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A very young Sally Field.
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I am a ghostly whisper, lost in sky, a stray thought ever fading, stubbornly asking why, wingtips glinting in starlight as through the frozen darkness I fly.
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"Can We Still Be Friends" by Todd Rundgren climbs two places to #30. #AT40 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_We_... youtu.be/K6kaw6Ll1sM?...
Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends (Official Music Video)YouTube video by RHINOyoutu.be
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Thousands of ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) once roamed Texas, but urban sprawl, the rise of ranching & the clearing of thornscrub forest biomes for cattle have depleted their numbers to ~100-150 left. This Texas research institute aims to change that, if Elon Musk doesn't stop them.
Baby Ocelot Yawns and MeowsAlt: Baby Ocelot Yawns and Meows. A pair of gloved hands holds an ocelot, a sort of kitten-sized cat with yellow and white fur with black stripes. It is ridiculously cute and I want to hug it so much it hurts.static.klipy.com
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Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology
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Flight of the Navigator is 40! 🥳 Trimaxion Drone Ship, art by Edward Eyth:
The Spaceshipper 🚀Flight of the Navigator was released 40 years ago today! "In 1978, a boy travels eight years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship."
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I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
Kyle CassidyI’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
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This Roman ring, wishing good life to Senicianus, was found in Silchester. It’s now on display in The Vyne. Its fame derives from the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler consulting Tolkien on it in the ‘20s. Tolkien was inspired by the idea of a lost cursed ring & the rest is literary history. 🕰️C4thAD
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Per UBS, OpenAI and Anthropic will account for 27% of Google Cloud's 2026 revenue and more than 48% of 2027's. Investors are being sold a story about diverse AI demand that is simply not true - hyperscalers spent a trillion dollars to feed money back to themselves and pretend it's real growth.
Ed ZitronWas awesome to join Bloomberg to talk about the lie of AI - everyone's buying into the mag7 believing CapEx is going towards diverse AI demand, when all it's really doing is supporting the circular cloud revenues of two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcZ...
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I don’t know the name other oaks gave it because they have gone, so I called this 400 year old tree Grace, because it’s beautiful Grace is dying, so I regularly walk the 10 mile trip to spend time with her Not a word is spoken, but much is said
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#Poetry #Painting #LateAfternoon I search to climb the mountains, To do to seek to reach those peaks. I know the bottom much to well I want to, Touch the sky! - Lawrence Pertellar 🎨 Kevin Kia
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@romania_cg1 (TT) captures a Eurasian Hoopoe showing off its crest and unique "hoop-hoop" call: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
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Joined the Tech Report to talk about the state of circular financing in the AI bubble, NVIDIA's potential $250bn data center backstop, and how Anthropic and OpenAI make up the majority of AI compute demand. youtu.be/B07mYv-IeU8?...
‘The AI bubble is running on childlike beliefs’ | Ed ZitronYouTube video by The Tech Reportyoutu.be
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Writers, stop using Gen AI products. In addition to the many other reasons it sucks (tech based on theft, tool of fascism, makes your brain soft) if you are found out, companies that might've wanted to republish you internationally, adapt for film/TV, etc., will label you a lawsuit risk & walk away.
Lincoln MichelMore info: "The problem: publishers and movie companies may not be able to register copyright and come away with a clear title chain if there are certain AI elements in the mix. That’s because AI-aided copy is an amalgamation of many other copyrighted works." deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
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Premium Newsletter: AI is becoming way too expensive. The 190GW of planned data centers need between $1.62 trillion and $2.92 trillion in annual compute demand that doesn't exist - and every new data center costs way more than the last. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ai-is-getting-way-too-expensive/
Premium: AI Is Getting Way Too ExpensiveA great deal of the discussion of the so-called benefits or problems with AI comes down to the theoretical jobs that are (or are not) lost as a result of things LLMs can (or cannot do), or the equally...www.wheresyoured.at
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Family portrait. These two were the cutest little coyote puppies. I was so lucky to be able to watch them from my kayak. #mammals🌿
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Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.