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Basically, a list of every pop-psychology buzz-word, pseudo-science "news" articles you've ever read the last 20 or so years.
Worth reading, because any article that uses them needs clarification and unambiguous interpretation. Upon the slightest perusal you quickly realize that very little "news" is, in fact, news, it is simply verbiage to fill your time while the notes from the sponsor creep in the edges
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100/full
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From the wiki: "The Copiale cipher is an encrypted manuscript consisting of 75,000 handwritten characters filling 105 pages in a bound volume.[1] Undeciphered for more than 260 years, the document was cracked in 2011 with the help of modern computer techniques."
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copiale_cipher
And, more images, translations, etc: https://cl.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/
Ancient masonic texts, initiations, rites, etc, for your reading pleasure.
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A few links to some things that amused me online recently.
#1) A breakdown of why Patagonia's Non-Profit Donation was more about power than Charity, courtesy of Adam Conover (Adam ruins everything) - to summarize, money wasn't charitably given away, it was merely exchanged for power. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I
#2) An amusing go-deep episode on "Cracked" that shows 10 Conservative messages hidden in "Con-Air". I never got it when I watched it, found it a generally mindless action flick, but - upon watching their analysis I have to concede Jerry Bruckheimer did a pretty good job of getting his message out to his target audience: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MyTkIK4wn8
And, finally, a little less political - although it's hard to look away, given the state of the nation/world...
Art Without Intent - an online gallery of found art. I'm finding this stuff all the time, but still it's inspiring... Link: https://artwithoutintent.com/
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I've got this thing where my mind generally goes on walkabout during YouTube ads, presuming that they're all scams.
This is, of course, a presumption, and my skipping past them doesn't go down the rabbit hole of how they work.
Dan Olson doesn't presume, he dives deep and exposes the scam. I mean, I knew, but it was interesting to learn the means they go about it with. And, done properly without malevolent intent there's some good ideas. I found it worthwhile.
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This is good. Rivers in Europe are at such drought levels they've uncovered ancient stones engraved with messages warning of hunger and famine.
Going into 3 days off and 38 degree temperatures I know - These are the days.
LINK: Hunger Stones