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What is "aura farming"? TikTok's strange viral battles hit the streets | Euronews
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What is "aura farming"? TikTok's strange viral battles hit the streets
Aura farming' battles turn TikTok memes, poses and viral gestures into a contest where young people test their charisma, style and self-confidence.

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provinciali: As a weapons development context, Ukraine offers unrivaled opportunity.
As an engineer, Giorgio distills the marketing speech into reality, and he shares the math.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and help give the world a glimpse of the reality on the ground in Ukraine:

FirePoint’s “Freya” Meets the Test of Physics: What the FP-7.X
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It’s Primary Eve in New York.
On the ballot on Tuesday?
A series of raucous Democratic contests with the potential to radically reshape New York City’s congressional delegation and push it further to the left.
Plus, a Democratic race to challenge Representative Mike Lawler,
a vulnerable Republican incumbent who holds a Hudson Valley-area seat that Democrats are desperate to flip.
But here we will focus largely on the New York City primaries,
several of wh…

Will New York Swing Further to the Left? Here’s a Preview of Tuesday’s Primaries.
The city’s high-drama, high-spending primaries will offer clues of progressive momentum and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s influence.

Had a brief LLM moment just there: trying to search using a half remembered fragment of a trad waltz (in simple text notation). DuckGoGo beyond hopeless, so I try Google.
Bingo! AI immediately tells me, with great assurance & lots of interesting context that it's O'Carolan's planxty "Fanny Power". Must be that, I half remember that piece!
I am wowed!!! Revising my opinions of AIs I click on the link to

Fanny Power
A waltz with thirteen settings and thirty-four comments.