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Joined July 2009
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This morning, I went for walk with a coyote and a goose. Just another day in LA.
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The new LA Metro D Line will get you crosstown 17 minutes faster than driving during the AM rush, and that’s why it will be wildly successful. Transit that’s faster or as fast as driving is what will get car trips off LA streets!
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That's us! 🌍 The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."
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Perhaps the most satisfying Know Violence episode to date
Leave them kids alone #knowviolence #160
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AI’s primary corpus is clearly Robert Pollard’s song titles
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Truer words have never been spoken: "road rage is one of the dumbest reasons to fight." Oh and P.S. don't fight anyone!
Lost a fight AND his car #knowviolence #146
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Another banger from Diego. What could this have been about, anyway? It's on a pickleball court. Don't fight anyone!
When you play pickelball, everyone loses #knowviolence #131
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eat a book to gain its vocabulary
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I've been hearing all about how good AI is getting, so I tried it out with a well-known logic problem and 10/10 no notes
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Fire in Echo Park
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Now knocked down. Thank you LA firefighters!
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As somebody who has gone back and forth with this, you really only need like two weeks replacing screen time with reading to get your attention span back You’re not permanently fucked and resetting is easier than you think. Put down your phone and pick up a book.
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OK, yes, that's very LA
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Today I was crossing Hollywood and Highland, where peds & tourists cheered a just-married couple celebrating in the middle of the intersection while a fire ravaged a strip mall down the street. I've lived in LA my whole life, and this is the most LA candid I've ever snapped.
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Highly recommend
Open a book and scream into it for fun
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Now this is a flex
A yearly tradition at the South Pole is the winter-over crew watching "The Thing" right after the last flight for the summer leaves. Here is a picture of the yearly showing in the gym #southpole #winter #Xenophobia #science
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What do people think of the new Hollywood bike lanes? We asked people at @CicLAvia to find out.
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An insightful and deeply human essay about the inherent limitations of AI by the colossal thinker/writer Ted Chiang newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

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I don’t do any fighting/MMA stuff and just love this as general life wisdom
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This is so good
'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.' Nick Cave.
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