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I want to read the thing all on my own like a grownup and make my own notes and draw my own conclusions. Reading is the joy of the thing. I like reading and thinking. I don’t want to know what an algorithm wants to present as useful and I REALLY don’t like robot errors.

Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Temu, Tavern, Walmart, Marketplace, Wayfair, Segway, Deepower, Wilson’s E-Bikes and several dozen other online retailers will receive cease and desist notices demanding they stop selling devices that don't meet the city's legal standards for e-bikes or e-scooters.

Mamdani Targets Online Illegal E-Moto Retailers - Streetsblog New York City

Mayor Mamdani sent cease-and-desist letter to more than three dozen online retailers who sell illegal e-motos to New Yorkers.

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BIG: Kansas just rejected a ballot measure that would have required state Supreme Court justices to be elected rather than appointed by the governor — dealing another setback to Republicans trying to overturn a decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.

A former pair of cats once hid a toy mouse in the pocket of my coat. I found it while standing in line at the post office and screamed bloody murder before I realized it was a toy mouse. And then I had to stand in line trying to look normal, because it was the holidays and I had a deadline.

Tuesday's Weather Rating: 8/10 What a nice change!! Mostly sunny with high temperatures in the lower 80s. Dew points are down too, in the lower 60s. It's still a bit warm at times, but for the most part the vibes are very good out there today!!!

This exquisite 6thC brooch features an oval sardonyx stone cameo with a female portrait bust positioned in the centre of a #gold disc. This is decorated with a cabled border and circles and shapes made of fine wire, or filigree. 💜 Disc #brooch with cameo, 6th century CE. Amethyst, gold, sardonyx.

 
💜 Disc brooch with cameo, 6th century CE. Amethyst, gold, sardonyx. AN1909.816

See the brooch on display in Gallery 30 on Level 1. Ashmolean Museum Collection. AN1909.816

In Late Antiquity, disc brooches were used for fastening cloaks, but a piece of jewellery as finely wrought and valuable as this brooch would have been more decorative than practical.

The helmet worn by the central figure suggests an identification of either the Roman goddess of wisdom – and war – Minerva (Greek Athena), or Roma, the personified city of Rome. Polished amethysts and a garnet stone are suspended pendant-like from the base, marking the owner out as a wealthy and educated patron of the arts.