On this day 26 years ago, the world watched, as Jamal al-Durrah tried to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from Israeli bullets that rained down on them in Gaza for 40 minutes. Despite pleads, Israeli soldiers intentionally shot Muhammad in the stomach- whose final moments of fear and horror were caught on camera and streamed by France TV, and injured his father.
Muhammad became the defining and haunting image of the Second Intifada.
Males think they're brave enough to fight a gorilla but in reality they’re not even brave enough to tell their friend to stop making women uncomfortable.
This whole voluntary AI development slowdown is complete bullshit.
They just can't support their planned capital expenditure burn rate w/o going bankrupt, and they can't IPO because their books are horrific.
So they want to ban open source models and get a taxpayer bailout.
our ancestors would have brought out the guillotine by now and i don’t think that’s an over exaggeration. the people with enough money to rule the world do not care about us. we mustn’t care about them. revolutions have always started over the price of bread.
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
-Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
there's something so profound about the fact that blue whales are stopping their singing
their silence grows as their hunger grows
ofcourse a dying planet has less songs
This is an environmental event will reverberate for the rest of all of our lives. On par with Covid and 9/11 in terms of lasting cultural impact. Unprecedented in terms of environmental impact.
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Animals live in the actual world. Humans live in a conceptual overlay, a dream we mistake for reality. We are blind drunk on symbols and stories, reacting to our own interpretations, not to what is actually happening.