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ИЗГУБЕН - YouTube Music Added: Aug 24, 2025
ИЗГУБЕН - YouTube Music
Site: YouTube Music
Provided to YouTube by AdRev ИЗГУБЕН · Blast Off Music Blast Off Music Volume 14 ℗ Blast Off Media Released on: 2025-08-22 Auto-generated by YouTube.
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Shamim Hossain on X: "Six Male Personalities of Modern Men Explained (What each type brings to the table) Thread open — https://t.co/t5Pjh2NY7A" / X Added: Aug 24, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Democrats Still Haven’t Figured Out the Trump Formula | National Review Added: Aug 24, 2025
Democrats Still Haven’t Figured Out the Trump Formula | National Review
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Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship - Ars Technica
Added: Aug 24, 2025Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship
Site: Ars Technica
SpaceX is gearing up for another Starship launch after three straight disappointing test flights.
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Cracker Barrel Roasted Over New Logo, Outrage After CEO Insists Changes Are Well Received - YouTube Added: Aug 24, 2025
Cracker Barrel Roasted Over New Logo, Outrage After CEO Insists Changes Are Well Received
Site: YouTube
SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/Join - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLwNTXWEjVd2qIHLcXxQWxA/joinHosts: Phil @PhilThatRem...
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Why Mentors Still Matter
Site: YouTube
BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW - https://castbrew.com/Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.comHost:Tim Pool @Timcast (everywh...
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Bubble or not, the AI backlash is validating one critic's warnings | Fortune Added: Aug 24, 2025
'It's almost tragic': Bubble or not, the AI backlash is validating one critic's warnings
Site: Fortune
Gary Marcus told Fortune that AI valuations remind him of Wile E Coyote. "We are off the cliff."
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RFK Jr., allies rush to rally the MAHA movement for 2026 Added: Aug 24, 2025
RFK Jr., allies rush to rally the MAHA movement for 2026
Site: Axios
Top Republicans see Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" movement as critical to helping the GOP keep control of Congress.
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Inside Trump's American identity project
Site: Axios
The U.S. government is enforcing a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American.
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Should We Be Happier if 3I/ATLAS is a Comet? | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025 | Medium Added: Aug 24, 2025
Should We Be Happier if 3I/ATLAS is a Comet?
Site: Medium
This morning, THE TIMES of London published an excellent article about my open-minded view on the nature of the new interstellar object…
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"We’re Already Gone": James Webb Discovery Unleashes Existential Terror as Leading Astrophysicists Confront Possibility of Living in Black Hole - Rude Baguette
Added: Aug 24, 2025"We’re Already Gone": James Webb Discovery Unleashes Existential Terror as Leading Astrophysicists Confront Possibility of Living in Black Hole - Rude Baguette
Site: Rude Baguette
IN A NUTSHELL 🔭 Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a pattern in galactic rotations. 🌀 Around 60% of ancient galaxies rotate clockwise, challenging previous assumptions of randomness. 🌌 The hypothesis suggests our universe might be within a massive black hole, redefining cosmic principles. 🔍 Observational bias, such as the Doppler effect, is
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Forecasters predict La Niña conditions this fall: What to expect | Live Science Added: Aug 24, 2025
Will there be a La Niña this fall? Here's what forecasters predict and what it means for the weather
Site: Live Science
NOAA forecasts suggest we could experience La Niña conditions in the fall and early winter. However, this potential La Niña spell is unlikely to break records.
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Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They’re Over 18 | PCMag Added: Aug 24, 2025
Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They’re Over 18
Site: PCMAG
The X alternative says the breadth of the state’s age-verification law left it no option.
<hr><p><em>Don't miss out on our latest stories. <a href="https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=pcmag.com" target="_blank" title="(Opens in a new tab)">Add PCMag</a></em><em> as a preferred source on Google.</em></p><hr><p>Bluesky has walked off the stage in the birthplace of the blues rather than comply with a new Mississippi law that the social network says would have required it to verify the age of every user in the state.</p><p>“Mississippi's approach would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky,” the <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/bluesky-figuring-out-how-to-make-money-without-spamming-you-with-ads" target="_self"><u>decentralized platform</u></a> announced in <a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126" target="_blank" title="(Opens in a new tab)"><u>a post Friday afternoon</u></a>, eight days after the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/supreme-court-lets-mississippi-age-verification-law-go-into-effect-for" target="_self"><u>declined the tech-advocacy group NetChoice’s request</u></a> to block that statute requiring social sites to verify the ages of new users.</p><div class="mb-0 rounded-md bg-gray-100 p-3 md:p-5" id="related-video"> <div class="flex items-center"> <div class="w-6 flex-none"> <img class="w-full" src="/images/pcmag-simplified.png" alt="PCMag logo"> </div> <div class="pl-2 text-base leading-normal md:pl-3"> <strong>You May Also Like</strong> </div> </div> <div class="mt-3"> <div id="video-container-683dd703f27d5e38f3432230"></div> <script> window.videoEmbeds = window.videoEmbeds || []; let data = {}; data.excoPlayListId = '683dd703f27d5e38f3432230'; data.excoPlayListVideos = {"18b93718-aef3-4d95-be46-51554738b4c6":"0567dEEz0WtGKClFCW8NiLw","474fba46-f047-4fa2-8c46-8c7b447226e6":"00UGJ2E0hlBrMhvfzOc8He3","5161bf2c-7c18-401c-b26c-318cdee681e0":"06UOAEsTA0jkTONZHlZrfhK","56250bfb-ef6b-4b31-8672-8c038654f099":"04NsZuaVZL2L6RSdlDvEBLa","5a9191d8-ac19-46b2-8587-ee3f24456eb7":"04B6mBpnfaQMYkYOSgtEXQP","871717ea-8d7f-4459-b25d-615e24ef4cfa":"019pSH7cjd7mF35tTHfP6t5","8a2ed418-e084-4f37-b5d9-d164fe1fc71d":"04tr0537Rvava5YwlI0HZBa","97b45b2a-8789-47ab-ade4-0cf919fbec51":"06tFzQvEPQAVLyJXV0HilBj","a594acf3-919a-4380-b364-7178e95ff108":"00NFVZltChPK6ZQKcJWedgb","ab95a891-f906-4bf2-8427-c604ad546d4c":"05hcxAAa0zyf2oSxkhyI4ZT","c184e773-d9e3-454c-b39b-f80da94df8c4":"00GqJhHC2cQ4i2ywTW2BbwP","c257a3a7-924a-490d-89a5-950ca7706c7b":"01YB7URnwfvnz9R2LFmS9Re","cee746ea-b81c-4282-9204-897576c96a39":"00CBEfLPJJK1aHf6TCtQ6J0","d6d87e0c-3168-49cb-9bd9-0caf35655196":"00SdbEKRCNH6EByiF9Zlt0m","dd396710-60e8-42ad-9f24-97b0f9b12e5a":"01sNMGOtDORmcddDQ9BTiEr","e100b228-df4a-486e-ac8a-1e250458266b":"004SfSq2NlLzgIIb9Zq2oKs","f085aa5b-ee2b-4fc7-93e4-8de5c3987f8f":"01gt5PpxJK7P6RV56dZMlfe","f13b8035-7147-4ec7-81bc-08408f072b61":"04r6TGrRkZoqlqgtvNJqICu","f3637331-56c7-4deb-ac42-1a2e2cff5faf":"04jrdx0USPMBEXoYcXIViAn","fd62245d-81eb-44c4-87d8-5c536eacb242":"03v29udiZE9SoDPQ36LF0I5"};
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Tate Reeves (R) in 2024, requires social platforms to verify the ages of all users when they create an account. </p><p>Any would-be user under 18 must show the consent of a parent or guardian, after which a social platform has to limit that minor’s access to a wide variety of content deemed harmful.</p><p>The <a href="https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1126SG.htm" target="_blank" title="(Opens in a new tab)"><u>statute’s text</u></a> applies to any site that connects people “in a manner that allows users to socially interact with other users,” aside from an exception for platforms built to provide users “with access to career development opportunities” (think <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/brands/linkedin" target="_self"><u>LinkedIn</u></a>).</p><p>The bill’s full title, the “Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act," refers to a horrible incident of <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-avoid-getting-catfished" target="_self"><u>catfishing</u></a> in 2022: <a href="https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2023/02/22/starkville-dad-talks-of-social-media-dangers-after-sons-suicide-sextortion/69926741007/" target="_blank" title="(Opens in a new tab)"><u>16-year-old Walker Montgomery</u></a> fell prey to a <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/financial-sextortion-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-scammers-target-your-kids" target="_self"><u>sextortion scam</u></a> on Instagram and died by <a href="http://suicide.at/" target="_blank" title="(Opens in a new tab)"><u>suicide that night.</u></a> At the end of 2022, the FBI reported that <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-sextortion-schemes-ensnared-over-3000-kids-this-past-year" target="_self"><u>at least 3,000 underage victims, mostly boys</u></a>, had been conned by these lies, with more than a dozen suicide deaths resulting. </p><p>The law’s provisions are vague in many aspects. Covered platforms must make “commercially reasonable efforts to verify the age of the person creating an account” and then obtain evidence of consent by a minor’s parent or guardian through such means as a signed form, a phone or video call, or collecting and then deleting an image of a parent or guardian’s government-issued ID.</p><p>Social platforms then must “make commercially reasonable efforts” to “prevent or mitigate the known minor's exposure to harmful material.” It defines that broadly as “self-harm, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and suicidal behaviors,” encouraging substance abuse or illegal drug use, online or real-world harassment, sexual exploitation, and inciting violence or promoting “other illegal activity.” </p><div class="ziff-component relative m-auto my-12 border-b border-t border-black bg-white py-4 md:my-16 md:p-6 md:px-4" role="region" aria-label="Newsletter Sign-Up" x-data="window.newsletters()" x-init='initNewsletter({"id":5,"list_id":17707707,"status":"Published","title":"SecurityWatch","deck":"Our experts keep you safe from malware, viruses, hacks, and privacy exploits by keeping you current on the latest vulnerabilities.","slug":"securitywatch","courier_list":"PCMag Security Watch","image":{"path":"newsletters\/17707707.jpg","metadata":{"altText":"security watch","attribution":"unknown"}},"preview_link":"https:\/\/secure.campaigner.com\/csb\/Public\/show\/g6xi-2v61w9--18a0qz-ky07csq2","contextual_title":"Stay Safe With the Latest Security News and Updates","contextual_tagline":null,"contextual_image":{"path":"newsletters\/17707707-contextual.png","metadata":{"altText":"SecurityWatch Newsletter Image","attribution":"Credit: PCMag"}},"contextual_deck":"Sign up for our SecurityWatch newsletter for our most important privacy and security stories delivered right to your inbox.","contextual_body":[],"first_published_at":"2021-09-30T21:22:09.000000Z","published_at":"2025-06-23T20:52:56.000000Z","last_published_at":"2025-06-23T20:52:46.000000Z","created_at":null,"updated_at":"2025-06-23T20:52:56.000000Z"})' x-show="showEmailSignUp()" x-intersect.once='window.trackGAImpressionEvents("pcmag-on-site-newsletter-block", "SecurityWatch", $el)'> <!-- Envelope image absolute top right for desktop --> <img class="opacity-20 absolute right-0 top-0 z-0 hidden md:block" src="https://www.pcmag.com/images/newsletter-envelope.svg" alt="Newsletter Icon" style="max-width:220px; max-height:140px; pointer-events:none;"> <!-- Envelope image absolute top right for mobile --> <div class="absolute right-0 top-0 h-[134px] w-[134px] overflow-hidden md:hidden"> <img class="opacity-20 h-full w-full" src="https://www.pcmag.com/images/newsletter-envelope.svg" alt="Newsletter Icon"> </div>
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<a class="inline-block align-middle leading-tight no-underline" data-module="related-recirc" data-item="related-recirc-list" data-element="related-recirc-link" data-position="3" href="/news/pornhub-blocked-france-florida-texas-indiana-ala-nc-age-verification-vpn" aria-label="Pornhub Is Blocked in These 17 States (and France): How to Watch Anyway" x-track-ga-click>Pornhub Is Blocked in These 17 States (and France): How to Watch Anyway</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p>This is an app-specific block, not a platform-wide one: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-wants-social-media-to-be-more-like-email" target="_self"><u>Bluesky’s decentralized foundation</u></a> means that <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/bluesky-based-instagram-alternative-flashes-starts-beta-testing" target="_self"><u>other apps built on its AT Protocol</u></a> can choose to stay open to Mississippi users. Bluesky users can also use <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-vpn-services" target="_self"><u>VPN services</u></a>–some <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-free-vpns" target="_self"><u>free</u></a>–to appear to connect from elsewhere in the world. </p><p>Mississippi’s law goes far beyond the growing set of state laws that require porn sites to verify that their users are at least 18 years old–and which the <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/sorry-pornhub-fans-supreme-court-upholds-texas-age-verification-law" target="_self"><u>Supreme Court approved</u></a> in a July opinion upholding a <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/supreme-court-wont-stop-texas-age-verification-law-for-porn-sites" target="_self"><u>Texas statute</u></a>. </p><p>Bluesky’s post also portrays the state law in a different light from the <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/uk-online-safety-act-age-verification-social-adult-sites-how-it-works" target="_self"><u>UK’s Online Safety Act</u></a>, which requires platforms to verify that users are over 18 before displaying porn or other “harmful” content. The company is complying with that requirement, including restricting <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/bluesky-adds-direct-messaging-but-its-no-signal-replacement-yet" target="_self"><u>its direct-messaging option</u></a> to adult users.</p><p>The Mississippi law may yet get a hearing in the Supreme Court. While the court’s decision allowing H.B. 1126 to go into effect did not come with an explanation, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a97_5h25.pdf" target="_blank" title="(Opens in a new tab)"><u>a concurring opinion</u></a> (PDF) that suggested the state law will not survive constitutional scrutiny.</p><p>“To be clear, NetChoice has, in my view, demonstrated that it is likely to succeed on the merits—namely, that enforcement of the Mississippi law would likely violate its members’ First Amendment rights under this Court’s precedents,” he wrote before citing the court’s opinion on the Texas law and two earlier opinions. “In short, under this Court’s case law as it currently stands, the Mississippi law is likely unconstitutional.”</p><p><em>If you feel yourself in crisis, call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. The world is better with you in it.</em></p>
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Why do some animals live just days while others live thousands of years? Scientists think they know
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University of Bath researchers found that mammals with larger brains and more immune-related genes live longer.
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The End of Handwriting | WIRED Added: Aug 23, 2025
The End of Handwriting
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For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad?
Mine is not an isolated devolution. Parents, educators, and fellow penmanship advocates have been lamenting the end of handwriting for years. Email began edging out cards and letters decades ago. Then smartphones hit the market, and our reliance on paper notes, wall calendars, and Post-it reminders dwindled. In US public schools, the focus has shifted from handwriting to typing, as more and more kids are exposed to iPads and computers in tandem with pencils. And in the past few years, AI has made it so that humans barely need to think, let alone jot something down. Now more than ever, it might seem as though handwriting is doomed. It’s not. While the handwringing and emotions are at an all-time high, the case for handwriting is stronger than ever, too. Sure, some of the attachment is nostalgia. In the US, there’s even a weird sense that knowing cursive is some sort of civic duty for Americans. All of those arguments for handwriting overlook something: There are real benefits to learning to hold a pen in your hand and use it. US public schools still require that kids be taught handwriting, so it’s not yet a lost art, but there is some evidence that digital natives are less “ready” for writing now than students in the past, says Karen Ray, a lecturer in occupational therapy at the University of Newcastle in Australia. In 2021, Ray coauthored a study examining whether kids who grew up with devices possessed the same fine motor skills as kids who did not. While those students met the expected performance levels on manual dexterity tests, their overall motor proficiency was lower than previous norms. Ultimately, the researchers hypothesized, time spent holding devices rather than pencils might be impacting whether kids had all the motor skills they needed to learn handwriting when they entered kindergarten. But if kids always have access to devices, does it really matter whether they can write with their hands? Yes and no. If the past few years of digital nomad work and vibe coding have taught us anything it’s that, professionally, handwriting may not be all that necessary in a lot of fields. The problem is that learning handwriting might be necessary to learn everything else. “We don’t yet know what we are losing in terms of literacy acquisition by de-emphasizing handwriting fluency,” Ray says. Among the half-dozen experts I spoke to for this piece, there were differences in opinion on whether moral panics over writing instruction were warranted. For example, in many states lawmakers have passed legislation to ensure kids learn cursive in US public schools. Some experts support this, but many don’t think learning cursive, specifically, is all that important. But nearly all agree that knowing how to write has cognitive benefits. It helps students learn to read, and chances are if they have to think about something long enough to write it down, they’ll remember it more thoroughly than if it’s typed. “Handwriting itself really does matter,” says Robert Wiley, a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro whose research focuses on how the brain processes written language. “Not in an absolute sense; people aren’t going to be illiterate. But will some children have a harder time learning because they’re missing that practice? Yes.” Wiley points out something else, too. Over the past two decades or so, as schools have evaluated how much to focus on handwriting, there has also been a push for more STEM education. In some cases, that means spending less time on penmanship to make room for those subjects. But, Wiley says, it’s a mistake to think that writing isn’t necessary. Mathematicians need to jot down problems; scientists need to take notes in the lab. These things can be done digitally, but they still require base-level communication skills. “Science, technology—we don’t proceed in those things without reading and writing,” he says. Even if kids acquire adequate handwriting skills in elementary school, there is still the chance that they could lose them. During our conversation, I told Wiley about the fear I had of losing the handwriting style I’d worked to perfect years ago. That fear, it turns out, isn’t unfounded. Overreliance on keyboards can lead to what’s known as “character amnesia.” Put simply, if you spend more time typing letters, you’ll forget how to physically draw them. It’s particularly common for Chinese speakers who work with thousands of characters and often use keyboard alphabets to spell out the phonetics of a word and then select the character when their device figures out which one they’re trying to use (sort of like autocomplete). In 2021, researchers in China found that “character amnesia occurs for about 42 percent of characters and about 6 percent of the time for university students.” Perhaps the old adage is true: If you don’t use it, you lose it. But there might be something that causes a handwriting renaissance long before then: AI. Students’ ability to outsource critical thinking to LLMs has left schools and universities scrambling to find ways to prevent plagiarism and cheating. Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education, Inside Higher Ed wrote in June, university professors are considering bringing back tests written longhand. Sales of “blue books”—those anxiety-inducing notebooks used for college exams—are ticking up, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Handwriting, in person, may soon become one of the few things a student can do to prove they’re not a bot. Reverting to blue books, though, does come with its own set of problems, ones that had ostensibly been solved by letting students type. Anne Trubek, author of The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, gets asked about penmanship a lot. When I call to ask about the end of handwriting, she’s concerned about blue books most of all. Professors, she says, could ding kids with poor penmanship for their writing, no matter how sound their arguments. “It becomes discriminatory or whatever term you want to use toward people with poor handwriting,” Trubek says. “It doesn't have to do with your cognitive ability. It has nothing to do with your ability to think about the fall of Rome.” Therein lies the problem. When so much of that thinking can be offloaded to AI, going analog begins to look like one of the only ways to test comprehension, fairness be damned. After all, previous kinds of technology—like graphing calculators—also forced teachers to make kids write things out longhand. Literally showing one’s work, in writing, became the way students evinced that they understood what the machines did. As AI creeps into schoolwork, handwriting won’t die so much as, once again, provide proof of life.
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Gavin, the Gerrymander, and Air Power in WWII
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Overtime with Bill Maher: Andrew Huberman, Frank Bruni, Christopher Rufo (HBO)
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100-year-old chemistry rule proven false, textbook updates needed
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Neil Garg is leading the charge to rewrite a fundamental principle that's been part of organic chemistry since 1924 -- Bredt's rule.
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Google's new Jules coding agent is free to use for anyone – and it just got a big update to prevent bad code output | IT Pro
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A Ballad of the Bookmarks
The cosmic curtain draws, A comet's mystery, Black holes in the galaxies, Or just what we can see. The Webb telescope's gaze profound, Questions our fragile place, While La Niña whispers change, Across Earth's shifting face.
Then rockets dream of distant stars, A Starship's fiery plight, As human minds like Elon's muse, Take flight in digital light. New chemistry rules fall to dust, Old wisdom now undone, And ancient animal lifespans, Beneath the aging sun.
The digital realm expands its hold, With Grok's new coded art, And Jules, the agent, builds with code, A new, creative start. But AI's shadow lengthens still, A bubble or deep dread? As voices ask if minds will yield, Or human thought be led.
In halls of power, battles rage, For votes and for belief, With Trump's old formula invoked, Bringing both joy and grief. RFK's new health crusade, And identity's strict lore, While Bluesky halts for rigid laws, And shuts a digital door.
From Cracker Barrel's logo woes, To political court's fight, The world debates, dissects, and roasts, In endless, public light. Yet still, a catnip melody, A lost tune softly played, And cloud photos of fleeting beauty, Before the day is laid.
The art of penmanship fades out, A tactile skill so grand, Replaced by screens, and AI's clout, In this fast-changing land. But mentors' wisdom still holds sway, A guiding, steady hand, As we navigate this complex day, Across a digital sand.