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In fact let me point out right now a factually incorrect statement that has obviously been put there with malice, in a place where you need technical skills in linguistics to spot it. In the [Wikipedia] article on renegade AIDS researcher Peter Duesberg, a pronunciation is given af...

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If you’re caught short in rural Finland, you’ll need a mobile phone. According to cellular news, the Road Authority there has installed locks on public toilets. A sign on the door explains that users need to text “open” (in Finnish, obviously; I hope the sign explains that) to a specific number, a...

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Things seem to be fully operational once more. You can get to the blog at www.jeremycherfas.net and at wp.jeremycherfas.net and at jeremycherfas.net/wp/ ¹

At least, I think you can. I’m never absolutely sure, what with caching and everything.

To be honest, I don’t know what happened. And as the...

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There’s trouble at my blog. Used to be, you could go to jeremycherfas.net/wp or wp.jeremycherfas.net and end up at the same place -- here. But some time back -- don’t know when, don’t know where -- the second option stopped working. I tinkered, but couldn’t seem to fix it. So now the home address is...

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Al Gore, accepting his Nobel prize:

In the Kanji characters used in both Chinese and Japanese, “crisis” is written with two symbols, the first meaning “danger,” the second “opportunity.” By facing and removing the danger of the climate crisis, we have the opportunity to gain the moral authorit...

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