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Content note: mental illness, violence towards women Of all the strange paths my existence in a pandemic-hit world has taken me down, I’m not sure I could’ve predicted that one of them would involve contacting an exorcist. Gershon Winkler is a Danish-born rabbi who has not only written several books on the subject of Jewish mysticism (including a couple published by Penguin Random House) but has performed actual exorcisms. Although he can’t give me any specifics about these, as he likens doing so to being a doctor talking about the removal of a patient’s prostate.

Between his March and November trips to Cincinnati, Bob Dylan radically reinvented himself as a performer and altered the course of popular music history. He released Bringing It All Back Home, the first album in his groundbreaking rock trilogy, on March 22. That spring he made his final solo-acoustic tour, culminating in the England concerts of April and May, captured for posterity in D. A. Pennebaker’s highly acclaimed documentary film Dont Look Back.

This is a new series by DylanRevisited based on former Twitter threads, now available here in an easier to read and longer lasting format. When I revisited Bob Dylan’s 1962 self-titled debut album, I found it to be a surprisingly un-Bob Dylan record. For a better sense of who the singer really was around that time, it’s worth hearing what he was playing live in the Greenwich Village coffee houses around this time.

On this, the eve of another holiday , I thought I would take a moment to review for you my long rich one-sided seasonal holiday history with Bob Dylan. I have loved Bob Dylan since high school when my friend and I hitch-hiked to Berkeley and saw him perform at The Berkeley Community Theatre. When we got there, they were selling the last few tickets and ours got us seated in folding chairs on the stage.

This week's episode of "The Mixtape with Scott" features an insightful conversation with E. Glen Weyl, a distinguished economist whose career has spanned academia and industry. Glen earned his PhD from Princeton, spent three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and served as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he made significant contributions to micro theory applications to industrial organization. However, Glen’s journey took a transformative turn when he left academia to join Microsoft, where he currently leads the Plural Technology Collaboratory, focusing on technological solutions for societal cooperation.

Each F-35 burns 22 gallons of jet fuel per minute, 1,340 gallons an hour. Altogether, the F-35A training flights from the runway in South Burlington Vermont burn between 4.7 and 9.4 million gallons of jet fuel and emit between 100 million and 200 million pounds of CO2 per year. That is the equivalent of the annual emissions of 10,000 to 20,000 passenger cars. Scroll down to the footnote to see details of the calculation.

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There are a lot of improvements in version 0.4. The devs have made the AI much smarter, in particular, by improving how other factions colonize space. They will rush to Mars, competing for the best mining spots, and then rapidly colonize asteroids as well. Factions also seem to be doing a better job of developing their countries, fighting wars, and choosing more appropriate priorities. They are not better than a reasonably smart human, but AI is hard to code, and a perfect AI is not ideal anyway.

I want to tell you a story. It’s of a young girl. She’s beautiful, rich, popular, and hip to the latest trends. Decked out in the most fashionable outfits money can buy, her goal in life is to live a fairy tale. But one by one, the cornerstones of her life crumble under her. Her wealthy family falls apart, her handsome boyfriend cheats on her, and as she leaves high school to enter the real world, she faces the inescapable truth that what she wanted is impossible.