Bookmarks Digest — Page 6
1. Grok Bot now works with X
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Grok Bot now has a tighter integration with X.
2. How the Occult Gave Birth to Science - Nautilus
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 10:29 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Oct 30, 2024
For scientists of yore anything—from mermaids to alchemy—was on the table.
3. AI Made Me Look Foolish. Then I Learned
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 10:28 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 6, 2026
AI Made Me Look Foolish. Then I Learned: Ancient alchemy has a lot to teach us about chatbots
4. A Scientist Was Presenting His Vibe-Coded New Work When One of His Colleagues Pointed Out Something Extremely Embarrassing
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 10:27 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 29, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Futurism
✍️ **Author Reference:** Victor Tangermann
Science communicator Paul Sutter accidentally presented AI hallucinations in front of many of his colleagues.
5. Cognitive Selfhood and the Last Human Right
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 10:22 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Psychology Today
As AI does more of our thinking, how much of ourselves do we surrender along the way?
6. Kevin Sorbo says he’s done with California taxes, traffic, negativity | Fox News
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Kevin Sorbo credits his marriage, family and homeschooling for keeping him grounded after leaving California for Florida. The “Hercules” star says he
7. What game theory teaches Canada about negotiating with an untrustworthy Donald Trump
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 10:07 PM📅 **Original Publication:** 20260830
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** The Conversation
✍️ **Author Reference:** Jean Poitras
When words are no longer enough, you have to change the incentives. Here are 3 levers for negotiating with a partner you can’t do without, but can’t fully trust either.
8. Three Cheers for Rudolf Diesel - WSJ
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9. New California Tire Regulations Spark Backlash from Tire Makers and Citizens | National Review
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10. The 5 craziest discoveries from OpenAI’s HuggingFace investigation
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11. Exclusive | Mamdani sparks tenant complaint crisis to ‘squeeze’ landlords and seize private property: critics
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 10:00 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 30, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
Tenant complaints have spiked 25% under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with a staggering 573,656 calls to 311 so far this year for housing gripes.
12. University of Tokyo researchers dried, powdered and heat-pressed food scraps including banana peels, orange rinds and cabbage leaves into prototype building materials—the strongest, made from Chinese cabbage, had four times concrete’s flexural strength and remained edible.
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 09:58 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 30, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** ScienceBlog.com
✍️ **Author Reference:** Lab Report
Chinese cabbage waste reached about 18 MPa in bending after drying and heat-pressing. The edible lab prototype was not a structural-concrete or food-safety test.
13. Alina Habba on X: “I stood on those courthouse steps every day and told you exactly what Letitia James was doing. She didn’t find a crime and follow the evidence. She picked President Trump and went shopping for one. They called me a liar. Now the truth is coming from inside her own office. I” / X
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14. Rachel Alexander on X: “I have a new respect for Kim Strassel of WSJ after reading this article from her revealing how the fake news covers the left’s lawfare dishonestly, to make anything Trump and conservatives look bad and losing and anything the left does look legitimate and winning. “The state of” / X
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15. The Researcher on X: “How important is the ability to propagandize people to Norm Eisen and progressives? Norm threatens ABC, gets state AGs to sue over the Paramount merger, gets Hollyweirdos to join his crusade, and sues the Washington Post because someone was fired. https://t.co/Qwt6OmloAJ” / X
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16. The Researcher on X: “The democrat base is the most propagandized group of people in the world. That is why they live in a constricted reality, thanks in large part to Norm Eisen.” / X
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17. The Researcher on X: “Fascist Skye Perriman from Democracy Forward is one of Norm Eisen and Marc Elias’s lawfare partners. During a webinar, Skye discussed some of Democracy Inc.’s tactics to essentially nullify the 2024 election (which is really about defeating so-called populism), including filing https://t.co/FzqFULDU8Y” / X
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18. Lara Logan on X: “We are in 5th Generation warfare - the battle for our minds. And these people are among the main architects of destructive false narratives tearing this country apart. If you can think of it, they likely had a hand in it, especially with trying to get Americans & the world to” / X
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19. You need to try GNOME 50—it’s the most polished and impressive Linux desktop today
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 09:46 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 30, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** How-To Geek
✍️ **Author Reference:** Bertel King
It’s my favorite desktop on any operating system
20. Now California Is Coming for Your Tires - WSJ
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21. Californians Tire of Delusional Climate Rules - WSJ
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22. @jason on X: “Made a killer new Grok @bot It reviews my replies for suspected burner accounts (under 100 followers/under a year old) and flags people who use insults in their replies. Keep it classy, fun and intelligent in my replies, because I’m going to auto-nuke under-one-year-old https://t.co/niB9tB9UNw” / X
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23. Inside socialists’ war over AOC, 2028
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24. Alex Thompson on X: “New w/ @hollyotterbein in Axios 2028. AOC’s potential 2028 run has exposed long-simmering divisions w/i the Democratic Socialists of America. Little consensus on who should speak for them, what policies they stand for — and whether to even support AOC. https://t.co/DYX5PQvjKu” / X
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25. Make your own video with Grok Imagine
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 06:42 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Grok
A peacock from Kew took a leap to the blue, and melted right into the firmament’s hue; a cloud took its train, and the weather grew vain, till the Met Office filed it as ‘vanity dew.’
26. Elon Musk on X: “@cremieuxrecueil The brain is a biological computer. Just like silicon computers, some brains have more processing power or specialist skills than others and this varies tremendously in humans. The probable capabilities of any given brain can be determined with high accuracy from an MRI. At” / X
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27. Elon Musk Calls Brain a Biological Computer Readable by MRI / X
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28. Tesla to Integrate Grok Bot Into Its Vehicles - Not a Tesla App
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 06:34 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 29, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Not a Tesla App
✍️ **Author Reference:** Nehal Malik
Following the recent debut of Grok Bot, Tesla appears to be preparing direct in-cabin integration for SpaceXAI’s new autonomous agent platform
29. Iran’s president admits ‘we have many problems’ and missiles ‘are of no use’ as the U.S. chokes its economy while weakening Tehran’s grip on Hormuz | Fortune
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 06:33 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Fortune
✍️ **Author Reference:** Jason Ma
“People are on the edge now; if I put more pressure on them, they might fall off the edge. We have to be careful that no one falls off.”
30. Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 on X: “You can actually create an agent in Grok Bot that exclusively uses Grok Build in CLI with the latest Grok models at the highest thinking level. You can copy mine - his name is Researchy. He’s awesome. https://t.co/a9iATsQBiH” / X
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31. US strikes Iranian targets over Hormuz mine threat
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32. If Jordan Peterson was PROGRESSIVE!
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 05:18 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Imagine Jordan Peterson FULL WOKE! Free online course! See my comedy tour: Sep 9 Austin, TXSep 18-20 Phoenix, AZSep 25-26 Irving, TXOct 9-10 Stamford, CT…
33. Google Workspace on X: “Why manually review hours of video when AI can spot top-performing segments for you? In this Customer AI Boost Bite, Jon Morgenstern, EVP Head of Investment at @VaynerMedia, shares how he uses Gemini to spot top video moments. Learn more → https://t.co/glwTwSsjhF https://t.co/vLT2Y8P11H” / X
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34. Institute of Art and Ideas on X: “We often think of the mind as something that passively perceives an objective world. But, in this interview, neuroscientist Karl Friston argues that the brain is not a mirror of reality but a prediction machine, constantly constructing the world it experiences. Drawing on the https://t.co/0SSkHkptzJ” / X
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35. The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness — Google DeepMind
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36. How To Prompt on X: “Google DeepMind proved that LLMs can never be conscious. They call it The Abstraction Fallacy. They argue symbolic computation is not q intrinsic physical process happening inside the machine. Computation is a mapmaker-dependent description. It requires an active, living, https://t.co/YFEiLWlOCC” / X
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37. Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts and, instead of binning it, spent three years testing 13,000 seeds in a spare bedroom — the bacteria living in those warts made barley germinate 50% faster, and the adults who said it wouldn’t work on cereals watched them take Google’s grand prize
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 03:28 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 29, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** ScienceBlog.com
✍️ **Author Reference:** Science Blog Editorial Team
When three teenagers glimpsed what others dismissed as plant disease, they saw a path to solving agriculture’s nitrogen problem—and the scientific establishment’s skepticism only made them dig deeper.
38. IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 03:25 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** ScienceDaily
IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not practically reproduce. The system used 70 error-corrected logical qubits and finished the task in roughly 15 minutes while also providing statistical evidence that the result was reliable.
39. TGIF: Have Y’all Never Heard of Noblesse Oblige?
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 03:24 PM✍️ **Author Reference:** Nellie Bowles
Today in TGIF: Cloud seeding works, the DSA nepo babies never have, AI writing is allowed but bad, Trump takes on Canada, and more!
40. Apple Lamps on X: “Everybody thinks the Democrats are fighting the data centers. The moratoriums, the press conferences, the marching… very dramatic, beautiful theater. It’s an act. Every bit of it. They love data centers. Love them! Because to a Democrat, a data center is the biggest payday https://t.co/YzyJ62JDDE” / X
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41. Apple Lamps on X: “@GavinSBaker Everyone needs to understand why democrats are pushing the anti data center narrative. https://t.co/PXJc6k76Td” / X
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42. Gavin Baker on X: “Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday. What I should have said: There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects” / X
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43. Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah warns against Mamdani’s NYC grocery stores | Fox News
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44. Magnetic Bacterium Extends Lifespan by 43% in Surprising Anti-Aging Study
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 12:38 PMA magnetotactic bacterium extended lifespan in worms by 43.39% and appeared to do so by suppressing ferroptosis.
45. Trump calls for NBC’s Kristen Welker to face FCC ‘rebuke or punishment’ after comment about his endorsement record
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 12:37 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 30, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
WASHINGTON — President Trump raged at “Meet the Press” anchor Kristen Welker Sunday for casting aspersions on his endorsement record — saying she should be reprimanded by the FCC.
46. Anti-Trumpism Is Driving the Media to Cheer Hostile Powers | National Review
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47. Bill Maher ridicules liberals’ ‘Lake America’ outrage with jab at left-wing language police
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Aug 30, 2026, 11:08 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Aug 30, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
Bill Maher mocked liberal outrage over Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America,’ taking a jab at the left’s own language policing.