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Posts by Jakob Blomquist

"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

400 years ago William Shakespeare wrote a play wherein a Lawyer, Thomas More, tried to reach the hearts and minds of the mob rioting against immigrants. Nobody embody the part like Ian McKellen!
Shakespeare'words could not be more relevant!

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#humanity #wordsmatter

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Under Saito Morihiro. A.k.a iwama

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5 Kumitachi & kimusubi-no-tachi basics & variations
5 Kumitachi & kimusubi-no-tachi basics & variations YouTube video by J.Blomqvist

Aikido is beautiful in that in it there is room for both empty hand work (taijutsu), and aikijo and aikiken.
Here is a video of the 6 standard kumitachi with some variations, and it's really in those we can touch the common principles.
youtu.be/JE2YlB2D-rE?...

#Aikido #aikiken #kumitachi

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Why Do So Many Nobel Laureates Develop "Nobel Disease"? If you ever win a Nobel prize, be wary of Nobelitis.

Why Do So Many Nobel Laureates Develop "Nobel Disease"?

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Ground breaking treatment for Huntingtons disease!
This is very exciting.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Rethinking Peer Review Using the Swiss Cheese Model to Better Flag Problematic Manuscripts Click on the article title to read more.

Very interesting analysis by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social et al. Thanks a lot!

That is the model I have tried to follow from the very beginning, as Editor-in-Chief of Theor. Chem. Acc. (a journal established in 1962)

#theochem #compchem #EditorLife #EditorsLife

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or worse... the opposite of what you intended to say...

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Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? Either way, let’s not be in denial about it.

As the rate of use of LLM (basically ChatGPT) grows exponentially, the rate of discussion and reflection of what that means for us should increase as well.
Very interesting stuff in this week's New York Times Magazine share.google/xuYdlULWSoMB...

#AI #LLM

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#aikido keeps bringing friendship and joy.

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Big turnout for our seminar with Hoa Newens and Lewis de Quiros this weekend in Lund, Sweden.
Proud to be part of the #LundsAikidoklubb
team!

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Excited to share our latest releases to the FAIR Chemistry’s family of open datasets and models: OMol25 and UMA!
@AIatMeta @OpenCatalyst

OMol25: huggingface.co/facebook/OMo...
UMA: huggingface.co/facebook/UMA
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The 2 year T-Shirt test - sustainability in practice Two years ago, I… | Torleif Markussen Lunde | 2,124 comments The 2 year T-Shirt test - sustainability in practice Two years ago, I decided to run a quiet experiment. I bought three T-shirts. Nothing extravagant. One was from Livid, a Norwegian brand that speak...

What does it mean to buy "sustainable"? Many of us would like to feel good about our purchases. A label often doesn't tell the whole story.

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#sustainable

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Road to recovery.

#stayactive #babysteps

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After 7 weeks my cast is finally off. Fracture 80% healed... Now, several more weeks of rehab and then I'm hopefully back on the mat.
#nomoresmellyfeet

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Just ask your instructor. I don't see a problem with different looking bokken, but who knows?

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Yup.. unfortunately their "uninformed" choices need to hit them hard over the head... people will suffer... maybe they will think twice about trusting their intel

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ruth's life / aikido

My dear friend Ruth Peyser, a 6 dan aikido teacher and exponent, writes about speaking up. She draws from her experiences within #aikido community, but her lessons are not confined to those.
What are your thoughts?

www.ruths-life.com/aikido/essay...

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...and this was my first session on zoom with the #aikido kids' group the same day.

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5 years ago, when covid19 hit us with fear and confusion, this is how we came together to train
#aikido

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COVID-19 Pandemic 5 Years On: 16.8 Million Life Years Lost In Europe From 2020-2022 On March 11, 2020, the then-new coronavirus was officially declared a pandemic. New research quantifies its impact, direct and indirect, on 18 countries.

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Here here...

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Well done!

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You know what's up? This is what's up...
Apparently this one might be what's called Jones fracture, from the discovery of it by orthopedic surgeon and dancer Robert Jones.

I did not get it while dancing.

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There are laws in place of who can be picked to safe guard the qualifications of these people.

Trump has now got rid of these safe guards, fired the previous VERY qualified head of JCOS, and appointed a MAGA hat-bearing non-active duty yes-sayer on this, one of the most critical of positions.

Yes

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...Joint Chiefs of Staff advice the civilian head of the armed forces, the president, in all questions related to the defense and actions of the armed forces. It's an 8 person strong body carefully selected from active members in the highest levels from the armed forces.

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The leader of the nation with armed forces, the size of which exceeds all other combined, has a principle body called Joint Chiefs of Staff....

#Trump #destructorOfUSA #worsepresident #25thAmendment

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I mean, who needs a group of well trained and smart disease hunters, amiright?
Oh... they were fired by DOGA, a.k.a. Musk, a.k.a Trump?
That'll do it...

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Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, largest in over 30 years A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 90 cases, mostly among unvaccinated children, state health data published Friday shows.

Exponential growth anyone?

(And a reminder that about 20% of these kids ended up in hospital)

abcnews.go.com/Health/texas...

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Very cool

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A Sad Moment in American History
A Sad Moment in American History YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

Here are democratically elected Senator Bernie Sanders dropping some well spoken, and easy to understand truths.
youtu.be/rKBM2kS6B8o?...

#trump #russia #russianinvasion #Ukraine #putin #trumpinbedwithputin

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