Nobody has ever been good at that. I'm not sure why we'd start now."
A must-read meditation by Minas Karamanis on science, learning and understanding: “The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.” ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma…
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Exciting news: TED, @khanacademy and @ETSInsights are joining forces to launch the Khan TED Institute — a new higher education program built for the AI era to help prepare learners for the next generation of jobs.
Learn more here: t.ted.com/Jc7Kd5s
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What happens when a large employer stops waiting for universities to prepare workers? I visited @Infosys's
337-acre corporate university in India, where 20,000 new hires train for up to 5 months. New in @hechingerreport
hechingerreport.org/why-indi…
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As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.