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Mark @aguasonic.com · Jul 12

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Read somewhere that we are on the earth, not of it.

Which would make << all >> of us immigrants.

There -- problem solved.

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Photograph of the earth as seen from the moon taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission.

NASA/Bill Anders - http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a410/AS8-14-2383HR.jpg

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Mark @aguasonic.com · 12h

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"Back-in-the-day" that was called "customer beta".

I guess it's still a thing? 🤔

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Now Italy gets a thousand-percent tariffs.

Mark @aguasonic.com · 13h

Nice to know that not _everything_ is about politics.

For example, the space sciences do some crazy things...

Like working with a black hole

<< larger than the entire solar system >>.

wow.

www.sciencealert.com/two-black-ho...

Two Black Holes Locked in a Death Spiral Imaged in Stunning First

The complex dance of two black holes locked in a doomed orbit has been revealed in a first-of-its-kind direct radio image.

www.sciencealert.com

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💔

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In other words --

better to re-train, re-use, re-purpose, re-cycle --

then to throw it all out and start over. 🙃

Mark @aguasonic.com · 16h

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Kind of like the openai-nvidia-microsoft merry-go-round?

Seems to be quite the popular past-time in the valley.

Mark @aguasonic.com · 18h

State-sponsored terrorism.

Paid with our taxes.

No Kings this Saturday.

And this is why.

Mark @aguasonic.com · 22h

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Or,

we could just stop killing everything, everywhere, all at once.

Mark @aguasonic.com · 22h

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Nice wrapup of where we are right now, re: stock-market 'valuations' ( aka "bets" ).

"In that case, consumers and businesses will need to pay about $3.1 trillion for AI services, equivalent to 10% of the current U.S. economic output.”

Is that like 'tithing' ?

www.marketwatch.com/story/this-i...

This is the dumbest stock market in history

Wisdom of crowds, indeed.

www.marketwatch.com

Mark @aguasonic.com · 23h

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A form of plastic -- made from bamboo ?

Almost half of the petroleum we pull from the ground is not used as fuel

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it is "feedstock" for the plastics industry.

So, if we use bamboo for plastic, and electricity for propulsion

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__who needs oil__ ??

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"Come November.... Los Angeles is closing Intermountain, a watershed moment that will mark the end of coal power in California."

That's right.

_the end of coal power in California_

www.latimes.com/california/n...

California says goodbye to coal and hello to cleaner electricity

Your morning catch-up: California says goodbye to coal, trash fees will surge for L.A. residents and more big stories.

www.latimes.com

Mark @aguasonic.com · 1d

Right?

It's like herding cats.

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Had to drop them. I did.

Nothing left there but crypto-scams and "ai" kool-aid drinkers....

"slop", indeed.

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Nothing says "extremely dangerous people" quite as effectively as the Easter Bunny dancing with Kermit the Frog.

Forget the National Guard. We need to send in the 2nd Armored Cavalry for people this dangerous. Maybe have the 82nd Airborne drop behind the front line, soften things up a bit.

Oy.

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People need to understand the level to which so-called "balanced" coverage is sane-washing bald-faced lies in the name of 'objective' reporting.

What kind of "war" is conducted by people in inflatable frog suits ( and sundry farm animals ) and pajamas?

newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.substack.com

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Mark @aguasonic.com · 1d

Don't forget Sacks, Leo, and Crow.

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Gosh darn it all Goebbels ---

you're not supposed to tell people!

newrepublic.com/post/201663/...

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Fitting, in that many indigenous cultures consider frog

"the voice of the people".

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A message from war-torn Portland....

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Sounds like something that would fall under

18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 Part I

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Funny how _all_ the "mainstream" -- not just Fox Spews --

is sane-washing and rationalizing a coup, 24 / 7/ 365.

It's almost like they are in on it.