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Richard Rathe

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<p>My Personal Motto</p><p>&quot;Remain calm, be kind, and carry on regardless!&quot;</p><p>The first two are from Seneca &amp; the Stoics via Colin Powell.</p><p>The last is a British expression that I think is associated with WWII when the bombs were falling all around.</p>

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    Brilliant! #AI vs #Books The latest form of #BookBurning and #Censorship So much truth here...

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    Amazing little historical fact... As a kid I followed all of the #Apollo #Moon missions with great interest, especially the drama and heroism of #Apollo13. But I missed this bit of &quot;life-saving, on-the-fly, found object #engineering to save your life&quot;. &quot;Aldrin said the pen used to fix a broken circuit-breaker helped him and Neil Armstrong to return to the Earth.&quot; #History #Artifacts #NASA

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    Should be widely read! I heard it on Cory Doctorow&#39;s podcast. &quot;Hell Is Other People&quot; &quot;Not everyone feels this way. A subset of humanity is committed to a world where everyone else takes orders from them. We have different names for these people. We call the majority of them “toddlers,” but we call the others “bosses” or “tyrants.” &quot; &quot;These latter two groups ... are also among the people most excited about #AI. What’s more, the more powerful these people are, the m...

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    Consider the Black-Bellied Whistling Duck! (One of the better bird names IMO.) Larger than average ducks, longer neck, pink bill &amp; feet, used to be called &quot;tree ducks&quot;. I see these very early in the morning and occasionally a pair on a nearby dock. Only learned recently that they are mostly active at night, which is why I wasn&#39;t aware they were around. And the best part, they actually whistle, no quacking here! https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-bellied_Whistling-D...

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    @frenchtoast@better.boston A &quot;Non-Tropical Cyclone&quot; perhaps? That&#39;s what they called the &quot;Storm of the Century&quot; here in #Florida in the 1990s. Killed 32 if my memory serves. Also, I recently found out they name #winter #storms just like hurricanes. #Weather

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    @simonbs And so the snake starts eating itself... the #Ouroboros! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros #AI #LLM #SnakeOil #SyntheticData

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    @alternativeto My sentiments exactly! Thank you to whoever drew/shared this!

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    Just to get the juices flowing, the #cat poster from #NoKings II. I hope to see many of you tomorrow! #NoWar #ICEout #NoKings

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    &quot;The biggest bird killer in the US (and likely, the world) is #Cats. Outdoor cats kill somewhere between 1.3 billion and 4 billion birds a year in the US alone. Let’s put it this way: for every one bird that dies in the blades of a turbine, domestic cats are dragging roughly 4,000 back to the porch.&quot; Article: The harm caused by wind turbines isn&#39;t nearly as bad as you think... https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/technology-articles/sustainability/renewable-energy/birds-and-wi...

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    @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Just have to share one little push-back against #entropy ... I recently laundered a beloved old fleece jacket and the zipper-pull mysteriously broke. I was able to &quot;sew&quot; it back on using a series of figure-eight stitches locked in with a few knots. So satisfying! 🙂 #Repair #Sewing