“A force of nature. A player who served the song and who enriched the lives of every single person he met”: Danny Thompson, innovative bassist who played with Kate Bush, Roy Orbison, Nick Drake, Penta... Though he grew up with a love of jazz, it wasn't long before Thompson branched out stylistically, and embarked on a career of extraordinary musical breadth

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RIP

The world’s appetite for oil may be about to shrink The UN General Assembly turns 80 this week, and the mood is grim. It’s not just the awful motorcade traffic in New York (do yourself a favor, walk or take the subway).

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2025 Data: Nearly Two-Thirds of Boomer Homeowners Have No Plans to Sell | Clever Offers™ A new survey reveals how boomers will impact the housing market in the years ahead and their views on homeownership as they age.

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Farewell Friends - HumbleDollar If this post is appearing, it means I’ve succumbed to cancer or one of its side effects. Please don’t feel sad for me. I’ve had a life filled with love, great experiences and wonderful career opportun...

RIP Jonathan Clements
He wrote his own eulogy.

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A New Series About Mussolini Captures the Performance Behind Fascism Joe Wright's "Mussolini: Son of the Century" strips away the mystique to show authoritarianism as calculated spectacle. #sponsored

Want to see this.

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How Bitcoin ATMs Are Helping Scammers Steal Millions As Bitcoin ATMs spread unchecked, gas station employees are becoming the unlikely the last line of defense against crypto fraud.

93% of people using the bitcoin ATM’s were scam victims

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Just finished this.

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Why Isn't Wall Street Upset Over the End of Fed Independence? Economists predicted doom if the Federal Reserve were controlled by the President. Trump has moved in that direction, but Wall Street doesn't care. Is 'independence' not what we think?

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Is the "A.I." "bubble" "bursting"? The long shadow of crypto

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YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?

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I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%. Once they win elections, it's already too late.

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The Tragic History of the Jews of Spain (PART TWO) The Royal Palace of Spain. Photo: Rafesmar via Wikicommons. Part one of this article appeared on Thursday, and can be …

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The Tragic History of the Jews of Spain (PART ONE) The Royal Palace of Spain. Photo: Rafesmar via Wikicommons. The settlement of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula is very ancient. …

Did not know much of this. Religion is the cause of so much suffering.

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The growing market for cool wearables to help beat the heat From cooling neck gaiters and helmets with fans, to high-tech sensors that can measure internal body temperature, the demand for and supply of wearable gadgets that help beat the heat is growing. The ...

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After Cleveland Clinic expanded to Florida, patients say surprise fees followed Hospitals can charge patients hundreds of dollars in facility fees — even for routine outpatient appointments. Some residents of Florida’s Treasure Coast have had enough.

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Plans to test prior authorization in traditional Medicare are deeply troubling Preauthorization is about to enter the lives of many seniors who have chosen traditional Medicare over MA, write former CMS Administrator Don Berwick and health policy expert Andrea Ducas.

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The State of Play After the Iran-Israel War — with Karim Sadjadpour The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Episode

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This abortion method doesn’t involve doctors — and many of them consider it safe — NPR A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the global pandemic in 2020 and the fall of Roe in 2022, has many U.S. doctors c...

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Doing the Math on Trump’s Economic Impact — ft. Justin Wolfers Prof G Markets · Episode

Trump tariff idiocy explained

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How Apple turbocharged China's development A new book raises the specter that corporate offshoring of manufacturing may have undermined America's lead in technological innovation and even its national security.

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How physicians like me are grappling with requests for unvaccinated donor blood As a transfusion medicine physician, Jeremy W. Jacobs has increasingly faced requests for “unvaccinated donor blood.” So he and colleagues looked closer at what the data say.

More idiocy

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Private Equity, UnitedHealth Take a Huge Loss as Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors Oregon passes SB 951, a bill that prohibits private equity and corporate decision-making in health care. UnitedHealth Group, Amazon, and private equity lobbied fiercely, but lost. Is it a trend?

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Tim and Sarah React To Disturbing Video Of Sen. Padilla Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller join Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC's Deadline: White House to break down the disturbing footage of U.S.

Fascists.

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Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong. — ProPublica The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

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US court blocks Trump from imposing the bulk of his tariffs — CNN A three-judge panel at the US Court of International Trade, a relatively low-profile court in Manhattan, ruled Wednesday to halt Trump’s global tariffs that he imposed citing emergency economic powers...

Fun times.

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'Longevity nutrient': 1 food this doctor always eats to get enough of it — CNBC Stephanie Venn-Watson helped discover an essential fatty acid, C15:0, which is often called the longevity nutrient. Here's how she gets more of it in her diet.

Not Bowie’s TVC15.
C15.0 in grass fed cheese. Yum. 😋

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Scott Galloway: The problem with pharmaceutical prices in the U.S. YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

Love Scott.

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“Incalculable” Damage: How a “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Left a Trail of Financial Wreckage Across Texas — ProPublica Charles Carrier is accused of orchestrating a yearslong Ponzi scheme, bilking tens of millions of dollars from both wealthy investors and older people with modest incomes. Despite signs of trouble, Ho...

Greed and psychopaths

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Why governments vs. Big Tech is the wrong question It’s been three and a half years since I first laid out the idea of a technopolar world: one no longer dominated solely by states, but increasingly shaped – and sometimes steered – by a handful of pow...

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Lazy - Deep Purple YouTube video by ThePurpleChannel

Haven’t been on this site much. Threads has been my go to, mainly bc it’s connected to Instagram.

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