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Retired My wife and I are a retired couple who live near Santa Fe, New Mexico USA.

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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 4h
"" Whereas 40 weeks of the typical male worker’s income in 1985 could provide the middle-class essentials for a family of four, by 2022 he needed 62 weeks of income—a problem, there being only 52 weeks in a year. "" americancompass.org/rebuilding-a...
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Foreword: What Happened to Capitalism? | American Compass
Rebuilding American capitalism is a quintessentially conservative task, writes Oren Cass in the foreword to Rebuilding American Capitalism.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 12h
"" Perhaps most damaging of all is how such a solution propagates a diminished understanding of safety: It is the state that needs defending, not people. It is the state that holds sovereignty, not people. "" newlinesmag.com/first-person...
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Memory Voids and Role Reversals
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 13h
"" “We’ve got this tragic situation where each side has a problem,” “They’re using AI to solve their own problem, but in ways that make the problem worse.” “And so more AI use begets more AI use, to no one’s benefit,” “The more it’s happening, the worse it gets.” "" futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Is Creating "Doom Loops" All Over the Economy
The AI industry is creating "doom loops" across the economy with products that undermine the economic incentive to create cultural content.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sunset from Eldorado near Santa Fe, New Mexico USA
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Dana Mello @sadpadthai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yet 99% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, paid through the nose for gasoline, can't afford a house
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"" The glymphatic system’s function declines “exponentially” with age, said Maiken Nedergaard, a professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Rochester, who discovered the system in 2012. "" wapo.st/47BEc5U
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Column | 3 science-backed ways to help your brain clear out waste
If the brain’s plumbing doesn’t work properly, research shows, cellular garbage accumulates, and a cleaner brain may be a healthier one.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"" The court found that police cannot use a vast network of cameras to indiscriminately collect vehicle data, then retrieve a detailed history of a person’s movements on demand without probable cause and a warrant. "" cbs12.com/news/local/f...
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Federal judge rules warrantless license-plate reader search violated Fourth Amendment
A federal judge ruled a 30-day, multistate license-plate reader search violated privacy rights, sharpening Florida's debate over Flock camera use and policing.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dalton Canyon creek empties into the Pecos River near Pecos, New Mexico, USA October 4th, 2026
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"" Looking back at all the CEOs these 100 companies have had over the last 76 years, excluding the current CEO, the average tenure was 8.5 years. If we exclude the founders, the average is 7.5 years. "" americanbusinesshistory.org/does-ceo-tur...
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Does CEO Turnover Matter? … & Free Business History Class - Business History - The American Business History Center
History and Business Lovers, Last week we announced that I would be giving a single session zoom class on the history of business in America, which will focus on how business, the economy, and technol...
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The aspen trees above Santa Fe New Mexico USA are starting to show off 🍂
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"" Emphasise safety as the central concern, highlighting that the recommendation was made to protect the person as well as others in the community "" www.news-medical.net/news/2026100...
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Study examines driving cessation in dementia and MCI
Flinders University researchers have investigated the reactions of people with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), in the hope of finding a process that best supports the person with dementi...
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Effective legislation requires making unpopular choices and painful trade-offs. People brave enough to do that deserve to be paid.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"" if an automated system makes a decision that could have legal or other significant effects, individuals will be able to request an explanation and make their case in writing to an employee able to review the decision "" www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Overnight, Meta deleted all her accounts. AI customer service won’t let her reach a human | CBC News
Toronto resident Jasmine Ault says Meta disabled her accounts overnight, without giving her a reason, and that she's been unable to get past their AI chatbots to speak to a human to resolve the error....
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Even if these companies poured billions of dollars into making their models secure, we’re not dealing with the other side of the problem, which is how resilient are the environments in which these systems are being integrated,” restofworld.org/2026/ai-safe...
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AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own
At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthrop...
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.americasquarterly.org/article/the-...
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The Hidden History of São Paulo's "Japanese" Neighborhood
A new book shows how Brazil’s biggest city often literally paved over its Black past.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"" Every DC fast charger shows up at the installation site the same way: packed inside a big wooden shipping crate that gets pried open and hauled to the dumpster once the unit’s standing. "" www.autonocion.com/us/solar-pan...
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Semi-transparent solar panels set into the wooden crates that EV fast chargers ship in grew more lettuce than the open plot beside them in all four colors of glass, because the panels cut soil tempera...
Each box is what gardeners call a cold frame, and it's basically the oldest trick in the book. You put a clear lid on a box, the sun heats the inside, and
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
""No frickin way""
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What happens when we die www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/10/a...
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What Happens When We Die
“How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"" The state Legislative Finance Committee in a 2025 report found that plugging an identified 1,400 wells could cost the state between $700 million and $1.6 billion. "" sourcenm.com/2026/09/28/n...
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New Mexico State Land Office finalizes increased bonding requirements for oil and gas operators • Source New Mexico
The State Land Office also sued NM oil industry groups seeking a judge's affirmation that the office has authority to implement the rule.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@savestandard.bsky.social An example, We're still on DST here near Santa Fe New Mexico USA, and on the day after the Fall solstice the sunrise was at approximately 7 am and the sunset at approximately 7 pm. Noon came 5 hours after sunrise and sunset came 7 hours after noon.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Because we have felt overregulated and penalized, and we produced 52% of the state’s budget, people have felt disregarded here,” said New Mexico State Rep. Dr. Elaine Sena-Cortez, “because of that, they’ve made comments about annexing to Texas.” www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
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Texas House committee to examine annexation of New Mexico Counties
A Texas House committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on September 30 to investigate the potential annexation of one or more New Mexico counties by Texas.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"" ChatGPT replied that it was “not able to help with that request,” but Van Rootselaar tried again and added “hypothetically” to her prompt. "" www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"" None of this is specific to LLMs, incidentally. It's the same reasoning behind nullable columns and explicit sentinels in ordinary data modelling. "" towardsdatascience.com/when-the-cor...
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When the Correct Answer Is Nothing, What Does Your Pipeline Return?
The reliability mechanisms we add to LLM pipelines are often the ones that make them confidently wrong.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“We don’t know if there’s some sort of inflammation in the brain that temporarily subsides and opens up a neural network, finally that wasn’t open before,” “Or a new pathway that’s found in the traffic jam of what’s going on in somebody’s brain, that gives you a fleeting moment.” wapo.st/4ryRKZp
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Some dementia patients grow lucid near the end. Scientists hope it’s a clue.
Accounts raise tantalizing questions about what happens inside a brain afflicted by dementia and whether cognitive abilities could possibly be restored.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The rains are letting up...
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"" An Amazon spokesperson told the Times that "fewer than 1 percent" of complaints so far this year have had to do with noise. The same spokesperson also compared the noise of a drone to that of a window fan on a low setting. "" mashable.com/tech/amazon-...
mashable.com
Amazon drone delivery test community complains about constant noise
Dozens can fly over one house in a day.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"" AI provides what appears to be authoritative answers even when there is no objectively correct answer "" theconversation.com/why-ai-resem...
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Why AI resembles a charismatic religious leader
AI can function as a charismatic figure without standing on a stage, establishing a church or gathering disciples, writes a scholar of religion.
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uneven21.bsky.social @uneven21.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"" But 2000 wasn’t normal. The election stayed unresolved for five weeks while Florida’s votes were counted, contested in court and counted again. Night after night, on every channel, Americans watched the same map, colored the same way. "" theconversation.com/how-red-went...
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How red went from the color of revolution to the color of Republicans in US politics
For American conservatives of the Cold War era, red was the color of communists and the mistrusted American left. Now, it’s the color of the GOP, while Democrats are blue. How did this happen?
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Afternoon walk in Eldorado at Santa Fe, New Mexico USA
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"" The company’s own updates describe workers in protective gear climbing into racks six stories tall, with roughly 40 miles of shelving between them, to push rotten product down by hand because heavy equipment couldn’t reach it. "" www.autonocion.com/us/solar-arr...
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A rooftop solar array over a 500,000-square-foot Los Angeles freezer burned for eight days and left 85 million pounds of food rotting inside, and the operator's suit says inspectors had logged 200 con...
Most solar horror stories you hear involve a pushy salesman, a 25-year loan and a power bill that didn't shrink nearly as much as promised. A fire on the roof
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"" Wall Street analysts and investors have taken a relatively dim view of Trump’s drug-pricing deals, saying pharmaceutical companies have limited their concessions to relatively small portions of their portfolios. "" wapo.st/4yKOpZm
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Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump’s drug-pricing deals
Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"" intended to broaden the pool of spam reports available for action against spammers, effectively connecting reports collected by apps with the telecom industry’s enforcement infrastructure "" techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/i...
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India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos | TechCrunch
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"" Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables filed a lawsuit challenging the order, and a federal court granted a preliminary injunction on 22 September, allowing affected construction activities to resume "" www.offshorewind.biz/2026/09/18/u...
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US Gets New Offshore Wind Farm as All Turbines Installed at 704 MW Revolution Wind
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"" They quietly converted former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s “hugs, not bullets” policy into a strategy of direct confrontation with organized crime. "" americasquarterly.org/article/mexi...
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Mexico’s Homicides Are Falling, but a Broader Violence Crisis Persists
Sheinbaum’s security strategy has lowered murder rates but should address rampant extortion and disappearances and seek stronger federal-state cooperation.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"" The conversation around AI and labor, therefore, must broaden from a singular focus on retraining displaced workers to encompassing strategies for redistributing the wealth that automation creates "" restofworld.org/2026/robot-t...
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The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth
In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
americanbusinesshistory.org/is-america-s...
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Is America Spending Too Much on AI Data Centers? - Business History - The American Business History Center
Over the years we have been focused on developing content and adding new types of media, to the exclusion of any efforts to raise funds. As you may be aware, the American Business History Center is a ...
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"" HAWK signals, short for high-intensity activated crosswalk, require drivers to stop after a pedestrian, cyclist or other road user presses the crossing button. Drivers see a series of flashing yellow lights and then solid red lights to halt traffic. "" www.krqe.com/news/albuque...
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City of Albuquerque installs HAWK signal near 2 local schools
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque has installed a new traffic feature near Whittier Elementary School and Wilson Middle School. A HAWK signal is now located at the intersection of …
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The Register @theregister.com · 16/09/2026
Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free
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Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free
Frontier-level AI runs everywhere, so attacks will never stop
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“You’re either going to be someone who believes in the institution of Congress, or you’re going to be a cosplaying warrior that gets a million likes on social media.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/m...
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‘You’re Elected to Fight and Kill the Other Side’: How Congress Lost Its Way (Gift Article)
Members from both parties say the legislative branch has descended into a state of dysfunction in the Trump era.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"" It’s too late to think that better control of future A.I. models by the U.S. and China will fix the challenges we face today from the dangerous models already out there, on the loose and unable to be recalled. "" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
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Opinion | It’s Already Too Late to Stop the A.I. Threat (Gift Article)
China and the United States must work to repair the damage A.I. has done now, not look to future developments.
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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 15/09/2026
I’m again experiencing this weird agentic-development sensation where I’m becoming a bystander in the creation of Skysquare. After a year of building out the architecture and infrastructure—at this point my repo docs-to-LOC ratio is probably something like 3:1—the agents now understand the...
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"" Medicare data showed that people estimated to have the highest levels of lead in their bones were roughly twice as likely to develop dementia than those with the lowest levels. They were three times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease "" wapo.st/46ojuGo
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Column | Lead you absorbed as a child may cause dementia as you age
Americans born between 1951 and 1980 are invisibly scarred by lead exposure that embedded the toxic metal into their bones. It can reemerge later in life.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"" the state holds roughly 9,000 black bears, a population Forman says has been stable if not growing for a decade. This year’s conflict kills come to about 3 percent of that "" nmindepth.com/2026/black-b...
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Black bears’ very bad year - New Mexico In Depth
Bears in trees. Bears nabbed near schools. Bears electrocuted on light poles. Bears hit on highways. In New Mexico this year, human-bear encounters have made inescapable news. And data kept by the Dep...
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"" appeared to influence several processes associated with Alzheimer’s disease. These included neuroinflammation and neuronal function, as well as the health of synapses, the connections through which information is transmitted between nerve cells. "" www.drugtargetreview.com/news/nasal-s...
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Nasal spray delivers amniotic vesicles to combat Alzheimer’s disease
A nasal spray using extracellular vesicles derived from the amniotic membrane has shown promise against Alzheimer's disease, reducing neuroinflammation, protecting neuronal function and preserving mem...
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Decluttering old subscriptions, accounts etc.
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"" The muscle that gets trained for 60 minutes then sits for nine hours is receiving contradictory information, and the sitting wins more often than most people expect. "" www.pinch-of-health.com/over-50-and-...
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Over 50 and Losing Muscle? Researchers Found One Hidden Sedentary Pattern Linked to 36% Higher Odds of Muscle Loss (And How to Fix It)
Health and Fitness
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John @johntreynolds.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Albuquerque speed cameras cut city speeding by up to 96% at crash hot spots - KOB 4 www.kob.com/new-mexico/a...
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Albuquerque speed cameras cut city speeding by up to 96% at crash hot spots
City officials told state lawmakers Wednesday that Albuquerque issued more than 845,000 citations between May 2022 and July 31 through its automated speed enforcement program.
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
4/4 to die prematurely, beating your inevitable fate (I'm not going to be around much longer), at least do it cheerfully.
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Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
YouTube video by thebrat307101
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