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These Amazon Reviews Of "Mr Men" Books Are A Triumph Of Literary Criticism
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Trump's blocking of Twitter users violates U.S. Constitution: rights institute
A free-speech institute on Tuesday sent a letter to President Donald Trump demanding the prolific tweeter unblock certain Twitter (TWTR.N) users on grounds the practice violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
A Day With Alex Viada: The Hybrid Athlete
The key behind everything is to learn to be lazy. Or a better way to put things would be to say "learn to minimize stress/overuse while maximizing progress." It's important to understand that, when dealing with such extremes and goals that are at opposite ends of the endurance-strength spectrum, everything is a precious commodity and it's crucial to learn how to condense training stressors.
—and, as usual, why not also think through this with learning
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A state-of-the-art open source chatbot Though it's rare, our best models still make mistakes, like contradiction or repetition, and can "hallucinate" knowledge, as is seen in other generative systems. h/t Stephen Downes Doomer Macron on Twitter: "Effort thread on the Japanese Communist Party ?????, the largest non-governing Communist party in the world, still have their own News Media institution (Shimbun Akahata ?????? 10th most read paper) & s 'It's bullshit': Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping | WIRED UK"I had this target that I wanted to make $1 million in profit in a year," he says over smoothies and matcha cookies. "I didn't do it. I beat myself down really well, I had to book into a ten-day meditation retreat." This year, his Shopify records show he'll clear about $90,000 (£69,000) in personal profit. Super Simple Videos: 5 Tips & 5 Reasons to Get On Camera – YouTubeMike Wesch showing people how it's done.
GENERATION OF GREATNESS Our young people, for the most part — unless they are geniuses — after a very short time in college give up any hope of being individually great. They plan, instead, to be good. They plan to be effective, They plan to do their job. They plan to take their healthy place in the community. We might say that today it takes a genius to come out great, and a great man, a merely great man, cannot survive. It has become our habit, therefore, to think that the age of greatness has passed, that the age of the great man is gone, that this is the day of group research, that this is the day of community progress. Yet the very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be. But I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength. –1957 . . . Category:Wikipedia requested photographs – Wikipedia Meet the Existentialist Bodybuilder – Power Trip – MediumGoing to the gym, I regret to inform you, is pointless. But so is not. Which leaves you with a choice. And that […]