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I always pick koopa, I always win

Because he's not talking about AI, he's talking about people's psychological reactions to AI

Ok I'll start one here, I got 23763 on track #665 :)

Fun! Top 100 daily leaderboard?

I've heard a few times now that giving birth while lying on the back is a relatively modern invention and that for most of history women adopted squatting or leaning forward positi…

Full report: https://msf.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-04/Mar26LH_MSF_G...

The Guardian has decent coverage in addition to the others people have listed

You can try not using Claude

The em dashes?

Acting like the dominant political stream in Israel has not been interested in occupying Gaza since at least 1967 to this day is a bald faced and shameless misdirection.

The colonization of Gaza and the West Bank is entirely driven by western interests and ideology. Namely Zionism[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

Trauma to me means there are ways of responding to painful experiences that can keep you in that painful state for a very long time, and/or make things worse. I recognize that simp…

From the article: "An internal US government review found no evidence of widespread theft by Hamas of US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza." Other reporting supports this. So what is…

Israel blocks the entry of Plumpy Nut into Gaza, a peanut-butter like paste meant for treating severe acute malnutrition. They say it is a luxury item Hamas might steal.[1] The amo…

I'm not sure I entirely agree with the framing, despite agreeing with many of the points raised. I think it's relevant to recognize that large organizations often become large by c…

I read this letter for the first time many years ago when I was in my physics undergrad and thinking about starting grad school. It still crosses my mind pretty often as a postdoc.…

Plum Village (a Buddhist community founded by Thich Nhat Hanh) has a free app with hours and hours of different kinds of breathing and other types of meditation. They also upload m…

I think in this instance the perpetrator is central to the story/article

"The civilians should be evacuated." They don't want to leave and Israel uses these "evacuations" to make sure Palestinians never return, as they did in 1948, 1967, etc[1][2]. This…

The HRW report[1] goes into details, at least on the 1050 takedowns they documented > A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report investigating Meta’s moderation of pro-Palestine content pos…

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