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I finally watched Oppenheimer this weekend, which I’d put off after overhearing a comment made by a 13-year-old girl standing in front of me while I waited in line to see Barbie. Dressed to the nines in a pink dress and sparkly kitten heels, she said to her friend (cue exaggerated vocal fry), “You should see it if you’re, like, into men having existential crises.” The comment cracked me up, and made me consider whether I really wanted to spend three hours of my life immersed in male existential crises.

The Sky People are an invasive and parasitic alien species able to parasitise humans and their own through a nerve worm nicknamed The Lover, designed to hijack the nervous system of its victims. They first appeared in A Post-Honkai Odyssey. Most information about the Sky People is found in Alien Space. New information about them is coming to light in chapters 38 onwards. They gather intelligence on the species they plan to invade through a vanguard stone disguised as a meteorite, and once a suitable civilization is found, they send their armies and begin the great harvest, leaving nothing behind.

Last week, an Austin, Texas, jury convicted Daniel Perry for the murder of Garrett Foster. In the summer of 2020, Perry ran a red light, then drove into a crowd of people protesting the murder of George Floyd. Foster was open-carrying a rifle, which is legal in Texas. he approached Perry’s car to stop him from driving farther. According to witnesses, Foster’s rifle was pointed down. A few seconds later, Perry picked up his own gun and shot Foster, killing him.

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ARCTIC FOXES will never leave their frozen tundra and saunter into Amsterdam or London. In no way will Snow Leopards stalk prey in the streets of Moscow or Delhi. And Polar Bears won’t be hunting around Boston or Seattle anytime soon. But the Snowy Owls are coming. They’re coming for us — by which I mean for our benefit, especially those of us in Canada and the United States, where the white owls are just now beginning to show themselves.

ALPHA: The Alpha is the tall, good-looking guy who is the center of both male and female attention. The classic star of the football team who is dating the prettiest cheerleader. The successful business executive with the beautiful, stylish, blonde, size zero wife. All the women are attracted to him, while all the men want to be him, or at least be his friend. At a social gathering like a party, he's usually the loud, charismatic guy telling self-flattering stories to a group of top-tier women who are listening with interest.

This issue of the newsletter is sponsored by Wilfa How do you feel about calendar based foods, recipes that are made just for special occasions, traditional foods you can look forward to on their annual arrival? I am, of course, talking about hot cross buns, ‘tis the season after all. Supermarkets love to stretch the traditional period these glorious buns are available, but when you go to bakeries and to home kitchens, they are still only made in a relatively short window.

We are psychologically attuned to appreciate just the right balance of stimulation and silence. There’s a certain tempo of rain pattering that sounds delightful. Too slow and it becomes an annoying monotonous drip, too fast and it’s a torrential overwhelming rush of white noise. Likewise the joy of a spanking is not just experienced during the hot startling sting of every impact, but within the subtle spaces between every smack as well.

“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." – Proverbs 16:18 Microsoft put out a press release yesterday, masquerading as science, that claimed that GPT-4 was “an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system”. It’s a silly claim, given that it is entirely open to interpretation (could a calculator be considered an early yet incomplete version of AGI? How about Eliza? Siri?). That claim would never survive serious scientific peer review.