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If you have guarded your mouth from evil speech, your days will be peaceful (Derech Eretz Zuta 9).

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[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

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[History Girl @HistoryGirlBW]

When you need a little pickup, you’ll find a little teacup always hits the spot. A street market in England, 1960s.

[Intresting nature 🌿🪐 @INTRESTINGNATUR]

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[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The first confirmed interstellar visitor to our Solar System, 1I/ʻOumuamua, was spotted in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS telescope atop Haleakalā in Hawaii. This bizarre object screamed "outsider" right away—its path traced a sharp hyperbolic trajectory, meaning it zoomed in at such blistering speed that the Sun's gravity couldn't capture it. Unlike anything orbiting our star, ʻOumuamua was just passing through, originating from the vast interstellar void between stars.Traveling at roughly 26 km/s relative to the Sun upon arrival, it screamed past perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on September 9, 2017, at a mind-boggling ~87 km/s. As it raced away, astronomers noticed something peculiar: its brightness swung wildly by a factor of up to 10, hinting at a highly elongated, cigar-like or possibly pancake-flat shape—perhaps 10 times longer than wide, tumbling end-over-end through space.Even stranger, ʻOumuamua showed a subtle non-gravitational acceleration as it departed—no dramatic rocket thrust, just a gentle push beyond what gravity alone predicted. While typical comets get this kick from visible jets of gas and dust forming a coma (the fuzzy envelope around them), ʻOumuamua displayed zero detectable coma or dust tail. This ruled out ordinary cometary outgassing, sparking intense debate. Explanations range from invisible hydrogen release from cosmic-ray-processed water ice to other exotic ices, though no single model fully satisfies everyone yet.What makes ʻOumuamua truly groundbreaking? It delivered the first concrete proof that other planetary systems fling material into the galaxy's empty reaches—ejected planetesimals, fragments, or debris wandering alone for eons. Its visit implies these interstellar wanderers could be surprisingly common, drifting through like cosmic hitchhikers. Each one offers a priceless, up-close glimpse at the raw ingredients and formation processes of distant worlds—without us ever needing to travel light-years away.Since then, two more interstellar objects have followed: the comet-like 2I/Borisov in 2019 and the recently discovered 3I/ATLAS in 2025, reminding us the galaxy is alive with traffic we’re only beginning to detect.Sources: NASA, Nature (2017–2018 papers on discovery and acceleration), The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and ongoing astronomical literature.

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America has no place for paradise. (German Auswanderer)

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[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The most skilled guy in the AI industry just said we're 1-2 breakthroughs away from AGI.

And he explained exactly what's missing.

Demis Hassabis runs Google DeepMind.

He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year.

He's literally the reason why Google is considered the leader of the AI race.

And he just dropped the most specific AGI timeline ever:

"One or two AlphaGo-level technological breakthroughs."

That's it. That's all standing between us and artificial general intelligence.

But here's the thing...

LLMs are NOT going to get us there.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude - they're all hitting the same wall.

They can't plan long-term. Can't create NEW ideas. Can't understand physics.

Demis called them "jagged intelligences. Very good at certain things. Completely incapable of others."

You've felt this yourself.

You've felt this yourself.

You ask ChatGPT a complex question and it sounds smart.

But ask it to solve something that requires REASONING across multiple steps?

It falls apart.

So what ARE the 2 breakthroughs we need?

Breakthrough #1: World Models

AI that understands how physics actually works. How water flows. How cause and effect works.

DeepMind already has early versions (Genie, Veo).

The insight: If AI can GENERATE something realistic, it UNDERSTANDS it.

This is the foundation for robotics and AI that interacts with reality.

Breakthrough #2: Agentic Systems

AI that can DO things. Not just answer questions.

Plan multiple steps. Execute autonomously. Adjust when wrong.

DeepMind proved this with AlphaGo in 2016 - planning 20+ moves ahead to beat the world champion.

Now they're generalizing it to the real world.

And here's the most interesting part:

Demis says these two things are starting to CONVERGE.

LLMs + World Models + Agentic Behavior = AGI

And when I say converge, I mean Google is already building it.

They're setting up the first fully automated scientific laboratory in the UK.

No humans running experiments.
AI designs the test. Robots execute it. AI analyzes results. AI adjusts and iterates.

The lab will work on:

→ Room-temperature superconductors
→ Nuclear fusion materials
→ New battery chemistries
→ Climate tech breakthroughs

Demis's logic is simple:

"If AI can screen materials 100X faster, the energy revolution takes 10 years instead of 100."

But here's the scary part:

China is MONTHS behind. Not years.

"They're very close to the frontier. Maybe only months behind."

DeepSeek. Alibaba's Qwen models.

They're catching up fast.

And unlike what people thought, they're doing it WITHOUT access to the most advanced Nvidia chips.

The window for the West to lead in AGI is shrinking.

The economic impact?

Demis: "10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution. And maybe 10 times faster."

Industrial Revolution took 100+ years and reshaped civilization.

This will be 10X bigger in 1/10th the time.

Mass job displacement. Economic restructuring. New industries overnight.

But also:

→ Curing all disease
→ Solving climate change
→ Unlimited clean energy
→ "Radical abundance"

Demis is betting DeepMind can get there first.

Google spent $400 million on DeepMind in 2014.

That stake is now worth 100s of billions.

Because DeepMind is now the "engine room" of ALL of Google's AI.

Every Gemini model. Every AI feature in Search, Gmail, Workspace.

All built by DeepMind.

Shipped across Google's dozens of billion-user products instantly.

That distribution is their superpower.

The final thing Demis said that stuck with me:

"AGI is probably the most transformative moment in human history. And it's on the horizon."

One or two breakthroughs and 5 years away.

According to the most skilled guy in the industry.

[.stuff @vintagestuff4]

"Down With CPSU"
Soviet Punks During The August 1991 Coup In Moscow

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[Cliff @capewood]

@PulpLibrarian I remember them in the office. I wonder what happened to them?

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[Andy @andreas_nigbur]

SURPRISE OR MUDFLUT

An ancient and surprising underground city where thousands of people lived.

Although the Derinkuyu underground complex, located in Turkish Cappadocia, gained popularity in the 1970s, when Swiss researcher and author Erich Von Däniken revealed it to the world through "The Gold of the Gods", Derinkuyu had long been raising questions. especially among archaeologists in his country.

It was discovered accidentally when a man knocked down the wall of his basement. Upon arrival the archaeologists revealed that the city was 18 stories deep and had everything necessary for underground life, including schools, chapels and even stables.
Derinkuyu, the underground city of Turkey, is almost 3,000 years old, and once housed 20,000 people.

[Stuart Sims @SimsYStuart]

Erich von Däniken new book just released titled, Finger of the Gods 🙏🏻