Born on this day in 1630, in Antwerp, architectural painter Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg. Here, two figures in huge, strangely classical entrance to a Gothic church. Eerie.

Last week I submitted my latest book manuscript to Cambridge University Press (for their "Element" series of books about 100 pages long): AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview -- because you haven't heard nearly enough about AI and consciousness recently, of course! 😉 Maybe you'll 1/3

*Alta* Edad Media = Early Middle Ages = Frühmittelalter es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_Ed... Plena Edad Media = *High* Middle Ages = *Hoch*mittelalter es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plena_E... Baja Edad Media = Late Middle Ages = Spätmittelalter es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baja_Ed... jo qué lío 😕

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Pablo de Valladolid (Madrid 1635) Valladolid served at the Spanish court until his death in 1648. He was among the group of servants known at that time as “gentes de placer” (entertainers), who played an important role in the court social structure.

politeness theory and pull requests (pdf) www.sophiehsqq.com/papers/chase...

"In practice, nothing worked. But what if it had succeeded?" www.opendemocracy.net/en/chomsky-s...

Esto es falso. El faro fue fortaleza durante buena parte de la Edad Media, y no una cualquiera, sino una muy disputada, precisamente por la singularidad de la estructura romana, de una altura extraordinaria. La reina Urraca fue propietaria del faro, ya convertido en fortificación.

Moebius

The Building of Magic Cities 🏰 outgrabe.itch.io/the-building... ( hat tip @mlupetti.upandpunch.red )

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

"Os teus cabelos son fato de cabuxas que baixan serpeando do Galaad. Os teus dentes, grea de ovellas nais, subindo do lavado, todas elas preñadas de xemelgos e ningunha hai maniña."

para cando tours en góndola polo cauce soterrado do río Mesoiro

What is a bond? A bond is a piece of paper handed over to an investor which promises to pay a series of coupons (interest) over time in exchange for a lump sum of money today (principal) which is fully repaid at the end of the deal (maturity). So far, so simple.

The Irreparable, plate ten from Intimacies https://www.artic.edu/artworks/62167/

Luego, describe a los PJ saltando de mundo. Describe la habitación en la que estáis jugando, y las personas sentadas, pero como si fuera vista por alguien desde fuera. Ya sabéis: "hay cuatro personas sentadas". (+)

Igalia, a peza galega que fai funcionar SteamOS

Gdańsk, la Grande Muraille HLM On l'appelle « Falowiec, la vague, le serpent, une famille d’immenses blocs résidentiels de 800m, construits pdt le boom du logt socialiste des années 60, lorsque la Pologne avait besoin de logts rapidement pr des dizaines de milliers de personnes🏘️

"We built the Torment Nexus, and we believe it is acting like it did because of "Do Not Build the Torment Nexus""

A todo esto: ¿cuál es la relación entre Radio María y la Conferencia Episcopal?

En marzo encontramos un incensario al excavar una tumba prehistórica en Somalilandia. Y ya hemos podido datarlo por carbono 14: entre 1519 y 1451 a.C. Lo cual lo convierte en el quemaperfumes más antiguo descubierto en el Cuerno de África hasta la fecha.->

tentando motivarme para pisar de novo o ximnasio, inda que sexa para uns minutiños na bici estática

The Yoshi's Island map screen theme is remarkably similar to the song "Anywhere Is" by Irish singer Enya. Both of these were composed around 1994 and released in 1995, meaning that neither of them could have been influenced by each other and this is an astounding coincidence.

Columbo Oedipus, while admiring some ceremonial vases in the palace, is startled by his own image reflected in a bronze mirror. He muses to himself: "These ceremonial vases, they are very pretty you know. My wife likes them a lot, she is crazy about them. I think my mother would love them as well"

and then there are the impossible colors www.reddit.com/r/cognitives... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossi...

Aprovecho el acontecimiento para compartir esta increíble secuencia digna de Darío Argento en Sor Citroen youtu.be/9gP5cCh5wxo?...

Lazy Saturday watching is my favorite trash version of Frankenstein, the 2004 TV movie for a never-to-be series where the Creature tracks down his now immortal serial killer maker with the help of hard nosed detective Parker Posey on the mean streets of The Big Easy.

Mira que lles gustaba ós atenienses escribir obras de teatro sobre cousas chungas que sucederon en Tebas. É coma se na Coruña (cidade costeira) escribisen obras de teatro sobre a sección de sucesos de Lugo (cidade amurallada do interior)

Capture of the Strait of Hormuz from the Portugese in 1622. A minor footnote in Wilson's history of the Thirty Years War but since its the anniversary today:

fun fact de disiclín: yo pensaba que era una marca conocida a nivel nacional y no fue hasta mencionarla en Madrid que me di cuenta de que solo se vende y distribuye, de manera generalizada, en Galicia y CANARIAS

I showed up to a meeting at 4am my time last year with some overseas people. They were late, but their AI note takers were not. It was literally me and AI bots in an empty zoom call for 10 minutes. It was the weirdest thing. I just started talking to the things and all those notes got captured lol

I was intrigued by that weird cover with the ship named "oikoumene" carrying both a ☭ and a $. So I looked for the book in the Internet Archive and found this passage mentioning churches, the Illuminati, Freemasons, Rockefeller and the UN. I guess modern fascists would simply say "globalists".

The excellent @writinghelena.bsky.social has a fabulous new, open access article out in BICS: “A ladies’ man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor” academic.oup.com/bics/advance... Especially enjoying learning more about his wife (and Constantius II’s sister) Helena the Younger.

I'm not sure there could ever be a way to 'use' an animal as a poison detector without a level of cruelty, but I am reassured that a level of care was taken by serious men with coal-darkened faces. It means something to me that their lives were valued by the ones they protected. More here:

Lol (por no decir otra cosa)

Cocktail Drinker https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/cocktail-drinker-1945

Such a great episode tnsr.org/2026/04/beyo...

bloqueo xustificado. que tristura ver a xente tan perdida na vida

Os nosos veciños @praza.gal praza.gal/opinion/os-n...

Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (1996) | beat 'em up with RPG elements | arcade | Capcom Capcom's sequel to 1994's Tower of Doom continued D&D's arcade journey, mining its monster menagerie for memorable encounters including an optional, quarter devouring fight against a vicious red dragon!

wild stuff e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

¿Y qué hace esta vajilla de lujo en casa de mi suegra, 100% clase obrera? La respuesta: su madre trabajaba de cocinera en la casa de una familia rica de Madrid. Cuando se rompía una pieza y el juego de loza quedaba incompleto, se daba al servicio.->

Even if you are annoyed by people who only see the mote in your eye and not the beam in their own, you shouldn't throw stones at them, especially if you live in a glass house. You could end up with a glass shard in the other eye!

the lack of color in the latest "The Odyssey" trailer is nothing a judicious splicing of scenes from "Mamma Mia" and "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" can't solve

Driving King David (can you spot him?) to uncontrollable desire: Bathsheba bathing in a secluded corner of an eerie empty city. With dancing handmaid! By Paris Bordone, born OTD 1500.

Vitamínico e inusual listado de artefactos patrios adscritos a ese concepto llamado "películas de culto" Hay joyas🤫🤫🤫🤫 www.sustrato.io/textos/otro-...

It's so cool to have a principle that I can mechanically apply in order to extrude opinions about film.

Ted Chiang story: wow, what a revelation about the true nature of the story's universe, huh? may I harness your lingering sense of wonder with a final and somewhat tacky plea to be excellent towards each other? Like with that pale blue dot photo that Carl Sagan guy put out to guilt us into behaving?

Novo trailer da adaptación da Odisea dirixida por Nolan. Teño a sospeita de que vai omitir ou pasar por riba da parte de Nausícaa. A boa nova é que Millán Picouto adicoulle unha obra de teatro enteiriña para ela, así que veña, todos a lela para acompañar á peli. youtu.be/f_bKjZeJBBI