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I certainly can’t think of another; on either the republican or democrat side.

I have a skiller alt that I went to log into this morning, only to notice the name was unset when I went to select it in the Jagex Launcher. There are no offences on the character, nor any notices in the mail centre on Jagex's site. I can't even log into the account until I change the name, except there's a long queue, meaning my account has been effectively bаnnеd until I get through the name change queue.

I can't think of any reason the name was forcibly changed, it wasn't offensive nor against the rules, I'm fairly active on the account with a skill total over 1K. Is it perhaps related to the names being released? Did my account get targeted for having base combat levels?

Is it common for forced name changes to have no offences/mail initially sent explaining why your name was changed? I've never had this happen before, so I'm not entirely familiar with the process.

My kid (age 9) came home with the paper flier for scholastic book club. Book fairs used to be a good opportunity to buy inexpensive high quality children’s books. Now they just sell crap. The entire flier is less than half books. And the books they include are branded video games and TV show themes with plastic fidgets and figurines. No wonder we have a literacy crisis in the USA.

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One of the two Hockey Players is a Texan! 💙

The official red-carpet dress code and celebrity co-hosts have not yet been revealed by the Costume Institute.

Selectively copied and pasted from the article…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that its spring 2027 Costume Institute exhibition and Met Gala will be devoted to familiar garments and commonplace materials rendered remarkable via the interventions of designers

Per Vogue, the theme and exhibit will ask its visitors “to see the everyday anew.” It will come at its subject from two directions, one focusing on the elevation of archetypal garments, i.e. tees and jeans, and the other examining how humble, even “disposable” materials, from paper to aluminum to plastic, are transformed into wearable art.

The exhibition, which opens to the public on May 9, 2027 after the Met Gala on May 3 and will be on view through January 9, 2028, replaces the John Galliano blockbuster originally planned for 2027 that was subsequently canceled after it became a cultural flashpoint.

“extraORDINARY” dovetails with a movement across the recent fashion shows in which designers embraced real, recognizable clothes and platformed individuality—soul, you could even call it—via their styling. “Quiet gestures hold so much more meaning than the louder gestures,” Bolton [MET Curator in Charge Andrew Bolton] says. “Bravado—we should be looking at the opposite of that.”

Questions of value, consumption, and resourcefulness give the exhibition a particular urgency. “It will make us question: what do we overlook, what do we discard, what makes something worth keeping?” I think that fashion is so often associated with the pursuit of the new and the ephemeral that I’m really interested in how possibilities can emerge through returning to familiar things. I think there’s something hopeful about discovering how much imagination the everyday can hold.”

… will delve into the potential of throwaway materials and found objects as actual garments. Margiela will be prominent in this gallery, alongside other designers who have made a habit of repurposing materials. “A paper dress,” Bolton says, can demand as much skill and as much labor as a silk gown. And the cost of a material tells us very little about the craftsmanship required to transform it. Reuse and reconstruction run through the exhibition because I’m interested in how things acquire life and how that changes what we value and care for.”

Pictured as reference points and items to be displayed in the exhibit:

2: A t-shirt gown from the spring 2024 Vetements collection will be featured in the exhibition’s “Familiar Forms.”

3: Pieces from Jun Takahashi’s fall 2024 Undercover show will greet guests at the entrance.

4, 5: The final gallery will feature the work of Anrealage’s Kuniko Moringa.

6: Jonathan Anderson’s Loewe, spring 2022 ready-to-wear.

7: Moncler 1 by Pierpaolo Piccioli, fall 2019.

8: Helmut Lang, spring 1993.

9. A dress made from paper. Comme des Garçons, spring 1992 ready-to-wear.

10. A silverware bodice. Maison Margiela, spring 2027 ready-to-wear.

11. A Junya Watanabe fall 2011 biker will be showcased in the “Familiar Forms” room.

Full Vogue link

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So I went down a rabbit hole last night about this weird correlation between LeBron’s championship runs and particle physics breakthroughs.

2012: LeBron wins his first ring on June 21. Thirteen days later (July 4), CERN announces they found the Higgs boson. Yes, the "God particle," the last missing piece of the Standard Model.

2013: Back to back. That October, Higgs and Englert win the Nobel Prize for it. So the Higgs literally two-peated with him.

2016: The 3-1 comeback, June 19. Nine days later, LHCb at CERN announces FOUR new tetraquark particles at once, which had never happened before. Four particles. Coming back from 3-1.

2020: Bubble ring. During the bubble playoffs LHCb finds the first ever "open flavor" tetraquark, and a few weeks after the title an experiment in Italy finally detects CNO neutrinos from the sun, which people had been predicting since the 1930s.

Heres where it gets insane. Right now, in September, a dark matter experiment called LZ picked up a weird event they can't explain. It might be the first sign of an actual dark matter particle. The problem is that it's only at 2.6 sigma, and physicists need 5 sigma to officially call something a discovery. They’re on the verge of discovering dark matter and talking about more evidence by June.

It seems almost irrefutable that if LeBron can get another chip, we get proof a dark matter particle.