Mister Phillips
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Mister Phillips
@burton888.bsky.social
Venerable ex-bookseller.
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The timeline & severity of major AI risks are still debated within the scientific community, but these disagreements reveal great uncertainty. The fact that many credible experts consider some catastrophic scenarios plausible should be enough to warrant serious caution.
www.axios.com/2025/06/16/a...
Behind the Curtain: What if predictions of humanity-destroying AI are right?
Everyone assumes AI optimists and doomers are simply exaggerating. But no one asks: "Well, what if they're right?"
www.axios.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Today marks a big milestone for me. I'm launching @law-zero.bsky.social, a nonprofit focusing on a new safe-by-design approach to AI that could both accelerate scientific discovery and provide a safeguard against the dangers of agentic AI.
Every frontier AI system should be grounded in a core commitment: to protect human joy and endeavour. Today, we launch LawZero, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing safe-by-design AI. lawzero.org
June 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Here’s some dog content to temporarily distract you from the mess happening in the world
June 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Feed: "Straight Arrow News"
By: Alex Delia on Monday, June 30, 2025
Residents of Tuvalu seek escape to Australia as island continues to sink
Thousands of people on the island nation of Tuvalu have applied for climate visas to Australia. The country expects to be underwater by 2100.
san.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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BAD FAITH director Stephen Ujlaki and Executive Producer Todd Stiefel talk about why they made the film and how it can help us understand what’s next.
State of Belief podcast.
Bad Faith interview begins at 34:00

stateofbelief.com/showarchive/...
December 7, 2024 – Did Christian Nationalism Win? Matthew Taylor on the Vote and the Future
Segments Christian Nationalism has seemingly grabbed the levers of power in America. With an overt passion for power over democracy, the agenda of this authoritarian, exclusionary movement needs to ...
stateofbelief.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Instagram channel @Art_DailyDose

Jo Hobbs, is a UK needle-felting artist known for crafting realistic miniature animal figures from wool

Artist: @jurlyjocreation

#art #needlefelting #dog #sculpture #animals #UnitedKingdom #UK #artist
June 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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need to re-watch this because it made my head spin but it also made a lot of (scary) sense. Yuval Noah Harari on #AI and the biggest social experiment in human history. Fingers crossed for benevolent and not the alien version.... youtu.be/Ki5hosohNtQ
Yuval Noah Harari on AI and Human Evolution | WSJ Leadership Institute
YouTube video by WSJ News
youtu.be
June 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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"You can realise the Jewish right for self determination, and at the same time also realise the Palestinian right for self determination.

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦."

Yuval Noah Harari speaks to @maitlis.bsky.social on Israel-Gaza.

articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq23W4L1tt...
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘We are seeing the collapse of the liberal global order’
Israeli author, philosopher, and historian Yuval Noah Harari shares his views on the Israel-Gaza war and its broader implications.
articles.globalplayer.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"

No: 85%
Yes: 5%

YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I just started reading "Eating The Apple:How I Left Behind Fundamentalist Christianity." It's really good so far.Books on #deconstruction have really helped me😊
This from the book: "It's funny how when you take off the lens of Fundamentalism and shed any preconceived notions, when you read 1/2
June 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Another strong woman… women will save your country , watch out Stephen Miller
June 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Thank you for your encouragement on here. My disabilities have been...disabling recently, I've not been able to do much & I haven't felt like a valuable human, BUT I *can* post a photo here & maybe lift someone's mood a little with it,even when I can barely move.That's a really good thing.🌿
For you:
June 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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May 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Feed: "Lincoln Square Media"
By: Sam Osterhout on Monday, May 26, 2025
We Can't Let Project Esther Go Unnoticed
The Heritage Foundation's bonkers project to criminalize all dissent is just getting started. No one is safe.
www.lincolnsquare.media
May 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I think it's just recovering from the speed and shock of Trump and DOGE

And honestly between the foreign policy blunders and the wanton cruelty of Musk I think more and more Americans are starting to find reasons to organize
February 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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“We can look to venom, surprisingly, to aid us biomedically," says Dr. Barrett Klein. "For example, bee venom therapy has been used for arthritis, arthralgia, Parkinson’s, ALS, multiple sclerosis, and other conditions.”
How Insects Changed The World—And Human Cultures
In “The Insect Epiphany,” an entomologist explores the history of insects in art, food, engineering, and more.
buff.ly
February 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM