Let’s see if someone actually watches the video :)
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Because they are eugenicists. Back in the day when we still had to go to the library to make copies of scientific papers from peer-reviewed journals, I always made a point to grab an issue of an old Eugenics journal and copy a random article as a reminder of the dangers of malicious intent.
Thomas [DARK MODE], DO@tom.medsky.social · last wk.Why are these MAHA freaks so obsessed with genetics?
The United States, which once freed prisoners from Germany's concentration camps, is now siding with the war criminals—and obstructing those who would hold them into account. Shameful—if this administration had any shame.
US prepares to sanction the ICC, that indicted Russia's Putin and Israel's Netanyahu for war crimes
Trump is preparing sanctions against the International Criminal Court itself, potentially cutting it off from U.S. banking, technology and services. The US has already sanctioned 13 ICC officials and ...
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NEW: EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media. @josephcox.bsky.social reports. Scoop here: www.404media.co/inside-proje...
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2y agoApple is aiming to release a foldable iPhone in 2026 📱 (via WSJ)
C++ is probably the most valuable language. It provides lvalues, rvalues, prvalues, xvalues, glvalues...
I was in NYC and saw the morgue trucks. Emergency hospital tents in Central Park because ICUs were full. A hospital ship arrived to increase capacity. Streets were empty. Saw from my window emergency personnel in full-body protection suit collect people.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2mo agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Experts run the numbers and declare Tesla Cybertruck as the biggest flop in US automotive history, overtaking the Ford Edsel flip.it/tBWzsA
Experts run the numbers and declare Tesla Cybertruck as the biggest flop in US automotive history, overtaking the Ford Edsel
The Tesla Cybertruck has been labelled the 'biggest flop in US automotive history', usurping the Ford Edsel - and the numbers are pretty shocking
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QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer
QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer
Hackaday Article
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The NASA climate spiral visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies, deviations from a long term global average. Original post
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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I hate Windows so much. It's PATH environment variables never work properly. But, today, I discovered a new form of bullshit. By default, typing "python" at the command prompt would open the Microsoft Store to a python installer rather than running python b/c a program alias setting.
#MayThe4th Happy Star Wars Day – May the Force be with you! ✨ Looking for a real-life galaxy far, far away? The Zweibrücken Observatory has you covered! 🔭 #StarWarsDay 📷 www.zeit.de/zett/2019-03...
#WonderfulBirdWednesday Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑 04/2026 #Birds #Nature #FlawlessTiming 🌟 #FMSPAD #SomethingThatFlies #Birdsky #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #Macrophotography
NYC covered in snow (again) after the blizzard. Magical to walk in Central Park. The peace and tranquility of these views remind me of old Dutch Masters winter landscape paintings.
Notice something? Software bugs are proliferating everywhere fast. Almost daily something that used to work, now glitches. Besides being annoying, it’s embarrassing and may lead to serious accidents. Hire good engineers for crying out loud. And don’t rely on AI to mess up, for real engineers to fix.
Psion 5mx, the pda of the 90s. It’s very useful, perhaps even today. Has a usable keyboard. Runs a full month on a pair of AA batteries! The 90s hi-res 4 gray shades LCDs aren’t the most legible. Backlight helps a bit. Did you have one? Like it or exchange it to something else of the same period?
Trump says the US "needs" Greenland for security reasons. But Danish officials have already offered him the ability to increase America's military presence there. “The option has been on the table...the White House is not interested.” www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump says his Greenland fixation is about national security. Europeans are skeptical.
Denmark’s prime minister urged the U.S. to increase its military presence in Greenland but the White House showed little interest in the offer.
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ASML is an amazing company with amazing “unreasonable” people (watch to understand what that means). As a kid in the 80s I was lucky to visit Philips NatLab where my dad worked on silicon wafers to analyze properties of IC etching. But that was long before ASML youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0?...
The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine
YouTube video by Veritasium
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Part of my studio. Real stuff nostalgia: CRT scanlines, genuine hardware, loading from floppies, using ball mouse and wild joystick! Re-creating the same gaming conditions as back then. That's my philosophy. Here's how I build my setup : youtu.be/BhgM-b59cKI
Yesterday’s chore: fighting back Entropy by recombining kids Lego pieces back into complete sets to save. But Lego fought back with some brittle brown pieces self-destructing in my hand 💥 So sad 😔
