It’s time for the RENAISSANCE SPORK!
And the fascinating problems museums face when dealing with objects no one expects. 1/?
Sharing for my countdown to the release “Inventing the Renaissance” coming Feb UK/Mar US buff.ly/4j6qkoS #HistoryPix
Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.Ada Palmer
I’ve been teaching Irregular Billy—one of the ten centimeter tall Pictsies that live in my pantry—to read and write. She’s a fast learner and also has a flair for cooking, so we collaborate on shopping lists.
“How are we off for tomatoes?” I ask from the kitchen
“Two cans, missis, and a jar of squashed ones”, Billy calls back from the pantry.
“Spaghetti”?
“None left, except a box of fett you cheeny”
“It’s pronounced oooo, lass, and thanks. All right I think that’s it”
“And a box of Tiny Teddies, ifn ye please, the Kelda asks”
“Special event?”
“Kelda from number twenty coming overmorrow for tea and netflix!”
I need to get two more shirts for the start of school this coming week, and despite the first day being Wednesday, the school uniform shop's opening hours continue to be more or less 'Every third Thursday except on a full moon, when we open between 1 and 3am'
(that's hyperbole, of course, but suffice to say they're not at all convenient opening hours for people who have other obligations)
Im ARD-Film „Sprich mit mir“ geht es um einen Mutter-Tochter-Konflikt, in der Arte-Doku „Riechen — Auf der Fährte des verkannten Sinns“ dreht sich alles um den Geruchssinn und in der zweiten Staffel von „So Help Me Todd“ arbeitet ein unkonventioneller Ermittler in der Kanzlei seiner Mutter.
#RiechenAufDerFährteDesVerkanntenSinns #SoHelpMeTodd #SprichMitMir #Urlaub #Wissenschaft #WasLäuftHeute
detektor.fm/kultur/was-laeuft-…
Was läuft heute? | Sprich mit mir, Riechen - Auf der Fährte des verkannten Sinns, So Help Me Todd – Alte Konflikte mit Meerblick | detektor.fm – Das Podcast-Radio
In "Sprich mit mir" geht es um eine Mutter und eine Tochter, die zusammen in den Urlaub fahren, während alte Konflikte hochkochen.Marie Jainta (detektor.fm)
Good lord!
nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/poli…
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.Andrew Duehren (The New York Times)
Where are all those individuals, agencies and forces now who took an oath "to protect the nation and the constitution against enemies from outside and inside."? 🤨
This coup is like someone just walks casually into a bank and takes all the money without the need of any weapon - and no one resists or even cares.
Watch Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films Free Online: Stalker, The Mirror & Andrei Rublev
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Watch Andrei Tarkovsky's Films Free Online: Stalker, The Mirror & Andrei Rublev
The stench of Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine shouldn't taint everything Russian, especially some of its finest cinema. So we'll give you this heads up:OC (Openculture.com)
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Some unknown Chinese brand.
The drawback for that use case is that you can't keep it on for an extended time, it overheats.
I wonder when the US Congress is going to do something about the "do what you did to Twitter to the Federal government" stuff. Are they still alive in there? What's up? Should we turn Congress off and then on again?
NATO-Chef Rutte fordert von Deutschland höhere Verteidigungsausgaben
Gefahr drohe nicht nur durch Russland: NATO-Generalsekretär Rutte hat Deutschland aufgefordert, mehr für Verteidigung auszugeben. Deutschland habe seit Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs vieles richtig gemacht, müsse aber noch viel mehr tun.
2 February 1882 | A German Jew, Ludwig Friedmann, was born in Mainz. A goldsmith.
He arrived in #Auschwitz on 16 August 1942 in a transport of 911 Jews deported from Drancy. He was probably murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
This plush animal says trans rights.
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Made myself a proper cold morning coffee beverage (yep that’s breve / half and half foam!). Time to enjoy it while I bang out a #Matrix server to host Retro Retreat!
I ran Yunohost for nearly a year. The number of times I had to get a shell open and fix something was too many. Yunohost is basically a set of scripts to configure a Debian machine, so if you don't mind fiddling it's probably fine. Cloudron is containerized and basically handles all the 'glue' for you. I've never had to manually fiddle with anything, although it provides the means to.
Elon Musk
The new defendants added into the legal filing included Lego, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest and Shell International.www.npr.org
Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School's 'Computer Room'? - Slashdot
Bill Gates' blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California.developers.slashdot.org
let be clear, i'm totally against trump and gop.
however, i advice against such demonstrations, and especially with ordinary smartphones or gadgets. trump administration is already out of control, and may track and surveil demonstrators. and penalties might be draconian.
use other methods, like social media and internet.
Pretty wild to watch the best soft power (USAID) just disappear. I wonder if that role will end up being served by the military directly now.
Last spring I was doing some work with USAID folks. Good people doing things in the collective interest.
How about a little good news in this *gestures around*... you can now get ebooks via bookshop.org, including THE AI CON! (Available May 13, but you can pre-order now.)
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w/ @alex
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"It's a free country"
...until it isn't. Musk isn't a member of any advertising corporation's promotional department and has no say on any advertising corporation's promotional strategies of choice.
What?! Since when is it illegal to choose not to advertise through a certain outlet?
Elon Musk's X broadened an existing lawsuit on Saturday to include several major brands — accusing more companies of illegally boycotting the social media platform in 2022 following Musk's acquisition.
npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-52832…
What?! Since when is it illegal to choose not to advertise through a certain outlet?
Elon Musk's X broadened an existing lawsuit on Saturday to include several major brands — accusing more companies of illegally boycotting the social media platform in 2022 following Musk's acquisition.
mögen das
Alex Feldstein mag das.
The danger of the law going after a criminal absolutely is a deterrent. Without it, there would be far more crime.
Dems don’t need to be more like Trump. Trump is not and was never popular. He got fewer votes in ‘16 than Romney did in ‘12, he barely got more votes in ‘24 than he did in ‘20 (when he lost).
If everyone who voted for Biden had voted for Harris, Trump would have lost. If everyone who voted for Obama had voted for Clinton, Trump would have lost.
Trump doesn’t win, he’s never been a popular candidate. The Democrats just lose to unpopular candidates by doing even more unpopular things.
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