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What does designing for life mean in practice? Who is doing it? How we can help? I write, talk, and advise. We also host offsite/retreats here in France .

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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13 Nov 2121271198764204106

Gaza had over 2 million olive trees until 2023.
About 150,000 remain.

Genocide is not only about killing. It also entails intentionally destroying the conditions of a people's existence and inflicting severe mental harm upon them.

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Gazans harvest dregs of olive groves bulldozed and cut off by Israel

Haidar Abu Middain, 60, lifts a desiccated bough of a fallen olive tree and tosses it aside in the barren dirt...

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This seems a bit harsh after that nice Mr Nadella ponied up a million bucks for your inauguration just last year

This seems a bit harsh after that nice Mr Nadella ponied up a million bucks for your inauguration just last year
vizmas 🤍 @vizmas23

🚨BREAKING: DONALD TRUMP JUST DECLARED WAR ON MICROSOFT OUTLOOK AND HONESTLY… EVERY OFFICE WORKER ON THE PLANET FEELS THIS. 💻

🗣️Microsoft Outlook is a TOTAL DISASTER! Billions of dollars LOST by great companies all over the world because of their terrible, broken systems.

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Arnaud Bertrand

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13 Nov 2121107082082668754

This is absolutely brilliant, by legendary Australian investor John Hempton, who explains the core financial paradox at the heart of the AI story (and which also, to some extent, may explain the Jensen Huang story).

The numbers say that about $7 trillion in AI compute is set to

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