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Invisible Gorilla
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"Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves" Richard Feynman

Ultimate Disc, some politics, some science.
No point in only hearing opinions I agree with.

NOTE: I am NOT Chabris or Simons! But I do like their book.
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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The Colorado Summit have signed former NFL wide receiver Rodney Adams for the 2025 season!
Tuesday Toss: Summit Sign Former NFL Receiver For 2025 Season
February 25, 2025 By Evan Lepler When the e-mail arrived with the subject line that included the words “Former NFL Wide Receiver,” Colorado Summit Head CoachTim Kefalas was super skeptical. “I’ve had ...
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February 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9
December 6, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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"it's not an illegal lottery because we are committing fraud"
Elon Musk's pro-Trump group does not choose the winners of its $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picks people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda, a lawyer for the billionaire said on Monday
Elon Musk lawyer says $1 million voter giveaway winners are not random
Elon Musk's pro-Trump group does not choose the winners of its $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picks people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda, a lawyer for the billionaire said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 4, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Short version:

1. Musks's Starlink gamed a badly run Trump-era broadband subsidy system to get a billion dollars.

2. The Biden FCC (correctly) reversed the award, saying taxpayer money should be prioritized for more reliable fiber, and that Starlink was expensive and slow.

3. Republicans whined.
October 4, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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I love in the densest and earliest-urbanized metropolitan area in the United States, and as recently as 1955 the land my house is built in was in the middle of hundreds of acres of potato fields.
September 16, 2024 at 5:32 PM
NYC's Central Park should have a James and the Giant Peach sculpture (as in the story ends with James living in the pit in CP). You can have James and his friends. Kinda like the Alice sculpture.
August 27, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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NBC claims it removed the cartoon "Conspiracy Theory Rock!" from SNL reruns because it's not funny.

But that excuse is just part of the conspiracy!

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Conspiracy Theory Rock: The SNL cartoon that may or may not have been banned
On March 14, 1988, Saturday Night Live aired a cartoon as part of Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse series: "Conspiracy Theory Rock!" In a style parodying the "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoons of…
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July 4, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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(Just one of several ways in which traditional notions of God are incoherent, because humans have difficulty distinguishing between "infinite" and "really big.")
June 12, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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It's such a glorious post. It has only two interpretations, both of them evidence of securities fraud:

1) He's telling the truth, and thus admitting to insider trading.

2) He's lying, and thus committing market manipulation.
My professional legal advice is…do not do this.
March 2, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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he's so embarrassing lmao
February 25, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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have u perverts seen this yet
January 26, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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🟠 this week's Classic™️ Tom the Dancing Bug
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MATRIX PLANET
All you see is an illusion.
Corporations are not real.
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www.gocomics.com/tomthedancin... .
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 18, 2024 | GoComics.com
January 18, 2024
www.gocomics.com
January 18, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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🔴 Good morning and Happy New Year! Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.bsky.social ...
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Introducing the newest character in Tom the Dancing Bug: MICKEY MOUSE!
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Meet Tom the Dancing Bug's newest character: Mickey Mouse!
👉 Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal!  Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration!  I...
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January 1, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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The only way to save democracy is to ban clothing. It’s just science.
December 26, 2023 at 1:17 PM
In blood and death,
'neath a screaming sky
I laid down on the ground
November 30, 2023 at 5:21 PM
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This week's comic is a Calvinesque and Hobbesian look inside Little Donald's brain.
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Polecatt and new member Emma R.
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November 15, 2023 at 6:40 PM
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Then you don't know what you're looking at. This outlines the relevant legal structure. akivamcohen.substack.com/p/thinking-a...
Thinking about Israel, Gaza, and the Laws of War
Let’s start with this: The untimely death of any innocent is, at a minimum, a tragedy. That’s true whether it’s a mother who dies in a car accident, a brother who falls off a high building, a da...
akivamcohen.substack.com
November 14, 2023 at 12:17 AM
For better or worse, I've stopped looking for/consuming new music (sad and maybe that'll change). But I found out that Beck as a new thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z87n...
And I thought I'd post an old winner: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEv...
November 7, 2023 at 3:16 PM