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He also pointed out that the Israeli athlete’s presence violates the IOC’s own terms as that man has both supported the genocide in Gaza and actively taken part in the Israeli army’s operations.

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing How the concept of self-evidencing offers a philosophical principle for understanding mind and behavior, consciousness, value, wisdom, and meaning.What is

Here is the direct link to the Open Access book. The "book pdf" downloads the whole book, or there are links for individual chapters too.
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...

Generations of Britons have been raised under the false impression that the 'old money' was fiendishly complicated, but even the briefest perusal of the facts knocks that debate into touch The pre-decimalised currency was based on the 'Troy System' wherein a pennyweight of silver was equivalent to one old penny. A pound thus weighed 240 pennyweight and was equivalent to 'one pound', with two farthings being a ha'penny. With twenty four ha'pennies in a shilling and twenty shillings in a pound that meant that two shillings and six pence were equivalent to one half crown, the crown itself being worth (of course) five shillings of which there were four in a single pound. If anyone has ever come up with a simpler way of devising a currency I would be very glad to see it.

Am reminded of this bit of satire (which I cowrote) 15 or so years ago.

This is so good. Algorithms are killing serendipity and curiosity for generations of people. They see what they see and they know what they know and they may not know that there is a whole lot more to know and discover.

Cover of "Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age" by Ada Palmer, which is bright orange with white text, and has a greyscale image of the statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head aloft, his sword passing through the letters of the word "the"

So lemme tell you about @adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance, which came out last year and absolutely blew me away.

I'd replace half the 1st-year curriculum with this book.

Reading it made me a better historian, and also the kind of person who underlines books.

Plus, it's hilarious.

Not enough people know that in order to be considered for an Eisner Award... you have to SEND YOUR SHIT IN!!!!

The ONLY works considered are those that are submitted. And ANYONE can submit.

Maar vertel nog eens dat vrouwen hun toon moeten matigen en gil voor de honderdste keer #notallmen.

If the "I don't like politics" people in your life aren't horrified by surveillance pricing, they are part of the problem.

This is reason number eleventy-million why tech and business need to be regulated by public-minded, independent bodies with big teeth (when pigs fly, I know).

Hips🥂

It's the yearly carnival here in my town. Something I abhor but I have to endure. The son just came home drunk and I matched his energy 😉. My head is spinning now but it will pass. No need to worry, groceries are done for tomorrow 😁

Come and see a true ally

An afternoon with Malka Older, Karen Lord, and Annalee Newitz: We Will Rise Again Please join us in ABC Amsterdam for an afternoon with 3 of science fiction's most insightful voices: Malka Older, Karen Lord, and Annalee Newitz. They will present We Will Rise Again : Speculative Sto...

AMSTERDAM! & the Randstad, & the whole Netherlands, & the entire Benelux area! Join ALL 3 EDITORS of the speculative activism anthology WE WILL RISE AGAIN (@drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & me) at the ABC on April 10 for discussion, Q&A, and signing!

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Also, by reducing professorship to just the teaching, that makes it much easier to replace with contingent labor. After which it's that much easier to tell them what to teach.

Does this make sense?

Cancer Alley - courtesy of industrial pollution. "Seven times as many people are expected to be diagnosed with cancer than the national average in these disproportionately Black communities."

Inb4 de NOS breed uit gaat pakken met de volgende Albanese hitpiece

'Dutch Girl.' (1899) Marianne Stokes' place amongst important women artists is not confined to those who were followers of Pre-Raphaelitism, she was a pre-eminent painter in tempera and did much to revive its popularity in the late 19thC and the early years of the 20thC.

Black cat with oversized round eyes sits on soft green ground against a purple-to-pink gradient sky. The text above reads: “I wish you a calm week ahead. But if it gets loud, because sometimes it does, remember you’ve found your way back to your own peace before. And you can do it again!”

Misschien nemen die “not all men” roepers het wel aan van een man? 🧐

Spot on uitleg.

Zit naar even met het discomfort dat vrouwen het meer dan zat zijn. En doe je eigen huiswerk.

Degenerate Art Andrea Pitzer on politics and history, the Arctic, and Appalachian exile.

I currently have a newsletter in which I write regularly about how societies devolve into authoritarianism & what that means right now in the US & around the world. It also features essays about my unsettled childhood in West Virginia. Soon, it will also include art, surprises, & links to resources.

Suffragette leader Christabel Pankhurst. c.1910, photo by Scottish photographer Christina Broom (1862-1939), UK's first female press photographer, who documented the women's suffrage movement.

It wasn’t imagination, it wasn’t over selling there were absolutely white supremacists, in intellectual positions targeting scholars of color and let it happen , but only now think it’s disgusting

NOT BECAUSE OF THE EFFECTS it had on people of color

But because it was a “plot”

Coooool. SWIR = short wave infrared (colored red-orange here), with wavelengths of a micron or longer where hot lava glows brightly.

We need technology that actually connects us, rather than disconnects or divides us.

This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. I worry we are just going to make this trend even more extreme with AI "friends".

Uncharacteristically as in: not a common thing, as opposed to not usually drunk.

Uncharacteristically drunk on 3 glasses of wine.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.