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Gavin Chait;
Профиль VivelyI am a data scientist, researcher, engineer, sometime-traveler, and African SFF author. I am fascinated by the frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty, migration vs stasis. I also drink a great deal of coffee.
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The last time so many people had to be evacuated from one place was in 1940, for Dunkirk. Conducted against us by our environment, the climate crisis is a war we've imposed on ourselves. The next century will be full of pointless suffering
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Ever read a take so stupid that you feel like it's just punched you in the face?
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yeah I don't think you get to "oops, my bad" the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people - and counting! - because you got "carried away"
Bobby Koganlet he who hasn’t ever gotten so carried away illegally impounding federal funds that they killed hundreds of thousands of people cast the first stone
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In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...
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Pounding Yam Is Not The Will Of God This is seventy-nine percent of a true story on the ungodly and self-destructive exercise of yam pounding — by Mofoluwawo O. Mojolaoluwa t.ly/lcSXx
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Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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The internet’s blessed me by reminding me of Stéphan Gladieu’s insanely hard photos of costumes made by Young Congolese artists from all the shit we dump there I don’t want to ever see another leather jacket wearing billy idol clone in a cyberpunk setting again www.stephangladieu.fr/homo-detritus/
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It’s one of the great ironies that people across the world who’ve spent years and years whipping up hate and dividing countries are now complaining that people hate them.
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First trailer for "Le Corset", directed by Louis Clichy ("Asterix") at Eddy Cinema studio. One of my favorite movies of 2026 so far. Coming in French theaters on October 14. >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-07...
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Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.
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I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.
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There are about as many intersex people in the world as there are redheads— ~1.7% of the world's population. So claiming there are only two biological sexes is like claiming there are only two hair colors: Brown & Yellow. Now consider how you'd regard someone who loudly & repeatedly insisted that…
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In South Africa, vigilante mobs are doing what similar mobs have done in Europe & what ICE does here. Xenophobia is a global epidemic. The carriers are right-wing & nationalist political activists.
GroundUp NewsHundreds of people waiting outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town faced a cold night on Saturday. Read groundup.org.za/article/zimb... by Matthew Hirsch
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Rest in Power, maestro Abdullah Ibrahim. Here is a fine NPR Music obit by Martin Johnson.