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"The US is home to dozens of feral parrot species. Here's a quick guide to identifying the most common birds."

"In about 1932, a small, hexagonal shingle-style Victorian building in Long Beach got a programmatic makeover, adding a large, angular percolator made of metal and glass on the roof, to become the Hot Cha Café. The name changed to the Koffee Pot Café, but it remained a coffee shop into the 1960s…"
If this was still a cafe I’d totally go there just for the style. I’m glad it was restored instead of demolished!

"Combining data from NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, a team from NASA's Universe of Learning at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland has produced a breathtaking new 3D visualization of the towering "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula. This is the most comprehensive, detailed, multiwavelength movie yet of these iconic star-birthing clouds."

"Modal ads, ads that reorganize content, and autoplaying video ads were among the most disliked. Ads that are annoying on desktop become intolerable on mobile." (2017)

And this crap still happens

"First step: find some other way to use the batteries before taking them apart."

"This view of Venus was acquired by the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft's IR2 camera, which observes—among other things—the "warmth" of the planet's…"

There's an AI training set that's all public domain, and an LLM trained exclusively on legal, financial and regulatory documents reviewed for compliance.

"Astronomers concluded it is not the same and that Cassini's spot disappeared in 1708."
Interesting: I'd read that there was a gap in observations, and modern astronomers weren't sure whether the current spot was the same one or a new one.

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