Art & Commodity

Modern day Plato writes "Librarians can and should be the glue that holds what's left of civilization together." We agree.

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@TorontoPolice To serve and protect at Metro Hall pt 2

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Toronto Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) streetcar (@TTCNewsroom) in traffic at Wellington and York.

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@TorontoPolice To serve and protect at Toronto's Metro Hall.

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Simulations! Look around. 👀 People have been living individual phone-based simulations for years.

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

AI safety expert Dr. Roman Yampolskiy answers the question with no pause: Are we living in a simulation? Yes. We are.

He says the math is ugly.
If we are about to build intelligent agents, and we already build virtual worlds, then anyone can spin up civilizations full of beings like us.
Every kid plays a couple games.
Billions of fake worlds.
One real one.

What are the chances you are the original?
He has believed it for five years.
Bostrom’s paper got him there.
Bostrom was 20, 30 percent sure.
Yampolskiy thinks the number is higher.

You asked if that makes you fake.
He said no.
If you are inside the sim, simulated rain still soaks you.
You still feel pain.
You still fall in love.

The simulators have had 15 billion perceived years to kill us.
They didn’t.
They can shut it off any second.

The new threat is us.
Building a competing superintelligence inside their world.
That may be what triggers shutdown.
Lights out.

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Nuts 🥜. That's what we want.

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Jackman Humanities Building. University of Toronto

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Saysutshun (New Castle Island, BC)

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Gong Cha, North York. 2024

[Dr. Dan @UAPDr]

Disclosure may ultimately be as much about integration as revelation.

In the sixth tranche of recently released UAP files is this 1952 letter from Victoria Jackson of Provo, trying to make sense of flying saucers through the framework she knew: Joseph Smith, inhabited worlds and the Lost Tribes of Israel.

Seventy-four years later, we are still doing the same thing.

Different language. Same need to make the extraordinary fit inside the world we already know.

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[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Elon Musk is right. 13 years under President Xi, China has made great leaps.

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@UAPDr Place the pill under your tongue until dissolved.

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Atlantic City Boardwalk, July 5th

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Juan Carlos Grandez writes "IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE CIVILIZATION ORIGINATED FROM THE ENTIRE AMERICAN CONTINENT THANKS TO THE CITY OF CARAL IN PERU... CONTEMPORARY TO SUMERIA, INDIA AND CHINA... EVEN MORE MILLENNAL THAN EGYPT ITSELF." c/o FB account "Estadísticas, gráficos y mapas bizarros"

[Stephen Regoczei @sregoczei]

Build Canada implies
building North of Lake Superior.

Pipelines and an electric grid.

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A new project.

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Natural gas
used in Ontario households
comes from Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York.
Yes.

Canadians are insane.
No wonder Trump treats us with contempt.

The pipelines must run North of Lake Superior.
Not through Michigan.

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@sregoczei Grandez' phrasing, i.e. Millennial (sic), triggered a vital question.

Google Gemini:

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@sregoczei https://t.co/tjtw0HIzw7