All posts tagged: Forget

Don’t Forget to Like and подпишись!

Don’t Forget to Like and подпишись!

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Perhaps the most accurate cliché is that if a deal appears too good to be true, then it probably is. To wit: If a “private investor” of unknown origin approaches you through an intermediary, offering you $400,000 a month to make “four weekly videos” for a politically partisan website and YouTube page, you may want to attempt to follow the money to make certain you’re not being paid by a foreign government as a propagandist. And if you do attempt a bit of due diligence and ask after the identity of your private investor, you might want to double-check that he or she is a real person. For example, if your intermediary sends you a hastily Photoshopped résumé featuring a stock photo of a well-coiffed man looking wistfully out the window of a private jet, it is possible that the “accomplished finance professional” who is “deeply engaged in business and philanthropy, leveraging skills and resources to drive positive impact” may, in fact, be a fake man with a fake name. Now, I am not a …

Forget binoculars—this pocket telescope sees miles away

Forget binoculars—this pocket telescope sees miles away

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They all lied to you. They said binoculars are the best way to spot bucks and eagles, but they were wrong. You can spot your prey and rare birds miles away using only one hand with our best-selling handheld telescope.  Imagine spotting a pack of deer you never would’ve seen otherwise or, better yet, witnessing an eagle family in their nest because you have a close-up view in the palm of your hand. It’s cheaper than you think, too. This HD monocular telescope is only $39.97 (reg. $54.99) until Sept. 3. Get close up from miles away These binoculars have 50×60 magnification, allowing you to see several miles away. If your binoculars have something like 10x magnification, you’re probably maxing out at about 3,000 feet away and missing out on long-distance sightings—rare birds and that 12-point buck. They’re also great for stargazing. You can mount the telescope against your phone’s camera lens and use it to take pictures. Snap rare wildlife shots while camping, or take it to a concert and get some close-ups of …

Don’t forget to enjoy food

Don’t forget to enjoy food

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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Since I moved to New York a couple of months ago, I’ve been paying more attention than usual to people enjoying food in public. The density of this city somehow puts the pleasures of eating right in front of you: the smell of a hot dog eaten standing up outside the local restaurant–slash–lunch counter, the crunch of movie-theater popcorn, the neighborhood bodega full of New Yorkers craving a bacon-egg-and-cheese at 2. a.m. on a Saturday. It’s a cliché to say that food is about much more than just food—it’s about connection, deliciousness, family—but our busy lives make it easy to forget that. Take today’s reading list as your reminder to really taste the vegetables in your on-the-go salad, to smile at the person across the street also sipping an iced coffee, to take in what’s in front of …

The pet I’ll never forget: Chocolate and Smudge, the guinea pigs I hoped would be my for ever friends | Pets

The pet I’ll never forget: Chocolate and Smudge, the guinea pigs I hoped would be my for ever friends | Pets

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They say losing a pet is a good way for a child to learn about grief, but boy did I get the lesson quickly. Less than six months after my parents brought the guinea pigs home, they had the tough task of delivering me the news. “But they were here when I left,” I said after I arrived home from a school trip to France when I was 11. “How could it have happened so fast?” It turned out that poor, sweet Chocolate and Smudge had been left outside too long on a blisteringly hot day and suffered a serious case of heatstroke. I was furious: with my mum and dad; with myself, for abandoning them in favour of my own enjoyment abroad; and even with them, for being too weak to enjoy an afternoon of nice weather. “I don’t understand,” I repeated, again and again. Just a week before, they had been so healthy. It had been hard work getting my parents to agree to the guinea pigs. I spent hours sitting at the house …

‘You don’t forget these things’: Symi’s residents on aftermath of Michael Mosley’s death | Michael Mosley

‘You don’t forget these things’: Symi’s residents on aftermath of Michael Mosley’s death | Michael Mosley

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“Thank God we found him.” Seated in his black leather office chair, surrounded by icons, oil paintings, photographs, medals and models ships, Lefteris Papakalodoukas, Symi’s longtime mayor, is clearly relieved. It’s 9am and almost 24 hours have elapsed since the body of the TV presenter Michael Mosley was found lying in a gulley of rocks and thistle only metres from the sea, beneath the perimeter fence of a beach bar. If the health guru had not collapsed from what is widely believed to be heat- exacerbated exhaustion – two hours after setting out on what should have been an easy walk – he might have made it to the turquoise waters that engulf Ayia Marina. Which is why, barely a day later, Papakalodoukas’s relief is tainted with remorse. The mayor was among the first to lay eyes on Mosley – in images captured by a Greek camera operator working for the state channel ERT – but the outcome is not what he, or anyone on Symi, would have wished. “What we had all hoped for …

‘I’ll never forgive or forget’ – Griffin Dunne on the darkness that overtook his gilded Hollywood upbringing | Film

‘I’ll never forgive or forget’ – Griffin Dunne on the darkness that overtook his gilded Hollywood upbringing | Film

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Griffin Dunne has just written a book. He had been meaning to do so for ages. It was one of the items on his bucket list: learn a musical instrument, master Spanish and write his damn memoir. “One down, two to go,” he says, beaming in via video link from his home in upstate New York. The actor and film-maker turns 69 this weekend. He reckons that still leaves him time for the music and Spanish. Dunne imagined his memoir as a family portrait in the style of David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day. He pictured something light on its toes, witty and poignant, a weave of essays and anecdotes. But then the book changed direction, as though it had a will of its own. It went where it wanted and needed to go. He says: “On some level, I knew there was this big subject ahead. And so, as I’m writing the book, I’m thinking: oh, OK, I know where this is going now.” The story leads to the scene of a 40-year-old …

The D-Day Battle France Chose to Forget. Until Now.

The D-Day Battle France Chose to Forget. Until Now.

Published by Sam

Some 170 miles southwest of the celebrated landing beaches in Normandy, the remains of a D-Day site few visit peek out from behind trees in rural Brittany. Overgrown with moss and ivy, the stone farm buildings were the former headquarters of the Saint-Marcel Maquis — thousands of local French resistance fighters who had gathered in response to coded Allied calls over BBC radio to prepare for an invasion. Among them were French army commandos parachuted in to block the Nazis from sending reinforcements to the beaches. But before the operation could be put into full swing, the camp was discovered by the Nazis and destroyed. Dozens of fighters were hunted down and killed. In retribution, most buildings in the surrounding area were burned and hundreds of locals were executed. It’s a wound of tragic heroism that few in France know about, let alone commemorate. President Emmanuel Macron of France aimed to change that when he presided over a ceremony on Wednesday in Plumelec, the nearby village where French commandos landed early in the morning of …

‘You don’t forget as a mother’: the British parents finally reunited with their stillborn babies | Bereavement

‘You don’t forget as a mother’: the British parents finally reunited with their stillborn babies | Bereavement

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As late as the 1990s, healthcare professionals assumed that if a parent saw their stillborn baby or established any kind of connection with them this would only deepen their grief. As a result, thousands of babies were abruptly taken from their parents, denying them the chance to say goodbye. Many were buried in mass graves across the country – but parents were often told different or conflicting stories. Most did not know where their children were laid to rest. Charities such as Brief Lives Remembered, run by Paula Jackson, help bereaved parents find the graves of their stillborn children. Here are some of those parents who were reunited with their lost ones. Michelle and Richard Jones Michelle Jones, 62, delivered a stillborn son, Christopher, in February 1981. She had visited the GP shortly before concerned she could no longer feel him kicking. The GP at the time reassured her that he could detect a heartbeat. Later, after experiencing significant pains while out shopping and being violently sick, she went to hospital and was taken to …

Forget about prompt engineering, Typeface Arc uses AI agent approach to power marketing campaigns

Forget about prompt engineering, Typeface Arc uses AI agent approach to power marketing campaigns

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Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here. In the generative AI era, organizations have generally been using prompts at each step of a content generation process. AI startup Typeface thinks there is a better way. The San Francisco based startup launched in 2023, with a goal of enabling highly customized, on-brand generative AI content. Typeface has built out integrations with multiple vendors including Microsoft and Google for its technology, to help organizations with marketing workflows.  Today the company is going a step further with the launch of its Typeface Arc technology. The vision behind Typeface Arc is to enable a user to state a high-level marketing objective and then have the system automatically plan and generate all the assets. Those assets could include emails, images and notifications that are all connected to execute a true connected story arc to engage customers. “It’s not that exciting to sit there typing one prompt at a …

American politicians forget: disruption and disorder are the point of protests | Patrick Gaspard

American politicians forget: disruption and disorder are the point of protests | Patrick Gaspard

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“In America, the student movement has been seriously radicalized wherever police and police brutality intervened in essentially nonviolent demonstrations: occupations of administration buildings, sit-ins, et cetera.” – Hannah Arendt, observing Columbia University protests in 1968. When you’ve been in the midst of a demonstration that devolves into chaos and violence, you find out in a hurry if you’re able to put aside your own terror to still uphold the needs of the many and to maintain the discipline of your values. This has happened to me more than once. That tension has always been a reminder to me that democracy is a choice and that citizenship is a full-contact sport. The Gaza-driven protests by college students, and the response to them by university presidents and law enforcement have dominated the media and roiled American politics at the start of this consequential electoral season. Scenes of tent encampments, chanting activists, occupied facilities, have conjured comparisons to the ungovernable activism of previous generations that left an indelible influence on the culture. Politicians, whose policies are ultimately the …