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New Scientist published an article claiming that spiders think with their webs and “there is an alien intelligence among us”. Not only are neither of these ideas news to me… they were so damn obvious that without these ideas my own intelligence is...

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“The fact that 90% of those who conduct phishing scams cannot write English is offset by the fact that ~74% of the intended victims can’t or don’t really read English, even though it’s their native language.” — infraheard

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“With about 8% of the effort we’re expending criticizing, celebrating and freaking out about political nightmares, we could establish a human society capable of exhibiting behaviors that actually resemble humanity and intelligence. Or, you know, we could...

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I’ve never seen a moonrise here as staggering as tonight’s… it was absolutely spectacular… enormous… impossible… (and the device in my pocket was totally useless in attempting to capture it).

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Someday we, too, will be so bold…. “So this big dump truck showed up, and began, with loud mechanical demonstrations, to park. It so happened that two crows were perched above it, on a telephone wire. The one on the left according to their own facing made...