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BTW, eating the Beginning of Summer rice can prevent summer heat.Come on, do what the pandas are doing!

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/ipandacom/status/1654637096727113728#m

 

I saw the photos first: tan, straggly piles along the banks of an otherwise fertile stream. My mind went to worms, and then gnats. I once wrote an article about fungus gnats, the larvae of which sometimes form circles to travel. Was I looking at something like that? A natural phenomenon that covered the stream in thousands of brown, straw-like creatures?

Nope. I was looking at pasta.

Residents of Old Bridge, New Jersey were presented with a mystery this week: Who dumped mounds of pasta in the forest, all along the stream?

The saga began earlier in the week when resident Nina Jochnowitz alerted town officials to the bountiful mess after receiving a complaint from a neighbor. Reportedly, it was loose spaghetti, alphabet noodles, and elbow macaroni.

“There was literally 25 feet of pasta that had been dumped,” she told The New York Times.

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Thomas advertised her rally online hoping to draw in attendees from the public. She received virtual recruitment help from Known Heretic, or Amy E. Sousa, a TERF YouTuber, and the Gender Mapper, Alix Aharon, a hate monger who documents and makes public doxx lists of gender clinics. These lists are often utilized by the far-right. Thomas received on-the-ground help from a team of east coast TERFs.

Unfortunately for Thomas her propaganda push was unsuccessful and the only people who attended in support of the rally were her team of TERF’s slated to speak and their boyfriends and husbands.

Thomas and her group arrived at 11:45am at the capital building and began to set up around the erected police barriers and launched their live feed via Amy Sousa on YouTube. Almost immediately upon setting up and beginning their speeches the TERFs were drowned out by queer antifascists.

Queer antifascists and other collaborators led the initial disruption actions, preventing the TERFs from being able to broadcast their hate by using megaphones, music, and air horns.

The contingent of Rutgers union strikers, fresh off directing their own protest against the University, showed up on the scene en masse shortly after to offer their support. The large group of Rutgers Union strikers used their megaphones and numbers to completely stop the rally for a period of time causing confusion amongst the TERFs. Thomas and her goons couldn’t seem to process solidarity in action. She and several other TERFs, including an enraged Brittany Ortiz, then took turns yelling at the crowd about their transphobia.

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The wave of new AI chatbots is not stopping anytime soon; another contender has jumped into the ring with ChatGPT.

Released recently, it's called 'HuggingChat.' The main focus of this chatbot is to provide a more transparent, inclusive, and accountable alternative to ChatGPT.

Don't get me wrong, HuggingChat is not the first open-source alternative to ChatGPT. We have covered open-source projects challenging ChatGPT.

However, HugginChat seems to be the first one available to access as a platform that appears similar to ChatGPT.

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https://huggingface.co/chat/

https://huggingface.co/spaces

 

Seems neat, I'm sure it reaps your data, but you could try it on a browser you just use for browsing, it's also on firefox

it claims to not sell your data though

https://jointoucan.com/privacy

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toucan-language-learning/

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With Toucan installed for either Chrome, Edge, or Safari, the first time you visit a website or click on an article, you’ll notice something strange: Some of the words on the page will change, and translate to your chosen language. If you’re trying to learn Portuguese, you might see a sentence like esta, but one or two palavras will be translated.

Hover your cursor over the translated word, and a pop up will reveal what it means in English. (“Esta” is “this;’ “palavras” is “words.”) This pop up gives you additional interesting controls, such as a speaker icon you can click to hear how the word is pronounced, a mini quiz to see if you can spell the word, and a save button to highlight the word for later.

It starts out with one word at a time, but as you learn, Toucan ups the ante, adding more words in blocks, or “lexical chunks.” It makes sense, since languages don’t all share the same grammar structure. By building up to larger groups of words, you’ll more naturally learn word order, verb conjugation, and the general grammar of your chosen language.

The extension also offers “shortcuts,” which are a bit more like a traditional language-learning experience. These highlight key words and phrases you’ll use in common situations, such as greetings or going out to eat. Interestingly, shortcuts only work on Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and Google.

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In a recent interview, Pedro Pascal, the actor currently at the top of his game, opened up about his younger sister, Lux, who is transgender. In a new interview, he praised her.

While speaking with Esquire, the 48-year-old actor discussed his admiration and respect for Lux, 30.

The actor spent most of his twenties and thirties struggling to make ends meet as most actors do, but Pascal has suddenly been propelled to an incredible level of fame in a short period. He’s the current ‘it’ daddy, some say.

Pascal had roles on HBO’s Game of Thrones and Netflix’s Narcos. However, now he's the star of a couple of highly-acclaimed, audience-loved series that have taken his stardom to new heights. As Joel in HBO’s runaway hit The Last of Us, he captivated viewers as an antihero survivor in a post-apocalyptic America.The Mandalorian’s third season saw him reprise his role as the title character who is navigating a post-Empire galaxy far, far away.

He's also become widely known as an LGBTQ+ ally. That's, in part, due to his relationship with his sister.

“[Lux] is and has always been one of the most powerful people and personalities I’ve ever known,” he told Esquire. "My protective side is lethal, but I need her more than she needs me.”

Originally from Chile, the Pascal family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine months old. Besides his older sister, Javiera, he has a younger brother, Nicolás, and Lux, who is seventeen years his junior.

The magazine reports that Pascal sees Lux and Nicolás often between filming since they both returned to Chile when she was a baby.

Lux first shared her identity with the world at the beginning of 2021. Pedro shared a picture of a Chilean magazine cover with a caption about his sister stating, “Mi hermana, mi corazón, nuestra Lux,” or “my sister, my heart, our Lux.”

Recently, Pascal posted several Pride flags on his Instagram page with nearly 8 million followers.

 
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