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An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper's)
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/12/kicking-robots-james-vincent-humanoids/

Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
Humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine

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Vanishing Twin:
🎵 The Conservation of Energy
#VanishingTwin
https://v-twin.bandcamp.com/track/the-conservation-of-energy
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uNXiMHALYL5LPhlUsczpq

Daniels was looking at just 10 easily quantifiable body measurements. How many important dimensions of variations are there in a human mind? How hard are they to measure? How likely is it that even one single “average” mind exists on Earth?? The odds are vanishingly small.
[Napkin sketch: assume there are a paltry 20 dimensions of brain variation. (Surely that’s low.) Assume there’s a 1 in 5 change of being completely “normal” in each. (Surely that’s high.) Even that absurd hypothetical gives a 1 in 11,490 chance that a •single• completely average mind exists in a population of 8.3 billion.]
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Q&A with Walt Handelsman, who retired at the end of 2025 as an editorial cartoonist at New Orleans' Times-Picayune, on the changes in a dwindling profession (Rob Tornoe/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-vanishing…

The vanishing newspaper cartoonist
When Rob Tornoe sat down with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Handelsman, the conversation was less about one retirement and more about an extinction. Handelsman’s decision to put down his pen marks another milestone in the quiet collapse of staff editorial cartooning in America. Once a staple of nearly every major daily, the role has dwindled from hundreds of full-time artists to fewer than two dozen nationwide. What’s vanishing isn’t just a job category — it’s a uniquely sharp, …

Mage session:
The un-awakened teenager, whose brother had been abducted and imprisoned by their parents, has just spotted them for the first time since her brother vanished. She runs at them, yelling a battle cry on the top of her lungs.
Storyteller: »Is somebody trying to stop her?«
The Euthanatoi social worker: »Can I possess her with a spirit of vengeance?«
#rpg

Brazil’s Farmed Animals “Meat Machine” Exposed in Photo Report https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/12/25/brazils-farmed-animals-meat-machine-exposed-in-photo-report/?utm_source=Mastodon

Brazil’s Farmed Animals “Meat Machine” Exposed in Photo Report
In 2024, photojournalist Vincenzo Ricci documented for World Animal Protection the hidden reality of Brazil’s booming farmed animal sector, revealing conditions that constrict the country’s polished…

Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …

Click Here: Erased: Silencing a kindergarten
Episode webpage: https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_8376_f7cbcbf4-bf50-49a6-856d-3daf4ba10d91&uf=https://publicfeeds.net/f/8376/clickhere

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In a small classroom in western China, children once learned to sing and count in the language of their ancestors — Uyghur. Then the doors were locked, and founder Abduweli Ayup went from teacher to enemy of the state. We return to the first episode in our series, ERASED.ERASED is a four-part investigation into how China is wiping Uyghur culture from existence — one law, one app, one person, one website at a time. From shuttered schools to vanishing websites, ERASED uncovers an aut…

Un train stationne Š Saint-Mandé vers Château de Vincennes en raison d'une gêne Š la fermeture des portes de quai .
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Le trafic reprend mais reste perturbé entre Nation et Château de Vincennes en raison de l'actionnement d'un signal d'alarme entre Nation et Château de Vincennes .
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