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Charming Friend Ricoh KR-10 Super Barcelona, Spain Sunday, August 21st, 1988.
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I’m not passing the buck; this is someone else’s decision.
David Brent in The Office
Honeymobile iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Friday, August 10th, 2018.
Marina Gazing iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, July 9th, 2018.
Folk & Galvanized iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, June 25th, 2018.
Bowie Lives iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Thursday, June 21st, 2018.
Brighton Rock Bicycle Race iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Friday, June 8th, 2018.
Skydarking iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, June 5th, 2018.
Dusk Drama iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, June 5th, 2018.
Tranquilo iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, June 5th, 2018.
The Return of Stromberg iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
The Fighting Jetty iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
Mist Away iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
Spit, Polish & Ruin iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
Flatform iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 30th, 2018.
Rich Wooden Ceiling iPhone 6S Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018.
Lovely Dog iPhone 6S Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018.
Harlequin Ed iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Thursday, April 19th, 2018.
Aquamarine iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Saturday, April 14th, 2018.
Fire Lasers iPhone 6S Hyde Park, London, England Wednesday, April 11th, 2018.
Joins iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, April 9th, 2018.
Bright iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Friday, April 6th, 2018.
By the Seaside iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Monday, February 19th, 2018.
Eros from the Bus iPhone 6S London, England Wednesday, February 14th, 2018.
Sou-hwick Square iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Sunday, January 28th, 2018.
Same in Hebrew iPhone 6S East Sussex, England Sunday, January 28th, 2018.
Needed a Break iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Saturday, January 20th, 2018.
7:56pm UTC
Saturday, September 29th, 2018
Tim Berners-Lee announces his startup Inrupt to support and popularize Solid, a platform to enable people to regain control of their own data.
Good bonkers, I’m Adam S Khan, the S being for Samuel.
I live in Brighton, England with Irit and our kids and right now no dogs.
Thanks for dropping by — it’s my pleasure to have you.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
The 1953 Bergren Residence, on the market for $2m, is a pretty Wrightian Lautner, especially around the fireplace.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
itshello.co — clientless, open-source video chat in the browser.
Sunday, October 14th, 2018
You’re ♬ never ♫ too old ♬ to ♫ be young. “The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45” in the Harvard Business Review.
Saturday, October 13th, 2018
I’m with Thomas (now Giselle), as robust as it blimmin’ gets with his Empire for Liberty.
My own sort of wacky view about it is that the American Revolution was basically a dispute over the course and direction and ground rules of the Empire.
Friday, October 12th, 2018
Worrying that you’re late is one of the signs of a good idea.
Paul Graham, How to Get Startup Ideas
Hussein Agha, senior Fatah member, discusses at some length — and it seems to me with honesty — the prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
When Palestinians are close to reaching an agreement and are genuinely faced with giving up 78 per cent of their homeland, they feel surrender, so they recoil. Whenever Israelis find themselves at a similar point and try to justify giving up material assets in return for mere words, i.e. promises about future conduct, they recoil.
An interview at the impressive Fathom Journal with Lyn Julius, author of Uprooted.
The Jews were intrinsic to the rhythm of life in the Middle East. It all ended in the space of a generation. Some 850,000 Jews fled 10 Arab countries; most found refuge in Israel, where over half the Jewish population has roots in Arab or Muslim lands.
Try to do things that would make your friends say wow.
Paul Graham, “How to Do What You Love”
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
Now that’s a web site: New York City tree map — every last one, including street view, species, diameter. [via Kottke]
Monday, October 8th, 2018
Friday, October 5th, 2018
The Power of Pull
John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison
The core ideas are repeated so unabashedly often that distaste for the repetition makes me want to reject the ideas. Perhaps though repetition is deliberate, like in television commercials, working under the rhetorical theory that the reader will be irritated into remembering the message?
At any rate, the book posits three steps to getting anywhere: find the resources you need, attract others to your vision, and move at the appropriate pace to implement it. Crossing these three steps is the idea that innovation tends to occur not at the heart of things but at the edge, and so there must be an interplay between the incumbents and the hungry marginal outsiders. And the current business paradigm of digital transformation pumps up these perennial dynamics to where they must now be utilized as a framework.
The book’s blurbs are so hyperbolic and from such high-powered people, perhaps its simplicity is its power and the repetition worked on me: I dismiss the book merely because I understand it, and I understand it due to the repetition. And my understanding the book proves it a good one.
Since a few years have now passed since publication, some of the enterprises cited as exemplary wonders in the making, like Shai Agassi’s Better Places, have collapsed, giving further if unintentional insight into the topic.
You could argue that I missed the point entirely, in that I don’t even mention here the concept of “pull”. But that’s because to me it gradually lost any meaning, they used the term so often, and became a stand-in for “good”.
Saturday, September 29th, 2018
Tim Berners-Lee announces his startup Inrupt to support and popularize Solid, a platform to enable people to regain control of their own data.
Thursday, September 27th, 2018
In case anyone else was mildly traumatized by the way fonts appear on MacOS Mojave due to the disabling of subpixel antialiasing, here’s the solution by Github user alexanderyakusik:
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
Also, in System Preferences > General, check Use font smoothing when available.
Then reboot.
Wednesday, September 26th, 2018
More incredibleness: sefaria.org, a beautiful bountiful platform of the Jewish texts. What an accomplishment.
Sunday, September 23rd, 2018
John Gruber’s Daringfireball reviews — no, essays — on The iPhones XS and Apple Watch Series 4 are a pleasure worthy of their subject matter. They feel informed, informal, thoughtful. “Series 4 is to Apple Watch what iPhone 4 was to iPhone,” Gruber writes. “The model that takes the original design to a new level.”
Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
How did I not know about ribbonfarm all these years; truly I’ve been living under a rock for ages. Thoughtful, concise, erudite, relevant: Tendrils of Mess in our Brains by Sarah Perry.
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Million Dollar Consulting
Alan Weiss
This most renowned book by the engaging Alan Weiss has a tone of practical, optimistic advice. Its title however is unfortunate as the first part may come off as cheesy while the second part comes off as only applying to consultants. Its subtitle, “The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice”, is more accurate; I was talking with an old friend who now has his own one-man legal practice and realized that pretty much all the book’s advice applies to him.
Although famous for advocating value billing rather than hourly, perhaps the book’s dominant concept is that you should invest your marketing energy in becoming a thought leader — in speaking and writing.
Weiss is a bit of a minor national treasure (despite hovering sometimes on the edge of bad taste — and I believe he is way sophisticated enough to understand exactly what he’s doing) and despite becoming slightly cranky in his more recent musings (not that I disagree with where he’s coming from, but political musings may be off-putting to others). He is a gifted writer in that having read his book you feel he is your friend looking out for you.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Premieres for the Rams doc by Gary Hustwit (of Helvetica) are being held all around America. The only cities where it’s sold out are: NY, LA and SF.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
When Judaism curls into something surely bonkers and even deleterious: Orthodox Jewish women shamed for long wigs. Ah, to cover one’s hair with… hair.
Saturday, September 8th, 2018
Never mind it being yet another acronym, this method humanizes selecting colors for the web: On Switching from HEX & RGB to HSL by CoDrops explainer extraordinaire Sara Soueidan.
Thursday, September 6th, 2018
9to5Mac presents 50 new watchOS 5 features.
Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
I miss the days of forums, when any issue about a product was discussed on its own site and nowhere else. I do believe issues are better resolved online with posts, not chats.
Inappropriate use of chat software erodes mental health, at least, mine. Here’s a fun articulate essay on why the author hates Slack (and you should too).
And Slack is proprietory. I just scrolled up and was stopped and told I need a paid plan! And Discord: why?! Trendiness happens.
Monday, September 3rd, 2018
Trump the Shibboleth Marauder: On August 31st, the State Department announced that the United States will not make additional contributions to UNWRA, the UN agency that has served to perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Thursday, August 30th, 2018
“Breaking Smart” by Venkatesh Rao. This is the first collection, “Software is Eating the World”, inspired by a residency at Andreessen/Horowitz.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
Spotting the Golden Ratio in the wild: At the end of their hairbrained Federation Plan for Israel and the Palestinians (minus Gaza, which would spoil the math), the authors state: “Jews and relatives of Jews, in this estimate, would comprise 62% of the population, while Muslim and Christian Arabs would total 37%.”
Monday, August 27th, 2018
Adventures of a Bystander
Peter F. Drucker
Beloved creator of management, recipient of 25 honorary doctorates, Peter F. Drucker wrote his autobiography in the form of vignettes of spectacular individuals whom he encountered throughout his fabulous life from privileged childhood in Vienna, through journalism in Germany, banking in London, and over to America. It’s a book of overflowing humanity.
Friday, August 24th, 2018
“Modelling Process Intensive Scenarios for the Smart City” [PDF]. In this paper by professors at the computer science department at the University of Camerino in Italy, the authors discuss BPMN (and bpFM, which I’d never heard of before) in the context of municipal services, specifically bike-sharing.
Another perspective on bike-sharing, this time re usability, by mobile-first thought leader Luke Wroblewski.
“Service Design 101”, a primer by the Nielsen Norman Group.
Jake Shears at Concorde 2. Bloody missed it, is all.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
Pinhas Inbari sheds new (to me) light on the roots of Palestinian nationalism, arguing that the similarities to Syria’s schisms are more than parallels but in fact the same issue: pan-Arabism (Fatah, Ba’athists) vs pan-Islamism (Hamas, ISIS).
Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
Impressive mobile usability thought leader Josh Clark shares the tools he uses, from pen to Piwik (now Matomo).
Monday, August 20th, 2018
David P. Goldman has been predicting this for years, and now it is happening (nudged along by Trump’s new steel tariffs): Turkey is in a horrible mess and likely to become a Chinese satrapy.
Contrast with George Friedman’s notion that Turkey will become a superpower, which to me seems comically misguided.
That said, Turkey does seem a fulcrum power, a bellweather of who dominates global affairs; if it falls to China’s influence, this is not great for the West.
To me, with my papercut exposure to Turkey, the fundamental problem is this: they are unsatisfied with being a nationstate. Instead, they want to be the local imperium, which cannot be. Turks, I say: apply your justified satisfaction with quotidian life to the national level. That way you will indeed make friends and influence peoples.
Perhaps Look to Britain for this, which once ruled much more than the Ottomans, but harbors no hopeless dreams to revive a moment in history.
Perhaps not coincidentally, both states are currently in some danger of a secessionist crack-up.
Sunday, August 19th, 2018
On nationalism old and new. In Tablet, the prophetic columnist David P. Goldman discusses Yoram Hazony’s new book The Virtue of Nationalism.
Friday, August 17th, 2018
This guy wrote reviews of every Queen song.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
Who is Michael Cohen? Part of the exquisite series on Trump’s coterie by Josh Fruhlinger in The Baffler.
Clips from the great British documentary The Great British Year. No need for a BBC license; this is the programme’s web page. Just great stuff.
Sunday, August 5th, 2018
Why does tech have so many political problems? A list of 17 answers by Tyler Cowen. I love the phrase “Robespierrean social justice terror”.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Why was he like this to her? Excerpt from Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ upcoming book about her father Steve.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
“Shouting ‘Peace, peace’ may actually push peace away,” argues game theorist and Nobel Economics laureate Prof. Yisrael Aumann, New York-born head of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality at Hebrew University.
This is just about common sense — by that I mean it’s only a single twist of what Edward Luttwak calls the paradoxical logic of strategy. Yet perhaps there are further twists; I suggested one back in 2003 in “Allah Help the Jackals”:
Perhaps Israel is following a subconscious national strategy of the strong, in which it behaves too meekly for a decade or so, emboldens its vicious but feeble enemies until they go too far, then lashes out in a now-obviously-justifiable response and gains untold assets in the process.
Not to mention that the more time goes by, the more Israel strengthens and the Palestinians weaken.
This subconscious national strategy of delay by dint of wanting too hard, if it ever were effective, seems to have played itself out now, as demonstrated by Israel’s shift of focus towards undermining UNWRA, which plays such an underlying role in prolonging the conflict.
What with the Sunni warming to Israel and the supremely sympathetic Trump Administration, Israel it seems believes that allowing the conflict to fester for gradual gain has now become counterproductive, and so seeks a new path to end it.
All that notwithstanding, nothing ends until the Palestinians begin educating their children towards co-existence alongside Israel.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Friday, July 20th, 2018
We have a bunch of companies that are comprised of a sales department and a tech department, because every other job has been outsourced to a website run by another company composed of a sales department and a tech department.
Peter Welch, “How to Worry Less About Being a Bad Programmer”
Programming Sucks is some cynical cuteness on coding by Peter Welch.
Doing this all day leaves you in a state of mild aphasia as you look at people’s faces while they’re speaking and you don’t know they’ve finished because there’s no semicolon.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
Hillel Frisch explicates the Russian view on the Middle East: while Israel is most concerned these days about Shiite Iran, Russia worries more about Sunnis.
Saturday, July 14th, 2018
Check out this important web development article, CSS: A New Kind of JavaScript. I think the author is especially clear on opacity.
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Nicely done on the semi-colon. Besides, anything that gets in Moby Dick‘s chapter 42 is alright.
UPDATE: 'Poliolike' disease stumps scientists...
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New DNA tools can decode your natural lifespan...
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Can Theresa May Be FORCED to Hold Second Brexit Vote?
South African city set to seize land in national 'test case'...
Britain Releases Radical Islamist Preacher From Prison...
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REPORT: Royal Family Considering Replacement For Crown Prince...
WEEKEND: 'HALLOWEEN' SET TO KILL BOXOFFICE...
Kingdom to blame top intel officer?
White privilege symposium will feature 'racial justice' board game...
What's at stake if investors begin to shun...
Real Lessons From Beto O'Rourke's Magical Run in Texas
Trump Has Freed the Republican Party From the Media
The Republican Party Doesn't Trust Women
Hillary Clinton's Master Class in Distraction
The Media Is Hopelessly in Love With Beto
How 2018 Became the 'Year of the Black Progressive'
Elizabeth Warren Shows Dems How to Lose in 2020
The Rise of Russia's GRU Military Intelligence Service
Left-Wing Violence Ramps Up As Election Nears - and Dems Yawn
Twitter Has a Huge Louis Farrakhan Problem
Saudis Don't Deserve Benefit of Doubt, Especially From Trump
The Prairie Populist Who Could Win S. Dakota for the Dems
The Experts Were Wrong About the Middle East
Trump's Mideast Plan a 'Path to Change' for Gaza
Why the Saudis Despised Jamal Khashoggi
Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.
The Intel 9th Gen Review
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
Pioneer of Central Washington cryptocurrency boom falls on hard times
Lawn Love (YC S14) is hiring an entrepreneurial PM to help us transform lawn care
New material could up efficiency of concentrated solar power
Introducing the Distance Field Generator
Rent the Runway Wants to Lend You Your Look
New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments
FTC hearings on tech companies included economists who take money from them
Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol
How to Build a Real-Time Object Detection iOS App Using TensorFlow
Cleveland.com’s ‘right to be forgotten’ removes names from some crime stories
GraphSense – A Scalable Cryptocurrency Analytics Platform
Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations
Japan's Hometown Tax
Smart, efficient news worthy of your time, attention, and trust.
Michael Cohen tells citizens to vote or face more of "this craziness"
University of Southern California to pay $215m in sex abuse settlement
Bad trade policy could cost U.S. its autonomous vehicles lead
Top Democrats want fundamental changes in U.S.-Saudi relationship
Facebook hires Nick Clegg to lead its global affairs
Chinese economy sees slowest growth since 2009
Trump's closing arguments for the 2018 midterms
A Speaker Pelosi would break diversity record
Companies play "global blame game" this earnings season
This EV startup for adventurers has a two-part strategy for success
Trump praises Montana Republican who assaulted reporter
Congo's deadly mix of regional conflict and an Ebola outbreak
Iran delivers GPS components to Lebanon for Hizballah rockets
Putin will see Bolton in Moscow on Monday
Ten thousand Palestinians rioting on Gaza border
Pompeo neither heard nor read Turkish Khashoggi tapes
White House denies Israeli TV claim that Trump sent Lauder to meet Abu Mazen
Turkey Snatches Kuwait out of the US Orbit, Gains Another Foothold in the Gulf
Netanyahu’s “Containment” Strategy for Hamas Is Bankrupt – First Holes in His Authority
How Turkish President Erdogan Wins Big from the Khashoggi Crisis
As Missing Journalist Case Impinges on Trump, MbS May Take the Rap
US-Saudi Relations Knocked Sideways by Khashoggi Affair
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Children of Iranian Leaders Study in U.S.
U.S. to Merge U.S. Embassy Jerusalem and U.S. Consulate General Jerusalem
My Family Survived Bergen-Belsen
U.S. Offers $5 Million Reward for Jihadist Who Urged Attacks over Jerusalem
Dutch Jew Faces Off Against BDS Protesters
Israel Tells UN: "Abbas' Culture of Hate Is the Obstacle to Peace"
There's No Justification for the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi, But Don't Whitewash What He Believed
Security Cabinet: Rules of the Game Have Changed
Supporting Israel Reflects Our Canadian Values
Israel Supreme Court Lifts Entry Ban for U.S. Student
Dutch Diplomat Was Rebuked for Saving Jews
Israel Supreme Court: State Has the Authority to Bar BDS Activists
U.S. Downgrades Jerusalem Diplomatic Mission to Palestinians
PA Arrests Palestinian-American for Property Sale to Jews
Venezuela's Ties with Hizbullah
Daily briefing: Why the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is seductive, but wrong
Virus detectives test whole-body scans in search of HIV's hiding places
Maize cob from prehistoric village reveals record-setting virus
Gloomy 1970s predictions about Earth’s fate still hold true
Teach undergraduates that doing a PhD will require them to embrace failure
Double the fun: Mars scientists push NASA to send rock-harvesting rover to two sites
Toothless whale fossil fills gap in filter-feeding evolution
Catalytic enantioconvergent coupling of secondary and tertiary electrophiles with olefins
NIH releases plan for determining whether sick research chimps should be moved to sanctuaries
Daily briefing: Top institutions get more grants (but deliver much less for the money)
A mesocortical dopamine circuit enables the cultural transmission of vocal behaviour
Proposed early signs of life not set in stone
LILRB4 signalling in leukaemia cells mediates T cell suppression and tumour infiltration
A call for early-career scientists to build a global science accord
Space-borne Bose–Einstein condensation for precision interferometry
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
Modest Mouse vs. Queen, a most excellent mash-up
Listen to "TrumpCrazy," a killer mambo track from 1955!
Drunk tourists face 10 years for spray painting ancient wall in Thailand
Why doesn't this cop see the gargantuan spider crawling towards him?
Ecuador embassy says Julian Assange is a sloppy housemate
Robots! A fantastic catalog of new species
Cotton and jelly sandwich?
Flight attendant robs three brothers of $2,600 while flying on Emirates
Listen to GOP congressman Jason Lewis imitate the voice of a distraught sexually-traumatized woman
RIP, Little Free Library founder Todd H. Bol
Kickstarting the Makerphone: an open-source hardware phone kit, programmable with python and Scratch
Portals of London: urban exploration to discover gateways to alternative universe
A bot has been finding bugs and submitting patches for them, successfully masquerading as a human
Apple's new parental control: Daily Stormer is in, sex-ed is out
Friday assorted links
Specialization and the Flowering of Personality, and Choice
*The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind*
Is “political correctness” the ultimate hack of the Left?
Thursday assorted links
Raising the status of Chow Yun Fat
What should I ask Daniel Kahneman?
That was then, this is now
On hitchhiking, circa 1969, from the comments
Words of wisdom
Wednesday assorted links
Convergence, Big Time
Why intellectuals should not be afraid to like sports
Does law and economics matter?
Tuesday assorted links
Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997
Apple MacBook Pro Blowout Sale: Save up to $925 on Mid 2017 13" and 15" models with no tax outside NY & NJ
Tim Cook lambastes Bloomberg for iCloud spy chip report, calls for retraction
Apple repair policy critic vows to fight 'counterfeit' battery seizure by U.S. customs
Google charging Android device makers up to $40 per phone to install apps
U.S. intelligence director: 'no evidence' of Chinese spy chips in iCloud servers
How Apple's Aperture created a new class of app on October 19, 2005 and lost it to Adobe Lightroom
Jony Ive 'proud' of Apple Watch, explains design team's late Apple Park move
Here are some of the best iPhone XR cases you can buy right now
iPhone XR may reduce ASP but should outpace iPhone 8 shipments by 50 percent
Chinese consumer group demands Apple compensate stolen Apple ID owners
Apple's Mac and iPad event, murder and the Apple Watch & more on the AppleInsider podcast
Apple releases USB-C charging cable for Apple Watch
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
Spotted: New Logo for NFL 100th Anniversary
Linked: Nebraska: Not for Everyone
Noted: New Logo and Identity for SpareRoom by Idea Is Everything
Reviewed: Friday Likes 263: From Tomomi Maezawa and Takram, Studio Lennarts & de Bruijn, and BDF Team
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for UNTIL by Mandala Studio
Spotted: New Logo for NMI
Linked: iOS Bagel Emoji Redesign
Noted: New Logo and Identity for Smiltyne Ferry Terminal by Godspeed Branding and New!
Reviewed: New Logos for all Channel 4 by 4creative and ManvsMachine
Spotted: New Logo for Lems
Spotted: New Logo for Norsk Tipping by Dinamo
Linked: American Airlines Not Happy
Noted: Follow-up: New Logo and Identity for Marketo by Focus Lab
Linked: Opening at 14TH ROUND
Biting the hand that feeds IT
experiments in refactored perception
Unflattening Hobbes
Seattle Drinks-and-Waterfront-Walk Meetup, Friday 19th
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