They are going to begin laying off 30,000 corporate jobs starting tomorrow. Yay.
In other news, the polar ice cap calved again today. One key to humanity’s success is its diversity of ideas. One impediment to humanity’s success is its diversity of focus. It seems…
I sure do like galactic and universal wonders. They give me a reprieve and mystical hope.
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Holy shit.
We may be well on the road to an entirely new view of not only consciousness, but “actual” reality itself.
Donald Hoffman could turn out be one of the greatest, or at least consequential, scientists of all time.
And the spiritual traditions and science may be converging here. My non-dual meditation practice is the only thing that is gives me a remote understanding of what these people are talking about.
I’m willing to bet $20 the guy in the upper right huffs his own farts.
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Ha, really? He’s got to be one of the most humble geniuses I’ve ever listened to. I get the opposite impression from Hoffman.
To be honest, I only listened to a few seconds of it. That was just my initial impression. 
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Did you pin that at about the one hour mark? I asked because I swear I saw it before and only got through an hour of it. Did you post it on this thread a while back?
I had to do a quick check on what non-dual meditation is and it describes the only meditation practice that I’ve encounter in California, scattered over 2 or so years. Recently I’ve attended several Recovery Dharma meetings that have a Buddhist flavor and target suffering in the form of addiction. If I understand correctly, there are 6 senses in Buddhist thought including thinking. Consciousness is beyond that and doesn’t adhere to one’s body, and so that provides some scaffolding for the video which I have yet to finish. tl/dw? LOL
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I might have posted it before. Hmmm. 
There’s also Refuge Recovery, another meditation-based recovery group based in Buddhism, perhaps you’ve heard of them as well.
No, I haven’t. I ran into Recovery Dharma only because the clubhouse I go to has turned into a Buc-ee’s of 12-step programs.
U.S. researchers have successfully teleported a quantum state of light across 30 kilometers of standard internet fiber — while normal internet traffic was moving through the same cables. This is the first time quantum teleportation has been demonstrated on a real-world, public-style fiber network rather than in a controlled lab setup.
The experiment worked by sending delicate quantum photons alongside regular data signals without losing their quantum properties. That achievement proves quantum communication can function on today’s internet infrastructure, eliminating the need for massive new systems or specialized fiber networks.
The implications are significant. Quantum teleportation enables communication that cannot be intercepted or hacked, because any attempt to tamper with a quantum signal immediately destroys the information. This milestone brings the idea of a secure global quantum internet out of the realm of theory and into practical reality.
Sources: NASA, Caltech, U.S. Department of Energy, Nature Photonics, National Geographic
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That is a BFD.
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For good and for evil.
No kidding.
Does this not have the potential to make crypto obsolete?
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Are u talking about the
Wombman?
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Quantum computing already has dibbs on that.
Move along, folks, there’s nothing to see here except maybe a data-gathering probe from extraterrestrials. Don’t let the kooks from Harvard scare you.
It gets interesting at Do we know about whether it really is a natural comet or something else?
A Q & A on 3I/ATLAS at Perihelion | by Avi Loeb | Oct, 2025 | Medium
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The truth is out there…”“For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” is the eighth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Rik Vollaerts and directed by Tony Leader, it was first broadcast on November 8, 1968.
In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise rush to stop an asteroid from colliding with a Federation world, but discover the asteroid is actually an inhabited generation ship.[1]
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1i/Trek
Please tell me there were hot chicks aboard.
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That’s a harmless request. There definitely were hot chicks aboard.
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