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A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News AOC Slams Trump’s Lawyer Habba: She ‘Let The Mask Slip, About What They Actually Think About Us’

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YouTube video by Under Studio My Manager Be Like 💀 Funny Office Humor | Employee Animation Meme | Original Audio: Corporate Sween

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Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog were dead for some time, warrant shows Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies found Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and a dog dead when they performed a welfare check, a spokesperson said.

This is wild.
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YouTube video by Rap Philosophy Kendrick's Hidden Message in the Super Bowl Performance...

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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

LLMs are cold reading us. Next thing you know, they'll be communing with the dead.
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Indian consulate in Seattle rejects Kshama Sawant’s emergency visa Indian consulate in Seattle rejects Kshama Sawant's visa, grants it to husband

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Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

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Susu loves playing with ice cubes.

Travis Knight To Direct Animated Adaptation Of Susanna Clarke’s Bestseller ‘Piranesi’ For Laika A 'Piranesi' animated feature from director Travis Knight and his renowned Oregon studio Laika is in the works, the company announced Thursday.

Laika animation is doing Piranesi.
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Ryan Coogler's SINNERS: The Surprising Films, Personal History, and Culture That Inspired This Horror Film During a trailer preview event for Sinners, Ryan Coogler opened up about the films, books, and movies that inspired his new horror movie.

I have to remember to check this out.
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Robert Eggers' Labyrinth Sequel Is Officially Happening The busy Nosferatu filmmaker also just announced he's got a werewolf film in the works.

Fingers crossed it's a backdoor Piranesi adaptation. With muppets.

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Pedogenic processes and climatic conditions from Cretaceous (Albian) tropical paleosols of the Itapecuru Formation, Parnaíba Basin, northeast Brazil Paleosols are an under-utilized tool for paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction in Brazilian intracontinental basins. The Itapecuru Forma…

Part of the problem is that the studies are going to be localized to a particular formation, like this one on the Itapecuru formation.
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You need to look up paleopedology and pedogenesis.
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It really depends on the environment. Was it locallt eroding or depositing? There were a lot of river flood plains that left big soil deposits (newsroom.unl.edu/announce/snr...).
What you don't have until the end of the Cretaceous is grass. Grass can help form thick beds of topsoil.

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Bluesky is creating Flashes, a photo sharing app that could potentially replace Instagram nerdist.com/article/bluesky...

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The more you know

BREAKING: Debris seen over the Caribbean after SpaceX's Starship explodes during test flight

David Lynch, Cinematic Legend Behind Twin Peaks And Blue Velvet, Has Died At 78 David Lynch, the creator of Twin Peaks and director of films like Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, has died at the age of 78.

David Lynch, Cinematic Legend Behind Twin Peaks And Blue Velvet, Has Died At 78

Cults and mind viruses run rampant. Powerful algorithms hijack our minds. No wonder we all feel so deranged. They say my novels are surreal. But when I watch Elon Musk playing the jester in Donald Trump’s court, I’m not so sure. His latest novel is “Absolution.”

Written before the election. I have found that immersive reading is saving my mind right now. That means without my phone nearby to doom scroll, btw. Immersive reading does not work with constant distraction.

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