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Want to spell out a web address, without it being rendered as an active hyperlink?
Substitute a one-dot leader (U+2024) for a period:
HouseOfRimmon․com
Houthi child soldier passing a schoolboy in Sana’a, 5 Dec 2017, the day after Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed.
BBC photo
ALT Houthi child soldier passing a schoolboy in Sana’a, 5 Dec 2017, the day after Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed. Photo via BBC
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Iranian domain registrants are losing access to their .COM domain names. Some are now switching to .IRs.
The loss of access to email will cause considerable confusion and hardship.
circleid.com/posts/iranian-w… – at Manhattan, NY
It's probably just a coincidence, but I wonder if any of the IT services that are offline in the US right now were taken down in a tit-for-tat response to US denying Iranians access to their .COM domains.
Iranian domain registrants are losing access to their .COM domain names. Some are now switching to .IRs.
The loss of access to email will cause considerable confusion and hardship.
circleid.com/posts/iranian-w…
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Pete Hegseth and his group were loudly reprimanded for laughing while visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier huffpost.com/entry/live-upda…
The return of conscription will allow the sabotage of the VA healthcare system to be taken to its logical conclusion. Not a problem for the Epstein class, only for “suckers and losers” (the President’s words) who sought to contribute to the common good.
propublica.org/article/east-…
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Throwie in the Bowery
ALT Throw up graffiti in the Bowery, NYC on 1st Ave between 4th and 5th Streets at 1 a.m.
ALT Throw up graffiti in the Bowery, NYC on 1st Ave between 4th and 5th Streets at 1 a.m., with leaves on the ground and uncontainerized garbage at the curb.
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Ok, this is fascinatingif correct. @grok please verify.
NASA is looking for astronauts who will live and work on the Moon
knkx.org/2026-11-08/nasa-is-…
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In an augmented world, English majors may be the most deserable new hires
Pokémon and other trading cards see new money pouring into the asset class: What drives value and risks?
An appraisal house verifies, grades and appraises individual cards, which reduces risks for investors and collectors. It also documents the value of cards so insurance carriers can provide coverage in the event of loss or damage.
Collectors choose cards for nostalgia and sentimentality. They don’t plan on selling, at least not right away, so if a card’s value falls, that’s ok. A popular scenario is for a collector to have begun their acquisitions decades ago with very little money and now they’d like to cash out and buy a house.
The weak spot in the asset class is the dependence on a single appraisal provider: https://www.psacard․com/appraisals
Pod: channelnewsasia.com/listen/m…
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What happens to carbon credits when the forests protecting them burn?
Wildfires in Indonesia are threatening forests linked to carbon credit projects. What does this mean for companies that have paid to offset their emissions, and are the safeguards enough?
channelnewsasia.com/singapor…
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It's a mystery to the BBC how such extreme levels of pollution can keep re-appearing year after year at the same general time.
Delhi's toxic winter air is back - is the Indian capital prepared for pollution? bbc.in/3V8PlbS
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Watching @KenBurns @kenburnspbs’ The Vietnam War documentary on @PBS. One quote from former North Vietnamese soldier and writer Bao Ninh stands out. “In war, no one wins or loses. There is only destruction. Only those who have never fought like to argue about who won and who lost.” pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam…
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The people who are asking if this is a stock market crash are in no way prepared for an actual crash.
Video shows a highland mountain road that requires specially geared 4x4s, which outsiders are unlikely to drive. The road is in great condition though.
This scene isn't from Hollywood; this is a road in a Yemeni village, used by citizens every day. Just watch, and you'll understand that Yemen, by its very nature, is not easy to conquer, and that its men have been raised to endure harsh conditions and dangers.
For this reason, defeating the Yemeni people and occupying Yemen is impossible, no matter how strong the enemy is, let alone a country like Saudi Arabia, which possesses nothing but money and thinks that its money will bring it victory against a people like the Yemeni people.
The Yemeni people, before being a strong people, are a proud and generous people who live in the mountains because they believe they deserve to live only on the peaks, so proud are they of themselves, their history, and their dignity.
It is one of the wonders of the world that a country that is not more than ninety years old would want to occupy and defeat a people and a state that is more than ten thousand years old, and this is impossible.
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The most grating aspect of LLM writing is that it tries to turn every single sentence into a punchline, a witty slogan, with no regard for which sentences need emphasis and which ones don't. "A tiring formula, overused"
When we hear about an incubator, we usually assume it's for software. Re:Build is an incubator for hardware, and will also serve as a white-label hardware manufacturer.
They just raised $2.1B to scale up in the Bay State and become “America’s answer to Shenzhen.”
I wonder what sorts of robots they'll build, besides drones.
techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/re…
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RAM mfgrs could expand capacity, but they're betting the AI bubble will pop -- so they are going to wait it out with only modest manufacturing growth.
Capital discipline is the order of the day:
eetimes.com/ai-demand-will-k…
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