Jason Spyromilio Ιάσων Σπυρομίλιος

What’s 6x7 ?

Khalidi Library, from the opening c. 1900. From right: Hajj Raghib al-Khalidi, Sheikh Taher al-Jaza’ireh (from Damascus), Sheikh Musa Shafiq al-Khalidi, Sheikh Khalil al-Khalidi, Sheikh Muhammad al-Habbal (from Beirut) Costumes and characters, etc. Mohammedan sheikhs and effendies in front of Bibboth Khaldieh, Jerusalem https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/matpc.06804/

The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

Ryan Byrnes on the Khalidi Family’s Battle to Protect Their Library From Ultra-Orthodox Settlers

lithub.com/the-race-to-...

#books #libraries

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

🛰 Un à deux Starlink rentrent dans l'atmosphère chaque jour 😮 Il y a 5 ans, on était plutôt à un satellite par semaine ! Et on connaît encore très mal l'impact sur l'atmosphère de ces rentrées, mais les premières études sont pas jolies... Il est urgent de réguler 📢

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

People in glass houses …

🔭

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

424.09 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 06-Oct-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

What’s the other half? 😀

Between research and development: IBM and Josephson computing For years the dream of turning the semiconductor industry into a superconductor industry has been only that. In the 1970s IBM—with help from the National Securi

Physics Today also published a half-decent article on the history of Josephson junctions & superconducting computing in 2016:

doi.org/10.1063/PT.3...

Statue of Athena circa 200 AD, a Roman copy of an older Greek original, in the Boboli gardens near the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy.

My university has something called the "raft debate" where professors defend their disciplines. I've been chosen to represent the humanities and they asked me to make a promo video. You know what I had to do.

At an annual average salary of 600K I’m all in. Maybe I can do the admin at 10M per year.

What a load of 🐊

Explain yourself, ladies

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

SO IF YOU SEE A COUNTRY WIHOUT EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS Or ONE WHERE THEY ARE NOT CREATING TOUCH, POINTED SATTRE AGAINST POLITICIANS and POLICIES, BE AWARE. A SILENCED CARTOONIST IS AN INDICATOR OF AN UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR FREEDOM Of EXPRESSION EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS are DEMOCRACY'S CANARY ina COAL MINE ANTENAES

@anntelnaes.bsky.social is right:

“A SILENCED CARTOONIST IS AN INDICATOR OF AN UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR FREEDOM Of EXPRESSION.

EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS are DEMOCRACY'S (dies in darkness WaPo) CANARY in a COAL MINE.

From the headline it is hard to tell whether this is in Tunisia or in some other country … take your pick

Paranal observatory. Sometimes ESO but almost never the full name.

The BBC has an aversion to the word European

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

We are in for an era on campuses where if conservative activists don’t get their way, they’ll run crying to Twitter in the hopes of getting politicians to force schools to accommodate them. It’s not about free speech, it’s about the ability to exert their will over others.

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

Jane Goodall on Donald Trump: “I see the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he’s competing for dominance with another

Jane Goodall crouched down and reaching out as a baby chimp reached out to touch her

I hope people spend days and days talking about her (she is 10,000,000 times more important than Charlie Kirk) and the amazing work she did.

This photo will always be so powerful and as defining of who we all can be.

Be like Jane Goodall.

Photographer: Hugo van Lawick

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

🔭

To get rid of him? It would indeed be good if #Musk sat on Enceladus and left us in peace.