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Want to grow your own food sustainably? Aquaponics combines fish farming with plant growing in a brilliant closed-loop system—fish waste feeds the plants, plants clean the water.
Lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs thrive easily, while strawberries, peppers, and even carrots can flourish with the right setup. No chemical fertilizers needed.

I wonder: Prompts and "skills" and whatnots for "AI" are written as if you were talking to a person. Has anyone seen structured studies about whether that form of flourish is actually beneficial for the inference or if that's just the anthropomorphization kicking in hard?
Like does just dropping the key terms into the prompt work just as well or worse or better? Would love to see some actual studies.

From The Narwhal
Southern Ontario prairies need fire to flourish, and a place to grow
Alderville First Nation’s Black Oak Savanna is a pocket of a rare ecosystem that was nearly lost to colonialism. Dedicated stewards are bringing it back
Story and photos by Gabrielle McMann

With few Epstein files released, conspiracy theories flourish and questions remain
"I know from survivors and survivors' lawyers that when they had these conversations with FBI agents, they specifically named other men who they were trafficked to or who showed up at the island or who covered up for this abuse," Khanna said. "There were lawyers of the survivors present there. There are dozens of these interview memorandums. The DOJ has not released a single one."
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/02/nx-s1-5662638/epstein-files-release-trump-conspiracy-2026

Sonnet 060 - LX
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned,
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parall…

#CenterForBiologicalDiversity

Painted bats belong alive in the wild — not dead on walls.
Tell Amazon to stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong.