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No, this isn't the new Taylor Swift album cover. I've cleaned-up this remarkable colour photo, taken 113 years ago in August 1913, a year before the First World War. It is a portrait of 16-year-old Christina Bevan at Durdle Door in Lulworth, Dorset. It was taken by Lt-Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.
This was one of the first Autochromes I cleaned up for Twitter and I share it again with you because it is such a beautiful image 😍
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In 1990, Dolly Parton went on vacation in Ireland.
She walked into a local pub in County Kerry and delivered a flawless performance of Coat of Many Colors.
A heart of pure gold who made people smile across oceans.
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This story is harrowing. Police jailed this woman, impounded her car for 7 months, and hit her with 8 felonies after a Flock camera flagged a Dodge Durango that killed 3 people. She faced life in prison.
The problem: It was a completely different Dodge Durango.
Florida woman spent 7 months in legal hell after cops used Flock surveillance to ID the wrong car.
Full story: reason.pub/4zk3gLx
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In Post-Soviet Georgia, a fledgling Libertarian movement faces an increasingly authoritarian state.
reason.com/2026/08/09/in-pos…
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Great report for @reason by @HuntBeaty on freedom movement in post-Soviet Georgia. reason.com/2026/08/09/in-pos…
Georgia went from post-Soviet success story to jailing its own opposition leaders. I wrote about the libertarian @Zuraja @GIRCHIMF caught in the middle for @reason.
reason.com/2026/08/09/in-pos…
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It was 2 years ago today that we launched Venice.
So much has changed since then, but not the principles on which we're building it. The separation of mind and state remain just as important.
"Search the world’s information, have rich conversations, analyze documents, create interesting images and art of any style at the push of a button. Various AI services offer these things, so what makes Venice unique?
• Venice doesn’t spy on you
• Venice doesn’t censor the AI
In other words, Venice is private, and Venice is permissionless."
moneyandstate.com/blog/the-s…
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The desire to alter consciousness has been proposed as a "fourth drive" — alongside hunger, thirst, and sex.
Every class of animal does it. Insects, birds, mammals, fish.
We scheduled a biological instinct as a felony.
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A pleasant read for your holidays, about the experience of receiving the opposite of a terminal diagnosis.
People born with CF the same year as me (1992) lived to a median age of 31. Now the median age of death is over 65.
I found this feature from @sarahzhang on CF profoundly moving theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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Like all of you, I am mourning Charlie Kirk. He stood up for his beliefs and died for them at 31, wearing a T‑shirt that read "Freedom."
At 31, my life was taken from me for standing up for what I believed in. And Charlie helped me get it back. He never took credit for it but he played a BIG role in my freedom in many ways. Last year alone, when President Trump won the election, he asked Charlie what was the #1 thing he could do for him and Charlie replied: "Free Ross." And in the days leading to my release, Charlie advocated for a full pardon. He did this and more without expectations of me.
I wish there was something I could do to help Charlie get his life back. But there isn't, and I'm heartbroken.
Charlie, I will always be grateful to you. Thank you for all you did for me and for our country. I pray for you and your beautiful family. Rest in peace.
Happened to be in Georgia (the country) last fall just days before the contentious parliamentary elections that sparked the protests which continue to this day.
Wrote about my brief time in this captivating country for Reason's recent travel issue 🇬🇪
The people of the country of Georgia might well be the first folks who ever got properly wine-drunk. reason.com/2025/08/23/georgi…
every time I’m about to input anything into ChatGPT, I remember Sam Altman exists and use Venice instead
wow it has been one whole year since @bopanc 's great piece about Nord Stream pipeline and now wondering why there wasn't more general chatter about the WAR DOLPHINS?!
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Dave Scott performed one of the most legendary experiments: the Galilean 'hammer & feather' held on the Moon, 54 years ago Today
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I’ll never miss an opportunity to post this video of a Cuban man getting emotional the first time he goes to a Costco, because it’s so hard for him to wrap his head around the sheer abundance. Arguing this is somehow a negative for society is crazy.
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The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum.
marginalrevolution.com/margi…
