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@Annie_Kallen Couldn't help myself.

Racism + McCarthyism + Tammany Hall politics undid STV (now called RCV)

The link to the original paper is dead, but it looks legit on Wikipedia

https://t.co/EefnyrZZnM

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@AlexTran677026 Vito Corleone. Disciplined. Wise. Caring.

And yet.

He's a horrible person, isn't he? He has people murdered. He corrupts society. He lies. He cheats. He steals.

I too am in the bag for Brando's Vito. What a character. He's all about family. But how'd his family do?

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@alittlevincible @alojoh @StonksGoFubar @herbertong it would be Solar City 3.0, actually.

Solar City 2.0 was SpaceX buying xAI.

But somehow that's working out too. As @benthompson says, Musk gets the capital first then actually does build the dream.

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@alojoh @Hedgeye How would you take SpaceX public in a way that wasn't a scam?

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@alojoh @Hedgeye on the other hand, when has it not worked out for people to invest in musk's companies?

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@TheCinesthetic Gangs of New York

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@Osint613 the Cuba war propaganda ramp-up is going as expected

[Dispropaganda @Dispropoganda]

Mark Zuckerberg launched the metaverse in 2021.

He spent over $73,000,000,000 on it.

He even changed his company's name from Facebook to meta.

Yet the metaverse was so bad even FB's own employees didn't want to use it.

Now its considered as one of the biggest corporate failures in business history.

The metaverse was the only thing Mark Zuckerberg didn't steal or buy from others,
but actually developed by himself.

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largely negotiated deal feels like a mostly peaceful protest.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

“California almonds use 4x-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.”

Golf course owners:

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@SamMonsonNFL the story of this play is the perfect throw b/c jerry only barely had a step on deion

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@TheCinesthetic like Roku City

cc: @rokuone

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@DudespostingWs geeeeez look how his arm rotates!

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@pablofindsout The NFL's ace in the hole is the NFL Network. It can broadcast games without anyone else.

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@ryangrim we actually think the Chinese bureaucracy is better than USA's?

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@AlexHonnold @HBO Quality of the kinds of living we do x the quantity of life we get to do it.

Pretty good equation there :)

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@kylegriffin1 it's like when your cat brings you carcasses as a gift

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@Holden_Culotta if (current version of) USA gov't has a chance, it can't be losing people like Massie like it lost @justinamash.

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@ggreenwald I saw they posted an anti-trans article to try and get their swagger back 🙄

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Asking questions... being curious... being humble

... is what separates us from animals?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In the 1970s, David Premack wondered if a chimpanzee could be taught to ask a question. He taught Sarah 130 plastic word-tokens. She answered his questions easily. After years of work, she had never asked one of her own. Sixty years later, no signing ape has.

A four-year-old human asks about 25 questions an hour. Paul Harris at Harvard counted them: kids ask their parents around 40,000 questions between ages two and five.

Premack even worked out a method for teaching an ape to ask. Hide a snack the chimp expects. Wait for her to sign "where is it." He never bothered running it on Sarah. She spent her sessions answering his questions, never asking her own. A normal kid, he pointed out, asks "what that? who making noise? when Daddy come home?" on a loop.

Washoe the chimpanzee, the first one taught American Sign Language, knew 250 signs. She could request food. She could sign her name. She once saw a swan and called it "water bird," a sharp invention for an animal she had no sign for. She never asked what the swan was, or where it came from, or anything else.

Koko the gorilla knew about 1,000 signs. Kanzi the bonobo understands more than 3,000 spoken English words. Nim Chimpsky, Herbert Terrace's chimp at Columbia (named to mock the linguist Noam Chomsky), strung 125 signs into more than 20,000 combinations. His longest stretch was "give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." He never asked a thing.

Joseph Jordania, a researcher in Melbourne, thinks this is the line between us and them. To ask a question, you first have to know that the person across from you knows something you don't. Apes do not seem to get to that step, even after a lifetime of being talked at by humans.

Human kids cross that line around their fourth birthday. Apes never do.