red planet. its first 4k video was released couple of days ago on youtube.

probably the most successful chinese platform regarding data collection from the users who live outside of china. rumors say that microsoft in talks to buy tiktok or trump will ban tiktok from the us.

a celestial object that is at a fixed point in the sky and luminous by means of burning gases and nuclear fusion and fission.

judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

dalai lama

i leant upon a coppice gate
when frost was spectre-grey,
and winter's dregs made desolate
the weakening eye of day.
the tangled bine-stems scored the sky
like strings of broken lyres,
and all mankind that haunted nigh
had sought their household fires.

the land's sharp features seemed to be
the century's corpse outleant,
his crypt the cloudy canopy,
the wind his death-lament.
the ancient pulse of germ and birth
was shrunken hard and dry,
and every spirit upon earth
seemed fervourless as i.

at once a voice arose among
the bleak twigs overhead
in a full-hearted evensong
of joy illimited;
an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
in blast-beruffled plume,
had chosen thus to fling his soul
upon the growing gloom.

so little cause for carolings
of such ecstatic sound
was written on terrestrial things
afar or nigh around,
that i could think there trembled through
his happy good-night air
some blessed hope, whereof he knew
and i was unaware

thomas hardy the darkling thrush

not following my heart.

imagine with me, if you will, a snowfall.

the catastrophic peace of a winter morning, grey skies and icy windows framed by flakes laid to rest

frostbitten breezes wind through heavy-laden branches, sending clouds of snow swirling through the air as if from a powder-puff against a grandmother's cheek

wandering rays of sunlight find their way through the cloud cover

and it's beautiful.

i miss you.

the last platform that is ruined by mark zuckerberg.
telegram has way more features and signal is more secure and privacy focused. image

americans who were loyal to the king and did not want independence from great britain were called loyalists.

an adaptation of an african lyre, was a common instrument in slave quarters. singing songs reinforced slaves sense of community and tied their lives in america to their ancestors' in africa.

(see: #643)

exclusive control over an industry or economic market by one company or individual.

not following my mind.

during the summer of 1929, the stock market reached record highs. there were hints of problems ahead, but few people paid attention. for one thing, too many people's wealth depended on buying stocks on margin, creating a debt that would be hard to repay if stock prices fell. another hint was the slowdown in buying-most families had already bought a car, furniture, and an array of household appliances, and did not need any more. but factories continued to produce goods at record rates, creating huge inventories of unsold products that just sat in warehouses and on store shelves. also, farms continued to fail at an alarming rate as prices dropped and money stopped coming in.

in the fall of 1929, the prices of stocks dropped sharply, then recovered—until october 29, 1929, when they collapsed. stocks that had sold for $90 a share or more were suddenly almost worthless. investors lost nearly $8 billion on that one day.

once people lost confidence in the stock market, it touched off a chain reaction. brokers demanded that investors pay their margin loans, and banks asked for the money they had loaned the brokers. millions of people withdrew their money from banks. this "run" on the banks caused hundreds of banks to run out of cash and forced them to close temporarily. in the aftermath of the stock market crash, there were stories about people who jumped out of windows and killed themselves—which did happen, although the stories often exaggerated the numbers of victims.