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kimbro Dec 14, 2024

Yay

kimbro Oct 16, 2024

Imagine discovering you have a long-lost sister you’ve never met.

Or don’t imagine, just read this amazing article about exactly that happening to a Salon writer. A brief read, extraordinarily well-written.

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/15/my-mothers-final-secret-searching-for-the-little-sister-i-never-knew-i-had/

Finding the secret sister I never knew

A personal essay about searching for a sibling adopted in secret.

Salon.com

kimbro Oct 9, 2024

AkaSci 🛰️Oct 9, 2024

Trump gave Putin Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for personal use early in pandemic; Putin asked Trump keep quiet about the gift - from the new book by Bob Woodward.

Kamala Harris responds in the interview with Howard Stern - "Trump gets played by dictators."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-putin-covid-test-machines-bob-woodward
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Trump secretly gave Putin Covid test machines, Bob Woodward book says

‘Please don’t tell anybody,’ Russian president advised, according to new book from veteran Watergate reporter

The Guardian

kimbro Oct 6, 2024

THEORY: AI-generated video is the subconscious revenge of billionaires against the artsy Film School or Drama student who stole their college sweetheart. Discuss.

kimbro Sep 28, 2024

Hey, go easy on the #lamplighters, buddy. #burningman #brc

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/ai-superintelligence-looms-in-sam-altmans-new-essay-on-the-intelligence-age/

OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days”

Altman says “deep learning worked” and will lead to “massive prosperity.”…

Ars Technica

kimbro Sep 20, 2024

Howard Rheingold Sep 19, 2024

Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.

https://www.wholeearth.info/