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I'm amused (and kinda surprised) to learn that shells have their own equivalent of blink tags, a blink escape code! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17439482/how-to-make-a-text-blink-in-shell-script Seems equally annoying, I can't see a good use for it.

I'm amazed to learn that there is now a marketplace for buying and selling good prompts to midjourney/ChatGPT etc! You pay and you receive a prompt that generates good results. For example:

I'm fascinated to learn that there's a black market for GitHub stars: https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars E.g. they can be financially valuable if you're trying to raise money for your start-up.