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Yet another intended downstream impact of the nihilist de-government vanguard.

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Pixels mere 90 nanometers across about size of a virus. There are 127,000 per sq. in. a new tiny LED. (Silver particles in black-and-white photographic emulsion are 200-2000 nanometers. Not same as grain.) Coming to a screen not in foreseeable, so to speak, future? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Greenland in meteorological news unrelated to annexation: “We demonstrate that the associated snowfall— up to 11.6 gigatons d−1—delayed summer melt onset by 11-days and offset Greenland's 2022 net mass loss by 8%.”

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Hitler and Porsche in a Volkswagen, Musk and Trump in a Tesla:

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The GOP is not a conservative movement. It's a far right authoritarian cult.

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Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov boasts that Trump's information comes straight from Putin after their 1 1/2 hour long phone call, as well as the preceding 3 1/2 hour long conversation between Putin and Trump's buddy Steve Witkoff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyeY...

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It's beautiful weather, and this tree looks like it's screaming

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All federal employees must respond to an email from a Nigerian prince with their bank account number or risk being terminated.

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“HAVE MORE BABIES ... Dictators Cry” Italian, German, Russian women urged to birth soldiers. Look, August 3 1937: “Patriotism Means Sons . . . Mussolini Tells Women” “Motherhood Urged for German Girls” ”How Stalin Pays For Russian Babies”

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Cancer vax to vex RFK, Jr. flagged by pharma industry org: “scientists at University of Oxford… plan to focus on ovarian cancer's most prevalent gene mutations… to investigate which proteins could be targeted for destruction if the disease begins to develop.” www.pharmavoice.com/news/cancer-...

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“a near-miss collision” is the opposite of “nearly collides” — maybe “near” and “nearly” are not in same semantic space at NBC News or in its AI text-generator; appears two jets missed each other and did not hit each other.

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Republican Congressman McCormick already replaced by off-the-shelf AI? Shown here trolling him by putting “duplicitous” in his talking point.

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Author of this analysis of DOGE targets continues in comments for a very fact-based thread. Highly recommended.

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[Sept 2, 1987 ads in New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post] “An open letter from Donald J. Trump on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves… The world is laughing at America's politicians… Let's not let our great country be laughed at anymore.”

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If there was ever a time for true anti-fascists to truly do their anti-fascism-ing, this would be it. Antifascists, arise!

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Trump ever fire anyone for telling him he was uninformed misinformed disinformed about anything? Or for not telling him he was?

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the Thanos scenario from Marvel films

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Thanos in tha’ house. Our national suicide is at full throttle. Putin pleased.

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“Our ways of seeing are not yet adequate to our predicament…Three days before Christmas, just after midnight… I looked out the window… I looked at a photograph I’d made that night… The photograph was intense, but it was intense like a photograph, not like a fire.” www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...?

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A ‘thread’ of sorts in the 4th floor stacks of Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, January 2 2025.

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“invited” where’d they tell their press release writing A.I. they’d sent their invitation to this semiconductive hydrogel not found in nature?

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www.chicagofilmarchives.org/preservation... Evidence of snow and vinyl in Chicago: “In 2023, Chicago Film Archives board member Larry Shulman funded the photochemical preservation of three short 8mm films of Chicago city scenes made circa 1940 by photographer and filmmaker Helen Balfour Morrison.”

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Anti-immigrant outrage is now dividing MAGA Land. Who to fear hate ban the most: nonwhite menial workers from Mexico and Central America, or nonwhite IT engineers from India?

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Pirating IP in 1852.

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“a global, systematic ex post evaluation… of 1500 climate policies implemented between 1998 and 2022 across 41 countries… We identified 63 successful policy interventions with total emission reductions between 0.6 billion and 1.8 billion metric tonnes CO2.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Bonus content: a truly unanticipated mention of “Serene Velocity” by Ernie Gehr, not that he is that mentioner in this not silent 3 1/2 minute montage of making recordings of room tone. www.criterion.com/current/post...

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Trump trying to impress Putin as a land grabber?

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Trump’s sword-rattling per Panama and then came across this on front page of The Chicago Daily Tribune, June 8 1897.

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“the recovery of minutiae as a category within philosophical, artistic, and scientific inquiry — how the tiniest, often disregarded things come to structure forms of knowledge and understanding.“ —author of Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance upress.virginia.edu/title/10027/

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Trump has named a 2020 election hoaxer as head of a Justice Department unit that polices elections. Democrats keep talking about a 2026 comeback, but Republicans keep acting like they’ll never accept another election loss.

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Indefinitely addressed demand. Who is demand made of? Any and all who read this poster on East 53rd Street? Unlike demands, prayers are directed at gods who do have powers to excise civic rot and to erect new and different systems on earth, for prayerful mortals who make no demands of their deities.

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December 8 2024 Promontory Point, Chicago [silent / GoPro and iPhone]

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“Oh Canada!” [!!] Who ever claimed Trump even enrolled in that geography course at Penn he nonetheless aced without attending?

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“‘It’s eye-opening just how incredibly resistant some of the bacteria coming out of Ukraine are. I haven’t seen anything like it,’ says Multidrug-Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network.” —Science Another gov med research thing RFK, Jr will defund? www.science.org/content/arti...?

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Gendered electric cars, 1911: "Some well meaning friends…tell us that electrics are bought mostly by ladies therefore only parlor prattle and pretty pictures are permissible… Better read this ad carefully so you will be able to discuss it intelligently when it becomes the topic among your friends."

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