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Sonny Rollins playing on the Williamsburg Bridge with tenor saxophonist, arranger, and educator Paul Jeffrey in 1968. By 1959, Sonny Rollins had grown increasingly dissatisfied with what he felt were his own musical shortcomings and withdrew from the public eye to embark on the first—and most storied—of his self-imposed sabbaticals. Residing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, he sought refuge on the pedestrian walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge, where he could practice without disturbing a pregnant neighbor. From the summer of 1959 until the end of 1961, Rollins returned to the bridge almost daily, playing for as long as 15 or 16 hours at a stretch, through heat, wind, and snow, alongside the rumble of passing trains. Today, a fifteen-story apartment building named The Rollins stands on Grand Street, marking the site of his former home—a quiet monument to one of the most disciplined and transformative chapters in jazz history.

The health ministry has released a new 1,000-page document with the names, ages and other info, of 52,959 Palestinians killed in Gaza. For the first 100 pages (over 5,000 names), the age is listed at 5 years or younger. The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)

RIP to the legendary Sonny Rollins at age 95, one of the greatest to ever do it.

A specialized wine measuring tool used to pour exact amounts, such as 50ml, directly into a glass 🍷 © foodporn

In 2012, French student Anaïs Bordier saw a YouTube video of an American actress, Samantha Futerman, who looked exactly like her. Anaïs looked into it and found they had both been born in South Korea on the same day, in the same year, and in the same city. The only difference was that Anaïs had been adopted by a family in France, while Samantha had been adopted by a family in the United States. She reached out online, and the two eventually took a DNA test. It confirmed they were identical twins, separated as babies and raised on opposite sides of the world without knowing the other existed.

From my apartment in NW DC… Grocery store: 8-min walk Metro Station: 7-min walk Dry Cleaner: 4-min walk Coffee: 3-min walk Kalorama Park: 5-min walk Liquor Store: 3-min walk Restaurants: 3-7 min walk Target: 15-min walk It’s hardly an urbanist lie.

does anyone have any more examples of this

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Federal officials subpoena political streamer Hasan Piker.

BREAKING: MICROSOFT JUST ANNOUNCED TO BAN ITS OWN ENGINEERS FROM USING AI DUE TO THE COST OF USING IT. VP OF NVIDIA SAID, “THE COST OF AI FOR MY TEAM WAS MORE THAN HUMANS” “AI CAN COST MORE THAN HUMAN WORKERS NOW”

En Bolivia hay una genuina movilización popular de mineros, obreros y campesinos. Si fuera una “primavera” orquestada por EEUU o la UE abriría todos los telediarios. Es la prueba del algodón.