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Susan Pfannenschmidt
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healthcare analyst
beginning gardener
seeking smart people to follow
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Breaking: South Korean authorities arrested President Yoon at 10:33 a.m.
January 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Humans last went to the Moon fifty two years ago today.

Apollo 17, final mission of the Apollo program and the last time we ventured beyond low Earth orbit, launched from Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1972.

Images: NASA flic.kr/s/aHskm64ger
December 7, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Why the young are fleeing to Portugal

https://www.byteseu.com/509811/

Rory Sutherland has narrated this article for you to listen to. The legendary music producer Rick Rubin once asked me why I had never moved to the United States. The answer, I think, comes down to an important trade-off: …
Why the young are fleeing to Portugal
Rory Sutherland has narrated this article for you to listen to. The legendary music producer Rick Rubin once asked me why I had never moved to the United States. The answer, I think, comes down to an important trade-off: quantity of earnings vs quality of consumption. Historically, once you had a job, there was a limit to the lifestyle choices you could make Whereas the United States is certainly a better place to earn and accumulate money, Europe is, on balance, still a better place to spend it. (Which may explain why Rick asked me that question at his summer
www.byteseu.com
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Wine pairings up in here
October 5, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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reminder that cashews grow like a little guy wearing a giant hat
November 20, 2023 at 10:26 PM
It might take a few reads to fully absorb Rick Rubin’s book.
Always a good sign.

Here’s an interview
youtu.be/60pHJXUjaJY?...
November 21, 2023 at 12:43 AM
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Good evening.
August 13, 2023 at 2:09 AM
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Today at the Tennessee Aquarium, a little boy was holding his baseball cap in front of the glass and taking pictures that looked like fish wearing a hat.

His mom said “Stop putting your hat on the fish!”

He looked completely dejected, and when she turned around he said “But it’s why I came here.”
August 4, 2023 at 12:29 AM
August 2, 2023 at 10:09 PM
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Wildflowers are so hardy. Daisies and blue flax bloom from May to Sept and for me, just a 2-3 med sized deadheading sessions per season gives me pollinating vibes and happy smiles all season. Who are your “evergreen” go tos? 🌱
August 2, 2023 at 3:40 AM
If you’re burned out
in need of some dark humor
The Patriot’s got your six

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4687882/
August 1, 2023 at 11:12 PM
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A vast conspiracy to get us to watch C-SPAN.
August 1, 2023 at 9:27 PM
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This one was months in the making!
I got to work with a dream team of NYT reporters and graphics editors to report on how Elon Musk’s power in the skies came to dominate the world, and scare global leaders. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/28/business/starlink.html
July 29, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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And if you go through the iron gate in the tall yew hedge you will find yourself in a tiny green room. A little garden of Japanese maples and hellebores, honeysuckle, hydrangeas & single roses. A copper planter of ferns and potentilla sits on a rectangle of moss. 🌱
July 29, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Very insightful Big Think interview with political scientist Brian Klaas on the problem of psychopaths in power

https://youtu.be/3eBN_9rMoVI
July 29, 2023 at 10:20 AM
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This article on data pollution raises very interesting questions. If future LLMs are to survive they need to be able to distinguish between human and non-human writing.

https://open.substack.com/pub/platformer/p/the-ai-is-eating-itself
The AI is eating itself
Early notes on how generative AI is affecting the internet
open.substack.com
June 28, 2023 at 2:29 AM
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July 26, 2023 at 11:18 PM
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Here is a gift link of our article so you can read for free:

https://wapo.st/3QcjfqX
wapo.st
July 27, 2023 at 10:54 PM
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Is that a trapdoor? In my opinion, all personal libraries should have a trapdoor.
July 26, 2023 at 12:26 AM
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July 23, 2023 at 9:56 AM
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This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is Musakhan Wraps, from Sumac by Anas Atassi https://www.nigella.com/recipes/guests/anas-atassis-musakhan-wraps
July 25, 2023 at 5:41 PM