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Sorry I forgot this absolute beauty Eli McMullen artist ‘Distant Memory’ New artist ( to me) I love this atmospheric ethereal painting Thanks my XTwitterarty Back hopefully tomorrow Helen😊🌷📚Max🐶❤️

In college (c. 2009) I started a "Junto" in my 1800s apartment's dingy brick basement, as part of my "Men of the Ages" group. Men, wine in pewter tankards, bread, a long solid wood table and wood benches I built, and light only from oil lamps. Gathering to discuss philosophy, religion, morals, and politics. One of our Juntos ⤵️ No technology, no distractions, no trivial topics. No asking Google anything or looking anything up (just some printed out notes). No women. (Sorry ladies -- you can have your own juntos). Just men pondering vital matters, challenging each other, debating, and strategizing. And don't underestimate the importance of the surroundings. No plastic, carpets, electric light, tasty food, or cushioned swivel chairs. Just wood, brick, metal, fire, wine, bread. More of this, gentlemen.

New York school district to become one of the first in the United States to introduce a humanoid robot in the classroom. 'Sally' will have a Western New York accent and will teach 11th and 12th-grade students at Salamanca High School. Sally costs less than the average teacher's salary in New York, with a price tag of $57,000. The robot has brown hair, and can move its arms and legs, but will not be able to walk around the classroom. Students will be able to log in so the humanoid can recognize students and their previous interactions. The humanoid will be helping teach coding, robotics, and AI classes. The school district promises that robots will "never" replace human teachers. ‘Sally’ is made by Realbotix, which also produces "companion" robots. What are we doing here?

Finally today ‘Fireflies’ Stephen Vasement German artist born into an artistic family where dad was a music teacher. Thanks my new XTwitterarty. Hopefully back tomorrow. Pleased many of my older followers are finding me again. Helen😊🌷📚 Max🐶❤️🌻

✴️Senator Alex Antic ✴️Fmr Senator Gerard Rennick ✴️Senator Malcolm Roberts Are the best brains Australia has in politics. They are the cream of the crop. They spoke against the insanity of the last six years. They would be a dream team. Strong statesmen is what Australia needs.

🚨 NEW: Pauline Hanson's support as preferred prime minister has dropped by eight points in the past month, according to Resolve's latest poll

COVID did not just divide societies. It divided tables. The specific table where you grew up, where you understood the unspoken rule that certain subjects stay outside the door. That rule existed for a reason. The family holds together not because everyone agrees but because the relationship is considered more important than the argument. What the pandemic did was make that trade feel dishonest. Because the thing you were being asked not to argue about was not politics in the abstract. It was whether what was being done to people was real. Whether the injured existed. Whether the fear had been manufactured and the compliance demanded in its name had cost something that no one in an official position intended to count. You cannot unknow what you know. And you cannot sit comfortably at a table where the knowing is treated as the problem. The people who remained comfortable did so, in many cases, by choosing not to look. Not from malice. From the same self-protective instinct that has always made certain truths socially expensive. The materialist rhythm of daily life, the holidays, the comfortable distance from consequence, provides a very effective reason not to examine anything that might disturb it. I learned who was with me when the cost of being with me became real. That knowledge is clarifying, even when it is painful. You stop maintaining connections that were held together primarily by the mutual agreement not to say what you actually think. What remains is smaller. It is also more honest. The communities forming around these questions are not a replacement for what was lost. But they are not nothing. They are people for whom the truth cost something, finding each other. That is how genuine solidarity has always started.