The Memory Code: Ancient Memory Techniques Anyone Can Use Join Dr. Anthony Metivier and Lynne Kelly to explore ancient memory systems from The Memory Code and how they can boost your learning fast.

An email from a fabulous new memory fanatic today wanted to ensure that I'd heard about The Memory Code.

Which reminded me that I hadn't updated the discussion page about this epic books with @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social in a long while.

Remedied!

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Cruise control: could a £5 ‘entry’ fee help balance Orkney’s needs with tourist demand? With tourists outnumbering locals by 20:1, islanders say levy is needed to help protect neolithic sites and maintain public services

ORKNEY - please protect it

I have been there twice for research, before it was so popular.
Everything was astounding: the archaeology, birds (puffins are adorable), the people, landscape ...

Overtourism is a global problem. I won't go back, for Orkney's sake.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...?

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database.

Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away.

The cruelty is the point.

Aid Flotilla Headed for Gaza Says It’s Under Drone Attack The vessels were aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Israelis have asked that the aid be given to them to distribute.

A protest group on a flotilla of vessels headed for the shores of the Gaza Strip carrying humanitarian aid said that its communications had been jammed, drones had flown overhead and attacked, and that explosions were heard from some boats.

Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty • Alaska Beacon Data sovereignty is important amid the health disparities seen in tribal people, rooted in forced assimilation over more than a century.

Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty, reports Nada Hassanein,
@nhassanein.bsky.social, of @stateline.org, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/03/28/t...

‘Stop these crazy bills’: Republicans join Democrats to defeat anti-trans legislation in Montana One bill would remove trans children from their parents, and the other would ban drag shows and Pride marches

Montana is extremely lucky to have Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell standing up in front of openly transphobic lawmakers who wanted to pass a bill that would /take trans kids away from their parents./

Thank you to them, and to the Republicans who crossed the aisle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New York Doctor Indicted in Louisiana for Sending Abortion Pills There The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion and states that support providing abortion anywhere in the country.

Breaking News: A New York doctor was indicted in Louisiana for sending abortion pills to a resident there, in a major test of abortion “shield laws.”

The Oldest True Stories in the World Evidence gathered in recent years shows that some ancient narratives contain remarkably reliable records of real events.

10,000 year old accurate stories!
Delighted to see Patrick Nunn's 2018 article on longevity of Indigenous stories reprinted in Sapiens. Patrick's research and our discussions had a massive influence on my understanding of the robust nature of First Nations stories.

www.sapiens.org/language/ora...

Are you also on Red Note?
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Goodbye storage and streaming subscriptions; I've moved everything to my self-built NAS With subscription costs through the roof, moving my documents, photos, and media to a NAS has been the best tech decision I've ever made.

Cheaper in the long run for you and artists receive much more when you purchase instead of steam

Here's a little bit about Joel Kaplan, Meta's new Global Affairs Officer! He sucks!
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CCTV footage shows WHO chief fleeing Yemeni airport amid Israeli strike – video The Houthis have been intensifying attacks against Israel in an effort to pressure it to end its war in Gaza

Israel nearly killed the head of the World Health Organization.

Has any Western government commented on this yet? Can you imagine their response if it was Iran or Russia?

Read the full Amnesty International report on genocide in Gaza:

www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...

UnitedHealthcare Denies UnitedHealthcare CEO's Life Insurance Claim — The Shovel "Being murdered by an assailant motivated by the unethical tactics used by the insurance industry to deny legitimate claims was outside the scope of this policy"

"UnitedHealthcare Denies UnitedHealthcare CEO's Life Insurance Claim"

theshovel.com.au/2024/12/08/u...

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A flyer pinned on a board announces a “UnitedHealthcare Shooter Look-a-Like Contest .” It includes text stating, “You can’t deny the cultural impact of him. Come defend your choice of costume and strike your best depose!”

This flyer was seen at UCSC in Santa Cruz, California: "UnitedHealthcare Shooter Look-a-Like Contest! You can't deny the cultural impact of him. Come defend your choice of costume and strike your best depose!"

I don't care that Biden pardoned his son but he should start pardoning those who deserve it
#freeLeonardPeltier

Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

We're going to take over this place the same way we took over threads: by building up all of you

First, hit the like button, reply with #NoDemUnder1k, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button.

Then follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts.

Here's how:

Destroy X

‘They blew it’: Democrats lost 22,000 votes in Michigan’s heavily Arab American cities Trump’s courting of Arab American voters and the Biden-Harris Gaza policy turned votes away from the Democrat

Remember how all the Dem genocide-supporters told us that Harris didn't need anti-genocide votes?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Hundreds of dead civilians. You're either incompetent or evil

Hamas isn't carpet bombing children. That would be Israel and Biden

Israel maintains onslaught as Gaza death toll tops 22,000 Gaza’s health ministry says 22,185 Palestinians have now been killed in Gaza since October 7.

“The total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since Oct 7 now stands at 22,185, while at least 57,000 have been injured…

Some two-thirds of those killed amid Israel’s bombardment of Gaza are women & children” #CeaseFireNOW #FreePalestine
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/...