Maximilian Schich

Cardi B alluding to Diana Ross:
"If there is a cure for this, I don't want it!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9-7...

Authoritarianism is no cure for Freedom! 🎉

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

"My America In his latest book, chef Kwame Onwuachi explores the foods, flavors, and family traditions that compose his experience of what it means to be an American. By Kwame Onwuachi Chef Kwame Onwuachi Kwame Onwuachi Kwame Onwuachi is the chef of Tatiana in New York City and competed on Top Chef season 13. In 2019, he was a Food & Wine Best New Chef, the James Beard Foundation's Rising Star Chef of the Year, and Esquire's Chef of the Year. Kwame's the author of Notes from a Young Black Chef and My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef. Food & Wine's Editorial Guidelines and Joshua David Stein Published on May 17, 2022 Show me an America made of apple pie and hot dogs, baseball and Chevrolet, and I won't recognize it. My America is a country of countless flavors and endless adaptation. The Bronx, where I grew up, contains multitudes: the Jamaicans of Gun Hill Road, where my father, himself half Jamaican and half Nigerian, lives; the West Indians from Wakefield; the Puerto Ricans and Dominicans of the south side, where I lived with my mother and sister; and countless more. With language, music, fashion, and, most importantly, food, they proudly proclaim that though they belong there, they are from elsewhere." Source: https://www.foodandwine.com/chefs/kwame-onwuachi-my-america

Had a really good dinner, but then I found Kwame Onwuachi's "My America" in my bookshelf – and now, I can't sleep as it all sounds so delicious (even the simple stuff, such as Garlic Aioli with GGP aka Ginger-Garlic Purée).

Also, just read the foreword! 😍

cf. www.foodandwine.com/chefs/kwame-...

bsky.app/profile/your...

In 2015 the "height of insensitivity" was Marco Rubio attending a fundraiser in the home of "Hitler collector Harlan Crow" (cf. news.artnet.com/art-world/hi...). Now Rubio insists in public the "Trump's Ukraine peace plan" is US-authored, while telling US Senators it is a Russian wish list.

There’s nothing sadder to me on these treasure hunting trips than running into an incredible piece of print history—like this Intertype machine, that seemed pristine beneath its coat of dust—that will probably end up scrapped because pretty much no one can house or maintain it—we certainly can’t

#Munich 2004

"Loathing, unadulturated loathing..."

cf. www.youtube.com/watch?v=amgP...

Hey, Rupert Riedl would be 100! 🎉

Beyond #Biology, Riedl was one of the 1st to include #ArtHistory ("cultural science in a strict sense") as part of #ComplexityScience. "Riedls Kulturgeschichte der Evolutionstheorie" is as funny as a Werner Herzog movie (until you realise he's serious and spot on).

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”

Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."

In Texas 2013, a young "Christian" neighbour told us she regrets the other 5 books she read, other than the bible, a day after our moving container arrived with 165 boxes of books. So just in case, I put a book by Jane Goodall on the chimney.

Between Saint Mary and Jane Goodall, I'd follow Jane.

#SmallWorld

der "rechten Mitte".

Klima: Politik hat "richtig viel nachzuholen" Anlässlich der COP30 fordert Astrophysiker Harald Lesch eine entschiedenere Klimapolitik. Es werde oft so getan, als ob Ökonomie und Ökologie im Widerspruch zueinander stünden.

Verstehen Sie deutsch?

Dann sollten Sie sich 7 Minuten Zeit nehmen um dieses Video sehen:
www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...

Ach ja, und bei nächster Gelegenheit wählen Sie bitte doofe Karrieristen der "rechte Mitte" und die blöde Nazi-Tante einfach ab. Dann können wir auch die Wirtschaft retten! 🌍🎉

Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

1917, not 1905.

"Albrecht Dürer's face transforms (1528) were among Thompson's inspirations" Source: Wikipedia

"Thompson illustrated the transformation of Argyropelecus olfersi into Sternoptyx diaphana by applying a shear mapping." Source: Wikipedia

"some reason" probably
Dürer's "Four Books on Human Proportion" (1532/34):
www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/... &
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's "On Growth of Form" (1905):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Grow...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social

feat. #CompSocSci Prof. Dr. #LauraNelson:

"We’re Talking About the Wrong Error:
Why Variance Matters More than Bias in AI"

16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2)
i.e. 15 minutes from this post.

Details & zoom:
cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

@derstandard.at
aka "the New York Times of #Austria 🇦🇹"
dumps 🦜🤖🚀 Twitter for 🦋 Bluesky 🎉

A pair of Season Eqpt Kin_skis on 5mm of snow on Saturday, November 15, 2025 on a Balcony in Tallinn, before the sun burned away the snow again.

First contact. Can't wait. ❄️🎿

Nazigold :)

Meanwhile, I think,
there is just one required "reading"
on #visualization:

"A Brief Presentation of Graphics." by Jacques #Bertin in "Semiology of Graphics" (ESRI Press, 2010), pp. 418-434.

A mere 14 cartoon-style pages summarizing a lifetime of work.

Stare & Draw, don't just read & write! 👀 🌈

Meanwhile, I think,
there is just one required "reading"
on #visualization:

"A Brief Presentation of Graphics." by Jacques #Bertin in "Semiology of Graphics" (ESRI Press, 2010), pp. 418-434.

A mere 14 cartoon-style pages summarizing a lifetime of work.

Stare & Draw, don't just read & write! 👀 🌈

It is amazing:
There is now a whole zoology, not just of plots, but of plot #visualization zoologies:
python-graph-gallery.com
& r-graph-gallery.com
both follow www.data-to-viz.com
but provide code.

Other great ones are
vega.github.io/vega-lite/ex...
observablehq.com/@observableh...
+ many more!

Es herbstelt ...

Join us today❗⏰ Wednesday
@cudanlab.bsky.social

feat.
Christian Bentz
PI of www.erc-evine.de
at Saarland University, Germany

on Statistical properties of a 40,000 year old sign system

16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2)
i.e. 60 minutes from this post.

Details & zoom:
cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

Just ate a three-lobed peanut, as in three-part kernel, not triple peanut in a pod. It was the first time in my life. Unfortunately I just ate it without taking a picture. At this rate I will be 102 before I can provide evidence.