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"the parallels between speaking nonchalantly about Earth being done, but that's okay because we're on to the next thing, and the way evangelicals talk about the rapture, is uncanny."
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What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology
Silicon Valley elite want to âdisruptâ democracy with feudalism. Understanding their new and evolving ideology is critical to grappling with whatâs happening in the U.S. today.
https://drilled.media/news/network-state
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"The whole industry is staked on a shaky metaphor." AI is a compression algorithm, not a learning one.
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AIâs Memorization Crisis
Large language models donât âlearnââthey copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGUKS1lfoO5FgFgRv6F5W4_c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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âIf Americans increased their protein intake by just 25%âŠit would require about 100 million acres of additional ag land each year â an area larger than Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania combined â & increase annual emissions by 100s of millions of tons of CO2e, according to
@worldresources.bsky.social
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Opinion | The New Food Pyramid, Brought to You by Big Meat
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/opinion/food-pyramid-meat-industry.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DVA.VMAh.Ak4E4Fl3y4PG&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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at the Grand Army of the Republic cemetery in Seattle, where veterans who fought to end slavery and preserve the Union are buried â including from the 6th Minnesota
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i was reading through a short story i wrote 12 years ago and googled a phrase from it, because i couldn't recall whether it was an allusion or not. Google's AI explained that my phrase -- which does not appear in the Bible, or anywhere else that I can tell -- reflects Biblical sources.
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we have a mid-season opening on an Ottoneu fantasy basketball team. - best fantasy platform with budget, auction, keepers - h2h categories with playoffs - jaylen brown, LBJ, curry top stars with surplus players like ausar thompson & kel'el ware - $20 renewal, no prize, very fun hmu if interested
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my state rep responded to my venezuela letter saying he can't do anything because foreign affairs are federal territory. interestingly same rep said he can't push for fossil fuel divestment in the pension either.
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favorite fiction read '25 Swannâs Way - Proust* The Ambassadors - James* Flight from Neveryon - Delany* The Door - Szabo* Sentimental Education - Flaubert Abigail - Szabo Pan - Clune Margoâs Got Money Troubles - Thorpe Creation Lake - Kushner Hurricane Season - Melchior The Wall - Haushofer
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making sense of the world isn't getting any easier, so i asked some really thoughtful people to help us sort through what really mattered in 2025, and what didn't, for
@themorningnews.org
year 10 doing this!!
themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...
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The Year That Was and Wasnât
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
https://themorningnews.org/2025-the-year-that-was-and-wasnt/
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top concerts '25 boris patti smith wilco gang of four slowdive yhwh nailgun lcd sdsystm capn jazz nourished by time hon mention reg faves ylt, b2s, waxahatchee
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airport sprint should be an olympic sport
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tuneyards really saw that hip-hop in the taxi scene in THE COMEDY and thought, i'm gonna make a career out of that (i love tuneyards)
15 days ago
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nootropic bros: i'm doing SUPERMAN SLEEP where you sleep in snippets throughout all 24 hours, invented by NAPOLEON for PRODUCTIVITY mothers since forever: đ
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caregiver and caretaker: almost the same thing. yet, to take and to give: opposite.
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'If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting they find inconvenient."'
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Earlier this month, after President Trump blasted "60 Minutes" for interviewing Marjorie Taylor Greene, correspondents noticed a change behind the scenes. "Bari Weiss got personally involved," specifically with stories about politics, a source at the program said.
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17664172015045b4d0c67e870/raw
25 days ago
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The name "Millicent" goes so hard. Like wdym you're called "Thousandth Hundredth." Are you super potent or are you just tiny?
28 days ago
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We helped build out the case that tripling adaptation finance is possible. In the end, developed countries agreed too, and it became a key outcome of COP30 and one that will surely catalyze projects that save lives and propel sustainable development.
www.wri.org/insights/tri...
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28 days ago
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"Didion explained her quietism as her way of being true to herself, of honoring her lack of faith in collective action."
www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reap...
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Reappraisal: Joan Didion | Dispatches Magazine
ââOn Becoming a Cop Haterâ remains the only one of Didionâs Saturday Evening Post columns never republished in her essay collections. Why did she choose to shed it?â âScott Saul
https://www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reappraisal-joan-didion
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without GHGP -- recently partnered with the International Standards Organization -- we would not have a level understanding of different corporate emissions. it's a hugely important tool and one that the fossil fuel companies would love to undermine.
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29 days ago
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reading this fantastic essay about being a roman amongst american tourists and recalled this maddeningly stupid Google suggestion (I googled Puglia) no place is BETTER
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i had this stuck in my head ("That's all right, that's okay / I never loved you anyway") for like 25 years before i found it again via Nickelodeon's "Snow Day" soundtrack trying to figure out if it was The Las or Sixpence version of "There She Goes" in the movie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG7T...
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Hoku - Another Dumb Blonde
YouTube video by HokuVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG7T9q48ggQ
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the duality of humankind, the two genders, life in nonprofit communications, etc.
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"By targeting diversity language, however, the administration has been able to make cuts to programs that benefit children with disabilities without specifically rolling back special education."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
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Born Deaf and Blind, Sheâs Caught in Trumpâs Anti-Diversity Crusade
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/trump-dei-funding-deaf-blind.html
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tired: Goldeneye (James Bond title) wired: goldeneye (duck)
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Dan Izzo
about 1 month ago
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:
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CalMatters
about 1 month ago
In their latest installment, Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler show that the officials with the power to do something about it â
@cagovernornewsom.bsky.social
, legislators, the courts, the Department of Motor Vehicles â have failed to act.
calmatters.org/investigatio...
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40,000 people died on California roads. State leaders looked away
As driving deaths have skyrocketed across the state, the governor, legislators, the courts and the DMV have failed to act.
https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/12/california-roadway-deaths-inaction/
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ryan cooper
about 1 month ago
the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, itâs called renewables and green industry
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Jarrett Walker
about 1 month ago
An astonishing percentage of Americans are open to car-free living. The problem isn't attitudes. The problem is the failure to invest in viable options.
humantransit.org/2025/12/many...
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Many Americans Are Open to Car-Free Living â Human Transit
Is Americans a âcar cultureâ or are they âcar dependentâ? Do they drive because they love driving, or are they in an unhealthy relationship with a substance it would be happy to do without? Obviousl...
https://humantransit.org/2025/12/many-americans-are-open-to-car-free-living.html
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ShareAction
about 1 month ago
Our new analysis of Europeâs largest banks has found progress on climate has ground to a standstill, and in some cases, reversed As environmental and social risks rise, banksâ responses are still falling short: the average score across the 25 banks was 41%đœ
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about 1 month ago
âĄClean energy continues to dominate new power capacity.
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The State of Clean Energyđ
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Market Forces
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: Six organisations from Papua New Guinea, Australia, Japan and Europe have filed the first-ever Equator Principles complaint against
#MUFG
over
#PapuaLNG
â a gas project that could affect 12,700+ Indigenous people and threaten ~100 species.
#climate
#biodiversity
#humanrights
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NGOs submit first formal Equator Principles complaint against MUFG and potential financiers of the Papua LNG project - Market Forces
Port Moresby/Melbourne/Tokyo/Paris/London. Wednesday 10 December â Today, six organisations have submitted the first formal complaint to the Equator Principles detailing urgent concerns about the pote...
https://www.marketforces.org.au/ngos-submit-first-formal-equator-principles-complaint-againstmufg-and-potential-financiers-of-the-papua-lng-project/
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so what we used to do in CIA black sites to alleged terrorists, we now do to migrants, on US soil, for telling guards that another migrant needed his medication
www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
https://www.forever-wars.com/torture-techniques-from-cia-black-sites-were-used-at-alligator-alcatraz/
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Spencer Ackerman
about 1 month ago
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
https://www.forever-wars.com/torture-techniques-from-cia-black-sites-were-used-at-alligator-alcatraz/
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WRI Climate
about 1 month ago
A new WRI Finance paper offers the first stocktake of how
#MDBs
are mainstreaming nature. The takeaway? MDBs are only testing the waters right now, and they will need to make a much bigger splash to mobilize the $200B per year needed for nature by 2030. đ
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350.org
about 1 month ago
Fossil fuel companies and the institutions that support them have been using đ» ads & theđïž media to influence everything from national elections to the outcomes of the UN climate summit
#COP
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Stand.earth
about 1 month ago
This week, Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs put 40+ private banks, credit agencies and pension funds on notice in a letter endorsed by more than 125 civil society organizations from around the world â calling on them to not finance or invest in the risky Ksi Lisims LNG project in British Columbia, Canada.
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"Consistent results across specifications suggest [mobility] infrastructure enhances trust by promoting mobility and exposure to new people and ideas, as well as by elevating political trust as the government is perceived as more reliable and effective."
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Motorways and railroads to trust
This paper examines how transportation infrastructure, specifically motorway and railroad length, impacts interpersonal and political trust. Using datâŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268125000927
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Kathleen Lu
about 1 month ago
You know how this became utterly predictable and inevitable? When absolutely none of the people responsible for the previous thousand family separations were punished in any way
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a 2/3 zone with pat spencer and will richard on the wings has gotta be the smallest in nba decades
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"Central banks can address the climate crisis through a setup that embraces what the authors term âgovernment directing with operational independenceâ."
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Revisiting central bank independence for the climate era: insights from the Peopleâs Bank of China - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
This paper explores the relationship between independence and climate action through an in-depth study of the PBoC, comparing it with Western central banks.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/revisiting-central-bank-independence-for-the-climate-era-insights-from-the-peoples-bank-of-china/?__s=9pdefy2dic9hkmzk8v7i&__s=mqwu94ezjknrz0vn2yd4&utm_campaign=Your+Syllabus+This+Week&utm_medium=email&utm_source=drip
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"The TFFFâs success now depends on these and other nations, as well as private sector investors, making the investments necessary to get the TFFF fully operational."
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The Tropical Forests Forever Facility Could Finally Finance Nature Conservation. Will Funders Back It?
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility aims to mobilize $125 billion to reward countries that keep low deforestation rates.
https://www.wri.org/insights/financing-nature-conservation-tropical-forest-forever-facility
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I was excited when Janeese Lewis George ran for Ward 4 and now I'm excited she's running for Mayor
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about 2 months ago
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the people making money off "freebirthing" aren't just killing babies and endangering moms, they are ... sticking it to Sir Isaac Newton and Louis Pasteur đȘ
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
about 2 months ago
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ben driscoll
about 2 months ago
maybe i am going insane
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's annual '52 things i learned,' terrible to see that AI is being used to selectively offer lower wages to nurses with more difficult financial straits
medium.com/@tomwhitwell...
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52 things I learned in 2025
This year I stopped being a consultant, started a tiny company, sold hundreds of little modular synths, hosted two incredible events, andâŠ
https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8
about 2 months ago
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i can't be the only one who raced to the grocery store last Thursday and was puzzled by whether I should accept "Yellow Gold" when I was looking for Yukon
www.seriouseats.com/yukon-gold-p...
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Your "Yukon Gold" Potatoes Probably Aren't YukonsâHere's Why
Yukon Gold potatoes are getting harder to find. Here's why growers are moving away from them and which yellow varieties are taking their place.
https://www.seriouseats.com/yukon-gold-potato-decline-11857300
about 2 months ago
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dream blunt rotation
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about 2 months ago
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