Laughia

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Teacher &Player of Violin & Piano. Reader & collector of books you hold in your hand. Collector of rocks, art, antique kitchen gadgets, & other lovely things.

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Ouch! Here's what you may have to look forward to. When you’ve got osteoporosis & barely bump an elbow, wrist bone, shin, etc, the entire joint/long bone hurts really bad for a looong minute. Sneeze? You can fracture your spine. Uplifting predictions free of charge. Thank me later.

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let me make this clear: not voting is a vote for trump. voting for a third party is also a vote for trump. you might think voting for biden is safe but no sorry those votes go to trump too. votes for trump himself however get stored in an unused walk in freezer at mar a lago and count toward 2028.

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Same poll, but this one's not amusing. "Just 34% of Republicans think a man who forces his wife to have sex against her will should definitely be prosecuted"

That explains almost everything except racism and it kinda explains that too.

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Nosferatu es Tu Feratu. 🧛

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Brontësaurus. Ink & gouache on Strathmore grey toned paper, 151 x 147mm, 2014. Because this seems to be doing the rounds again elsewhere. Perhaps the only piece of mine to have gone mildly viral, shunted uncredited like an orphan from workhouse to workhouse across the Internet over the years. 🤓

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Which likely creates alalia and could lead to anoxia. I'm doomed. But I feel a good Rap coming on…

BTW, I'm MATA* * Make America Trumpless Again

Proof AI wants us to die: I texted storage* manager I wanted to change payment method for autopay. Hit send just as I noticed “autopay” had changed to “autopsy.” Apparently, I'm pre-paying my own autopsy. * 6,000 books

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And there it is…gut level racism.

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Elijah Hogan, a New Orleans teenager who became homeless over a year ago, was named valedictorian of his high school’s graduating class www.cnn.com/2024/06/01/u...

I know what it means to miss New Orleans. Thx for this post.

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Francis Serpa

As my real pioneer cowboy grandfather who was ambidextrous & could rope with both hands would say, “He wouldn't make a pimple on a cowboy’s ass.”

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Turns out that sometimes schadenfreude is just as good the next morning

Lovely.

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A Black high school student in Texas who had been suspended because of how he wears his hair was removed from his school on Wednesday and transferred to a disciplinary school program, a letter from the school district shared by the student’s family said.

Black Student Suspended Over Hair Length Is Sent to Disciplinary Schoolwww.nytimes.com Darryl George, 18, had previously been suspended by Barbers Hill High School in Texas because officials said the length of his locs violated the district’s dress code.

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When has that not been the case? But, you’re right. So many fires to fight…

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A Texas middle school teacher has been fired after reading an illustrated version of Anne Frank's Diary to her eighth-grade class chron.com/news/houston...

chron.com

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Must be great to be a teacher these days. You get to crowdfund your supplies, get covid three times a year, and every time you read a book someone calls 911.

A Texas middle school teacher has been fired after reading an illustrated version of Anne Frank's Diary to her eighth-grade class chron.com/news/houston...

chron.com

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And here's the Index of that pleading.

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imagine spending $44B on a platform worth less than half that just to nuke it to the point that a valu-rite competitor with no dm’s or videos could shamble along and post this

We reached 1,000,000 users! blueskyweb.xyz/blog/9-12-20...

Reaching 1 Million Usersblueskyweb.xyz Today, we reached over one million users on Bluesky.

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And luck is a really big factor. Meritocracy is oppressive, toxic, and wrong.

The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realizedblogs.scientificamerican.com Are the most successful people in society just the luckiest people?

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70% of republicans in california think slavery has had no impact on the current social position of black people...

And how is it that the older we get, the less we know or care? That, alone, is deeply disturbing.

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Another recent view on #AGI “doom” is proffered by Dr. Paul Christiano, PhD Comp Sci from UC Berkeley. former OpenAI researcher recently concluded there's a 50% chance AI development could end in 'doom' maybe a 10-20% chance of AI takeover. lesswrong.com/posts/xWMqsvHapP…

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New DO episode with Daniel Schmachtenberger, Gregory Landua, and myself where we discuss tech and nature, multipolar traps / x-risk, eco-credits, local resilience, and more https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doomer-optimism/episodes/DO-140---Gregory-Landua-and-Daniel-Schmachtenberger-e23shhi

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Nate Hagens has posted an extremely long and intellectually deep podcast going down several rabbit holes with Daniel Schmachtenberger on the coming risks of Artificial Intelligence on humanity. This is a “must listen to”podcast. youtu.be/_P8PLHvZygo #climatechange #existentialcrisis

Daniel Schmachtenberger: \youtu.be On this episode, Daniel Schmachtenberger returns to discuss a surprisingly overlooked risk to our global systems and planetary stability: artificial intelligence. Through a systems perspective, Daniel and Nate piece together the biophysical history that has led humans to this point, heading towards (and beyond) numerous planetary boundaries and facing geopolitical risks all with existential consequences. How does artificial intelligence, not only add to these risks, but accelerate the entire dynamic of the metacrisis? What is the role of intelligence vs wisdom on our current global pathway, and can we change course? Does artificial intelligence have a role to play in creating a more stable system or will it be the tipping point that drives our current one out of control? About Daniel Schmachtenberger: Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue. The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal. Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science. For Show Notes and to Learn More: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/71-daniel-schmachtenberger Daniel's recommended content for further AI learning: Eliezer Yudkowsky on Bankless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4 David Bohm \u0026 Krishnamurti Conversations - https://kfoundation.org/krishnamurti-and-david-bohm-4-audio-and-video-conversations/ Iain McGilchrist: The Master and His Emissary - https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/ Robert Miles Videos on AI - https://www.youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI