So, the US Senate has introduced a bill to ban "dangerous gain-of-function" research. But virology is already more tightly and sanely regulated; this would merely end life-saving research
Never seen #discomfort on display as much as #DougFord not wanting to spend another second on stage at the #ONDebate2025 but clearly being told he had to stay until the shot ended. So #awkward , it was great! Hahaha! #onpoli
Dark matter and dark energy could be, fundamentally, a lot of different things with widely variable properties. But intelligent aliens? No, that's already ruled out
Wait, you mean people aren't thinking #critically and growing #cognitively because the #digitalization of the world is doing it for them....and it's making them (gasps) #dumber!!?? #AI is making it worse?? Is this #Idiocracy? Am I being #punked right now!? Where's Ashton and the cameras!
Jokes aside - This is a #sensitive topic for me. I talk about it in my closest circle too often. Unfortunately, I have a front seat to the steep cognitive #decline of some close #friends and #family members for years now, and it makes me sad - not because of disease or "old age", simply because of too much screen time and no new cognitive #stimulation. I see too many people purposefully avoiding nearly anything #cerebral, if they even approach them at all. I have many days where I wish the #Internet didn't exist - for a multitude of reasons, but this is a big one. I'm not trying to be "old fashioned" or #sarcastic, I'm just #disappointed in how we #humanz have grown to depend on #technology as a #crutch, rather than using it as the #tool it was invented to be. As the article eludes to, these technologies are supposed to #complement human #evolution, not #supplement it.
Hilarious time line of the importance of Trump's meeting with Albanese. The RWNJs beat it up because they thought it would fail, then tried to talk down it's importance when Trump singled out Albanese and Australia. #awkward
King George III: "Thanks for the help, France & Spain! You guys really know how to make a grand entrance. Next time, let's coordinate better so I'm not left sweating it out at Gibraltar. #Awkward#WarStruggles"