Excuse the weak pun, but I really do think this is a good idea. With libraries facing funding cuts, and rural communities having to travel to towns or cities to use libraries, this retired schoolteacher in Italy decided to create his own mobile library to serve the area he lives in.
Monthly Archives: January 2024
♫ I’m In A Different World ♫ (Happy Birthday David!) | Filosofa’s Word
Today’s song by the Four Tops is a one I play every year on this day to celebrate the birthday of our dear friend, David, aka Lord David Michael Prosser. David likely wouldn’t appreciate me telling you exactly how old he is today, but I do delight in telling that he is 139 days older than I am, and I take great delight in reminding him of that fact every year on this date!!! David loves this song, and when I played it a few years ago, I declared it would be the song of the day on January 18th from then on!

Source: ♫ I’m In A Different World ♫ (Happy Birthday David!) | Filosofa’s Word
कहानी / Story – Kaushal Kishore

हर कहानी नहीं पहुंचती
अपने अंजाम तक;
कुछ को छोड़ दिया जाता है
जान बूझकर अधूरा,
ताकि बनी रहे आगे
उसमें रुचि और प्रत्याशा…
✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️
Not every story
reaches its conclusion;
some are deliberately
left incomplete,
leaving room for lingering
interest and anticipation…
–Kaushal Kishore
Source: कहानी / Story – Kaushal Kishore
People do not pretend to be depressed they pretend to be happy | STREET ART UTOPIA

Street Artist Dotmaster
Source: People do not pretend to be depressed they pretend to be happy | STREET ART UTOPIA
Merchant: The fake George Carlin comedy special is everything that’s wrong with AI right now – Los Angeles Times
I knew it was going to be bad. By the time I sat down to watch the thing, much of the internet was already furious that a “state-of-the-art-entertainment AI” called Dudesy had generated an hourlong comedy special in the style of George Carlin, without the consent of the late comic’s horrified family. But I wasn’t prepared for it to be so bad.
The special, tastefully titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” is one of the most unpleasant things ostensibly produced for entertainment purposes that I have ever sat through. It’s a stroll through an uncanny valley of Carlin’s comedy, an audio program in which a serviceable replica of the familiar raspy voice delivers “jokes” on topics from mass shootings to Taylor Swift to artificial intelligence.
It’s all set to an unsettling rotating gallery of AI-generated images that roughly correlate to whatever Carlin’s simulacrum is discussing. When the Carlin voice is hitting on the malign influence of money in politics, there’s a bizarre diagram of politicians being bought off, with figures labeled “The guluar citizen” and “Liolbolist”; when AI Carlin says the you-know-what “has hit the fan,” a hyper-stylized brown tube protrudes from one…

Medicine for Israeli hostages and Palestinians arrives in Gaza under deal struck by Qatar – Egypt Independent
The agreement mediated by Qatar Tuesday will see medication delivered to Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for medicine and humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians…

At a crossroads – Ukraine
We will manage to survive only if our resistance to this sinister Russian gloom remains nationwide. Each of us, tens of millions of Ukrainian citizens, wherever we are, must feel and understand that our victory is impossible without active and selfless personal participation in this struggle.Source: At a crossroads
Weekly Wisdom 18 January – MiddleMe
If you could uninvent something- what would it be? Humans eating animals – Content Catnip
Love – Raffaello Palandri’s Blog
Love is a powerful universal language you can speak with everyone and everything. When you listen to it, you also learn that you can always feel loved. Share love, live love.
Source: Love – Raffaello Palandri’s Blog

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