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David ✓ @DavidSHolz · 3h seems we've reached the underground bunker datacenter stage, kinda cool ngl, one of the quotes in the article is literally "Israel must have a secure cloud, so it will be nine floors underground" [Embedded article card]: Oracle's second data center in Israel will be nine floors below ground The cloud and database giant wants to ensure its servers are secure

David ✓ @DavidSHolz "We find sheer humanism to be unsatisfying. It shuts the windows, draws the blinds, and seeks artificial elegance - oblivious of the outer night and the stars. Instead, we boldly go out into darkness and find the superhuman everywhere. The magnitudes of astronomy (aeons, expanding space, gigantic inconceivables), relativity, star-dust, the minutiae of sub atomic physics, the basic physical mystery of electrons. An overwhelming sense of the Vast Inhuman and that all our knowledge of it is mythical. We find also the story of evolution of life: its length, its wastefulness, its precariousness, its chanciness, its progressive release of potentiality, its incomprehensibility and ourselves as moments within it. We find the significance of the distinctively human as an achievement of evolution. And also a conviction that man is transitional and scarcely a beginning." - Lecture notes from Olaf Stapleton on "Humanism and Superhuman" (1934) 11:27 PM · Jan 16, 2026 · 4,725 Views