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Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through Al video An Al video of Christopher Pelkey forgave his killer in court in what officials believe was the first use of Al to deliver a victim impact statement.

no he didn't that's not him what the fuck is wrong with you freaks

A card dated April 25, 2025, reads: "Trump Administration Deports 2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen to Honduras. A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be 'illegal and unconstitutional.'"

Breaking News: A federal judge expressed deep concern that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

I have spent the week with someone who has dementia and let me tell you it is an ironclad argument for the power of music, especially popular song. Go listen to your favorite songs. Learn the words. Sing along. They will keep you company to the very end.

Albert Einstein died on this day, April 18, 1955.

It is incredible to hear Albert Einstein explain his famous formula, E=mc².

The sea doesn’t deserve your Echo. Wrap it in cloth, hit it with a hammer, and bury it in your attic or basement without a prayer

BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism.

As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

Mira Murati Is Ready to Tell the World What She’s Working On The former OpenAI CTO has launched Thinking Machines Lab to make AI more accessible.

Mia Murati is finally ready to tell the world what she's been working on since leaving OpenAI last September: an AI lab called Thinking Machines www.wired.com/story/mira-m...

OpenAI Rejects Elon Musk’s Bid to Gain Control of the Company Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI’s board, said the artificial intelligence company was “not for sale.” Mr. Musk and other investors had offered $97.4 billion earlier this week.

OpenAI’s board of directors on Friday rejected a $97.4 billion bid by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors to gain control of the artificial intelligence company, deepening a feud between Musk and OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman.

Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict How maps’ names and border territories − and what they omit - can project different political objectives.

Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict theconversation.com/map-wars-in-...
#geosky #gischat

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

It's outrageous that the UK secretly ordered Apple to build an encryption backdoor that would let it spy on Americans and won't even confirm it. Now more than ever, we need end-to-end encryption www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms.

The scoop on Mira Murati’s first hires as she ramps up her mysterious AI startup….including some poaching from OpenAI.

From @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/mira-m...

Warm hello for those who don't know me:
I am a professional private chef and artist, among other things.
I'm interested in: neuroscience, psychology, quantum physics, manifestation, ethics, mindfulness/mental health, and meditation, to name a few.
This is my homage to Anthony Bourdain, 2024 🍽

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A photo of my desk where my grey cat is sitting looking off to the left. Behind him is my monitor, keyboard and pencil cups. On the wall are corkboards and hanging plants.

He sit!

#cats

Every time I hear Xiye speak, I learn something new. Now, more than ever, we need voices like hers - original, compelling, and grounded. If you care about climate, watch this! ⬇️

Thank you so much for sharing this.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Dutch Baby I’ve only ever eaten Dutch babies in the States, where they are brought out to you at the table with great pomp: great pancakes puffed up and golden, still in the cast-iron skillets they were cooked i...

I was told it was National Yorkshire Pudding Day – yes, really – and I thought why not start early and have it for breakfast. So #RecipeOfTheDay is Dutch Baby! Can also heartily recommend a topping of clotted cream and golden syrup www.nigella.com/recipes/dutc...

YouTube video by CBC News Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

Very much worth a watch if you have not yet seen the PM’s brief and moving speech to Americans and Canadians.

“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

The commissars have arrived open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

The following pages have been removed from the CDC website. This used to be known as censorship. Not sure what the new word is.

This photo turned 5 years old today!
🖤💭🐮

#milkbath #photography

Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s.
Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879.
Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all.

Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years?

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people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

Wow.