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The ‘right to be forgotten’ addresses a real problem, but does so by making that problem worse. The problem: people are willing to use inf...
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I've had an interest in wearable computing for a long time -- and after Glass was announced and it became clear that Google wanted to ...
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I was surprised, upon listening to a two part interview with Peter Watts, to find him tentatively supporting Chalmer's positions on q...
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If you’re feeling unmotivated or your writing feels stale, it may be time to change up the way you write. The following is a selection of ...
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(Author's note: I will assume that you have seen all of Evangelion and RahXephon. I will assume that if you haven't, that you don...
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Note: spoilers for both the 1959 novel and the 2018 miniseries. In diverging so radically from Shirley Jackson’s classic book, the recent ...
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We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a l...
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I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Vallee is among the most lucid of the mid-century ufologists. The modern internet does to the global...
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My previous piece on Covid-19 focused on how extended quarantine might impact members of the precarious labor pool previously used by the...
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Online meta-discussion is full of ideas and terms from debate — accusations of “moving the goalposts”, citations of logical fallacies. Whe...
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The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is an American pseudo historical and historical negationist myth that argues the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery. - [image: The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is an American pseudo historical and historical negationist myth that argues the cause of the Confederate State...
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Medical clinic pleads for a stop to 'unsolicited' urine samples - submitted by /u/Sariel007 [link] [comments]1 hour ago
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Eldritch correspondence - Hello fellow cultists. I was wondering if there is anyone willing to exchange letters and maybe little pieces of art/relics/artifacts, all related to the...1 hour ago
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7 Actresses Who Are Known For Playing Total Badasses - Jaw-breaking uppercuts. Rib-cracking roundhouse kicks. Ear-piercing explosions. Fear-striking struts. Quick-tongued comebacks and snappy one-liners. Regard...
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TIL the first fully CGI character appeared in the 1985 movie Young Sherlock Holmes, which paved the way for movies like Toy Story - [image: TIL the first fully CGI character appeared in the 1985 movie Young Sherlock Holmes, which paved the way for movies like Toy Story] submitted by /...
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For almost everyone before our time, things were a lot more "physical" and "in-context" than they are for us - For 90% of human history 90% of all people were subsistence farmers. This is the "default" type of life in civilization, and yet it's so different from o...2 hours ago
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Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong’s shaggy agitator for democracy -- His League of Social Democrats, the territory’s last pro-democracy party, disbanded this week - submitted by /u/TheGhostOfTzvika [link] [comments]3 hours ago
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Don’t Ignore Your Moral Intuition About Phones - In a recent New Yorker review of Matt Richtel’s new book, How We Grow Up, Molly Fischer effectively summarizes the current debate about the impact phones...3 hours ago
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Revelation 2:9 - "I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of ...3 hours ago
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…"wasted little time VERB.ing"… - Commenters noted the ambiguity of this sentence quoted earlier today in "Rococo": When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, he wa...4 hours ago
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Why you keep falling for BS - [image: Why you keep falling for BS] On Carl Sagan's baloney detection submitted by /u/oudler [link] [comments]
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boy scout camp event I can't explain - [image: boy scout camp event I can't explain] When i was 12, i went to a boy scout summer camp. its this whole thing, it was at a place called camp gamb...
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Faulted for correct answer - I just had two math exams both of which I feel cheated on, I go to a secondary Dutch school in the Netherlands and have what we call Wiskunde B en Wiskun...5 hours ago
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Does a tree distribute any water it gets from its roots to all the branches, or does the water taken in by the roots on one side tend to stay on that side of the tree? - We're in a moderate drought, and I've been trying to keep the fruit trees in our yard healthy, but my soaker hose is only long enough to get about half w...5 hours ago
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A photo I took during an anti ICE riot - [image: A photo I took during an anti ICE riot] submitted by /u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks [link] [comments]
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Seasonal cycles of snow algal blooms intensify surface melting on Antarctic ice shelves - This study evaluates the hypothesis that “the presence and proliferation of snow algae on Antarctic ice shelves accelerate melting by reducing surface al...6 hours ago
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‘Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’ - [image: ‘Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’] submitted by /u/AmericanScream [lin...
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From a strictly cognitive perspective, what makes something like hoarding different from something like religious zealotry? The one is considered a serious mental disorder these days but I feel like at least a few of the traits of both overlap. - This is especially true when religious devotion, adherence, Etc. is taken to a level that puts one's safety at risk or in a sense borders on the irration...8 hours ago
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Speaking fluent barking - [image: Speaking fluent barking] submitted by /u/mozzax [link] [comments]
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Re: There Can Be Only One! - As Elmo just announced he's forming his very own political party, it's obvious he's no longer the Unelected Shadow Co-president Elmo the Oligarch (USCEO). ...19 hours ago
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XQuartz EGL - I know I am probably the last person in the world still running X11 on a Mac, but some time around macOS 14.7.3, XQuartz stopped working with OpenGL progra...1 day ago
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200 Nuns Walk into a Movie Theater... - It sounds like the beginning of a joke but that is exactly what happened in Sydney, Australis on the 24 April 1938. The picture here shows a huge nun ens...
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Should non-empirical virtues of theory influence model selection? - When two models explain the same data, the main principle we tend to use is Occam’s razor, formalized with, e.g., the Bayesian Information Criterion. Tha...1 day ago
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Video Friday: Cyborg Beetles May Speed Disaster Response One Day - Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at *IEEE Spectrum* robotics. We also post a weekly calendar o...1 day ago
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Why Do We Struggle to Maintain Friendships Despite Having So Many Contacts? - People, tend to have few or no real friends or meaningful connections, especially nowadays. Isn’t it strange? We have incredibly powerful tools right at...1 day ago
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A Software-based Thinking Theory is Enough to Mind - A new book "The Algorithmic Philosophy: An Integrated and Social Philosophy" gives a software-based thinking theory that can address many longstanding is...1 day ago
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Learn a little of every language - Hi Guys! I'm creating an app where people can learn a little bit of every language. I would love if you could comment your fav phrases, proverbs, slang, ...2 days ago
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Take your perishable foods to church every Sunday morning and it will never go bad - Duh submitted by /u/Naturewalkerjoe [link] [comments]2 days ago
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NPR Tiny Desk Concert by the cast of Buena Vista Social Club,... - NPR Tiny Desk Concert by the cast of Buena Vista Social Club, a hit Broadway musical about the Cuban musical ensemble. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.or...2 days ago
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IT'S DECISION TIME FOR HOPE - It's come down to a crucial time for the HOPE conference where we need to make some important decisions. As you may know, ticket sales have been less tha...3 days ago
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New in the Store: Trans Pride stickers! - Unfortunately no comic this week because I took a “vacation” for the first time in several years. But Dark Science #170 will be up next Monday, thank you...6 days ago
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Hack an der Ruhr 2025 – Hacken unter den Sternen - Vom *19. bis 20. Juli 2025* findet zum 4. Mal Hack an der Ruhr statt – ein Wochenende voller Technik, Austausch, spontaner Sessions und gemütlichem Camp-...6 days ago
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Books I will not Write: this time, a movie - (This is an old/paused blog entry I planned to release in April while I was at Eastercon, but forgot about. Here it is, late and a bit tired as real world ...1 week ago
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Debunk This: A Cuban jet fighter was shot down by a UFO in 1967 - I've had a bit of a weakness for UFO stories for many years. Not in the sense that I actually believe them, for the most part anyway, but that I just enj...1 week ago
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Tesla Wall Connector Charger Hacked Through Charging Port - Guru Baran, Cyber Security News (06/20/25), via ACM TechNews Researchers at French computer security company Synacktiv demonstrated an attack on Tesla's W...1 week ago
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PRAISE FROM TWENTY YEARS AGO - Reproduced from Lou Anders' blog: As Paul Goat Allen writes in B&N's Explorations newsletter, "Science fiction fans looking for the next big genre class...
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Happy Skull Appreciation Day 2025! - Can you believe it's been 18 years since I started this project?! *I hope you find a nice way to celebrate your own skull today!* If you want to go t...4 weeks ago
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YANSS 314 – How not to fall prey to proportionality bias (and other ways to form a healthy relationship with chaos) - In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, and get into the existential lessons […]5 weeks ago
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Tamoxifen interactions with SSRIs - Hi there, I have a patient under my care who has been in remission from breast cancer and is on tamoxifen (it's her 5th year of taking it); she has been ...1 month ago
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cryptogon.com » Catherine Austin Fitts on Tucker Carlson - submitted by /u/marxistopportunist [link] [comments]2 months ago
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How to Cook Frozen Crab Legs to Perfection - Want to cook frozen crab legs perfectly? This guide covers five foolproof methods, from boiling to microwaving. Learn how to achieve tender, flavorful re...9 months ago
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BEST—REVIEW—EVER! - It was almost a decade ago when I had coffee in Edinburgh with Colin Kerris, the young man who wrote this review. This from GoodReads, a website devoted ...
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08.23.22. Sasquatch and Government: Encounters, Investigations, and Official Files - For centuries, stories have been shared about encounters with strange, humanlike “monsters” in the remote regions of the Pacific Northwest and other rugged...2 years ago
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What percent of hackers are scrip kitties? - I’m working on a research paper and in there I wanted to include a skilled hacker to script skittle ratio guess. I relize it’s a very hard number to come...3 years ago
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Review: Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose, by Leigh Cowart - In academic circles, we have a half-joking-but-not-really saying: “All Research Is Me-Search,” and Leigh Cowart’s new book has taken that dictum to titan...3 years ago
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FireEye Launches XDR Platform to Help Security Operations Teams - FireEye has launched FireEye XDR, a unified platform designed to help security operations teams strengthen threat detection, accelerate response capabiliti...3 years ago
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New York Subway Poster Promotes the Real Rudy Giuliani - How the mighty have fallen. h/t Nancy NYC subway riders greeted by ad hyping ‘crazy’ Rudy Giuliani’s law offices: ‘Will work when drunk!’ by Michael Elsen-...5 years ago
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Hackaweek Coast2Coast Episode 3 – Atomic Pi, solder fails, bad diodes, filtering farts, tweeting litter box - We had some good laughs on this week’s podcast. You can listen on SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more. YouTube link below. Here’s a few links to t...6 years ago
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Autistics speaking day guest post part 3 - *I'm a bit late to post these today, but they're important. I did not write them, as they clearly state. My friend Shaun did. They've been dealing with ...6 years ago
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Weird Window #2 - *Weird Window* #2 was published under the auspices of *Shadow* magazine, by James Oddey of Birmingham, in March 1971. Alan Moore's *Shrine of the Lizard* i...6 years ago
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Comment on Virginia Valentine by Michael Davey - I have not seen Ginny for over fifty years when she was an aspiring actress. She was a joy to know and I still treasure a photograph that she gave after a ...6 years ago
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Getting product security engineering right - Product security is an interesting animal: it is a uniquely cross-disciplinary endeavor that spans policy, consulting, process automation, in-depth softw...7 years ago
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Go On Till You Come to the End; Then Stop - Go On Till You Come to the End; Then Stop ScienceBlogs is coming to an end. I don't know that there was ever a really official announcement of this, but t...7 years ago
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10 Ways to get amped up now - Get excited about energetic ways to get amped up right now. Life is a gift, and you want to enjoy special moments of happiness and fun. Sometime, you sho...7 years ago
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A Fast Z80 Integer Square Root - A project I'm working on needs a fast square root but I couldn't find anything suitable online. After implementing several versions of the bit-by-bit alg...7 years ago
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What is MONARCH Mind Control? - *Project MONARCH* is an alleged government black program to create mind-controlled slave for use as spies, assassins, couriers, and prostitutes. Monarchs...8 years ago
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A Softer World: 1248 - buy this comic as a print! Or share on: facebookreddit If you enjoy the comic, please consider supporting A Softer World on Patreon9 years ago
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Safety First – Was Sie bei Sex-Treffen beachten sollten - In der Welt der modernen Kommunikation ist der nächste Flirt oft nur einen Klick weit entfernt – Betrüger aber leider ebenso. Selbst wer im Umgang mit dem ...9 years ago
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The Doctrine of the Minimum Viable Truth – Q. G. Pennyworth - A piece by Queen Gogira that resonated with me, so much so that I thought it should reach a wider audience. The Horrible Truth finds us all eventually, the...9 years ago
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SITE MOVED - GO HERE FOR MODERN MYTHOLOGY We've successfully transferred our domain to the new ad free Modern Mythology. This was done for several reasons, the main on...9 years ago
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FINEST DESIGNS - The new album is live. Free. Grab it. Post it. Blog it. Tweet it. Do whatever you want with it.9 years ago
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"There are fundamental reasons for building constructs...that are inherently secure and difficult to break into." - Kurt Stammberger has been to the RSA Security Conference for more years than anyone, because even though he is now the CMO at Fortscale, 25 years ago he pu...
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Bowie - Wrote my initial thoughts about Bowie's passing over on my Medium. There's a lot more I could have said, but I'll leave it with this. In other news, think...
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Thou still unravished bride of quietness - Paintings by Gregory Thielker Title: Keats Folkert
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Beautiful Chess - *"Beautiful chess* is a chess variant originated by amateur players from Czech Republic in 2013. It is similar to Chess960 and Transcendental chess. In Bea...11 years ago
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Another personal aside: music - As some of you may know, I make ambient noise music. Here is my complete discography: Royalty-free music for professional licensing Royalty-free musi...12 years ago
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Service Interruption notice - You may have noticed rigorousintuition.ca is currently down. We're moving servers. Drew informs me it shouldn't take too long. Perhaps tonight or tomorrow....12 years ago
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Significant Cocktails - There’s a really great account of the triumphant public debut of the Significant Objects, at The Strand on July 10 over on Electric Literature’s Outlet blo...12 years ago
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Interlude: Queen Victoria’s VERY SECRET DIARY! - Just a quick squib of a comic in celebration of Queen Victoria’s Diaries, online! ALL TRUE! There could not possibly be a more typical Victorian document s...13 years ago
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► Every black hole contains another universe? - from *National Geographic*: "Like part of a cosmic Russian doll, our universe may be nested inside a black hole that is itself part of a larger universe. ...13 years ago
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New Project: Cubes - On September 6, I had an idea which I couldn't not work on. (Unfortunately, it wasn't an idea for either of my course projects this semester.) As you may...13 years ago
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Book review: “At Home: A short history of Private Life” by Bill Bryson - [image: book_at_home_ppbk]I’ve been on holiday for a week, this has meant a lot of reading! Next up is “At Home: A Short History of Private Life” by Bil...13 years ago
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Labeling/Rating System for Scientific Studies - 9 Vote On Idea Typically, science journalism covers new studies that have not yet been replicated with very little to indicate that this is really a fairl...14 years ago
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Labeling/Rating System for Scientific Studies - 9 Vote On Idea Typically, science journalism covers new studies that have not yet been replicated with very little to indicate that this is really a fairl...14 years ago
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A Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits - *The sky calls to us* *If we do not destroy ourselves* *We will one day* *Venture to the stars* *A still more glorious dawn awaits* *Not a sunrise, but a g...
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The Real versus the Important - I have recently been bothered by a near-omnipresent confusion between the importance of thing and its degree of objective reality. I will attempt here to e...14 years ago
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"My Photoshop Skills are so good- I once shooped a THONG onto a DOG." --Count Tufive, on her apparent photoshop expertise - Because of the fact that it is summer and I have few to no friends in the vicinity, I've been mostly resigned to my room, watching Arrested Development on ...14 years ago
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This time I am bloody serious - I miss my own show. How odd. I am done grieving my fallen friend. The show will be released on friday. This time for real.15 years ago
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Memetic Mutation - We're no strangers to memes You know the rules, and so do I A full mutation's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just gotta tell...15 years ago
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Please redirect this feed - Language Log has changed servers -- please switch this feed to http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?feed=rss2...17 years ago
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