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Robby Raschke
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mostly music appreciation, some programming stuff here and there, a bit of systems thinking
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easiest red sauce

1 48oz can crushed tomatoes
2tb olive oil
3 cloves minced garlic
1tsp salt
1/2tsp sugar

sauté garlic in oil until fragrant, 30 seconds
turn up heat to med high & add other ingredients, simmer for about 10 minutes stirring constantly until thickened

boom!
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Oatcakes:

Combine 100g blitzed oats,
3 Tbsp crushed seeds/nuts (like walnut, sunflower, sesame),
¼ tsp of salt,
2 Tbsp melted butter and
¼ cup warm water into a dough.

Let sit for 5 minutes, roll out, make shapes and
bake at 175°C (350°F) for 15-20 minutes depending on thickness.
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Checking the North Bridge suspension cables.
Or put a different way, is use of generative AI addictive?
I wonder if usage of generative AI might have a gambling aspect to it. Like if you have a few really easy wins with it, you end up shutting down critical thought and simply go on. In a similar way to how (non-professional) gamblers trick themselves into thinking the next one will bring the win.
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Underground, Overground

My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues.

This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.
I hear that Qobuz is pretty OK. I myself am rather fond of Bandcamp, which is not streaming per se and you won't find the big stars, but you can listen to most songs. What you buy, you can add to playlists in the app. The daily articles with integrated playlist can be super nice daily.bandcamp.com
Bandcamp Daily
Bandcamp Daily is your guide to the artists, fans and labels on Bandcamp.
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Incidentally, it's the second time in 4 weeks that a gig was made extremely substandard by bad lighting
Dear lighting engineers, do not ever level LED spotlights directly into people's eyes, it looks extremely shit and is super annoying. This, together with unexpected massive amounts of smoke totally ruined this gig for me
I'm already starting to be suspicious of anyone wearing wide rimmed glasses, never mind looking for a brand
If you are wearing Ray-Bans these days you’re going to get your fair share of side-eye in the street. And now that you can disable the recording light, I won’t talk to you if you’re wearing Ray-Bans. Great product — who doesn’t want more social alienation and distrust!
“I'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.”

Reader, they are for creeps.
Hang on, anyone know if puca may have inspired Frank from Donnie Darko? Getting that vibe from this
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.

It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
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All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 218 of The Continent

El Fasher has fallen — the last Darfuri city to resist the Rapid Support Forces. After a 500-day siege, the Sudanese army withdrew, leaving 250,000 civilians at the mercy of genocidal militias.

bit.ly/218_TC
Amazing how listening (after decades) transports me back to when I first saw the film back in the day. Shame they never finished the story by completing the second half. Remember it being a bit of a flop, mostly because it was sooo dark, and also because it was ahead of its time.
Currently playing: The Lord of the Rings (1978) Soundtrack

(Astonishingly, the LP does not credit any orchestra or musicians, weird.)
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Especially his ads in various languages have had me wondering if Berlin will ever have a (candidate for) mayor like Mamdani, who tries to speak to all parts of the city in so many different ways.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
Dunno about the one you're searching, but Bardo Pond with Agathe Max opening must've surely been you 😁 Would have been there had I been in London back then
Als Teens in den 80ern haben wir lautstark in Bus und Schule konkurriert wer am Wochenende am meisten gekotzt hat. Seh da keinen Unterschied zu heute, war schon immer so
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he's waiting for her to finish her meal
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I mention my great aunt Maggie, who has been covered in the press before - when she took the occasion of her 106th birthday to call out the Queen. As always, my auntie Patricia told her stories best, as in the tale of her son's trip to hospital when he was in his eighties.
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The news loves to scream, "New York subways have gone totally Cannibal Holocaust!," but anyone who's spent time in NY knows that, at their best, they are a mutant social marvel. I remember Hollywood Blvd Halloweens like this in the 80s. All that's gone, but the NY subways live on.
The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.
The idea that money is a direct measure of someone's moral standing is so deeply ingrained in people, it's wild. I've had deeply troubling conversations with friends, who react with complete bewilderment (bordering on violence) when this belief gets challenged.
My take on why these scams work, is because way too many people think that poor folks bring it onto themselves, thus not worthy of help. This leads bored people with spare money towards gambling, instead of being socially responsible and helping people.
Another set of workers threatened by AI: the captive 'pig butchers' in the scamming compounds of Asia and their $27 trillion industry. We still under report the extent of cybercrime and the suffering it causes www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...
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Reading @garius.bsky.social is always a supreme delight
In December 1941, Pan Am flight 18602 was trapped the wrong side of the Pacific by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

To get home, her civilian crew would need to do the near-impossible: circumnavigate the world in commercial seaplane.

In our new series, we tell tell their remarkable story.
The Long Way Round: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 1
In 1941, the Japanese attacked Hawaii, leaving Pan Am flight 18602 trapped the wrong side of Pearl Harbour, To get home, its civilian crew would have to do something incredible: circumnavigate the wor...
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