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Before the chocolates & roses, Valentine's Day had a much wilder past! Explore the origins of ancient Rome's Lupercalia festival: goat/dog sacrifices, ritualistic whipping of women with hides for fertility, and naked fist fights. A far cry from modern romance... 🧵

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Ann Arbor is exploring its own power production. On why, this recent article is a good overview on what other cities have taken control of their power and the long-term savings... kevin.burke.dev/kevin/norcal...

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My friend that works at the Michigan EPA says much of the staff was let go this week and that they have stopped company chem audits. His new boss appt by Trump says Michigan factories will need to be on the 'honor' system to audit their own use of chemicals and air pollution☠️

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For all you Midwest folks, Michiganders, and Ann Arborites, hope your keeping your Thursday wierd ✨

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Good news everybody: today the military says it found a use for the healing magic✨ of light🌈!! Bad news is it's a death ray ☠️

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your life is your life. don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but, it beats the darkness. be on the watch. god will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat this death but, ...[1/2]

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A plead: do not lie or bend the truth. Be reasonably certain of your words before posting. It is not just bad for you, it doesn't just poison reality of those around you, but now it may infect the future AI oracles for perhaps generations to come.

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I know we're flooded with national news, but I'd like to share something local happening here. Our Ann Arbor EPA labs are being targeted for shutdown. These labs have information national policy on vehicle exhaust and cancers from inhaling tire dust for decades. planetdetroit.org/2025/01/epa-...

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I wonder to myself if LLMs like R1-Zero will eventually be smarter AIs because of their CoT is able to mix odd languages and symbols together. Like, math savants often say they see numbers as colors and can do multiplications by just visualizing the color mixes. arcprize.org/blog/r1-zero...

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The future is unknown, but just to set hard present expectations: LLM AIs have not shown any evidence or original validated theory yet of increasing lifespan by even 1%

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You're not at my level of autism until you've listened for an hour Sardaukar chants in 432Hz on repeat while coding.

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Beyond tensor cores, it seems high time to have AI custom chips inside mobile phones (Android / iOS) to reduce AI power and improve performance! For now, 4B would be an ideal programmable size for a "good enough" personal assistant. Cerebus is showing the benefit of custom hardware in servers.

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For the lazy, "Roman Salutes" was a term first popularized by fascist movements, and actual ancient Romains did not have salute gestures. The more you know 🌈

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"It's just a joke", "it's just autism", "it's just to OwN tHe LibS". If these folks are supposed to be total "alphas", why do they hide behind so much plausible deniability? 🤔

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TIL there are bees that harvest raw meat and make hives with their "meat honey" 😳

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Simulation Theory is likely the worst idea ever conceived about the nature of our reality. It's next to the universe being on top of a cosmic turtle. It's something only computer nerds (speaking as one) could have conceived. It is the mind virus of pop intellectuals of our time.

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Frank Zappa on CNN’s March 28th, 1986 episode of Crossfire coving National Defense, communism, Reagan, and a new word fascist theocracy. As a side note, CNN has never really been leftist. If you listen to any of their talk shows, it has always been in defense of the status quo.

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It may be a good time to review the definition of Neo-fascism...

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Tiktok has changed folks

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Where's my Ann Arbor and Ypsi people on Bluesky at? Ya'll enjoying the subzero weather this morning? I'd love to try to organize a local meetup group if anyone is interested.

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So anyone working on or would like to work on a new kind of Tiktok clone that uses Mastodon to keep the network open and federated? #startup #a2startup

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Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs

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It's interesting to read philosopher Carl Jung's account of when he had made eye contact with Hitler for the first time and immediately sensed so much danger that he wanted to leave Berlin at once.

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Trump is officially back in power. Will he take the "high road" and do what's best for the county? ...or will it be crypto rug pulls, revenge seeking, and dividing the public on pop social issues? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfC0...

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Fascism (or its sibling Nazism) has always been the preferred tool of late-stage capitalism whenever hard cleverness fails due to market stagnation and ecological instability. You don't blame the system— nay, you blame the weak. "The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way."

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If the Perplexity offer fails... Prediction: Trump will reinstate Tiktok but only if an American group (Elon) is allowed to manage the data servers and the algorithm. This way they get to control the platform and monitor data, while ByteDance keeps the $60M/hr cash cow alive.

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Farewell David Lynch. Just 2yrs ago, Lynch was lamenting (behind the scenes) how he had only two days to plan and shoot movie set scenes due to how today's producers force him to rush out fast content. For me, it's a quintessential "I'm too old for this shit" career moment. youtu.be/-AHUEON7Fb8?...

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Exercise + Vit D + warm floodlight are absolutely essential for long Michigan winters ❄️

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Rogan's Anti-Establishment and Anti-Elitist Podcast. Power to the people?

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Ann Arbor folk: is there a good local service to check for heavy metals in food? (like maybe from UofM?)

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Interesting view of the enneagram from GG on the perspective of food symbiosis. While the analogy is of a kitchen, it also can apply to any ecological system more broadly, covering the different roles of ingestion to resource production.

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So much for being privacy guardians: "Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely spied and recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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I ran past this nearby my home... there is SO much to unpack here that I was left staring at it. This feels like a cultural artifact that captures the uncanny zeitgeist of the present heated politics.

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25 million users now on Bluesky! Happy New Year's to all the new and existing elder folks on this platform. May 2025 be a wonderful new adventure 🥂

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