Lawson’s, a convenience store in Japan, has begun selling Nomu mayo, a drinkable mayonnaise, forgetting the important adage: all mayo is drinkable if you believe in yourself. (When I first read this headline, I nearly choked on my mug of ranch dressing...)
kottke.org/24/12/now-serving-d… #Mayonnaise #Japan
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The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here.
US Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.
archive.ph/NxMsk #healthcare #healthinsurance #profit #TheNewYorker
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A 30 hr/week 8 month fellowship opportunity for applicants interested in museum evaluation at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore | The Carol Bates Fellowship.
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Why Data Privacy Matters in the Age of AI?
As AI continues to evolve, data privacy has become a crucial topic. The way personal data is collected, used, and protected is something that every individual, company, and government should take seriously
medium.com/@siddharthsinhratho… #data #dataprivacy #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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Have you made sure your default posting visibility is correct?
This is the visibility setting that all your new posts have, unless you manually change that post's setting when writing it.
Some people set default to be "followers only" and forget about it, then are surprised no one can see their posts except followers. It can also go the other way, people being surprised their posts are public.
Here's how to check and set your default post visibility:
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"But what doesn’t work is ”blocked domains” setting."
Why is it, when I <ctrl-f> Search that page, I find neither "block" "blocked" or "domain"?
Curious...
cc @FediTips
Blocking is a separate issue from visibility settings, that's why it's not on that page.
Visibility settings determine who can see a post by default (public, followers-only or specific people?).
Blocking is about who can see your public posts and interact with them, and who can follow you. This is more complicated and has its own guides:
Blocking people
fedi.tips/blocking-and-muting-…
Blocking servers
fedi.tips/blocking-and-muting-…
EDIT: I've updated the guide to link to these.
Samarran Ceramic Plate (5000 BC); from Samarra, Mesopotamia - modern-day Iraq.
Here women stand in quadrants, their hair whirling in four winds, circled by a ring of scorpions.
Samarra, a neolithic town created a long line of splendid painted ceramics and female figurines. The Samarran Period (6500-6000 BC) is known for its finely made pottery decorated with animals, birds, and geometric designs.
British Museum
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A ruins of street at the ancient city of Mohenjodaro (Mound of the Dead), an archaeological (Indus Valley Civilization) site, flourished around 2600-1900 BC, now in Pakistan.
Mohenjo-daro has a planned layout with rectilinear buildings arranged on a grid plan. Most were built of fired and mortared brick; some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures. The covered area of Mohenjo-daro is estimated at 300 hectares.
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The world’s first animated vase was found at Burnt City-Iran.
Shahr-e Sukhteh or Burnt City is a UNESCO World Heritage site dating back to pre-Iranic times. It was quite advanced for its era featuring a plumbing system.
National Museum, Tehran
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Picture stone from 400-600 AD found at Rikvide burial field on the island of Gotland, Sweden. Known as the Snake-Witch stone of Gotland, it actually reminds of the Birth-giving Goddess in her form of Mistress of Animals.
Gotland Museum in Visby, Sweden
A 1st-2nd Century AD; Roman Vase with Phallic Symbols; found from Camulodunum (Roman Colchester), England.
Phallic symbols are found on a wide range of Roman objects, from amulets to frescoes to mosaics to lamps. While for us erect phallus always evokes associations with sex, but in ancient Rome the range of its meanings was much broader. Phallus symbols intended to bring good luck and ward off evil spirits.
(Colchester Castle Museum)
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Jean Bugatti standing next to his 1932 Type 41 (Bugatti) Royale 'Esders' Roadster, one of seven built (1927-1933).
(Photo Colorized by Wayne Degan)
Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a German then French manufacturer of high-performance automobiles. Company was founded in 1909 in then-German city of Molsheim, Alsace, by Italian-born industrial designer Ettore Bugatti. Cars were known for their design beauty and numerous race victories.
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