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I was told that the district did not believe that I could go back in the building and be an effective leader...

Assholes.

@jon-nyc Beautiful!

Humbug!

@Daniel "Unsuspecting guests dropped through a secret trap door.

Reminds me of the old b&w film "The Hidden Hand"

Fog

I love the bathroom with the green birds.

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Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Will no one put a stop to these classless tech scum?

@Steve-Miller Yikes, Steve. Glad you survived. Yeah, it's easy to miscalculate, sometimes.

@RealPlayer NPR's Fresh Air interviewed the author of "Fed Up" yesterday. It was really interesting and he talked about muscle loss vs fat loss.

What evolution reveals about eating, dieting and fat

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A good read from today's The Guardian...

Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored

It goes without saying that we continue to ignore the warnings concerning AI.

The digital revolution didn’t have to play out the way it did in the realm of politics and government; it played out the way it did because of the failure of liberal democracy to limit corporate power over politics and government, its failure to heed decades of warnings about the dangers of an automated state.

“the computer revolution is conspicuously silent about its own ends”. And, as Winner saw it, little evidence supported any of these computopian predictions. So far, “current developments in the information age suggest an increase in power by those who already had a great deal of power, an enhanced centralisation of control by those already prepared for control, an augmentation of wealth by the already wealthy.” He was shouting into a void.

The article mentions Lewis Mumford's "The Myth of the Machine". In my earlier years in NYC I would visit The Strand (bookstore) frequently. One of many purchases was this book. I just ran upstairs to see if I still had it... pretty sure I kept it all these years. Yep. I think I'll reread it.

Three Michelin stars.

Make of it what you will. Some of it seems a bit over the top for me (like borderline gimmicky), but probably worth the experiment/experience. Slightly mixed feelings about it. It would be something to try once in one's life, I suppose.

Oh gosh, glad you're OK, RP.

@ShiroKuro said:

So be alert for any new symptoms, dizziness, headache that doesn’t go away etc.

For sure. Several years ago a co-worker was in a taxi that had to stop abruptly. He lunged forward and hit his head on the partition separating the front of the cab from the back. He didn't think too much about it. A neighbor, hearing his vacuum running non-stop, found him the next day slumped on his bed, dead. Bleeding from his ear.

Very lovely, SK. It does have EWF vibes. Is this something you worked on with your teacher, or is it something you did on your own?00