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From the wiki: "The Copiale cipher is an encrypted manuscript consisting of 75,000 handwritten characters filling 105 pages in a bound volume.[1] Undeciphered for more than 260 years, the document was cracked in 2011 with the help of modern computer techniques."
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copiale_cipher
And, more images, translations, etc: https://cl.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/
Ancient masonic texts, initiations, rites, etc, for your reading pleasure.
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A few links to some things that amused me online recently.
#1) A breakdown of why Patagonia's Non-Profit Donation was more about power than Charity, courtesy of Adam Conover (Adam ruins everything) - to summarize, money wasn't charitably given away, it was merely exchanged for power. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I
#2) An amusing go-deep episode on "Cracked" that shows 10 Conservative messages hidden in "Con-Air". I never got it when I watched it, found it a generally mindless action flick, but - upon watching their analysis I have to concede Jerry Bruckheimer did a pretty good job of getting his message out to his target audience: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MyTkIK4wn8
And, finally, a little less political - although it's hard to look away, given the state of the nation/world...
Art Without Intent - an online gallery of found art. I'm finding this stuff all the time, but still it's inspiring... Link: https://artwithoutintent.com/
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I've got this thing where my mind generally goes on walkabout during YouTube ads, presuming that they're all scams.
This is, of course, a presumption, and my skipping past them doesn't go down the rabbit hole of how they work.
Dan Olson doesn't presume, he dives deep and exposes the scam. I mean, I knew, but it was interesting to learn the means they go about it with. And, done properly without malevolent intent there's some good ideas. I found it worthwhile.
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This is good. Rivers in Europe are at such drought levels they've uncovered ancient stones engraved with messages warning of hunger and famine.
Going into 3 days off and 38 degree temperatures I know - These are the days.
LINK: Hunger Stones
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A couple of links to spur your curiosity this morning:
#1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavius_(ship)
#2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Baychimo
Proof that the world can still be an interesting place, if you know where to look. Imagine a hundred years from now, when globalization has collapsed and the abandoned cargo ships, still laden with useless consumer products, are discovered adrift by our primitive heirs...