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Posts by Nadim Majeed

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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

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Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive? Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

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LGBTQ-Affirming Kids Books to Rewrite Messages from the Playground | GLAAD Through his book Raising LGBTQ Allies: A Parent’s Guide to Changing the Messages from the Playground (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), Tompkins invites parents, relatives, educators, and allies to critica...

"Book bans are often framed as debates about age-appropriateness or parental rights, but underneath is fear. These stories challenge long-held beliefs and push against societal norms many of us were raised with. (1/3)
glaad.org/lgbtq-affirm...

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Driver alone in a car taking up huge space next to a packed city bus and tight pedestrian and bike space all filled with people complains “Damn those bike paths and bus lanes taking up all the space.”

Driver alone in a car taking up huge space next to a packed city bus and tight pedestrian and bike space all filled with people complains “Damn those bike paths and bus lanes taking up all the space.”

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

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Doctors Without Borders is reiterating its urgent calls for the protection of civilians and for an immediate and sustained #ceasefire.

Nowhere is safe in #Gaza and no one is spared.

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Limited series. Nicely wrapped up. No plot holes; at least none that I could immediately spot.

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Watched The Madness yet?

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Throwback to 2014 in India when I was involved in #monkeydiplomacy #greylangur #bridgingthegap

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Xavier Rudd was mine. Pleasant suprise

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Mintage at Kynsey road is a weird kind of salon. Here's a pleb being punished with the philosophy of language. #lka

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Here's something cool @yudhanjaya.bsky.social & the team at Watchdog cooked up - a digital twin of Colombo! Want to test out some public transport ideas or call down a meteor to flatten the city? Then this is the tool for you! #citiesskylines #lka #colombo

github.com/team-watchdo...

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Yep. Still on there too though.

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Ay ay comrade! What's the craic?

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<Insert profound statement announcing arrival on blue sky> Hello!!! 👋🏾 #lka

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