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I just realised that this is not a painting by René Magritte

c/showerthoughts by Klear

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Nathan Ballingrud, "Sunbleached" (horror).

c/shortstories by BonesOfTheMoon

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Maureen McHugh, "The Goldfish Man".

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Ignoring the movies, Josie and the Pussycats were a way better cartoon band than Jem and the Holograms

c/showerthoughts by Melatonin

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E.A. Petricone, "We, The Girls Who Did Not Make It" (tw horror, violence)

c/shortstories by BonesOfTheMoon

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Muonium: Short-Lived Antimatter Atom Mimics Hydrogen, Could Probe Fundamental Physics and Gravity.

c/science by Dragxito

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Are we really about to talk to whales?

c/science by ylai

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"Virgin" and "Fucker" are both used as insults. Damned if you "do it," damned if you don't "do it."

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Muonium: Short-Lived Antimatter Atom Mimics Hydrogen, Could Probe Fundamental Physics and Gravity.

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the smarter you are, the dumber everyone else is

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✧✨🌿Allo🌿✨✧

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Warp Drive Breakthrough Could Enable Constant-Velocity Subluminal Travel, Physics Team Says

c/science by just_another_person

The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic [The Institute for Sexual Research, founded by Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin, Germany (1919-1933)]

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Blue Origin launches 1st crewed spaceflight since August 2022 (video)

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AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed

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Lugh

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If one conjoined twin commits a murder without the consent of their twin, will both have to go to prison or nobody?

c/showerthoughts by freijon

Artificial intelligence hitting labour forces like a "tsunami" - IMF Chief

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Lugh

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Starbuck milkshake is like tobacco

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Swiss Alps Hide a Lethal Lake Layer: A Poisonous Sulphuric Layer Home Of Alien Bacteria

c/science by Dragxito

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A factual comparison of the recent solar storm to the Carrington event

c/science by CheapFrottage

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Spider silk sound system

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Unveiling the Universe's Secrets: A Look at NASA's Latest James Webb Images

c/science by Dragxito

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TIL one of the oldest TV shows was simply called "Sea Stories" on the BBC, featuring Royal Navy Commander A.B. Campbell describing the personalities and places he had seen. No known footage exists.

c/til by _number8_

Golden retriever are the Volvo of dogs

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TIL that there are two types of earwax: wet and dry

c/til by yogi_pogi

James Webb Space Telescope sees Orion Nebula in a stunning new light (images)

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The line in Super Troopers about the Taliban Warlord was in date, then hilariously out of date, then disturbingly in date again.

c/showerthoughts by someguy3

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EU states signing declaration committing to legal equality, protection, national strategies and work for social acceptance of LGBTIQ people

c/map_enthusiasts by Microw

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Northern Lights expected soon as Sun drives stormy space weather

c/science by Studio_caveman

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Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later

c/science by schizoidman

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Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later

c/futurology by schizoidman

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Skateboarding is just "The Floor is Lava" on wheels

c/showerthoughts by BigTrout75

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descriptions of Demons and the arcane rituals required to banish them feverishly relayed by occultists in ghost/horror stories are a direct homomorphism to computers and actually how awful they are

c/showerthoughts by supersquirrel

Warp Drive Breakthrough Could Enable Constant-Velocity Subluminal Travel, Physics Team Says

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I Went Undercover as a Secret Only fans Chatter

c/longreads by Eccentric

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HOW TO PUT A DATA CENTER IN A SHOEBOX - Imec’s plan to use superconductors to shrink computers.

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Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources

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Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi to float on London stock market

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OpenAI and Reddit Partnership

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Why do men call their father their "old man", but their "old lady" is their wife?

c/showerthoughts by baggachipz

People were really doing martial arts under waterfalls for hours without a break, I stand in the shower for twenty minutes and my skin starts having a tantrum, getting wrinkly and shit.

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Check it out! Technology survived a Carrington Event

TIL: How The Founder Of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, Planned on Eradicating Palestinians as early as 1890

c/til by theHRguy

The teens making friends with AI chatbots

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How successful are AI-discovered drugs in clinical trials? A first analysis and emerging lessons

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Oldest known human viruses found hidden within Neanderthal bones

c/science by ooli

Saying 'completely turned my life around' is normal, but saying 'turned my life around 360°' (rather than 180) is stupid.

c/showerthoughts by

paol

Blushing hens: Study finds French chickens get red in the face when scandalized

c/science by jeffw

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Quantum internet draws near thanks to entangled memory breakthroughs

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TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways.

c/til by realitista

Can we all agree to look up a local third party candidate and mention their name to someone you know who is also local?

c/showerthoughts by Apytele

Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain

There are almost 40 different humanoid robots in development, and open-source tech, and makers of specialist components, are making it easier than ever for other people to make them.

c/futurology by

Lugh

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Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’

c/science by Bebo

Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body

c/science by Bebo

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Nature earns ire over lack of code availability for Google DeepMind protein folding paper

c/science by ArcticDagger

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Earth-sized planet spotted orbiting small star with 100 times sun’s lifespan

Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth

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In Star Trek, Commander Data is socially awkward because he lacks training data. This might be because he was built and developed in isolation from the rest of society.

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Jellyfish are the storm clouds of the sea

c/showerthoughts by 2piradians

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America's population time bomb

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Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers

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Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are ‘Roughly Even’ With Human Pilots Said Air Force Chief

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Araby by James Joyce

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Lemmy exists to provide something to do while waiting for Lemmy to compile

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QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid!

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Unitree's new G1 humanoid robot is priced at only $16,000, and looks like the type of humanoid robot that could sell in the tens of millions.

c/futurology by

Lugh

Astronomers are on the Hunt for Dyson Spheres

c/futurology by

Lugh

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[Microblog] (content in post body)

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Germany’s robotic stores must rest on Sundays, too

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Update: New solar flare, secondary peak today in this "Extreme" solar storm

The Price is Right television show is a low-key way to normalize inflation.

c/showerthoughts by Argongas

If you rearrange 2 letters in Queen Latifah's name, it becomes Queef Latinah

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Scientists Discover a 'Phonetic Alphabet' Used by Sperm Whales, Moving One Step Closer to Decoding Their Chatter

c/science by ooli

Scratch an E inside your glasses: it's not tinnitus, just really intense reading. Chaotic stoicism ftw.

c/showerthoughts by TheBananaKing

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Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that have been trained to be helpful and honest.

c/futurology by

Lugh

Hey Evolution! You know that involuntary flinch I do when I think of embarrassing things in my past, sometimes accompanied by a groan?

c/showerthoughts by Melatonin

Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like email addresses.

c/showerthoughts by henfredemars

Using Ubuntu may give off hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect.

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The Price is Right television show is a low-key way to normalize inflation.

c/showerthoughts by Argongas

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The Price is Right television show is a low-key way to normalize inflation.

c/showerthoughts by Argongas

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[Meta] What do you think of migrating to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz?

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Nation-to-Nation

c/mapporn by Optional

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Scientists have figured out way to make algae-based plastic that completely decomposes

c/science by fukhueson

TIL that a Frenchman ate a plane

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Castle of Jouillat, Creuse, France

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Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations

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Life expectancy in 1800, 1950 and 2015

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Med-Gemini has bested GPT-4, achieving an exceptional 91.1% accuracy in medical diagnostics.

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DeepMind is experimenting with a nearly indestructible robot hand

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Is cave exploration an indoor or an outdoor activity?

c/showerthoughts by henfredemars

Creepy Study Suggests AI Is The Reason We've Never Found Aliens

c/science by ooli

AI and demographics: the economic tug of war | Vanguard UK Professional

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CBT as a kink may be an evolutionary adaptation to protect men's most vulnerable (and evolutionarily useful) body part.

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TIL there's a rich history of conspiracy theories centered around Denver International Airport

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World Warned to Prepare for Today's Severe Geomagnetic Storm, First in 20 Years

TIL China now has a 3 child policy.

c/til by someguy3

A group of Chinese companies, including Xiaomi and UBTech, have launched an open-source humanoid robot.

c/futurology by

Lugh

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A movie theater combining with an oxygen bar could probably make a powerful smell-o-vision experience

c/showerthoughts by Fandangalo

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Wisconsin woman marks 20 years since her near fatal rabies diagnosis

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Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial

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