Bookmarks 2025-08-23T22:24:03.970Z
by Owen Kibel
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Bookmarks for 2025-08-23T22:24:03.970Z
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MAGA Minute, August 22 - YouTube Added: Aug 23, 2025
MAGA Minute, August 22
Site: YouTube
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture (feat. Il pomo d'oro) - YouTube Music Added: Aug 23, 2025
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture - YouTube Music
Site: YouTube Music
Provided to YouTube by Warner Classics Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture · Maxim Emelyanychev · Il pomo d'oro Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 ℗ A Warner ...
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Gad Saad on X: "I have first editions of “1984” and “Animal Farm.” https://t.co/rGrcx4YdrV" / X Added: Aug 23, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Wondera.ai - Your AI Music Co-creator Added: Aug 23, 2025
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Watch Live as SpaceX Tries to Prove Starship Isn’t a Total Flop With Flight 10
Added: Aug 23, 2025Watch Live as SpaceX Tries to Prove Starship Isn’t a Total Flop With Flight 10
Site: Gizmodo
After completing its investigation into recent Starship failures, SpaceX has made some changes in the attempt to avoid similar incidents.
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AI's Benefits To Humanity Outweigh It's Risks, AI Will Cause The Rise of Middle America
Site: YouTube
BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW - https://castbrew.com/Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.comHost:Phil @PhilThatRemains (X)G...
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Will AI Destroy Humanity? Can Humans Escape AI Doomsday Debate | The Culture War With Tim Pool
Site: YouTube
BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW - https://castbrew.com/Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.comHost:Phil @PhilThatRemains (X)G...
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Doctors Using AI Are Becoming Less Skilled & Less Capable Says New Study
Site: YouTube
BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW - https://castbrew.com/Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.comHost:Phil @PhilThatRemains (X)G...
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Joanna Ho Writes Added: Aug 23, 2025
Joanna Ho Writes
Site: Joanna Ho Writes
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Carrie Hennessey Soprano |
Added: Aug 23, 2025Carrie Hennessey Soprano |
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Tenrecs in Madagascar | IUCN Afrotheria Specialist Group Added: Aug 23, 2025
Tenrecs in Madagascar | IUCN Afrotheria Specialist Group
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS Nikki Haley to Trump and GOP: “India Is Not an Adversary Like China” | The Swamp
Added: Aug 23, 2025🚨 BREAKING NEWS Nikki Haley to Trump and GOP: “India Is Not an Adversary Like China”
Site: The Swamp
"Former UN Ambassador pushes back on Trump’s rhetoric, calls India a partner — not a threat."
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BREAKING: Grok Is Evolving Faster Than Any Other AI – xAI Poised to Outpace the Competition | The Swamp
Added: Aug 23, 2025
BREAKING: Grok Is Evolving Faster Than Any Other AI – xAI Poised to Outpace the Competition
Site: The Swamp
“xAI’s flagship chatbot is setting a new standard in speed and innovation, threatening to reshape the AI landscape.”
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Trump FBI Raids John Bolton Amid Classified Docs Investigation | Timcast IRL
Site: YouTube
SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/Join - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLwNTXWEjVd2qIHLcXxQWxA/joinHosts: Phil @PhilThatRem...
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Artist buys mammoth tooth for $5 at Houston thrift store Added: Aug 22, 2025
Ice Age relic found on shelf at Houston thrift store
Site: Chron
Experts say it's likely 25,000 to 100,000 years old.
When Wendy Wight walked into a Houston thrift store, she expected to browse some secondhand ceramics or vintage housewares. She didn’t expect to walk out with a relic from the Ice Age. In the back of The Cottage Shop on Westheimer, a shelf labeled “Rocks $5 each” caught her eye. Among the colorful stones and geodes, one large, ridged object stood out. “I almost passed them by,” Wight told Chron. “Then I thought, 'I can spend $5 each.'” Wight, an artist with a studio space in Palacios, said she bought nearly 10 rocks with her students in mind. She wanted objects they could handle without worry. “For five bucks, these kids could drop them on the floor even,” she said. One of the pieces—a heavy, ridged, enamel-coated specimen—looked like it might be a fossilized tooth. Wight’s friend Sarah Gayle ran a reverse image search and suggested it could be from a mammoth. Gayle then contacted Chron for help identifying it. Based on photos, Texas paleontologist Andre Lujan confirmed the object is “most definitely a mammoth tooth.” He said it’s likely from a Columbian mammoth—woolly mammoths didn’t inhabit Texas—and pointed to distinctive features like its layered enamel plates and root structure, which differ from the cusp-shaped teeth of mastodons. “Mammoths have 6 sets of teeth during their lifetime that progressively erupt, wear and then fall out with the next tooth growing in and replacing it like a conveyor belt,” Lujan said. He noted that while mammoth teeth aren’t unknown in Texas, they aren’t especially common—and certainly not in thrift stores. Most Ice Age mammoth remains found in the state date from roughly 100,000 to 25,000 years ago, but determining a more precise age would require knowing where the tooth was originally found. “It’s also possible it’s not even from our state,” Lujan said. “Hard to say without speaking to the person who pulled it out of the ground.” Emily Meister, manager of The Cottage Shop, confirmed the item came in like any other. “It came in through the donation door,” she said. Wight suspects the tooth may have come from a geologist’s personal collection. “My grandfather was a geologist, and he had a collection of rocks like this at his house,” she said. Devin Pettigrew, an archaeologist with the Center for Big Bend Studies, also reviewed images and said the tooth appears fossilized, meaning its bone material has been replaced with minerals. CBBS is researching the record of human and mammoth interactions in North America. “Mammoths are among the animals that had a big impact on the landscape, trampling small trees and helping maintain steppe grassland ecosystems,” Pettigrew said. Without information about the site where the fossil was found, “it’s hard to say much about how old it is,” he said. “But I think finding a great example of a fossilized mammoth tooth is pretty rare.” Though its scientific value may be limited without context, Pettigrew called it a “cool find"--one that could become more meaningful if its origins are ever traced. Wight isn’t planning to sell it or mount it in a display case. For now, it lives in her studio, where kids in after-school programs can hold it in their own hands. “I don’t need it to do anything other than be what it is,” she said. “For me, it’s just an interesting object.” Parking | Headed to San Marcos? You'll want to know about this rulePlastic | Texas beaches are awash in a new bizarre treasureJump | Dangerous summer stunt in Houston prompts police warningNesting | Texas neighborhood faces big invasion of birdsFor the latest and best from Chron, sign up for our daily newsletter here.
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A short La Niña is coming soon. What does that mean for weather near you? Added: Aug 22, 2025
A short La Niña is coming soon. What does that mean for weather near you?
Site: The Hill
The U.S. is on “La Niña watch,” according to a new forecast issued by the Climate Prediction Center on Thursday.
(NEXSTAR) – The U.S. is on "La Niña watch," according to a new forecast issued by the Climate Prediction Center on Thursday. The Center predicts La Niña will form in the fall, influencing the weather we see in the latter part of the year. This year's La Niña is expected to be short and weak, much like the one we saw last winter. But that doesn't mean its impact on the weather will necessarily be weak. In hindsight, the 2024-25 winter season "bore the telltale signs of a La Niña influence," explained meteorologist Nat Johnson. In a typical La Niña year, the southern half of the country will get drier, warmer weather, while the Pacific Northwest and Ohio Valley get more precipitation than normal. That's pretty much what happened last winter, despite the "weak" La Niña. "In particular, most of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico were predicted to be and turned out to be drier than average, with record-dry conditions in southern Arizona and parts of New Mexico," Johnson said. "Wetter conditions were forecasted and did prevail over the northern part of the continent, particularly in Alaska and parts of the Pacific Northwest, as well as much farther south in Central America." It wasn't a perfect forecast – east Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky and western Virginia got some pretty wet weather – but overall, the La Niña pattern played out, Johnson said. Even though this year's La Niña is expected to dissipate before the end of winter, its influence is still most likely to be visible in the peak winter months, explained Michelle L’Heureux, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center. Both La Niña and El Niño tend to have their strongest influence over the weather in the winter. If this year's La Niña turns out to be perfectly typical, the winter precipitation around the country would look like the map below: a dry season for California and the South, but a wetter or snowier season in the blue patches of the northern and Midwest states. One way La Niña could have an influence sooner is on hurricane season, which runs through the end of November. La Niñas are typically associated with a stronger, busier hurricane season. In its updated hurricane forecast released this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said there is a 50% chance of an above-normal hurricane season, a 35% chance of a near-normal season and a 15% chance of a quieter season.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Democrats Charge Into a Redistricting Disaster | National Review Added: Aug 22, 2025
Democrats Charge Into a Redistricting Disaster | National Review
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Bed, Bath & Beyond QUITS California and eviscerates 'anti-business' Gavin Newsom... who fires back with burn Added: Aug 22, 2025
Major retailer wants to sack CA Gov Newsom: 'regulated & expensive'
Site: Mail Online
A company said it's skipping California as it tries to make a million-dollar revival. Then, an executive's sharp words started a blistering war.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
Site: YouTube
(0:00) Bestie intros(1:59) What's new with the All-In Summit(9:02) AI Mania hits the brakes: sign of a bubble or a healthy correction?(30:49) Meta's AI hirin...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Joy Reid and the Rise of Open Racism From the Left
Site: YouTube
Former MSNBC host Joy Reid is under fire for blasting white people on her podcast—saying “they can’t invent anything” and claiming American music is solely t...
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Victor Davis Hanson: California Gives Illegal Truck Driver a License—3 Americans Pay the Price
Site: YouTube
The effects of California’s reckless sanctuary policies are not contained within the state’s borders. In one case, they’ve killed three: Recently, an illegal...
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The Courage to Fight: VDH Interviews Representative Eric Schmitt on The Last Line of Defense
Site: YouTube
Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Native Path. Visit https://GETNATIVEPATH.com/VICTOR and start your transformation today! Our Sponsor: Special deal ...
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The next Starship flight will test much more than hardware | TechCrunch
Added: Aug 22, 2025The next Starship flight will test much more than hardware | TechCrunch
Site: TechCrunch
The 10th Starship flight test will be a referendum on the company's build-fly-fix approach.
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Early primates evolved in cold climates, not tropical jungles - Earth.com Added: Aug 22, 2025
Early primates evolved in cold climates, not tropical jungles
Site: Earth.com
Early primates evolved in cold North American climates 66 million years ago, enduring freezing winters before migrating to tropics.
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Unmatched intelligence #wholesome #animals
Site: YouTube
A Ballad of the Bookmarks
In digital scrolls, a world unfolds, A tapestry of stories, new and old. From cosmic dreams to earthly lore, What bookmarks hold, forevermore.
First, AI's shadow, long and grand, Its rising tide across the land. As Grok evolves, with speed unknown, Will doctors' skill be overthrown? A co-creator for our song, Or doomsday's dawn, where we belong?
Then politics, a constant fray, With news of raids and rhetoric's sway. Haley speaks of nations far, While 'MAGA Minutes' shine a star. Redistricting lines are drawn anew, A partisan landscape, tried and true.
From California's costly plight, To Portnoy's deal, both dark and bright, The economy's pulse, a wavering beat, With bubbles burst, both sour and sweet. A hidden wealth, a mammoth tooth, From thrift store shelf, a glimpse of youth.
The Starship stands, a metal dream, To prove its worth, a silver gleam. While ancient primates, cold and bold, Their evolution's tale unfolds. La Niña whispers, soft and low, Of weather patterns, ebb and flow.
The Bard of X, with sharpest wit, Reviews old texts, where truths are lit. A soprano's voice, a writer's art, The human spirit, takes its part. Amidst the debates, the constant noise, A wholesome animal, finding its joys.
So spins the world, in links we trace, A frantic, hopeful, digital space. Of progress vast and old belief, Our modern age, beyond relief. We bookmark moments, fast and deep, The world's own secrets, now we keep.