Bookmarks 2026-05-22T06:49:32.425Z
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Bookmarks for 2026-05-22T06:49:32.425Z
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Dr Victoria Trumbull on X: "New video on the philosophy of Henri Bergson https://t.co/Jrxm3DWGUT" / X Added: May 21, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Meet Dr Victoria Trumbull: the philosopher who says big tech has got it wrong on superintelligence | The Standard Added: May 21, 2026
**The philosopher who says big tech has got superintelligence wrong **
Site: The Standard
Do we actually know what consciousness is? Dr Victoria Trumbull thinks we need to ponder this more before claiming AI superintelligence is feasible
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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COLBERT IS DONE - YouTube Added: May 22, 2026
COLBERT IS DONE
Site: YouTube
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Minnesota Fraud SHUT DOWN, DOJ CHARGES 15 People In $90M Scheme | Timcast IRL
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THEY FOUND OUT
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DNC '24 Autopsy Drops, AI EO Postponed, US-Bound Flight Diverted Over Ebola Concerns: AM Update 5/22
Site: YouTube
The DNC releases its long-awaited 2024 election autopsy, faulting Democrats for major messaging failures around affordability, identity politics, and definin...
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146,000-Year-Old Discovery Rewrites the Story of Human Creativity Added: May 22, 2026
146,000-Year-Old Discovery Rewrites the Story of Human Creativity
Site: SciTechDaily
Crystals preserved inside a prehistoriCrystals preserved inside a prehistoric bone led scientists to revise the estimated age of the archaeological site, suggesting that its stone tools were crafted during a severe ice age.c bone led scientists to revise the estimated age of the archaeological site, suggesting that its stone tools were crafted during a severe ice age.
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The deadly natural wonder smack in the middle of a NorCal city Added: May 22, 2026
The deadly natural wonder smack in the middle of Santa Cruz
Site: SFGATE
It's extremely tempting and accessible in the center of a popular coastal city.
On Jan. 24, 2014, James Zenk, a Peninsula contractor, was paddling on his bodyboard among powerful 12-foot waves near the historic Santa Cruz lighthouse. With the surf so risky, rescue personnel had been out patrolling these waters. And, as the pounding waves continued, lifeguards offered Zenk help, which he declined. A crowd was gathered on the bluff to view the spectacle of the huge waves, but their attention was quickly drawn to Zenk as he struggled in the surf. As one onlooker noted, “You take one look at him and he just didn’t look like he had experience in heavy surf like that.” Worried bystanders screamed for Zenk to get out, but he didn’t do it. Not long after, a set of big waves pushed him right into a narrow cove with steep, 20-foot walls, a place very familiar to locals. Here, inside the craggy inlet, huge surf slammed him against the rocks. While Zenk struggled, witnesses summoned two rescuers — one who came in with a jet ski, the other jumping from a cliff — but with the pounding waves, they were unable to reach him, narrowly escaping themselves. Later, a second set of rescuers were able to reach Zenk and get him to a hospital, where he later died from his injuries. “I still have nightmares watching that guy get killed,” Santa Cruz photographer John Hunter recently told SFGATE. Even 12 years later, that day remains vivid to Hunter, who had been standing right above the site of the tragic accident, a notorious cove called the Toilet Bowl. Smack in the middle “We get at least one or two people each year that ends up drowning or ends up in really big trouble,” Santa Cruz Fire Department marine specialist Ben Coffey said in a video from the California Fire Prevention Organization about the Toilet Bowl, the narrow inlet whose punishing waves and high rocky walls have lured thrill seekers and challenged rescuers for years. And while the overpowering surf can never be ignored, it is only one of the issues that makes it such a headache. High among the others is its location: It is smack in the middle of the city. Food | SF bakery finds unusual solution to neighbors complaining about its long linesLocal | Hundreds of millionaires are trying to escape the USNational Parks | I tried living the park ranger fantasy and spent most of it picking up garbageTravel | The California town that rose and died in 2 years Get SFGATE's top stories sent to your inbox by signing up for The Daily newsletter here. “The access is extraordinary,” Cameron Barrett, director of the California Fire Prevention Organization, told SFGATE. As they do every summer, tourists will inevitably flock in droves to this spot on West Cliff Drive. They will take in the breathtaking coastal views, visit the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum and admire the surfers on the world-famous break Steamer Lane. Meanwhile, only a few feet away, on the other side of an unimposing fence, is this tempting cove with its captivating cliffs. “On a sunny day,” Coffey told SFGATE, “it’s like one of the most beautiful areas around here, but super dangerous too.” The California Fire Prevention Organization said in 2020 that four people had died at the Toilet Bowl in the previous five years. A rowdy flush Then there is the name. For certain folks, jumping into a place called the “Toilet Bowl” is like checking off a bucket list item. As UC Santa Cruz oceanography professor Gary Griggs points out, the name is “a magnet” in its own right. “Maybe,” he says, “if it was called, you know, Hell’s Hole or something, maybe it’d be worse.” The Toilet Bowl is not alone in its hazardousness in these parts. Santa Cruz, and the West Cliff area in particular, has had numerous fatalities over the years. There is a sign saying 100 people have died there since 1965. In 2025, UC Santa Cruz student Noah Lee Kim jumped into the ocean not far from the Toilet Bowl. His body was found five days later on a nearby beach. “Last year, we had 297 rescues that we performed as Santa Cruz Fire Department lifeguards.” Coffey told SFGATE. “Those are spread out over the whole area that we cover. But I would say a significant number of our calls will come out in that Steamer Lane, lighthouse, Toilet Bowl and Its Beach area.” “We worry a lot about shark attacks and tsunamis,” UCSC’s Griggs said, “and in fact, you know, the average death toll from shark attacks in the entire United States, including Hawaii, is one a year. In 200 years of tsunami history in California, 17 people have died. But we have some summers when you’ll get three or four or five people doing dumb things or getting washed off the rocks, a lot of them from Santa Cruz north or on West Cliff.” ‘So sketchy’ The internet has complicated the issue of warning people about the Toilet Bowl. For every video that responsibly explains why you should not leap in, there is another one of someone doing a stunt that looks straight out of “Jackass.” On the one hand, you might see a cautionary firefighter video of a mannequin inside the Toilet Bowl getting slammed during a strong tide. Then, right below it, there is footage of kids doing backflips off the side of the cliff. And, if that’s not enough, there is the unforgettable video where a skateboarder sets up a plywood runway, careens down, then flies off the cliff, still on his board, and into the churning Toilet Bowl waters below. “With just the current era of social media and how it’s so accessible, it’s really easy to watch things or people, to see things that look really fun and not necessarily know the dangers that could be associated with them,” Coffey said. At least when the skateboarder emerges from the ocean, he does say, while looking a little shell-shocked, “That was so sketchy.” A blender effect “So it’s like kind of being in a blender, except you’re in salt water and you’re human, and the idea isn’t to get blended up,” Griggs explains. As the UCSC professor breaks down the tidal factors that can wallop a person inside the Toilet Bowl, he succeeds in making one want to jump into the ocean just about anywhere else. To begin with, he points out, the cove is directly open to the swells in the north Pacific, and the waves surge in there with no reduction in force: “You know, that’s why Steamer Lane is such a great surfing spot. It focuses wave energy out there, and that same wave energy goes into that cove.” “Because,” he continues, “at Steamer Lane, there’s a rocky point that extends out. In fact, a little further out there is Seal Rock, which is a resistant part. There actually used to be two Seal Rocks that have been worn away, so the waves sort of bend around.” And once these waves bend, Griggs explains, they focus their energy and continue into the Toilet Bowl. There, they “hit that back wall. It’s about maybe 20 feet, 25 feet from the water to the top of the cliff there, and they surge into the back of that and wash up. They kind of twirl around in there, which is where I think the ‘toilet bowl’ name came from.” While this is going on, a lot of air gets caught in the water. And this aerating creates the blender effect that not only makes it hard to swim in there, but also to breathe. Compounding the problem for anyone stuck inside the Toilet Bowl is that the back of it is very smooth and slippery, making it very hard to get out. This is a major issue not only for the stranded but for those trying to save them. ‘The cliff jumping spot’ When Mateo Monsalve first learned about the Toilet Bowl, he was a student at UC Santa Cruz. He had heard about the risks and even that there had been some deaths there. Still, he was set on going. Plus, he said, “I went with my brother who had done it before, so I felt fine.” But the first time he went down to the Toilet Bowl, he immediately experienced its power. “It was actually pretty dangerous,” he said, remembering how the waves poured in to “fill up the bowl part and flush out. And I would wait until there were no waves coming, jump in and then swim out of the Toilet Bowl as fast as I could.” But that wasn’t so easy. On this first occasion, he couldn’t do what became his chosen method to get out of the Toilet Bowl, where you position yourself at the edge of the rock at the top of the cove and “you can, kind of like, wait for a wave to push you up, like a few feet, and you can grab on.” The wave situation was too dangerous, and he ended up having to swim to a nearby beach. While that first plunge may have been harrowing, Monsalve returned to the Toilet Bowl several times, sometimes with friends, his brother or out-of-towners. If someone said, “‘We want to go jump off a cliff.’ That’s the cliff jumping spot near downtown Santa Cruz.” But his approach did change. After his first leap, he made sure to go to the Toilet Bowl only when the ocean was calm. And he would also check a tide chart to hopefully avoid another dicey situation. Precautions like these align closer to the Santa Cruz Fire Department lifeguards’ hope that people be aware of conditions before hitting the water. But the fire department is still not encouraging anyone to go take the Toilet Bowl leap. “Stay safe and stay off the cliffs,” they say in a PSA. Even with all the warnings, the likelihood of people not jumping into the Toilet Bowl is small. In many ways, it is like precarious places all over the world where caution signs abound but are no match for questionable judgment: People will still plunge down waterfalls despite barricades, perish trying to get up close with a geyser or get gored trying to take a selfie with a bison. This deadly natural wonder just happens to be right in the center of a major city. Which makes lifeguards like Coffey take a very realistic approach to safety. His department beefs up its crews in summer, posts signs and alerts visitors to use SafeBeachDay.com to check the ever-changing conditions. But even then, the lifeguards know there will be dozens of rescues to be made, some in places like the Toilet Bowl, where getting out is a very slippery slope for everyone involved. — A lot of people use my BART station. We're now being punished for it.— With Vegas on the ropes, the new Calif. casino on I-5 is going gangbusters— These 55 fuel stations let you circumvent California's high gas prices— TSA quietly updates policy on bringing marijuana through security— Bay Area city suddenly scraps plan for town square, angering locals For more travel news and features, sign up for our TravelSkills newsletter here.
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Stephen Colbert’s Late-Night Abortion Advocacy Comes to an End | National Review Added: May 22, 2026
Stephen Colbert’s Late-Night Abortion Advocacy Comes to an End | National Review
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SpaceX Starship Flight 12 live launch updates: Starship V3 to make 2nd launch attempt today | Space Added: May 22, 2026
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: Starship V3 Ship makes fiery splashdown in Indian Ocean as planned
Site: Space
SpaceX is now targeting a Friday, May 22, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket after a launch scrub. See our latest updates here.
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How to watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starship V3 megarocket today
Site: Space
The landmark liftoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. EDT on Friday (May 22).
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Kessler: GW Bush Vindicated on Phonics | Newsmax.com Added: May 22, 2026
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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President Trump Participates in a Swearing-In Ceremony for the Chairman of the Federal Reserve - YouTube Added: May 22, 2026
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James Webb telescope identifies rare giant planet with temperate atmosphere - Google Search Added: May 22, 2026
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Trump defends ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ amid GOP blowup - POLITICO Added: May 22, 2026
Trump defends ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ amid GOP blowup
Site: POLITICO
Republican opposition to the fund sank efforts to pass a reconciliation package on Capitol Hill this week.
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Why Trump's AI executive order was pulled Added: May 22, 2026
Why Trump's AI executive order was pulled
Site: Axios
Any further delay of the order means more time for infighting and disagreements.
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Is This Fox Guest Wearing a MASK of Himself?!
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Mark Eiglarsh and Jonna Spilbor, hosts of “Positively Legal,” to discuss a bizarre viral video of a Fox military guest appearing to ...
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Trump ENDORSES Human Event's Reporter For House Race, Calls Him A “MAGA Warrior,” BASED - YouTube Added: May 22, 2026
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Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence
Site: Axios
Gabbard is leaving due to a family issue, one senior administration official told Axios.
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How a new law could change New York's pizzas and bagels | AP News
Added: May 22, 2026A proposed additive ban could change New York’s pizza and bagels, some say for the better
Site: AP News
New York City's iconic pizzerias and bagel shops may soon be forced to update their long-standing baking practices after state lawmakers moved to ban a common additive.
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Newsom's Billion Dollar Migrant NGO Pipeline | Christopher Rufo
Site: YouTube
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Tell me about the new Google Search AI agents and Gemini Spark features. - Google Search Added: May 22, 2026
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Gemini Spark – Your 24/7 personal AI agent for productivity
Added: May 22, 2026Gemini Spark – Your 24/7 personal AI agent for productivity
Site: Gemini
Get more done with Gemini Spark, your personal AI agent. It takes action on your behalf and under your direction, handling tasks 24/7 to boost your productivity.
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What Is Gemini Spark? Google's 24/7 Agent That Learns From Your Behavior | MindStudio
Added: May 22, 2026What Is Gemini Spark? Google's 24/7 Agent That Learns From Your Behavior
Site: MindStudio
Gemini Spark is Google's upcoming always-on agent that connects to apps and learns from user behavior. Here's what it means for AI automation builders.
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Watch the first Starship V3 launch for Flight 12!
Site: YouTube
SpaceX is about to launch their first V3 Starship and it’s by far the biggest and most radical change to the program to date!00:00:00 - Intro00:01:40 - Q&A00...
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SpaceX Starship Flight 12 Attempt 2 - LAUNCH STREAM
Site: YouTube
Leading up to NSF's Starship Flight 12 attempt 2 launch broadcast, NSF will go live with over six hours of commentary as we stakeout Starship's 12th flight. ...
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How the Bay Area's Fog Came to Be Named Karl | KQED Added: May 22, 2026
How the Bay Area's Fog Came to Be Named Karl | KQED
The name Karl is a reference to the giant in the 2003 film 'Big Fish.' The giant was misunderstood, and Karl the Fog can empathize.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Judson’s Last Ride | RealClearPolitics Added: May 22, 2026
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GOP Taking BACK California, Spencer Pratt SURGES In LA Mayoral Race | Timcast IRL
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