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If you hate ads in apps, you are so out of luck. Many make revenue for marketing by in-app purchases, and they're raking it in. app2top.com/news/in-the-...

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We thoroughly enjoyed Paul Stamets at Cal yesterday.

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Some will tell you there's no place for corporate values in a university, but they're wrong. The place for corporate values on campus is under the microscopes of scholars and scientists in the race for a cure.

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I had sworn off sci-fi comedies but I enjoyed The Electric State on Netflix.

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Now that AIs are captioning so many human utterances, I would like a term for an AI's mondegreen.

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Oh, Berkeley! How could you? "The Berkeley City Council will soon consider zoning changes that would allow 3 story, and possibly taller, 5-7 unit apartment buildings with no backyards on most lots in our neighborhoods. The City has not sent out notices about the change"!

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Once again I'm stuck in a hinterland transportation hub with no way back to the big city Throngs of laborers move through on rusted trucks and dilapidated busses and there's a train whistle in the distance but no one can tell me how to make the connection #dream

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After the fire in the great library the scholar set to diagramming the relationships between the missing books directly on the scorched wall The patterns emerged like crackled paint like starry skies and I ask him their significance but I am unable to comprehend his reply #dream

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While waking up from a dream I saw a painful situation from the past. But, it was in a bubble, floating by. It was the kind of thing I would have rehearsed again and again back when I was depressed. Now, I don't have to. That place still exists as a memory, but I have no need or use for that pain.

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Get to know this iconic image and its lifesaving meaning.

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The Sparrow ain't 100% high falutin literary sci-fi, no sir.

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We have the #hashtag to highlight a topic, especially one that's trending. Can we have a °hushtag to say enough already?

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Here's what I'm going to tell everybody who asks for feedback for an online purchase : "Please choose a random sample of customers to do your unpaid marketing work, or offer all of us some recompense for this waste of time."

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We may have eternity to chew over the EVIL of this administration, but meanwhile, there is suffering. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...

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Your assignment to fight brain rot: relate this concept to today's news regarding North American tariffs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-fl...

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I found this a surprisingly substantial and satisfying conversation between two of my childhood heroes link.tubi.tv/RrFTWAJXtRb

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Small businesses can grow old and die organically, or they can be murdered by eviction. RIP Annapurna Berkeley's iconic head shop Annapurna closes for good after 53 years www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/20/b...

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Musk asks GROK how to maximize savings and end corruption. GROK replies "Cut DOGE"

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How about this instead? "We must secure the existence of our planet and a future for all children"

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I like the way my world feels when I'm reading Walter Mosley.

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I'll meet you on the tidally locked, terrestrially unobservable, but brightly lit on its mensual cycle side of the moon.

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Caroline Casey makes an important point: " #SCROTUS 'so called ruler of the united states,' spiral on out there into the vernacular "

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My fearless Kiwi engineer partner totally fixed the busted dryer with this 'tube and a kit from Amazon! youtu.be/JqE6-Z8beqI?...

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#quipoftheday One person's transgressive ribaldry is another person's misogynous microaggression

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The CSU Chancellor: "The CSU welcomes and celebrates freedom of expression and diversity of thought among all of our community members." Read: "As long as you can't threaten or embarrass us, you can waste your breath until you go away."

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An interview with a friend and mentor, Jim Fleming, of Autonomedia and Semiotext(e) www.novembermag.com/content/jim-...

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Remembering Michael Harner, Rest in Power. www.shamanism.org/way-of-the-s...

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Getting stoned, middle to late years. In the initial minutes of feeling the intoxication, there were real moments of twilight, as the angry, fearful, busy, obsessing or controlling aspects of my mind were supplanted by another aspect, playful, curious, at home in the giddy space of coming on. 1/

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47 doesn't have to come after California higher education. The CSU is doing his work for him. "I feel like this tore the heart out of this campus. I feel like what we do here that’s so valuable is so compromised. 1/

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This Esalen intelligence test gave me a chuckle. "Special Discounts for Self-Guided Explorations" How much will you charge me if I just stay home?

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“For discipline is a channel in which our acts run strong and deep. Where there is no direction the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted.” –Sparrowhawk. The Farthest Shore, by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972.

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Words I heard on TV: Without facts there can be no truth. Without truth there can be no peace.

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Aww man. RIP David Lynch. So many great and weird works.

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Last book I finished in 2024: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611060...

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First book I've finished in 2025: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/neal...

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Give my pal a read. Erik Davis' Burning Shore. open.substack.com/pub/erikdavi...

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RIP My favorite peanut farmer. You were a thoroughly good American. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/u...

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Dental plaque, the final frontier: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

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A vision of Mt Tam from ten years ago. In the rain. I behold a magnificent cloudscape, a great mother of rain, who dwarfs the sacred mountain beneath her, peeking from her skirts like a child

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Pantone forfeits the right to name a color of the year! www.pantone.com/color-of-the...

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