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Special Guests: Ivan Marović and Slobodan Milić.

Special Guests: Ivan Marović and Slobodan Milić.

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• Gaslight (1944 film) - Wikipedia — Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury in her film debut. Adapted by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L. Balderston from Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light (1938), it follows a young woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is descending into insanity.
• Whistleblower testifies U.S. salvaged 'non-human biologics' from UFO crash sites : NPR — U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former intel official says
• Pentiment (video game) - Wikipedia — Pentiment is a narrative adventure role-playing video game played from a 2D perspective. The player takes control of Andreas Maler, a journeyman artist from Nuremberg who becomes embroiled in a series of murder mysteries in Upper Bavaria. The story is set in the fictional Alpine town of Tassing and the nearby Benedictine Kiersau Abbey during the 16th century, and takes place over the course of 25 years.

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• US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country | Ars Technica — Americans spend an exorbitant amount of money on health care and have for years. As a country, the US spends more on health care than any other high-income country in the world—on the basis of both per-person costs and a share of gross domestic product. Yet, you wouldn't know it from looking at major health metrics in years past; the US has relatively abysmal health. And, if anything, the COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the US health care system's failures relative to its peers, according to a new analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.
• U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022 | Commonwealth Fund — Health care spending, both per person and as a share of GDP, continues to be far higher in the United States than in other high-income countries. Yet the U.S. is the only country that doesn’t have universal health coverage.

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• A randomized controlled trial to isolate the effects of fasting and energy restriction on weight loss and metabolic health in lean adults | Science Translational Medicine — Intermittent fasting is increasingly popular, but whether fasting itself offers specific nutritional benefits in lean individuals compared to traditional daily calorie restriction is unknown. In a small clinical trial of healthy individuals, Templeman et al. found that alternate-day fasting without energy restriction was ineffective at reducing body mass. Even with net energy intake restricted to that of daily dieters, alternate-day fasting less effectively reduced body fat content and offered no additional short-term improvements in metabolic or cardiovascular health compared to daily energy restriction.
• A Pattern Language - Wikipedia — A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability.

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• Centennial Park (Nashville) - Wikipedia — Centennial Park is a large urban park located approximately two miles (three km) west of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, across West End Avenue (U.S. Highway 70S) from the campus of Vanderbilt University.
• Parthenon (Nashville) - Wikipedia — The Parthenon in Centennial Park, in Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. It was designed by architect William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
• Grand Ole Opry - Wikipedia — The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a division of Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.), it is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history.
• Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center - Wikipedia — Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, formerly known as Opryland Hotel, is a hotel and convention center located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is owned by Ryman Hospitality Properties (formerly known as Gaylord Entertainment Company), and operated by Marriott International. With 2,888 rooms, it is one of the 30 largest hotels in the world.
• Hot chicken - Wikipedia — Hot chicken (or Nashville hot chicken) is a type of fried chicken that is a local specialty of Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. In its typical preparation, it is a portion of breast, thigh, or wing that has been marinated in a water-based blend of seasoning, floured, fried, and finally covered in a paste or sauce that has been spiced with cayenne pepper. This method of preparation originates within African American communities in the Southern United States. A richly pigmented seasoning paste gives the fried chicken its reddish hue. Spice blends, preparation methods, and heat intensity vary from recipe to recipe or depending on the chef.
• Broadway (Nashville, Tennessee) - Wikipedia — Broadway is a major thoroughfare in the downtown area in Nashville, Tennessee. It includes Lower Broadway, an entertainment district renowned for honky tonks and live country music.

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• The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream: Cowen, Tyler: 9781250108692: Amazon.com: Books — Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist and best selling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition―we’re working harder than ever to avoid change. We're moving residences less, marrying people more like ourselves and choosing our music and our mates based on algorithms that wall us off from anything that might be too new or too different. Match.com matches us in love. Spotify and Pandora match us in music. Facebook matches us to just about everything else.

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• My Bibliography - NCBI — Milos Miljkovic's Bibliography
• Texas sharpshooter fallacy - Wikipedia — The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is committed when differences in data are ignored, but similarities are overemphasized. From this reasoning, a false conclusion is inferred.

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• Anas Younes, M.D. on Twitter — Thrilled to announce that Dr Nina Shah (@ninashah33) will be joining our hematology R&D team as the Global Head of Multiple Myeloma Clinical Development and Strategy.
• Physician-scientist - Wikipedia — A physician-scientist is traditionally a holder of a medical degree and a doctor of philosophy also known as an MD-PhD. Compared to other clinicians, physician-scientists invest significant time and professional effort in scientific research and spend correspondingly less time in direct clinical practice with ratios of research to clinical time ranging from 50/50 to 80/20.
• Clinical investigator - Wikipedia — A clinical investigator involved in a clinical trial is responsible for ensuring that an investigation is conducted according to the signed investigator statement, the investigational plan, and applicable regulations; for protecting the rights, safety, and welfare of subjects under the investigator's care; and for the control of drugs under investigation.
• Academic ranks in the United States - Wikipedia — Academic ranks in the United States are the titles, relative importance and power of professors, researchers, and administrative personnel held in academia.

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• Sputnik crisis - Wikipedia — The Sputnik crisis was a period of public fear and anxiety in Western nations about the perceived technological gap between the United States and Soviet Union caused by the Soviets' launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite.
• Military–industrial complex - Wikipedia — The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.
• Eisenhower's farewell address - Wikipedia — Eisenhower's farewell address (sometimes referred to as "Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation") was the final public speech of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the 34th President of the United States, delivered in a television broadcast on January 17, 1961. Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military–industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science-based public policy by what he called a "scientific-technological elite".

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• Priključenija 44: Mask — Da li je Elon Mask ho(h)štapler ili vizionar? Koje su prednosti i mane eksponiranog CEO-a? Ima li nečega dobrog među Maskovim projektima?
• Priključenija 28: Tviter
• 420 (cannabis culture) - Wikipedia — 420, 4:20, or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is cannabis culture slang for marijuana and hashish consumption, especially smoking around the time 4:20 p.m., and also refers to cannabis-oriented celebrations that take place annually on April 20 (which is 4/20 in U.S. form). At locations in the United States where cannabis is legal, cannabis dispensaries will often offer discounts on their products on April 20.
• Priključenija 59: Generacija — ✓ Zašto plaćati sportistima za osvojenu olimpijsku medalju? ✓ Ko može da priušti sebi Roleks? ✓ U čijem dvorištu raste drvo sa parama?
• What Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and Others Are Learning From Curtis Yarvin and the New Right | Vanity Fair — They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.
• Curtis Yarvin, Political Theorist - Tablet Magazine — How computer programmer Curtis Yarvin became America’s most controversial political theorist
• Jeff Bezos on Twitter: "Interesting question. Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?" / Twitter — Apropos of something: -Tesla's second-biggest market in 2021 was China (after the US) -Chinese battery makers are major suppliers for Tesla's EVs. -After 2009, when China banned Twitter, the government there had almost no leverage over the platform -That may have just changed
• Jeff Bezos on Twitter: "Agree — this is a fascinating piece — no one drawn as a cartoon. Thanks for the link and reco." / Twitter — This Vanity Fair article on the "New Right" by @jhensonpogue is so conspicuously different because he does something so rare for modern journalism: he wrote about controversial thought/people to understand and explain it, not prove he's on the Good Side:
• Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue: Holiday, Ryan: 9780735217645: Books - Amazon — In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--it had been masterminded by Thiel.
• A look at Jeff Bezos' D.C. Estate - Daily Beat — Bezos paid $23 million for the 27,000-square-foot mansion at 2320-2330 S Street NW in 2016. Neighbors in the upscale Kalorama neighborhood include President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump also right around the corner. Bezos’s home was formerly the Textile Museum. He immediately undertook a $12 million renovation, which turned the mansion into an estate.
• Peter Thiel Buys $13 Million DC Mansion in Year's Top Sale: Report — No longer an open secret among neighbors, Peter Thiel was revealed as the "mystery buyer" of a $13 million mansion in Washington, D.C. in Monday's edition of Politico Playbook. Thiel, a tech billionaire and the co-founder of PayPal, made the district's biggest home purchase of the last 12 months by using an LLC to buy it from Wilbur Ross, the former Trump commerce secretary, according to Politico. The lavish home is located in Washington's ritzy Woodland-Nofmanstone neighborhood. Notable residents include former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, who lives just across the street from Thiel's new property, according to Playbook.

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• Florida Man | Know Your Meme — Florida Man is a Twitter feed that curates news headline descriptions of bizarre domestic incidents involving a male subject residing in the state of Florida.[6][7] The tweets are meant to be humorously read as if they were perpetrated by a single individual dubbed “the world’s worst superhero.” In March 2019, a "Florida Man Challenge" game began trending across various social media platforms, in which participants shared news headlines taken from search queries for "Florida Man" followed by their birthday.
• Why Are There ‘Florida Man’ Stories? Sunshine Laws, Explained | Crime News — The most important reason Florida residents land in the headlines has to do with the state’s Sunshine Law, which makes official records related to state governing agencies accessible to the public. Florida’s position is that the government is a public business, and its leaders have stuck to that belief with this law.
• Yishan on Twitter — I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out)
• Back to the Future of Twitter – Stratechery by Ben Thompson — Indeed, when you consider the fact that Twitter’s board members not only don’t own much of Twitter, but famously, barely use Twitter at all, it is easy to wonder if the actual goal is not financial results but rather harnessing that immense cultural impact. This suspicion only intensifies when you consider that the bidder in this case is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time: if there was one person in the world who could realize Twitter’s latent value, wouldn’t Musk be at the top of the list? And yet he is anathema, not for his business acumen, but despite it.
• Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid - The Atlantic — Babel is a metaphor for what some forms of social media have done to nearly all of the groups and institutions most important to the country’s future—and to us as a people. How did this happen? And what does it portend for American life?
• Libs of TikTok has become central to right wing politics - The Washington Post — A popular Twitter account has morphed into a social media phenomenon, spreading anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and shaping public discourse
• Taylor Lorenz blasted for 'doxxing' 'Libs of TikTok' creator — Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post’s internet culture beat reporter, is being accused of “doxxing” the anonymous woman who operates the popular Twitter account “Libs of TikTok.”
• Alex From Target / #AlexFromTarget | Know Your Meme — Alex From Target is a nickname given to American teenage cashier Alex Christopher LaBeouf who rose to global viral fame on Twitter for his apparent charming look after an anonymous customer tweeted a picture of him scanning and bagging items at a Target retail store in Texas. Since entering circulation in early November 2014, the hashtag #AlexFromTarget quickly became a worldwide trending topic and went on to inspire several novelty accounts and fan art image macros on Instagram and Tumblr.
• Alex From Target: Teenager who went viral for his good looks is now receiving death threats | The Independent | The Independent — Alex Christopher LeBeouf, the 16-year-old boy better known as Alex From Target, has been receiving death threats since becoming an internet meme. In an interview with the New York Times, Alex, from Frisco, Texas, has said that since his photo went viral on 2 November, he has received death threats on social media and in private messages. One reads: “Alex from target, I’ll find you and I will kill you”.
• Powerball: How Winning the Lottery Makes You Miserable | Time — If you win the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot, you may not be as lucky as you may think. Many winners befall the so-called curse of the lottery, with some squandering their fortunes and others meeting tragic ends.
• The internet is flat. - by Charlie Warzel - Galaxy Brain — I’ve been thinking about a different internet flattening, namely the way that social platforms collapse time and space and context into one big pancake of conflict. [...] It’s called context collapse, which is when a piece of information intended for one audience finds its way to another — usually an uncharitable one — which then reads said information in the worst possible faith.
• Republicans are overreaching in the culture war | Financial Times — A winning conservatism is one that rolls its eyes at the cultural left and asks the average voter to “get a load of this”. Once it crosses the line into its own kind of zealotry, it shouldn’t assume that people will come along.
• Mark Meechan - Count Dankula
• Bean Dad | Know Your Meme — Bean Dad refers to musician and podcaster John Roderick who on January 2nd, 2021, tweeted a lengthy thread telling the story of when his 9-year-old daughter asked him to open a can of beans but he insisted she figure out how to open it herself using a can opener. Six hours after she first made the request, she figured out how to use the can opener and opened it. While Roderick tweeted the story as though it were a proud parenting moment, many criticized the story for teaching poor lessons to the daughter with some going so far as to call it abuse and others made jokes about the story.
• Ben Thompson (@benthompson) / Twitter — Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @ditheringfm @exponentfm. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.
• Slaviša Tasić (@trzisnoresenje) / Twitter — Profesor ekonomije. Autor akademskih radova, knjiga i mnogo tekstova. Najnovije čitajte na https://tasic.substack.com
• Love in the Time of COVID. Socratic Spirit as the Imperative on… | by C.J. Mastropietro | Apr, 2022 | Medium — Jung and Nietzsche were among those who made this point most perspicuously: when society is overtaken by instincts that blur the lines between what is happening inside and outside of us, when it no longer has access to reflective symbols that allow it to know itself, when it is seized by forces it does not understand, those forces may in turn threaten to seize the world and engulf it. This gives rise to totalitarian impulses, the desire to use monologic declarations — like law — to close a fist around the world. When this happens, we lose the dialogic form of participation, the ability to reason which is so essential to spirit, the ability to bring consciousness, to know by being in the right kind of relation to what is known.
• Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts | AMA — Designed for physicians and other health care professionals, the Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts provides guidance and promotes a deeper understanding of equity-focused, person-first language and why it matters.
• Upton Sinclair - Quote — "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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• Pierre Charles L'Enfant - Wikipedia — Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant (French: [pjɛʁ ʃɑʁl lɑ̃fɑ̃]; August 2, 1754 – June 14, 1825) was a French-American military engineer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C. (capital city of the United States) known today as the L'Enfant Plan (1791)
• The 7 Ugliest Government Buildings In Washington, D.C. — Unfortunately for us, in the '60s and '70s, the federal government only hired architects with early onset glaucoma.
• L'Enfant Plaza - Wikipedia — L'Enfant Plaza is a complex of four commercial buildings grouped around a large plaza in the Southwest section of Washington, D.C., United States. Immediately below the plaza and the buildings is the "La Promenade" shopping mall.
• Schismogenesis - Wikipedia — Schismogenesis literally means "creation of division". The term derives from the Greek words σχίσμα skhisma "cleft" (borrowed into English as schism, "division into opposing factions"), and γένεσις genesis "generation, creation" (deriving in turn from gignesthai "be born or produced, creation, a coming into being").
• Carl Sagan - Wikipedia — Carl Edward Sagan (/ˈseɪɡən/; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation.
• Ann Druyan - Wikipedia — Ann Druyan (/ˈdriːæn/ DREE-ann;[1] born June 13, 1949) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American documentary producer and director specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981.
• The Demon-Haunted World - Wikipedia — The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan and co-authored by Ann Druyan, in which the authors aim to explain the scientific method to laypeople and to encourage people to learn critical and skeptical thinking.
• Priključenija 72: Šizma

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• Charlottesville, Virginia - Wikipedia — Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• Monticello - Wikipedia — Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, who began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at age 26. Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region, the plantation was originally 5,000 acres (20 km2), with Jefferson using the labor of enslaved African people for extensive cultivation of tobacco and mixed crops, later shifting from tobacco cultivation to wheat in response to changing markets. Due to its architectural and historic significance, the property has been designated a National Historic Landmark. In 1987, Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson, were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The current nickel, a United States coin, features a depiction of Monticello on its reverse side.
• Downtown Mall - Wikipedia — The Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia is one of the longest pedestrian malls in the United States. Located on Main Street, it runs from 6th St. N.E. to Old Preston Ave., where it extends to Water St., for total length of eight blocks. It is laid with brick and concrete, and home to an array of restaurants, shops, offices and art galleries.
• Pavilion information | Ting Pavilion — Located on the east end of the historic downtown mall, Ting Pavilion is the city's premier outdoor venue for live performances.
• Charlottesville Hotels | Omni Charlottesville Hotel — A seven-story atrium and a cool garden setting set the stage for relaxing or dining, while the hotel’s décor hints at the rich history of Virginia. Add to this modern amenities and wonderful creature comforts, and Omni Charlottesville Hotel is the perfect home away from home.
• Горан Весић on Twitter — Да би пијаце могле да издрже конкуренцију супермаркета, оне не могу бити само место где се купује воће и поврће То су данас места где се може попити кафа, купити сувенир итд., а да притом остану оно што су одувек биле - места окупљања свих грађана Палилуска пијаца некад и сад!
• Palilulska pijaca - Beogradski izlet — Kada poželite da i upoznate grad iz prve ruke i čujete šta građana misle o različitim temama, ali i da osetite pravi duh grada umesto da odete na neko izletište, preporučujemo da posetite popularne beogradske pijace. Kao i u svakom gradu sveta, pijaca je mesto gde se susreću članovi porodičnih gazdinstava iz prigradskih opština ili gradova Srbije, preprodavci i kupci iz svih staleža. Ali umesto tradicionalnih pijaca, odnosno trgova pijaca, koje su obično na otvorenom, kakva je i palilulska pijaca bila pre rekonsturkcije, danas na mestu stare stoji jedan savremen objekat koji više liči na modernu galeriju ili šoping centar nego na pijacu. Nekima liči na svemirski brod, drugima na Titanik, a nekima pak na parče torte, ali svejedno nikoga izgled ne ostavlja ravnodušnim.
• Priključenija 36 — Beton
• The Power Broker - Wikipedia — The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses' use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served. It has been repeatedly named one of the best biographies of the 20th century, and has been highly influential on city planners and politicians throughout the United States. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974.

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• Orchestras Pull Tchaikovsky From Concerts Over Russia's War on Ukraine — Several orchestras have recently announced changes to their concert programs, removing the legendary Romantic-era composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky from their lineups amid the Russian war on Ukraine.
• Exodus: western companies abandon Russia — As the fighting continues in Ukraine, western firms are hastily rethinking their business in Russia.
• Cargill to ‘scale back’ in Russia but continue food operations — Cargill, the leading global agricultural trader, said it would stay in Russia and continue food operations, although it would scale back its business activities and it had stopped investments.

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• Scripting News: The iPhone 13 epilog — As I reported yesterday, the iPhone 13 Pro arrived yesterday. So the embarrassing saga is over. Now I want to clean up, by finishing the story.
• Daring Fireball: The New Siri Remote (and Updated Apple TV 4K) — The new aluminum Siri Remote that ships with the new 2nd generation Apple TV 4K looks, feels, and acts like the black Siri Remote never happened. I mean, just look at the three of them: the new aluminum Siri Remote looks like the direct successor to the 2012 Apple Remote. Hallelujah.
• Hypercritical: An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec — I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations. Here, then, is a simple specification for a streaming video app. Follow it, and your app will be well on its way to not sucking.
• Rogue Amoeba | More Info On Rogue Amoeba — Rogue Amoeba is a privately held software company, based in the USA with offices around the globe. Since 2002, we've been making tools to assist you with all your audio needs on MacOS. In that time, we've delighted millions of users and earned some of the highest honors in the industry.
• What Is the Dark UX? — Self-interested brands use tricky web design tactics designed to deceive website viewers for their own gain. These tactics are called dark UX or dark patterns
• darkpatterns.org on Twitter: "How Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract. Thread." / Twitter
• Old Friends. New Fun (Facebook / Meta - Superbowl reklama)
• Ubik - Wikipedia — Ubik (/ˈjuːbɪk/ YOO-bik) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. It follows Joe Chip, a technician at a psychic agency who, after an assassination attempt, begins to experience strange alterations in reality that can be temporarily reversed by a mysterious store-bought substance called Ubik.
• Four kinds of knowing: John Vervaeke and a more grounded way to grow - YouTube — Sazetak novih pogleda na vrste znanja / mudrosti - metafizika uklopljena u nova znanja iz neuronauka. Vise u odlicnoj seriji John Vervaeke-a (psiholog sa Univ u Torontu): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY

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• Caleb From West Elm Took Over TikTok But He Wasn't As Bad As Claimed

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• Sigalert — Central LA Traffic Report
• Every Californians Ever (Part 1 of 2) - YouTube — Watch the drama and driving directions unfold in every Californians ever aired on Saturday Night Live.
• Irvine, California - Wikipedia — Irvine (/ˈɜːrvaɪn/) is a master-planned city in Orange County, California, United States in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
• GOLDEN ROAD BREWING — Yelp — Located next to the Golden Road brewery and the Barrel Room, the Golden Road Pub serves fresh, local food with many vegan and gluten free options. Our beer selection offers a wide selection of our beers which are brewed just 550 feet away from the pub, as well as guest beers, cider, wine and sangria.
• Tracking San Francisco’s drug overdose epidemic — San Francisco is grappling with an increasingly deadly drug overdose epidemic. In recent years, that epidemic has been driven largely by the proliferation of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The Chronicle is tracking accidental drug overdose deaths in the city and related trends to shed light on the crisis.
• Sam Quinones on Meth, Fentanyl, and the Least of Us - Econlib — Author and journalist Sam Quinones talks about his book, The Least of Us, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Quinones focuses on the devastation caused by methamphetamine and fentanyl, the latest evolution of innovation in the supply of mind-altering drugs in the United States.
• Magic Bullet (appliance) - Wikipedia — The Magic Bullet is a compact blender sold by Homeland Housewares, a division of the American company Alchemy Worldwide, and sold in over 50 countries.
• A New, Cheaper Form of Meth Is Wreaking Havoc on America - The Atlantic — Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem.

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• Coca-Cola® with Coffee Dark Blend | Coca-Cola® — Great Coca-Cola® taste infused with Brazilian coffee in Coca-Cola® with Coffee Dark Blend.
• Apple Events - October 2021 - Apple
• The Metaverse and How We'll Build It Together -- Connect 2021 - YouTube — This year at Connect, we're sharing our vision for the metaverse.
• The 2021 Microsoft Windows Event - YouTube — See what's next for Windows.
• Microsoft Ignite 2021 - YouTube — Join CEO and Chairman, Satya Nadella on the virtual stage at Microsoft Ignite on November 2, 2021.​
• Bill Gates Jumps Over Chair - YouTube — Bill Gates demonstrates his chair jumping skills in front of Connie Chung.
• Steve Ballmer Runs Around Like A Maniac On Stage (Motivational Presentation) - YouTube — Steve Ballmer is worth $16 Billion.
• Glenn Youngkin wins Virginia governor race; Terry McAuliffe concedes : NPR — Youngkin's victory could be a template for other Republicans. The former private equity CEO and first-time candidate drew raucous crowds in the closing stages of the race by channeling conservative outrage over public education. Many supporters said they were enthusiastic about his defense of parents who are concerned about the way race is taught in school, as well as new protections for transgender students passed by the Virginia legislature.
• Koreni wokisma - by Slaviša Tasić - Tržišno rešenje — Razvoj wokisma odvija se iz nedelje u nedelju pred našim očima. Ne isključujem da ću menjati mišljenje o njegovim korenima, uzrocima i posledicama, jer pravih materijala i tumačenja će tek biti. Sigurno je, u svakom slučaju, da se ovde radi o veoma starim idejnim strujama koje sada vidimo u jednoj savremenoj i radikalnoj manifestaciji. Zato nisam spreman da otpišem wokism kao privremenu i prolaznu budalaštinu.
• The Woke Meritocracy - Tablet Magazine — What is new about education’s turn to woke identity politics is not the fact that administrators and faculty are influencing students’ sense of self, but rather the sort of values that the new ideal personality is supposed to uphold. The contemporary ideal, increasingly, is no longer someone so charmingly personable that others forget he is in fact a ruthless competitor, but a person who so convincingly narrates her having overcome some kind of social injustice that others forget she is in fact a beneficiary of systems of privilege.
• Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism | The Economist — A bullshit job is one that even the person doing it secretly believes need not, or should not, exist. That if the job, or even the whole industry, were to vanish, either it would make no difference to anyone, or the world might even be a slightly better place.

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• McMansions 101 Special Edition: Mansion vs... | McMansion Hell — I get a lot of emails these days, (a good thing!) and a lot of them involve people sending me links to houses (or pictures of their own) asking me whether or not the house in question is or is not a McMansion. This post aims to explain the important differences between the two.
• McMansion - Wikipedia — In suburban communities, McMansion is a pejorative term for a large "mass-produced" dwelling marketed to the upper middle class mainly in the United States.
• Crown New Home Communities | Gaithersburg, Maryland Homes | Pulte — Already 87% sold out! New, 4-level townhomes with lofts and rooftop terraces in Gaithersburg, MD, from the mid $600Ks. Spacious, two-level condos from the low $500Ks. These new homes for sale are footsteps from restaurants, shops, Harris Teeter, the amenity center, LA Fitness, outdoor festivals & exciting nightlife in Downtown Crown. Life here is inspiring, connected, & full of energy.
• 453 Salk Cir, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 | MLS #MDMC743238 | Zillow — Wormald Homes coveted Estate Home model presents living on a grand scale with soaring ceilings, oversized rooms and a fluid transition between indoor & outdoor living with screened porch, deck, terrace and recently completed hardscape with fireplace, all overlooking tranquil water.
• NIMBY - Wikipedia — NIMBY, an acronym for the phrase "not in my back yard", or Nimby, is a characterization of opposition by residents to proposed developments in their local area, as well as support for strict land use regulations. It carries the connotation that such residents are only opposing the development because it is close to them and that they would tolerate or support it if it were built farther away. The residents are often called Nimbys, and their viewpoint is called Nimbyism.
• YIMBY - Wikipedia — YIMBY is an acronym for "yes, in my back yard", a pro-housing movement in contrast and opposition to the NIMBY ("not in my back yard") phenomenon. The YIMBY position supports increasing the supply of housing within cities where housing costs have escalated to unaffordable levels. YIMBYs often seek rezoning that would allow denser housing to be produced or the repurposing of obsolete buildings, such as malls (shopping centers), into housing. Some YIMBYs have also supported public-interest projects like clean energy or alternative transport.
• Decal - Wikipedia — A decal (/ˈdiːkæl/, US also /dɪˈkæl/, CAN /ˈdɛkəl/) or transfer is a plastic, cloth, paper, or ceramic substrate that has printed on it a pattern or image that can be moved to another surface upon contact, usually with the aid of heat or water. The word is short for decalcomania, which is the English version of the French word décalcomanie.
• Whither Tartaria? - Astral Codex Ten — Imagine a postapocalyptic world. Beside the ruined buildings of our own civilization - St. Peter’s Basilica, the Taj Mahal, those really great Art Deco skyscrapers - dwell savages in mud huts. The savages see the buildings every day, but they never compose legends about how they were built by the gods in a lost golden age. No, they say they themselves could totally build things just as good or better. They just choose to build mud huts instead, because they’re more stylish.
• Highlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture - Astral Codex Ten — How come we don’t have architects saying “Of course I’d like to build something ornate, but it costs too much”? How come we don’t have rich people (and the occasional cash-flush government working on a monument that it really cares about) saying “screw the price, I really want this one thing to look nice”? I feel like I’m doing some kind of weird archaeology here to try to discover why this happens, whereas every single person in architecture and construction and so on should know whether or not this is true.
• YIMBY Poland 🇵🇱🥟 on Twitter: "It's Saturday, so it's time for a thread 🧵 on another Polish urban phenomena - *pasteloza*! If you have ever been to Poland and some other Eastern Bloc countries, perhaps you've noticed that the socialist-era housing estates in Poland tend to be more... colorful. But why? https://t.co/es0pJfwxgB" / Twitter — It's Saturday, so it's time for a thread 🧵 on another Polish urban phenomena - *pasteloza*! If you have ever been to Poland and some other Eastern Bloc countries, perhaps you've noticed that the socialist-era housing estates in Poland tend to be more... colorful. But why?
• Inside Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's 'horrifying' mansion — A bleak scene graces the March cover of Architectural Digest magazine showing a curved staircase against a backdrop of neutral tones and a table with nary a fake fruit atop it.
• Burt Reynolds regrets naked 1972 Cosmopolitan centerfold photo | Daily Mail Online — Burt Reynolds became the first man to pose naked for a magazine when he shot a centerfold for girls mag Cosmopolitan, but it's something he now says he wishes he hadn't done.
• Kumail Nanjiani: See Photos Of His Transformation For Marvel Movie – Hollywood Life — While Kumail was always a good looking comic and actor, he debuted his six-pack and Chris Pratt–like transformation for the MCU in 2019, when he took to his Instagram to show-off his muscular new physique. The Stuber star joked about showing off his new body at the time. “I never thought I’d be one of those people who would post a thirsty shirtless, but I’ve worked way too hard for way too long so here we are,” he wrote in the caption.

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• Drummer: About Drummer — Drummer is a multi-tab outliner that runs as a web app and as a Mac desktop app.
• ∞ regress — Half-baked notes and links c/o Miloš Miljković
• Outliner - Wikipedia — An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure, for organization.
• Outlining Software For Pros - OmniOutliner - The Omni Group — OmniOutliner is a powerful tool for organizing (and reorganizing) information, so you can see the full picture and structure your information effortlessly.
• Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. — As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.
• Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes — Tinderbox helps you visualize, analyze, and share your ideas.
• List of concept- and mind-mapping software - Wikipedia — Concept mapping and mind mapping software is used to create diagrams of relationships between concepts, ideas, or other pieces of information.
• Cartesian Therapeutics Strengthens Leadership Team With Hire of Miloš Miljković, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer — Cartesian Therapeutics, a fully integrated, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering RNA cell therapy in and beyond oncology, today announced the hire of Miloš Miljković, M.D., as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer.
• In Memoriam: Thomas A. Waldmann, M.D. (1930-2021) | Center for Cancer Research — The CCR community is profoundly saddened by the recent passing of Thomas A. Waldmann, M.D., Chief Emeritus of the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch and NIH Distinguished Investigator.
• Leo Szilard - Wikipedia — Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, pronounced [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear fission reactor in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb: Richard Rhodes: 9780671657192: Amazon.com: Books — The definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.
• BBC World Service - The Bomb — My grandad worked on the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima. Could another man - Leo Szilard - have stopped it?
• The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee | PopMatters — Julianne Duke, a former neighbor of the Franks’ in Amsterdam whose family had emigrated to the United States, remembers that her parents asked the Franks to join them: “Mrs. Frank wrote that she wanted to emigrate, but Mr. Frank saw no need to leave Holland. He trusted in man’s basic goodness, rather than focusing on the darker, irrational side of human nature.”
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death - YouTube — Patrick Henry's historic speech dramatized during the Golden Age of Hollywood. "Give me liberty or give me death..." rang out on March 23, 1775.
• The Next Experiments in Elitism — Now, while a notion of elite is stable, there is what Vilfredo Pareto called circulation of elites. He traced how two kinds of elites, which he called lions and foxes based on earlier terminology from Machiavelli, tend to simply take turns being the elites. Foxes rule by the power of the pen, lions through the power of the sword.
• Twilight Struggle - Wikipedia — Twilight Struggle: The Cold War, 1945–1989 is a board game for two players, published by GMT Games in 2005. Players are the United States and Soviet Union contesting each other's influence on the world map by using cards that correspond to historical events
• Živojin Mišić - Wikipedia — Field Marshal Živojin Mišić GCLH, KCB, GCMG (Serbian: Живојин Мишић; 19 July 1855 in Struganik – 20 January 1921 in Belgrade) was a Field Marshal who participated in all of Serbia's wars from 1876 to 1918. He directly commanded the First Serbian army in the Battle of Kolubara and in breach of the Thessaloniki Front was the Chief of the Supreme Command.
• Nassim Taleb, Absorbing Barriers and House Money — Taleb: … absorbing barrier is a point that you reach beyond which you can’t continue. You stop. So, for example, if you die, that’s an absorbing barrier. So, most people don’t realize, as Warren Buffett keeps saying, he says in order to make money, you must first survive. It’s not like an option. It’s a condition. So, once you hit that point, you are done. You are finished. And that applies in the financial world of course to what we call ruin, financial ruin.
• Missed Warnings: The Fatal Flaws Which Doomed Challenger – — On 7 March 1986, six weeks after the loss of Challenger, divers from the U.S.S. Preserver found the remains of the ill-fated shuttle’s crew cabin. It “was disintegrated, with the heaviest fragmentation and crash damage on the left side,” read the Rogers Commission’s final report into the cause of the disaster.

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• D.C. is worst place for doctors to practice: WalletHub - Washington Times — The nation’s capital is the worst place for doctors to practice, according to a survey released Tuesday that looked at wages, the cost of malpractice and other factors that face a set of professionals who are highly paid and respected, yet reeling from student debt and an ever-shifting landscape.
• 2860 Woodland Dr NW, Washington, DC 20008 | MLS #DCDC506380 | Zillow — 2860 Woodland Drive NW is a noble 1927 stone manor that has been expertly renovated and meticulously refined into an unforgettable residence that dovetails comforting charm and sharp sophistication. The caliber of this home is outstanding and each handpicked detail and finish is superbly appreciated.
• Why You Can't Afford To Buy a House in New Zealand - InsideHook — Increased demand, a housing shortage and an almost COVID-free year have fueled an overheated real estate market

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• Pathologic 2 - Wikipedia — Pathologic 2 (Russian: Мор, tr. Mor, IPA: [mˈor], lit. 'Pestilence') is an adventure game by Ice-Pick Lodge and published by tinyBuild. Originally planned as a remake of the 2005 video game Pathologic, it has been set to be a complete reimagining of the original game. The game is planned to be released in three parts, each one dedicated to the story of one of the three main characters, the Haruspex, the Bachelor and the Changeling. The first part telling the story of the Haruspex was released 23 May 2019.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Wikipedia — The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open-world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in the Elder Scrolls series, following 2006's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.
• Journey (2012 video game) - Wikipedia — Journey is an indie adventure game co-developed by Thatgamecompany and Santa Monica Studio, published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and directed by Jenova Chen. It was released for the PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network in March 2012 and ported to PlayStation 4 in July 2015. It was later ported to Microsoft Windows in June 2019 and iOS in August 2019.
• Braid (video game) - Wikipedia — Braid is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Number None and considered an indie title. The game was originally released in August 2008 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. Ports were developed and released for Microsoft Windows in April 2009, Mac OS X in May 2009, PlayStation 3 in November 2009, and Linux in December 2010. Jonathan Blow designed the game as a personal critique of contemporary trends in video game development.
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Wikipedia — S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person-shooter games series with RPG and action-adventure elements, developed by GSC Game World, Ukraine. Game events take place in the alternative world`s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, present day.

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• Peter Thiel - Wikipedia — Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
• Zero to One - Wikipedia — Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters. It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
• Penzije i nagrade - by Slaviša Tasić - Tržišno rešenje — Nacionalne penzije uvela je vlada DSS-a i DS-a, nastavio SNS, niko drugi ko se bori za glasove ih ne pominje i ja mogu samo da zaključim da ideja ima veliku podršku u javnom mnjenju. A užasna je na nekoliko načina.
• We Can’t Go Back to a Golden Age of Capitalism — Q: One of the main ideas in your book has to do with how, if we narrow our focus on the super rich, we observe that the composition of capital and labor in that class has changed a great deal in the last thirty years. Can you explain that idea? A: It goes back to the concept of “homoplutia” that I mentioned earlier, where we have people at the top of the income distribution who are both rich in the sense of capital and labor income. This is a new development.
• U Trst po farmerke - CdM — Početkom 1960-ih počinje era šoping-putovanja u Trst i ona će potrajati sve do kraja 1980-ih. Pogranični grad, ekonomski slabo razvijen, pun ksenofobije i nacionalizma odjednom se pretvorio u mravinjak, prvu adresu zapada za stanovnike komunističke Jugoslavije.

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• Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia — The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States. The system extends throughout the contiguous United States and has routes in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.
• United States Numbered Highway System - Wikipedia — The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these highways were coordinated among the states, they are sometimes called Federal Highways, but the roadways were built and have always been maintained by state or local governments since their initial designation in 1926.
• CB radio in the United States - Wikipedia — CB radio is most frequently used by long-haul truck drivers for everything from relaying information regarding road conditions, the location of speed traps and other travel information, to basic socializing and friendly chatter. CB radio is also frequently used on larger farms for communication between machinery operators.
• The Atomic Trucker: How a Truck Driver "Rebuilt" the Atomic Bomb — A truck-driver with minimal college education, Coster-Mullen taught himself how to build the most detailed replica of an A-bomb ever made.
• Square, Inc. - Wikipedia — The Square Reader was the firm's first product. It accepts credit card payments by connecting to a mobile device's audio jack. The original version consisted of a simple read head directly wired to a 3.5 mm audio jack, through which unencrypted, analog card information was fed to smartphones for amplification and digitization.
• Stripe (company) - Wikipedia — Stripe provides APIs that web developers can use to integrate payment processing into their websites and mobile applications.
• OnlyFans - Wikipedia — OnlyFans is a content subscription service based in London. Content creators can earn money from users who subscribe to their content—the "fans". It allows content creators to receive funding directly from their fans on a monthly basis as well as one-time tips and the pay-per-view (PPV) feature. The website has 2 million content creators and 130 million users.
• Substack - Wikipedia — Substack is an online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers.

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• Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more - Mayo Clinic — Find out just how much of this stimulant is in coffee, tea, soda and energy drinks.
• Amazon.com: Nutricost Caffeine Pills 100mg Per Serving, 250 Capsules: Health & Personal Care — Looking for a supplement to power through your workouts or blast through more sets at the gym? Look no further than Nutricost's caffeine supplement.
• Alcohol Laws in the United States by State — In the United States of America, every state has the right to create its own laws with regards to the sale of beer, wine and liquor. If you travel, it can be hard to keep up with all of the—sometimes insane—rules. That's why we created this Guide to Alcohol Laws by State.
• Blonde beer Styles for intense moments | Duvel — Duvel is a natural beer with a subtle bitterness, a refined flavour and a distinctive hop character. The refermentation in the bottle and a long maturation, guarantees a pure character, delicate effervescence and a pleasant sweet taste of alcohol.
• HLA-B27 - Wikipedia — Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B27 (subtypes B*2701-2759) is a class I surface antigen encoded by the B locus in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6 and presents antigenic peptides (derived from self and non-self antigens) to T cells.
• Is citizenship just a rent? - Global Inequality and More — Citizenship as a fictitious commodity
• Air Quality Index — The Air Quality Index (AQI) is used for reporting daily air quality. It tells you how clean or polluted your air is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for you.

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• The Colonial pipeline ransomware cyberattack: How a major oil pipeline got held for ransom - Vox — A major oil pipeline is coming back online after a several-day outage resulting from a cyberattack that caused gas prices to surge and gas stations in multiple states to experience shortages. After nearly a week of being shut down, the Colonial Pipeline Company announced on May 12 that it was restarting pipeline operations and that the supply chain would “return to normal” within the next several days.
• Health care provider Universal Health Services hit with cyberattack — A nationwide cyberattack has crippled operations at Universal Health Services, one of the nation's largest health care providers. As a result, health care personnel reportedly began keeping records on paper as computer systems began failing over the weekend and some hospitals have sent incoming ambulances to other neighboring hospitals.
• Environmental Concerns Arise Over Energy Needed To Mine Bitcoin : NPR — In one upstate New York community, a Bitcoin mining operation is drawing criticism from people who say the natural gas burned to make the cryptocurrency is causing too much pollution.
• Bitcoin Security Model: Trust By Computation — Bitcoin is a distributed consensus network that maintains a secure and trusted distributed ledger through a process called “proof-of-work.” Bitcoin fundamentally inverts the trust mechanism of a distributed system. Traditionally, as we see in payment and banking systems, trust is achieved through access control, by carefully vetting participants and excluding bad actors. This method of trust requires encryption, firewalls, strong authentication and careful vetting. The network requires investing trust in those gaining access.

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• Cicada - Wikipedia — The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two families, Tettigarctidae, with two species in Australia, and Cicadidae, with more than 3,000 species described from around the world; many species remain undescribed.
• Brood X - Wikipedia — Brood X (Brood 10), the Great Eastern Brood, is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States. It has the greatest range and concentration of any of the 17-year cicadas.
• Tree Species | Casey Trees — Urban Hardy Trees of D.C.
• List of birds of the District of Columbia - Wikipedia — This list of birds of the District of Columbia contains 345 species. Of them, 62 are considered rare or accidental, two are extinct, and one has been extirpated. Four have been introduced to North America and another introduced to the eastern U.S.
• Silurian hypothesis - Wikipedia — The Silurian hypothesis is a thought experiment which assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps several million years ago. In a 2018 paper, Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, and Gavin Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, imagined an advanced civilization before humans and pondered whether it would "be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record". They wrote, "While we strongly doubt that any previous industrial civilization existed before our own, asking the question in a formal way that articulates explicitly what evidence for such a civilization might look like raises its own useful questions related both to astrobiology and to Anthropocene studies." The term "Silurian hypothesis" was inspired by the fictional species called the Silurians from the British television series Doctor Who.

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• Louis CK on What Kids Do To Parents - YouTube — Stand up comedy
• Digging Holes in Sand Can Be Dangerous — In the past decade, there have been reports of 31 fatalities and 21 nonfatal cases of people submerged in sand when the sand holes they were digging for fun collapsed in on them.

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• Da li je vakcinacija uspeh? - Tržišno rešenje
• Nassim Taleb: How to Not be a Sucker From the Past — History is useful for the thrill of knowing the past, and for the narrative (indeed), provided it remains a harmless narrative. One should learn under severe caution. History is certainly not a place to theorize or derive general knowledge, nor is it meant to help in the future, without some caution. We can get negative confirmation from history, which is invaluable, but we get plenty of illusions of knowledge along with it.
• Why some Texans are facing catastrophic electric bills after a winter storm - Vox — In Texas this week, freezing temperatures overwhelmed the state’s power grid, triggering rolling blackouts, multi-day power outages — and, catastrophic electric bills. According to the Dallas Morning News, some Texans have been hit with power bills totaling as much as $17,000 for only a few days of electricity, many times more than the usual cost of power in Texas. Specifically, it’s Texas residents who rely on a wholesale power plan, rather than a fixed-rate plan, who have seen their bills climb after the demand for power jumped dramatically across the state this week as Winter Storm Uri struck and temperatures plunged. Texas, which has a deregulated electricity market, has a number of providers, both wholesale and fixed rate.
• Tucker Carlson: The great Texas climate catastrophe is heading your way | Fox News — Green energy means a less reliable power grid. Why do our leaders deny that?
• Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster - Wikipedia — In 1967, when the plant was built, TEPCO levelled the sea coast to make it easier to bring in equipment. This put the new plant at 10 meters (33 ft) above sea level, rather than the original 30 meters (98 ft).[12] On 27 February 2012, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ordered TEPCO to report its reasoning for changing the piping layout for the emergency cooling system. The original plans separated the piping systems for two reactors in the isolation condenser from each other. However, the application for approval of the construction plan showed the two piping systems connected outside the reactor. The changes were not noted, in violation of regulations.[145] After the tsunami, the isolation condenser should have taken over the function of the cooling pumps, by condensing the steam from the pressure vessel into water to be used for cooling the reactor. However, the condenser did not function properly and TEPCO could not confirm whether a valve was opened.

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• Critical Thinking isn't Just a Process - Insight — One of the things I noticed throughout the past year has been that a lot of my friends who had grown up in authoritarian or poor countries had a much easier time adjusting to our new pandemic reality. My childhood was intermittently full of shortages of various things. We developed a corresponding reflex for stocking up on things when they were available, anticipating what might be gone soon. That was quite useful for the pandemic. So was trying to read between the lines of official statements—what was said and what was not, who was sitting with whom on the TV, and evaluating what the rumor networks brought in. It turns out those are really useful skills when authorities are lying at all levels.
• In defense of interesting writing on controversial topics - Slow Boring — But even more so, social media incentivizes the wrong kind of reading. Today you read someone from a rival school of thought in order to find the paragraph or sentence that, when pulled out of context and paired with a witty Twitter quip, will garner you lots of little hearts. I’m as guilty of doing this as anyone. A lot of very smart people have poured a lot of time and energy into making you want to collect those little hearts.
• Twitter acquires Revue email newsletter service - The Verge — Twitter is acquiring Revue, an email service that lets writers publish newsletters. The move allows Twitter to capitalize on its user base of writers, journalists, and publications that regularly use the service to reach readers and grow their audiences.
• Lindy effect - Wikipedia — The Lindy effect is a theory that the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things like a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age, so that every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy. Where the Lindy effect applies, mortality rate decreases with time.
• Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect | Loricism Wiki | Fandom — The Gell-Mann Effect, also called the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect describes the phenomenon of an expert believing news articles on topics outside of their field of expertise even after acknowledging that articles written in the same publication that are within the expert's field of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding.