Bookmarks Digest — Page 12
1. Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary – The Marginalian
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** The Marginalian
✍️ **Author Reference:** Maria Popova
Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist,…
2. The Babylon Bee on X: “We Asked AI To Simulate The First Woman President And The Results Are Exactly What You Expect https://t.co/NTp8JMbQuY” / X
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3. Amazon.com
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4. We all lose when journalism is biased
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5. Mount Everest is the highest point above sea level, but because the Earth bulges at the equator, the summit of a volcano in Ecuador sits farther from the centre of the planet, making it the closest piece of land on Earth to outer space.
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 07:26 PM📅 **Original Publication:** May 29, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth measured from sea level. Its official height, agreed by Nepal and China in 2020, is 8,848.86 metres. It is not the point on Earth’s surface that sits farthest from the centre of the planet. That distinction belongs to Chimborazo, a dormant volcano in the Ecuadorean Andes, whose […]
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Adrián Berenguer
7. Elon Musk on X: “Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies. We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks. The Moon is” / X
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8. Lex Fridman on X: “Here’s my conversation with Don Lincoln about some of the biggest open questions in physics, including dark energy, dark matter, the matter-antimatter imbalance, quantum vacuum, quantum foam, and the quest to unify the laws of physics. Don is a particle physicist at Fermilab who https://t.co/BNkJ9tKUjy” / X
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Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck
10. DogeDesigner on X: “As Elon said… Rockets are hard. But giving up was never an option. 🦾 https://t.co/mWS4xxwnj8” / X
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11. Elon Musk on X: “RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) events are not unusual in the rocket world” / X
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12. Scientists say evolution may work differently than we thought | ScienceDaily
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 06:37 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** ScienceDaily
A major research study is challenging one of evolution’s most influential ideas: that most genetic changes that become permanent are essentially neutral. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that beneficial mutations are actually far more common than scientists have long assumed. The puzzle is that these advantageous mutations rarely spread through entire populations. Their answer? Nature keeps changing the rules.
13. CEOs are bargain hunting for AI
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 06:34 PM📅 **Original Publication:** May 29, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Axios
✍️ **Author Reference:** Madison Mills
As AI labs hit record valuations, their customers are searching for cheaper alternatives.
14. Google Search
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15. Google Search
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16. Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain - Phoronix
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 05:30 PMA change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance
17. SpaceX wins $4.16 billion US Space Force contract for threat-detection satellites | Reuters
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18. Thousands of hidden planets found in old NASA telescope data - Earth.com
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 05:30 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Earth.com
Astronomers used machine learning to search old NASA data and uncovered more than 10,000 unknown planet candidates hidden around faint stars.
19. A New 21st Century Meaning to Human Existence | by Avi Loeb | May, 2026 | Medium
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 05:28 PM📅 **Original Publication:** May 30, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Medium
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://avi-loeb.medium.com
A New 21st Century Meaning to Human Existence At the opening lines of his book “The Myth of Sisyphus”, accessible here, Albert Camus wrote: “There is but one truly serious philosophical …
20. Leftist DEATH THREATS Force America250 CANCELATIONS | Timcast IRL - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 05:26 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
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21. "She Caught The Pratt": Watch AMAZING New Ad For Spencer Pratt, Created By Damilare Sonoiki - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 01:04 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
"She caught the Pratt": Watch AMAZING new ad for Spencer Pratt, created By Damilare Sonoiki.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly/3Aw93ywW…
22. Why the Attacks on Spencer Pratt AREN'T Working - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 01:03 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Damilare Sonoiki, TV writer, and Stepfanie Tyler, founder, "Bad Girl Media" and "Westly," to discuss Chelsea Handler's attempt to sm…
23. Elon Musk Is Already Preparing to Evict Anthropic from SpaceX's Data Center
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 12:26 PM📅 **Original Publication:** May 28, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Gizmodo
✍️ **Author Reference:** AJ Dellinger
Sounds like those CPUs are available to the highest bidder… unless Elon figures out how to make a successful AI model.
24. Scientists Discover Sperm Seem To Bypass a Fundamental Law of Physics
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 12:23 PM📅 **Original Publication:** May 28, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** SciTechDaily
Sperm cells move through fluids that should stop them almost instantly, yet new research suggests they succeed by exploiting unusual properties of active living matter.
25. Pope Leo sees beauty in 'wasting time together' | Cognoscenti
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When we listen to each other across lines of disagreement and difference, when we take time to “waste time” on activities that do not contribute to problem-solving or economic production of value, we discover the deepest learning of all, writes Robert Bordone. It's the learning that helps build a civilization of love, not power.
26. Critics say Pope Leo's 'AI encyclical' fails to grapple with AI's real challenges | Fortune
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 12:15 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Fortune
✍️ **Author Reference:** Jeremy Kahn
Pope Leo's 'AI encyclical' wants AI to serve humanity, not be disempowered by it. Achieving that vision will be tough.
27. Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical and Air Conditioning - WSJ
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28. Pope Leo's Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence About Who the Human Being Is | National Review
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29. Beijing’s influence persists in US schools under a new name
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30. Europa may not vent water into space after all
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 11:54 AM📅 **Original Publication:** May 29, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Science News
The debate could reopen in 2030 when NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft gets the closest view of the icy moon’s surface.
31. AltSpacium on X: ““An anomaly.” https://t.co/sNfZsRU3Vo” / X
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32. Pope Leo XIV on X: “Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge” / X
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33. Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Warns on AI and Human Dignity / X
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34. Billionaire Hoffman Defends Himself Against Trump: ‘Will Not Bend The Knee’
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 11:22 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Forbes
✍️ **Author Reference:** Alison Durkee
Hoffman and his nonprofit are reportedly targets of the government’s criminal inquiry, The New York Times reports.
35. MS NOW, CNN & Fox News Ratings Show Jaw-Dropping Swings
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 11:21 AM📅 **Original Publication:** May 29, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** TV Insider
✍️ **Author Reference:** Martin Holmes
The year over year numbers show a big shift.
36. Jesse Kelly Reacts to Jill Biden's LIES on Joe Biden's Cognitive Decline, with Megyn Kelly - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 11:10 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Jesse Kelly reacts to Jill Biden's LIES on Joe Biden's cognitive decline, with Megyn Kelly.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly/3Aw93ywWa…
37. THEY’RE GONNA DO IT - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 11:06 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
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38. SpaceX And Tesla Merger? How They Could Become ‘One Ball Of Elon'
📂 **Saved to Folder:** May 29, 2026, 10:49 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Forbes
✍️ **Author Reference:** Ty Roush
Wall Street has speculated whether the world’s richest person will consider a tie-up for his two most valuable companies.
39. Elon Musk’s Startling Message on SpaceX-Tesla Merger - TheStreet
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