Ron Cline
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50 Years of Moore's Law -- Retired from bleeding edge silicon design.
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My first post. Information-based consciousness theories don't take into account the energy needed to create or modify information, a fundamental gap. Creates a door for quantum entanglement in state memory in the brain.
youtu.be/zUvVUiaQjNc?...
#consci
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Cline, Ron - An Evolutionary Rationale
YouTube video by TSC - The Science of Consciousness Conferences
https://youtu.be/zUvVUiaQjNc?si=aEKjJqDyltasDhMc
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‘Payment expected within seven days’: New Zealand doctor invoices US embassy for rising petrol costs
Shane Dunphy sends bill for almost $3,000, along with letter saying ‘The USA is responsible for this and therefore should be held accountable’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/new-zealand-doctor-invoices-us-embassy-fuel-prices-iran-war?CMP=share_btn_url
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Eliza | Comms open!!
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For ppl who aren't aware: Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut. They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures. You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!
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If we're trying to change hearts and minds in Iran, this is the wrong approach. Who targeted this school?
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Rachel Bitecofer
about 1 month ago
BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
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Nash Is Here For It
about 2 months ago
Wow.
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MdDoogie3
about 2 months ago
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
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mid at middle age
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I suspect this, people pay more in tax than benefits received, is true for EVERY CLASS of people EXCEPT billionaires.
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Arizona Right Watch
2 months ago
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Cato Institute
2 months ago
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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Anita Leirfall
3 months ago
The Mythology Of Conscious AI Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. | By Anil Seth
www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...
#AI
#consciousness
#philsky
#PhilosophySky
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The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai
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Aaron Huertas
3 months ago
One of my old professors told us about how he and other political communication scholars had gotten hyped about satellite imagery + global cable news making it nearly impossible for genocides to happen without intervention, only to see that hypothesis fail in real time. A humbling experience.
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David Gura
3 months ago
Woody Guthrie’s “New Years Rulin’s” from 1943:
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Charles Fourier
3 months ago
Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄
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Nicky Schwenzer
4 months ago
WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!? Where is Congress? Where are they? I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C. Even George is upset 🦮 & we should all be shocked! No one is here to say this is wrong! I was born here. I'm Andrew Howard. 1/5🧵
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It seems to me that most conservatives and liberals, if you strip away billionaire interests and the extreme positions in the areas of common citizen concern, could agree on a significant subset of goals. Why can't we have two parties that sign on, and compete for the authority to implement?
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Choice is the seat of the soul. The one gift God granted us. Frankenstein, 2025
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An observation - 1 in 7 million probability in a normal distribution is more than 5 standard deviations away from the mean. It is empirically remarkable that there was not a single person last weekend who decided to make history through individual violence. History will note it.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘
6 months ago
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Alice Stollmeyer
6 months ago
🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud: “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
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Tomás Arís
6 months ago
Good rule to live by.
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Andrea Chalupa
7 months ago
I went to Twitter just to check that this creepy Brendan Carr tweet is real, and of course it is. Like in Russia, far-right trolls have taken over
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MS NOW
7 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568
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I would simply like to ask the A.I. community why Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics do not apply, fundamentally, to AI research? The positronic brain existed before R. Daneel Olivaw. It's not the body, it's the SW, right?
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I'm just putting this out there, but has anyone considered that AI chat engines are just disembodied robots, and that perhaps they should obey Asimov's three laws as a starter?
7 months ago
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"Be careful, we're watching you!" Our current president is actually quoting Orwell in the first person.
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This hits close to home. The nearby town of Lexington was founded as a trading post by my great-grandparents in the 1870's. I know the character of people there, and they are not going to be happy about this one whit...
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Cornhusker Clink: A New Partnership with DHS and the State of Nebraska to Expand Detention Space | Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new partnership with the state of Nebraska to expand ICE detention space by up to 280 beds. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is part...
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/19/cornhusker-clink-new-partnership-dhs-and-state-nebraska-expand-detention-space
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My definition of consciousness includes self-awareness.
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Clara Jeffery
9 months ago
ICE detained a hospital chaplain/Imam worked primarily in the NICU, comforting families especially those whose babies were dying. His colleague speaks out
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT68UAPXp/
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Chaplain Ayman—Imam Ayman Soliman— has been my colleague for four years. ICE detained him at a routine check-in. Ayman is an asset to our community, and we are demanding his release. #aymansoliman ...
TikTok video by elizabethdiop8
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT68UAPXp/
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Today I remember: "Someone you don't know will die." - the classic Twilight Zone with Mare Winningham ... "Button Button". Push the button on the box and get a million dollars -- with that simple catch.
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The New Twilight Zone - Push The Button - Part 1.flv
YouTube video by SandieAngel338
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oKSJZAaSyc
9 months ago
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Grant Stern
9 months ago
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.
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Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2025-06-04/texas-man-born-to-u-s-soldier-on-u-s-army-base-abroad-deported/
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Brandon Friedman
10 months ago
This is physical bravery. This guy is a patriot.
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Hover over the circles -- totally intuitive and the data tells an interesting story.
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Jacob Soboroff
10 months ago
Ross told me he enlisted in the Marines when he was 17 because he loves his country and to help his parents get a path to citizenship. protesting directly in front of Marines deployed by President Trump he told me "it makes me feel sad... a lot of Marines, they’re all Hispanic."
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I posted this in the summer of '23, giving an 8-10 year time estimate for the situation posed. Now 2-4 years.
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Ron’s blog
Much ado was made a while back about whether or not a certain AI system (Google’s LaMDA) was conscious. The architecture, of course, wasn’t…
https://medium.com/@roncline_76540/rons-blog-5264c08b380d
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DOGE cancelled funding for National History Day. It would not have gone forward this week, if not for people pitching in to take up the shortfall. Perhaps it's time for a citizens' superfund, apolitical, that can work towards the common good.
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About National History Day - National History Day
A world leader in history and civics education, National History Day® improves the teaching and learning of history.
https://nhd.org/en/about/
10 months ago
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The Tennessee Holler
10 months ago
WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her):
www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...
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Raider
10 months ago
ICE crossed a line in LA
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ProPublica
10 months ago
NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=6-4
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I remember when "The Peter Principle" came out. Still valid, but it just seems so quaint now...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
10 months ago
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#consci
This piece with its prediction was written over a year ago ... adding here now.
medium.com/@roncline_76...
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Ron’s blog
Much ado was made a while back about whether or not a certain AI system (Google’s LaMDA) was conscious. The architecture, of course, wasn’t…
https://medium.com/@roncline_76540/rons-blog-5264c08b380d
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Seth Abramson
10 months ago
Let me stop you there—my answer is no.
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Axiom #1.
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Opinion | A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ag-sulzberger-free-press.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G08.mblX.7gi6wSHuRK1F&smid=bs-share
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NBC News
11 months ago
A traffic stop in Dalton, Georgia, which police admitted was a mistake, led to a 19-year-old Mexico-born college student's arrest and possible deportation.
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Georgia college student faces deportation after being mistakenly pulled over during traffic stop
All traffic-related charges against Ximena Arias-Cristobal were dropped but she remains in ICE custody.
https://nbcnews.to/3GQRAct
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A relevant example of the unique, now endangered, research ecosystem in the U.S.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/b...
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A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/business/mercedes-factorial-solid-state-battery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F08.eMRp.1hB1TdDfyinw&smid=bs-share
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The Tennessee Holler
11 months ago
🔥 Kimmel on
@repstansbury.bsky.social
gloriously trolling Marge for using a doctored photo to try to make a witness look bad
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John Elwood
12 months ago
A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
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Data Bear 🏳️🌈
12 months ago
Trump's 145% tariff on China sparked a surge in imports. But exports didn't follow. Now, West Coast ports are sending ships back empty. This isn't economic revival. It's a retreat. This week's Data and Politics long form newsletter post.
www.dataandpolitics.net/empty-ships-...
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Empty Ships, Empty Promises: Trump's Tariffs Are About to Decimate American Shipping
Trump's 145% tariffs triggered a flood of imports—but not a rise in American exports. West Coast ports are now sending ships back empty. This imbalance isn't just economic—it's personal. Jobs, wages, ...
https://www.dataandpolitics.net/empty-ships-empty-promises-trumps-tariffs-are-about-to-decimate-american-shipping/
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Katie Mack
12 months ago
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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