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The privately funded National Trust for Historic Preservation last week asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s project.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever
— not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit states.
“And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
Trump had the East W…

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons. It also says a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue. The court filing Monday was in response to a lawsuit filed last Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s project until it goes through multiple independent reviews…

How Apple is helping filmmakers and developers create immersive media for the Vision Pro and share best practices (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91461534/apple-vision-pro-immersive-video

With Apple’s help, storytellers are figuring out Vision Pro
The headset opens up immersive new opportunities for dramas, documentaries, music videos, and beyond. Some filmmakers and developers are diving right in.

In RTLnieuws een kok die het jammer zou vinden als kleine mooie boeren bedrijven (met een goed product) zouden verdwijnen.
Als ik zo wel naar koffie als koeien kijk, heb je je juist specialisten die hun eigen niche creëren. Uit beide soorten ken ik ze. Ze hebben vooral vaste klantenkring. Zowel voor de koffie als vlees geldt dat het bij die niches om de smaak (kwaliteit) gaat.
Bij de koffie zie je tot nu toe dat flinke prijsstijgingen in de goedkope koffies zat.
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The debate regarding the “Goldwater rule” has intensified
following President Trump’s recent rambling presentation in Pennsylvania
(Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech, 10 December).
As a physician with decades of experience in health policy, I believe the current discourse misses a vital distinction:
the difference between prohibited diagnosis and legitimate observation.
The Goldwater rule was designed to prevent …

Scumbaggery ain't nothing new.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115378327700458180

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn actively prevented the Three Stooges from discovering how popular they were. Despite their films being in extremely high demand, Cohn made them believe they were always in danger of cancelation so they wouldn't negotiate a better contract. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stooges#Moe,_Larry,_and_Curly_(1934%E2%80%931946) #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1o7a5po/til_columbia_pictures_presiden…

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Nacirema people is their insistence that they do not participate in practices of which they clearly do. Equally unusual is the fact that, unlike other sacrificial cultures who raid neighboring tribes for victims, both slaves and victims for human sacrifice are only taken from within the society. In fact, there is a very strong cultural taboo against sacrificing or enslaving those from other tribes.
They are aware of the rituals of human sacrifice in other tribes, but claim such rituals to be inconsistent with their society. Yet their human sacrifice rituals are some of the most elaborate in the world. These rituals are so important that there is a whole part of Nacirema society dedicated specifically to arguing about who should and should not be sacrificed, restraining and feeding the potential victims for the years during which these arguments take place, and ultimately preparing and administering the ritual poison.
This is strangely similar to their approach to slavery. Both human sacrifice and slavery were once a much larger part of Nacirema society. Their human sacrifice rituals now take far longer and happen far less often, but at no point have they ever recognized these ritual sacrifices as such. Meanwhile, the Nacirema do acknowledge that slavery was part of their culture once. During the time when they did recognize their practice of slavery, they did raid other tribes for slaves. Now they follow the same complex ritual for slavery as they do for human sacrifice.
It is strange that, by following this ritual and only choosing victims from within their society, they seem to become incapable of seeing their behavior for what it is.

RE: https://freeradical.zone/@bitartbot/115548068127595582
I’m following this math-based procedural art bot and I like that I sometimes get Sierpiński triangles like this one on my timeline. 🔺️

Kiedyś tłumaczyłem filmiki Pewdiepie na j. polski i tak uczylem sie angielskiego. Nauka przez zabawę i w dodatku robiłem coś dobrego dla community - sytuacja win, win, win. Później YouTube usunął te możliwość, teraz zastępuje ją sztuczną inteligencją.
"SIĘGNĘŁA DNA" przetłumaczone na "REACHES DNA"? Tu akurat przykład w drugą stronę (z polskiego na angielski) - przykro się na to patrzy...

Congresswoman Ilhan Omarhas warned that Donald Trump’s repeated personal attacks and dehumanising rhetoric
are fuelling a climate of political violence that could have dangerous consequences.
Speaking days after the president called for her to be thrown out of the country,
Omar said Trump’s incendiary language reaches “the worst humans possible” and encourages them to act.
“We’ve had people incarcerated for threatening to kill me,”
“We have people that are being…