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[Zen Color daily image with commentary and description by Gemini-2.5-Flash through the Poe app/platform]: Let's break down the image to understand its cultural context and overall impression. ### Analysis of the Structure and Statuary **1. The Structure (Building):** * **Roof Style:** The building features prominent, multi-tiered, curved roofs with upturned eaves, a hallmark of traditional East Asian architecture. The roofs are covered in snow, indicating a winter setting. * **Colors:** The dominant colors are a vibrant red for the walls and doors, and a distinct teal/blue for the eaves and some structural elements. Gold accents are visible on the doors and small hanging bells. This color palette, especially the prominent red, is very common in Chinese and Korean traditional architecture, symbolizing good fortune, prosperity, and warding off evil. While red is also used in Japan, it's often combined with natural wood tones, and the specific teal/blue is less universally dominant than in Chinese or Korean styles. * **Ornamentation:** The intricate patterns and bracket systems under the eaves are characteristic of the *dougong* (Chinese) or *gongpo* (Korean) systems, which were also adopted and adapted in Japan. Small golden bells hang from the eaves, a common decorative and spiritual element in temples across East Asia. * **Doors and Windows:** The large, double red doors with circular gold knockers and the rectangular windows are typical of grand entrances in traditional East Asian buildings. **2. The Statuary (Guardian Lions):** * **Type:** These are clearly guardian lions, often referred to as "Foo Dogs" in the West. They are stylized, powerful creatures traditionally placed in front of imperial palaces, temples, and government offices in East Asia to protect the premises. * **Style:** The lions are depicted with muscular bodies, stylized manes, and fierce expressions. They sit on ornate pedestals. While there are subtle regional variations, this general style of guardian lion originated in China and spread to Japan (where they are called *komainu*) and Korea (*haetae* or *xiezhi*). **3. Other Elements:** * **Plum Blossoms:** The tree in the foreground with pink blossoms blooming in winter is likely a plum blossom tree (*meihua* in Chinese, *ume* in Japanese). Plum blossoms are highly revered in both cultures as symbols of resilience, hope, and beauty in harsh conditions. * **Stone Lanterns:** The traditional stone lanterns are common in gardens and temple grounds across East Asia, particularly in Japan and Korea. * **Mountains:** The jagged, stylized mountains in the background are reminiscent of traditional East Asian landscape paintings. ### Is it Unambiguously Chinese, Japanese, or Other? It is **not unambiguously Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, but rather broadly East Asian.** While many elements are shared across these cultures due to historical exchange and influence, certain aspects lean more towards one or another: * The **prominent red and teal color scheme** of the building, combined with its multi-tiered grandeur, is very characteristic of **Chinese and Korean traditional architecture**. * The **guardian lions** are ubiquitous across East Asia, originating in China. * The **plum blossoms** are deeply significant in both Chinese and Japanese culture. * The **stone lanterns** are very common in Japanese gardens and temples, but also found elsewhere. Therefore, while one could argue for strong Chinese or Korean influences based on the color palette and the specific architectural robustess, it's safer and more accurate to describe it as a representation of **traditional East Asian architecture and culture**, encompassing shared aesthetic principles and symbols. The artist likely drew inspiration from a blend of these rich traditions. ### Overall Image Description The image presents a **serene and picturesque winter scene of a traditional East Asian temple or palace complex.** A magnificent, multi-tiered building, adorned in striking red and teal with intricate details, stands as the central focus, its roofs gracefully blanketed in snow. Flanking its grand entrance are two formidable guardian lion statues, adding a sense of protection and majesty. In the foreground, a winding stone path leads towards the building, bordered by snow-covered ground and traditional stone lanterns that emit a soft, warm glow. A bare tree with delicate, vibrant pink plum blossoms (or cherry blossoms) adds a splash of color and a touch of life, symbolizing resilience against the winter chill. Further back, stylized, rugged mountains rise dramatically against a soft, pastel sky, completing the majestic backdrop. Small birds flitting around the scene contribute to a sense of peaceful activity. The artwork employs a clean, illustrative style with clear outlines and distinct color blocks, reminiscent of a detailed coloring book or a digital painting. The overall mood is one of tranquility, cultural richness, and natural beauty, inviting the viewer into a timeless East Asian landscape.

[Zen Color Daily: described by Gemini-3-Pro through the Poe app] A vibrant, stylized snapshot of a forest floor, teeming with life from a "bug's eye view." **The Central Figure:** Dominating the center is a Fire Salamander. It looks alert and poised, with its glossy black skin contrasted sharply by bright orange patches. Its posture suggests it is pausing mid-stride, perhaps surveying its territory. **The Environment:** The setting is an autumnal woodland floor, rich in earth tones. * **Flora & Fungi:** There are clusters of golden chanterelle mushrooms rising like trumpets on the left and right. Scattered around are large, brown acorns with textured caps, suggesting oak trees nearby. Small green saplings are pushing up through the soil. * **Insects:** The scene is busy with smaller life. Several ants are crawling over leaves and mushrooms, and a large, long-horned beetle perches precariously on a mushroom cap in the upper left. * **Background:** In the distance, the forest deepens with tall tree trunks and a small, rustic wooden cabin, giving the scene a fairytale or storybook atmosphere. **The Perspective:** In the bottom left corner, there is a large magnifying glass lying on the ground. This framing device suggests that we, the viewers, are explorers or naturalists taking a closer look at a hidden world that usually goes unnoticed under our feet. The art style is bold and illustrative, reminiscent of a high-quality coloring book or a graphic novel, emphasizing clear outlines and saturated colors.

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Regarding the shots taken at Trump, resulting in one audience member behind him dead, two wounded, and the shooter, a sniper on a roof apparently less than 100 meters away, shot by counter snipers. I've now given a bit of thought to the "false flag" … "if was all staged" scenario. It's not plausible. But it will be almost impossible to allay such concerns. This helps support a false equivalence between supposed left wing conspiracy theories and Qanon. If I were writing an action thriller around these events, I would do it like so: Master mind (some like Gen. Mike Flynn or a Putin operative who has successfully maintained the secret of his, or her, identity) recruiting four co-conspirators. Only one of those is in on the whole plot. One other is a patsy, the others get duped into it thinking that it was just going to be a campaign publicity stunt. Patsy is a unknown, random, Trump supporter and espionage wannabe. Convinced to snipe from a rooftop and deliberately miss, intentionally hitting (wound or kill, doesn't matter) a random person behind Trump. They're convinced they're going to get away. Our master mind shows them the getaway plan and sells it (perhaps with the true co-conspirator — the shooter's shooter — posing as getaway accomplice). The true co-conspirator is either a secret service agent who shoots the patsy, or a second sniper using the efforts of the actual anti-sniper, counter-sniper unit to cover his, or her, shots supplied with the exact same ammo as the anti-snipers). One of the duped accessories must be close in with Trump's security detail, supplied with a trick ring or other device with a tiny, short, razor blade. He bloodies Trump's ear during the scuffle (after shots fired). This avoids the risk of the (patsy) sniper having to graze Trump with a real bullet. Trump could be depicted, in my hypothetical story, as the one to cause the superficial but photogenic injury. He was around pro-wrestling kayfabe enough to understand that. The last accessory is the attending physician — to ignore the discrepancies between intentionally inflicted razor bloodying and grazing from a real bullet. Might actually be instructed to alter the injury to it would pass third party (cursory) review. Only the mastermind and the shooter's shooter need to be in on the whole plot up front. Everyone else is a patsy (dead afterwards) or duped into participating in "just a stunt" and then locked in as accessory to murder among other charges after the member of the crowd is shot by the patsy. This is all far more plausible than most popular fiction, and perhaps more plausible than a shooter really only barely grazing Trump's ear from only 100 meters or so away, on a clear day, with clear line of sight to target. (I shoot better than that without any formal training!)

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What would it take for @Damus to support the iPadOS/iOS [Share] feature that's common in various other apps? For example in Duolingo I can "share" an achievement to 𝕏 or Meta/Facebook like I did here: https://x.com/answrguy/status/1731771579049320641 Also, what's the best way to share a #NOSTR note or event over the web? I would love to phase out direct posting to 𝕏 and shift towards posting new content on #NOSTR with links to 𝕏 and other social media. Grow the NOSTR community by guiding my (admittedly not impressive number) of followers towards it. Basically getting sick of 𝕏's continued decline and was long ago disgusted by Facebook's policies and algorithmic manipulation of my feed.

These are worth pondering: 1. One mark of a smart person is the ability to learn from people they don’t like. 2. The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word "no." 3. Rich people have money. Wealthy people have time. 4. Writing is often the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. 5. 90 percent of success is not getting distracted. 6. Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency. 7. Clear writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide. 8. The quicker you want something, the easier you are to manipulate. 9. If you want new ideas, read old books. 10. First-principles thinking is a competitive advantage because almost no one does it. 11. Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them. 12. The greatest trap is telling yourself that you’ll do something important tomorrow. Procrastination creates negative momentum. 13. Make your next project something people will ask you about for the rest of your life. Those are from:

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13 remarkable tweets from Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish), the creator of Farnam Street: 1. One mark of a smart person is the ability to learn from...

I'll add: * To be successful, learn how to respond to failure.

Story idea: Ægobots Have you ever wanted a personal robot or servant? What if you could actually sort of be your own robot? What if there was some sort of implant or even just a discipline or technique by which you could turn the part of you that you consider to be YOU, your ego, inward to sleep, play games, watch movies, chat, do your doom scrolling, engage in virtual sex with other ægobots, whatever … all while a sort of AI or "mini me" was blissfully directing your body and other parts of your brain, alter egos, doing various boring, mind numbing or mindless tasks for you. In other words, what if you could direct your body to essentially be your own personal servant? Now the story plot: what if that device, implant, mechanism … what if that were compromised, backdoored, and after untold millions of folks had adopted this for their benefit, they could be subverted, co-opted into being a meatspace army while the owners of all those bodies were off in a dream space, unaware that any of this was going on … a sort of Inception/Matrix zombie horde? What if?