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Parviz Tanavoli, The Poet and the Beloved of the King, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Parviz Tanavoli, The Poet and the Beloved of the King, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
Shout out to my guy reading The Birth Partner at the airport, ur a credit to ur gender
November 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Shout out to my guy reading The Birth Partner at the airport, ur a credit to ur gender
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God! God! God!—crack my heart!—stave my brain!—mockery! mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
God! God! God!—crack my heart!—stave my brain!—mockery! mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs
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Happy 89th Birthday Dick Cavett, thank you for making television that would absolutely never be made by a major broadcast network any more, like letting Orson Welles perform a 9 minute monologue on ABC
Orson Welles Performs A Monologue About Noah's Ark | The Dick Cavett Show
YouTube video by The Dick Cavett Show
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Happy 89th Birthday Dick Cavett, thank you for making television that would absolutely never be made by a major broadcast network any more, like letting Orson Welles perform a 9 minute monologue on ABC
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“The Brothers Karamazov” asks what we are living for, and it “seeks the answer in the little life, among the small people, in the frail, the fragile, the fallible, the failed,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. http://nyer.cm/za7cz5U
The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
Although Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote with wildness and urgency, he patiently insisted on asking an essential question: What are we living for?
nyer.cm
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“The Brothers Karamazov” asks what we are living for, and it “seeks the answer in the little life, among the small people, in the frail, the fragile, the fallible, the failed,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. http://nyer.cm/za7cz5U
Bret Stephens is here to tell us it’s all been worth it.
Opinion | Lessons From a Long War
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Bret Stephens is here to tell us it’s all been worth it.
Unstoppable force (the mathematical limits of GAI) meets immovable object (the human brain’s struggle to sustain probabilistic thinking)
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Unstoppable force (the mathematical limits of GAI) meets immovable object (the human brain’s struggle to sustain probabilistic thinking)
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Tfw u scream into the abyss and abyss screams back 〰️😱😱〰️ #whitegrunt #mouthoff #mouthfight #grunt #gruntfight #screamingintotheabyss #staghorn #acerventura #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
September 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Tfw u scream into the abyss and abyss screams back 〰️😱😱〰️ #whitegrunt #mouthoff #mouthfight #grunt #gruntfight #screamingintotheabyss #staghorn #acerventura #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
I read this chyron VERY quickly and thought it said “Longtime Fried Chicken”
In his closing remarks while hosting Charlie Kirk's show for the White House, Vance says "the most important truth Charlie told was" — and then recites Apostles' Creed.
Vance then spends several minutes railing against the left in a speech that, uh, I think is likely gonna get some attention.
Vance then spends several minutes railing against the left in a speech that, uh, I think is likely gonna get some attention.
September 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I read this chyron VERY quickly and thought it said “Longtime Fried Chicken”
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currently chasing them, go ahead and call the cops
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
currently chasing them, go ahead and call the cops
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In 1980, a 19-year-old Black man was sentenced to life in prison — despite the jury being split along racial lines.
“I knew that my voice would not matter,” said one of the only two Black jurors. “I cannot believe that Lloyd Gray is still in prison.”
“I knew that my voice would not matter,” said one of the only two Black jurors. “I cannot believe that Lloyd Gray is still in prison.”
An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.
Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured t...
www.propublica.org
August 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In 1980, a 19-year-old Black man was sentenced to life in prison — despite the jury being split along racial lines.
“I knew that my voice would not matter,” said one of the only two Black jurors. “I cannot believe that Lloyd Gray is still in prison.”
“I knew that my voice would not matter,” said one of the only two Black jurors. “I cannot believe that Lloyd Gray is still in prison.”
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The three types of ‘50s pop songs were come on everybody let’s do the snap pea, if you ever kissed me I would turn into some goo, and hey hey beautiful child I would never take you over state lines
July 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The three types of ‘50s pop songs were come on everybody let’s do the snap pea, if you ever kissed me I would turn into some goo, and hey hey beautiful child I would never take you over state lines
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As we head into the school year, I’m as grateful as ever for our nation’s hard-working educators. If you agree, please let the teachers & homeschoolers in your life know about Rick Steves Classroom Europe—a free & ad-free library of 600 video clips covering history, art, music, culture & geography.
Rick Steves Classroom Europe
Rick Steves Classroom Europe® is a free resource allowing teachers to share the best of European art, history, and culture with their students and fellow educators.
classroom.ricksteves.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As we head into the school year, I’m as grateful as ever for our nation’s hard-working educators. If you agree, please let the teachers & homeschoolers in your life know about Rick Steves Classroom Europe—a free & ad-free library of 600 video clips covering history, art, music, culture & geography.
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"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
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Brazil has a strong Yoruba cultural presence, due to the transatlantic slave trade. While the Yoruba language is not widely spoken, Yoruba traditions, particularly in religion and music, have significantly influenced Afro-Brazilian culture. Yoruba descendants in are referred to as "Nago”
August 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Brazil has a strong Yoruba cultural presence, due to the transatlantic slave trade. While the Yoruba language is not widely spoken, Yoruba traditions, particularly in religion and music, have significantly influenced Afro-Brazilian culture. Yoruba descendants in are referred to as "Nago”
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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The Lee and Elk fires rage in western Colorado, sending up large plumes of smoke that blow eastward.
August 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Lee and Elk fires rage in western Colorado, sending up large plumes of smoke that blow eastward.
What if I had told you in 1997
August 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
What if I had told you in 1997
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![Comic. [3-column table with headers Period, My Favorite Part, and My Biggest Complaint] [Row 1] P: *Precambrian*, MFP: Life develops, MBC: Snowball Earth episodes [Row 2] P: Cambrian, MFP: Trilobites!, MBC: Evolution could stand to calm down a little [Row 3] P: Ordovician, MFP: Earth might have had rings, MBC: Scary volcanic eruption in North America [Row 4] P: Silurian, MFP: First land animals, MBC: Earth’s newfound mold problem [Row 5] P: Devonian, MFP: Big mountains in Boston, MBC: Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was *armor* [Row 6] P: Carboniferous, MFP: Cool forests, MBC: Bugs too big [Row 7] P: Permian, MFP: Pangea, MBC: Google “The Great Dying” [Row 8] P: Triassic, MFP: Tanystropheus [dinosaur with extremely long neck next to tiny person for scale], MBC: Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan [Row 9] P: Jurassic, MFP: Birds, MBC: Parasitoid wasps [Row 10] P: Cretaceous, MFP: Raptors, MBC: Raptors [Row 11] P: Paleogene, MFP: Pretty horseys!!!, MBC: Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum [Row 12] P: Neogene, MFP: Forests of *Dracaena* Dragonblood Trees, MBC: Zanclean Flood [Row 13] P: Quaternary, MFP: Burrito invented, MBC: Whoever picked this name for the third period of the Cenozoic](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifyh56h2dhfnxxuarc6hspobseq6jzurt7mnkuo3dkvlkyrw6e76i@jpeg)
July 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“This puts me in a spiritual place” —YouTube commenters
Gary Bartz - I've Known Rivers
YouTube video by Eureka2803
m.youtube.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“This puts me in a spiritual place” —YouTube commenters
I was writing some complicated nonsense about this and then I read the reader recommended comments on the article, which all say some version of: so then what should we call it, asshole?
July 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I was writing some complicated nonsense about this and then I read the reader recommended comments on the article, which all say some version of: so then what should we call it, asshole?
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Paul Signac, Setting Sun. Sardine Fishing. Adagio. Opus 221 from the series The Sea, The Boats, Concarneau, 1891 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135650
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135650
July 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Paul Signac, Setting Sun. Sardine Fishing. Adagio. Opus 221 from the series The Sea, The Boats, Concarneau, 1891 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135650
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135650
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Snakes are clever to unhinge their jaws. I never thought of that
July 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Snakes are clever to unhinge their jaws. I never thought of that
Whenever, during the 15 years I lived in a place without big-box stores, I visited a Wal-Mart, I experienced some version of the sublime. Even ordinary suburban grocery stores had this effect. To be offered as much as you want of a variety of objects too vast to even be perceived—downright Kantian.
if (for example) vanderbilt university, the maryland institute college of art, or dickinson college wanted their names associated with projects like this, they should have pulled back just a bit on the extreme humiliation and pointed extrusion. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Beauty of Walmart Shopping
Big-box retail constructs its infinite aesthetic array out of hundreds of thousands of brush strokes.
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Whenever, during the 15 years I lived in a place without big-box stores, I visited a Wal-Mart, I experienced some version of the sublime. Even ordinary suburban grocery stores had this effect. To be offered as much as you want of a variety of objects too vast to even be perceived—downright Kantian.