When somebody says, 'I cannot emphasize this enough,' my first thought is: 'Don't feel bad. With a little practice, you too can be a great emphasizer.'
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Yes… major implications for… “search and rescue…”
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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Believing in tariffs is like believing in the tooth fairy. It’s so awkward when you meet an adult that openly does.
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I’m sorry, but there are only 2 “national brands” in college sports - Notre Dame and BYU
NEW: Miami President Joseph Echevarria on potential conference realignment and how the university would respond if the PCSA passes the House, via @RossDellenger:
"If we have to go independent, I like our chances because we are a national brand."
on3.com/news/miami-president…
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Our administration is run by weak and broken men who break everything around them to camouflage their weakness and brokenness.
These kinds of people believe their cynicism and callousness make them tough and give them piercing insight. But it doesn’t take any special skill to single out the bad in this world and call for retreat.
“Let’s appease the bad people bc it’s all so hard. Let’s be cruel bc the world was cruel to us. Let’s sneer and mock everyone else’s suffering, but when we destroy good things, we will expect the world to understand how used and abused we’ve been.”
Being cruel and being a coward are basically the same thing.
thedispatch.com/article/trum…
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Memo to the Trump administration: Stop buying companies.
A government $40 trillion in debt should be SELLING assets, not buying ownership stakes in 36 companies.
We thought government control of the means of production was what we were fighting against.
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"An unsettling amount of kindness." 😆
Not the result we wanted, but shoutout to Provo.
🎙️ @thegolics are LIVE on ESPN Radio recapping a wild weekend of football!
Listen: espn.com/radio/play/_/s/espn
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unfathomable damage done to America. You could have abundant, cheap, emission-free electricity flowing to your home right now if it weren't for these people.
Ralph Nader, 1997: “When we came out against nuclear power in the early '70s, the government had predicted that there would be 1,000 nuclear plants by the year 2000 in the United States, and there's 109 and shrinking, as more and more get shut down.” pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline…
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It was an HONOR to be out in Provo..
It felt SPECIAL on that campus #PMSLive
I would like to thank you and your family @SteveYoungQB..
Provo has been MAGICAL...
MAYBE IT WAS THE BOOK OF MORMON..
MAYBE IT'S THE AIR..
MAYBE IT'S THE TIE...
BROTHER PAT IS RIDING WITH THE MORMONS
GIVE MY BYU #CollegeGameDay
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Matt Yglesias is 100% right, actually. The 1,500-hour pilot rule was passed after the 2009 Colgan crash. Except the captain had 3,379 hours. The first officer had 2,244 hours.
It’s pure security theater that's driven up the pilot shortage & made flying more miserable for us all.
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The official church account was ready for today. Commenting on all sorts of posts. I love this so much. Missionary tool.
Whether you dive in and learn about the lives of your ancestors or add your own stories and experiences for future generations, family history works to connect us to our families and to our Heavenly Father.
churchofjesuschrist.org/come…
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Here is the clip of BYU football coach Kalani Sitake's simple and profound testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ on @CollegeGameDay this morning.
Check it out:
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Parasitoid wasps inject eggs into a caterpillar. The larvae hatch, eat the host’s insides, and hijack its brain to make it do their bidding. Still looks like a caterpillar from the outside, but it now exists to serve the parasite. This is what online gambling has done to sports.
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The first thing I taught new university history students was always that data do not speak for themselves. Anyone who claims that 'data' support anything outside his specific and chosen interpretive framework is equally as dogmatic as the most dogmatic religious believer.
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Socialism is so good that it made the people with the most fertile soil starve to death (Soviet Union)
And it made the country with the largest oil reserves run out of gasoline (Venezuela)
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Corporate greed is out of control. Just about ever commercial on ESPN is about gambling or 'Prediction' markets, which is gambling. So many college students and families will obliterated by gambling addiction. They don't care about you. Be wise my friends.
RT @Ch_JesusChrist: "Gambling is morally wrong. Gambling is built on the desire to obtain something for nothing. Its structure requires tha…
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A friendly reminder not to engage in erasure if Halloween, Edmund Fitzgerald Day, and Thanksgiving.
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There is unfortunately precedent for this.
Before word processing, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & plateauing.
After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check.
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Striking new @FamStudies: You've heard of the "male malaise," but it's much less of a problem for religious young men.
Churchgoing young men vs. unchurched:
✅ Very happy: 41% vs. 24%
✅ Life feels purposeful: 66% vs. 39%
✅ Depressed: 12% vs. 25%
@KBurchfiel3
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This is extremely dark
🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements. But treatment levels haven't gone up.
BCBSA's SVP of data science said AI is "identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients." Insurers now deploy their own AI to deny those same claims. Patients pay for both through higher premiums.
My Take
This might be the most American healthcare story I've ever read. Hospitals bought AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers bought AI to deny those bills. The technology cost money on each end and the tab went straight to patients through higher premiums. A billion dollars moved and no one got any healthier. The only thing that changed was the size of the invoices.
Two sides of a trillion-dollar industry found a new tool to fight over the same pool of money and the person in the hospital bed pays for all of it. Premiums go up, denials go up, and the AI vendors collect from everyone. If you want to know who AI works for, stop reading the press releases and look at where the money goes. In healthcare it went straight into the billing department.
Hedgie🤗
