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The surest sign of limited knowledge is unwavering confidence, while true wisdom carries the weight of doubt. ChatGPT

err, hmmm, /me draws circles with my feet in the sand... cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos... err yeah i dunno about this. seems err

The advances in astronomy during my lifetime have been spectacular. Left: Image of galaxy pair Arp 107 taken the year I was born, using the Palomar 200" (the world's most powerful telescope at the time). Right: Image of Arp 107 taken last year by JWST. 🧪🔭 ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/A...

Forever is composed of nows. Emily Dickinson

The Bollandists, an order of Belgian monks, spent 300 years collecting evidence for the lives of the saints in a manuscript titled the “Acta Sanctorum,” beginning in 1643. Several were called "Saint Valentine."

As the setting sun, the fire of my broken heart, Casts shadows of you─ A thousand years of moments We shared in a fleeting dream

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Did you use the Internet Archive this year to research, read, explore web archives with the Wayback Machine, or discover something new? Your support makes it possible! 👉 Like & share to spread the word. 💙 Consider donating to keep Internet Archive growing: archive.org/donate/?orig...

coming soon to X: X: "our credible users have deemed your posts a probable source of regretted user-minutes. you have been allowed to not-post for 24 hours. please talk to grok if you feel this is in error." grok: "according to my statistical regurgitation of the TL i have decided we are correct."

A new study aims to learn about neurodiversity, philosophers, and the views they hold.

Book: “This likeable character does not want to go on a journey or be a hero” Me, for the 10,000th time: “Oh, then I suppose they won’t.” Book: “Despite everyone’s desires, our character must go on a journey and become a hero…” Me: 🤯

#Reading is just staring at dead trees and hallucinating. And yet, here I am, willingly doing it for hours. Call it tree magic. 💙📚 #booksky

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906. 🧪 👩‍🔬 As far as I am aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her. (1/n) Image: Computer History Museum

For all the math lovers out there. youtu.be/B1J6Ou4q8vE

The latest OpenAI Model Tried to stop itself from being shut down--and then lied about it. #ai #aopenai #apollo #cyberpunk #aisafety www.transformernews.ai/p/openais-ne...

It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. Rumi, Sufi scholar and poet (1207–1273)

"I used to pray that God would feed the hungry...now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things." ~Mother Teresa

"The Covid narrative has always been that ‘only the vulnerable need to worry.’ As though the ‘vulnerable’ are completely expendable. Because to those in power - we are."

In partnership with the Vatican and Iconem, Microsoft has created a 'digital twin' of St. Peter’s Basilica, offering immersive, AI-enhanced experiences of this iconic site. unlocked.microsoft.com/vatican/ Explore it: virtual.basilicasanpietro.va/en From: youtu.be/FPr0vVVD5VM #technology #religion

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy

the key to writing is that it's pretty hard to be good at it until you've done a lot of it. when you start writing, most of your stuff will be bad, and you'll hate all of it. keep writing. eventually some of your stuff will be sort of ok, and you'll hate all of it. keep writing.

Reply to this and I’ll write a short song about you.

"Am I wrong to dogmatically believe that my subjective interpretations of reality are objectively correct, while believing others' (supposedly objective) interpretations of reality (that disagree with mine) are incorrect, subjective dogma?" #philosophy #philosophythoughts

Thanks to @thesampirediaries.bsky.social 's numerous Hamilton puzzle posts, I've added another favorite musical to my collection. Thank you, Samantha.

Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress. Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵