Bruce stifler

A large Pride flag has been removed from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, weeks after the Department of the Interior issued federal guidance on displaying “non-agency” flags in the National Park System. nyti.ms/4aqu6G4

People can and will argue about the cause of the droughts but they can't argue with the facts of the continued droughts in many places in Canada.
This has a dramatic effect on crop yields and livestock feed prices.
We have all seen the increases in beef prices.
This is the cause.
Farmers admit it.

Prediction: Trump will post something incredibly outrageous during the Super Bowl to make it all about him.

#SafeBet

The AI industry's plot to make people stupid, so it can rule. Thiel: "The basic idea was that we could never win an election...because we were in such a small minority." Enter Big Tech.

"“Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity” (Journal of Marketing, 13 Jan 2025).

"developers and corporations making inflated claims about jobs but leaving residents to deal with polluted land, water, or air, increased traffic and strained infrastructure, and higher costs for utilities and services. They’re done paying for... corporate welfare."

A list of companies to boycott: www.resistandunsubscribe.com.
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Can you read cursive? The National Archives needs volunteers with your 'superpower' “Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C.

Apparently the National Archives doesn’t realize that this is not just a case of being able to read cursive. This is 18th century cursive, which, I can tell you as someone who transcribes 18th century French cursive, will require more than an untrained volunteer.

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I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer.
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