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I'm definitely unqualified to ask these questions, but here goes my head into the chopping block. If pure computational power was the solution to AGI, then how does a mother Raccoon problem solve what I've observed with a brain the size of my fist? Or Ravens navigate, bear young and obtain food?
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I'm definitely unqualified to ask these questions, but here goes my head into the chopping block. If pure computational power was the solution to AGI, then how does a mother Raccoon problem solve what I've observed with a brain the size of my fist? Or Ravens navigate, bear young and obtain food?
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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The investigators asked Clint Massie how many more girls in the church might come forward with stories about him touching or kissing them.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The investigators asked Clint Massie how many more girls in the church might come forward with stories about him touching or kissing them.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
Cryptomining and AI data centers are a symptom of an economic system detached from anything useful or productive. An imaginary system for imaginary money to rule over a world of real people.
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Cryptomining and AI data centers are a symptom of an economic system detached from anything useful or productive. An imaginary system for imaginary money to rule over a world of real people.
It's not cynicism to think that some people are stupid, venal, and dangerous. It's just accepting reality. There was one great mistake in the Civil War, and that was not destroying or exiling the southern elite. By exile, I don't mean like Nazis to Argentina, but a small rock inhabited by ants.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
It's not cynicism to think that some people are stupid, venal, and dangerous. It's just accepting reality. There was one great mistake in the Civil War, and that was not destroying or exiling the southern elite. By exile, I don't mean like Nazis to Argentina, but a small rock inhabited by ants.
Forty years clean today. I feel as if I'm a living fossil, like a Gingko, or a Wollemia Pine I owe it to many people. My lovely daughter. Family, friends and recovering people. My mom talking sense to me in jail. I'm here on a sunny day, caging white pine and heating the sauna. Isn't it wonderful?
October 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Forty years clean today. I feel as if I'm a living fossil, like a Gingko, or a Wollemia Pine I owe it to many people. My lovely daughter. Family, friends and recovering people. My mom talking sense to me in jail. I'm here on a sunny day, caging white pine and heating the sauna. Isn't it wonderful?
Have any elites or corporations ever resisted authoritarians? Not really. In most of history they've not only complied, but assisted. It's rather simple, the owners don't care about people, only money.
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Have any elites or corporations ever resisted authoritarians? Not really. In most of history they've not only complied, but assisted. It's rather simple, the owners don't care about people, only money.
I can't control the lighting, so the picture isn't the best. Watching this Baldfaced Wasp (Dolichovespula maculata) methodically process a horsefly(Tabaninae) for transport did make my day. It captured it, clipped its wings, legs and head off,then flew off. They deserve an honorary statue.
July 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I can't control the lighting, so the picture isn't the best. Watching this Baldfaced Wasp (Dolichovespula maculata) methodically process a horsefly(Tabaninae) for transport did make my day. It captured it, clipped its wings, legs and head off,then flew off. They deserve an honorary statue.
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Who lives underground?
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
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Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Who lives underground?
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
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1. From the FDA to the NSF’s new priorities to Chan-Zuckerberg’s recent pivot, there’s a massive push — particularly on they political right — to hand off as much of the scientific process as possible to AI.
It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.
It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.
July 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
1. From the FDA to the NSF’s new priorities to Chan-Zuckerberg’s recent pivot, there’s a massive push — particularly on they political right — to hand off as much of the scientific process as possible to AI.
It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.
It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.
Blueberries, Bumblebee about land on milkweed flowers, fifth instar monarch caterpillar and Bumblebee on milkweed
July 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Blueberries, Bumblebee about land on milkweed flowers, fifth instar monarch caterpillar and Bumblebee on milkweed
Some drink deeply from the well of knowledge. Trump followers drink from an old Slushee cup they found in a dumpster.
July 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Some drink deeply from the well of knowledge. Trump followers drink from an old Slushee cup they found in a dumpster.
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The FDA allowed into the United States at least 150 drugs or their ingredients made at banned factories that were found to have mold, foul water, dirty labs or fraudulent testing protocols.
What you need to know 👇
What you need to know 👇
Seven Things to Know About ProPublica’s Investigation of the FDA’s Secret Gamble on Generic Drugs
ProPublica spent 14 months investigating the FDA’s oversight of foreign drugmakers that send medications to the U.S. These are the key takeaways.
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June 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The FDA allowed into the United States at least 150 drugs or their ingredients made at banned factories that were found to have mold, foul water, dirty labs or fraudulent testing protocols.
What you need to know 👇
What you need to know 👇
Apparently Mormon tenets include mocking political assassination and lying about the causes of murders. Or it just says Mike Lee is a walking, two-legged bucket of shit with his head up his ass, and the citizens of Utah are a vile collection of nutballs for electing him
June 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Apparently Mormon tenets include mocking political assassination and lying about the causes of murders. Or it just says Mike Lee is a walking, two-legged bucket of shit with his head up his ass, and the citizens of Utah are a vile collection of nutballs for electing him
The logic of the "Abundance" argument. "The facts we ignore include massive income inequality, real estate fraud and a whole panoply of things counterfactual to our thinking. You see, the primary problem is local zoning."
June 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The logic of the "Abundance" argument. "The facts we ignore include massive income inequality, real estate fraud and a whole panoply of things counterfactual to our thinking. You see, the primary problem is local zoning."
It seems to me that Trump and Musk are performing like wrestling kayfabe...Musk is now a heel in the psychodrama.
June 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
It seems to me that Trump and Musk are performing like wrestling kayfabe...Musk is now a heel in the psychodrama.
Coworker was upset I left to go check on an experiment I'm now responsible for. He wanted an impromptu meeting to "discuss planning for the workflow" for something he hasn't visited for a week. Why don't you go fix the flow of that shit coming out of your ears as you're so full of it?
June 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Coworker was upset I left to go check on an experiment I'm now responsible for. He wanted an impromptu meeting to "discuss planning for the workflow" for something he hasn't visited for a week. Why don't you go fix the flow of that shit coming out of your ears as you're so full of it?
Hey. Only 9000 more to go. Followed by randomization.
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Hey. Only 9000 more to go. Followed by randomization.
Essentially, they're saying AI will eventually grow crops because they had it read a horticultural manual and a dictionary. The problem is it can't even walk out the door.
May 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Essentially, they're saying AI will eventually grow crops because they had it read a horticultural manual and a dictionary. The problem is it can't even walk out the door.
I'm not so upset with Trump. Anyone not a cult member knows what he is. It's the enablers and minions that we must be rid of. It can't be like last time with a feckless, deluded defender of the bipartisan faith misunderstanding the threat. These people need to be destroyed and their lives ruined
May 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I'm not so upset with Trump. Anyone not a cult member knows what he is. It's the enablers and minions that we must be rid of. It can't be like last time with a feckless, deluded defender of the bipartisan faith misunderstanding the threat. These people need to be destroyed and their lives ruined
Prepping containers for testing growth of mycorrhiza inoculated vs. uninoculated soil. The grad school will remain, but the rest of us are laid off June 30 courtesy of the Trump administration.
May 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Prepping containers for testing growth of mycorrhiza inoculated vs. uninoculated soil. The grad school will remain, but the rest of us are laid off June 30 courtesy of the Trump administration.
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I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
It's easy to see the moral vacuity of the elite when their status and privilege is threatened. They bury their heads with their ass up almost instantly. It also shows what the institutions are like; that such people are the leaders is a sign the institutions are already corrupt.
May 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
It's easy to see the moral vacuity of the elite when their status and privilege is threatened. They bury their heads with their ass up almost instantly. It also shows what the institutions are like; that such people are the leaders is a sign the institutions are already corrupt.
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Exciting news! Season 2 of our investigative podcast, Bad Watchdog, won third place at the 2025 National @HeadlinerAwards for digital civic/political affairs podcasts.
Listen to this narrative deep dive into the Department of Homeland Security: pod.link/1665650370
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Bad Watchdog
In this award-winning investigative podcast, host Maren Machles explores how accountability failures in Washington D.C. impact the lives of people all over the country, and she showcases the investiga...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Exciting news! Season 2 of our investigative podcast, Bad Watchdog, won third place at the 2025 National @HeadlinerAwards for digital civic/political affairs podcasts.
Listen to this narrative deep dive into the Department of Homeland Security: pod.link/1665650370
Listen to this narrative deep dive into the Department of Homeland Security: pod.link/1665650370