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The Purple Tree Lounge - Cleveland, OH
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Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey, 1953. Ernst Haas.

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Nick knight travis scott | Contemporary dance silhouette

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Claude Nori (b.1949), Les Amants du Pô

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Valeri Larko, Train Trestle, Boston Post Road, 2020

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow

Bob Hallinen's Alaska

Bob Hallinen's Alaska (ADN)
[ed. Don't miss this small assortment of Bob's photos. They show why there's no place like Alaska. His obituary is here.]

You Live In This Dump?

[ed. See also: 4 Prompts That Can Tell You What Chatbots Really Know About You (NYT).

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide who have embraced chatbots for web search, work and health care are still trying to understand the privacy implications of conversing with A.I companions. While it’s obvious to users that the chatbots keep a record of whatever they explicitly say to them in their questions and requests, what’s less clear are the inferences drawn about their behavior from those conversations...

To understand what the chatbots have figured out about you, try these prompts.

by Brian X. Chen,  New York Times/Archive Today |  Read more:

Image: Reddit

[ed. It's like Google Maps for humans.]

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[ed. Thinking outside the box.]

víctor m. alonso | somos costeros

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Sonia Vordermaier, Street Lamp Forest
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Find the Cat

[ed. Supposedly an example of predictive coding, but I can't say. Took about 30 seconds (hint: it's not in the shadows). Answer here. See also: trapped priors.]

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Shakira performs during the Topps Final Halftime Show at New York New Jersey Stadium on July 19, 2026 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Image: Lars Baron/Getty Images

[ed. Not a World Cup halftime show fan especially, but love the exuberance in this picture.]

Seasons of the Eskimo: A Vanishing Way of Life, by Fred Bruemmer, 1978

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