Hope this gets now the attention it deserves.

Writing and thinking about what you write down is a superpower.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️ It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin. #Archaeology

Iranians are now categorically denying any talks have taken place. More and more this smells of Trump trying to manipulate the markets and get out of his stupid pledge to attack Iranian power supplies.

This is a new one to me. The model implemented a database to track to dos instead of using the normal .md files:

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

This bronze statue, made in Egypt between 715 and 343 BCE, represents the Egyptian cat-goddess Bastet. While Ancient Egyptians worshipped several male and female lion deities, Bastet is the only who came to be depicted as a domestic cat.

Super Artikel von Barbara Blaha auf @moment.at! www.moment.at/story/fall-u...

”Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt…” Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), poet of Ancient Rome, whose epic Aeneid inspired Western art & literature; died 19 BC. Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672, by Claude Lorrain National Gallery London #WorldPoetryDay

Girl with a pearl earring, c 1665, luminous work of great subtlety, acknowledged masterpiece by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, born and lived in Delft 1632-1675; one of Vermeer’s 34 surviving paintings, subject of recent scientific analysis of pigments & pentimenti. Mauritshuis, Den Haag

Swift is a master and needs to be read more.

I have a math joke, but to be honest, I can't prove it is funny.

In memory of the great and unforgettable Terry Hall 💔 March 19, 1959 – December 18, 2022 The Specials – Too Much Too Young #punkrock #ska #skalegends #skabands #skamusic #terryhall #thespecials #2tone #history #punkrockhistory #otd

For #ReliefWednesday the so called Gemma Claudia, made of five-layered onyx. Emperor Claudius and his forth wife Agrippina minor are depicted on the left, opposite her parents Germanicus - brother of Claudius - and Agrippina maior. The cameo was presumably made on...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

I released a new version of my rock climbing journal app, SendLog. New stuff includes the capabilities to track trainings and to include photos with your Logs. Still all stored locally and of course free. apps.apple.com/at/app/sendl...

Released 49 years ago today: "White Riot" by The Clash, the band's first single from their debut album The Clash (with Jimmy Pursey) – White Riot - Live 1978, Victoria Park, London #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #whiteriot #history #punkrockhistory #otd

A very concise summary by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social in the Atlantic. We are witnessing the demise of an empire, lead by a narcissistic clown and a political class to entangled in power and greed to understand it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Joe Kent is a right-wing lunatic with a “PANZER” tattoo (yes, in the original German), has close ties to White Nationalists and extremist paramilitary groups, he has consulted with Fuentes about social media strategy, employed a Proud Boy on his campaign - and that’s just off the top off my head.

Vienna back in the news. (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

Palantir-CEO Alex Karp hat offenbar ein Umfeld aus Österreichern, seinen „engsten Vertrauten". Das wusste ich gar nicht, darüber würde ich gerne mehr wissen. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

A trio of medieval bagpipers 🎶🎶🎶

A legendary performance with the Pogues at the top of their game, great guest appearances and Shane close to the edge but not crossing it (yet). Can‘t recall how often I watched the VHS tape.

Every billionaire's mind is a gaping abyss that inflicts real psychological damage on anyone who looks too closely into it.

Incredible scenes from today's pro-Magyar, anti-Orban rally in Budapest. Only 4 weeks left until the most consequential election in the EU this year 🇪🇺🇭🇺

strong agree with your conclusion though: "our inability to stop and observe before rushing in and doing things that is responsible for our industry's problems: both the internal ones and the ones that we create for other people"

“the industry is awfully flat and uninterested in fields like aesthetics, the arts, politics or even most natural scientists, which means that I often don't like talking to tech people.” Also my experience, less so with women, tbh. Plus a high degree of naïveté in the younger folks.

New city, new article! This one's about some of the tech industry's more interesting epistemic foibles: deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech_em...

“Beware the Ides of March!” 🗡️ 2,070 years later, and we’re still talking about that one March 15... Bust of Julius Caesar, dating to the 1st half of the 1st century AD, carved from Egyptian Greywacke. On display at Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 me

As LLM use expands, “the models’ outputs…are reabsorbed into human discourse & shape users’ own expression & reasoning and, in turn, influence the data used to train future models, transforming homogenization from a passive bias into a structurally reinforced influence.” www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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It's #piday!

Hey, there is other stuff besides war and Trump and AI. Really interesting reading!

I think this is a useful framing. The LLM lacks the theory - the reason why we are building stuff in certain ways. Written specs can't convey the whole complexity of this theory (seems like I have heard that before the appearance of coding agents!)

Perhaps one perspective that isn't discussed nearly enough in *public* debates on democratic erosion and the rise of public support for authoritarian parties is Larry Bartels' argument that democracy erodes from the top. 1/

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett, influential Irish dramatist (1906-1989), member of French Resistance in WWII (awarded Croix de Guerre 1949) author of En attendant Godot, première in Paris 1953. Photograph: Jane Bown

Medieval Bronze Doors by Donatello Return to Florence After Restoration. www.medievalists.net/2026/03/medi...

It so crazy. American deterrence is just shattered into pieces. Incompetent leadership and obviously no meaningful resistance in the military leadership just shows that the American forces can't deal with significant threats. What a failure!

Didn‘t think about this before but it makes sense. As always, there are many shades if gray but the tendency described by @pookleblinky.bsky.social fits pretty well to my experience.

The Buzzcocks' music has aged amazingly well. True classics.

Good stuff and worth reading. Sometimes it feels like we (as the software trade) are unlearning what we have learned in decades at an incredible speed.

I remain fascinated by people who are 100% all-in on using LLMs at their jobs (and telling everyone that they're doing it) and who appear to have never paused to consider "what value am I personally adding in here, at this point, and why do I think my employers won't eventually figure this out"

Have not watched it yet - but I will soon because here are a couple of people discussing that I highly respect!

Be a billionaire, buy elections and enrich yourself even more in the process - a huge redistribution machine. Right wing parties are the source of the people frustration they benefit from. Crazy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii. A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me #Archaeology

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

Happy World Book Day! What is your favourite book? Here we share a delicate embroidered book cover - the perfect accessory for any book lover in the 17th century. This cover was made in England in 1632 and originally contained the third part of the bible. 🪡 WA2010.19