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Posted by SGJ Posted on October 1, 2023 0 Comments

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Zoom’s Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out

More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’ | CNN

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/nyregion/serial-killers-gilgo-beach-rex-heuermann.html

A small story about William Friedkin (may take a moment): I had the privilege to sit all day by the side of the master as he shot The Caine Mutiny. Day after day diring the shoot and a couple of times in preproduction

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Best Reads from Lately

Posted by SGJ Posted on August 4, 2023 0 Comments

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Animals, buildings, ladies: How artist Sulac found his way to a friendly surrealism – Arkansas Times

How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood | GQ

‘Stay out of the water’: what lurks below California’s zombie lake? | California | The Guardian

https://missoulian.com/news/state-regional/blackfeet-release-buffalo-tribal-land/article_db9fb54e-1503-11ee-9446-af1007e7d4d4.html

https://journal.neilga…

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Posted by SGJ Posted on May 25, 2023 0 Comments

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Excerpts from AI-Written Rom-Coms That Prove Human Writers Are Obsolete – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-humans-and-neanderthals-may-have-overlapped-shared-culture-western-europe

https://rapozacomics.carbonmade.com/projects/5313679

https://willchristopherbaer.substack.com/p/move-37

300,000-year-old snapshot: Oldest human footprints from Germany found

Network of ancient Maya …

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Posted by SGJ Posted on May 3, 2023 0 Comments

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THE MATRIX was released 24 years ago today. One of the most iconic and groundbreaking movies of its generation, the making of story is a fascinating one.

A THREAD
1/25 pic.twitter.com/hbBEcSrctP
— All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies) March 31, 2023

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/word-processing-exclamation-mark-1.6795166

The Matawan Man-eater: The real-life inspiration for Jaws

Blackfeet/Niimíipuu actress Lily Gladstone on the verge of stardom

He…

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Posted by SGJ Posted on March 28, 2023 0 Comments

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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-retrospect-the-theme-for-chads-4th-birthday-party-should-not-have-been-stanford-prison-experiment (https://twitter.com/mcsweeneys/status/1632929056978001920?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA)

Jenna Ortega Changed Wednesday Scripts: ‘The Character Made No Sense’ – Variety

Researchers Examine 3,500-Year-Old Brown Bear Preserved in Siberian Permafrost | Smart News| Smit…

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Posted by SGJ Posted on January 25, 2023 0 Comments

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Humans have been wearing bear skins for at least 300,000 years – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Danny DeVito Is A Revered Comedy Legend, But It’s Past Time For Him To Be Acknowledged As A Vibrant, Important Director | Decider

https://www.emcarroll.com/comics/meat/

https://www.barrelhousemag.com/onlinelit/2017/10/4/final-girl-slumber-party

Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white | Madison365

Amateur archaeologist unco…

Best of the year so far: for December

Posted by SGJ Posted on January 1, 2023 0 Comments

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this pic.twitter.com/eJ02YUAzr5
— Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) December 6, 2022

Blackfeet: we’ve been here forever, man. And we’re not going anywhere, except forward.

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Posted by SGJ Posted on December 30, 2022 0 Comments

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Work from 1616 is ‘the first ever science fiction novel’ | Science fiction books | The Guardian

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/encino-man-oral-history

https://mashable.com/article/snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska-why

https://www.gq.com/story/dont-fear-the-reaper-more-cowbell-oral-history

https://www.theonion.com/archaeologists-discover-more-old-shit-that-sucks-1848400846

Scientists Might Have Just Found Whe…

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Posted by SGJ Posted on December 8, 2022 0 Comments

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Today wouldn’t really be a new day during Native American Heritage Month if I didn’t share a new little poem written here on my phone, would it? Number 18 and still going strong!!!✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/QFToobEW7l
— Cliffponca (@cliffponca) November 19, 2022

https://themaplemoon.substack.com/p/20-questions-with-monica-drake

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-struggle-to-unearth-the-worlds-first-author

https://apple.news/ABB…