'Science, archaeology and history are converging on a clear conclusion: the ancient Egyptians are still with us, their direct descendants navigating Cairo...on their way to air-conditioned offices, while others till the Nile Valley’s eternally rich soil.' open.substack.com/pub/razib/p/et…

'I'm going to go and excrete previously digested liquids, since I know you don't like it when I say I'm taking a piss.'

— 10 yo to Jessica

GPT3 has already replaced much of my Google usage, and almost all my Wikipedia usage. (Forgive the naive questions!)

If showing movies in theaters wasn't Hollywood's original business model, it would seem a pretty niche idea. Pay to watch a movie at a set time in a big room with a bunch of other people? Someone proposing this would have a hard time getting studios to take the idea seriously.

Manually dragging away those in disfavor is so low tech. Xi needs to install the kind of chairs SPECTRE had. youtube.com/watch?v=1OLTvx…

The cinema industry's bumpy recovery from the pandemic

Amazing Chris Campbell chart 👇

Four ways to look at global CO₂ emissions.

1. Which countries have contributed most historically?

Share of cumulative CO₂ since 1750:
🇺🇸 US: 25%
🇨🇳 China: 14%
🇷🇺 Russia: 7%
🇩🇪 Germany: 5.5%
🇬🇧 UK: 4.6%
🇯🇵 Japan: 4%
🇮🇳 India: 3%
🇫🇷 France: 2.3%
🇨🇦 Canada: 2%
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 1.8%

Some of our engineers just told me they’d estimate 40% of the lines of code they produce are now written by the Github CoPilot AI

OH: 'With old friends you can put up with some amount of crazy, but no one wants to make new, crazy friends.'

I noticed an interesting equivalence that obtains between two apparently unrelated things. The percentage of live music in restaurants that's not loud enough = the percentage of awards ceremonies that are too short.

Introducing the Replit App.

We’ve been working on this for over a year inventing new UX paradigms to make coding on mobile manageable, and we think this is the most comprehensive mobile creation tool in the world — will onboard millions to the industry!

Hidden beneath medieval Christian texts, scholars have discovered what seems to be part of the long-lost star catalogue of the astronomer Hipparchus — believed to be the earliest known attempt to map the entire sky

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