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by Owen Kibel
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Bookmarks for 2025-09-24T14:55:06.053Z
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How faraway Atlantic waters influence Asia’s summer rainfall - Earth.com Added: Sep 24, 2025
How faraway Atlantic waters influence Asia’s summer rainfall
Site: Earth.com
Atlantic water temperatures influence summer rainfall on the Tibetan Plateau, shaping water for Central Asia’s rivers, farms, and people.
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Strange white streak of light was photographed for 10 minutes in U.S. skies
Site: Earth.com
Chinese rocket launch left a bright white smoke plume over the U.S. following a geomagnetic storm, mistaken for auroras by skywatchers.
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Earth's "atmospheric rivers" have shifted towards the poles, causing big changes in local weather
Site: Earth.com
Earth's atmospheric rivers are no longer traveling along their historical paths. They are shifting toward both poles, an unexpected change.
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If AI or a quantum computer solves problems humans can't, how do we know they're right?
Site: Earth.com
Quantum computers may solve problems beyond supercomputers. A new test helps confirm quantum answers for errors.
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🚨BREAKING: ANTI ICE Terror Attack In Dallas, 2 Dead, Several Injured | Tim Pool - YouTube Added: Sep 24, 2025
🚨BREAKING: ANTI ICE Terror Attack In Dallas, 2 Dead, Several Injured | Tim Pool
Site: YouTube
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Rewarding Terror, Political Violence, & Disney’s Downward Spiral
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The Heroism of Churchill in 1940
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DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to a Long Life : ScienceAlert
Added: Sep 24, 2025DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to a Long Life
Site: ScienceAlert
There's no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a peculiar ability to postpone the inevitable.
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Pregnant Libs Down Tylenol To Mock Trump, Tylenol Says STOP | Tim Pool
Site: YouTube
These people are nutsBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumble.com/playlists/aa56qw_g-j0BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO FIGHT...
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Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks on Tax Cuts and Empowering Law Enforcement
Site: YouTube
Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks on President Trump’s tax cuts for working families and the Trump Administration’s commitment to empowering state and...
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Finding the Cause of Autism
Site: YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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President Trump has a Pull-Aside with the President of the Argentine Republic
Site: YouTube
New York, NY
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First Lady Melania Trump: Fostering the Future Together
Site: YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump texts, loses First Amendment case over his firing - POLITICO Added: Sep 24, 2025
Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump texts, loses First Amendment case over his firing
Site: POLITICO
A federal judge dismissed a long-running lawsuit from Strzok, who was fired from the FBI during Trump's first term.
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Why One VC Thinks Quantum Is a Bigger Unlock Than AGI | WIRED Added: Sep 24, 2025
Why One VC Thinks Quantum Is a Bigger Unlock Than AGI
Site: WIRED
Venture capitalist Alexa von Tobel is ready to bet on quantum computing—starting with hardware.
In addition to personally investing in blue-chip brands like Uber and Airtable, von Tobel has backed a number of AI startups through Inspired Capital, including BrightAI (a platform that monitors critical infrastructure) and PreemptiveAI (a startup building a foundation model to map human physiology and predict health outcomes). In total, the firm manages nearly $1 billion in assets. In 2023, the Harvard-dropout-turned-founder-turned-VC and podcast host started studying quantum computing. In an interview with WIRED, she makes the case that this field will unlock the scientific discoveries more often associated with artificial general intelligence. Inspired Capital recently invested in a quantum startup called Logiqal, which is seeking to build the world’s first scaled quantum computer. I suspect you knew about quantum computing for years before you decided to invest. What changed? A few months before ChatGPT came out, Penny Pritzker and I went on a listening tour around AI where we connected with dozens of experts in the category. I came up for air after that and said, “What's the next innovation horizon after AI?” Because we're in AI. Everything is AI, there's nothing that we're touching that isn't AI anymore. It became clear to me—and I could always be wrong—that one of the next innovation curves very clearly could be quantum. AI's compute demands are going to reshape infrastructure, which means quantum has a greater likelihood of success. If you talk to some of the best experts in the field, they would tell you there's only hundreds of quantum experts in the world. So it's kind of an amazing category to go learn about because actually you can't pretend to be a quantum expert. Quantum experts are PhDs with decades of work. So you can really put your hands around the talent in a way where you can really learn from them. Today, we see a potential path toward building one of the first quantum computers. And I say quantum computers with an asterisk, because a quantum computer, even a quantum computer with 10,000 qubits, 50,000 qubits, 100,000 qubits, would begin to create a significant amount of value for society, but it wouldn't hit the bar of a perfect quantum computer, which is ideally hundreds of thousands of qubits. Where did you ultimately decide to invest? So I really focused on hardware, meaning we have to first build the first quantum computer before we can do anything else. In many ways, we think of quantum unfolding in phases, and today it's really a hardware play. We need to get to a point where we can build successfully tens of thousands of qubits that fire and work successfully. So [then the question was] who is the most talented person that I could find in the hardware category? And it became very clear to me, it's this professor named Jeffrey Thompson at Princeton. And he was working on a breakthrough approach called erasure conversion in building one of the first quantum computer companies focused on the neutral atom using ytterbium. Depending on how you think about it, there's half a dozen or more approaches to the hardware. And I became excited that within the hardware approach, the neutral atom approach was high potential. So we backed [Thompson’s] company called Logiqal. What happens if you’re right? I'm a venture investor, and we believe in convexity—taking risks on things that most likely won't work, but if they do work could be 500x in value. It's a real earth-moving innovation if there's a chance that quantum computers find the path toward success. You unlock these thinking engines, these computational engines that can run the future of material sciences, the future of pharmaceutical innovation, the future of logistics, the future of financial markets in ways that we've never seen before. You can see a future where you could create pharmaceutical advancements that could elongate life 20 to 30 years. You could see changes in material sciences where we could invent new products. It could help us get to Mars! That is what quantum computing unlocks. The way you talk about quantum computing sounds a lot like how many AI enthusiasts talk about artificial general intelligence. In many ways, quantum is today where AI was back in 2015, which is a lot of really big research and science projects and starting to have practical applications rather than just pure research. You mentioned that it's hard to fake being a quantum expert. I would posit that it is not as hard to fake being an AI expert. How do you decide who to back? There are so many companies that are being built and born in AI that when you extrapolate them 5, 10 years will not have a true genuine moat outside of brand or speed. Brand and speed are rarely strong enough moats to build a generational company. I'll give you an example. BrightAI creates stickers that are roughly this big [she makes a circle with her fist]. The company puts a sticker on every telephone pole, on every HVAC system, on every water line system, and then observes it for long periods of time, 5, 10, 15, 20 years [and flags potential issues]. That's a pretty good moat. You're not ripping all those stickers off. For the most part, the value in AI accrues to the incumbents. Penny, my cofounder, is on the board of Microsoft. If you think about it, Microsoft and Google—Google has 3 billion users. Microsoft has a billion users. They can launch a product that is OK, not excellent, and they still have a pricing power, a distribution power. And so we very much think about the world where when the elephants dance. Don't be an ant. How do you use AI? For everything. There's nothing you don't use AI for, nothing. From every question, I mean, today I probably used it 25 times. It's replaced Google for you? Everything. Everything. Deep research, sourcing. Today I was looking up what jobs are declining fastest in the world. Truly, I would say it's not a dozen times a day. It's dozens of times a day.
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Protecting our Homeland.
Site: YouTube
United Nations General Assembly Speech
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President Trump Participates in a Multilateral Meeting
Site: YouTube
New York, NY
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President Trump has a Pull-Aside with the President of France
Site: YouTube
New York, NY
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Opinion | Now the Left Cares About Free Speech Again - The New York Times Added: Sep 24, 2025
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Download Python | Python.org Added: Sep 24, 2025
Download Python
Site: Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Terror Attack On ICE Has MAGA DEMAND Trump ARREST Leftist Terrorists ft. Benny Johnson
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:Tim Pool @Timcast (everywh...
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Matthew McConaughey on Leaving Hollywood, Raising Kids with a Strong Foundation, and Power of Faith
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Matthew McConaughey, author of "Poems & Prayers," to discuss raising kids that aren't entitled, working with his 17-year-old son in ...
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Giant Gippsland Earthworm: These Australian Earthworms Can Grow Up To 3 Meters Long | IFLScience
Added: Sep 24, 2025One Of The Largest Earthworms On Earth Grows Up To 3 Meters And Makes Some Very Odd Sounds
Site: IFLScience
These formidable fellas have to be heard to be believed.
Everything is stranger in Australia, at least when it comes to wildlife. Case in point: in a quiet corner of the country, the hills gurgle and slurp with the sounds of giant earthworms that are longer than a pool table. The giant Gippsland earthworm ( Megascolides australis ) averages around 1 meter (3.3 feet) in length with a girth of 2 centimeters (0.79 inches) – that’s about as long as a baseball bat and as chunky as a standard dinner candle. They can grow even bigger, though, with some individuals measuring up to 3 meters (9.9 feet) in length. This makes them one of the biggest species of earthworm on Earth, at least that we know of. There are around 6,000 named species of earthworm worldwide, although scientists believe there could be nearly 30,000 species, a huge number of which are hidden underground, away from nosy scientists. The African Giant Earthworm ( Microchaetus rappi ) is often awarded the title of the world's largest earthworm thanks to the discovery of one individual in 1967 that measured 6.7 meters (21 feet) in length. However, this case was exceptional, and the average length of this species is approximately 1.8 meters (6 feet). A long boi: The type specimen of the giant Gippsland earthworm is held by Museums Victoria in Australia. Image credit: Rodney Start/Museums Victoria ( CC BY 4.0 ) You might assume that the size of the giant Gippsland earthworm means it's hard to miss, but these chunky worms are extremely elusive. They inhabit just five or so known locations in Gippsland, a region of southeastern Australia in Victoria, where the hills and creeks are filled with moist loamy soil. They look much like a common earthworm, albeit notably larger, chunkier, and with a slight purplish-grey hue. Like most worms, they spend most of their lives underground and are usually only seen on the surface when their tunnels become flushed out by rain or a flood. There’s an easy way to know they’re there, though: stomp the ground and you might hear a slurping, squelching noise beneath your feet (you can hear this in the video below). That sound is them evading trouble and squirming deeper into the waterlogged soil. The colossal worms are very fragile, despite their stature. Their bodies can easily tear if picked up or moved too roughly, causing them to bleed with bright red blood. There are even anecdotes of fields running “red with blood” when the worm’s habitat was first cleared and plowed by farmers. Their sex lives are shrouded in mystery. They are hermaphrodites, so every worm has both male and female sexual organs. When two worms breed, they exchange sperm with each other and use it to fertilize their own eggs. However, it’s not clear how this process occurs, as it all takes place underground and has never been witnessed by a human. In the spring–summer season, they can produce a single translucent amber-coloured egg, about the size of a small, super skinny chicken egg. This egg contains a single young and takes over a year to hatch. Oddly enough, they’ve never been successfully bred in captivity, leaving even more mystery surrounding their reproduction. Given all of these challenges, the giant Gippsland earthworm is listed as “vulnerable” to extinction under the IUCN Red List. Like many gentle giants of the world, it's a species that's faced with an uncertain future on a rapidly changing planet.
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Thune breaks with Trump admin over Tylenol, government role in free speech
Site: POLITICO
“I think there are an awful lot of people in the medical community who come to a different conclusion about the use of Tylenol,” Thune said.
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Turley: This is a HUGE development
Site: YouTube
Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley addresses Google's decision to reinstate YouTube accounts banned for political speech during the Biden administration. #...
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Just when I thought I'd tried all the Nano Banana trends, I discovered these 5 new ones — and I think I'm obsessed | Tom's Guide Added: Sep 24, 2025
Just when I thought I'd tried all the Nano Banana trends, I discovered these 5 new ones — and I think I'm obsessed
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I've gone b-a-n-a-n-a-s for this AI tool
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To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine
Added: Sep 24, 2025To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine
Site: Quanta Magazine
Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they do.
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Jimmy Kimmel Is an Imbecilic Cowardly Pig (THE SAAD TRUTH_1904)
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Jimmy Kimmel Is an Imbecilic Cowardly Pig (THE SAAD TRUTH_1904)
Site: YouTube
My website: https://www.gadsaad.comTo subscribe to my exclusive content on X, please visit my bio at https://x.com/GadSaadIf you appreciate my work and would...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Signs of a ‘Total Systems Collapse’ Are Everywhere—Are You Paying Attention?
Site: YouTube
There is no margin of error for the success of American society.On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson explains the phenomenon...
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We Can Finally See How a Time Crystal Works!
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Use code sabine at https://incogni.com/sabine to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan.Normal crystals have their structures repeat across space, w...
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GitHub - wildminder/ComfyUI-VoxCPM: ComfyUI node for highly expressive speech and realistic zero-shot voice cloning
Added: Sep 24, 2025GitHub - wildminder/ComfyUI-VoxCPM: ComfyUI node for highly expressive speech and realistic zero-shot voice cloning
Site: GitHub
ComfyUI node for highly expressive speech and realistic zero-shot voice cloning - wildminder/ComfyUI-VoxCPM
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Vivek Ramaswamy Reveals His Shocking School Bullying Story and What He Learned from Elon Musk
Site: YouTube
Vivek Ramaswamy on how being pushed down a flight of stairs by a grade school bully ignited his mission to fix America's broken education system in his run f...
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Save $50 on Our Favorite Budget Graphics Card
Site: WIRED
You can get an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti for $379 at Walmart.
This is the most modest entry from Nvidia's 50 Series that I think is worth your time, but that doesn't mean that you'll be disappointed. The 16-GB card can chug right along in most modern games at 1080p, beating 60 fps in every game in our test suite with the settings cranked up and the ray tracing turned on. It struggled to keep up at 1440p, at least with everything set to ultra, but a little tinkering, or Nvidia's latest tech, can help with that. Common games like Minecraft, Helldivers 2, and Marvel Rivals all ran over 90 fps, which is great news for weeknight Squirrel Girl enjoyers like myself. As an RTX 50 Series card, the 5060 TI supports the latest version of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) which includes Multi-Frame Generation. For every traditionally rendered frame of gameplay, the GPU can use machine learning to generate up to three extra frames with low overhead. The result is a much smoother experience, with big fps jumps each time you turn up the setting. The tradeoffs are a slight increase in input lag, as well as the occasional tiny artifact, which I feel makes this a great option for slower, cinematic games, but less optimal for twitchy shooters. This PNY example isn't the flashiest, with a plastic housing and only two fans, but I think a lot of gamers will be satisfied with it. It does feature the classic 8-pin PCIe power plug, so it could be an upgrade for an older system too, but I don't think the performance jump would be that noticeable from the higher-end 30 or even 20 Series cards. If you want to check out your other options, I've got a full GPU buying guide that covers the latest from both AMD and Nvidia, from this card all the way up to the $2,000 RTX 5090.
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Could astronauts travel to Mars on nuclear-powered rockets: These scientists want to make it happen | Space Added: Sep 24, 2025
Could astronauts travel to Mars on nuclear-powered rockets? These scientists want to make it happen
Site: Space
A new design for a nuclear-powered rocket could be the key to making the solar system more accessible.
