#barrel : a round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads
- French: un baril
- German: das Fass
- Italian: botte
- Portuguese: barril
- Spanish: barril
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HAIR SPLITTER. A man's yard.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against other AI assistants; Sensor Tower: Copilot's mobile app has ~79M downloads vs. ChatGPT's 900M+ downloads (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
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Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against other AI assistants; Sensor Tower: Copilot's mobile app has ~79M downloads vs. ChatGPT's 900M+ downloads
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AI is a spyware platform that no one wants except the petrostate despots investing in it.
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Reminder, these are the same folks that flew airplanes into the World Trade Towers
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What 9/11 evidence unsealed in court reveals years after the attacks
Videos and documents turned over to the FBI in the weeks after 9/11 were not shared with its own field agents or top intelligence officials. That evidence is raising new questions for investigators.Cecilia Vega (CBS News)
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In Defense of the Flag: A true war storyA pen picture of scenes and incidents during the great rebellion.--Thrilling experiences during escape from southern prisons, etc.
by David W. Stafford
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In Defense of the Flag: A true war story by David W. Stafford
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#break : to come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence
- French: rupture
- German: die Pause, zerbrechen
- Italian: rottura
- Portuguese: quebrar
- Spanish: pausa
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Photo of SZA wearing shirt supporting Trump isn't what it seems
The artist wrote in 2016 that "if you support trump publicly u support bigotry, lying and xenophobia."
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14 Heroes For July
We all need heroes right now. I think that’s why the current Superman movie is doing so well. We’re all searching for people who do the right thing. That’s why I curated the Unusual Heroes Storybundle. This bundle is full of heroes. Fourteen books full of them. Every hero is unusual. One is a mouse. Another […]…
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14 Heroes For July
We all need heroes right now. I think that’s why the current Superman movie is doing so well. We’re all searching for people who do the right thing. That’s why I curated the Unusu…Kristine Kathryn Rusch
ما و موسوی؛ معناشناسیِ یک هشدار!
این یادداشت حاشیهای تحلیلی_تجویزی بر بیانیهی اخیر میرحسین موسوی است. اگرچه ممکن است بخشهای مختلف آن پراکنده به نظر برسند، اما نگارنده امید دارد که در نهایت مانند قطعات یک پازل به هم متصل شوند و تصویری هماهنگ و منسجم برای خواننده بسازند.Telegraph
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A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
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