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Found photo Do you remember curlers? I do—a kind of torture device from my youth that I used to tame my curly hair. The sort I used had brushes inside with plastic sticks to keep them on overnight. Perhaps they were the source of my teenage insomnia. Why anyone would want to have a picture of their hair in curlers? Was this perhaps taken to document an impromptu visit? Neither …

The Psychotronix Film Festival has been producing movie events in various venues since 1992 - and shall return to the Orinda Theatre at 2 Orinda Theatre Square (Moraga Way and Brookwood Road) with an improvised, sometimes ragtag, all over the map but highly entertaining lineup of films this Saturday night.These films include 1950's commercials and "educational" films, the most bizarre obscure classic cartoons, trailers from the worst movies, the campiest …

There are those who define as AGI (or ASI) as technology that will "outperform humans at most economically valuable work". Ok, but then this work will simply cease to be so economically valuable, and humans will mostly stop doing it. Humans will instead find new economically valuable work to do.This has happened repeatedly in the history of humanity. Imagine telling someone 1000 years ago that in the future, very few …

Gerald Lynch and the iMore Staff: Dig out your old iPod and fire up your ‘Songs to cry to’ playlist, I come bearing sad news. After more than 15 years covering everything Apple, it’s with a heavy heart I announce that we will no longer be publishing new content on iMore. Thats disappointing news, but not surprising as iMore will join AnandTech in the Future PLC graveyard. For me, iMore …

Henry Ford? G. K. Chesterton? Robert R. Updegraff? Charles Zueblin? Anonymous? One illuminated lightbulb in a group of lightbulbs from Pixabay Question for Quote Investigator: Thinking carefully and rigorously about an issue requires major effort. That helps to explain why shallow, lazy, and self-justifying thought is so common. Here is a pertinent quotation: Thinking is the hardest work many people ever have to do, and they don’t like to do …

If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective. Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make you believe your strategy is working while minimizing change to the status quo (if you’re an executive) or get your strategy repealed (if you’re not an executive). …

A polygonalization of a set of points in the plane is a non-self-crossing polygon using all the points as vertices. One way to prove that it always exists is to observe that the traveling salesperson tour is always a polygonalization, because any two crossed edges can be uncrossed in two different ways, one of which preserves the connectivity of the tour, and this cannot increase the tour length. So if …

Sophie Howe speaking at the high-level roundtable. Hours after UN Member States adopted the Pact for the Future and the Declaration on Future Generations on 22 September, SOIF convened global leaders, policymakers, UN representatives and civil society actors at a high-level roundtable. The event aimed to deliver key insights for the effective implementation of the Declaration contained in its flagship handbook, which focuses on action at the national, multilateral and …

One was at Subway. Call her Kelly, which may actually.have been her name. She was at least 15 years older than the rest of us. Raspy voice, smoked. Chatty, but fun, not annoying. Slightly broken teeth, like she’d seen some shit. Had this theory that if you buy a new car you have to take it on the highway and really gun it to “blow out the system” and thus …

Today is the day I became radicalized in my Jewish and Zionist identities. Uhhh, you thought that had already happened? Like maybe in the aftermath of October 7, or well before then? Hahahaha no. You haven’t seen nothin’ yet. See, a couple days ago, I was consoling myself on Facebook that, even as the arts and humanities and helping professions appeared to have fully descended into 1930s-style antisemitism, with “Zionists” …

I'm on a bit of a G.I. Joe: Classified Series review spree and today I'm checking out Carl "Doc" Greer, the original medic for the G.I. Joe team. Doc was a fairly prominent character in most of the various animated shows over the years and a memorable character in the original Marvel Comics run by Larry Hama. Doc's also often remembered for his death in Trucial Abysmia at the hands …

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Perfume PosseSpritz Week at Chez Portia Hiya Posse, I thought instead of a review this week I’d note the things I wore and what to. We are in Spring in ... Perfume PosseSpritz Week at Chez Portia