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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 10h

And so you visually pictured that last time you washed your hand? That's intriguing to me, and very specific.

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 10h

I'm so intrigued by this, that I went to @metafilter.bsky.social with my question

What happens in your mind when you read this paragraph?

When I read the very 1st paragraph of this article, I had a series of mini revelations about how my mind works, and perhaps the minds of others. I'd appreciate it if you read it first (just the...

ask.metafilter.com

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 11h

The very 1st paragraph of this article made me reflect and question my #aphantasia brain. What happens in your mind when you read it?

Dale Purves, the neuroscientist who makes sense of the brain | Aeon Essays

How can you have a picture of the world when your brain is locked up in your skull? Neuroscientist Dale Purves has clues

aeon.co

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 1d

We love in perfectly normal times. Nothing new to see here

Audio of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.

futurism.com

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 3d

Peg sends her hairiest love

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 3d

Stop emails

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 3d

Worst, as in best :)

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 3d

Anything Luddites related

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 3d

Rolling Stone lists are the weirdest paint by numbers exercise. If you want to know what middle aged America trying to please the middle of the road America looks like, this list is a great place to start

The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far

The 250 greatest songs of the 21st century so far -- from all over the musical map and every corner of the globe

www.rollingstone.com

Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 6d

Best use of AI yet?

Neanderthal News @neanderthalnews.bsky.social · 6d

Leopards ate our ancient human ancestors' faces, AI analysis reveals | Live Science

Leopards ate our ancient human ancestors' faces, AI analysis reveals

A study provides insight into the demise of two prehistoric individuals of the now-extinct human species Homo habilis.

www.livescience.com

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 8d

What the actual f*ck

Israel accused of ‘sowing division’ in UK by inviting Tommy Robinson

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi criticised the ‘deeply dangerous behaviour’ by Israel in inviting the far-right activist.

www.standard.co.uk

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 11d

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 10d

Unfortunately @goingmedieval.bsky.social I doubt that posts like this are real. People are using the plight of Gazan people to take your money.

There are official and safe ways to send money to Gaza. But this is not one of them.

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 11d

Well, well, well...

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 11d

Well, well, well...

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 12d

Today is a Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower) kind of day

Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower)

NEW NEW Download link (3/12): http://www.mediafire.com/?irhf0llfskv3590

soundcloud.com

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 15d

That year keeps on slippin'

When will the media, public and industry get bored of hearing this, is more to the point.

Sam Altman predicts AI will surpass human intelligence by 2030

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, expects AI will exceed human intelligence by 2030. He emphasized AI's potential in scientific breakthroughs and novel uses.

www.businessinsider.com

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 16d

Come on. At least 75% of my work time is already taken up with workslop in the form of interminable email chains, Teams notifications, and other cumbersome Microsoft software packages, hooked into mysql databases, with 18 year old html 3.2 frontends

AI isn’t taking over your job, but ‘workslop’ is | CNN Business

All right, y’all: I’m taking a tiny kernel of my generative-AI skepticism back and giving the technology a little credit where it’s due. At long last, it has inspired something for the workforce that ...

www.cnn.com

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 17d

OMG I think you might have jinxed it

Bowser Leaves Nintendo - Kotaku

The president of Nintendo of America is out amid a corporate shakeup

kotaku.com

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 17d

How do they go another season or two without imposing on Earth Alien history? I'm intrigued to see.

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 17d

It was very smart. I hope it continues departing from what the xenomorph is expected to be, to the point where it might even start to subvert past instances of the franchise, or past viewer interpretations/expectations. Getting that right will be tricky, but it's already done some of that work.

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 17d

I had high hopes, but that's never usually enough! It surprised me, several times, mostly with how nuanced and clever it was. And for that alone I am definitely a fan.

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 18d

One of my long-standing hot takes is that David Miliband's eventual decision to NOT challenge the leadership of Gordon Brown in 2008 was one of the biggest, least talked about, UK political mistakes this century. It's time for something bold archive.ph/9ylaW

Andy Burnham: MPs want me to challenge Starmer

David Miliband refuses to rule out leadership challenge to Gordon Brown

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · Jul 25

Our vegetable love should grow,
Vaster than empires, and more slow.

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Daniel Rourke 🌪️ @therourke.net · 18d

One of my long-standing hot takes is that David Miliband's eventual decision to NOT challenge the leadership of Gordon Brown in 2008 was one of the biggest, least talked about, UK political mistakes this century. It's time for something bold archive.ph/9ylaW

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