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My town is improving the parks. I’m happy because I like the park near my house. On any given weekend we have lots of tennis players. And in the picnic areas black and Muslim groups. And in the back of the park with volleyball courts, Latinos.
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Meanwhile in the U.S….we are busy pretending that scientists don’t matter and that companies do everything.
China has selected its first group of young researchers to receive funding for up to 15 years, in one of the longest research grants on offer to scientists globally
go.nature.com/4z4Q3pw
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AUTOMATIC 1st DOWNS via penalty are on a record pace in 2026
This is particularly evident on THIRD DOWN, w' 34.1% of these penalties being awarded on the money down
The five yr avg (2021-2025) is 31.5% of AUTOMATIC 1st DOWNS awarded on third down plays
Week 4 & Week 6,2026 have seen some of the highest third down AUTOMATIC 1st downs awarded in recent memory for a specific week
Week 6,2026 recorded the second most ROUGHING THE PASSER penalties in a single week over the past decade
Only Week 5, 2019 recorded more in this category
Top 3 referees awarding AUTOMATIC 1st DOWNS via penalty on THIRD DOWN in 2026 (based on per game avg)
1. Shawn Hochuli
2. Bill Vinovich
3. Carl Cheffers
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Hey Pokémon GO.
Giving a few players 1M Stardust at RANDOM is really fucking lame.
No hate towards the people who got 1M Stardust, just if you give it to some people, how about giving it to everyone.
Randomly selecting people who get it is great to piss your playerbase off.
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WHEN YOU REALIZE THE BABY BOOM WASN'T JUST SOLDIERS COMING HOME HORNY.
It was soldiers coming home to the GI Bill, free college, 0% down home loans, and low interest business loans.
It was strong unions. Pensions. A house that cost 2 years of salary.
It was confidence that the future was actually going to be better than the present.
That's what produced a baby boom. Not romance. Security.
You want a higher birth rate now?
Give people a future where they know their kids will actually be okay.
That's the whole formula. It's not complicated. It's just expensive, and nobody in charge wants to pay for it twice.
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My position on lethal force in the looting context is that unless the government (i.e. taxpayers) want to step in and say they are going to cover all damages and losses, then it should absolutely be legal to use lethal force to stop looting, at least for individual proprietors and such.
When you destroy someone's shop or loot it, you are stealing all the time it took for them to build it, or the time and effort it will take to replace it. In extreme cases, you may have ruined them financially. It could be years of their life, just gone.
That should absolutely be grounds for lethal force to prevent. Fuck looters.
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Do you think if the Eagles mistreated Jalen Hurts, and forced him to play in London against his will, that his agent would have done a four-paragraph joint statement with the team?
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LA County Elections Officials tell a judge they tested a small sample (200) of the list of 20k registered CA voters the Trump administration says are non-citizens.
112/200 were not sent ballots
71.2% of the 200 have no voting history.
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If you don't believe that property taxes are a problem, I am closing on a home in 2 weeks and property taxes will be a full 20% of my monthly mortgage payment.
For many people that prices them out of home ownership.
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No flag for roughing the passer, because the name on the jersey says "Daniels" instead of "Mahomes".
A real strategic misstep by the #Commanders equipment managers.
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Because OF COURSE ... deport deport deport.
Ilhan Omar Didn't Bolt Out of the Country After the Raid BUUUUT Where She WAS Is So Much Worse
**LINK BELOW**
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A bullhorn in your face doesn’t give you the right to throw a punch.
I don’t care whether you’re liberal, conservative, Democrat, or Republican. Nobody should have to tolerate someone screaming in their face through a bullhorn.
But there’s a difference between standing up for yourself and knocking someone unconscious. Political disagreements should never reach that point.
Freedom of speech comes with responsibility, and so does how you react to it.
What would you do if this happened to you ?
Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Community note
A megaphone siren is extremely loud typically in the 100–120+ dB range which qualifies it under assault, and can be used to justify self defense.
Assault can be defined as an act done with intent to cause fear in another of immediate bodily harm or death
revisor.mn.gov/statutes?id=60…
revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/…
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Crazy thing is them posting the video.
Like man...I would have deleted that shit.
Unless it was steaming, then there ain't shit you can do anyway.
Couple under fire for filming videos for social media and not watching their child that got swept by a wave... with another man running up to pick up the kid
They're more focused on getting the "perfect" social media video than watching their child
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"LLMs are just a series of matrix multiplications. They are not conscious, and they will never be."
Famous last words...
Spectacular Nature piece on why AI is not conscious and probably will never be.
Three arguments:
1) Intelligence is not consciousness.
Intelligence is about solving problems. Consciousness is about having subjective experiences.
AlphaFold can solve super difficult problems. By contrast, our brains performs complex operations entirely outside awareness.
Problem-solving and consciousness are two separate things.
2. Biology is essential.
Our brains are alive, down to every cell. Their activity is inseparable from the living tissue that produces it.
The idea that consciousness can be reproduced simply by running the right computations on silicon components who do not fight for their life is a very far fetching and, I would add, almost religious, assumption.
3) The physical organization may matter more than the computation.
According to integrated information theory, consciousness requires specific causal relationships between a system’s physical components.
The computer architectures running today’s AI lack this organization.
The comparison with AlphaFold is particularly revealing:
Almost nobody things AlphaFold is conscious, despite its inner working is very similar to an LLM
Why?
Because it does not speak.
LLMs do speak like us and therefore we fall into an illusion:
Since they speak like us, they must be like us.
But this inference is wrong.
LLMs are just a series of matrix multiplications.
They are not conscious, and they will never be.
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Paper in the first reply
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Makes you wonder about her rulings on multiple cases.
🚨BREAKING! Kash Patel is targeting Ketanji Brown Jackson’s husband for selling Supreme Court access!
“For $500,000, you can plead your case privately to one of nine justices,” Patel revealed. “Brown Jackson compromised at least seven cases.”
The FBI Director says the ethics committee can handle her, he’s got his sights set on the husband.
Corruption in robes won’t stand.
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I don't think I've seen a ref crew trying any harder to keep the other team in the game, and the other team declining to participate every time.
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Ilhan Omar’s father was NEVER naturalized.
He LIED.
This means that Ilhan Omar never naturalized through her father.
She LIED too.
This means an ILLEGAL is a member of Congress.
This CANNOT stand.
She must IMMEDIATELY be REMOVED from Congress.
She cannot VOTE even one more time.
This is a true Constitutional CRISIS.
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