Do you think that when "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat" first came out, there were a lot of breathless newspaper editorials about how you can't trust your eyes anymore, and guides on how to tell if you're actually about to be hit by a train?
We're logging off now after a wonderful #FediForum.
We might need a few days to recover but what an amazing three days!
We look forward to telling you more about it next week.
Reza Aslan wrote a children's book about Israel-Palestine, and he is talking about it now at Boulder's Jaipur Literature Festival.
He is betting that kids will be more willing to understand apartheid and colonialism than grownups.
Some narrow technical information that might help someone. If you're using RStudio on Ubuntu to run Python code (which works well and is how I usually run Python) you're likely to get an error message with the question
Would you like to create a default python environment for the reticulate package?
That's because Ubuntu uses python3 and RStudio looks for python. Installing the python-is-python3 package is the solution.
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Pope Francis says that both US presidential candidates are "against life" and that in voting, one must choose the "lesser of two evils."
My response, quite simply: the top leaders of the Catholic church have done serious damage not only to their church (and the world at large), but to themselves as well in refusing to ordain women and give women institutional governance power.
#PopeFrancis #KamalaHarris #Trump
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14 September 1906 | A Czech Jewish woman, Vilma Feiglová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 May 1944. She did not survive.
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Mary Peltola won the first congressional race held with ranked-choice voting in Alaska, and she became the state’s first Native member of Congress.
Native leaders are now working to protect that election system. boltsmag.org/alaska-ranked-cho…
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(En passant, ils sont aussi très calés Jeux et Mangas)
Et quel hasard incroyable (j'y suis passé exprès en fait)
Il y avait "Les envahichieurs" de @unpied avec un cadeau
C'est important de recevoir un cadeau quand on se fait un cadeau, non ?
#MastoLivre #Humour
Food adventures continue!
Benin is represented by fufu with beef and red sauce. I quite enjoyed this - the fufu reminds me of mashed parsnip. Deviated from the traditional communal presentation and plated individual servings. Got to use this year's tomato sauce!
Up next: Bhutan!
#Food #AroundTheWorld #Benin #BenineseCuisine #Fufu #RedSauce
Taking an interest in local affairs. The Moon.
Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, F8, 1/30s, ISO 100. Auto-focus subject tracking, tripod, 10s delay, manual exposure, daylight whitebalance, cropped.
#Photography #Moon
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In Memphis, Elon Musk’s xAI is skirting environmental rules and has at least 18 generators burning methane gas next to Black communities without a permit.
It will eventually use 150MW of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes — mainly to power the Grok chatbot.
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Spent the past few days on a family backpacking trip at the Olympic NP on the 7 Lake Basin/High Divide Loop. We camped at Heart Lake on the 1st night and Deer Lake on the 2nd night, saw 3 bears across the valley, and ate lots of blueberries and huckleberries (explaining the bears). The views on this loop are just amazing. The camp at Heart Lake was brilliant as the sun hit early in the morning allowing us to dry everything off before continuing.
Good evening Squirrel Fans.
It has been the kind of day when this method of telling the time might seem perfectly sensible in comparison!
“I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
Where ever you are in your day I hope you’re enjoying it! 😊🫶🐿️🖖
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Todays diary entry is here: beige.party/@Tim_McTuffty/1131…
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Troubadors singing, "Ye cafe of Anne of Clevef: do manipulated oil portraitf undermine our fenfe of reality? Expertf difagree"
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •People in media talk about AI-manipulated videos and images in the same flabbergasted way that the characters in "The Invention of Lying" react to learning that someone can say something untrue aloud.
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