Seeing the premiere of a play based on the life of a Holocaust survivor who ended up as a businessman in Pittsburgh. @prime_stage

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An amazing story of hope and dignity. That book club helped the inmates develop their analytical and communication skills. And out of that came a surprising insight: prison inmates read 9 times more books than civilians. So together with the National Justice Council, the Carambaia publishing house created a program called The Prison Reviews. The…

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The Die Is Cast (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 21) Garak’s mentor leads a presumptive strike against the Founders homeworld

Rewatching ST:DS9 After the recap of S3E20 “Improbable Cause,” we see Bashir, clearly missing Garak, holding forth on the decline of modern theatre during lunch with O’Brien, who kinda sorta pretends to listen. But this is the teaser for the second half of a two-parter, and there’s a plot to jump-start. A fleet of Romulans…

NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as ‘state-affiliated media’

NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform. In explaining its decision, NPR cited Twitter’s decision to first label the network “state-affiliated media,” the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other…

The Daughter’s 21st Birthday

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I dunno what to call this but it really hit the spot.

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Out for an April stroll.

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I ditched Google for Bing with ChatGPT for a month — here’s what happened | Tom’s Guide

Occasionally, when I don’t know exactly what to search for, I have found it somewhat useful to describe a problem to Bing and see what topics it searches for as it assembles its answer. But decades of experience with search engines means I don’t usually need a bot to tell me what to search for.…

Game night at our local library.

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There’s Something Off About LED Bulbs

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Why Tetris is the ‘perfect’ video game

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Thank you, frog and friends, for reminding us all what the Internet is supposed to be for.

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Just a #steampunk captain inspecting the æther power orbs. #Blender3D #Unity3D #design #aesthetics

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We were pretty even for about 25m, but I let him get my queen, and I had no hope after that.

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What can you do with an English Major?

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