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    True DogeDesigner: TRUMP: "The person who was the real President during the Biden years was the person who controlled the Autopen!"
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  • No kidding
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    No kidding Wall Street Apes:HOLY CR*P Joe Biden was paying off his blackmail bribes by sending USAID MoneyThe BILLION DOLLARS Joe Biden sent to Ukraine after getting the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma fired, It was a USAID grantMike Benz Remember when Joe Biden was at the Council on
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  • ?Near Future - 2215 A.D.?
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  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Why You Should Start Over in 2025
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    Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was released over 20 years ago, but is still considered by many to be one of the best CRPGs ever made. While the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is currently being developed, revisiting KotOR in 2025 is well-worth it as the original still holds up in the most important ways. News of KotOR's remake has been scarce for years with no signs of changing, and a release for it may still be years away.
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  • The Changes Needed In The Sinking City 2
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    When it launched in 2019, The Sinking City was an anomaly for Ukrainian developer Frogwares, known for their Sherlock Holmesaction-adventure games. Instead, The Sinking City still featured the studio's detective mechanics but swapped out the Victorian investigator for a Lovecraftian horror game. It was a surprisingly smooth transition, with the grisly murders of Holmes' London replaced by the grisly horror of 1920s America being gradually subsumed by an encroaching eldritch god.
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  • One of our favorite Samsung microSD cards drops to an all-time-low price
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    The Samsung Evo Select microSD card is on sale via Amazon. The 512GB model is down to just $33, which is a record-low price and one heck of a deal. This is the newest iteration of this card, with read/write speeds up to 160 MB/s. Its worth noting that only the 512GB version is on sale right now, and the other sizes range from $15 for 64GB to $80 for 1TB. We love this thing and it easily found a place on our list of the best SD cards. It offers a ten-year warranty, which is nice, and the price range is typically on the lower side. We called the sequential and random read speeds respectable in our benchmark tests. This isnt the absolute fastest SD card on the market, but its a near-perfect storage solution. To that end, the 512GB model can fit over 200,000 photos in 4K and over 300,000 images in smaller formats. As for video, it holds 80 hours of FHD footage and around 24 hours in 4K. This is also a durable card, with added protection against water damage, extreme temperatures and accidental falls. On the downside, we come back to the question of speed. The sequential write speeds fall just under 70MB/s, via benchmark tests on CrystalDiskMark. This means that we cant really recommend this card for use inside of a camera. For simple storage expansion, however, the price cant be beat. Follow @EngadgetDeals on X for the latest tech deals and buying advice.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/one-of-our-favorite-samsung-microsd-cards-drops-to-an-all-time-low-price-151637426.html?src=rss
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  • Over 400 million unwanted and malicious emails were received by businesses in 2024
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    Report highlights rising cyber threats, and urges businesses to adopt advanced cybersecurity practices and foster a strong security culture.
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  • Who was really behind the massive X cyberattack? Heres what experts say about Elon Musks claims
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    A large-scale cyberattack caused multiple X outages on Monday 10 March. But is it really possible to identify where the attack originated?
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  • How I used AI to boost my self-esteem and how you can do the same
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    Imagine everyone around you sounds like theyre shouting underwater. Thats my world without hearing aidsa reality Ive hidden since I was a kid.Words reach me as a cacophony of blended vowels, forcing me to piece together meaning from your lips, your expressions, your gestures.And a year ago, if youd told me artificial intelligence would help me finally embrace this part of myself, I wouldve laughed in your face.Let me explain.In the days before social media could connect you to others like you with a single swipe, I was the only kid I knew who needed hearing aids. So at a young age, I made a decision to hide this at all costs. And I became an expert at it.Yet, ironically, I have built my entire career around helping others share their truth. As a Today Show producer and then a business storytelling coach, I spent years in control rooms and conference rooms, creating safe spaces for people to be vulnerable. Yet there I was perfecting my own daily disguisestrategic hair placement (never up), carefully tilted headphones to avoid control room feedback, and endless excuses for why I needed to sit in certain spots during meetings. I was the master of making others feel seen in order to share their stories while doing everything possible to hide a major part of my own.Fast-forward to 2023. Running my video storytelling company, I watched in frustration as students submitted soulless AI-generated scripts. Months of helping them connect the dots on their founder stories, only to have them feed everything into ChatGPT for perfectly polishedbut utterly lifelessfinal scripts. I hated this new technology.But the journalist in me couldnt ignore one nagging question: Could we use AI to help us tell more vulnerable, more human stories? Late one night, I decided to test this idea on myself. I opened ChatGPT and typed: I want to explore something Ive been hiding my whole life. I wear hearing aids, and Im exhausted from concealing them. Can you help me understand why Im struggling to be open about this?The AIs response stopped me cold. Instead of the usual generic advice, it reflected back patterns in my own writinghow often I used words like hide, mask, and cover.AI showed me that my greatest strength as a storytelling coach was helping others embrace exactly what made them different, and that I needed to do the same for myself. Tears streamed down my face as I saw my own story in a completely new light.This unexpected moment started me on a journey to help others use AI to tell their authentic stories.But first, I used myself as the guinea pig. I began using AI as a journalwriting down my observations about my clients and students biggest fears,their late-night worries, their secret dreams of what their businesses could become, what triggered them on social media or in the workplace. (Anonymized, of course, to protect their privacy.) And then I ventured onto more sinister thoughts from my own entrepreneurial journey: Am I really qualified to do this? What if everyone realizes Im making this up as I go? Then Id ask AI to help me find moments from my own life that could build bridges to the struggles of my audience.The process was iterative, collaborative, difficult, and therapeutic.Where I once saw random life experiences that had no bearing on my current life or business hat, AI helped me spot golden threads of connection. That time I bombed a live TV segment and almost got fired? Suddenly I saw how it connected to my audiences fear of visibility. My rocky transition from network TV to entrepreneurship? A perfect mirror for their own career pivot anxieties. That moment I was lying on my Brooklyn apartment floor with a newborn and toddler, terrified about getting let go from my brand new fancy startup job? It spoke directly to my audiences fears about taking risks and making big changes.It was like having a mirror that could see past my blind spotsshowing me connections I was too close to notice, patterns I was too wrapped up in to recognize, and meaning in moments Id dismissed as just stuff that happened.I began weaving these AI-sparked revelations into my business storytelling, testing how this new vulnerability landed with my audience. The response was immediate.Stories Id dismissed as not that interesting suddenly revealed their power through AI as she identified golden threads of connection I was too close to see.My storytelling library cracked wide open. I became excited to dig into some of the uncomfortable life moments with AI as my thought-provoking guide.The real breakthrough came when I started teaching this reflective approach to other business leaders. Together with AI, we excavated the deeper meanings behind their business decisions, revealing stories they never thought to tell.Together we used prompts like this:What themes emerge in how I talk about my business journey?Where might I be holding back out of fear?How could my struggles actually help my audience?I watched founders whod hidden behind their logos for years finally step into the spotlight with confidence. A soap company founder revealed her real reason for leaving finance for ocean conservation.All of a sudden, her sharing about herself wasnt bragging but necessary to connect to her customers.Another founder realized her obsession with building nurturing corporate cultures stemmed from losing her dad as a child.These werent just better marketing storiesthey were moments of profound clarity. I watched as professional facades crumbled as they realized their personal experiences werent distractions from their business storiesthey just needed to see those moments in another light.These transformations were so powerful that I knew I needed to make this process accessible to more people. The problem was, most AI tools werent built for this kind of deep, reflective storytelling work. They were designed to generate content, not unlock authentic human stories.So I built StoryPro, an AI storytelling tool specifically designed for this intersection of humanity and technology. Not to write stories for people (although it will once it feels youve gone deep enough), but to help them discover the stories within themselves that need to be told.It combines the pattern-recognition power of AI with prompts and frameworks Ive developed over decades of helping people share their authentic experiences.Its like having a storytelling coach in your pocketone that helps you see the significance in experiences you might have overlooked and shows you how these moments could resonate with your audience.Then came my moment of truth . . . I decided it was time to tell my hearing aid story publicly for the first time ever.Using a combination of Google Notebook LLM and StoryPro, the storytelling tool I created, I began exploring my own narrative in a deeper way.I wrote a video script story about my hearing aids freely and with a clarity I had never felt before.When I finally shared the video on LinkedIn, the post went viral, generating millions of impressions. Speaking invitations and podcast appearances followed.But the real transformation wasnt in the metrics. It was in how I finally saw myself: I internalized for the first time how my hearing loss wasnt a weakness to hide.The past 18 months have transformed everything I thought I knew about AI and authenticity. AI isnt here to replace our creativityits a mirror, reflecting back the stories weve kept locked inside ourselves. Its a tool that can help us see ourselves more clearly and find courage in our vulnerability. It can even be a partner in healing our wounded self-image.Those hearing aids I spent decades hiding?Theyre now proudly visible in every video call and speaking engagement. Not because AI wrote me a perfect story, but because it helped me see the story that was there all alongand own it proudly.Want to start your own journey of discovery? Heres a prompt that changed everything for me:The Mirror Prompt1. Open your favorite AI tool and paste this:I need your help exploring something Ive been hesitant to share. Ill start by sharing some of my past writing so you can understand my voice. Then Ill tell you about something I feel called to share with my audience who are {insert a bit of info on your audience and how you serve them} but havent found the right way to express it. Can you help me spot patterns and connections I might be missing? Feel free to ask follow-up questions.2. After the AI responds, go deeper with:Help me see this through fresh eyeswhat hidden strengths might lie in what Ive seen as weaknesses? How could this help me connect more authentically with my audience?3. Finally, ask for:Show me three small ways to begin sharing this story, starting with the gentlest first step I could take today.You might be surprisedlike I wasto find yourself feeling truly seen and understood . . . yes, by AI. Sometimes the most powerful insights come from unexpected places.
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  • How St. Patricks Day celebrations originally featured the color blue
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    St. Patricks Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.So my students are often surprised when I tell them that St. Patricks Day was once a solemn feast day when youd be far more likely to see the color blue. In fact, theres even a color known as St. Patricks blue.True blueHistorians dont know much about St. Patrick. But they believe he was born in the fifth century as Maewyn Succat.He wasnt Irish; rather he was born in Wales, the son of a Roman-British official. He was, however, captured by Irish pirates and enslaved in Ireland. After six years he went back to Britain but returned to Ireland as one of the missionaries to convert Irish pagans to Christianity. At some point he adopted the Latin name Patricius. In the 10th century, the first evidence of St. Patrick being a beloved figure in Ireland emerged.In the early 17th century, Luke Wadding, an Irish priest, persuaded the Catholic Church to make March 17 a feast day for St. Patrick.St. Patrick wasnt born in Ireland, but he did missionary work there. [Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY]Back then, feast days were far from raucous affairs: Catholics typically went to Mass and then had a quiet dinner at home to celebrate. Other denominations, including Anglicans and Lutherans, recognized the day as well. But any commemorations would include the color blue. The Dublin Evening Post reported that in a 1785 St. Patricks Day ceremony in Dublin, a group of men identifying themselves as patriots marched in a grand procession round the garden, dressed in true blue, and carrying along with them a number of curious pageants.Constance Markievicz, who fought in the 1916 Easter Rebellion for independence and was the first minister of labour in the Irish Free State, maintained that blue was the old colour of Ireland. To connect the past to the nationalist movement, she used blue as the background for the Irish Citizen Armys flag.In 1934, Irish politician W.T. Cosgrave asserted that blue is in perfect, traditional, national accord with our history and in close association with the most revered and venerated memory of our patron Saint.Out with the old, in with the newSince the 12th century, Ireland had been a colony of Great Britain. Like the American Colonists who rebelled against the British crown, a group of rebels called the United Irish launched an insurrection in 1798 in a quest for independence.Led mostly by middle-class Protestants and in coordination with some Catholics, the United Irish adopted the wearing of the green to represent Irish nationalism and their fight against British imperialism.The rebellion failed, and the British government made Ireland part of the United Kingdom in 1801 to prevent future revolutions. The government also bestowed greater rights to Protestants over Catholics.Ireland became more sectarian over the course of the 19th century, and nationalism became more associated with Catholicism. In some ways, the two became interchangeable.With nationalism ascendant and Catholics outnumbering Protestants, green was widely embraced, particularly since it had been worn by the United Irish.Green crosses the pondBefore the 1840s, most Irish immigrants to America had been Protestants, many of whom had been the descendants of Scottish settlers in Ulster and would later become known as the Scots Irish. Like those that would succeed them, they celebrated St. Patricks Day to commemorate their connection to Ireland.In the earliest recorded American celebration of the day, banquets toasting Ireland and St. Patrick took place in Boston in 1737. By the 1760s, annual parades were being held in New York and on the island of Montserrat to celebrate Irish culture and identity.Irish immigration to the new world increased dramatically after the Great Hunger of the 1840s, when the potato crops failed and over 1 million indigent Catholics arrived in the U.S. Facing discrimination from American Protestants who claimed they were more loyal to the pope than to the U.S., they viewed St. Patricks Day as a link to the history and culture of Ireland. Celebrations were a badge of pride and dignity, and they called for Irish independence to demonstrate they, too, believed in republican principles.Irish immigrants to the U.S. were eager to profess their embrace of the nations republican ideals. [Art: Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images]Irish nationalist groups active in the U.S. the Fenians, Clan na Gael and, later, Irish Northern Aid participated in these American St. Patricks Day parades, proudly wearing green to demonstrate their nationalism and the connection to past nationalist groups such as the United Irish.In Ireland, however, St. Patricks Day remained a solemn day of observance with little revelry. The Irish government didnt recognize St. Patricks Day as a public holiday until 1903, and the first parade in Dublin wasnt held until 1931. Even pubs remained closed on March 17 until 1961.Since 1922, when 26 of the 32 counties of Ireland became semi-independent, the tricolor flag of Ireland has been the official flag. Green represents the Catholics, orange represents the Protestants, and the white in the middle symbolizes peace. Yet green remains the color associated with St. Patricks Day and Ireland throughout the world, largely due to the Catholic diaspora and its association with nationalism.However, blue still plays a symbolic role in Ireland: Since 1945, the flag representing the president of Ireland has a gold harp with a dark blue background the color known as St. Patricks blue.The Irish presidential flag flies from the car of Irelands president. [Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images]Bryan McGovern is a professor of history at Kennesaw State University.This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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