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Winner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval InstituteWinner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval InstituteNotorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy.www.press.jhu.edu
In the first book systematically to give evidence of co…Goodreads
If history remembers Lucrezia Borgia at all, it is as a…Goodreads
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.Ada Palmer
“AI slop” doesn’t cover it. It’s more like “I stepped in a pile of hot AI poop again.” Literally, if you look closer at the illustration.
I was searching for “fire heat radiation.” When a slightly promising article started going over the same basics of conduction, convection, and radiation for the third time, I got suspicious and looked closer at the illustrations. “Hot poop” indeed.
Brought to you by firecarry dot com, “A Trusted Source for Fire Education” 🤡
![Drawing of a pot with steam rising out of it. An incongruously large spoon or ladle hovers over the pot, and two unexplained arrows point horizontally to either side just above the pot. Below the pot is a legend saying “Heat conducion [sic]”, to its left “Drect concact”, and to its right “Hot poop.”](https://social.gl-como.it/photo/preview/640/3596203 "Drawing of a pot with steam rising out of it. An incongruously large spoon or ladle hovers over the pot, and two unexplained arrows point horizontally to either side just above the pot. Below the pot is a legend saying “Heat conducion [sic]”, to its left “Drect concact”, and to its right “Hot poop.”")
Didn’t expect this to be the cause of every problem, huhlabyrinth.zone
১০ মিনিটে মেয়ে পটানোর সহজ উপায় কোনো মেয়েকে পছন্দ করলেন কিন্তু সহজে পটাতে পারছেন না? এমন সমস্যা বেশিরভাগ ছেলেদেরই হয়ে ...News T-20 (Blogger)
Hey! Confy 0.8.0 has been released!
In this release :
Updated screenshots on official home page:
confy.kirgroup.net/
and in your nearest appstream-enabled appstore!
I would like to thank everyone who helped with code, tickets, distro packaging and general moral support :)
If you want to contribute, jump in the dev mailing list at lists.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/confy-de… or open a ticket at todo.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/confy
(and you don't even need to create an account on sourcehut, just send an email to ~fabrixxm/confy-dev (a) lists.sr.ht or ~fabrixxm/confy (a) todo.sr.ht )
Navigate conference schedules, mark favourite talks, get reminded when talks are coming up. Works offline, ready for mobilekirgroup.net
«Claudia de Breij: This cartoon by Ann Telnaes was rejected by the Washington Post, the newspaper purchased by Jeff Bezos.
The creator has resigned because she believes that free press is a prerequisite for democracy. What if we spread this cartoon _en masse_ today?»
mastodon.nl/@SandraDeHaan/1137…
Attached: 1 image Claudia de Breij: Deze cartoon van Ann Telnaes werd geweigerd door de Washington Post, de krant die gekocht is door Jeff Bezos. De maker heeft ontslag genomen omdat ze vindt dat vrije pers een voorwaarde is voor de democratie.Mastodon.nl door Stichting Activityclub
@ArnimRanthoron Um. I think you are misinterpreting the image, both misreading what is shown and also missing important details.
* The "big man" is a depiction of Donald Trump. His obesity is exaggerated.
* The size reflects power and status (of being president elect), and not that it's a statue, I think.
* Trump is depicted with tiny hands.
* Mickey is _genuflecting_ not dead.
* The figures offering moneybags are paying tribute.
* Two of them are recognisably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. The other _may_ be Tim Cook.
* There is another figure not offering tribute, the one with lipstick; it may be J D Vance or Matt Gaetz. (I am not American and don't pay that much attention to its political figures.)
* Mickey is not the only figure in colour; Bezos' jacket is blue.
In che senso è l'account "Ufficiale" di Peertube in Italia?
Quanto è problematico, in ottica di decentralizzazione, che un'istanza si presenti con il nome Peertube e la dicitura "ufficiale", con tanto di logo?
Decentralizzazione significa che non esistono istanze ufficiali. Il resto è accentramento.
Le parole sono importanti e questi atteggiamenti sono un grande ostacolo per la divulgazione del Fediverso.
Mi sembra scorretto anche nei confronti di @Framasoft
Page-per-day calendar generator for Remarkable tablet - osresearch/pdfcalGitHub
Page-per-day calendar generator for Remarkable tablet - osresearch/pdfcalGitHub
Scientists managed to film how a black hole absorbs matter.
#quantum #physics #blackhole #actuallyautistic
"This is literally a DDoS on the entire internet.
"I am so tired."
pod.geraspora.de/posts/1734216…
Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...Geraspora*
Dal Corriere di Bologna.
Di Federica Nannetti.
È successo un po’ di tutto nel 2024 di Roberto Mantovani, taxista conosciuto anche come Red Sox e nel tempo diventato amato e al contempo odiato per la sua battaglia alla trasparenza del settore: la cacciata da Cotabo e la conseguente riorganizzazione del lavoro con non poche ripercussioni economiche, l’imbrattamento della sua auto con simboli razzisti e misogini, poi trasformato in una raccolta fondi per la Casa delle donne per non subire violenza, la pubblicazione di un libro che molti colleghi «vorrebbero cadesse nel dimenticatoio». Eppure lui non ha mai rinunciato e mai rinuncerà ai suoi valori; rifarebbe tutto per filo e per segno. E a metà gennaio presenterà ufficialmente la nuova grafica del taxi, rimesso a nuovo dopo gli atti vandalici, dedicata al centro antiviolenza e al contrasto alla violenza contro le donne.
Roberto Mantovani, come è andata la raccolta fondi?
«Benissimo. Entro il 30 dicembre consegnerò l’assegno alla Casa delle donne. La nuova grafica del taxi, che verrà presentata a metà gennaio, è già tutta pagata e grazie alle donazioni sono avanzati oltre 20 mila euro netti per la Casa. Un evento spiacevole lo si è riusciti a trasformare in un bel gesto: tantissime persone, molte da fuori Bologna o regione, hanno donato, sentendo la Casa delle donne come un patrimonio di Bologna ma anche dell’intero Paese. Forse anche nella speranza di avere centri simili ovunque».
Come sarà la nuova grafica?
«Il messaggio sarà immutato, dunque dedicato alla Casa delle donne e al contrasto alla violenza di genere e ai femminicidi. Ma sarà molto diversa e rinnovata; ha anche visto la partecipazione di un artista, Mauro Biani, che ha donato, gratuitamente, alcuni suoi disegni».
Il 2024 è stato anche l’anno della cacciata da Cotabo.
«Sono rimasto scottato, deluso da molte persone, colleghi, sindacalisti. Quando mi ridono in faccia, ai posteggi, dicendomi di avermi battuto… rimango deluso dalla prepotenza e dalla sfacciataggine».
Ci sono state ripercussioni negative?
«Soprattutto economiche, perché le cifre incassate prima adesso sono impossibili. Ora ho la prova materiale, tecnica, di un guadagno nettamente inferiore, come prima l’avevo di altre cifre. Senza chiamate, vado direttamente in aeroporto, in stazione e in piazza Maggiore, con molti chilometri a vuoto e una perdita di almeno il 40%. In ogni caso sono orgoglioso di quello che sono e di quello che ho fatto. Rifarei tutto: guadagno meno ma sono più contento; e non avrei mai potuto fare finta di nulla».
Molti colleghi l’hanno attaccata per le sue battaglie sul pos e sulla trasparenza, ma quest’anno sono stati sul piede di guerra anche per l’introduzione di nuove licenze da parte del Comune. Cosa ne pensa?
«Hanno continuato a raccontare la “balla” del numero di taxisti sufficiente, quando tutti hanno sempre saputo della necessità di licenze in più. Un atteggiamento egoistico, un mentire alla cittadinanza, che ha diritto a un servizio pubblico. L’ultimo sciopero dei taxisti di Bologna è stato fallimentare».
Quest’anno ha anche pubblicato un libro, edito da Garzanti.
«Una grande soddisfazione, soprattutto per quanto sono riuscito a tirare fuori. Abbiamo però notato come tutti i taxisti d’Italia siano stati zitti sul libro, come se tutte le cooperative avessero emanato un ordine a non parlarne. Mai nessuno, da maggio a ora, ha nominato o citato il libro, che evidentemente si ha la necessità di far dimenticare. Forse c’è paura delle tante verità contenute all’interno, a partire dagli incassi: verità che non possono negare o confutare, perché ci sono le prove. Di conseguenza tutto deve essere dimenticato».
dubito che i taxisti aderiscano ai sindacati di lavoratori dipendenti.
non sono dipendenti, sono piccoli proprietari di licenze, che si associano liberamente in cooperative che non sono altro che moderne corporazioni.
My colleague Julius
by Ploum
ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-en…
<- I haven't met anyone this bad, but it's a parody; even so, my strong feeling is that such people constitute the bulk of management and marketing at tech companies.
@tgent_fens I may be a STEM graduate but I've studied some humanities. The story is as much in the interpretation, as in the writer's intention.
But I've posted @ploum blog posts before. His English is superb but it's not his first language.
I think he did not mean Julius was an AI. I think Julius was meant as a human throughout. I've met and worked with many people like this: working as specialists in a field where they do not in fact know what the thing that they're specialists in *IS*.
The AI comes in at the end and it's called AI.
The intention here, IMHO, is:
1. There are people who are totally incompetent but who look and sound good, and management tends to love that.
(1a: this is partly because management often has zero understanding of what the menial workers actually *do*.)
2. Julii can and do thrive and prosper despite doing nothing useful.
3. Julii succeed by forcing colleagues to do _more_ work.
4. The setup up many organisational hierarchies encourages this. It is common. Some of the workers know, but management does not.
(5. Julii may not even know that they are useless. They may even think that they are doing good work.)
6. A few smart managers may know this but do not know the real cost.
7. "AI" is the new automated Julii. It will thrive & make workers' lives worse.
How to Build an Electrically Heated Table?
solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024…
With once again great illustrations by @marieverdeil
This manual explains how to assemble an electrically heated and insulated table that keeps you toasty warm in a cold space.LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance
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The Kowloon Walled City is known by many as the informal settlement that once existed seemingly out of place within modern Hong Kong. […] It was often considered an anomaly… »
Essay by Matthew Hung with photography by Greg Girard.MAS Context
I have just implemented one of the most cursed thing ever!
An implementation of Conway's Game of Life in a MANUAL PAGE, by abusing the Turing completeness of the roff language.
On most systems (a system that uses groff and man-db), the following command will give you a live demonstration:
$ curl codeberg.org/cve/mott/raw/bran… | man -l -
Support for other roff implementations such as mandoc is planned.
You can find more about it here: codeberg.org/cve/mott
Why Do Animals Adopt?
nautil.us/why-do-animals-adopt…
Taking responsibility for another’s young reveals the deep evolutionary roots of care.
STIPENDI NON PAGATI DA 2 MESI, EDILI OCCUPANO GRU DIETRO DUOMO
Oggi una trentina di operai edili si sono presentati nel cantiere di via Silvio Pellico, dove è in corso una ristrutturazione, per protestare contro il mancato pagamento degli stipendi da due mesi. Quattro di loro hanno occupato una gru mentre gli altri li sostengono da sotto.
Si tratterebbe dell'ennesimo caso di catena di subappalti che farebbe capo, in questo caso, a COIMA, gigante immobiliare e vero "padrone del vapore" di Milano.
La goccia che avrebbe fatto traboccare il vaso sarebbe stata l'intimazione fatta agli operai da parte dell'azienda subappaltatrice di non presentarsi in cantiere oggi.
La pratica dei subappalti ha lo scopo fondamentale di ridurre selvaggiamente il costo del lavoro e deresponsabilizzare i datori di lavoro di tutto ciò che non funziona.
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT a turing-complete programming language for writing programs in the style of clickbait news headlines
Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.tabloid.vercel.app
This is wild.
❝In 2008, a Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.
In the mid-to-late decade of the 2000s, subcultures in Mexico were often referred to negatively as “urban tribes,” and many were united by considering emos, the newest tribe, as their enemy. The emo subculture that reached its peak in this decade differed from the “original” emo movement of the 1980s and many of its characteristics were seen as having been plagiarized from early subcultures. Glam rock pioneered the androgyny, the dark and frizzled hair owes a lot to new wave and goth, while their music was similar to the pop-punk of the turn of the millennium.
Hatred against emos was widespread in many countries, mainly by other “tribes” such as goths and punks, but in Mexico and its capital city, the animosity was particularly commonplace and strong. The aforementioned androgyny might have been crucial in the reaction towards this group of people, as homophobic slurs and attitudes were often incorporated into anti-emo sentiments. Two years before the “war” in 2008, another well-publicized altercation occurred in the Metro Insurgentes roundabout between emos and punks, which led to police intervention.
The Metro Insurgentes roundabout is one of the main transport hubs near the City’s Zona Rosa (Pink Zone). For decades, it has been a crucial meeting point for countercultural and LGTBQ+ movements. While generally peaceful and tolerant, on March 15, 2008, a large gathering of people belonging to the emo subculture found themselves attacked by a group incorporating members of the city’s punk, neo-rockabilly, and goth tribes (locally known as “darketos”).
The conflict was estimated to have lasted up to five hours, on and off, but its definitive end came about in appropriately absurd fashion. While there was police intervention to prevent any major injuries, the actual end of the confrontation came about when a group of Hare Krishna followers entered the roundabout, inviting both factions to join in with the chanting and dancing. Even if they did not manage to fully incorporate the crowd, their presence did help in calming and dispersing most of the people involved.❞
atlasobscura.com/places/emo-wa…
In 2008, this Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.ugc (Atlas Obscura)
Spotted in Belmore
(Credit - Cyanide and Happiness, explosm.net/comics/rob-gamesat… h/t @futuresprog)
![Stop playing video games at work!
Gimme a sec, I just have to fight this boss…
[ strikes boss ]
Alright I’m back
https://explosm.net/comics/rob-gamesatwork](https://social.gl-como.it/photo/preview/640/3478788 "Stop playing video games at work!
Gimme a sec, I just have to fight this boss…
[ strikes boss ]
Alright I’m back
https://explosm.net/comics/rob-gamesatwork")
LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document.
Write semantic HTML, add <link rel="stylesheet" href="latex.vercel.app/style.css"> to the <head> of your project and you are good to go.
A minimal, almost class-less CSS library to write modern websites that look like LaTeX documents.latex.vercel.app
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
There's a trick I pull on my #ADHD brain that works every time.
Whenever there's a task I don't really want to do, I tell myself "okay, we just have to START the task, and then we can stop after <small timespan>" And then, without fail, I end up completing the task, or at least making serious headway on it.
This is because I have a huge problem with task-switching. Once I am ON task, I find it difficult to stop, but I have to get there in the first place.
I hope this never stops working.
I'm not ADHD, but I use a similar trick: I sometimes find it really difficult to do some tasks, but I can often get around them by identifying the smallest step to move that task forward, however little. Like, to pay a bill, my first small step might be to find the envelop that contains the bill. Not open the envelope, not even put it on my desk, just checking that the envelope still exists.
Or find a pen with which I can write "paid" on the bill, once I've paid it.
