Chimpanzees drive off silverback and adult female gorillas, and kill gorilla infants. Chimps are mean: scitechdaily.com/first-lethal-a… #interspecies #chimpanzee #gorilla

This makes me wonder if small populations of archaic humans might have persisted well into the Holocene. Although if they were in Borneo or thereabouts, I don't suppose these techniques would detect them. cnn.com/2021/10/24/wor…

Should we embrace new technologies like #CRISPR that will edit our genes and make us healthier human beings? Or are we heading down a dangerous and dystopian path? CRISPR pioneer george church and reproductive scientist Joyce Harper debate: munkdebates.com/podcast/gene-e…

#Roscosmos not pulling out of #ISS partnership until their own orbital station is ready -- in other words, they'll be involved until ISS is deorbited. A Russian station ain't coming anytime soon. reuters.com/business/aeros…

Rushdie suffered an apparent stab wound to his neck and has been airlifted to a hospital, New York police say. His condition is unknown. apnews.com/article/salman…

What a stroke of genius that all those people decided to post almost the same message! 🙄🤭

Dr Meenal Viz Damien Gayle Just Stop Oil It's a non-sequitur. It's confusing, and deeply stupid. It only discredits them and their cause. Go glue yourself to an oil rig -- or better yet, show some initiative and disable one, if you want to get a point across.

I liked the homage to Terry Gilliam's _Brazil_ in Star Wars #ANDOR -- very fitting. #27bstroke6 #Brazil

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A ancestral gesture lexicon appears to be in part conserved in humans and chimps: #language #chimpanzees journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

roon The new Turing test is 'Is your AI smarter than Alan Turing'

Ceterum censeo Russicam Fœderationem esse delendam #Russia #RussiaIsCollapsing #Wagner #Prigozhin #WagnerGroup #PutinIsaWarCriminal #PutinPrigozhinWar

I can not for the life of me imagine why the "nine-dash line" is depicted in a movie called "Barbie." #China #SouthChinaSea #BarbieMovie #Barbie reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

A new animation has dropped from Rational Animations: youtu.be/Bbwp4PbWYzw via YouTube

With sadness and deep appreciation I must report the passing of Vernor Vinge, a titan in the literature that explores a limitless range of potential destinies, Vernor gave millions vivid tales of plausible tomorrows. My tribute to him can be found here: davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/03/vernor…

Sam Altman Either the DoW has different standards for OAI vs Anthropic, or Altman is being misleading in this tweet. Given his history, I’d expect the latter.