so glad you're back!!!

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Franca Viola in the 1970s.

On 26 December 1965, Franca Viola, then aged 16, is kidnapped from her home in Alcamo. She is raped by her ex-fiancé, who then puts pressure on her and her family to accept a "rehabilitating marriage". Franca becomes the first woman in Italy to publicly refuse this practice [Thread] >> 1

26.12.2024 16:23 — 👍 133    🔁 46    💬 7    📌 8

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖
#Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

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Yogurt Pot Cake If there’s a family in Italy that doesn’t have a recipe for yogurt pot cake, then I’ve yet to meet them. And I love this plain cake with perhaps disproportionate intensity. There is something so quint...

#RecipeOfTheDay is Yogurt-Pot Cake. This is the Italian version, but it’s a staple of French kitchens as well. You use a little pot of plain yogurt and then measure the other ingredients in the same pot – though I do give weights, too! I do love a simple, plain cake. www.nigella.com/recipes/yogu...

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I love the "Damn, I really nailed that" expression at the end

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Same, wolf, same

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Generative AI exists because of the transformer The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation

Once more I am begging some of you with Opinions about generative AI to read this very good explainer on the underlying tech ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

25.02.2025 13:38 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 1

Some Maps of Los Angeles — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER As we try to understand the enormous disaster unfolding in Los Angeles, writer Michael Oates Palmer provides a lay of the land.

'I sometimes joke that flaky Los Angeles is built on a foundation of tentative plans, where appointments are as unstable as the ground beneath your feet.

But there has been nothing tentative about how Angelenos are already taking care of our own.'

24.01.2025 00:19 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1 How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.

Now is a great time to read WIRED magazine’s 2015 feature story, “The Untold Story of Silk Road.”

There were good reasons why Ross Ulbricht was serving a double life sentence.

www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...

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