For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

#badalamenti soundtrack?

typosin just sõnause: tehisintellekst

Kuidagi lohutav teadmine.

he’s doing his best to read

All classic ghost story writers have bios that are like “His father taught at Oxbridge, then founded a society for seances & spiritualist research, then became Archbishop of Canterbury; his mother was a famous political genius & medium.” That specifically is E. F. Benson but they’re all like that

‘Richard de Bury, an English bibliophile who knew the Sorbonne collection well, warned librarians to keep students away from their books, since they ate cheese while they read and dribbled fragments onto the page.’ Anthony Grafton on early modern libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Well this is quite exciting: Michel Foucault’s personal library has been catalogued and will be searchable online from this September eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic... 🗃

The Keeper of Earth and Time has left.

The total enshittification of politics.

Kala UNESCO tiigivees.

If we don't equip people to verify information themselves, we leave them at the mercy of those who weaponise doubt. This is the new civic skill set. Critical thinking isn’t an academic ideal anymore. It’s the new infrastructure of democracy

The Te Hiku team see data as the final frontier for colonisation: “They suppressed our languages and physically beat it out of our grandparents and now they want to sell our language back to us as a service.” www.wired.com/story/maori-... #indigenousai #aiethics #aihistory #artsummitkorea

Never leave home without it.

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Today I learned that Peter Weller - the guy that played Robocop - was so humiliated by Dario Argento's Director of Photography, while talking about art, that he subsequently went and got a PhD in Art History, and now just published a book on Alberti with Cambridge University Press.

52.02.2025

I am an Amateur of Velocipedes http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/carrington-i-am-an-amateur-of-velocipedes-t11910

A different kind of AI enthusiasm by @karlschroeder.bsky.social - “… when what we really need is a universal assistant to augment the collective decision-making capacity of diverse groups of people?” (and pay the authors).

"I wish that we demonized lack of empathy the way we demonize lack of intelligence in society." - @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social in Automatons, Robots and Other Humanoid Creations" #Capricon

Happy unitary Now! #2025 #ursulakleguin

May all your good kami be with you these holidays 🍀 #yulecat #mjäutamorfoosid

And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur http://www.moma.org/collection/works/393384

Minu kosmoselaev #shelfie #helloworld