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False advertising. This was an ABOVE Average White Band composed of six Scotsmen and, eventually, one American. They are also one of my tip-top favoritest groups. Average White Band never broke any meaningfully new musical ground and their lead vocalists could be quite limited. And they also didn’t have outstanding soloists. But man could these motherbleepers create a groove and lock it in the funky pocket. Their influences, most prominently James Brown and the J.

The "Awesome GPTs (Agents) Repo" represents an initial effort to compile a comprehensive list of GPT agents focused on cybersecurity (offensive and defensive), created by the community. MagicUnprotect: This GPT allows to interact with the Unprotect DB to retrieve knowledge about malware evasion techniques. GP(en)T(ester): A cybersec assistant for pentesting guidance. Threat Intel Bot: A specialized GPT for the latest APT threat intelligence. SourceCodeAnalysis: Upload any project's source code (zip format), analysis all, answer any questions to get what you want.

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Microdose, an independent journalism newsletter brought to you by theU.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Ayahuasca church and owner to pay $15 million in wrongful death suit Last week, a Florida jury found that ayahuasca church Soul Quest and its owner, Christopher Young, were at fault for the death of client Brandon Begley, who died in 2018 during a weekend retreat where he took ayahuasca and kambo, a secretion from the South American giant monkey frog.

Name: Azul Wells Age: 58 times around the sun.  Feel 23. Location:  Nomadic.  Rented out my house in Park City, Utah for the past 2.5 years and am traveling the world.  30 countries visited so far. American society tends to stress financial success over personal enjoyment.  I see this as a false choice.  If you are a reader of Leo's Lemonade, you are likely the type of person that is going to be financially independent well before your 60s - with or without the marque high paying, high stress jobs that might be tempting you.

BRIGHTON, MA – Brad Marchand has always a little something special for the Toronto Maple Leafs ever since coming into the NHL, and it probably goes back to being a Leafs fan when he was a hockey-crazed kid growing up in Nova Scotia. “They were my favorite team growing up,” admitted Marchand. “Even today when you go to their building, they have a lot of their alumni walking around. Guys that I admired growing up.

Note - spoilers ahead! Richard Gadd had a stalker. She sent him 41,071 emails, 350 hours’ of voicemails, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages, 106 pages of letters, and  many unwanted presents, including a reindeer toy (the stalker called Richard ‘baby reindeer’; she said he reminded her of a stuffed reindeer that had comforted her as a child), sleeping pills,  boxer shorts, and a woolly hat. She appeared at his home and work and harassed him and his family.

We all have celebrities we grew up with. Child actors who are a couple years older than us who we either see in a movie targeted directly at our age group or talked about as giving an incredible performance for a child in a movie far too adult for us. Keke Palmer did a little bit of both for me. Akeelah and the Bee was a very influential movie for a know it all like me.

The dark and mysterious Twitter algorithm noticed me hovering over a Tweet about Succession for just a moment too long, and now I almost exclusively get show-related content on my ‘for you’ feed. While this generally only posed an issue when I hadn’t yet caught up with the latest episode (and subsequently had to ban myself from the platform until the situation had been resolved), it has given me an extensive insight into the ecosystem that is the Succession fandom.

A  useful skill not often taught is doing back of the envelope calculations, so called because they can be, sometimes are, done on the back of an envelope destined for the waste basket. The idea is to use approximate data and approximate models to try to get the right answer to a question to within about a factor of ten in either direction. One of my earlier posts was an example.