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Depth against slogans: what we saw in 6 weeks driving through Xinjiang
There is an argument being made that what Tesla did to boost the Chinese EV industry, SpaceX will do to boost China’s commercial space industry.
The US's "Pax Silica" sells itself as a wall against China, when it's really a cage to keep America's "partners" in - dependent on American tech, and unable to build their own.
Why "We Are All One Humanity" Is the Most Dangerous Idea on Earth
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Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution, which covers thirty-some hominin species from Sahelanthropus to sapiens. It covers what we know about each of them, what we don’t know, and what the experts are arguing over (and there is a lot of argument … Continue reading A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book →
These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for ‘cross-dressing’ or ‘female impersonation’. They were taken between 1970 and 1979 in Philadelphia when police were the jurisdiction of Police Commissioner (and later Democrat Mayor of Philadelphia) Frank Rizzo (October 23, 1920 – July 16, 1991), the self-proclaimed … Continue reading "Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s Philadelphia" The post Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s Philadelphia appeared first on Flashbak.
In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I, hundreds of thousands of troops traveled towards Greece’s heartland in search of vengeance for a disastrous defeat ten years prior. As their customs demanded, the Athenians sought counsel at Delphi, where the Pythian oracle told them that […]
