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    Don Tzu

    It's a meme!
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    Nobody cares about Psychology

    Mental health still has "health" in it.
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    Everything's Fine

    Remember Sarah Cooper of the COVID-era Tump lip sync videos? She seems to be doing better than fine these days.
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    Fantasy Faire 2026!

    We're back on the changeling gang, fantasy folk! https://fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com/ This is their 18th year (making it barely a month older than me in Second Life), with over 300 creators across 20 regions. They raised over 129k USD in 2025 for the American Cancer Society through their...
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    House Oversight Committee Republicans considering pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell

    https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/22/congress/to-pardon-maxwell-or-not-00887823 Comer is a voice of reason? Ugh... Thankfully the Democrats are repulsed by the idea. Dems say ‘hell no’ to Republicans considering Trump pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘Shameful way to treat survivors’
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    Florida oranges aren't what they once were

    And Trump's tariffs are only part of the reason. Who Killed the Florida Orange?
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    No more Second Life through your web brower...

    Ending Support for Project Zero – and What’s Next "Project Zero" is coming to an end this Friday, so it's back to using the viewer on your desktop PC if you want to log into Second Life. Or you can use the mobile viewer*. * Comedy!
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    Mainland changes: Zindra is expanding and Gaeta 1 is going away

    So begins the swelling of Adult mainland, and the shrinkage of everywhere else... A New Chapter for Mainland: Gaeta 1 Transition & Zindra Expansion Linden Lab is planning the addition of 90 new Zindra regions, while phasing out the "unconnected continent" Gaeta 1 entirely from the grid...
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    Songs to celebrate with when he's gone

    I know the one I'll be playing over and over (I might start collecting a host of covers for it), but I've decided we could also do with a playlist. To begin organizing a very long party mixtape for That Special Day. So, to start things off.
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    How much of a thing are microplastics?

    Obviously microplastics exist, but are they as invasive as many are claiming? They're said to have found nearly everywhere now, from the remotest regions on Earth, to inside our blood and tissues. Recent reports, however, bring some suspicion to claims of just how bad things really are. ‘A...
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    A.I. has been spilling into the newsroom

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260326065540/https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/03/how-ai-creeping-new-york-times/686528/ Such a joyful future we all have to look forward to when all news is published, in part or wholly with the aid of A.I., which in turn is scraped into various A.I...
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    Robert Mueller, former FBI director, is dead at 81

    https://www.ms.now/news/former-special-counsel-robert-mueller-has-died I'm storing this quote away, and when a certain someone passes will repeat it constantly, about them.
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    Up next, the U.S. war with Cuba

    https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mh7flrcoxx2y The man is beyond a menace.
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    Oh hey it's March 15th...

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    Jerome Despret is Linden Lab’s New Senior Vice President of Engineering

    He has a background with The Sims franchise. Interesting. Welcome Jerome Despret, Linden Lab’s New Senior Vice President of Engineering Wagner James (Hamlet) Au notes that Linden Lab has made several new higher-level hires.
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    What if nobody worked and everybody got paid (somehow)?

    A.I. gurus have something wrong in the head. Fortune reviewed the thinking of one of them, and... https://fortune.com/2026/03/05/ideal-number-of-human-employees-is-zero-will-ai-take-jobs/ A landscape filled with self-run businesses galore, entire industries producing...stuff and filling...
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    The Sims used for public opinion research

    That's basically what the news headline should be. https://gizmodo.com/an-ai-company-apparently-inspired-by-the-sims-wants-to-revolutionize-public-opinion-research-2000731038 I can see this turning out badly. Hugely, extremely badly.
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    U.S. about to declare war with Iran?

    At least this doesn't appear to be a prelude to our war with Canada. US military prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, but Trump has yet to make a final call, sources say Oh sure. For example, I'm sure he's quite conflicted over whether to interrupt his weekend golf plans. And...
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    Youtube is glitching

    I get to the site in web browsers and see my subscriptions in the sidebar, can play videos etc. But the home page is not loading (I get a fun "Something went wrong" message). On my Fire TV box, I was kicked out of my account and cannot get through the login reinitializing process. After a...
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    RIP Robert Duvall, dead at 95

    https://variety.com/2026/film/news/robert-duvall-dead-godfather-the-great-santini-1236664754/ He had a long, amazing career.