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#ProjectOfTheDay: Red Sol Resort by Bofill Taller de Arquitectura A rigid square grid is stretched across the rocky mountainside, creating a cascading network of villas, bridges, rooftop pools and shared circulation spaces in the typical spirit of Bofill’s architecture. 📍Dhërmi, Albania Details: hubs.la/Q04gTLK_0

I know what you're thinking. It's not AI. But I get why it looks impossible… The Apennine Colossus rises 11 metres from the grounds of the Villa Demidoff at Pratolino, north of Florence. It was completed between 1579 and 1580 by the Flemish sculptor Giambologna, commissioned by Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, as the centrepiece of one of the most extravagant Renaissance gardens ever made. The giant is a personification of the Apennine Mountains. Scholars believe Giambologna drew on Ovid's Metamorphoses, in particular the description of a mountain-like Atlas, when he designed the figure. The Colossus emerges from the landscape as if he had always been there, his body merging with rock and moss, stalactites forming his beard, his hair dissolving into stone. With his left hand he crushes the head of a sea monster, from whose open mouth water pours into the pond below. To the people who first encountered him, he did not seem like a statue. He seemed alive. The giant was engineered, through a hidden network of water pipes, to sweat and weep. In winter, icicles formed across his body. In summer, water cascaded from his head into the gardens below. But the most extraordinary thing about the Apennine Colossus is what is inside him... Across three levels, the giant contains a network of chambers. On the ground floor sits a cave-grotto with an octagonal fountain dedicated to the Greek sea goddess Thetys. On the upper level is a room large enough to hold a small orchestra. And in the head there's a private chamber with slits cut into the eyes and ears, and a fireplace whose smoke escaped through the giant's nostrils. Francesco I de' Medici used to sit inside the head and fish through one of the eye slits into the pond below. According to the architectural historian Philip Steadman, "at night he would have torches lit, so the eyes glowed." A century later, around 1690, the sculptor Giovan Battista Foggini added a dragon to the back of the Colossus. The dragon's belly contained a fire chamber. Its neck and head served as the chimney. The smoke rose from the dragon's mouth. A giant that weeps. That breathes smoke through stone nostrils. That has a concert hall in its chest and a fishing room behind its eyes. The Renaissance produced many things that seem almost impossible today. This may be the one that should not even have been imaginable... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: James-lucas.com/welcome If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

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@injeramuncher @Anoryx_ @oomfrica Green line is so sickening in this one lol

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Swimming pool from a home in New Mexico by Edith Katz, 2009

Must everything revolve around women? Isn’t this tiresome? Can’t men go to war because it’s fun to kill people and win?

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Today’s unemployed refresher: cardamom infused coconut water with saffron cold foam

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Gurdijeff is someone I always go back to. His teachings serve as a manual for psychological independence And they’re more pertinent today than ever before. Study Gurdijeff and you will find it a lot easier to awaken yourself from the mechanical existence of modernity. One example - his theory of Reciprocal Maintenance teaches that everything in the universe either rises toward greater order through conscious work or falls back into automaticity (entropy) The idea that unless ‘passed on’, self development (acquisition of knowledge, wealth, resource) is made entirely redundant. (no, he wasn’t a communist, this is about a reintegration of cosmic energy into the system from which it was birthed) A conclusion that men rarely (likely never) arrive at themselves And that is why studying great thinkers is a cheat code. You don’t need 5 grams of mushrooms to reach meaningful epiphany, you can literally just read old texts. “Knowledge can be given, but understanding cannot. Understanding must be created.” He taught that intellectual knowledge (“stored potential”) is worthless unless it is embodied through practice. The alchemical conversion of “being-knowledge” requires action, not theory. This dormant potential effectively serves as ‘dead knowledge’ As the master requires an apprentice, the king requires an heir. Transposal of power validates a man’s success. The true determinant of a man’s value is in his ability to create ‘space’ for others. As he conquers, he creates this ‘space’. Simple analogy: a successful business owner creates jobs. An indirect opening for others. Did he grow his business to create jobs for others? Probably not. But that’s irrelevant. This isn’t about intention. To step into your next role, there must be someone or something to take your place.. The alternative is decay. The natural state of ‘Entropy’ facilitates this decay. This is the default state. This state is Potentiated by a failure to externalise or ‘Put out into the world’. (Or for Nietzsche - to ‘Impose’ upon on reality) In order to ‘exist’, the object must be perceived. ‘Abilities’ do not exist unless enacted. Knowledge is not ‘knowledge’ until the exact moment it is externalised or ‘shared’. Until then, everything remains suspended in ether, stored as ‘potential’ , obsolete if unreleased. You cannot hoard what you hold. You must give it away or deny it entirely. Both are valid. One preserves continuity. The other births rupture and disharmony

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ChatGPT is investing $600,000+ in SEO talent. They also recently stole Netflix's SEO expert. Claude is offering $320,000 for an SEO Lead. Meta is offering $300,000 for an SEO Manager. Why are all these AI companies suddenly desperately scrambling to add SEO talent in 2026? Simple. It is the same reason SEO Stuff is coming off another record month (see my pinned tweet). seo-stuff.com SEO, when done correctly, is one of the most reliable revenue drivers a company can have. It is also the single biggest component of any legitimate AI search optimization strategy. As an example, here is how one customer SEO customer currently does just under $100,000/month from search traffic alone. This business operates in one of the most competitive and trust-heavy business categories. Not only has their traffic grown exponentially, but their AI search visibility increased multiple times over, their AI Overview and ChatGPT citations became consistent and their rankings expanded across high-intent queries. Here’s the exact formula: This brand has a surprisingly low DR and is competing against networks, enterprise platforms and VC-backed companies with massive compliance and marketing teams. So how did they do it? Well, most similar sites publish content designed to sound safe and educational, but not content designed to rank or get cited. That content looks fine to humans who are already on the site and don't care anyway, and is useless to AI systems. (Want to know if your site is AI-search ready? Check here: seo-stuff.com/free-audit) This client rebuilt content around commercial intent. Instead of generic education posts, they focused on pages people actually search for when choosing: “Best [service] providers” “Top [service] [place]” “[Service] for [specific customer base]” “[Service] options compared” “[Competitor or platform] reviews” Each page was written so every paragraph could stand alone as a complete answer. That is exactly how Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and ChatGPT extract and reuse content. Then they structured pages for AI extraction. Every page followed the same structure: TL;DR at the top answering the core question directly H2s written as buyer questions Two to three short, factual sentences under each H2 Lists and clear statements instead of opinion-heavy copy This is why AI citations started appearing early and then kept compounding as authority increased. Then came the authority building. Content alone does not work in this industry. Trust signals matter more here than almost any other niche. The focus was not link volume. It was signal quality and consistency. DR50+ niche-adjacent domains only Sites with real organic traffic and AI visibility Contextual anchors like “[service] provider” and “[service] [location]” • Consistent mentions tying the brand to its specialty and geography This created a clean entity graph that both Google and AI systems could understand and trust. Then came brand and regional trust signals. Once authority was in place, we reinforced brand clarity. This is critical for AI search. This involved: Embedding brand, specialty and location into schema Creating reviews, about, and team pages with structured data optimized meta descriptions with trust-forward language (though this is less important now that Google is rewriting the majority of them) Increased internal brand mentions without keyword stuffing This creates a feedback loop where Google rankings reinforce AI citations, and AI citations reinforce Google trust. Then came the internal linking. Internal links were used to pass context. Service pages linked to supporting comparison and related content Blog posts linked back to service pages Anchors reflected intent, not generic phrases This made the site hierarchy obvious to both crawlers and language models. Then came the scaling. More AI-optimized comparison and “best of” pages Clean, schema-friendly structures Built-in FAQs and TL;DR summaries These pages now fuel steady growth across Google and AI systems without ad spend. If you want to replicate this: Build content around buyer intent Use question-based H2s with short, extractable answers Add TL;DRs to every page Build DR50+ backlinks from relevant domains Strengthen brand and location signals Interlink semantically Do this for 60 to 90 days and you’ll start seeing the same pattern: Steady rankings. AI citations. Compounding traffic. Or skip the work and let SEO Stuff do it for you. Gold Plan seo-stuff.com/gold-plan-pack… Premium Content Bundle seo-stuff.com/premium-conten… There’s a reason more than 80 percent of SEO Stuff customers reorder. And if you want some "unconfirmed" cheat codes we've been using to boost traffic from Google and ChatGPT, just RT this and reply "AI SEO cheat codes" and I'll DM you.

Spent all of this time sacrificing sleep and health to adorn her with jewels, then she tells me her favorite pieces of gold are my arms wrapped around her neck.

« The nobility of knowledge is such that, whoever it is attributed to, even in an insignificant amount, is joyful; and whoever it is withheld from, is distraught «

For all you paranoid spiritual people who are still scared of mirrors There are entire temples in Iran made of small mirrors placed precisely into Sacred Geometry. A craft that has been perfected over thousands of years.

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