Pixel: a biography An exact mathematical concept, pixels are the elementary particles of pictures, based on a subtle unpacking of infinity By Alvy Ray Smith, Edited byNigel Warburton aeon.co/essays/a-bio... #books #technology #ComputerScience

Martha and Mary Magdalene https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/martha-and-mary-magdalene

It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together.

No threat of storm keeps a salt-hag from her shore. For she is tide-turned, summoned to wave=edged places. Gulls screech secrets to her, winds tell her of all they've seen. She is a storm-stander, awaiting flotsam omens of tempest wake. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

h/t New Bedford Whaling Museum

Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated

"It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. “Nothing,” he said aloud. “I went out too far.”" ("The Old Man and the Sea") Ernest Hemingway was born #otd 1899 🎨 Guy Harvey

Daily bunny no.3386 waited so long they forgot what they were doing!

'Cultivating the cosmic tree' by Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) German Benedictine abbess, artist, writer, composer, philosopher #WomensArt

Postcards from Rhode Island: Newport: ”Cliff Walk, Newport, R.I.” Postmarked August 1913.

"What once sounded theoretical has become reality as satellite launches have become more frequent. Governments and private companies are deploying thousands of satellites into orbit while cleanup standards remain weak and largely voluntary."

Do I have any nerds for a violin here? I mean, my grandma many years ago gave me 80-year-old violins, and I would love to breathe new life into them! (Make them playable and maybe learn a new skill!)

It’s easy to lose sight of this idea, but it’s true. That’s why every movie is based upon it. Because it’s historically been true and it’s inside of us to know that it’s true.

I spent— 🚼 Early childhood in a poor, rural, 70%-white town 🚹 Teenhood in a middle-class, suburban, 80%-white town 🏫 K-12 in a rich, 90%-white private school 🏦 College at a 60%-white Ivy Of the many shades of racism I've seen, that by sophisticated white Leftists is the most subtle + insidious.

I see no alternative, each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate we add to this world makes it still more inhospitable. - Etty Hillesum

Five whale watchers got a front-row seat Sunday as a family of orcas tore through a pod of dolphins in Monterey Bay during an unusually intense feeding event. Their captain caught the encounter on video.

THIRD COUNTRY FOLK Why, Jimothy! TABORER Here, my mad boys, have at ye!

Reworking Millet’s The Sower (1888), Van Gogh thematically combined labor with Provençal sunlight—heaven and earth joined not by doctrine, but by color.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.

Solomon’s Pools date back to the second century BCE, and have become a source of recreation for nearby Bethlehem

Following Texas' tragic Guadalupe River flood, a coalition of local volunteers and organizations launched a bold effort to restore their cherished river. “Hope for the Guadalupe” bears witness to the heartbreaking disaster and their story. 🎥 Watch the full film: youtu.be/2pJoMAfGOLU

Well I love the new Stones album. But listening also got me in my feels. Hearing the dystopian times we’re in laced throughout. Compared to a naive youth dancing on bars to Honky Tonk Woman in NYC. *They took away the welcome mat Lady Liberty don't look so good When there's a tear in her gown*

ICE just published updated detention statistics for the first time since early April. As of July 11, ICE was detaining 65,765 people. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

I've never seen anything like it. Salta, Argentina, has just recorded its hottest night on record during the climatologically coldest time of the year. The minimum overnight temperature did not fall below 26°C (78.8°F), pulverizing the previous monthly record by 7°C.

Friends and neighbors like Ms. Rachel do everything in their power to protect children of the world at all costs 🌎 She is my hero, the library kids are my heroes. Be like Ms. Rachel, be kind. Raise your library voice for the children 💜

Wales is approaching an energy crisis that could reshape its economy, its public services and the politics of independence | Emlyn Phillips

First photo out of the gate from my Scotland and Ireland trip is this tentacular puffin on the Isle of May —

In Water Nymphs (Silverfish) (1899), Klimt shows ethereal female heads with flowing hair that dissolves into the current. The painting reveals an early exploration of themes like nature spirits and femme fatales, which his gold phase would later intensify.

The Garlic Nebula's a supernova remnant of an expanding shell of debris and shockwaves from a massive star that exploded thousands of years ago. High-resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/tl6xtn #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #photography

Mary Magdalene - 1616-1617 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene_(Artemisia_Gentileschi)

Costume worn by Nona Hendryx of Labelle https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.246.3.1-.4ab

On this day in 1969 a man walked on the moon. Meanwhile, you couldn't buy adhesive menstrual pads in a shop because they didn't go on sale until later that year.

As water restrictions hit farmers in the Central Valley, solar is making sense "We had to find a use for this ground," one farmer said. "We see the writing on the wall." @blancabegert.bsky.social @myungchun.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

I too need more of that bass, George Michael.

Eat your heart out, Hemingway

It won’t stop at math. Machines getting better at thinking through abstract problems than we are is going to be an emotional crisis for lots of people. I wish we were engaging that directly instead of having ridiculous shadow-debates about GPUs’ inherent thirst for water.

The re-photo project is a map of what time used to be.

It’s only a thousand times more beautiful

Mercy’s free!

The Rape of Ganymede, 1533 #michelangelo #highrenaissance

Discovering real goodness ~ Chögyam Trungpa https://justdharma.org/discovering-real-goodness-chogyam-trungpa/ #ChögyamTrungpa #basicgoodness #desire #experience

Daily bunny no.3385 is just one light

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea

61 years ago today, on 20th July 1965, Bob Dylan released “Like A Rolling Stone” as a 7-inch vinyl single in the United States.