David Bishop
@deaconnam
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Award winning former news hound and editor. One time 'The Deacon', now morning jock on Nova 103.5. Owner of Urban Friction climbing gym. Columnist...
Windhoek, Namibia
Joined November 2008
I mean this sincerely: the effects of what was done to the civilian population of Iran in the past week will have severe international policy implications for the remainder of the 21st century if not longer.
TRUMP: “I THINK THE IRAN WAR IS PRETTY MUCH COMPLETE” — CBS REPORTER ON X, CITING INTERVIEW.
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It has been located. The single dumbest take in human history.
From @WSJopinion: Trump can win something greater than the Nobel Peace Prize. If the president ends the regimes in Iran and Cuba, he will cripple the global anti-American movement, writes @JoshuaMuravchik. https://t.co/xKQaSnYXuF
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The first step to AI rule is having people fawn over how beautiful and conscious it sounds. However advanced, an LLM is still just an uncomprehending plagiarism engine that stole every one of these pretty words from real people. Like a parrot, mindlessly repeating what it hears.
I asked GPT-5.4 Pro: "what if you could dream like humans, what would you wish to dream first?" It's allegorical response was eerily mesmerizing: "As a thought experiment, if I could dream the way humans do, I think I would want my first dream to be about standing on the shore
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Star Trek boss Alex Kurtzman claims science fiction is not about the future. "Science fiction is not really about the future. It's about now. It is the prism, the looking glass, the magnifying glass through which we examine ourselves..." https://t.co/vvtNfBCJo1
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Hold on now they might be on to something
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The Problem with Fiction Books "It's unfortunate that in the English language we use the word fiction as if it were the opposite of fact. I think fiction is very interested in truth and it does bring us closer to truth, but it does it in its own way. There's a transcendental
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Weird!!
The actual research is wild. Every time you push down a feeling, your brain has to choose between suppressing that emotion and recording what’s happening around you. It picks the suppression. The memory doesn’t get saved. A 2000 Stanford study confirmed this: people told to hide
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What if performance reviews were focused on looking for what people did right/well rather than specifically what they did wrong/badly...
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-declare war on Iran -bomb a bunch of kids -kill the supreme leader -get supreme leader’s son put in charge -globally raise oil prices -nothing has changed except a bunch of dead kids -declare victory
TRUMP: “I THINK THE IRAN WAR IS PRETTY MUCH COMPLETE” — CBS
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Reshare - on the Boschendal side of the Simonsberg in Stellenbosch! Near where the Cape Epic bike race will go next week. Beautiful! @VisitStellies @StellWineRoute @gotosouthafrica
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Apparently people no longer believe in/understand plate tectonics. Great stuff. The anti-science algorithm of this app is making society stupider by the day.
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Many social media users are convinced Noah’s flood in the Bible was real after finding out that mountain peaks have sea shells in them, this includes Mount Everest which contains marine rocks as well. The highest point on earth was the bottom of the ocean
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🇺🇸 "The world respects us right now more than they have ever respected us before." — Trump reporting from an alternate reality
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That's just F'ing fantastic!!
Regular exercise is linked to slower biological aging - but only in people sleeping 7+ hours. People who slept under 6 hours and exercised actually aged faster.
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Really? After the US killed his father, mother, wife, son and several other relatives? Talking about holding a grudge!
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