TheJenHOLY SHIT Y'ALL!
Scientists have found an obsidian tool making "workshop" which dates to 1.2 MILLION YEARS AGO in Ethiopia.
This pushes this type of tool making back 500,000 years.
WOOOOOOOOOOOW
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Dennis Alexis Valin DittrichI like writing.
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Tom Gould cartoon for guardian #books
Robert ReichLast quarter, American corporations took home about 10% more than they did the same time a year ago.
Folks, price gouging is driving inflation, not wages or government spending.
Oakland CA politics is about to see a mayoral race scandal. Current Mayor Elect has many issues she overcame thru endorsements and funding. Her late filing was covered up on filing day (“broken time stamps”) & post-filing (illegal deletion of City Hall video). There was a “problem” at the time with several candidates being given an incorrect filing time but at the time it was thought to be incompetence, Now…. Seneca Scott, who also ran, is bringing receipts.
Rabbi Danya RuttenbergI have such issues with Christians who call other Christians "not real Christians" b/c they're harmful--it's gaslighting to the victims of Christianity's brutal history.
Here's what engaging w/harmful branches of a tradition can look like, from Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David. 1/x
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Humans can be fallible, violence prone, dangerous to themselves, other species and the world, true.
But humans can also cooperate, achieve amazing feats, and even save the planet from devastation.
I considered this when I heard that 70 years after the first use of atomic fusion, humans have achieved *ignition* at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. That means more energy was produced from a fusion reaction than was used to power it. We have a long way to go, but this is a huge milestone! #Hope #Fusion
But humans can also cooperate, achieve amazing feats, and even save the planet from devastation.
I considered this when I heard that 70 years after the first use of atomic fusion, humans have achieved *ignition* at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. That means more energy was produced from a fusion reaction than was used to power it. We have a long way to go, but this is a huge milestone! #Hope #Fusion
Brian Bilston
Gigawatt121Seeing people's defense of AI Art is pretty disheartening. To see them be so casually dismissive of the creative process which is already incredibly difficult to begin with is so frustrating.
Open Culture (Official)An Animated Video Shows the Building of a Medieval Bridge: 45 Years of Construction in 3 Minutes
An Animated Video Shows the Building of a Medieval Bridge: 45 Years of Construction in 3 Minutes
Without massive feats of engineering we rarely notice anymore because they seem so commonplace, the built environments we navigate each day wouldn’t exist. When we do turn our attention to how the buildings get made, we are met with surprises, curiosities, puzzles, moments of wonder.
Memo to the Fed, and the entire economic establishment for that matter:
It's not a “wage-price” spiral — wage gains pushing up prices.
It's a “profit-price” spiral — corporate profits driving up prices.
Know the truth.