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🌬️🐼 Un globo gigante en forma de Panda fué arrastrado desde un centro comercial en Chengdu, China por fuertes vientos que azotaron el 21 de enero de 2024.
📹 @roaneatan
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What if a pulsar entered our Solar System
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I like this concept a lot.
Social media where you can choose your own algorithm, including from a third party algorithm marketplace or making your own.
Sovereign content discovery.
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A water barrier that can protect buildings and entire blocks from flash floods.
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The story of the three border collies that were trained to run like the wind to bring new life to Chilean forest devastated by wildfires, wearing backpacks releasing native plant seeds.
One of the worst wildfire season in Chile's history ravaged more than 1.4 million acres early in 2017, destroying nearly 1,500 homes and killing at least 11 people. More than a dozen countries sent fire-fighting specialists to help battle the dozens of destructive blazes. When the fires were finally extinguished, the landscape was a charred wasteland.
A few months later, a unique team was brought in to help restore the damaged ecosystem. They have four legs and a penchant for careening at high speeds through the forest.
Border collies Das, Summer and Olivia were outfitted with special backpacks brimming with seeds. Then they were sent on a mission, let loose to race through the ruined forests. As they bounded and darted, their packs streamed a trickle of seeds. The hope was that these seeds would take root and sprout, bringing the forest slowly back to life one tree at a time.
Their owner, Francisca Torres started the project with the dogs in March 2017, returning regularly to the forest over the next six months.
The border collies covered as many as 18 miles in a day and distributed more than 20 pounds of seeds. Their hard work paid off.
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INCREDIBLE MOMENT: Van Jones and Vivek meet for the first time.
Van Jones’ unhinged rhetoric on CNN led to death threats against Vivek & his family.
At first meeting they effectively told each other to f**k off.
Then Van returned and something truly remarkable happened… 👊🏼🇺🇸
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I am beyond ecstatic to announce that I just signed a contract for my SBF book.
Working title: "Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried and the Many Crimes of Silicon Valley."
Details later, but it's with an S-tier press whose books I've been reading my entire life.
This is a book not just about Sam, but the entire network of enablers around him, the ideas that motivated him, and the culture that created him. There has been no reckoning for many of the most culpable apologists who cost honest people $8 billion dollars. This book will be at least a step towards correcting that.
In my dreams, this is my version of @bethanymac12's "The Smartest Guys in the Room." Not gonna get there, but might as well fantasize.
If you're interested in learning more, a lot of preliminary drafts and research essays are on Dark Markets: tinyurl.com/4m5bc76y
Immense thanks to Dark Markets subscribers who have been a crucial source of support over the past year.
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ALT Cybercriminals have reportedly used deepfakes of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prince William in more than 250 Meta adverts designed to trick victims into handing over funds to crypto scams. That’s according to Fenimore Harper, an analytical body founded by a former member of the UK Treasury. It found that 43% of all Keir Starmer-based Meta ads since the UK election were tied to crypto scams. It also used data from Meta’s advertising page to determine that these adverts reached up to 891,834 people.
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On June 12, 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover discovered a perfectly balanced rock on top of a larger bolder.
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Sending it over #montblanc on a private Heli Base jump! Love doing things for and with my friends! @captainmanicorn
“This book will take you places, kid”, they said.
Get the book->
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Writing a novel is one thing, #heli #basejumping with it over the cap of #MontBlanc - the highest peak in western europe, is a bucket-list experience literally on another level.
If curious to check my book - It Remains -
the Immersive Novel -
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#itremains #basejump #helicopter #stunt
#AR #augmentedreality #immersivenovel #graphicnovel #comic #manga #dystopian #dune
Ed Mattinian retweeted
Going through many historical materials from late 60s/early 70s to research A SENSE OF REBELLION, I've realized that today's Silicon Valley (SV) is no longer the guardian of the counterculture's legacy but, rather, one of its main enemies. Some reflections below.🧵
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In 2014, a chance visit to a Parisian bookstore led me to the most fascinating character you've never heard of. A decade later - after hundreds of interviews, dozens of archival visits, and a PhD - I'm finally telling his story. My podcast is finally out! sense-of-rebellion.com/
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Italian artist Laura Zuccheri gives us a lesson in soaring perspective in her illustration for The Swords of Glass comic (2016)
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Sperm whales have equivalents to human vowels.
We uncovered spectral properties in whales’ clicks that are recurrent across whales, independent of traditional types, and compositional.
We got clues to look into spectral properties from our AI interpretability technique CDEV.
