Yeah, as with American Football, you have to be born into FIFA-type football.
The USA team didn't aw-c'mon the referees, that was Trump. The TL;DR, by reaching out to FIFA, Trump has turned an already-ugly foul and an entirely warranted Red Card, into something worse.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder.
#USpol
Beware of fire-breathing bears.
#MythologyMonday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Bear-like_Forest_Creature
@skinnylatte It’s doubly infuriating because it’s been proven over and over that the cheapest AND most effective way to deal with homelessness is to… wait for it…
Give them homes.
I knew color printers uniquely identified themselves on every printed page, but I did not know that Windows apparently transmitted something equivalent across network connections in their telemetry.
So, that's something to know I guess.
:neocat_up_paws:
The asymmetry is the tell. Baez would never accept "I don't need to understand the mechanism to know it's bad" in any other domain. If someone dismissed category theory as obscurantist priestcraft without being able to state what a functor is, he'd correctly identify that as anti-intellectualism wearing skepticism's clothes. But the demon metaphor does exactly that move: it substitutes a moral aesthetic for a mechanistic account.
The demon isn't a model of anything. It's a vibe with a pedigree. Faust, Goethe, the golem, the monkey's paw. It imports a whole moral conclusion (hubris, bargain, inevitable price) without doing any of the work of establishing that the analogy holds.
"And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,
And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light,
-TSE
#FotoVorschlag
Museale / Museum highlights
Last year there was a terrific exhibition about the large scale outdoor art exhibit called The Gates. In February 2005, the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude lined 25 miles of pathway through Central Park with large orange steel gates that had orange fabric hanging from them. It is still my favorite outdoor art piece ever. This photo is an example of how the gates were put up and the actual size. It was all done by volunteers #nyc #AltText
Interesting to be cataloging minicomics from a decade or more ago, only to discover that the creator has gone on to make a living doing professional comics and graphic novels. It makes it impossible for me to find info about their old minicomics, but I'm really happy they were able to make a career out it. So many of the other creators just disappear into corporate graphic design or something, it's really heartening to see when someone beats the odds. Even moreso when their minis were all about how awful things are!
Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge
#environment #climatechange #technology #corporations #DataCenters #pollution
Hiking over Acadia Mountain, Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, Maine from April 1981. View of Somes Sound, the eastern half of the island and adjacent mainland.
#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #nature #Maine #ocean #mountains #seacoast #spring #springtime
C'est le malheur ou bien la chance
It's bad luck or luck
Ça n′a plus d′importance
It doesn't matter anymore
Je vais ici, je vais là-bas
I go here, I go there
Mais je ne l'ai pas encore trouvée
But I haven't found it yet
Cette liberté dont tu m′as tant
This freedom of which you have me so much
Chanté ce jour-là
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I wrote about living in a country that is hard to celebrate, and of an alternate vision we are invited to join and inherit, in order to make a country that would be worth a sense of pride. https://www.the-reframe.com/patriots-of-a-land-yet-to-come/
Fall Creek, Wisconsin
Pick one name for all of your pets that you'll ever have in your life
Happy July 4, from western Wisconsin
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