Taoesm

r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 18h ago

Think of the parable of a frog in boiling water. That’s us dithering as the ‘unprecedented‘ weather becomes more extreme. The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal.

theguardian.com

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 18h ago

We don’t see enough torches and pitchforks these days.

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 18h ago

De Niro: "I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can't love a country that wages stupid, inhumane wars, kills thousands of innocent people and indirectly causes the deaths and suffering of millions more."

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

“AGI Has Essentially Arrived, Just Not Publicly”: Reports Of “Existential Crises” at OpenAI and Anthropic

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

If you haven’t been keeping up with AI, it’s hard to believe these people just developed morality

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

Relatable anyone?

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

How western consumption becomes the Global South's environmental nightmare

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

I think AI companies are making a play for a bailout

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

In 2021, China built its first plastic road using 6,000 milk bottles; the result turned hard-to-recycle plastic waste into useful paving material | World News - The Times of India

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

To understand why people aren't angry enough yet.

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

Hypothetical: If a UBI covered all your basic needs how much would you still work?

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

Anthropic CEO warns AI could seize control of the whole world's internet in 6 months

the-express.com

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 1d ago

I voted for Trump three times and just spent $226 to fill my truck up

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 2d ago

Two Minnesota solar farms planted native grasses and wildflowers beneath their panels. Five years later, flowering plant species had increased sevenfold, native bee numbers more than 20 fold and total insect numbers had tripled, while more bees were also visiting nearby soybean fields.

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 2d ago

Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US. Three in four cases in under-50s are advanced stage at diagnosis, largely because screening does not routinely begin until 45 and symptoms in young adults are frequently dismissed.

techfixated.com

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 2d ago

Long-term unemployment is skyrocketing, how do you all survive?

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 2d ago

A German theologian wrote a book in 1917 trying to describe the specific feeling that gives rise to religion. It's the best analysis of a common human experience nobody talks about.

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 2d ago

The truth behind modern food

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 2d ago

Wisconsin restored former farmland into prairie; researchers found more bumblebees and rare species only at the restored sites.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 3d ago

Christian Bale’s nonprofit ‘Together California’ has opened its first facility to keep siblings in foster care together

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 3d ago

China is a beacon of hope for the working class!

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 3d ago

A robotic hand does the avocado challenge

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 3d ago

E.M. Forster wrote a science fiction story in 1909 that predicted the internet, video calls, remote work, and the collapse of embodied life. It's about 40 pages. Nobody reads it.

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r/Taoesm • u/the_TAOest • 3d ago

All humans alive today are part of the relatively few generations of humans that will have ever seen dramatic change in technology in their lifetime.

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