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AI researchers at Anthropic:

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A useful analogy is to imagine you’re playing a game like Monopoly. On each turn, each player moves a random number of spaces around the board according to the roll of a die. Suppose that, instead of rolling the die to get this randomness, we decided to use a book of the digits of pi. We start from a randomly-chosen digit (say, the 1,012,845th after the decimal place, which happens to be a 6), and from that point on each player simply uses the next digit in the sequence as their next “roll”.

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For all intents and purposes, the moves are still random: it makes no difference...

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AI researchers at Anthropic:

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A useful analogy is to imagine you’re playing a game like Monopoly. On each turn, each player moves a random number of spaces around the board according to the roll of a die. Suppose that, instead of rolling the die to get this randomness, we decided to use a book of the digits of pi. We start from a randomly-chosen digit (say, the 1,012,845th after the decimal place, which happens to be a 6), and from that point on each player simply uses the next digit in the sequence as their next “roll”.

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For all intents and purposes, the moves are still random: it makes no difference...

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Be aware of melioidosis this wet season: nathancashion.micro.blog

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Be aware of melioidosis this wet season: nathancashion.micro.blog

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@nathancashion.bsky.social This is one of many cliche responses that make me reflexively cringe while listening to a podcast.

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First Wavelength: choosing a new blogging platform: nathancashion.micro.blog

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First Wavelength: choosing a new blogging platform: nathancashion.micro.blog

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John Gruber uses a mouse with his left hand like me: nathancashion.micro.blog

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John Gruber uses a mouse with his left hand like me: nathancashion.micro.blog

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Self-identifying as a chiropractor but not a Mormon: quarto.nathancashion.com

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What’s the best device for reading research papers? nathancashion.com

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@nathancashion.bsky.social Hopefully! I learned about Chrome Flex from you and it was very useful! ☺️

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@brianphillips.lol This delight from Squarespace’s new Foundations site. (In case you can’t tell, it’s a sequence of videos that autoplay. As soon as you close one, the next opens, making it an inescapable loop.

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@nathancashion.bsky.social From a preview chapter of his possibly-coming-soon book about Markdown. www.thurrott.com/paul/334577…

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@nathancashion.bsky.social Which would you prefer: an app that works reliably but requires brief editing or one that is insanely accurate but only works some of the time?

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It did end up working in other steps of the onboarding flow, but to hit a wall so quickly does not install confidence.

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@nathancashion.bsky.social I still prefer reading in Current, my new-favourite RSS reader (which I learned of from @gruber.foo). www.currentreader.app/

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@nathancashion.bsky.social Incidentally, I had already asked Claude. The response was similar, but the important bit (that Apple doesn’t offer a BAA) was buried further down. BLUF (bottom-line up front) goes to ChatGPT (or is it Gemini?).

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@nathancashion.bsky.social I’m not about to start printing my emails, but even reading documents on paper doesn’t make much sense when any edits have to go right back on the screen.

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@nathancashion.bsky.social In the end, I was able to verify the domain, but I kept getting errors during the initial verification flow.

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@nathancashion.bsky.social As a reminder, QR codes have been known to kill kittens.

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www.amazon.com.au/Codes-Kill-…

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@nathancashion.bsky.social A handful of other glimpses into Apple in parallel universes: sixcolors.com/post/2026/0…

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Autistics are disparaged Buddhists: quarto.nathancashion.com

","summary":"Tyler Cowen, in The Age of the Infovore:\n\n[A]utistics are the culmination of Buddhist thought and indeed Buddhist practice, even though few of them are following Buddhism in any deliberate sense. Oddly we call these tendencies glorious when they are affiliated with Eastern religion but we call them ...","url":"https://quarto.nathancashion.com/posts/autistics-disparaged-Buddhists.html","date_published":"2026-03-31T14:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-31 14:00","date_timestamp":1774965600,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014859","content_html":"

Littlefoot Test: quarto.nathancashion.com

","summary":"I’ll include the first footnote at the end of this sentence.1\n\nHere is some other text.\n\nGreenberg et al. (2022) once said something that I need to cite.\n\n\n\nReferences\n\nGreenberg, Jacob K., Ayodamola Otun, Zoher Ghogawala, et al. 2022. “Translating Data Analytics Into Improved Spine Surgery Outcomes...","url":"https://quarto.nathancashion.com/posts/littlefoot-test.html","date_published":"2026-03-18T14:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-18 14:00","date_timestamp":1773842400,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92349433","content_html":"

@nathancashion.bsky.social It had been working fine, but now the model is including its commentary in the output.

\n

Anyone have good success with cleaning up the prompts for Apple Intelligence?

\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4wffh6b4xawdvy4sfnbbytit/post/3mgh37jb2t52m","date_published":"2026-03-07T05:17:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-07 05:17","date_timestamp":1772860678,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95014914","content_html":"

Autistics are disparaged Buddhists: nathancashion.com

","summary":"One aspect of Buddhism is the intense focus on a small object. This is \r\npractice is said to lead to enlightenment—except when demonstrated by \r\npeople on the autism spectrum.","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/2026/2/autistics-are-disparaged-buddhists","date_published":"2026-02-21T05:44:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-21 05:44","date_timestamp":1771652648,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92349434","content_html":"

@paris.nyc Check out DisplayBuddy as a way to keep brightness (and other settings) in sync.

\n

displaybuddy.app

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Conference Sessions in Motion \"\" : nathancashion.com

","summary":"My LinkedIn feed has been filling me with green-eyed envy because so many \r\nof my connections attended the International Back and Neck Pain Forum this \r\nweek in Davos, Switzerland.\r\n\r\nThe organizers got creative and held multiple parallel sessions of \r\npresentations while hiking trails in the Swiss ...","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/2025/7/conference-sessions-in-motion","date_published":"2025-07-01T18:28:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-01 18:28","date_timestamp":1751394480,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014858","content_html":"

Conferences in motion: quarto.nathancashion.com

","summary":"IBNPF Banner Image\n\nMy LinkedIn feed has been filling me with green-eyed envy because so many of my connections attended the International Back and Neck Pain Forum this week in Davos, Switzerland.\n\nThe organizers got creative and held multiple parallel sessions of presentations while hiking trails i...","url":"https://quarto.nathancashion.com/posts/conferences-in-motion.html","date_published":"2025-06-30T14:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-30 14:00","date_timestamp":1751292000,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014911","content_html":"

Mark Twain’s particular style of humor: nathancashion.com

","summary":"Reading Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii was a surprising departure from \r\nThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The \r\ntravel writing made me appreciate the author’s unique style of disarming \r\nhumor.","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/2025/6/mark-twains-particular-style-of-humor","date_published":"2025-06-19T06:03:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-19 06:03","date_timestamp":1750313021,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014910","content_html":"

As clueless as Mark Twain \"\" : nathancashion.com

","summary":"I'm not the only fool to mistake holy water for decor.","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/as-clueless-as-mark-twain","date_published":"2025-06-10T14:10:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-10 14:10","date_timestamp":1749564600,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014909","content_html":"

Ordinal decades and axis anchoring: nathancashion.com

","summary":"Something about this tweet about decreases in muscle strength for aging \r\nwomen felt off. Surely accelerated muscle decline couldn’t occur that \r\nearly, could it?\r\n\r\nOr could a classic mistake in chart design lead to an error while \r\nmisinterpreting the data and communicating the results?","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/2025/5/ordinal-decades-and-axis-anchoring","date_published":"2025-05-25T23:31:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-05-25 23:31","date_timestamp":1748215916,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014857","content_html":"

Ordinal decades and axis anchoring: quarto.nathancashion.com

","summary":"Ordinal decades and axis anchoring\nWhile I am a pedant and have strong opinions on grammar, I usually don’t spend so much time on trite issues like this. But I awoke to my dog dry-heaving at 2 a.m. and couldn’t get back to sleep. After reading on my Kindle for a while, I eventually gave in to scroll...","url":"https://quarto.nathancashion.com/posts/ordinal-decades-and-axis-anchoring/","date_published":"2025-05-24T14:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-05-24 14:00","date_timestamp":1748095200,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014908","content_html":"

Ready vs. Willing \"\" : nathancashion.com

","summary":"We often talk about not being “ready” to take a big action.\r\n\r\nAny therapist or coach will ask us “Are you ever truly ready?”\r\n\r\nWhat we really mean when we say we’re not ready is that we’re not yet \r\nwilling…","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/2025/4/ready-vs-willing","date_published":"2025-04-19T06:01:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-04-19 06:01","date_timestamp":1745042486,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014907","content_html":"

Time requirements for conducting a systematic review: nathancashion.com

","summary":"I’ve always wondered what it would take to conduct a systematic review, and \r\nwhile watching these videos thought it might be an interesting experiment \r\nto conduct a small one on my own, just to learn the process and see what \r\nit’s like to use some of the tools.","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/2025/3/time-requirements-for-conducting-a-systematic-review","date_published":"2025-03-24T00:26:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-03-24 00:26","date_timestamp":1742776002,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014883","content_html":"

This Final Jeopardy! clue was ‘scandalous’: exploringchiropractic.com

","summary":"Last night’s Final Jeopardy clue got me very curious. \"Drove chiropractors \r\nwild with delight\" seemed too falsifiable for the Jeopardy! writers to come \r\nup with themselves. The answer has a twist!","url":"https://www.exploringchiropractic.com/blog/2025/3/this-final-jeopardy-clue-was-scandalous","date_published":"2025-03-15T00:38:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-03-15 00:38","date_timestamp":1741999126,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014906","content_html":"

How I use Bonsai to Implement the Cash Flow Made Simple Method: nathancashion.com

","summary":"I love the simplicity of Donald Miller’s Cash Flow Made Simple method, but \r\nI wanted to find a way to implement the 5 Checking Account approach without \r\nhaving to actually open 5 separate checking accounts.\r\n\r\nHelloBonsai.com offers everything a freelancer needs to manage their small \r\nbusiness—pr...","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/2024/11/how-i-use-bonsai-to-implement-the-cash-flow-made-simple-method","date_published":"2024-11-22T04:50:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-22 04:50","date_timestamp":1732251022,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014905","content_html":"

Thoughts on Movement: nathancashion.com

","summary":"I’ve admired Maria Popova’s productivity–she reportedly reads 12–15 books \r\nper week, tweets nearly every hour, and writes timely and timeless blog \r\nposts multiple times a day.\r\n\r\nHow does she accomplish so much with the same 24 hours per day that \r\neveryone is allotted? Where does she get the insp...","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/2024/11/thoughts-on-movement","date_published":"2024-11-12T05:25:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-12 05:25","date_timestamp":1731389156,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95014904","content_html":"

Book Nostalgia \"\"\"\" : nathancashion.com

","summary":"When I was a kid, our weekly post-soccer game ritual was to go to the local \r\nbookstore and pick out a book for $5. We were always so excited. Books have \r\nthat ability to pull out a rare instance of delayed gratification.","url":"https://www.nathancashion.com/blog/2024/11/book-nostalgia","date_published":"2024-11-07T20:42:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Nathan Cashion","url":"https://nathancashion.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F2a391ad61cef3e718b961f2f7a19968c%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"nathancashion"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-07 20:42","date_timestamp":1731012147,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}