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3 Hours Sensual Tantric Music 432Hz, Tantric Vibes, Relaxing Ambient Massage Music — Musical Wanderings (2022), read as one signal.
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From Naked Capitalism: Wall Street is Coming for Your Burger. [Ed: strangely fascinating.] From the Waggington Post: Woman Finds Her Dogs On The ROOF — And Its Just Another Day For Them From Mish Talk: Trump’s Eight Huge Unforced Errors Will Set MAGA Back for Years [Ed: frankly, the Dems are as…
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In The Founder, Ray Kroc lives by a famous line: nothing can take the place of persistence. I co-founded a startup studio that built more than 150 startups, and watched it collapse under its own weight. The research says persistence alone barely moves your odds. My experience says it is the only…
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Brazil, which is oil-rich and holds the world's second-largest reserves of rare earth minerals, is the only big country in South America not governed by a right-wing leader, with Lula largely seen as…
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Álvaro Urbano presents an homage to the innovations of Casa Cueva, an icon of modernist Mexican architecture. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Álvaro Urbano Honors the…
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There's no question we need to move away from fossil fuels. But who bears the cost of the green transition? Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’…
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After 17 years, Foursquare’s ending is written. Writing this to share my opinions & frustrations with the final years of the company, and to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ’s legacy.
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Unruly steeds from King Mu’s mythology, cavorting across a silk scroll.
From The Public Domain Review
Does the flâneur, that curiously modern figure who wanders metropolitan streets, have a political consciousness? For Franz Hessel — author of Spazieren in Berlin, “a memorization while strolling” that Walter Benjamin called “thoroughly epic” — the answer seemed to be no. Paul Sullivan explores…
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Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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foldingfittedsheets: Does anyone have any nice fancy flannel sheets they’re in love with? Looking for a set now that it’s getting chilly and I want a splurge set, like gimme the bougie flannel. So I took the recommendations and we got LL Bean flannel and it’s been lovely. I’ve never actually had…
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What comparison makes 45% quarterly growth look disappointing—and a slowdown cause I experienced firsthand.
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venonomnomicon: darkenedyeastextract: 3liza: sexhaver: papasmoke: How did he sneak a homemade blunderbuss up behind a high profile politician in the middle of the day like that? Was he in a cartoon burglar outfit and tip toeing? no on the burglar outfit at least the scout is something like 20%…
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A short analysis and summary of my essay. Photo by the author. Source
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I'm using my 1:144 Halberstadt D-II model to fiddle with generating disruptive pattern textures in Blender. There's an enormous amount you can do with the node shading system, but I am the merest beginner when it comes to texturing objects in Blender.
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A ridge of high pressure has returned to southern Alaska since late last week, echoing the persistent anomaly in August and September . Paired with a strong trough over far eastern Russia and the western Bering Sea, southwesterly flow has brought widespread unusual warmth and moisture to western and…
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I’ve been in bed all day, unable to function. I had a really bad migraine. It was so painful. I have been eating painkillers. Thankfully, it is gone now. I slept a lot and had weird dreams. Now I am up at 2 AM. Ready to start my day. I put music on and one […]
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# Writing A note on my writing style. I write as I speak. Newest first. 2025-01-26 Efficient API Design: Avoiding Costly External Requests 2024-08-30 Exploring Goja: A Golang JavaScript Runtime 2024-07-02 Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite 2023-11-15 Deploying a Rails Application…
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The New York Times, no paywall: “President Trump’s success in demolishing the traditional wallbetween the White House and the Justice Department is apparent at the helm of the agency, now led by his former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche. Mr. Trump’s reach can also be seen in the network of U.S.…
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The Google search engine has a new feature that creates images based on any description a user provides. These images are created in seconds. I used this feature to create images for this week’s blog entry and some of them are amazing. I had been using Deviant Art’s image prompts, but the program…
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Adam Nash has a good post on wealth inequality: …Every year, we pull the most recent data from the US Census on household wealth, cut by age. …invariably, the students’ initial response is a reaction to the apparent disparity in wealth between households based on age. For many students, it just…
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Image created by AI by Angela A. Stanton PhD. Most people fall into the AI trap of asking a question, and if the answer looks “OK” and, especially if it lines up with the person’s beliefs, one tends to accept … Continue reading →
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Every communications pathway I’m likely to use, for whatever purpose, is filled with beggars. My emails are besieged with political and charitable appeals for funds, both with direct appeals, i.e., just give us money; guilt-trips, i.e., if you don’t give us funding the children will die, or the…
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I had seen The Rehearsal season 2 going in, so I was aware of Nathan Fielder’s general shtick, which is why I was not sure I could actually watch this movie: But I had a day off last week and decided I wanted to see it in the theater. And I’m glad I did – … Continue reading "You Can See Everything…
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My recent detour into Japanese detective fiction and the captivating mysteries of locked-room whodunits reminded me of popular BBC series Jonathan Creek. The show ran for three seasons between 1997–99. It returned with season 4 and 5 in 2003 and 2014 respectively. […]
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We used to know what our favourite car brands stood for. But when familiar showrooms stop offering the cars we love, what gives us a reason to stay? I examine the research, the changing industry and my own disappointment as a long-time Honda fan.
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That's this stretch.
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