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Saturday, July 17, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Emoji Candidates for Unicode 14.0 Include “Man with Beer Gut”
Emoji 14.0 is to be finalized in September 2021. Here's on the latest draft list https://t.co/IAahiILGA0 pic.twitter.com/1GPyHxZnWu
— Emojipedia 📅 (@Emojipedia) July 15, 2021
Perhaps we need to expand the rubrics here beyond the canonical four of Stand on Zanzibar to include “AGE OF STUPID”.
Oh, wait…
Draft Emoji: Pregnant Man #WorldEmojiDay https://t.co/dHdM2hsBvZ pic.twitter.com/ZzuKDXsXdT
— Emojipedia 📅 (@Emojipedia) July 16, 2021
…it's a pregnant man! So, maybe we also need to add “THE CRAZY YEARS”.
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14:53
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Slime Molds: Thinking without a Brain
Super thrilled that my paper w/ @drmichaellevin, @DonIngber, #RichardNovak, along w/ UGs and RAs has finally been published in @AdvSciNews!
— Dr. Nirosha J. Murugan (@msahsorin) July 16, 2021
Check out our paper which explores the concept of decision making in an organism without a brain! #basalcognition https://t.co/Fu03tqQt4k
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14:14
CONTEXT: If “Lab accidents happen” Should We Have Viral Gain-of-Function Labs at All?
You either don't have labs like that, at all. Or you get into a belief state where "lab accidents happen" is not a thing you can say with a straight face. That is not Precautionary Principle bullshit, that is straight expected value calculations.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky (@ESYudkowsky) July 16, 2021
This period in history will be called, in retrospect, “the bonfire of the experts”.
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13:24
CONTINUITY: Measuring the Speed of Light the Old Fashioned Way
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12:55
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Hubble Space Telescope Payload Computer Successfully Switched to Backup
The Hubble Space Telescope backup payload computer was successfully brought online after a successful switch to backup hardware. Following a short checkout period, the science instruments will be brought back to operational status.https://t.co/Wca2Puz4mT
— Hubble (@NASAHubble) July 16, 2021
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