Robert Westmoreland

We don’t even know what consciousness is. The idea that we could accidentally create it in the process of building more complex computer programs is like imagining that a chef trying to make the perfect sauce could accidentally create life.

Later on HGTV, we’ll turn a linen closet into an affordable sex dungeon.

Yeah, I did that back in the Bush Jr. administration. Guess who I picked.

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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Jesus, this hits hard.

RFK Jr. Leaves Internet Speechless With Bonkers Reason Why He's 'Not Scared Of A Germ'

Well that certainly tracks 😳

📉💥 Pro-Kremlin propagandists now openly criticize Putin—unheard of in his regime. Solovyov cites high interest rates and closed businesses. They can’t hide collapse. Blocking #Telegram won’t stop it. The ship sinks, and they know it. Share this—witness Russia’s collapse together! #RussiaEconomy

In the Dauphiné Alps the sun now sets on France's largest ever rewilding project, building on decades of species rehabilitation, and pairing biodiversity recovery with local economic activity and climate resilience in one of Europe’s fastest-warming mountain regions.

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327: Bike angels. Sea silk. Initihuasi Seed Bank. US education. Rewilding The Alps. All hail the undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal.

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ST VALENTINE is the holy guardian of lovers but not many people know that after death his skull became a decorated floral relic, one of the most gothic items to be found in a Roman reliquary. Shown here in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin #ValentinesDay

Photo of a clay cuneiform tablet with a crack down the centre shown from front and sides

Drawing of a cuneiform tablet that is arranged in a table.

The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name.

The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”.

It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving

Screenshot of an X post by meisha (@meishato) stating: “If the Halftime show wasn’t ‘white enough’ for you, go read the epstein files, it’s all in english and full of white people.” The post quotes Laura Loomer, who wrote: “Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl. Not a single white person or English translation at the Super Bowl….”

Great idea!

The Telemetry All the news the headlines missed in 2025.

You should read this, especially if you have the feeling that the world just gets worse & worse. There is actual progress happening, even if you cannot feel or see it, because it is slow & sometimes hard to recognize (and it is underreported): fixthenews.com/p/the-teleme... #news #goodnews #progress

I used to enjoy the fact that any of Emily Dickinson’s poems can be sung to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”, but yours beats that.

Once so polluted with waste, garbage and chemicals that it caught on fire, Toronto's Don River is now teeming with fish again after a C$1 billion re-naturalisation that rebuilt wetlands, reshaped the river’s course, and restored spawning habitat.

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people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

I can't wait to get home and open a bottle of dinner.

326: Dua Leaper. Lisima lya mwono. Tap water 🩵. Alcatraz Wolfzilla. A silver bullet for creating new life?

The "Energy and Climate" essay toward the bottom of this page is well worth reading, if you don't read the rest. (The rest is worth reading, too.)

What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously? Since 2020 Bogotá has done just that, opening 25 neighbourhood hubs where caregivers can drop off children, do the laundry, and use free legal aid. The successful model is now spreading internationally.

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Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.

Groundhog Day Meaning

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This striking creature is a brujo flycatcher, one of a host of species that are on their way to flourishing again on the Galápagos island of Floreana, as ecosystem restoration efforts spanning decades hit a fresh stride.

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Thanks.

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It was so cold yesterday I saw a Republican congressman put his hand in his own pocket.

Europe's break up with Russian gas has been an exciting one with many industries and jurisdictions fast-tracking their green energy transitions. Now the EU have made it official with laws now in place to end Russian gas imports including heavy penalties for non-compliance.

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Fortunately, Phil only has a 30% success rate.

I remember paying less than a dollar for a book. *sigh*

Don'r worry, I never expect you to act right.

Revolutionary therapy treats ‘untreatable’ blood cancer Gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers

"A world-first gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers." www.positive.news/society/revo...