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AGI, Mars colonies, immortality, and consciousness transfers. Not every sci-fi premise is destined to become reality. The real world has limits on practicality and possibility. #agi #tescreal #marssucks

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Just heard the Headhunters' version of Watermelon Man in an AirBnB commercial, a company owned by techno-fascists. When that song was made, no respectable artist would allow their work to be used in a commercial, due to the tainted associations like the one this song now has for me.

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Too many people fail to understand the dynamics of the attention economy and repeatedly fall into traps set by Trump. SHARING 👏 AI 👏 RAGEBAIT 👏 ONLY 👏 HELPS 👏 TRUMP! #attention #ragebait #ai #popetrump #trumpsithlord

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Watching Rockford Files reruns is about as cool as Ben Folds made it out to be. Why is there a whole channel for it now? #rockfordfiles #benfolds #fightingthebattleofwhocouldcareless

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Remember Obama's "apology tour" where he went around the world trying to undo the damage of Bush's foreign policy? The next president will need to do a real, heartfelt, begging for forgiveness tour if we have any hope of restoring relations with the world. #imsorryworld #usapologytour #obama

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I couldn't even get through Damage, Inc. yesterday without making my throat sore.

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Anyone that thinks they can upload their consciousness to AI is delusional. AI can create a chat bot that will respond similarly to you 90% of the time. If the tech bros want to replace themselves with semi-accurate chat bots that don't experience qualia then we should let them. #ai #consciousness

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Replayed the fantastic interview with @ksetiya.bsky.social on Gray Area, but then he used the neurologically impossible "experience machine" argument against happiness 🙄 Fighting injustice, helping others' suffering, taking in reality, all make us happy. The problem is happy has multiple meanings.

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The movie "Born in East LA" is due for a comeback. More relevant today than ever! #cheech #immigration #deportation #oops

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What do you get if you take the CIA brainwashing manual and do the opposite of everything it says?

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"2090 called. You're dead and you wasted your whole life." -Kimmy Schmidt

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Curtis Yarvin celebrated in San Francisco — and at 'Harvard.' With American democracy under attack, the NeoReactionary guru is basking in the glow of his own destructive ideology. How long will it last? www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvi...

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"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe." God, I love Ursula K. Le Guin www.themarginalian.org/2018/04/10/u...

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My favorite Onion headline about my favorite pope. Are you supposed to treat religion like fandom? I don't worship but there are some that I'd cosplay or wait in a long line for a signed headshot.

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Leftist subreddits are being spammed with anti-Bernie/AOC content that seems to only serve the interests of the oligarchs by undermining solidarity. I'd say this there but I'd get banned for liberal apologia.

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Nathan Fielder is the Stanley Milgram of uncomfortable situations. "Even though I had the resources to potentially solve this life or death issue and save real humans from dying, I was given this money to create a comedy series. So far I was failing." Biggest TV comedy laugh I've had in months.

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Complexity and nuance will never be simple and unified. This is why so much of my activism is focused on teaching people to identify scams and misinformation, and build new rituals and social norms to reinforce these skills and reject the normalization of white collar crime.

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Had an actual conversation tonight with a conservative that told me they realized money doesn't really matter after last week's crash. I thought the memes about right-wing Buddhist enlightenment though rationalization were funny, but it's a real thing!

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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine www.quantamagazine.org/why-everythi... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4367... #physics #thermodynamics #evolution #entropy #InformationTheory #philosophy #InformationScience #epistemology

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Ancestry revealed that I'm 16% zombie, which explains my obsession with brains.

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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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More prophecies being fulfilled every day. One of the most accurate predictions of the Trump playbook is also the most ancient. We've seen this shit before. Patterns repeat throughout history. #trump = #antichrist

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After once again finding myself reading useless comments on an otherwise interesting YouTube video, I discovered Shut Up the Comment Blocker. Automatically removes the comments section from most pages. Free and life changing.

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station to station #Fractal #Abstract #Intricate #Cosmic #Surreal #Patterns #Mathematical #Geometric #Celestial #Sci-fi #Gold #White #Blue #Futuristic #Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion on actual stuff: aieris.art/featured/sta...

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Fractal beauty in the garden-Romanesco #fractal #chartreuse #edibleflower #romanesco #gardening #plants #broccoli #cauliflower

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Let's make dualism the new globalism! Black and white, good vs. evil, body vs. mind, us vs. them, are the wellspring of bad beliefs and lack of nuance. Is it possible to more effectively change minds by addressing dualism instead of ideology? #dualism #nondual #persuasion

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