Our highest and most urgent national priority should be AI safeguards. The risks of AI weapons, pathogens, mass unemployment, surveillance, and even extinction must not continue to be largely ignored.
Looking at @Polymarket's front page, and just have zero idea what sports or sports leagues these are. Curious if any followers recognize these team names without having to Google. If I had to guess, maybe some non-NFL pro football league?
Supporting Trump is a form of religious hermeneutics at this point. Anytime a contradiction arises, you just have to have greater faith or locate an allegorical meaning within the text.
In the spring of 2024, @DrewBasile45 won $132,000 on “Jeopardy!” That didn’t necessarily make him a shoe-in at the International Quizzing Championships, where trivia’s best and brightest answer questions that get harder and more obscure by the year.
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Rereading Shklovsky today. Russian Formalism always strikes me as a response to the patchy & uneven conditions of industrialization in Russia: the text as a machinic combination of devices, with no other end (yet) than the ‘making strange’ of habitual life.
@matthiasellis@daniel_dsj2110 The Canales book really is fabulous. Head and shoulders above other historical work on relativity’s reception. Good shout.