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GROW SLOW

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If I could give some advice to my grandkids, I would share the following random thoughts about trying to grow up in the digital age. or in the fast lane. Do not allow it to control you.

SCARY NEW WORLD

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individuality instead of conditioning, truth instead of engineered happiness, freedom instead of stability, emotional depth instead of contentment. In Brave New World, social control is achieved through pleasure, conditioning, and the suppression of individual thought, creating a population that willingly accepts its own oppression. By contrast, 1984 portrays a society maintained through fear, surveillance, and coercion, where citizens comply under constant threat. The true opposite of Huxley’s vision, however, is not merely a harsher dystopia, but a society grounded in individuality rather than conformity, truth rather than manufactured happiness, freedom rather than enforced stability, and emotional depth rather than artificial contentment. A new world where intellectuals are persecuted and prosecuted.

NORTHERN LIGHTSHOW

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According to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, the best chances to catch the light are especially around midnight, when geomagnetic activity tends to intensify. These vibrant displays are caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with gases in Earth's atmosphere. These colors depend on the altitude and types of gases involved; for instance, red lights occur above 120 miles up due to oxygen atoms.

WORSE OF WORST

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AI says the Trump era is uniquely damaging to our collective mental health and sense of being one nation that is widely shared, even by some who agreed with his policies.

INTELLIGENCE

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The government is increasingly monitoring the population for information-gathering, influencing, managing, or directing.

2000 - 2025 NEWS

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The last 25 years have been a remarkable period of history marked by numerous transformative events. From technological revolutions to global challenges and social movements. I don't know about all of you, but as far as I am concerned, it certainly has been a hell of a quarter-century so far. I hope things begin to settle down once and for all for the US and the world.

RELEVANT EDUCATION

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Educators must upgrade their skills and adapt to educational conditions in modern times.

OLDER IS BETTER

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Do you agree with me that sometimes folks falsely feel like there's an age limit when it comes to work, fame, ideas, or good fortune?

My younger daughter and my older online partner and good pal are both celebrating birthdays. I say they never get older, they're getting better. As long as it’s not another day older and deeper in debt.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDiq6rSrBo4

Take Uncle Sam, who is much older, and deeper in debt, yet still has some great ideas under his tall hat and inside in his head.

HELP WANTED

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We're scouring the globe for intelligent folks with integrity and full of energy. We seek peacemakers, healers, and loversSend  a 3-page document in the body of the email, including a cover letter and CV to #CIMAGES.ME CityImages3@gmail.com