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Ever notice that in Dune humans fly spaceships between planets but don't use a single computer?
That's not a plot hole. It's completely on purpose. The movies barely explain why, but once you know, almost everything else in Dune starts to make sense.
About 10,000 years before Paul Atreides, humans did exactly what we're doing right now. They built thinking machines to make life easier. They let the machines do their work and make their decisions, hoping it would set them free.
Instead, the people who controlled those machines gained the power to enslave everyone else.
Humanity eventually fought back in a holy war called the Butlerian Jihad, and won. The thinking machines were destroyed.
To make sure it would never happen again, they made one rule sacred: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
But getting rid of computers created a problem: who would do their work? The answer was humans.
Mentats are trained from childhood to think like computers. Navigators use the spice to glimpse the future and steer ships safely through space. The Bene Gesserit spend generations pushing the human mind and body to their limits.
Every superpower in Dune exists for one reason: there are no computers.
That's my favorite thing about Dune. It's also the most terrifying. Dune isn't a future without AI. It's the future after AI.
Frank Herbert wrote that in 1965.
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A woman saves her husband from an armed robber posing as a police officer outside their Houston liquor store.
Yudi Lara grabs her g—n and confronts the suspect after he forces her husband, Javier Reyes, to the ground and demands his chain and watch.
The suspect tries to flee, but Javier sh——ts and injures him. The att—ker leaves his weapon behind.
Police confirm the couple act in self-defense and will not face charges.
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In 2019, a homeless woman in Anchorage, Alaska, stole a cellphone from a man's truck.
When she looked through it, she found something horrifying. The phone was full of photos and videos of a woman being tortured and strangled to death.
The phone's owner, Brian Steven Smith, had filmed himself beating and murdering 30-year-old Kathleen Jo Henry in a hotel room. At one point, he could be heard saying “In my movies, everybody always dies."
The woman copied the files onto a memory card and took it to police.
During questioning, Smith confessed to shooting another woman before abandoning her remains. In July 2024, he was sentenced to 226 years in prison.
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Ben Shapiro: Reparations don’t work.
Charlamagne: They worked for Jewish people.
(They *still* receive HoIocaust reparations) Shapiro: Erm, uh, that's totally different! Israel took $500b from America (and $30B since Oct 7). It still begs for more.
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Noah Wyle says Eddie Murphy told him to “fuck off” when he asked for an autograph at 9.
“I met Eddie Murphy once when I was a kid. I asked him for his autograph, and I said, ‘I really like you on SNL.’ He goes, ‘What are you doing up that late?’ And I said, ‘Can I have your autograph?’ He goes, ‘Fuck off, man.’”
“I was 9. Now I always sign an autograph whenever a 9-year-old needs one. I sign that so fast.”
Years later, his daughter turned the story into a birthday gift.
“I’ve told this story in my house, and last year for my birthday, my 10-year-old daughter didn’t know what to get me. So she printed up a picture of Eddie Murphy and wrote, ‘Dear Noah, you’re a great kid, Eddie Murphy.’ She spelled Eddie E-d-d-y, and I have it framed in my office.”
“She came up with the story. She’s like, ‘Dad, you’re never gonna believe who I saw yesterday. Eddie Murphy. And we got what you’ve always wanted, his autograph.’ Then they gave me the gifts. She’s a doll. She’s the best.”
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On March 1, 2006, a 16-year-old told two detectives he helped his uncle rape and kill a woman. Then, on a break, he asked if he could get back to school in time for a project.
Teresa Halbach was 25, a photographer. On October 31, 2005 she drove to Avery's Auto Salvage in Wisconsin and never came back. Her burned remains were found in a pit on the property. It belonged to the family of Steven Avery, who had already served 18 years for a rape he didn't commit.
Detectives pulled his nephew Brendan Dassey out of high school. No lawyer, no parent in the room. The trial judge put his IQ in the "low average to borderline range."
They kept asking what else happened to her head. Finally one said, "Who shot her in the head?"
"He did."
"Then why didn't you tell us that?"
"Cuz I couldn't think of it."
In the video below he's on that break. "How long is this gonna take?" He wants to be back by 1:29. "I have a project due in sixth hour."
Then he's with his mother. He asks what happens if his uncle's story is different. "Did you?" she asks. "Not really." "They got to my head."
He got life in 2007, with parole eligibility in 2048. In 2016 a federal judge ruled the confession involuntary. In 2017 the full appeals court reinstated it 4 to 3, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. He is still in prison.
Was it a confession, or did two detectives write it for him?
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😳A security guard in Nashville, Tennessee, fired multiple shots at a 22-year-old man outside the Greyhound bus station Sunday around 7:25 AM after police say the man threw hot coffee in his face and repeatedly attacked him.
Jacory McIntosh suffered gunshot wounds to his hip and leg and was charged with felony aggravated assault. The security guard also suffered injuries.
The shooting remains under investigation.
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Crying man. It’s possible for the US to generate world class footballers but they’re too racist to ever benefit from it. Wym you called the cops on him because the white kids couldn’t get the ball off him
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So… this is clearly human trafficking disguised as being tough on immigration.
A Texas father who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years with no criminal record was finishing his night shift as an Uber driver when immigration agents detained him.
Without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge, he was put on a plane and sent first to Ghana, a country where he had no ties. He was then sent to his home country, despite a determination by a U.S. immigration court judge that he could not be deported there due to likely persecution. cbsn.ws/3Ude66r
