Re: de-extinction
It does feel like there are an awful lot of organisms out there that are very threatened but aren’t actually extinct yet. Doesn’t it make more sense to start by protecting them, if the goal is actually ecological integrity and not a weird self-aggrandizing techno-grift?

ESRI is updating their basemaps automatically to incorporate The Gulf of America starting tomorrow 2/20.
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I did it again!

Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2

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Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

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