Bookmarks 2026-04-30T17:15:57.863Z
by Owen Kibel
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Bookmarks for 2026-04-30T17:15:57.863Z
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Is There Oil on Mars?. Most geologists believe that oil… | by Avi Loeb | Apr, 2026 | Medium Added: Apr 30, 2026
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You Spoke a Dead Language This Morning | by Rennie | Mar, 2026 | Medium Added: Apr 30, 2026
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unsloth/ERNIE-Image-Turbo-GGUF · Hugging Face Added: Apr 30, 2026
unsloth/ERNIE-Image-Turbo-GGUF · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Abiray/ERNIE-Image-Turbo-FP8-NVFP4 at main Added: Apr 30, 2026
Abiray/ERNIE-Image-Turbo-FP8-NVFP4 at main
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Supreme Court Racial Gerrymandering Ruling Ends Use of Racial Segregation in Drawing Districts | National Review Added: Apr 30, 2026
Supreme Court Racial Gerrymandering Ruling Ends Use of Racial Segregation in Drawing Districts | National Review

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I replaced Chrome, Arc, Opera, and Firefox with one free, open-source browser
Added: Apr 30, 2026I replaced Chrome, Arc, Opera, and Firefox with one free, open-source browser
Site: MakeUseOf
Best decision ever.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch seen from space (satellite photos) | Space Added: Apr 30, 2026
This SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch looks amazing from space in these wild satellite photos
Site: Space
A sharp-eyed BlackSky satellite watched Wednesday (April 29) as the Falcon Heavy launched for the first time in 18 months.

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Adam Carolla Reveals He's Getting Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame... But Doesn't Want It Near Trump's - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
Adam Carolla Reveals He's Getting Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame... But Doesn't Want It Near Trump's
Site: YouTube
Adam Carolla reveals he’s getting star on Hollywood Walk of Fame... but doesn’t want it near Trump’s.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly...

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Florida APPROVES New Districting Map, GOP Looks To GAIN 4 Seats - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
THIS IS A MAJOR WIN
Site: YouTube
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Democrats DECLARE WAR After SCOTUS HANDS Midterms To GOP, IT HAS BEGUN - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
DEMOCRATS DECLARE WAR OVER SCOTUS RULING
Site: YouTube
Democrats DECLARE WAR After SCOTUS HANDS Midterms To GOP, IT HAS BEGUNBUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW - https://castbrew.com/Become A Member And Pro...

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President Trump Participates in an Executive Order Signing, April 30th, 2026 - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
President Trump Participates in an Executive Order Signing, April 30th, 2026
Site: YouTube
The White House

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Tell me about the latest research on AI and cognitive surrender. - Google Search Added: Apr 30, 2026
Google Search
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AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking Added: Apr 30, 2026
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Is AI Replacing Human Thinking? The Rise of "Cognitive Surrender" - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
Is AI Replacing Human Thinking? The Rise of "Cognitive Surrender"
Site: YouTube
ABOUT THE EPISODEGideon Nave explains that the real danger of AI may not be that it outsmarts humans, but that humans increasingly stop thinking for themselv...

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MAGA Is Confused About ‘Animal Farm’ | WIRED Added: Apr 30, 2026
MAGA Is Confused About ‘Animal Farm’
Site: WIRED
The new film is the latest adaptation of George Orwell’s novel. Based on the critiques coming from right-wing influencers, it seems few of them fully grasp the book’s message.
That message, however, seems to have been lost on most MAGA influencers assigned the book in middle school (if they even read it at all). After their failure to cancel Barbie or the Wicked movies, conservatives have moved on to a new film adaptation of Animal Farm. (The animated film, which is directed by Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis, opens May 1). The problem, however, is that they’ve failed to reach a consensus on what the actual message of Animal Farm is. The right-wing outrage cycle over a movie featuring Seth Rogen making fart jokes appears to have been sparked by influencers like Emily Saves America and Riley Gaines, who recently posted the trailer for the film. In an April 28 X post, Gaines tweeted that the film was “incredibly well done. They do a perfect job of reminding viewers that Marxism always has and always will fail.” She hashtagged her tweet #AnimalFarmPartner, leading people to assume the post had been the result of a paid partnership between herself and Angel Studios, the Utah-based entertainment company distributing the film, which was also behind the faith-based blockbusters Sound of Freedom and The King of Kings. Many on both the left and the right found Gaines’ tweet bizarre, in part because while Animal Farm is certainly a critique of Stalinism, it’s also very clearly not a full-throated endorsement of capitalist ideals. The human owner of the farm is a capitalist, and after he is overthrown, the power-hungry pigs mimic his behaviors, adopting human clothes and profiting off the labor of the other farm animals. The book is ultimately less a condemnation of specific systems of governance than a critique of mankind’s lust for power and blind adherence to ideology. In the latest adaptation, Serkis also tweaked the plot by adding a greedy human character (voiced by Glenn Close) who wants to buy the farm, characterizing the film in USA Today as “about authoritarianism and power corrupting and our response to that”—a message that, in theory at least, would certainly resonate with 2026 audiences. It clearly did not, however, resonate with many of Gaines’ ideological bedfellows, who pounced on her for being a Marxist shill. “Promoting communism is the new gay for pay,” right wing podcaster Tim Pool tweeted. Earlier this month, he posted that he had turned down an offer from Angel Studios to promote the film due to it being “pro communism and anti-capitalism.” The influencer Peachy Keenan also excoriated the film, calling it “retarded socialist propaganda.” The inability to reach a consensus on the actual message of the new Animal Farm movie may very well be a reflection of its artistic merits, or lack thereof. (Indeed, the film currently has a 23 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.) But it’s also just generally a reflection of how little media literacy exists in our current information landscape—an issue that, in fairness, is far from specific to the right. Unless the moral messaging of a work of fiction is clearly and consistently telegraphed throughout, there seems to be a complete inability to accept ambiguity or contradiction, or to acknowledge that multiple ideas can be good or bad at the same time. Though middle schoolers might be able to immediately grasp the takeaways from Animal Farm, it says something that high-profile political commentators can’t. In fairness, Orwell himself, who has been claimed by both the right and the left during his lifetime and beyond, probably would have appreciated the confusion his novel has wrought—even if he may not have appreciated Seth Rogen’s fart jokes.

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Ej Dickson (@ejdickson.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Added: Apr 30, 2026Ej Dickson (@ejdickson.bsky.social)
Site: Bluesky Social
Senior writer at NY Mag/the Cut, author of ONE BAD MOTHER, debut essay collection out now. https://www.amazon.com/One-Bad-Mother-Housewives-Momfluencers/dp/1668051117
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Post by @noahshachtman.bsky.social — Bluesky
Added: Apr 30, 2026Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social)
Site: Bluesky Social
Extremely funny of Murdoch's NY Post to riff off of @ejdickson.bsky.social's story for @wired.com -- while downplaying the MAGA angle.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/us-news/ai-influencers-keep-racking-up-fawning-comments-from-lonely-men-and-its-a-warning-sign/
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AI influencers keep racking up fawning comments from lonely men — and it's a warning sign Added: Apr 30, 2026
The grim warning sign from AI influencers that keep racking up comments from lonely men: ‘Societal loss of humanity’
Site: New York Post
Roses are red/ violets are blue/ these girls are AI/ would they fool you, too?

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This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men | WIRED Added: Apr 30, 2026
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
Site: WIRED
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and he’s still saving up to hopefully emigrate to the US after graduation. So he started searching for ways to make additional money online. Sam, who requested a pseudonym to avoid jeopardizing his medical career and immigration status, tried a few things, with varying degrees of legitimacy and success. He made YouTube shorts and sold study notes to other med students. It wasn’t until he started scrolling through his Instagram feed that he landed on an idea: Why not make an AI-generated girl using Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro and sell bikini photos of her online? But when Sam started posting generic photos of a beautiful, scantily clad woman on Instagram, he was dismayed to find that none of the content was hitting. He turned to Gemini for advice. “If you create a generic ‘hot girl,’ you’re competing with a million other models,” it said, according to a transcript Sam provided to WIRED. Sam says he presented Gemini with a few possible options to help his model stand out, and the chatbot selected one in particular: the “MAGA/conservative niche,” referring to it as a “cheat code.” Plus, it said, “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal.” (A representative for Gemini said, “Gemini is designed not to give a particular opinion unless you tell it to. Instead, it is designed to offer neutral responses that don't favor any political ideology or viewpoint.”) So last January, Sam created Emily Hart, a registered nurse and Jennifer Lawrence look-alike. On an Instagram account for Emily, @emily_hart.nurse, Sam posted photos of her ice fishing, drinking Coors Light, and shooting off a few rounds at the rifle range, with emoji-laden captions like “If you want a reason to unfollow: Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported,” and “POV: You were assigned intelligent at birth, but you identify as liberal <clown emoji>.” Though Sam has never lived in the United States, he became an assiduous student of MAGA ideology. “Every day I’d write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration,” he tells me. The grift seemed almost too obvious, but to Sam’s astonishment, he says the account “blew up.” “Every Reel I posted was getting 3 million views, 5 million views, 10 million views. The algorithm loved it.” he claims. Within a month, Emily Hart had more than 10,000 Instagram followers, many of whom also subscribed to her softcore AI-generated content on the OnlyFans competitor Fanvue. And between Fanvue subscriptions and selling MAGA-themed T-shirts (one sample message reads ”PTSD: Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats”), Sam estimates he was making a few thousand dollars a month. “I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day, and I was making good money for a medical student,” he says. “In India, even in professional jobs, you can't make this amount of money. I haven’t seen any easier way to make money online.” Emily Hart is one of a slew of AI-generated hot girl MAGA influencers inundating social media, thanks to technologically savvy young men like Sam capitalizing both on pro-Trump sentiment and Americans’ relative lack of digital literacy. The influencers are created from a specific template: they tend to be white and blonde, with jobs as emergency responders. (A lot of them are cops, firefighters, or EMTs.) They also incorporate right-wing views into all of their content, railing about immigration or the Epstein files or pronouns while posing in American flag bikinis or MAGA hats—often both. Valerie Wirtschafter, a fellow at the Brookings Institution studying emerging tech and democracy, says while the trend of fake profiles isn’t new, “AI has made them more believable, and there has perhaps been an amplification of it.” Though many social media platforms, including Instagram, require creators to disclose if their content is AI-generated, such guidelines are enforced only in a slapdash fashion. (Emily’s posts were not labeled as AI-generated, and Sam says he was unable to monetize her account on Instagram itself.) Female MAGA influencers tend to do well on such platforms for a few reasons. They’re a relative rarity in the MAGA movement: Unlike their Gen Z male counterparts, 18- to 29-year-old women overwhelmingly skew liberal. Young MAGA women are therefore “more attention-grabbing,” Wirtschafter says, citing the uproar over the likely AI-generated “Swifties for Trump” photo Trump posted on TruthSocial during the 2024 campaign as one example. The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”) The algorithm also favors controversial views, making politically polarizing content more successful. This was Sam’s experience in running Emily’s account, which he characterized as “rage bait.” Even though liberals would flock to the page to leave irate comments, they were still clicking. “It’s a win-win situation, because you’re getting engagement anyway, and your content will go viral,” he says. Lately, he says he’s noticed that “pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler content” has been getting especially high engagement on platforms like Reels, speculating that an AI hot girl Nazi influencer “would blow up. It would just break all the records.” (When asked about this claim, a Meta spokesperson said, “We prohibit content that glorifies, supports, or represents Nazism, and we remove it when we find it.”) In recent months, the phenomenon has attracted more notice, especially after a Washington Post article charted the rise of Jessica Foster, a leggy blonde Army service member who went viral for posting a selfie with President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Though her Instagram account was clearly fake, it garnered more than a million followers in just over four months, which “Jessica Foster” appeared to capitalize on by promoting feet pics. (The account has since been taken down; an account for Foster has since been added to Fanvue.) Another popular account, @mayflowermommy13, featured brief videos of a brunette woman in a car or in her kitchen, gazing coquettishly at the camera with captions like “If this <American flag emoji> is your Pride Flag, I want to be friends #letsMAGA.” Her followers ate it up: “Not a democrat lib in the world looks like this folks!!! Young fellas pay attention,” reads one top comment. (The account appears to have been removed after WIRED reached out to Meta for comment.) Because OnlyFans also has a policy requiring AI disclosure, as well as creators authenticating their identities before joining, those trying to profit off hot girl MAGA accounts gravitate toward OnlyFans competitors, where such policies are less rigorously enforced. Fanvue, one of the most popular options, has differentiated itself by allowing AI-generated content. Though he did not actively promote Emily’s Fanvue account for fear of alienating her conservative MAGA fan base, Sam says he used Grok AI to generate nude photos of her and uploaded them to the platform, with Emily’s fans sending him payments for exclusive content and exchanging messages. “I was basically doing nothing,“ he says. “And it was just flooded with money.” He says he made a few thousand dollars off the account in a few days, though he did not enjoy the interactive aspects. “Once a guy sent me a video with Emily’s nude on a tablet on a pillow, and he was basically recording himself fucking the pillow,” he says. “It was incredibly weird, but he sent me a $50 tip, so I was like, OK, do what you want.” Few of the fans cared whether Emily was real, Sam says. This is very much in line with the psychology of the average hot girl MAGA fan, according to Wirtschafter. Whether it's plausible that a sexy blonde nurse would love Christ, ICE, and flashing her boobs for strangers is secondary to the fact that many, many people want to believe it is. “Even among some digital natives, there’s a perspective of, ‘Well, I don’t actually care if this is true. I like the sentiment of it,’” she says. Even though platforms like Meta ostensibly require AI content to be labeled, it can often escape detection, and accounts like Emily’s continue to proliferate. To Meta’s credit, however, emily_hart.nurse’s life on Instagram was relatively brief. In February, Emily’s account was officially banned after Instagram flagged it for “fraudulent” activity, though her Facebook account is still active. Sam says even if her account had not been banned, he probably would have stopped posting anyway. He doesn’t have any regrets about creating Emily—“I don’t feel like I was scamming people,” he says. After all, he was getting paid, and people were happy with the content he was making. But he’s moved on from the AI hot girl influencer niche. He says he needs to shift to focusing on his studies.

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Abiray/LTX-2.3-22B-DISTILLED-1.1-GGUF · Hugging Face Added: Apr 30, 2026
Abiray/LTX-2.3-22B-DISTILLED-1.1-GGUF · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Under-Oath Elon Musk Seems to Run a Different Company Than Public-Figure Elon Musk Added: Apr 30, 2026
Under-Oath Elon Musk Seems to Run a Different Company Than Public-Figure Elon Musk
Site: Gizmodo
Could really get used to this whole under-oath thing.

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CachyOS Linux Performance Leading Over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44 - Phoronix Added: Apr 30, 2026
CachyOS Linux Performance Leading Over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44
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Trump pulls Means' nomination for surgeon general - POLITICO Added: Apr 30, 2026
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Louisiana suspends House primaries after Supreme Court redistricting ruling - POLITICO Added: Apr 30, 2026
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The most common planets in the galaxy don't appear around the most common stars, TESS observations suggest Added: Apr 30, 2026
The most common planets in the galaxy don't appear around the most common stars, TESS observations suggest
Astronomers now estimate there is at least one planet for every star in our galaxy. These worlds, called exoplanets, are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. But new research from McMaster University reveals a surprising twist: the most common planets in our galaxy don't exist around the most common stars.

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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Added: Apr 30, 2026
NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars
Site: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
A novel electromagnetic thruster passed an initial test in a specialized chamber at JPL. With further development, these thrusters could support human missions to the Red Planet.

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@thehannahhorror on insta you do amazing work #gothchats #goth #funny #fashion - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
@thehannahhorror on insta you do amazing work #gothchats #goth #funny #fashion
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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Redistricting ruling prompts Thomas to call for gutting Voting Rights Act | Fox News Added: Apr 30, 2026
Redistricting ruling prompts Thomas to call for gutting Voting Rights Act | Fox News

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I replaced the expensive Gemini AI Pro subscription with these local models, and my productivity didn't drop a bit
Added: Apr 30, 2026I replaced the expensive Gemini AI Pro subscription with these local models, and my productivity didn't drop a bit
Site: Android Police
High performance, zero cost

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Meteorologists are beginning to talk about a possible super El Niño in the coming months, and that combination already points to maps filled with heat, extreme rainfall, and very rare phenomena
Site: ECOticias.com
A possible super El Niño could bring extreme heat, heavy rainfall, and rare weather patterns across the globe

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Pichai Predicts Space Data Centers as New Normal in Decade / X Added: Apr 30, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Elon Musk on X: "True" / X Added: Apr 30, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Victor Davis Hanson: Disney’s Million-Dollar Mistake: Paying Talentless Hacks to Hate Trump - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
Victor Davis Hanson: Disney’s Million-Dollar Mistake: Paying Talentless Hacks to Hate Trump
Site: YouTube
Does Jimmy Kimmel have a right to make grotesque jokes about President Donald Trump in an indirect, unthreatening way? YesCan people lobby for him to lose hi...

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Victor Davis Hanson: Iran Is Breaking Down, and the Ripple Effects Are Just Beginning - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
Victor Davis Hanson: Iran Is Breaking Down, and the Ripple Effects Are Just Beginning
Site: YouTube
Despite claims the war is failing, Iran is facing massive economic losses, dwindling oil capacity, and a military that’s effectively been neutralized. “It’s ...

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Trump Assassination Attempt, Kimmel’s WHCD Joke, Comey & Fauci Indictments, and the UK Visit | VDH - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
Trump Assassination Attempt, Kimmel’s WHCD Joke, Comey & Fauci Indictments, and the UK Visit | VDH
Site: YouTube
Violent rhetoric from celebrities and Democrats helped create the climate reflected in President Donald Trump’s third would-be assassin’s manifesto, argues V...

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White House releases dozens of behind-the-scenes photos of King Charles III and Queen Camilla's state visit Added: Apr 30, 2026
White House releases dozens of behind-the-scenes photos of King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s state visit
Site: New York Post
President Trump welcomed the royals to the White House for events on April 27-28, 2026.

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What if DNA were telling a story of unequal attraction between sapiens and Neanderthals that is far more human, complex, and uncomfortable than we had imagined until now?
Added: Apr 30, 2026What if DNA were telling a story of unequal attraction between sapiens and Neanderthals that is far more human, complex, and uncomfortable than we had imagined until now?
Site: ECOticias.com
DNA reveals an uneven pattern in Neanderthal and human interbreeding, reshaping how we understand our shared past

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Near-relativistic swarm could image Proxima b at 20-meter resolution and scan for biosignatures, paper says Added: Apr 30, 2026
Near-relativistic swarm could image Proxima b at 20-meter resolution and scan for biosignatures, paper says
Laser sail propulsion is an idea that won't go away. By aiming powerful Earth-based lasers at tiny spacecraft with light sails, tiny spacecraft can be accelerated to near-relativistic speeds without carrying fuel or an energy source, and without carrying any kind of propulsion system at all. There are clear advantages to this idea, if it can be implemented.

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Musk vs. Altman: Elon’s apocalypse postponed | The San Francisco Standard
Added: Apr 30, 2026**Musk vs. Altman: Elon’s apocalypse postponed **
In his last day on the stand in OpenAI trail, Elon Musk was told to cut out the doom mongering.
The end of the world will have to wait. Over the course of three days of testimony in an Oakland federal courthouse, Elon Musk repeatedly mentioned his desire to avoid creating “a Terminator situation” with AI, a reference to the robot uprising in the 1984 film. “In the movie … it’s not a good situation,” Musk said on the stand Thursday. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers appeared fed up with Musk’s pontificating, particularly on the topic of killer robots. “It’s not the point of the case,” Rogers said as she instructed Musk that he was no longer allowed to bring up existential AI risk and the possibility of human extinction on the stand. “They got it. That’s enough.” The ongoing trial, in which Musk accuses his OpenAI cofounders of wrenching away control of the organization and converting it from a nonprofit to a for-profit company for the purposes of their own enrichment, is his show. Though his affronted attitude made it easy to forget, Musk is the plaintiff, not the defendant, and his testimony was his opportunity to tell his side of the story. Musk sought to lay out a simple but sweeping story, in which he gradually realized he had been duped by OpenAI executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, whom he repeatedly accused of “stealing a charity.” During his testimony, Musk argued that the future of all charitable giving in the U.S. is at stake, as is perhaps the fate of humanity, which he said could be imperiled by the technology OpenAI has built without him. But the judge made it clear that she intends to hold Musk and his lawyers to a much narrower set of claims, as she repeatedly ordered that questions about the well-being of human civilization and Musk’s relationship with President Donald Trump are irrelevant to the case. The nine-person advisory jury will eventually issue a ruling in the case, but it’s Rogers who will determine whether OpenAI’s current leaders unjustly enriched themselves by taking funding from Microsoft and moving away from the open, charitable structure initially envisioned by the founders. Throughout cross-examination, lawyers for the defense have tried a number of tactics to make Musk seem untrustworthy and motivated by jealousy over OpenAI’s success. OpenAI’s lead counsel, William Savitt, tried several times to catch Musk contradicting his own statements from depositions. Savitt also tried to demonstrate that Musk has at times seemed amenable, even supportive, of transforming OpenAI into a for-profit company, in sharp contrast to the case he’s making in court now. OpenAI’s lawyers even attempted to undermine Musk’s claim that one of his primary concerns is that the company and its commercial interests will control a technology that poses an existential risk to humanity. At one point, an OpenAI lawyer asked Musk whether it was true that he had once tweeted, “The future is going to be amazing with AI and robots enabling sustainable abundance for all.” “Yes,” Musk replied. “And you believe the future is going to be amazing with AI and robots enabling sustainable abundance for all?” the lawyer continued. “Well,” Musk hesitated, “I’ve also said there are many possible futures. Some futures are good, and some are not good.” During jury selection, several prospects disclosed a personal antipathy or political opposition to Musk — so many that the judge acknowledged the reality that “people don’t like him.” But on the stand, Musk’s natural charms were on display, as evidenced by rounds of laughter emanating from the courtroom and the crowded overflow space. Musk often can’t resist a cocksure comeback or wry aside. “I”m not a lawyer,” he acknowledged after quibbling with a question, then added, smiling, “Well, I did take Law 101.” The crowd laughed. Rogers, who has presided over several high-profile technology cases, appeared to have little patience for Musk’s antics — or anyone else’s. She repeatedly instructed Musk to simplify his answers and demanded that lawyers stop interrupting him, stop asking leading questions, and stop getting distracted by issues not relevant to the case. “Sit down,” she yelled at one person in the final minutes of court Thursday. When she introduced the case Monday morning, Rogers reminded the court that it boils down to two allegations: “One is a claim for breach of charitable trust, and the second is a claim for unjust enrichment.” Also relevant is whether Musk waited too long to file his suit, missing the statute of limitations. OpenAI’s lawyers have highlighted moments when Musk could have intervened in the restructuring of the organization or expressed his dismay sooner. They argued that Musk didn’t sue until after founding xAI, a competitor to OpenAI. For his part, Musk repeatedly claimed he sued as soon as he was confident of what Altman and Brockman were up to. “No good, it turns out,” he quipped on the stand. Always a showman, Musk didn’t miss a chance to promote his business. Presented with the statement that ChatGPT has a technological lead on Grok, Musk’s competing chatbot from xAI, he said, under oath, that Grok is catching up. With many days left of the trial, it’s too soon to say which way the case is leaning. Other main players — including Altman and Brockman, who have appeared in court most days so far — have yet to testify. Brockman’s testimony in particular could illuminate how the other OpenAI founders decided to make deals with Microsoft and restructure the company. The trial will resume Monday, where the judge will continue her noble quest to keep robot armies out of the conversation.
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The San Francisco Standard on X: "Elon Musk and lawyers spar over how much money he contributed to OpenAI in day two of trial. 📝: @ceodonovan https://t.co/ajCyud9hbl" / X Added: Apr 30, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Mysterious Green Bands In Hawaii Sky Linked To Little-Known Earth Phenomenon
Added: Apr 30, 2026Mysterious Green Bands In Hawaii Sky Linked To Little-Known Earth Phenomenon
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
A strange green glow over Hawaii has led scientists to a rare atmospheric explanation invisible to the human eye.

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WHCD suspect Cole Allen took smirking selfie while armed to the teeth before attack on ballroom: docs | New York Post Added: Apr 30, 2026
WHCD suspect Cole Allen took smirking selfie while armed to the teeth before attack on ballroom: docs
Site: New York Post
Allen, 31, was seen smirking in his hotel room, wearing a shirt and tie with multiple knives, guns and extra ammo strapped to him.

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Armed WHCD suspected shooter Cole Allen seen bolting through metal detector in new, high-quality video Added: Apr 30, 2026
Armed WHCD suspected shooter Cole Allen seen bolting through metal detector in new, high-quality video
Site: New York Post
The video, shared on social media by DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, appears to show that Allen was armed with a rifle during his mad dash.

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Casey Means: Murkowski sank my nomination - POLITICO Added: Apr 30, 2026
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David Sacks: The "Expert Class" is Destroying America | Coleman Hughes Full Episodes - YouTube Added: Apr 30, 2026
David Sacks: The "Expert Class" is Destroying America | Coleman Hughes Full Episodes
Site: YouTube
In this episode of Conversations with Coleman, tech visionary and PayPal founding CEO David Sacks joins the show for a high-stakes deep dive into the crumbli...

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Batya Ungar-Sargon on X: "PLOT TWIST!" / X Added: Apr 30, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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In 1986, Something At Lake Nyos Killed 1,800 People In One Night. It Took Months To Figure Out How | IFLScience Added: Apr 30, 2026