Yomizaru

Looking upward towards old shrine beside newer buildings and a tower, but all the buildings are babies to the ginkgo tree who’s turned the ground into a sea of yellow leaves. Until the shrine keepers come to sweep them up. Like they do every single day without fail. How silly of them.

Fall on the ground.

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

"Würmer" on a German broadside from 1672. The title: Eigentliche Abbildung und Vorstellung derer jenigen Würmer/ welche in Ungarn mit jedermanns Entsetzen häuffig von Himmel gefallen/ und weit und breit das gantze Land überdecket... (VD17 12:656482B).

These #worms fell down from the sky, maybe, in 1672 Europe, and lived for another couple of days. However fantastic the #earlymodern story of the falling "Würmer" is, I do like the alien-freakish styled insects a lot. Zoom in and choose your favorite:

Body

Brain

Mind

Tomorrow is #WorldPhilosophyDay! Why don't you play a game to test your intuitions about personal identity? Here is the Personal Identity Game! sites.google.com/view/the-phi... Are you your mind, your brain or your body? #philsky #philosophymatters #thephilosophygarden #philosophyforeveryone

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part I: The Othismos over Othismos This week (and next) we’re looking at hoplites, the heavy infantry of the ancient Greek poleis in the (early? mid? late?) Archaic and Classical periods, into the Hellenistic. In particular, I…

This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought.

acoup.blog/2025/11/14/c...

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#apod 2025-11-16
Crossing Saturn's Ring Plane
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251116.html

Art by Jean Giraud/Moebius
#ComicArt

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Hieroglyphics The best books to start learning about hieroglyphics, the writing of ancient Egypt, as recommended by historian Diane Greco Josefowicz

“The Egyptians called the hieroglyphs ‘medu netjer’ which means the words of the gods”
fivebooks.com/best-books/h...

A massive anthropomorphized sheet metal press, forcing steel into shape under enormous, wrought hands

A white-hot metal billet being picked up by a hook-billed lift with threatening eyes. The covers for the heat sinks are flat, impassive salamanders with distorted, contented, human faces.

A huge, horse-like bucket with a rolling human eye and scowling mouth offloads sparking hot molten metal into a mold in a long line of other molds, all of which have cartoonish human faces and human feet. They appear afraid and pained in anticipation, and the mold being poured into cries out

Molten metal being poured down a human-shaped funnel’s back into a furnace with a gaping mouth human and staring eyes. The bucket pouring the metal is devised like a smiling man’s head, with hands gripping and twisting its ears to let the molten cargo pour down its nose.

Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.

These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”

#historyofillustration

Cover of “233 Celsius” by Ray Bradbury

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

Tian Wang’s Talisman, ward off disasters and banish evil spirits. From recent purchases,
perfect for Halloween.

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

The Bouman wartime photo album Time for a photo album post!

Just been in touch with Tinus Bouman's widow, friends were calling her about my posts :)
She's okay with me keeping it, if she or another relative wanted it I would have send it to them, as that's where it belongs.
On to the next album in my collection!
substack.com/home/post/p-...

First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

This is a lovely article, showing that the spirit of enquiry and the thirst for new knowledge persist in a world where stupidity is so popular.

www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

TIL about Nushu, a script invented and used by exclusively by Yao women because they were prohibited from learning to write. The last ”native” user of the script recently died, but it’s undergone a revival.

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot... #philsky

H. A. Brendekilde - A wooded path in autumn (1902)

i'm building a web browser for reverse engineers!

* identify calls to common fingerprinting APIs
* decode/decrypt known data collector payloads
* Hook things without leaving a trace
* detect obfuscated scripts & deobfuscate
+ more

I wrote about it!

nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-browser

Sense of sentience artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

Sense of sentience

I've revised my blogpost for people who have discovered AI "people"; hopefully it's better (more clear) this time joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/09/sens... #AIEthics #AGI #genAI

Umberto Eco with many shelves of his collection of books

He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because “Reading is backward immortality”.
-Umberto Eco
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#books

It's here.

BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25

"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi

Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

A few large posters of my 'City' drawing are available in my shop!
24" x 36"

marginalia (marginalia-search.com) is an interesting approach for more obscure topics.

To whom it may concern: There is an open acces Anti-Autocracy Handbook (2025) calling to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism.

Download: zenodo.org/records/1569...

#academia #academicchatter #academicSky

A digital illustration of an Octophant. An African elephant head sporting an additional seven trunks like octopus arms. It is colored mostly in sea green shades with a watery backdrop. Three trunks hold objects of a certain symbolism: an hour glass, a scythe, a skull. The head trunk and one trunk above the head hold flowing orange banners attached to little sticks with lettering which when read together reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Transdisciplinary Philosophy for All A long time ago, in the age before the Internet, my teenage self spent weeks browsing the physical prospectuses of various undergraduate…

I wrote a piece on the value of Transdisciplinary Philosophy, to accompany the announcement of this year's longlist for @triphilosophy.bsky.social's Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.

constantinesandis.medium.com/transdiscipl...

Human Cognitive Diversity Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Human Cognitive Diversity

Cambridge Elements:
Human Cognitive Diversity

Free online from 12th August 2025 - 26th August 2025

How to square the vision of human cognitive diversity with the assumption that we all share one human nature?

#philsky

www.cambridge.org/core/element...