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Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is a classic and well-liked YouTube video from the early days of YouTube in 2007 (previously). But there's also a more experimental followup(?) from 2018 that received a more... mixed... response: Daft Hands 2 - The Daftening (tw skull). Some YouTube comments "beggining of the video: omg finally a sequel after 10 years / finished the video:...

Canadian man leaps onto polar bear to defend wife. A man who leapt onto a polar bear to protect his wife from the attacking animal is expected to recover from serious injuries he sustained, police say. The incident occurred in Fort Severn First Nation — a community of about 360 people in northernmost Ontario.A scientist at Polar Bears International, Alysa McCall, told the Canadian...

"What was really interesting to see (was) that the people really talked with him in a serious way," Schmid said.

From the previous post: Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Amnesty International's Israel branch distances itself from "genocide" claim". In the meantime, Israeli military kills four doctors in raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza. Over 1,000 doctors and nurses have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, according to local authorities. Israel continues to bomb Lebanon despite a...

How a Mom Managed to Thru-Hike the Appalachian Trail With 13 Kids. Kids were 4 to 23 years old. Fb page

A plague of drones hovers over Northern New Jersey, spooking residents and stumping authorities. It's just military drills, right? No big deal. Probably coming out of Picatinny Arsenal.And yet...the governor of New Jersey attempts to calm local residents despite no acknowledgement on their parts as to what is going on. As the FBI implores everyone to report sightings and assist in this investigation. Confession:...

Romania's high court cancels results of first presidential runoff, announcing entirely new elections. The country's security council found that during the first round, Romania was the target of "aggressive hybrid Russian attacks." Călin Georgescu, a Russia-supporting fringe right candidate had been polling at around 4% before coming out on top during the first round of voting with 23% after his TikTok-based campaign gained last...

The Lost Book Exhibition. "Livres Imaginaires, Reid Byers' exhibition of Imaginary Books, is a collection of volumes that live only in other books: lost, unwritten, or fictitious books that have no physical existence. [Items include The Giant Rat of Sumatra, The Murder of Gonzago, and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as well as Marlowe's Maiden Holiday whose pages were used by a cook...

Today, the term "femicide" is used more frequently to describe the murder of women. Provost said the increased use of the word is a reflection of a society that is coming to terms with the high prevalence of gender-based violence.Former La Presse columnist and The Fifth Estate co-host, Francine Pelletier, recalls the day she found out she was on the shooter's hit list. Today,...

The story of a proposed biochar plant in Upstate NY that might have been an environmental win and environmental loss all at once.Biochar is used in agriculture as a soil amendment where it can also bind heavy metals. It also can effectively sequester carbon. Moreau, NY is a small town on the Hudson River not far from GE plant that released PCBs for 30...

World's oldest known wild seabird, an albatross named Wisdom, lays egg at 74. Wisdom the Laysan albatross lays another egg this year at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii with a new mating partner.

The etcetera is background, something that is part of a scene or sentence—it cannot be done away with, and yet it needn't be paid much attention: this seems to be the ethic of the creative process. A close approximation of this decision-making process might be how we decide to crop photos—isolating our face and body from a group, for example, or cutting out the...