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"A miracle. This film is a balm for your soul." THE LIFE OF CHUCK. In Select Cities Friday, Everywhere 6.13. Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlN1...

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there is no varnish in the blue

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sugar is a medicine extremely abused as a food source

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To mark the release of the 2025 World Happiness Report, @michaeldplant.bsky.social joins Kasia and me on “Lives Well Lived”. (1/3)

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Cambridge physicist who studied with Paul Dirac named Freeman Dyson, described Paul Dirac's discoveries as "like exquisitely carved marble statues falling out of the sky, one after another". This quote highlights the elegance and beauty of Dirac's contributions to quantum mechanics.

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Le mot français « dieu » vient du latin deus, lié aux mots dies (jour), et diluvium (ciel ouvert) ; il est apparenté au sanskrit div et diu (ciel, jour et luminosité).

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#Chinese government has forcibly separated 1 million Tibetan children from their families and culture & placed them in colonial boarding schools! @melaniejoly.bsky.social raise #TibetsStolenChildren at #G7Summit #StandUpForTibet tibetnetwork.org/g7jointletter/

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i used to love smoking cigarettes…

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sometimes i get really greedy & buy a lottery ticket.

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scottaaronson.blog?p=8669

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Donald Trump’s version of “America First” is a disaster for many people in extreme poverty, and also for our children and grandchildren and future generations. It is also a gift to China. (1/4)

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What if new algorithms could deliver quantum advantage for health? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The following pages have been removed from the CDC website. This used to be known as censorship. Not sure what the new word is.

submitted 126 days ago • 94 comments

WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

submitted 126 days ago • 800 comments

Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and offer them to small to medium size businesses. Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations . Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ? Thoughts ?

submitted 125 days ago • 4093 comments

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

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The latest episode of “Lives Well Lived”, the podcast I co-host with Kasia de Lazari-Radek, is now available. In this episode, we talk to @adamgrant.bsky.social, organizational psychologist, best-selling author, and professor...

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We will review some basics of quantum circuits manipulations in Qiskit. We will explain the minimal formalism to discuss quantum errors, explaining the notion of quantum state fidelity. We will show how to estimate the fidelity of states produced by simple quantum circuits. #quantumcomputing

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what’s feeding bluesky?

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The reason I'm so positive about aspiring writers is that I believe that: * Anyone who can string a sentence together can write a story, script or book. * Anyone who puts enough time, effort, and workshopping into it can write a GOOD story, script, or book. * Anything finished can be fixed.

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Welcome to Blue Sky.

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Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

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