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The small story in the LA Times the other day really caught my attention. A hacker had conned people into sending him their password and log-in information, and he used the data to get access to their accounts. His mission: to find nude photos and videos. Along the way, he stole 620,000 images, including many of people in their birthday suits, which peo… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnmJawrLHDZqWao5WZerG0zq2mrGWfo3qivM%2BlnKxlmZi5sMHD

The island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean is shared by two nations: Dominican Republic (DR), a prosperous democracy, and Haiti, an impoverished and failed state without law and order. The stark differences occurred in 1861 after Spain briefly occupied DR and imposed laws and policies that charted a course that led to success. Haiti, by contrast, deteriorated and careened out of control. Violent gangs now control its 11 million people and their water and food.

🇦🇫 AFGHANISTAN 📍 18112 Parthenia Street, Northridge, San Fernando Valley 🅿️ Ample parking in plaza 🥤 No Alcohol 📸 All photos by Jared Cohee for Eat the World Los AngelesHISTORICAL ARTICLES are brought over from eattheworldla.com to make sure our Substack content is constantly growing and as full of depth as possible. These will never be behind the paywall. 📆 Original Article 27 January 2021In the Parthenia Center, a Northridge shopping plaza that has a branch of India Sweets & Spices as well as Pakistani and Korean restaurants, and the fun margarita-forward Tortilla Inn, the standout might just be the humble Halal Kitchen Café.

Is it because it’s in the Fall, when things are dying and returning to the earth? Is it the stormy weather that accompanies the changing of the season? Where did this spooky holiday come from anyway? It has its origins, no doubt, in some medieval tradition. I don’t know, I haven’t looked it up, but seems kind of medieval, gothic atleast. My neighbors across the street have set up a graveyard on their front lawn .

Technically the one-year anniversary of my first HIBOU post was December 3, but who’s counting? Me, as it turns out. On December 3, I counted up the essays I’d written (skipping the repetitive Weekly RAP posts over the summer) and realized with utter delight that the final tally gave me a most excellent excuse to use a Hamilton meme: Look, I know there’s no real comparison between Hamilton’s writing and mine—Hamilton’s essays took six months to help midwife our system of government while my essays took twelve months to spelunk mindset in writing—but just let me have this moment to pretend I spent the year writing like I was running out of time, all right?

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Yesterday Lenny Kaye drove to the city from Pennsylvania, so that we could go to the movies. It was a mild though overcast winter day and we took a walk through Washington Square, lingered before the bare yet expressive trees and listened to some musicians channeling Ornette Coleman. Lenny always gives buskers something in their guitar cases, then we went in search of ramen. After lunch we walked to the theater, passing St.

Good morning and Happy (Belated) Father’s Day to all the dads out there. I’m a day late, but I’d like to shout out my mom, who did the work of two parents for pretty much my entire life. Love you mom, and thanks for going above and beyond without ever complaining. The first question for today’s three question mailbag comes from Arel, who asks: Is this season seen as a success?

ChatGPT as a generative AI platform turned one year old last week. During that short period, it has amassed hundreds of millions of users, increased its valuation by billions of dollars, generated enough palace intrigue for its own prestige cable drama, and provoked more newsletter posts from me than I would have predicted a year ago. However, ChatGPT as a set of technological aspirations for education celebrated a much older birthday last week, turning somewhere between sixty and one hundred years old depending on when you start the clock.