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wow so buying twitter is a really expensive hedge on roko's basilisk
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See you tonight! 9pm ET on MSNBC!
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this conversation about consciousness and emotions and death with an AI named LaMBDA at Google is absolutely chilling this is without-a-doubt one of the craziest things I've ever seen technology do, I almost can't believe it's real wow @nitashatiku washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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what if he just spent the whole pandemic playing risk and
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for this new year's resolution i've decided to abandon all subtext and just resolve to be a completely different person
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one of the better treatments for "impostor syndrome" is to read books that are not that good
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what if we're living in a simulation but like a shitty one so every time there's a buffer overflow, a bunch of our socks go missing
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as someone who has, many times, returned to a site of emotional stagnation and/or complete devastation imagining that things would surely be different -- solidarity with the container ship
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"you have the watches, but we have the time." - various members of the taliban, to various westerners, recounted in several to many newspapers i've read over the last 20 or so years
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Email has broken off into small shards of shrapnel delivered across multiple platforms and services: slack pings, WhatsApp etc. This makes his low grade anxiety core point even more true.
„As long as we remain committed to a workflow based on constant, improvised messaging, we will remain in a state of low-grade anxiety“, writes ⁦@Calnewport_⁩ in his new book. newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
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shitposting
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Back in early 2020, I tweeted a thing about vaccine passports ahead. It seemed like an obvious next step. A bunch of people, including some doctors, told me to stop spreading misinformation.
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People finally realizing the "con" in Silicon Valley startups: a thread. 1/
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Israeli colonizers dancing and celebrating the continued apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people. This is pure fascism. #FreePalestine
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do more of this, wherever he goes
I'm standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists. The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.
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“Let the world and history witness, there are bombs in Al Aqsa mosque. They are suffocating us in Al Aqsa mosque.”
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I started filming just after a stun grenade was used against journalists and medics and captured an Israeli soldier about to throw another one into the crowd. #alaqsa
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This young man is risking a lot to speak out publicly, and has been ceaselessly reporting on the ongoing situation in Jerusalem. We don't hear many Palestinian voices receiving public platforms this big, so please listen to him as he shares his first-hand experience.
Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd says Israel is "doing everything it can to terrorize Palestinians" while Jewish settlers "can just walk around our neighborhoods, steal our homes and wield their guns."
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Thread about the derivative of the natural log 1/n
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