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Why the majority of Americans chose to end democracy
As the Onion said, America defeated America in 2024. The question now is what will remain of this experiment in democracy after four years of the demagoguery and autocratic violence promised by the winning candidate and his army of sycophants who will take control of the federal government. Of course, that presumes meaningful elections will…
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Trump dictatorship or totalitarian regime in the USA: What would it be like?
Snippets from around the web painting a picture of what the USA might be like if a Trump authoritarian regime takes hold.
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Ghost-written op-ed: Can mycelium deliver a paradigm shift in the food system? (New Food)
With today’s food system contributing to the planet’s environmental woes, Harold H. Schmitz discusses why he believes mycelium should be embraced as one of the few options that “can meet all five requirements of being a paradigm-shifting nutrition source”.
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Adin, this is that recipe for easy sweet potatoes in an air fryer
Adin – If you’re tired of waiting on mashed sweet tater deliveries, here’s all you need to do to make them on your own.
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Bookmark shortcut to clean up recipes for cooked.wiki
I stumbled into cooked.wiki, a lovely service that allows you to turn chaotic recipe web pages into clean and usable directions by adding “cooked.wiki/” in front of the URL. Rather than typing that out repeatedly, I made a bookmarklet to handle the work. If you don’t know, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark that uses…
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Where is our new world?
Fixing the environment is not just an technological problem, though everyone would prefer it is. It is also a political, psychological, sociological, economic system, and spiritual problem. But it’s simpler than that. It comes down to how we think. Those values so deep you don’t even know they’re there. A big one is that we…
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Writing with AI is not writing
Bugs, dogs, dinosaurs, neighborhoods, cities, countries, civilizations, planets, and, now, human creativity: They live, they die — fast, slow, brutally or gently. Generative AIs like ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and Jasper are bringing plenty of violence and speed to the demise of writing. Or perhaps just a way of writing. Words, sentences, paragraphs, stories — making…
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How to archive Supernote e-notebook files as PDFs on a Mac
Update September 10, 2024: After a long journey of trying to find a good electronic handwriting solution that turned most recently toward an iPad Air, Apple Pencil, and Paperlike screen covers, I have returned to the Supernote universe with the purchase of a used Supernote Nomad. I stumbled across it on Facebook Marketplace, and that…
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What does that discounted apartment really cost? Don’t be surprised when ‘free’ months end with this calculator.
Visit rent.hellotumo.com for an easy way to see what your real rent will be after the “free” months expire. Don’t be surprised by discounted promotional rates!