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techloadon Discovery of fresco portraying Dionysian mysteries at Pompeii

An interesting account of these related persecutions, etc.: LETTER TO A BRAZILIAN MASON UNEXPURGATED: http://www.themasonictrowel.com/ebooks/freemasonry/eb0158.pd...

techloadon I'm a DeepSeek AI Bro Now

https://archive.is/c6cn9

techloadon DeepSeek-R1

You can learn more about DeepSeek and Liang Wenfeng here: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-ch...

techloadon When Velodromes Were Big Business

Wow! Totally unknown to me.

techloadon Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI's role in search

This was predicted here.

techloadon How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean (AMOC) Break?

https://archive.is/OY6gA

techloadon AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate

https://archive.ph/koPcL

techloadon Gen Zers are so disillusioned with the economy, many say okay to commit fraud

https://archive.ph/W80sF

techloadon Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest Airports

https://archive.is/EW5JN

techloadon 1950s Sci-Fi Style Computers, Powered by a Z80, Built in Holland

I get this when accessing the page: "Notice to users in Brazil Because of Brazilian government demands to remove creators from our platform, Locals is currently unavailable in Brazil We are challenging these government demands and hope to restore access soon"

techloadon The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase

https://archive.ph/gVsqz

techloadon Hands Off. With $3,500 Headsets in the Wild, New Social Norms Apply

https://archive.ph/dz38f

techloadon Mistral looks set to challenge AI frontrunners Google and OpenAI

I had to lookup for that too: milque·toast: A timid or feeble person.

techloadon How Not to Be Stupid About AI, with Yann LeCun

https://archive.ph/SwU5U

techloadon [dead]

https://archive.ph/2kmB3

techloadon Ask HN: are ChatGPT 4 results worsening since this weekend for you?

Yesterday I asked it to analyze a simple .txt file and make a simple classification. It refused to go on after line 12. I was very disappointed that it couldn't do such a simple task, after reading so many accounts of much more complicated tasks performed for users. And I had just signed up for the Plus plan last week.

techloadon OpenAI Leadership Hangs in Balance as Sam Altman's Counter-Rebellion Gains Steam

https://archive.ph/knUax

techloadon The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman's Ouster at OpenAI

https://archive.ph/0j5ly

techloadon Online Order Has Been Delivered–and It's Teeny Tiny

https://archive.ph/agXGC

techloadon The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

I created one torrent in 09-11-2004 and uploaded it to TPB. It is still alive with seeders.

techloadon How Did Vanilla Become a Byword for Blandness?

https://archive.ph/Hxn62

techloadon I Can Eat Glass

There are a lot of people who do this, amazing and unbelievable as it may seem.

https://youtu.be/WUuMybRysjE

https://youtu.be/O8ifaTHbMTo

https://youtu.be/JFnGsGnlkAI

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5OdkhtMEqMo?feature=share

techloadon I Can Eat Glass

No. It was a glass from the bar, and a thick walled one. There was no blood. He did this thing several times. He did not die, as I met him several years after. It is a glass like this one, common in Brazilian bars:

https://youtu.be/xwrn2h8iAdw

techloadon I Can Eat Glass

Once I met a young man who was able to eat glass, literally. I saw, right in front of me, him break a glass with his teeth, chew the pieces until they were very fine, and swallow everything. To prove that he wasn't hiding the pieces in his mouth, he made a point of opening his mouth wide and showing that he had indeed swallowed them.

techloadon Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware

BloatyNosy (similar to ThisIsWin11) is better: https://github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy/releases

techloadon A Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World

https://archive.is/od17t

techloadon A better GPT-4 experience for free

Does not work.

techloadon World's Largest Money Managers [2023 P&I Top500]

https://archive.is/Z67uH

techloadon Sitting down to urinate can be healthier for men, especially as they age

https://archive.is/CQZ65

techloadon Ask HN: What's the best book on religion?

"The Golden Bough" - a study in comparative religion, by James George Frazer

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1159648W/The_golden_bough?ed...

LETTER TO A BRAZILIAN MASON - Marcelo Ramos Motta

https://parareligion.ch/dplanet/motta/moma2.htm