Reminds me of people who say "you should smile more."

In as much as I hate all of this nonsense I will nonetheless enjoy tacos at one of my wonderful neighborhood immigrant owned Minneapolis Latin restaurants.

Under My Thumb YouTube video by The Rolling Stones - Topic

Comes to mind
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Denmark Bans Smartphones In Schools, Invests Millions In Books Denmark bans smartphones in schools starting 2025, investing millions in textbooks after surveys show devices distract one-third of students.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I wonder if raising the basket height and or setting the team's number of players based on the sum of the players' heights might be interesting experiments.

Sort of a close up photo of a little 3d printer. Visible parts - X and Y axis bars Print head Print plate Display

Very happy with Bambu A1 mini.
Adorable little 3D printer at a pretty little price $250. Fully assembled 20 minute setup time. Open source slicer from Bambu that plays nice with TinkerCad.

YouTube screen capture - Background - half built rusted iron sphere with children working on it supported by ladders and scaffolding Mid - grownup carrying wood for construction Fore - Close Caption - >>DEATH STAR, A DEATH STAR. >>WE'RE BUILDING THE TOPP HALF Banner for Channel 5 KSTP - "KIDS BUILD GIANT DEATH STAR MODEL"

Come and visit us at Leonardo's Basement in Minneapolis - " ...unique social/physical environments where young people learn by designing and building projects ... engineering, art, and technology.... Process over product...individuals to craft their own ideas

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I love the new rainbow logo. 🏳️‍🌈

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

dude, now I'm crying again.

If you think about it, anything handmade is digital.

Do keep us up to date.

Wow!

Nice. 1000 meter vertical ascent/descent?

What gear are skiing?

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

A virtual forum titled “How Al Can Improve Colleges' Communications with Students” with some introductory text. The image is a robot pointing at weird content on a simulated screen in front of a small-headed person writing with a pencil on paper.

An essay titled “The students who won’t use AI” by Beth McMurtrie. The image includes a woman hugging a lightbulb and a man jumping stacks of books while possibly punching an icon of a phone, among other confusing portrayals.

How punching in the face improves being punched in the face by people that don’t want to be punched in the face.

Clarifying question - "Are shooting the forest as a whole or individual trees?"

The basement of the Rock Island Central library included a boiler fueled by books taken out of circulation.

Also - the office of Dr. Meinhold who was some hold over from the Carngie Foundation, I think anyway. It was byzantine and weirdAF

"To each according to their need, from each according to their ability."

Does this mean Scott Simon will read a children's story on Saturday mornings again?

I miss the 90s NPR so much

Magnificent

Biscuits and Banjos Festival Presents: Beloved Community is next weekend! Join us on 4/26 for a full day of Free Community Programming, and 4/27 for a show at DPAC featuring my band, Mavis Staples, Blind Boys of Alabama, Rissi Palmer, and Toshi Reagon.

Ow. Sorry you are hurting. Anything we can do to help?

A small bird is seen perched in a branch with a green canopy out of focus in the background. The bird holds small wood pieces from the nearby trees on its beak as it extends one of its wings wide open.

A bird is seen perched on a branch that hands form the canopy, the green canopy is seen out of focus in the background.

This small girl says hi! she is starting to gather materials to built her nest!

#birds

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

I hope it was delish and fun and romantic.

Absolutely fabulous.
Fine dining date?

I need a sip of scotch for each word in that sentence.

Oh hell yeah.
#taxtherich