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By CLAIRE CAO

October 15, 2020 at 12:00 am

A Message to the Penn Community

Amy Gutmann, President

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Dear Organ Farms,

I write to you today out of deep sympathy for how much you were anticipating your fall and spring breaks: dodging texts from your high school friends, nibbling on expired Bugles in your childhood bed, achieving your final form as a shriveled-up slug all unfairly stripped from you. I see you. I feel you. I hear you.

Just kidding. Ive been a little hard of hearing lately, and its because Im approaching several centuries in age. Yet, through personal donations from students like you, I still feel as alive as the time I personally evicted a humble group of children from their West Philadelphia school. What a rush that was!

That being said, Ill always cherish the first time I metaphysically absorbed a student's youth and happiness to preserve my immortality. But the truth is that you guys are no longer giving me anything to mooch off of, anything to live vicariously (and literally) through. I am drained from lying year after year about how every class is better, cuter, and smarter than the last. If anything, youre getting far worse, uglier, and stupider as time goes by. Its almost like you guys want me to shrivel up with you and this flawless blonde hair doesnt just maintain itself! Take James Morrison (C22), for example. His soul used to be a size S, but with some wear and tear, its shrunk to a size XXS. What do you expect me to do with that?

Therefore, my juicy little friends, I have decided on your behalf to donate your would-be relaxation this fall and spring to my immortality fund. To clarify, this will be added to the existing general fee Im still waiting on your soul by the end of the semester, James and I will be eternally grateful as I absorb your remaining happiness with every ounce of my impeccably-groomed being. Some of you may perish in the process, but that is a noble sacrifice I am willing to make. Students come and go, empires rise and fall, and the only things that can survive it all are capitalism, the Van Pelt bag checkers, and my iron first reign.

Think of it as Penn Fund practice for your future alumni donations. Your fellow students and faculty will surely thank you for your civic duty to our school. After all, its the Year of Civil Engagement, eh?

Happy studying!

XOXO

Forever and ever and ever yours with no intention to stop,

Dr. Amy Gutmann

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An interesting piece of news from Google today as they have confirmed CD Projekt Red will bring Cyberpunk 2077 to Stadia. The news comes off the heels of the latest Night City Wire, which you can watch down at the bottom, revealing more of what it takes to get to the top in the world of the dark future. The game will officially launch on November 17thm 2020 on Stadia, the same day it's set to come out on PC and console. Enjoy the video!

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure story set in Night City, a megalopolis obsessed with power, glamour and body modification. You play as V, a mercenary outlaw going after a one-of-a-kind implant that is the key to immortality. You can customize your character's cyberware, skillset and playstyle, and explore a vast city where the choices you make shape the story and the world around you. Become a cyberpunk, an urban mercenary equipped with cybernetic enhancements and build your legend on the streets of Night City. Enter the massive open world of Night City, a place that sets new standards in terms of visuals, complexity and depth. Take the riskiest job of your life and go after a prototype implant that is the key to immortality.

Players take on the role of V, a completely customizable character that players can shape cosmetically and in talents. V is a mercenary who can specialize in hacking (NetRunner), combat (Solo), and machinery (Techie). As the game unfolds, players can raise their expertise in these fields with implants, which can even enhance movement. V can gain arm blades that can be used as weapons or to scale walls. V's choices are dictated by the player, including who is considered an ally. One of these voices is Johnny Silverhand (played by actor Keanu Reeves), a digital ghost that will either help or haunt V, depending on how their relationship unfolds through the player choice.

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Traditional Jews in America who read these broadsides against Judge Barrett can easily imagine similar ones about themselves. We might wonder what the reaction would now be were a member of our own religious community appointed to a position of prominence. After all, the Jewish liturgys expressed aspiration, in an existence filled with injustice, is to fix the world through the kingship of God. We believe ourselves bound by a covenant to other Jews, and many of our observances mark us as different, just as they did in Seixas day. Like Muslims, Sikhs, and other minority faith communities, we dream of our daughters and sons experiencing American equality without suffering for their beliefs. We continue to celebrate Seixas legacy, and work for an America where what Justice Kagan said about her grandparents will be true about our grandchildren: that their Jewishness, strange as it may seem to some, would prove no barrier to their accomplishments.

None of this precludes tough questions about Judge Barretts worldview. At times, discussions of her religion seems to serve as a proxy for her views on abortion and other moral questions, and many apparently look to her religious practices as a guide to how she will rule on these matters. Yet as a widely published academic, Barrett has been more open than most nominees about her beliefs, which are those of a traditional Catholic, and has signed an ad supporting the right to life from fertilization to natural death. Judge Barrett has also been open about her jurisprudence, which is that of an originalist. She has described Justice Scalia as her mentor, and asserted that her Constitutional interpretation is guided not by her own faith but by the meaning of the document at the time it was written. Senators can, and should, ask her how a self-proclaimed originalist can objectively separate ones own opinions from an understanding of the text. A judges jurisprudence as well as the propriety of such a nomination so close to an election are worthy matters of debate, and they are appropriate reasons to oppose or support Judge Barretts nomination. But her faith is not.

A century after Moses Seixas, his great-great-niece, Emma Lazarus, would also eloquently describe the American idea in a poem that now appears on the Statue of Liberty. It depicts an America that made room for difference, which, as Kagan perfectly put it, extends the promise of opportunity to all, regardless of belief. Supreme Court nominations are often heated, but we cannot forget the lessons of Seixas story. The legacy of Washingtons letter, of religious pluralism, is a promise too precious to lose.

Meir Soloveichik, the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, is the director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University.

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FIFA 21's release earlier this month handed gamers a fresh opportunity to undertake a voyage into manager mode immortality.

Many of us would like to experience the adrenaline of leading a side to glory in real life, but the vast majority of mere mortals just have to contend with simulated gaming experiences instead.

One of the major advantages of the FIFA franchise is that the cost of signing talented youngsters is not reflective of real life economics: clubs play a premium on potential in real life, but wonderkids can be snapped up for peanuts on manager mode.

Plucking the next superstar out of the transfer database, though, is less straightforward than it used to be.

That's why GiveMeSport have done the hard work for you and picked out 21 of the most value-for-money signings the game has to offer. Thank us later.

Whether you simply wish to consolidate the legacy of a European Goliath like Barcelona or Liverpool, taking your side to domestic title after domestic title, or prefer to take a struggling Championship side from relative obscurity to being Champions League contenders, we've got a list of players to suit all your ambitions.

Without further ado, here is our list of 21 wonderkids you should aim to sign on FIFA 21, listed in descending order from least to most valuable...

21. Bright Akwo Arrey-Mbi (Bayern Munich II)

Position: CB/LB

Rating: 60

Potential: 86

Value: 950k

If you're searching for a future defensive titan on the cheap then look no further than this lad.

Arrey-Mbi, 17, has the potential to blossom into a world beater, and with a 950k value he should be available to sign at an outrageously low price.

20. Dennis Cirkin (Spurs)

Position: LB

Rating: 61

Potential: 83

Value: 1m

Dennis Cirkin is one of the most promising youngsters at Tottenham Hotspur and that is reflected in his FIFA 21 potential.

A bargain option at left-back if you can cope with his sub-standard rating to begin with.

19. Karamoko Dembele (Celtic)

Position: RW

Rating: 63

Potential: 84

Value: 1.5m

Karamoko Dembele could well follow in the footsteps of his namesake Odsonne at Celtic.

The flying winger is a nimble, fleet-footed dribbler of the ball, and he should be available at a snip of his true value if you sign him up early doors.

18. Luca Netz (Hertha Berlin)

Position: LB/LM

Rating: 63

Potential: 85

Value: 1.5m

Luca Netz was named as a substitute for Hertha in their dramatic 4-3 defeat away at Bayern Munich prior to the international break - an inclusion that points towards a huge future for the 17-year-old.

The German capital outfit's young prodigy is marginally higher in value than Cirkin, but he's worth stumping up a little extra for with two potential points in his favour.

17. Curtis Jones (Liverpool)

Position: CM

Rating: 64

Potential: 84

Value: 1.6m

Colonel Mustard himself represents incredible value.

Curtis Jones plays with a swagger that suggests he'll be irate with a 64 rating, but his potential has been recognised with a generous 84 here.

Negotiate with Michael Edwards at your peril.

16. Anthony Gordon (Everton)

Position: LW

Rating: 65

Potential: 83

Value: 1.8m

From the red half of Merseyside to the blue half of Merseyside, we present you with Everton's Anthony Gordon.

It takes patience to persist with wingers when they're rated in the 60s, but push through that barrier with Gordon and the rewards will follow.

15. Harvey Elliot (Liverpool)

Position: RW

Rating: 65

Potential: 85

Value: 1.9m

Back at Anfield Harvey Elliot represents an upgrade on Gordon.

The 17-year-old has the potential to climb two ratings higher, and that prospect only adds an extra 100k to his value.

Those extra two ratings will be worth astronomically more further down the line.

14.Sebastiano Esposito (Spal)

Position: CF

Rating: 66

Potential: 86

Value 2.3m

The first centre-forward on the list recently completed a loan move from Inter Milan to Spal.

Signing Sebastiano Esposito won't be possible in the first season but he's one to monitor ahead of a 2021 summer bid.

13.Leonidas Stergiou (FC ST Gallen)

Position: CB

Rating: 67

Potential: 86

Value: 2.4m

That the 18-year-old has already played 51matches for St Gallen's senior side tells you everything you need to know aboutLeonidas Stergiou's potential.

A future Switzerland international in the making, Stergiou is a bargain gem just waiting to be snapped up.

12.Maarten Vandevoordt(Genk)

Rating: 68

Potential: 87

Value: 2.7m

The only goalkeeper on the list is Genk'sMaarten Vandevoordt.

The 18-year-old is a regular in Belgium's top flight and is destined to rise into the world's elite on FIFA 21.

Land him early and you won't have to think about signing a goalkeeper for a very long time.

11.Rayan Cherki (Lyon)

Position: CAM/RM/LM

Rating: 67

Potential: 88

Value: 3.2m

The 21-point difference between current rating and potential rating is the highest in the top 17 on this list.

Despite only turning 17 in August, Rayan Cherki has already managed to score three goals in 19 appearances for Lyon's senior side.

An absolute must-buy.

10.Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen)

Position: CAM/RAM

Rating: 68

Potential: 88

Value: 3.3m

Another 17-year-old making a splash in one of Europe's top leagues.

The attacking midfielder has already made 13 appearances for Bayer Leverkusen and recorded his first Bundesliga assist prior to the international break.

With a ceiling of 88, the German wonderkid is the playmaker-in-chief your team needs.

9. Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund)

Position: CM/LM/RM

Rating: 69

Potential: 88

Value: 3.5m

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Death.

The black cloak of mortality will be on everyones doorstep at some point, somberly inviting them into whatever comes after this life. And as someone who has not come to terms with my eventual meeting with the Grim Reaper, I find it hard to grapple with the fact that death is inescapable.

Well, death is inescapable for an average human being such as myself.

Over the years, I have meticulously observed and analyzed famous individuals and, in turn, have come to the conclusion that some celebrities will simply never die. Some of them are even luckier they will never age, which means by default they will never die either.

And no, these celebrities immortality has nothing to do with any selling of souls to the devil. Their ability to live forever is completely organic.

Sir Ian McKellan

This man is upward of 80 years old and possesses more power than anyone on this list. What that power can do, no mortal being will ever know. McKellans Lord of the Rings character, Gandalf the Gray, did die, but he was immediately resurrected, so its not too far off to assume that McKellan himself, if he put up a fight, could skip the dying part and just exist forever. Hes also gay and an LGBTQ+ activist, AND hes been knighted, so he is literally unable to die.

Paul Rudd

Now listen to me, this man does not age, and I will NOT hear differently. He looks exactly the same in Ant-Man as he did in Clueless, 20 years earlier. Is Paul Rudd just a perfect human being in general? Yes. But does that mean he has automatic immunity from death? Also yes.

Jeff Goldblum

This fine specimen does, in fact, age. But he is so eccentric that he has to live for the benefit of humanity itself. I mean, he has released several albums with his band in which he plays jazz piano. Not to mention, he wears a fedora in nearly half of the pictures he takes. Im convinced that if Goldblum died by some tragic otherworldly force, he would either find a way to summon himself back to Earth or he would single handedly take over another planet. Either way, death is not in his future. Also, he recreated the iconic Jurassic Park picture and somehow looks better 27 years later.

Keanu Reeves

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Honestly, I dont have much of an explanation for this one. Its just a good feeling hes Canadian (which just makes so much sense), and he will never see the end of his life.

Miranda Cosgrove

Yall better look up pictures of Miranda Cosgrove today and compare them to her in iCarly. You cant TELL ME Im wrong. This girl has not aged a day; she looks like she could still be 15 years old. And she still sings, which keeps her youthful soul alive. She was also the first woman on this list, so she gets extra points for that.

Raini Rodriguez

Rodriguez and I look the exact same, and I think its only fair that my celebrity doppelgnger is also immortal. Despite that fact, though, she really does look the same as she did when she played the absolutely iconic latina queen, Trish De la Rosa, on Austin and Ally.

Betty White

Im apprehensive to admit this, but Ms. White was not originally on this list. I reluctantly added her after relentless verbal attacks from my roommate. My roommate said, Have you seen the woman? She acts like shes 20. Shell never die. Apparently, White is 98 years old, so the fact that she still acts like a spry 20 year old is actually quite impressive.

Tony Hawk

Hear me out on this one. Tony Hawk ages, and frankly, I dont think he ages well. But think about it: he has always been a household name just looming ominously around the Homeowner Associations suburban head. While he never faded away from the public eye, right now hes in a period of resurgence. Because hell always be suspended in the minds of the American people, he will always be suspended in the mortal realm.

Halle Berry

She just doesnt age. She never has, and she never will. By sheer willpower, she will, in fact, live forever. That is all.

Shia Labeouf

Holes. Transformers. The paper bag thing. Hes like Jeff Goldblum but less powerful. I mean, if anything, hes the one doing the killing (for clarification, LaBeouf is not, in fact, an actual cannibal).

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The daughter of a long dead and all but forgotten hero of the Texas Revolution unveiled a statue of her tragic father at a Galveston intersection on Oct. 20, 1938.

San Jacinto should have ensured him success and immortality, but Sidney Sherman knew only pain and disappointment. The most powerful politician of his day ruined his reputation, and three suspicious fires left a promising career in ashes. Yet his public ordeal paled in comparison to the private anguish of burying four children and a wife.

Sherman proudly admired the fruit of four years labor since leaving New York City in 1831. Nevertheless, the Cincinnati businessman was willing to risk everything to fight for freedom in a foreign land.

On March 6, 1836, Sherman and 50 volunteers from Ohio and Kentucky reached Gonzales, where reinforcements were supposed to be ready for an Alamo rescue mission. Finding no relief column waiting, the stunned officer refused to lead his men into certain annihilation.

Five days later, Gen. Sam Houston showed up and forged the chain of command that included Sherman as lieutenant colonel. When confirmation came that night of the massacre in San Antonio, the general gave the order for a full-scale retreat that Sherman and many others found hard to swallow.

At the Colorado River, the outspoken newcomer pleaded for permission to cross the tributary and surprise a Mexican force twice the size of his own contingent. Harsh words were exchanged after Houston pulled rank and insisted Sherman continue the withdrawal.

Word of the slaughter at Goliad sapped the already anemic morale of the rebels and set mutinous tongues to wagging. Sherman was the popular choice of the dispirited soldiers to replace their do-nothing general, a fact duly noted by Houston who would always despise his would-be successor as a back-stabbing traitor.

As the two sides jockeyed for position the day before the climax at San Jacinto, Sherman proposed a preemptive strike against Santa Annas cannon. A rancorous debate ended with Houston giving his reluctant approval, and the recently promoted colonel assembling a squad for the daring dash.

Coming under heavy fire from the Mexican lines, the horseback commandos pulled up short of their objective. What are they about? shouted Houston. I ordered a reconnoiter only! Sherman accused his superior of reneging on promised support, a charge the latter denied to his dying day.

While Sam Houston scaled the political heights after the Revolution, twice serving as president of the Republic as well as senator and governor, Sherman suffered a personal apocalypse. In May 1852, an arsonist burned to the ground the sawmill that supplied his troubled railroad with crossties. The mysterious incident was only the beginning of a strange series of calamities.

Within the year, Shermans 18-month-old child died unexpectedly, and a second blaze destroyed the family home at Harrisburg. Sending his kin out of state, the head of the family took shelter in his railway office until that structure too went up in smoke.

At age 51, when he should have been looking forward to a secure retirement, Sherman started over from scratch as a hotel proprietor in Galveston. But his problems were far from over.

In his farewell address to the U.S. Senate in 1859, Houston launched into a scathing tirade against every enemy he had ever made. During this blistering attack, he produced a letter purportedly written by Shermans adjutant accusing him of cowardice at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Dazed by the patently false allegation, Sherman countered with his own clear recollection and testimonials from several eyewitnesses. But, as far as most Texans were concerned, irreparable damage had been done. If Sam said Sherman was yellow, then yellow he was.

Only in Galveston did Sherman remain above reproach. In early 1861, he was asked to direct the defense of the island in the event of a northern invasion, a responsibility he relinquished that August to the incoming Confederate commander.

He sold his hotel and moved his family to the mainland. At the Battle of Galveston, when the Rebs freed the city from Union occupation, Lt. Sidney A. Sherman, his 19 year old namesake, was among the gray-clad casualties.Tragedy stalked poor old Sherman into his twilight years. The last of his sons perished in 1863 followed a few months later by his invalid wife. The yellow fever epidemic of 1867 claimed the husbands of two daughters, and in 1872 he lost a fourth child.

Finally, in August 1873, death came calling for Sidney Sherman, the sole surviving San Jacinto officer. In solemn tribute the Galveston News urged, Let Texans follow this patriot to his grave and moisten the ashes of glory with the sweet tears of gratitude.

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When basketball wraps up, it always leaves you wanting more. The 2020 restart was the most fun Ive had watching sports in a very long time, and it was sad to see the season wrap up. To fill some of that basketball void thats been lingering since the finals wrapped up, Ive decided to look ahead and evaluate what the basketball landscape will look like in 2021. There are some exciting narratives and teams to explore, as well as several key players coming back from prolonged absences. So lets dig into the 14 teams I think can win a title next year.

The Los Angeles teams

The Lakers are an obvious choice to repeat, given how dominant they looked throughout the regular season and playoffs. They will in all likelihood return Lebron James and Anthony Davis, a duo that we now know can propel just about any roster to the finals. Meanwhile, the Clippers will emerge from the Bubble hungrier and bearing a vicious chip on their shoulder. This roster is still one of the most talented in the league in my opinion, and its success will come down to two things: more consistent locker-room leadership and a creative new coach that can squeeze every last drop of potential from this squad. The LA teams are my two favorite picks to win a title in 2021.

The Eastern Conference powerhouses

The Miami Heat were so close to NBA immortality, but James and Davis were simply too much. I love their roster, and the Butler-Adebayo pairing is only going to get better. This team has room to add another star, and if they do theyll immediately be my pick to represent the East in 2021. The Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo will look to add more firepower to bring Giannis that ring he so righteously deserves. Even if they return more or less the same roster, this is still a team that has claimed back-to-back league-best records the past two years.

Meanwhile, Boston and Toronto both showed out in the playoffs, but fell short in their own ways. They will both look to run it back and count on fringe or internal improvements. Brooklyn will also look to add themselves to this list of powerhouses, and they have every right to land themselves here. Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and Steve Nash at head coach are just too exciting to count out. This team will score in bunches, and could shake up the Eastern Conference hierarchy in 2021.

The rest of the West

The West is always a dogfight of contending teams. The dreadful 2020 regular season and exclusion from the restart made the basketball world forget this team for a while, but Golden State is still very much a powerhouse. Barring injury, the Warriors should return their dreaded trio of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, whom everyone knows boast a finals-caliber ceiling. They also have the resources to swing another impact trade or bolster the depth on their roster.

Denver made history in the Bubble, coming back from not one but two 31 deficits in the playoffs, only to fall short against the Lakers. They ran a devastating gauntlet of playoff competition, and this roster now boasts some serious experience and chemistry to make noise next year. Dallas and Houston are both interesting and boast arguable top-five players on their roster, so they can never truly be counted out. Luka Doni was a revelation for Dallas this year, and could push for an MVP season in his third year, while James Harden and Russell Westbrook have all offseason to give Houston a more schematically functioning star duo.

The dark horses

Utah has more questions than answers right now, but Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert are bona fide stars that shouldnt be ignored. This team still has some options to boost its ceiling in the playoffs, but itll take serious creativity on the front office and coaching fronts.

Beyond them, I cant see any team in the West boasting a championship-caliber ceiling, outside of a surprise season from New Orleans. Zion Williamson is a generational talent whose potential impact knows no bounds, even if he looked the part of an inexperienced rookie for most of the Bubble. Brandon Ingram and the rest of the Pelicans young talent could take leaps and bounds under new coaching leadership, and theyll be a trendy pick to make the West playoffs.

For the East, I have many doubts for the 76ers being more than a low-seed playoff team. I like the Doc Rivers hire to give this team a respectable floor, but I cannot in any way see them making a run past the second round with the awkwardness of their roster fit.

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Rocketbook

If a genie granted me three wishes, my first wish would be for infinite wealth. At one time, my second wish would have been for a notebook that never ran out of pages, but now that I have a Rocketbook, I can change that wish to immortality. A Rocketbook, of course, is a smart reusable notebook that's completely erasable when you wipe it with a dampened microfiber cloth, so you can use each page over and over and over again, after storing a digital copy online via its mobile app. Today only, Oct. 15,all Rocketbook notebooks and accessories are 20% off in a sitewide sale.

I've been using a Rocketbook for about a year now, and it surprises me how much I love it. You need to pair your Rocketbook with a special FriXion erasable pen, but it feels exactly like you're using ordinary paper. The pages are made of some space-age synthetic material, and the ink wipes away when you use a dampened microfiber cloth. Let it dry for a few moments, and then it's ready to be used again. I have a pair of Rocketbooks -- the small Fusion notebook, currently marked down to $29.60, and a large executive-size planner (currently $28) -- and I've been using them daily for about a year. In that time I've gone through about three pens, and haven't wasted a single sheet of paper.

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Each notebook is "smart." Using the bundled app, you can snap a photo of your page of notes, and it's automatically uploaded to your favorite cloud service. There's a row of icons at the bottom of every page, and you can program the app to send scanned pages to specific destinations based on which icon you mark with the pen before photographing it. Not only do you get an image of the page, but your text is converted to digital text, so it's fully searchable.

Rocketbooks come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, and the one-day sale covers all of them.

Over the years, I've seen a lot of smart notebook products like this come and go. They mostly fail because they're just too darned complicated. Rocketbook keeps things simple by making each page infinitely reusable and letting you automatically send images of pages to the cloud on demand. Try it; I predict you'll love it.

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The 2019-20 Los Angeles Lakers have attained basketball immortality as they have captured the 2020 NBA title with a win over the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals.

LeBron James led the way with 28 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists, Anthony Davis finished with 19 points, 15 rebounds and three assists while dominating defensively and Rajon Rondo (19), Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (17) and Danny Green (11) combined for 47 points.

For Miami, Bam Adebayo scored a team-high 25 points (on 10-for-15 shooting) while Jimmy Butler and Jae Crowder scored 12 points apiece. Duncan Robinson, who scored 10 points, was the only other Heat player to finish in double figures.

Here are some takeaways from the Lakers title-clinching win.

Los Angeles finishes the job

And in the process, the Los Angeles Lakers have rewritten the history books.

In winning the 2020 NBA title, the Lakers franchise now has won 17 championships, tying the Boston Celtics for most titles in league history. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1960, the Lakers have won 11 championships, which leads the league in that span.

A 17th banner will soon hang in the Staples Center.

Count to four

2012. 2013. 2016. 2020.

Make that four championships and four Finals MVPs in 17 years for LeBron James, who has exceeded the lofty expectations placed upon him as an 18-year-old rookie in 2003. LeBron and teammate Danny Green become the third and fourth players to win a championship with three different teams and James becomes the first player in league history to win Finals MVP for three different franchises.

Now, only Michael Jordan (6) has more Finals MVP trophies than James.

That LeBron is still performing at this level at 35 is a reminder to cherish these moments in watching him because he is the definition of a generational talent.

We'll never see this again.

Closeout LeBron

After his 40 points couldn't get the job done in Game 5, LeBron James was efficient and surgical in Game 6. He recorded his 11th NBA Finals triple-double, finishing with 28 points (on 13-for-20 shooting), 14 rebounds and 10 assists. His 28 postseason triple-doubles are good for second all-time behind only Magic Johnson, who recorded 30.

And he made a number of highlights along the way.

35-year-olds don't typically do this:

Or this:

The highlights speak for themselves.

AD dominates defensively

This is why Anthony Davis is one of the league's best big men.

A starting lineup change which replaced Dwight Howard with Alex Caruso meant that Davis would be the Lakers centre to start the game after playing at power forward for the majority of the season and playoffs.

He imposed his will.

You get the feeling that this won't be the last time we see Davis put forth a dominant performance on the championship stage.

Win the first quarter, win the game

At least that was the trend for the entirety of this series.

The winner of each game in the 2020 NBA Finals held a lead after one quarter and Game 6 was no different, as the Lakers took a 28-20 lead into the second quarter. They parlayed that strong start into a dominant second quarter showing.

Speaking of

Momentum swings for good in the second frame

The Lakers blew this one open in the second quarter.

Not only did LA outscore Miami 36-16, but it also shot 53.8% from the field while limiting its opponent to 7-for-23 (30.4%) shooting. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (11) and Rajon Rondo (9) combined for 20 points in the frame, outscoring the Heat on their own, while Anthony Davis added seven points and two blocks in the quarter.

With a 64-36 halftime advantage, it was only a matter of time.

Take a bow, Jimmy Butler

After playing in all but 48 seconds of Game 5, it appeared that Jimmy Butler had nothing left in the tank.

In Game 6, he and the Heat appeared to have run out of steam.

Butler saw just under 45 minutes of action and finished with 12 points (on 5-for-10 shooting), eight assists and seven rebounds. Though this postseason run ended with a blowout loss, Butler put forth some of the most impressive playoff performances this league has ever seen, and it's only the beginning of his time in Miami.

He and the Heat will be back.

Playoff Finals Rondo

Through the first five games of the Finals, Rajon Rondo was averaging 6.6 points, 5.8 assists and 5.4 rebounds while shooting just 28.9% from the field and 23.5% from deep.

He tapped into another mode in the title-clincher.

Rondo was masterful in getting into the lane to finish around the rim, which resulted in his scoring an efficient 19 points (on 8-for-11 shooting), four rebounds and four assists.

Return of the Dragon

After going down in Game 1 with a plantar fascia injury, Goran Dragic missed Games 2 through 5 of the series and it appeared his season may be done.

Instead, Dragic checked in with just over a minute remaining in the first quarter.

He didn't exactly look like himself but still finished with five points, five rebounds and two assists in 19 minutes of action. That Dragic would play through obvious pain as an impending free agent shows just how much this team means to him and how much he wanted to help his team compete to win a championship.

Witness History.

OK, just one more LeBron James takeaway.

In the history of the NBA, no player has appeared in more postseason games than LeBron, who has never missed a game in the playoffs.

Add that to his growing list of records .

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For an image intended to prove that its subject was dead, defeated and of no further consequence, it is a failure. Seven men are gathered around a figure lying face upwards on a makeshift stretcher that is placed on top of a cement sink of sorts. Four of the men are in military uniform, two officers and two soldiers. In their midst are three men in plain clothes, one looking away.

The right half of a man with a camera, evidently taking a picture, is visible on the left of the frame. One of the officers has his right index finger on the chest of the dead man. The other, looking at the photographer on the left, has his right hand resting on the corpses hair.

The face of the dead man is unmistakable, its sculpted cheeks, moustache and beard known the world over at the time, October 1967, and ever since. His eyes are open, seeming still to hold that unwavering gaze that in life gave courage and hope to so many around the globe. He might have been dead, but immortality was now secure for Ernesto Che Guevara.

The photograph is one of the most infamous ever taken, but its original purpose turned against its commissioners and its maker. No one familiar with Christian imagery can fail to notice the Christ-like nature of the dead subject. Indeed, as Jon Lee Anderson writes in his magnificent biography Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Bantam Press, 1997), the nuns at the Vallegrande hospital thought the slain Guevara resembled Jesus Christ, and local women clipped locks of his hair as keepsakes. To this day, they keep them as good-luck talismans and pray for his soul on the Day of the Dead.

The revolutionary captured in battle and then executed in such a craven way is but one part of the history. Behind that and all the myth and legend that have accumulated around the most charismatic thinker and doer of later 20th-century revolution lies the observer, the teacher, the writer: Guevara in his own words, sent out to the world as a manual for guerrilla warfare, as pleas for a new kind of human being, as arguments for a galvanised socialism that can truly transform and as reflections of revolution in action.

Here are vignettes of those, from his writings.

Moreover, it is necessary to demonstrate clearly to people the futility of maintaining the fight for social gains within the framework of civil debate. When the oppressive forces maintain themselves in power against the laws they themselves established, peace must be considered already broken. (Guerrilla Warfare, The Authorised Edition, Ocean Press, 2006)

What we must create is the man of the twenty-first century, although this is still a subjective aspiration, not yet systematised

By reacting against the man of the nineteenth century we have relapsed into the decadence of the twentieth century. It is not a very grave error, but we must overcome it lest we open a wide breach for revisionism. (Socialism and Man in Cuba, Pathfinder Press, 1989)

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must make an ideal of this love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and indivisible. They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection, to the level where ordinary men put their love into practice. (Socialism and Man in Cuba, Pathfinder Press, 1989)

Revolutions, radical and accelerated social transformations, are made in specific circumstances. They rarely, if ever, emerge fully ripe, and not all their details can be scientifically foreseen. They are made from passion, from the improvisation of human beings in their struggle for social change, and they are never perfect. Our revolution was no exception. It committed errors, and some of these cost us dearly. (Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, Ocean Press, 2006)

The last words go to Anderson, from the last paragraph of his biography of Guevara.

Left behind, in Vallegrande, is a graffiti scrawl in Spanish on the adobe wall of the public telephone office: Che Alive as they never wanted you to be. Perhaps more than any other, the statement best describes Ches true legacy He is immortal because others want him to be, as the solitary example of the New Man who once lived and dared others to follow.

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Over the weekend, I stepped into an independent record store for the first time since the onset of the pandemic and almost immediately committed the faux pas of saying the word Spotify in front of the owner of said independent record store. John, Im sorry. Please let me back in.

Meanwhile, tell me which podcasts youre listening to. Its totally fine if you listened on Spotify. Find me on Twitter or reach me over email: nicholas.quah@vulture.com. On to the weeks picks.

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Hosted by writer and poet Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr., Resistance offers a collection of a few different portraits from the front lines of the Black Lives Matter protests that have swept the country. Ive only been able to listen to the first three episodes, and the stories run the gamut. The first sees Tejan-Thomas Jr. grappling with his own feelings about political activation and participation as he follows a young Black man evolve from being a first-time protester to a possible first-time local-office candidate. The second is a gripping account of an activist trapped in his home for hours as the NYPD tries a number of different tactics to flush him out. The third tells the story of the only Black man in a small Nebraskan town trying to organize its first Black Lives Matter rally, working in the face of his own experiences with racism in the locality.

Resistance is a striking and vivid listen, at least based on its early innings, and one of its more interesting contributions is the way in which it creates an emotional space for people to process their own feelings about political mobilization. But its not exempt from questions and critiques, of course. That it is the product of a corporate media entity Gimlet Media, a content division of Spotify should expose it to some discourse about the rendering of political expression into an entertainment commodity. Folks who are more radical in their politics might also have things to say about the kinds of political action it grapples with and what it leaves out. But on the whole, these are discussions worth having, and the fact that Resistance provokes me to think about it is a sign that its doing something right.

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I cant even begin to express just how much I love the latest season of Lost Notes, which dropped in its entirety in late September.

Now in its third season, Lost Notes is a nonfiction anthology podcast from KCRW that weaves together great untold stories from the music world. This outing, called Lost Notes: 1980, was entirely curated and hosted by the poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib, and as you can probably glean from the subtitle, all of its stories revolve around the year 1980. If youre not familiar with Abdurraqibs body of work, you should get acquainted; check out Go Ahead in the Rain, his 2019 book-length love letter to A Tribe Called Quest, or pick up any of his poetry collections. Music, legacy, and the active act of loving art are all themes that tend to pop up in Abdurraqibs creations, and Lost Notes: 1980 is no different.

The enthusiast in me would tell you to work linearly through the season, starting from the Stevie Wonder story all the way down to Grace Jones. But if for some reason you remain skeptical and wish for only a taste, hit up John Lennon & Darby Crash, which revisits how Crash, the co-founder of the extremely influential punk band Germs, took his own life as some means toward achieving cultural immortality only for Lennons murder, which happened less than a day later, to completely overshadow Crashs death.

With the man at the center of its story finally free, In the Dark is dropping one final episode today to wrap up its second season, and it takes the form of an interview with Curtis Flowers himself.

Teenager Therapy is a legitimate phenomenon these days, and the chat-cast featuring a group of teens having sincere conversations about mental health and their lives welcomed special guests in a recent episode: the ex-royals Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, who popped up on the show in honor of World Mental Health Day.

Tracy Clayton already co-hosts a nostalgic pop-culture podcast, Back Issue (with Josh Gwynn), and now shes co-hosting another nostalgic pop-culture podcast, which launches this week: the music-themed My 90s Playlist with Akoto Ofori-Atta.

Lores Aaron Mahnke is producing a fiction podcast series with iHeartMedia and Blumhouse TV thatll star Keegan-Michael Key in the lead role. It will be called Aaron Mahnkes 13 Days of Halloween, and it is scheduled to drop for 13 days leading up to Halloween. That means it will actually start on *checks calendar* October 18, I think?

Heres an interesting artifact: Hearing With Tali Farhadian Weinstein, a Pushkin Industries podcast that launched earlier this month, is basically an interview show in lieu of a political campaign. Weinstein, a former counsel to AG Eric Holder, is running for Manhattan district attorney next year, but obviously it isnt a good idea to be knocking on doors or holding political events right now hence the podcast.

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I thought Id plug Who the Hell Is Hamish? Its Australian, which may explain why I didnt hear about it when it first came out a couple of years ago, but it got me through a notably dark portion of quarantine and seemed to have the same effect on the people I recommended it to.

Who the Hell Is Hamish? follows a con man as he crisscrosses the globe, swindling victims out of millions at ski resorts in Canada and swanky beach communities in Australia and, despite several near misses, never quite getting caught. At various times, Hamish (a.k.a. Max, a.k.a. Kevin) claims to be an orphan, an orphan who accidentally killed his parents, a twin, a twin who accidentally killed his brother, and a 9/11 survivor. Like most con-man stories, its a lot of fun until it isnt. The second to last episode, an interview with a young woman whose life Hamish upended, is a gut-punch. (Be prepared to spend the next several weeks mistrusting everyone you know.)

Its a wild con-man story with many of the usual contours of wild con-man stories the old he sweeps women off their feet and steals their money gambit and so on but its unusually attentive and sensitive to the victims. Its a good example of a true-crime podcast that tells a great story without overlooking the actual pain at the center of things.

Also: great accents, delightfully incomprehensible Aussie slang, and lots of fun to be had Google Mapping the various beach towns that are mentioned. I cant be the only one who does that, right? Susie A., Chicago, Illinois

And thats a wrap for1.5x Speed! Hope you enjoyed it. Were back next week, but in the meantime: Send podcast recommendations, feedback, or just say hello atnicholas.quah@vulture.com.

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Looking for a new book to add to your reading list? Here are eight critically acclaimed books published this month.

THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE BY VE SCHWAB

Desperate to live a life without any ties and obligations, Addie LaRue makes a deal with the devil and gains immortality. But in exchange, she is doomed to be forgotten by everyone she meets, as if she has never existed at all.

After 300 years later, Addie meets a man who, strangely enough, remembers her name.

OVER THE WOODWARD WALL BY A DEBORAH BAKER

This is the first instalment of a new fantasy series by Seanan McGuire. While on their way to school, Zib and Avery come across a mysterious wall and decide to climb over it.

Instead of landing on their school ground, they find themselves in a strange yet magical placed called the Up-and-Under, inhabited by talking trees, mermaids, and other mythical beings.

Fun fact: Over The Woodward Wall started off as a book within a book. Deborah Baker is a pseudonym based on the alchemist in Seanans best-selling novel Middlegame, who wrote about Zib and Avery.

THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE BY KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

In 2025, the Earth faces its biggest and inevitable crisis climate change. The Ministry for the Future is formed to protect the present and future generations.

The story is narrated by multiple third-party witnesses over the next few decades, with narrators ranging from farmers and scientists, to the less conventional including photons and molecules.

IS THIS ANYTHING? BY JERRY SEINFELD

If youre looking for a laugh and you happen to be a fan of Seinfeld, you may want to read Jerry Seinfelds new book. Is This Anything? is a compilation of jokes Jerry has come up with over the past decades, since his very first stand-up in the 70s when he was just a

college student. Its worth noting that the audiobook is narrated by Jerry himself, which is bound to be a different experience compared to reading the book yourself.

THE PUPPETMASTERS APPRENTICE BY LISA DESELM

A puppetmaster is given a task by the citys ruler to create an army of marionette soldiers. Unable to cope with the orders, the puppetmaster falls ill and is thrown into prison. His daughter a marionette that he created and brought to life on the night of blue moon must fill in his shoes.

The tension escalates even further when the puppetmasters daughter is given another task: to create an assassin with a life of its own.

THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER BY STUART TURTON

Set in 1634, the story follows Detective Samuel Pipps who is convicted of a crime and is due to be executed. He sets off on a voyage to Amsterdam for his execution with his bodyguard Arent Hayes.

But then strange things happen: a leper without a tongue appears onboard, saying theres a devil on the ship coming after the passengers. The leper bursts into flames, and a string of seemingly supernatural events take place on the ship.

With Samuel behind bars, Arent is determined to find out who, or what, is behind these strange cases, before every passenger meets their end.

CONFESSIONS ON THE 7:45 BY LISA UNGER

While on her way commuting home, Selena Murphy strikes up a conversation on the train with a stranger named Martha. The two women exchange seemingly harmless confessions. Martha confesses of having an affair with her boss, while Selena confesses that she suspects her husband is having an affair with the nanny.

A few days later, Selenas nanny goes missing, and Selena begins to wonder if Martha has anything to do with it.

THE NEIL GAIMAN READER: SELECTED FICTION BY NEIL GAIMAN

As the title implies, this is a collection of Neil Gaimans stories, selected based on the votes of his readers all around the world.

The stories range from some of his earlier works to his most recent writings.

With 52 pieces of writing that span over 700 pages, this book is best enjoyed in small chunks.

Its suitable for both long-time fans and readers who are new to Neils works.

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The grandness of festivals in India is a sight to see. The nine-days long festival, Navratri is just two days away and the excitement of the festival approaching, can be sensed in the air. Though the year 2020 has been unpredictable, Navratri signifies good over evil and for this very reason, people across the globe celebrate this time with much joy and happiness. Arriving at the time of Autumn, this festival also signifies how Goddess Maa Durga triumphed over the demon Mahishasur, to free the land of all evil. Dedicated to Maa Durgas nine avatars, each day is associated with the Goddess incarnation. Cultural programs and beautiful, craftily lit pandals are constructed in each part of the country, and overseas. The final day of the festival is called Vijayadashami or Dussehra when Maa Durga is said to leave Earth and return to heaven, according to legends. On this auspicious occasion, we bring to you wishes, quotes and messages that will be the perfect greeting to others.Navratri 2020 wishes May Goddess Durga shower all her blessings on you and your family. HAPPY NAVRATRI!

May Goddess Durga bestow all happiness and joy in your family for all years to come.May the nine days and nine nights of Navratri bring your good health and fortune. Wishing you a very Happy Navratri.

Maa Durga will surely bestow her 9 forms of blessings for you and your family: Fame, Name, Wealth, Prosperity, Happiness, Education, Health, Power and Commitment. Happy Navratri!

Navratri is a time to share and care. Wish you glorious days ahead. Happy Navratri 2020!

May Goddess Durga provide you with the strength to overcome all obstacles in life. Shubh Navratri!

May Maa Durga empower you and your family with health, wealth, happiness and prosperity. Happy Navratri 2020!

Happy Navratri to you and your family. May the nine days of Navratri light up your lives!

May the blessings of Goddess Durga always be with you. Wishing you happiness! Happy Navratri 2020!

May the great goddess Maa Durga provide you with the strength, wisdom, and courage to overcome all obstacles in life. Have an auspicious Navratri.

Wishing you a very happy and vibrant New Year and auspicious Navratri.

Our hearty Greetings to everyone on the auspicious occasion of Navratri. May Maa Durga always guide & bless all of us.

Maa Durga means she, who is incomprehensible to reach. Happy Navratri!

Lakshmi donates the internal wealth of virtues or divine qualities. Happy Navratri!

Good wishes for a joyous Navratri, with plenty of peace and prosperity. Happy Navratri.

Heres wishing that the colours, beauty, bliss, and happiness, of this auspicious festival of Maa Durga stay with you, not just for these nine days, but forever. Happy Navratri 2020!

May you have the best of time, celebrations and success in life this year. Best Wishes for a joyous Navratri with lots joy, happiness and peace.

May Maa Durga guide you, protect you, and always be with you in whatever you do. Happy Navratri!

Good Fortune, Good Health, Happy LifeAll these are my wishes for you this Navtatri! Happy Navaratri

Maa Durga ke aashirwaad se apka jivan sukhmay ho,Iss Navratri pe hamari shubkamnayen aapke saath hai.

Navratri 2020 quotes

Maa Durga ka sada rahe ashirvad; dhan, samridhi, sukh aur kamiyabi ka de aapko aashirvad; Navrati ki nau raatein roshan kar dein aapka Jeevan; Navratri ki shubh kamnayein.

Ma Durga removes all obstacles and defects. Happy Navratri!

Aaya hai Maa Durga ka tyohaar.Maa aap aur aapke parivaar par sada apni kripa banaye rakheAapko Navaratri ke pawan avsar par bahut bahut badhai ho.

Maa Bharti jholi khali! Maa Ambe Vaishno wali!Maa Sankat harne wali!Maa Vipda mitane wali!Maa ke sabhi bhakto koNavaraatri ki saari shubhkamnayein!

Navratri ke pavan utsav par aapke ghar Durga ji ka agaman ho, aapke ghar mein sukh aur samruddhi ka vaas ho, yehi humari manokamna hai.

On Navratri, may Maa Durga inspire all of us with positivity, strength, wisdom, and devotion!Jai Ambe! Jai Bhavani! Jai Mata Di!

May the blessing of Maa Durga guide you on the right path and help you in all your endeavours.Warm wishes of Navratri to all.

Maa Durga, the universal mother is the embodiment of power.We bow to her to seek blessings on this auspicious occasion of NavratriIf you dont respect women for the rest of 356 days,I am sure your 9 days of Navratri puja cant make Durga Maa happy.

Nothing can replace the peace and happiness that Maa Durga brings to our homes each year. Here's celebrating the victory of Maa Durga over Mahishasura, the demon who spread hatred. Let us celebrate the triumph of the good over the evil a very Happy Navratri to you and your family.

Maa Durga aapkoBal, buddhi, sukh, aishwarya aur sampannta pradaan karen!Jai mata di!

Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu Shakti Rupen Samsthitapower to stay composed in chaospower to be kind and righteousMore power to you.Have a blessed Navratri!

Navratri marks the onset of the Autumn season. So let us celebrate Divine Mother representing prakriti (nature) and welcome new beginnings in your lives.

May this festival be the harbinger of joy and prosperity. As the holy occasion of Navratri is here and the atmosphere is filled with the spirit of mirth and love, heres hoping this festival will be great for you!

Navratri 2020 Messages Hey maa sherawali,mujhe iss navratri mein sirf ek cheez ki tamanna hai,Jin jin ki aankhein ye pad rahi hain,unka daaman sada khushiyon se bharna..Shubh Navratri!

Chand ki chandani, Basant ki bahar ,Phoolo ki khushbu, Apno ka pyar,Mubarak ho aapko NAVRATRI ka Tyohar ,Sada khush rahe aap aur apka Parivar !

Lakshmi ka Hath ho, Saraswati ka Sath ho, Ganesh ka niwas ho, aur maa durga ke ashirwad se Aapke jeevan mai prakash hi prakash ho, HAPPY NAVRATRI

Jagat Paalan Haar Hai Maa, Mukti Ka Dham Hai Maa. Hamari Bakti Ke Adhar Hai Maa, Ham Sab Ki Raksha Ki Avatar Hai Maa. Happy Navratri

Maa Durga ka sada rahe ashirvad,dhan, samridhi, sukh aur kamiyabi ka de aapko aashirvad,Navrati ki nau raatein roshan kar dein aapka Jeevan,Navratri ki shubh kamnayein.

While observing fast during Durga puja is to propitiate Durga Ma and seek her divine blessings. Happy Navratri.

May the blessing of Maa Durga guide you on the right path and help you in all your endeavours. Warm wishes of Navratri to all.

Ma Durga is a Mother of the Universe, she represents the infinite power of the universe and is a symbol of a female dynamism. Happy Navratri!

May This Navratri be as splendid as ever.May this Navratri move joy,Illness as well as resources to you.May a legal holiday of lights lighten up we as well asyour nearby as well as dear ones lives.

There's something magical about this festival. It transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, darkness into light and agony into ecstasy. Maa Durga brings along with her unparalleled energy, happiness and joy. Happy Navratri to you and your family.

I hope that on the pious occasion of Navratri you are blessed with good health and prosperity. Wishing a very Happy Navratri to my dearest mother.

May this Navratri bring happiness in your life.Hatred be far apart from your life.Enjoy the festival with love on your heart.Those who have learned to respectAnd not to greed will be fortunate.I know you are always respectful and soYou are among the fortunate!Excellent wishes for a Subh Navratri!

What is that bright light?From where does this fragrance coming?This gentle breeze, cool air, hearty music;Oh! its Navaratri... Happy Navaratri

I know someone who deserves to be blessed this Navratri,Someone who has been so good, so sharing and so special.That someone is you!Happy Navratri!

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In a Reddit thread titled "Who Are the Elder Civilization?," u/Jhin-Roh starts the conversation by writing, "From the Fossil it looks like some bird shaped life form. And did they find them on Earth or some other Planet?"

The first season of Altered Carbon vaguely discusses the Elders and treats them as mysterious beings. Season 2 shows the last remaining Elder, which looks like a makeshift pterodactyl, but this creature is still shrouded in mystery as the audience never really finds out how the species created its otherworldly technology. In the show, the Elders made this unexplainable technology that led to Quellcrist Falconer (Rene Elise Goldsberry) inventing stacks.

The books, as another user responded, reveal more information about these beings: "In the books, they are a long dead avian species originating from, or at least having inhabited, Mars," the user writes. "They are very different from humanity a lot less social, for example. The back story is that Humanity ends up finding fossils and left over structures on Mars during the 21th century (not noticed before landing there because very ancient / underground); among those structures are stellar maps showing other planets Martians have settled."

As the user points out, Elders are dead in the books (a ploy the author admittedly used to get out of having to fully explain them), and the show drops the Martian description entirely. The user also mentioned that the books had humanity invent stack technology by itself.For better or worse, this powerful species, whether audience members refer to them as "Martians" or "Elders," have a vague description and history attached to them, and it would have been ideal for the TV series to explain them in greater detail in a subsequent third season that's unlikely at this point.

Nevertheless, the "bird-shaped life form" inhabited Mars and other planets in the books.

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