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Ross Thompson (50ᵗʰ anniversary edition)
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Also, maybe there's a fifth code no-one knew about? That's fun!
The 4th Kryptos code has been solved!

By finding a copy of the plantext in a library. This genuinely makes me happier than if it had actually been legitimately encrypted, because this is how a huge amount of modern spycraft works.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
How the CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Gave Up Its Final Secret
Uncovering the CIA’s Kryptos puzzle took three parts math and one part sleuthing
www.scientificamerican.com
Any chance of reposting Frasier vs Colombo some time?
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A great many of the (wonderful) stories about Ireland's (wonderful) UBI plan for artists tend to bury if not duck completely the hard cold fact that it was funded largely by Google's billion-euro settlement of tax-evasion charges.

TAX BILLIONAIRES
RUN THEM DOWN
LOOT THEM
IT WORKS
It would be more unsettling if he could leave is engineers to do their thing, but he's totally going to want to put his fingerprints on them, so they'll do more damage to each other than to the enemy.
The good news* is that Bezos can afford to run WaPo at a loss for a million years, if spreading propaganda is more important than running a business.

* Comedy!
“we’ve gutted our newspaper, chased off most of the talent, and turned our opinion page into a low rent WSJ clone

somehow this is not attracting new subscribers, better gut it some more”

what a disgrace
Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately told people The Post is in “severe financial distress.” Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...
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(this is also why Old Hamlet's ghost is not allowed to talk about his deal in HAMLET by the way - he LEGALLY CAN'T on a Protestant stage explain "the secrets of his prison house" bc he's in a state of Purgatory, which of course does not officially exist in Elizabethan England)
It had James Hong, so I wanted to see it, but then everything I heard was bad, so I didn't.
I've been in America for 20 years now, and I still think "frosted flakes" is way too fancy a name. Like, Tony The Tiger should be wearing a top hat and monocle.
A reminder that the median voter is to the left of establishment Democrats on almost every issue.

Gun rights, healthcare, abortion, immigration, taxes, you name it.
7 million of us cringe normies took part in 3,000 demonstrations against the Republican Party in every city in the country this weekend, if anything "moving to the center" means tacking left, which sort of gives the "centrist" game away doesn't it.
"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.
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7 million of us cringe normies took part in 3,000 demonstrations against the Republican Party in every city in the country this weekend, if anything "moving to the center" means tacking left, which sort of gives the "centrist" game away doesn't it.
"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.
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Not autistic (or at least never been diagnosed as such), but my wife has, more than once, asked me a question and seen the look on my face that says this'll take 10 minutes to explain and immediately decide she's not actually that interested.
I love when you ask an autistic person for something and they're like STAND BY and you know you're about to get the absolute best resources available.
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
There are a few podcasts I've listened to that tell a single narrative over a limited number of episodes (as opposed to eg @nightvaleradio.bsky.social's open-ended format) and it's just occurred to it that this is the 21st century equivalent of Sherlock Holmes being serialized in The Strand.
Archive 81 was pretty great, and I'm excited to see what these guys do next.
Creators of the critically acclaimed “Archive 81” release a new horror podcast, “Conversations with Ghosts.” https://podnews.net/press-release/conversations-with-ghosts
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This is legit no different than if he had the Lincoln statue removed from the Lincoln Memorial and replaced with one of himself.
It's perfectly reasonable for me to interpret "viewer discretion advised" as meaning they don't want me to talk about it, right?
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Anyone who doesn’t run on this is missing a trick.
Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
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I love this cartoon, I reckon it's pretty realistic of how it really happened ;)

chazhutton.com
Is the list of this advert "ok, you can't buy our curtain tape yet, but when you can it's going to be so great"?
Renée Zelweger is Gwynneth Paltrow and Logan Lerman is Sam Altman.
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I am kind of astonished at how muted the reaction has been so far in a country were people try to get, like, gas stations declared as historic landmarks. Can we at least get Mike Johnson on camera claiming he hasn’t seen these pictures? Or doesn’t know where or what the White House is?
My headcanon is that Christoph Waltz' character on the current season of Only Murders In The Building is based on this guy.
Roses are red,
AI is inaccurate,