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I dunno if that particular one is safe or not, but running a webpage as a script is asking for it.
Could be swapped to something else at any moment, and what you see if you browse to it may not be what is returned if you use the command line...
Downloading the script and checking if it's the same script as the one on github is definitely better. Or running the curl but on raw.githubusercontent.com adress, because then you can be pretty sure it's not something else than you see.