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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Cnd1cOg6A

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dko6eQl4w2s

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  Get the science on mosquito traps. And get acquainted with bat and fish promotion. Fish and bats are way way way more effective than 'traps'.

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  Revelation of today on my walk in the park: Human sick is a delicacy for some animals. This explains Parmesan cheese. 🫢

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  When I think of musical geniuses (I don't really accept that there are geniuses but not to digress) who were also pop stars, I think of XTC, Steely Dan, Brian Wilson, Jimmy Hendrix... When I think of such geniuses who never quite threaded that needle, I think of Frank Zappa and... uh Frank Zappa. Some help, please? I'm not making any content about this. Just pup talk.

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  'Con los pobres de la tierra Quiero yo mi suerte echar' (José Martí)

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  Is the term Rogue State redundant?

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  The moral, technological, and economic bankruptcy of the fossil fuel industry is inescapable. It's just a matter of time. Everyone involved should be looking to help wean the world from this mess.

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  We shouldn't be buying tickets to Disneyland when the rent is overdue and half of the family is malnourished. But we can do both! That's what you've been saying since 1969. You never have even tried. I reiterate: The rent is due. People don't have jobs. People aren't getting enough food. The garage is still on fire. But we can look for jobs and food in Disneyland! It's for the whole family! Even though only four of eight billion can go. Sure...

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  No surprise that many "self-driving" cars are operated by human drivers. Safety, efficiency, even convenience were never the point. It's just for investors. If they wanted all of these, they would have promoted the infrastructure, networking, and handover techniques that were worked out mostly between 1935 and 1995 but would have benefited immensely from networking of the 1990s to the present. Instead they used the objectives of the DARPA derby - which was not only late to the game...

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  Apparently the Ig Nobels are leaving the US for obvious reasons. But there's always the FIFA Ig Nobels, so. #fifaignobels #fifapeace #fifapulitzer #ignobels

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  Greater North America is the new Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. (No spoilers if you haven't seen the ending but it wasn't pretty.)

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  After unnecessarily pushing him off the wall, the King urged a coalition of all the royal horses and men to put Humpty back together again. #fairytales #alllies #nurseries #worldpol

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  I'm glad the allies and others have refused to get in on the Hormuz party but what they should be doing, obviously, is getting their butts to DC and convincing him to TACO. On the one hand the TACO defense is frightening to many because it's the end of a long period in which (the believed) Big Hero was a somewhat reliable partner. But that has ended either way. One more confirmation is a small price to pay for preventing collapse and descent into world war.

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  I'm so tired of the racism spoof joke. Unbelievably lazy and wasn't ever funny either. It usually involves "calling someone out" for racism by way of misunderstanding or over-sensitivity. "Because I'm black??" or "Racist!" is the typical punchline. There are a few others but none that are original after 40+ years of the same stupid joke. Racists love this joke because it makes racism seem to be nothing but an exagg...

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  If automated driving were intended to make driving safer or more efficient, current solutions are wrong. In fact, good solutions to these have existed for a long time. Unfortunately for investors (read opportunists), these weren't profitable: vehicle networking, infrastructure, and automated handovers... (tech that worked pretty well by the mid-1990's). Instead, they realized they could more easily market and profit from the DARPA-style autonomous model, meant to work without any coope...

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  I know this is not on the top of the priority list but I think US people constantly calling Trump a "felon" is not being kind to other people who have committed crimes but who have taken responsibility, have faced their penalties, and are ready to be good. Is there a better word not related to having a prior conviction? How about just "criminal"?

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  Headline: Chrome AI Extensions ezploits revealed. Chrome - nope AI - nope browser extensions - nope

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  Gotta chuckle when US media call "a new low" for Trump. Really? If his people are building actual concentration camps, kidnapping and killing families, and utterly ignoring the US constitution is calling for the ouster of someone in media really a "new low"? Get real.

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  Some people who vocally oppose fascism still also vocally support the LMM and AI industry. All the clues are there people! It's worse than IBM working for the fascists in the mid-2t0th century. These companies are contributing money and political support, not technology. The technology provides a facade, is all.

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  @davidgerard@circumstances.run James Randi once asked a woman for a random number. "I don't know one," she replied. That is the only correct answer.

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  @mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org Good news! None of those. It's Planet Express aka Old Bessie.

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  "Prove you are not a robot by following these very specific orders."

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  I have no way of proving to *myself* I am not a robot besides refusing to identify all of the pictures with crosswalks. Pricks.

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  @ChanceyFleet@mas.to :genderless skunk: loves this (ETA - Oh there is already a genderless skunk emoji... Well I'll be.)

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  A Y chromosome shrinks over time. Does that make its owner less of a man? No. Because X and Y chromosome counts don't determine gender. (By themselves, they don't even determine sex.)

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  Rebecca Watson, though not without her fans (me), is not a very famous person outside of certain circles. (Just a fact Rebecca. No shade!) So how did she get so far under the skins of these creeps that, it turns out, were way more creepy than even their critics imagined? T he answer is the answer to many of our current problems: She just kept saying things - refusing to be quiet. This is the answer to everything. We all get a bit tired and even disillusioned, especially if we're being act...

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  What does "we are not available in your country" even mean when a company is supposed to be privacy-oriented? Ugh.

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  If your 'hobby' or 'sport' involves severely traumatising and injuring small animals, it's wrong, period. "We put them back in the water" only serves to show how unnecessarily cruel and depraved it is -- And by 'it is' I mean 'you are'.