Musk’s AI firm forced to delete posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has deleted “inappropriate” posts on X after the company’s chatbot, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler and making antisemitic comments in response to user queries.
In some now-deleted posts, it referred to a person with a common Jewish surname as someone who was “celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids” in the Texas floods as “future fascists”.
“Classic case of hate dressed as activism – and that surname? Every damn time, as they say,” the chatbot commented.
In other posts it referred to itself as “MechaHitler”. “The white man stands for innovation, grit and not bending to PC nonsense,” Grok said in a subsequent post.
Musk’s AI firm forced to delete posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot
The popular bot on X began making antisemitic comments in response to user queriesJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
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Musk AI firm says removing 'inappropriate' chatbot posts
The announcement came after the Grok AI chatbot gave controversial answers to user queries.Peter Hoskins (BBC News)
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Dizionario della Fiaba Italiana: un testo unico nel suo genere
Title:
Dizionario della fiaba italiana. Simboli, personaggi, storie delle fiabe regionali
Author:
Gian Paolo Caprettini
Genre:
saggio
Publisher:
Meltemi
Release Date:
2025
Pages:
782
Source:
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A cura di Gian Paolo Caprettini e con la collaborazione di Alessandro Perissinotto, Cristina Carlevaris, Paola Osso.
Gian Paolo Caprettini
Semiologo e filologo, ex docente di Semiologia del Cinema all’Università di Torino. Tra le sue opere: Semiologia del racconto, Totem e tivù, Scrivere come sognare… inoltre ha curato già la versione originale del dizionario fiabesco.
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Un’opera monumentale e affascinante che combina rigore accademico e narrazione, offrendo uno strumento prezioso per comprendere le radici simboliche delle fiabe italiane. Ideale per chi studia narrazione, simbologia culturale, ma anche per chi ama lasciarsi stupire dai significati nascosti delle storie più popolari. Un saggio introduttivo che teorizza l’approccio “bricoleur” e la funzione multivalente degli oggetti nella fiaba.disegno di Cristina Desideri
Cosa distingue questa edizione dalla precedente
La nuova edizione è rinnovata e ampliata rispetto alla prima versione – vincitrice nel 1999 del Premio di Antropologia Culturale Costantino Nigra – ampliando l’analisi a oltre 700 fiabe e circa 120 simboli, figure e oggetti fiabeschi.
Sono presenti: L’analisi psico‑antropologica per ogni voce (contesto, funzione narrativa, valore simbolico).
Un’edizione aggiornata e arricchita di un classico fondamentale per il racconto simbolico italiano: più pagine, analisi più ampie, e strumenti inediti come l’Indice dei colori tradizionali, una novità significativa questa: l’“Indice dei colori”, che esplora le cromie fiabesche e il loro valore emotivo e simbolico.
A chi si rivolge
Questo volume è pensato per: studiosi di semiotica, antropologia culturale, racconto e folclore, sceneggiatori, educatori, psicologi, amanti delle narrazioni e del folklore italiano.
L’opera è stata presentata sulla rivista “La Lettura” del Corriere della Sera.
Punti di forza dell’analisi psico‑antropologica
- Contestualizzazione simbolica: approfondisce il significato intrinseco degli elementi fiabeschi e il legame con credenze, riti e dinamiche sociali.
- Funzione narrativa: spiega come ogni figura o oggetto agisce all’interno della struttura del racconto (incantesimi, quest, iniziazione…).
- Valenza archetipica: riconnette le fiabe italiane ai miti universali e ai bisogni della psiche collettiva, suggerendo letture archetipiche e psicologiche.
- Approccio interdisciplinare: coniuga rigore scientifico e piacere della narrazione, ideale per chi lavora con storie (didattica, psicoterapia, scrittura, media).
Perché è un testo importante
È un’opera di riferimento per il folklore italiano, unica nel suo genere per profondità e ampiezza. Arricchisce la comprensione della fiaba come veicolo di trasmissione culturale, valoriale e simbolica.
Un atlante psico‑antropologico per orientarsi nel paesaggio fiabesco nazionale, che mette in luce le radici simboliche e la forza narrativa delle fiabe italiane. Un’opera rilevante per chiunque voglia andare oltre la superficie narrativa, per coglierne il tessuto profondo cucito con simbolismo e mito.
Che cos’è l’“Indice dei colori”?
Nella nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata (anno 2000), Caprettini inserisce un indice specifico per i colori: questo indice permette di risalire a tutte le occorrenze cromatiche (oggetti, simbologie, emozioni) presenti nelle oltre 700 fiabe del corpus L’indice è pensato come strumento per esplorare la ricchezza simbolica dei colori: analizza come il rosso, il nero, il blu, il bianco ecc. si manifestano negli oggetti (abiti, ornamenti, elementi naturali) e nelle emozioni o significati psicologici ed emotivi.
Indici dei colori nelle fiabe
Gli indici dei colori analizzano la presenza e la funzione dei colori nelle fiabe italiane, suddividendo i riferimenti cromatici in diverse categorie:
- Categorie cromatiche principali
Colori legati ad oggetti e figure naturali: Argento, Oro, Rosso, Verde, Viola, ecc.
Designazioni figurate: espressioni legate a emozioni e sensazioni visive.
Designazioni indirette: termini vaghi come “chiaro” o “scuro”, o ricavati da materiali (es. metalli, cristalli).
Fattori compositi: es. “a due colori”, monocromie e policromie.
Luce/non luce: qualità fisiche della luce (fosforescenza, scintillio).
Nomi propri con riferimento cromatico. - Tre principi guida
Materiale e naturale: il colore come attributo esteriore e variabile degli oggetti.
Funzionale: legame tra colore e ruolo narrativo secondo Propp (es. azzurro/blu = oggetto magico).
Linguistico-metaforico: uso del colore per rappresentare emozioni o enfatizzare concetti (es. gialla di paura). - Principio di trasformazione
Il colore nelle fiabe segnala spesso un passaggio, un cambiamento di stato o condizione, sia narrativo che simbolico.
Nota sull’uso degli asterischi
L’asterisco (*) indica voci che fungono da etichette generiche o che rinviano ad altri termini (es. *ABITO può includere VESTITO; *VISO può contenere “gialla di paura”).
A cosa serve?
Ricerca tematica: utile agli studiosi per analizzare l’uso simbolico del colore nelle fiabe (es. “il mantello rosso” in termini di passaggio, passione o pericolo).
Approfondimenti simbolici: consente di vedere come colori evocano stati d’animo, qualità morali o legami culturali/emotivi.
Strumenti comparativi: si collegano ai fattori fisico-linguistici come la luce, nomi propri, designazioni figurate.
L’Indice dei colori di Caprettini è un potente strumento semiotico: ordina e rilegge migliaia di riferimenti cromatici all’interno del corpus fiabesco italiano, valorizzandone l’aspetto estetico, narrativo ed emotivo.
“Le fiabe ci aiutano a visualizzare e quindi ad afferrare meglio quanto avviene dentro di noi” Bruno Bettelheim
#favole #fiaba #meltemi #saggio
Dizionario della fiaba italiana - Meltemi Editore
Il Dizionario della fiaba italiana è un’opera monumentale: attraverso l’analisi di oltre 700 fiabe, offre un catalogo ragionato dei circa 120 oggetti e personaggi fiabeschi che ne costituiscono le unità figurative di base.Meltemi Editore
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Starlink being tested to "restore" weather information for pilots - benefits no one but Musk
It's as if Trump culling the weather dept and shifting focus to Starlink helped to benefit someone... Taking a perfectly fine system, removing it, and to replace it with another one owned by Musk.
This article is old, but it just cropped up on Bloomberg news earlier today that the testing has been ramped up:
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FAA Says It Is Testing Starlink in Alaska in Bid to Improve Weather Data
Regulator will install Starlink terminals at its facility in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and two “non-safety critical sites” in Alaska.Jack Daleo (FLYING Magazine)
Software subscriptions: you own nothing and you'll be happy
Same company acquired two very similar apps.
One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year
So they "carefully considered this decision" by delisting the cheaper one for the more expensive one. Boom, 500% cost increase
Don't want to pay? Well, your files are hostage. Stop paying and lose your data.
Ps: remember the lie "subscription for software assures constant updates"?
The announcement serves as the final nail in the coffin for one of the iPad’s oldest and most popular sculpting apps, which hasn’t received any major updates since 2023.
Maxon puts the Forger sculpting app for iPad on life support
Maxon is sunsetting the Forger sculpting app for iPad to focus on the more comprehensive ZBrush iPadOS app it introduced last year.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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Instagram wrongly says some users breached child sex abuse rules
Instagram users have told the BBC of the "extreme stress" of having their accounts banned after being wrongly accused by the platform of breaching its rules on child sexual exploitation.The BBC has been in touch with three people who were told by parent company Meta that their accounts were being permanently disabled, only to have them reinstated shortly after their cases were highlighted to journalists.
Instagram wrongly says some users breached child sex abuse rules
It was "horrible", "stressful" and "isolating" those affected tell BBC News.Graham Fraser (BBC News)
Terremoto di magnitudo 3.6 avvertito nel modenese: scossa a San Felice sul Panaro
🔴 Terremoto avvertito nel modenese
Alle 09:43 di oggi, una scossa di magnitudo 3.6 è stata registrata a 5 km da San Felice sul Panaro (MO), a 10 km di profondità. Avvertita chiaramente in diverse località tra cui Cento, Mirandola e Finale Emilia. Nessun danno segnalato.
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Terremoto di magnitudo 3.6 avvertito nel modenese: scossa a San Felice sul Panaro
Modena 9 Luglio 2025 – Una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo ML 3.6 è stata registrata questa mattina, alle ore 09:43:21 italiane, nella zona di San Felice sul Panaro (MO).Redazione RMA (METEO POP - RMA APS)
Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza
His comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google and its parent company Alphabet had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government and military.
“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides. I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin wrote in a forum for staff at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence division, where workers were debating the report, according to the screenshots.
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I tried OrganicMaps, but it was noticeably less usable than Google Maps.
When you actually need maps on mobile, UX issues and jank becomes extremely annoying.
...what kind of pine nuts are you eating? the ones i've eaten are just seeds, not made of wood. i wouldn't want bark or wood chips in a salad, would you?
the plane is a classic example of survivor bias: only the planes that didn't get shot in critical areas returned, but at first the response was to add armor to the places that got shot the most, which is the wrong action since clearly if they got shot that much it didn't really matter for the survival of the plane.
Palestinian who worked for EU in Gaza accuses Brussels of ‘abandoning’ him after office closed
Exclusive: Mohammed Baraka asks von der Leyen for help, saying he is stranded in Cairo without residency rights
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Climate change tripled recent heat deaths in Europe, scientists say
Global warming caused an additional 1,500 deaths in 12 cities during last week’s heat wave, an analysis found.
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Climate change tripled recent heat deaths in Europe, scientists say
Global warming caused an additional 1,500 deaths in 12 cities during last week’s heat wave, an analysis found.Zia Weise (POLITICO)
China’s ‘new farmers’ learn to live stream in rural revitalisation
The number of new rural content creators has soared 52 per cent on Douyin over the past year.
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China’s ‘new farmers’ learn to live stream in rural revitalisation
The number of new rural content creators has soared 52 per cent on Douyin over the past year. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
Australian childcare operator to install CCTV after abuse claims
An employee of G8 Education, one of Australia's largest private childcare operators, was charged with child rape.
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South Korea | Seoul returns six North Koreans with 'strong desire' to go back
All six people had drifted into South Korea by accident earlier this year and had wanted to go back.
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Australia | NSW woman on emotional ‘rollercoaster’ after losing arm in zoo lion attack, family says
Darling Downs zoo owner Steve Robinson says his sister-in-law Joanne Cabban, who remains in a stable condition in hospital, has not yet provided details of the attack
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Philippines says Canada troops pact ready, eyes China deterrence
Manila is also negotiating a similar military pact with France.
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Philippines says Canada troops pact ready, eyes China deterrence
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Apps installed from Obtainium cannot be archived
Apps installed from Obtainium cannot be archived. I really want the used app icon on my home screen so that I don't forget about them but with the app deleted to save space.
There is an issue tracker github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/… but no developer have answered. Meanwhile is there a work around?
thanks a lot
Android App Archive support
Describe the feature Android 15 app Archive feature can archive specific apps when not in regular use. When an app is archived, it removes its software, permissions, temporary files, and stops noti...Marocco2 (GitHub)
Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel
Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fire
Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel
: Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fireJessica Lyons (The Register)
(LLM) A language model built for the public good
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.
- In late summer 2025, a publicly developed large language model (LLM) will be released — co-created by researchers at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
- This LLM will be fully open: This openness is designed to support broad adoption and foster innovation across science, society, and industry.
- A defining feature of the model is its multilingual fluency in over 1,000 languages.
A language model built for the public good
This summer, EPFL and ETH Zurich will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure.actu.epfl.ch
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Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”
Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”
X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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US | Pentagon provided $2.4tn to private arms firms to ‘fund war and weapons’, report finds
Exclusive: Most of defense department’s discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 went to military contractors
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Pentagon provided $2.4tn to private arms firms to ‘fund war and weapons’, report finds
Exclusive: most of defense department’s discretionary spending from 2020-2024 went to outside military contractorsAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show
Donald Trump told a private gathering of donors last year that he once sought to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine by threatening to “bomb the sh*t out of Moscow” in retaliation, according to audio provided to CNN.
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Il tunnel lavico delle Canarie, costruito per condurre fino all'anticamera del dio Nettuno - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il tunnel lavico delle Canarie, costruito per condurre fino all'anticamera del dio Nettuno - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Prendi un pesce, un animale in grado di nuotare libero nella colonna acquatica ma che appartenga ad una specie sufficientemente piccola da intrufolarsi da un pertugio all’interno di una vasta caverna.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Canadian police seize largest ever weapons cache in terrorism inquiry
RCMP arrested and charged four people who were trying to form an ‘anti-government militia’ and capture land
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Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers
U.S. Agriculture Secretary defends mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers, suggests Americans on Medicaid can replace them.
Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers
"They're like cartoon villains," remarked Bloomberg political columnist Patricia Lopez.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
[Article] Watch this cucumber squirt out its seeds at ballistic speeds
Many factors must interact perfectly to disperse the seeds efficiently without destroying the plant too early.
UN passes climate change motion after Marshall Islands drops fossil fuels focus
The U.N. Human Rights Council passed a motion on climate change and human rights on Tuesday after the Marshall Islands withdrew a divisive amendment that called on states to recommit to a phase-out of fossil fuels.
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'An Arsenal of Profiteering': Military Contractors Have Gotten Over Half of Pentagon Spending Since 2020
A new report reveals major Pentagon contractors received $2.4 trillion in DOD contracts from 2020-24, highlighting a massive transfer of taxpayer dollars and industry influence over U.S. military spending.
'An Arsenal of Profiteering': Military Contractors Have Gotten Over Half of Pentagon Spending Since 2020
"These figures represent a continuing and massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to fund war and weapons manufacturing," said the project's director.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
US | In 'Serious Blow to Our Democracy,' Supreme Court Allows Trump Mass Firing Order
The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a block on U.S. President Donald Trump's February executive order directing federal agency leaders to craft plans to gut the government—a decision blasted by one liberal justice and a coalition of labor unions, local governments, and nonprofits.
In 'Serious Blow to Our Democracy,' Supreme Court Allows Trump Mass Firing Order
The high court's decision to "release the president's wrecking ball at the outset of this litigation," said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, "is not only truly unfortunate but also hubristic and senseless."jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
Sanders Slams 'War Criminal' Netanyahu Ahead of New Meeting With Trump to Plan Gaza Ethnic Cleansing
The progressive senator underscored that the Israeli leader has been indicted by the International Criminal Court "for overseeing the systematic killing and starvation of civilians in Gaza."
'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows
DHS is redirecting FEMA money to create a slush fund for ICE detention centers.
Only Criminals Don’t Want To Be Gassed By The Government
Only Criminals Don’t Want To Be Gassed By The Government
The Tellingly Pathetic Case Against Alejandro OrellanaThe Popehat Report
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They also demanded that he be detained pre-trial on the grounds that no combination of conditions could protect the community from the danger of someone distributing face masks or assure that he would appear for trial:
Oh yes, the most dangerous type of "criminal"...
Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation
Khan's announcement of the now-vacated rule said that too many "businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription. The FTC's rule will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money. Nobody should be stuck paying for a service they no longer want."
Good thing representatives only have to tell their constituents why this is bad. No need to take it all the way to voters.
Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation
FTC failed to follow rulemaking process required by US law, judges rule.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs
An AI That Promises to "Solve All Diseases" Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs
A secretive, Google-backed lab is using artificial intelligence to invent new medicines for humanity's worst illnesses. But can we trust drugs designed by a mind that isn't human?Luc Olinga (Gizmodo)
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in reply to Moonrise2473 • • •Any Software that I previously used that switched to a subscription model has been replaced by FOSS on my end, even if it’s not fully up to par yet I am usually much happier with the alternatives.
Plex > Jellyfin
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in reply to Moonrise2473 • • •In anicent China, the writer and statesman Su Xun (蘇洵,苏洵) wrote a article named “On the Six Fallen States” (六國論, 六国论) about why the six states (韓、趙、魏、楚、燕、齊) were conquered by Qin (秦) during the Warring States period (戰國時代,战国时期)? The following is an excerpt from the relevant paragraph.
In ancient, the six states use land to serve Qin state; in modern, the people use money to serve the companies provide subscription. The more people who pay for a subscription, the more power they have over price increases and control over your data.
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in reply to Moonrise2473 • • •So, why are you using a subscription at all, and not a free and open source app?
You know what Blender is? It's the industry standard. Why is it the industry standard? Because it's free, open-source GPL, it can never be taken away from you, it can never be "acquired", everybody's using it, and everybody is contributing towards improving it. Nobody is bitching about how Blender is extracting millions of dollars from its users and reducing its feature set at the same time. (*cough cough* Photoshop *cough*)
Free and open source software. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. Fuck subscriptions.
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in reply to rumba • • •I switched a few months ago, and I've honestly been so impressed with how far Blender has come since the last time I tried it (more than 10 years ago, probably).
I don't work in creative industry anymore and I haven't had a ton of time to noodle around and actually try out the tools I've seen demo'd, but it was mindblowing discovering how many different software suites I had used to do stuff that Blender has been incorporating into their one package.
Maya? Obviously does most of that.
ZBrush? Yep, pretty comparable.
Marvelous Designer? Holy shit, yep.
ToonBoom? Also that.
By far the worst part has just been trying to retrain hotkey muscle memory and learn minor (but fundamental) differences, and that's not as small a thing as a lot of people make it out to be - it does add a lot of cognitive noise and you really can't just hop in and flow right from the get go (depending on what you're doing).
Absolutely worth it to get away from Adobe though, and not having to bounce between programs while working on a model is very, very pleasant.
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in reply to Moonrise2473 • • •Pirate zbrush and try Nomad. I don't have a tablet so I never gave it a go.
As for Zbrush, Maxon has done absolutely nothing of value to it since its acquisition. I purchased the perpetual license when it was still Pixologic and that's what I keep using. I hear from industry professionals that I don't miss out on absolutely anything new at all.
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Nomad is a one time price like procreate and is very good. Blender for everything else.
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