https://share.google/eqpU2pXbadkfijCvb
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https://share.google/eqpU2pXbadkfijCvb
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Be sure to vote if you want to be heard.
Meanwhile, California really does need to change our voting method to RANKED CHOICE (sometimes called Preferential Voting). Someone needs to do what needs to be done to get this on the ballot here.
Learn more about Ranked Choice here
https://www.rcvresources.org/what-is-rcv/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting
https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/
Here is a good review of all the different voting methods (there are many)
https://www.princeton.edu/~cuff/voting/theory.html
From what I hear, Arnie Schwarzenegger is responsible for California having this awful voting method. Meanwhile, VOTE.
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Jim Robeson
https://neurosciencenews.com/thalamus-oscillation-consciousness-30787/
so, do other animals have a thalamus?
can we give a thalamus to computers?
The Encyclical here is from the Vatican web site:
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html
The text here is from the New York Times
“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom."
– David Attenborough
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. – Bertrand Russell
The supreme court’s takedown of American democracy is complete