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europesays.com/2286518/ Tak můžu si sednout se zmrzlinou nebo ne? #CzechRepublic





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Tsunami warnings zone extending all the way to Canada and the US (yes, California, looking at you). #AKwx #BCwx #WAwx #ORwx #CAwx #tsunami

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Musetti, Rune win opening matches at National Bank Open
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Sources: Vancouver close to sealing Thomas Müller deal
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europesays.com/2286514/ Disko keksy ešte existujú? #slovakia


Trump Prepares to Revoke Lifesaving Abortion Care for Veterans theintercept.com/2025/07/29/tr…

#leftistnews #intercept #VSN



coverage of quake:
youtube.com/watch?v=FqpANrj3Ef…

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CBC News did a segment yesterday on the backlash against the installation of a public art piece called Trans Am Rapture at a new location (NIMBYism is part of the complaint). The first photo I'm including here is of the art piece itself, and the second is the thumbnail for the YouTube video of the news segment.

The video doesn't contain the thumbnail image at all, and given its yellowish tone and ugly claymation-esque aesthetics I expect it's AI slop. Reverse image search didn't point me to anything else.

I have no idea why CBC would do this rather than use an image of the actual artwork. Vancouverites would recognize the art immediately. Does the slop generate more clicks?

You also can't comment on CBC YouTube videos to complain about it, which is awfully convenient for them.

in reply to Giflian

The news article that also links the YouTube video: cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col… Residents push back against new location for Trans Am Rapture art installation | CBC News
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I think it's a photo of a different piece by the same artist: marcusbowcott.com

Someone at CBC might have gotten confused when preparing the preview.

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it's a cool piece, I'd never heard of it.
I agree with the artist that calling it edgy is kind of hilarious.

I assumed the thumbnail was of one of his smaller pieces, as shown around him in the interview, but I didn't see that exact one and now that you mention possible slop I Have Concerns.

in reply to IHateFireworks

@ProcessParsnip It might be this piece from another angle? Or one of the other similar sculptures in the same series marcusbowcott.com/artwork/sess…
in reply to Misty

@misty oh dang you're good. I was too lazy in my image search earlier.

The image seeming yellow-toned it became a false positive in my eyes

@ProcessParsnip



europesays.com/2286512/ Der österreichische Footballspieler Bernhard Raimann erhält neuen 4-Jahresvertrag in der NFL in der Höhe von 100 Mio. $ #austria


Father, ex-husband, among 9 arrested in alleged honour killing in Pakistan aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/f…

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When people started farming rice, they ended up with a problem: the wet conditions mean rice gets a LOT of weeds and snails and bugs...

And then one day, someone tossed in some carp.

A beautiful relationship was born. This week in my newsletter

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Clutch BOMBS in San Francisco by Ronny Mauricio and Juan Soto! rawchili.com/4430770/ #Baseball #MLB #NewYorkMets #NewYorkMets


Irish Support for Navajo and Hopi During Pandemic Honored with Commemorative Rug nativenewsonline.net/currents/…

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Why is it nice to be nice? Solving Darwin’s puzzle of kindness

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Trump Prepares to Revoke Lifesaving Abortion Care for Veterans

theintercept.com/2025/07/29/tr…

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Joan Anderson, who brought the hula hoop to the world, dies at age 101 twp.ai/E6ARKI



'You are defending evil!' MAGA darling rips GOP 'psychopaths' defending starvation in Gaza twp.ai/E6ARKB





"...if you can wedge a service in between people and what they want, you can reap massive rents, even if people can already do that thing (in this case – recurring reorders) without you just fine today."
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"Enter AI. No sooner did I make a joke that the managers who live in dashboards would soon migrate to living in chatbots that we got a banger of a story about no other than the CEO of Microsoft doing just that." productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai…
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"And as we move from sensing to responding, substituting management for AI breaks the process even further." productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/th…


Today, I created a massive 1000 page-long table.

It only took FIVE SECONDS to render the PDF using the tinytable 📦 for #Rstats,
@quarto_pub @typst !

v0.11.0 of tinytable speeds up Typst support, and brings feature parity with HTML and LaTeX

Docs: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/



Joan Anderson, who brought the hula hoop to the world, dies at age 101 upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/07/29…


Tsunami watch in the Pacific after an 8.0 off the Pacific coast of Russia
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Tons of volcanoes on the Kamchatka peninnsula.

brb

160 with 29 active.

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Parents want to raise awareness after an amoeba killed their son in a S.C lake
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#Hawaii, #Alaska Get #Tsunami Alert After 8.0 Magnitude #Earthquake Off #Russia Coast - Newsweek

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Our day started with doctor appointments. Not unusual for us.
My husband has so many medical providers it's hard to keep up. He counts on me to help keep track. It seems we missed some required tests. We try.
I had to ask the provider about his prescriptions for ostomy supplies. He was surprised to find out that we haven't been getting regular deliveries from the VA. I didn't want to worry him so I had kept the problem to myself. I stocked up shortly after the election, so we aren't running out yet. I bought them out of pocket because I was wary of tarrifs. Right now, the VA has us on backorder until the end of October.
He was really upset.
I explained again that we will be fine, but he is worried for every other veteran who might have to do without essential supplies.
He was so unsettled I talked him into a short walk and change of scenery.
Summer cheered him up but he still worries. Me too.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

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Norcal Gma 2
@amyedge
Thank you for thinking of us.
We are on a hill far above the tsunami zone. My daughter would come here if they need to.
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I am so sorry that you have to deal with this. You were very wise to stock up on supplies, but you shouldn't have to. It's horrible what this administration is doing to veterans and so many others.