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I still have more books than you. https://linktr.ee/newredshoes
Friend recommended A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry bc "it's a classic on sale for $1.99," lol, so I said sure and started looking at it this evening. Holy WOW. The writing is so deceptively simple, the plot full of summarization at times, the pain almost unrelenting
For #Trane100 Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne’s “Time After Time”, from Stardust, recorded in 1958, released in 1963. John Coltrane, tenor saxophone Red Garland, piano Paul Chambers, bass Arthur Taylor, drums www.youtube.com/watch?v=FonK...
John Coltrane - Time After Time (Official Audio)
YouTube video by John Coltrane
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No idea this was taken by a WOMAN, wow
Punk Rock History@punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 22h ago47 years ago today Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979. She made one of the most famous images in music history. #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd
"All the gears stand still if thy mighty arm wills it!" Drawing made by Albert Hahn in 1903 during the railroad strikes in the Netherlands for the right of workers to organise in a union and negotiate and implement the right to strike.
37 years ago today HR of Bad Brains at The Ritz, New York City – September 20, 1989. Photo by BJ Papas #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #HR #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory #otd
50 years ago Oxford Street 1976: The Two Nights That Exploded Modern Punk, The Punk Special at 100 Club #50years
50 years ago today Sex Pistols, The Clash, Subway Sect and Siouxsie and the Banshees at the first night at the 100 Club punk festival, September 20, 1976. #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #100club #50years #history #punkrockhistory #otd
I’m so sick of everybody and the racism and the sexism and how it’s destroying fun deadline.com/2026/09/ride...
'Ride Or Die' Canceled By Prime Video After One Season (Exclusive)
'Ride Or Die' has been canceled By Prime Video after one season. The Octavia Spencer & Hannah Waddingham series is shopped By Paramount TV Studios.
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"Cave markings discovered in Ireland could transform understanding of when humans first settled there Researchers believe that humans may have walked across the sea from Wales during the last Ice Age and made art" www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/18/c...
Cave markings discovered in Ireland could transform understanding of when humans first settled there
Researchers believe that humans may have walked across the sea from Wales during the last Ice Age and made art
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/u... Man, iirc even Nixon didn't do this shit
Trump Faced Loss After Loss. He Then Turned to a Familiar Target: The Press. (Gift Article)
The president’s ban of three media outlets from the White House fits a pattern of using the apparatus of government to crack down on his perceived enemies.
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From this excellent Kara Swisher interview: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/kara-swisher-ai-destroy-humanity-atlantic-festival/688721/
Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might
The longtime tech journalist says she’s seen Silicon Valley make the same mistakes again and again.
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Ironically, the IBM guys warned about this when they said: A computer can never be held accountable so it must never make a decision. Every rich asshole took that as permission rather than a dire warning.
Been saying this for a bit now… bsky.app/profile/ryan...
Ryan W Enslow@ryanwenslow.bsky.social · last yr.I’ve said it before but we’ve transformed A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision into A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must be made responsible for all management decisions
When someone claims that a mistake just happens in the system, and it's always the same kind of mistake, and it always benefits the person who set up the system... It's not a mistake. It's happening on purpose.
The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
A cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.
A melanoma vaccine was hailed as a breakthrough. Which cancers are next?
Trials investigating mRNA vaccines for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases are already underway.
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...so what I'm reading here is that Dolly Parton's donation to the Vanderbilt MRNA lab might have led to a cure for several kinds of cancer...
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterdayA cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.
"Don't make an issue of my womanhood." Nina Ivanovna Yakushova (Greta Garbo) makes her arrival in Ninotchka (1939)
Sept. 19, 1926: An autochrome photo of the mountain commune of Mont-Dôme in France's Auvergne region.
Folks, please get vaxxed or check your measles titers, if you aren't sure you got 2 doses or were born b/t 1963-1967 (when a less effective, killed vax was used for a bit). An unvaxxed passenger "rode across the country" on trains & Amtrak buses & is now hospitalized. www.ktvu.com/news/califor...
California health department notifies of measles exposure from unvaccinated Amtrak passenger
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is urging residents to get their measles vaccination after notifying the public of an exposure from an Amtrak passenger who traveled on the rail syste...
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California: if you aren't POSITIVE you've had two doses of MMR, and if you were born pre-1982 you may not have (especially if you didn't go to college), get a MMR booster
J. Offir, PhD@joffirphd.bsky.social · yesterdayFolks, please get vaxxed or check your measles titers, if you aren't sure you got 2 doses or were born b/t 1963-1967 (when a less effective, killed vax was used for a bit). An unvaxxed passenger "rode across the country" on trains & Amtrak buses & is now hospitalized. www.ktvu.com/news/califor...
"That's absurd," objected Milo, whose head was spinning from all the numbers and questions. "That may be true," he acknowledged, "but it's completely accurate, and as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself."
Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots.
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