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Now open at Tate Modern! Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before The Internet. 🤖 💽

Discover how artists imagined the future using machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s, in one of #TateModern ’s most ambitious exhibitions to date.

#ElectricDreams: Art and Technology Before The Internet is open at Tate Modern until 1 June 2025. Members go free. bit.ly/419gJHw

In partnership with @gucci
Supported by Anthropic

#TateModern #ElectricDreams @gucci

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Here’s a #TBT photo from 1969!

On this Thanksgiving, the parade passed the American Museum of Natural History’s turret with a special float: a sauropod dinosaur. This inflatable Apatosaurus measured ~60 ft (18.3 m) long! The giant green dinosaur also featured big eyes, a wide grin, & a 20-ft (6-m) tail.

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@AMNH #museums #Thanksgiving #dinosaurs

#tbt #dinosaurs #thanksgiving #Museums

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Anyone else waiting for Thanksgiving dinner?

Meet Linda, the daughter of photographer Richard C. Miller and his favorite subject to photograph. He specialized in celebrity portraits and advertising, and was particularly skilled with color photographic processes.

@GettyMuseum #Thanksgiving #photography

#Photography #thanksgiving

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The golden Herakles knot on this armband is enriched with floral decoration and inlaid with garnets, emeralds, and enamel (3rd–2nd Century BC), #Greece.

According to the Roman writer Pliny, the decorative device of the Herakles knot could cure wounds, and its popularity in Hellenistic jewellery suggests that it was thought it could avert evil as well.

NAM, Athens

#archaeohistories

#Greece #archaeohistories

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Before mastering French cuisine, Julia Child mastered espionage! As an OSS agent in WWII, she handled top-secret intel.

Her turkey tip: "I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the bird likes it!" 🦃🔍 #Thanksgiving #History

@IntlSpyMuseum

#history #thanksgiving

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A rare and wonderful survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of plain-woven, undyed silk, c. AD 900. An exotic material in 10th-century Britain, the silk was imported to York from Persia via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Yorkshire Museum 📷 @AlisonFisk

#Archaeology #York #Vikings #clothing #silk

#archaeology #clothing #vikings #york #silk

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Most people do NOT need multiple accounts to use the Fediverse. The servers talk to each other, so even if an account is on a different server you will be able to interact with it seamlessly. (For example you are able to read this post even though I'm on a different server to you!)

However, there are certain niche situations where multiple accounts can be useful. More info in this guide at:

➡️ fedi.tips/using-multiple-accou…

If you do use multiple accounts, have them on different servers!

#FediTips

#feditips
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You can only use your account to log in on your own instance. You can't use it to log in on any other instance.

But you can interact with accounts on other instances (including PeerTube instances) from your own instance. For example if you click on the PeerTube account @thelinuxexperiment it should show up on your server like any other profile. Its videos show up like posts.

You only need to log in on a PeerTube instance if you want to upload a video.

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@Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. With a mastodon account you can already open new threads on Lemmy: informapirata.it/2024/01/02/ma…

In fact, Lemmy communities are nothing more than Activitypub groups, just like Friendica groups and gup.pe groups.

Unfortunately, mastodon does not help manage an adequate display of Activitypub groups, but there are apps like RaccoonForFriendica that allow you to display groups correctly, displaying only the topics, even if you use it with a Mastodon account.

informapirata.it/2024/10/18/ra…

As for PeerTube, the story is a little different, because Peertube channels are actually Activity pub groups, but at the moment you can publish videos on those channels only if you are the owner of the channel and therefore only if you are a PeerTube user. But if the developers decided to do it, you could publish on a Peertube channel, simply by sending a video from a Mastodon account. If they haven't done it, it's only because it would be something quite useless...😁

@The Linux Experiment @Fedi.Tips

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The Sidewalk Fruit Vendor Who Sold a $6.2 Million Banana for 25 Cents.

A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction.

And when he was told the sale price, he began to cry.

“I am a poor man,” Mr. Alam, 74, said, his voice breaking. “I have never had this kind of money; I have never seen this kind of money.”

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This is your final final call to get your submissions in for 2025 AGM! Deadline is November 30! More details


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#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

#Books #amWriting #amreading #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #janeausten #bookstodon #Regency #Georgian @bookstodon group @Romancelandia group

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There are special kinds of accounts on the Fediverse called groups, which work like superpowered hashtags:

1. People follow groups they're interested in
2. People post to a group by mentioning it in their post
3. When a group is mentioned, it boosts the post to all its followers

It's similar to following hashtags but a lot more powerful, because a group actively pushes all its posts to every server that has at least one group follower. More info at:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on…

#FediTips

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What chaffs my crisps is that the author refers to Austen's period as 17th C. No, no, no, she's late 18th, early 19th C! She's Regency! She's Georgian! This is easy to verify, why are journalists so lazy?

cornellsun.com/2024/11/14/jane…

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

#Books #amWriting #amreading #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #janeausten #bookstodon #Regency #Georgian @bookstodon group @Romancelandia group
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Always nice to read logics explaining Jane Austen. As member of Dutch Jane Austen,till it vanished , I dare say things went a bit further than that. JA'S caleidoscopic view , describing a person in a few words only, sharp as a razorblade, but never damaging . Composing sentences with multiple parts, the first starting , two for the content, the last for the final clue. Written by and for female ? They are still the best, whatever gender.

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🔋 At COP29, six countries pledged to 6x their energy storage by 2030, while in the U.S., battery capacity has grown to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in just four years.

😡 COP29 has at least 1,770 fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance, 123 with badges from the host country.

💡 Where you bank matters. $1000 in a fossil-fuel-investing bank can have the same carbon impact as a cross-country flight—every year.

Read more: talkingclimate.ca/p/put-your-m…

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Climeworks carbon capture and removal

From Badvertising: Polluting our minds and fueling climate chaos:

The only provably legitimate offset [for carbon emissions from a flight] would be an engineered solution that removed a measurable amount of carbon directly from the atmosphere on roughly the same timeframe as the plane exhaust put it there, and indeed this option is now available for purchase from a company called Climeworks - at a price of around $1,000 per ton. This is approximately 100 times the price of an equivalent offset from a low-cost carrier like Ryanair; readers can no doubt draw their own conclusions.

Climeworks “is the first direct air capture company worldwide to achieve certification of its carbon dioxide removal activities…”.

From what I’ve read, it is the real deal. It's not just for businesses, but for individuals too. Use them to do your own offsetting.

High-quality carbon removal company

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Chase the Sun


#chasethesuncycle
I've registered for Chase the Sun! Find out about it here:

Take on the WWW.CHASETHESUN.ORG Sunrise-to-Sunset challenge in 2025


Chase the Sun | Cycle 205 miles in a day, sunrise to sunset

Cycle 200+ miles on the longest Saturday of the year, Coast to Coast, East to West, Chase The Sun. Now departing at sunrise's across England, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.
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