#OTD in 1920.
Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill's second full-length play, opens with a Morosco Theatre matinée in New York City, partly as a producer's experiment and partly to quiet the actor Richard Bennett, who sought to play the lead. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill gains fame. It won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Beyond the Horizon at PG:
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Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill
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"You mustn't feel sorry for me. Don't you see I'm happy at last — free — free! — freed from the farm — free to wander on and on — eternally! Look! Isn't it beautiful beyond the hills? I can hear the old voices calling me to come — And this time I'm going! It isn't the end. It's a free beginning — the start of my voyage! I've won to my trip — the right of release — beyond the horizon! Oh, you ought to be glad — glad — for my sake!"
Robert: Act 3, Scene 2
~Eugene O'Neill
I've been avoiding posting on certain topics because as far as the #fediverse goes people are pretty clued up.
Others are just beginning to grasp to the reality. If you are thinking it's a question of weathering 4 rough years, I'll just leave this here:
Mussolini was in power for 21 years.
Hilter for 12.
Franco for 39.
They didn't leave when their welcome wore out, they just made it illegal to talk about them leaving.
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Leah hat dies geteilt.
In Iceland, female guides set sail,
Fishing for salmon, they prevail.
But the wild fish decrease,
Their worries don't cease,
Their love for the river won't fail.
#GuardianLimerick #Iceland #Fishing #Rivers #Fish #Food #Oceans #Women #Film #Europe
theguardian.com/environment/20…
‘Heartbreaking’: Iceland’s pioneering female fishing guides fear for wild salmon
First women working as fishing guides on Laxá River, featured in new film, call for action after farmed fish escapeMiranda Bryant (The Guardian)
In Ukraine, a tragedy took place,
Missiles struck a school with no grace,
Kursk suffered the pain,
Innocent lives, not in vain,
May peace come to that troubled place.
#GuardianLimerick #Ukraine #Russia #Europe
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
Ukraine blames Russia for fatal missile strike on Kursk school
Kremlin claims Ukrainian military attacked site in area occupied by Kyiv since last AugustGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
I've said what I can about "prompt engineering," why the idea is facile nonsense, the complete lack of theoretical and empirical basis, and the organizational impact of promoting on the basis of "prompt engineering" skills.
But there's something else to be said, I think, about the underlying fallacy that makes "prompt engineering" appear to be real: namely, the incorrect assumption that LLMs can be "programmed" at all.
That's precisely what you *can't* do with LLMs, though. Can you use an LLM to simulate a Fredikin gate if you say "fuck" enough, or do you need a "please" or two in there?
What's the construction? What *concrete* steps do you take to get an LLM to do what you want, and how do you know that you're correct?
With billiard balls, you have Newtonian physics. With MtG, you have the comprehensive rules. With LLMs, you've got ?????????.
Even if you had an LLM-based implementation of programmability, will it always work? Will it work for programs up to a certain size? How will you know when it stops working? Will it work for a different seed or at a different temperature?
The programmability fallacy, as I'll coin it, lies to us and tells us not to worry about those problems because we can tell LLMs to multiply small numbers by each other and sometimes get the right answer.
Wenn schon die großen Zeitungen mein Buch ignorieren: die Bewegungen nehmen es wahr.
Hier eine Rezension von Udo Hase im Rabe Ralf, Zeitung der Berliner Umweltbewegung 🙏✊😘
Elon Musk has taken over the database that contains all government employees. And he's locked out all the people who should have oversight over that data. It's anyone's guess what he'll do with it, but I expect that he'll be matching names against voter registrations and purging liberals.
We're in new territory here. It's like a gang has taken over the country. Is there a word for "governance by mafia"?
Lesenswertes Interview.
"Wenn also die Union jetzt einen großen zehn-Punkte-Plan zur psychosozialen Versorgung aufgestellt hätte, dann würde ich sagen: Ja, gut gebrüllt Löwe. Das ist eigentlich die Problematik, die dahintersteht."
Wobei ich mich frage: Warum ist eigentlich keine der anderen Parteien auf die Idee gekommen, mit genau so einen Plan zur psychosozialen Versorgung zu kontern, um den Diskurs wieder rechtzurücken?
br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-…
Polizeiexperte: "Aschaffenburg-Diskussion führt am Thema vorbei"
Nach dem Messerangriff in Aschaffenburg diskutiert die Politik über die innere Sicherheit in Deutschland. Polizeiforscher Hermann Groß hält den Fokus auf die Migration für falsch. Der psychosoziale Aspekt komme zu kurz. Ein BR24-Interview.Anna Feininger (BR24)
Ja, wenn 705 Abgeordnete Ausländer als Problemursache Nr. 1 darstellen und die einzige größere Forderung im Bereich psychologischer "Hilfe" die nach psychological profiling ist, dann kann man mit 28 Abgeordneten leider nicht viel erreichen.
Ich hoffe, mit dem 28.02. werden es zumindest ein paar mehr.
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Heute CDU-Wähler zu #Merz: "Musste dass denn sein?" Merz: "Ja, und wir werden es wieder machen!"
Das war ein O-Ton!!! Vor laufender Kamera!!!(tagesschau 24, glaub ich)
Lieber ÖR
zähl mal, wie viel Menschen Bundesweit für die Verschärfung von Asylgesetzen demonstrieren
und dann zähl mal bitte nach, wie viel Menschen gegen Nazis demonstrieren
Und jetzt richte deine Berichterstattung danach aus
und hör auf, zu behaupten, dass Migration ein irgendwo in den Top 5 der Wahlentscheidenden Themen wäre.
Nazis oder keine Nazis
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"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
James Joyce was born #OTD in 1882.
Together with Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson, he is credited with the development of the stream of consciousness technique in which the same weight is given to both the internal world of the mind and the external world of events and circumstances as factors shaping the actions and views of fictional characters.
James Joyce at PG:
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(In Hamburg waren wir 65.000).
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Auf jeden Fall mehr, als überall in der Presse geschrieben wird.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.Jeremy Faust, MD (Inside Medicine)
#Canada PM Justin #Trudeau in his speech Saturday reached out to Americans & reminded them that these #TrumpTariffs will hurt them economically just as much as Canadians.
The tariffs will “put your #jobs at risk, potentially shutting down American #auto assembly plants & other manufacturing facilities. They will raise #costs for you, including #food at the #grocery stores & gas at the pump.” In emotional references to the nations’ shared history, he adds: “we have fought, & died, beside you.”
#Trudeau says Canadians are “perplexed why our closest friends & neighbors are choosing to target us instead of so many other challenging parts of the world.” He adds: “I don’t think there’s a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning, saying ‘Oh, damn, Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada.’”
Trudeau calls on Canadians to choose Canadian goods, to forgo Florida orange juice, Kentucky bourbon, or holidays in the United States.
Neoliberals: gross inequality is fine, actually.
Fascists: excellent, this is what we believe also.
Neoliberals: wait, not like that!
Yeah. Cosmetics and aesthetics, but fought over with big fanfare and seemingly fiercely by all the political brass until they settle on "rough" with everybody defending the new norm. Disgusting, innit.
Episode 3 - Diversity in Justiz und Anwaltschaft: wirklich alles so schön bunt hier?
Wie bunt sind eigentlich Justiz und Anwaltschaft? An verlässliche Zahlen ist gar nicht so leicht heranzukommen. In Teilen der Justiz gibt es einen auf den ersten Blick sensationellen Frauenanteil. Belegt der letztlich aber vielleicht eher ein Problem als einen Erfolg?
Und auch in Anwaltskanzleien gibt es Berufe, in denen Männer unterrepräsentiert sind: Rechtsanwaltsfachangestellte! Warum ist das so?
Findet sich auf den Richterbänken eigentlich ein Spiegel der deutschen Gesellschaft? Warum gibt es so wenig Zahlen dazu, wie viele Richter*innen mit Migrationshintergrund in der Justiz tätig sind? Sind es wenige Zahlen oder vielleicht einfach wenige Richterinnen und Richter? Oder gibt es sie und die unzureichende Datenlage ist nur dem Grundsatz "Safety first" geschuldet? Würden uns mehr Richterinnen und Richter mit Migrationshintergrund nicht unglaublich bereichern?
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Heute früh, europaweit.
#natenom #gedenkfahrt #stopkillingcyclists #fedibikes #mastobikes #pforzheim
@criticalmaps
#OTD in 1924.
A largely rewritten version of Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett's 1914 farce It Pays to Advertise opens in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve Aldwych farces.
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It Pays to Advertise at PG:
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It pays to advertise : A farcical fact in three acts by Megrue and Hackett
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Command-line tools are fun to build with Swift, but there are also Swift on Server, Embedded Swift, Swift for UI apps on Linux. The language is more and more breaking out of its predominant perception of being "only" Apple's app language. Just yesterday, Swift had its own devroom at #fosdem.
I recommend the blog swift.org/blog/ to learn more about areas of use.
🔥 DELTA CHAT 🔥
The ease of use, the privacy-by-design, identity AND routing agnostic, the realtime peer-to-peer messaging supported by @n0iroh
The Genius ✨ zip-file applications ✨ ecosystem.
Check out the talk by @delta at #fosdem25 for more.
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…
omigosh. You blew my mind yesterday, the development and transformation you have made in the last few years is fantastic.
Presented by:
@hpk @Xeniax@mastodon.ml
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This is so relevant.
🔥 fire by @aral - 5 years ago, but so relevant it feels like it was given yesterday
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#tech #fascism #surveillancecapitalism #capitalism
- YouTube
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I wish it wasn’t relevant. I wish folks had listened earlier. I wish when I tried to raise these issues at the European Parliament*, instead of attempting unsuccessfully to censor my talk before I gave it and then ignoring everything I said afterwards, they would have paid attention and supported our efforts to build alternatives (to this day we’ve received zero euros for the Small Web from the EU.)
* Video: ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of…
The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament
A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.Aral Balkan
Dude, it is pure Kassandra's curse
Now embrace for people who gonna blame *you* that you did not warn enough
Dear American friends,
someone smart and caring saved ALL your government websites data as of End of Term.
For more visibility, I'm just reposting.
Here is the Link to the git repository:
github.com/end-of-term/eot2024
Please share widely across all platforms and if you can, download the data and save it. (~360TB)
Original posting, where I've seen this first:
tilde.zone/@tomasino/113924820…
GitHub - end-of-term/eot2024: End of Term Web Archive 2024
End of Term Web Archive 2024. Contribute to end-of-term/eot2024 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The core problem with the CDC's move to embrace censorship is that it puts the legitimacy of all their publications under erasure.
Any scientific organization that will bow to political pressure for transgender issues, will bow for anything else Trump doesn't like.
Please digest the grave implications of this. It means that you cannot know what is suppressed. It means it is no longer a trustworthy institution.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ (@christineburns@mastodon.green)
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.Mastodon.green
Yep. We'd seen price increases where we are, but still had eggs. But yesterday there simply were none. A friend who runs a restaurant is really struggling.
And of course government reports on bird flue have stopped.
- Ginger (55%, 115 Stimmen)
- Orange (37%, 77 Stimmen)
- Marmalade (3%, 7 Stimmen)
- Red (1%, 4 Stimmen)
- Other: (2%, 5 Stimmen)
Deborah Pickett hat dies geteilt.
Gingré. Because it deserves to sound French.
Edit: not actual French, just adequately French-sounding.
#OTD in 1922.
In a "savage creative storm" of less than three weeks beginning today at Château de Muzot in Switzerland, Rainer Maria Rilke writes his Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus) and completes his Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien).
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Martin Schröder hat dies geteilt.
Latter. Once Domain (codeberg.org/domain/app) is out and folks can set up their Small Web places easily on their own VPS servers using it and Place (codeberg.org/place/app) exists and is being used, I plan on looking into offering a little device you can plug into your home router.
Of course, you can do that yourself today by getting a single-board computer running a Linux distribution that uses system-d, installing Kitten via the one line installation command at kitten.small-web.org, and then running `kitten deploy <Git URL of kitten app you want to serve>` and you’d have your own little Small Web server device (if you’re technically-savvy but everything I’m working on is for everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing and that’s why there’s so much more I have to do to get it to that level).
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