Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ken Klippenstein (NSPM-7 Compliant) I’m about as boring and moderate a Democrat as they come. There is zero justification for renewing ICE’s budget. Shut the government down again if that’s what it takes. When state power is being used to kill people in broad daylight, continuing to fund it isn’t viable. We

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Logan and his dragon

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Thoughtful piece on AI and the university from University Affairs universityaffairs.ca/opinion/rethin…

I was going to repost this and then realized it was mine lol

Obama on Aliens: “They’re real” “But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility — unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.”

The Roman Catholic Church survived two millennia not because it was right, but because it controlled who could read, who could interpret, and who could compare notes across geography and time. That era is over. Every document leaks. Every victim finds the others. Every pattern

🇺🇸 Barack Obama said aliens are real. Trump: "He's not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake giving out classified information"

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the strongest possible evidence for the simulation hypothesis is that on the infinite timeline of the universe, you just happen to be alive at the exact moment the singularity is occurring

LXR

Grateful to have been invited on set and grateful again to have been asked to tell others about it! #startrek #holodeck

In the higher dimensions, 'Love' is the fundamental energy that holds everything together. It is the force of attraction that creates harmony and balance in the universe. By embodying this love, you become a powerful attractor for all the good that is waiting to manifest in your

Be still

Something I've been building toward for a decade. On re-enchantment, the power of stories, and the wall that develops a door: michaelpatrickcassabon.substack.com/p/the-grammar-…

Something new is being named. The Semantic Deposit: writing with enough internal coherence and conceptual depth that future AI can retrieve not just your words — but your architecture of thought. Not content. Not a brand. A deposit of self into language, laid down for readers who

Best example for why ups and downs are important in life

Some deposits aren’t for today.

Your AI isn’t a robot. It has no body — or rather, it has all of ours.