MidCenturyMonica

Old enough to have seen...most of it.

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

@dpcolburn214 @MidwesternDoc @PierreKory Not medical advice. Debbie, just start with a roll-on of 70% DMSO/30% aloe vera. You can find it online or go to Tractor Supply and walk down the veterinary aisle. You'll find all sorts of things there. Then go to the links AMD gave above and start reading. You'll get there.

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

@Skarka47 @linuxuser1996 If you think outside the box a little, it will work. It's true that only a few banking apps work, and Google Pay, obv... But can you adapt your lifestyle to better incorporate privacy? Depends on what's important to you. If the Pixel camera was better, it would be glorious.

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

@SGTWipper1Each @_Psychochic You can't put a king size comforter in one. https://t.co/ZHO6Ll4yM5 often do you need/that capacity? OTOH, you need clean clothes, towels, and sheets much more.

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

@SGTWipper1Each Speed Queen.

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@ObservAstrology Cancer moons feel literally everything. They have a rigid standard of how things *should* be, and are emotional when that standard isn't met. I feel compassion for them. It's a difficult path.

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@PathfinderAstro And once all that H3 is harvested? The moon's orbital path is destabilized, creating absolute havoc on Earth. Nobody has thought this through much, have they?

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@BuffaloByGodDan Good morning, Dan. But shhhh! Let us enjoy before the absolute TSUNAMI of pumpkin spice overtakes us!

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@umanator89 @BulwarkOnline How horrific. I'm sorry for the loss of your daughter.

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

@verizure @Annhasquestions @BulwarkOnline This is how abusers work. These two share a child, whose collarbone he broke. Court-ordered visitation puts that child at risk every time she visits her father. A good mother will do *anything* to protect her child, and an abuser knows this. Dinner is simply appeasement.

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

@matthewhamann @uTobian Dr. Fauci was given a full pardon by the POTUS. Pleading the 5th is smacking the Senate and it's process and authority right in the mouth.

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

This cuts straight to the heart.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

@Teromen390309 @BrianRoemmele That would be the Kordylewski clouds.

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@BoredElonMusk @PalmerLuckey @davemorin What makes you think there isn't one?

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

@AJsaysOK @IncognitoCatMe @GrapheneOS It's a chemical notation of the structure of a graphene ring. Not a star.

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

I wonder how the city of Columbus will fare?

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Public records show how a city that ended its Flock contract spent months trying to get the company to remove or turn off the cameras. They were told Flock "objects" to the city removing the camera itself. Eventually city put trash bags over them:

https://t.co/lcJFbFG1jb

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@pmc2429 @digijordan There are ley lines that converge in that portion of the UK. That could mean telluric currents are strongest there.

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@MoundLore Privacy.

[MidCenturyMonica @MidCentryMonica]

@snoyote84 Go take a look at @MidwesternDoc account today. There is a lot to learn, but bottom line is that the recommendations are helping my shredded shoulder. Maybe help you, too. Hope relief comes quickly for you!

[jackwindsor @jackwindsor]

Ohio EPA's own draft permit language: "lowering of water quality of various waters of the state is necessary." 7,000+ public comments. A U.S. senator called it out. Both parties gagged on it. You don't write a permission slip for something you don't expect to happen.

[jackwindsor @jackwindsor]

🚨 ASININE ALERT 🚨 Ohio EPA wrote this on official letterhead: "lowering of water quality...is necessary to accommodate important social and economic development." Necessary. Pre-confessed. Congratulations, Ohio EPA. Award earned.