It’s not just new, it’s newspeak

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as Christina H Koch is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those

Just remembered the story about a computer scientist who had his bike stolen and tried to explain binary search to a cop

I am so sad for this kid

This is the aspect of climate change that I worry most about — when instead of seeing gradual degradation, we cross an irreversible line.

John Ternus is about to take over from Tim Cook as the next CEO of Apple $AAPL This is what John Ternus' Linkedln looks like

America only has one map

This is art

Amazing call by tylercowen in July 2020

J'ai pas mal voyagé dans des pays un peu particuliers pour affaires, souvent avec un statut spécial qui fait que j'étais au-dessus des règles ci-dessous. Mais je les ai toujours vu appliquées aux occidentaux ordinaires. Quand vous allez dans une dictature comme la Russie, la

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed bbc.in/4cEfrbq

In Opinion Rebecca Archer’s daughter died of measles that she contracted before she was old enough to be vaccinated. “Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk,” Archer writes. nyti.ms/3QizMM9

NOT FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy.

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“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” -George Orwell, 1984.

Let me say this clearly: airplanes cannot fly. Flying is an evolutionary mechanism that first insects and then dinosaurs used to avoid danger etc.

More people will die from suppressing AI than from the imaginary AI apocalypse. They'll die from restricting safe self-driving cars that are 90% better drivers than people who kill 1.5 million people and injure 50 million more every year. They'll die from the vaccines and

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In what The Times calls a "highly unusual intervention" 🤡Philip Rycroft, the former Permanent Sec at the Dep for Exiting the European Union* says life outside the EU has "failed to live up to the expectations" (𝑛𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 !) and that the UK should now "think about