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a 900 page deep dive into the logics used in model theory. even the table of contents is epic in scope, i contented myself with just posting the list of contributors.

@SteppeShaman he must be a "throat singer".

"Ezir-Kara", a folk song from the Turkic Tuvan people describing a fast horse

sorry for stating the obvious, but the more war damage that's done to energy production facilities in the Middle East, the longer the delay before full capacity can be restored, even if the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.

In 1607, a girl was born in Cologne with the kind of mind that did not fit the mold laid out for her. Her name was Anna van Schurman. And the path expected of her was a narrow one. Stay quiet. Marry well. Keep your thoughts to yourself. She didn’t. By the time she was three, Anna was reading. By eleven, she was quoting Seneca in Latin. That was just the start. She went on to learn Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. She studied philosophy, astronomy, theology, and law. She painted with the skill of a master. Wrote poetry. Carved cameos. There wasn’t a subject she didn’t try to master. And when her family moved to Utrecht, the university took notice. But there was a problem. Women weren’t allowed in. So they made a compromise. She could attend, but only if she sat behind a curtain. Out of sight. The professors were worried the boys might get distracted by a girl with books. Anna agreed. She sat in silence. Took it all in. Then wrote a dissertation in flawless Latin arguing that women had the same intellectual capacity as men and should be educated in the same way. It landed like a thunderclap. Philosophers read it. Clerics debated it. Even Descartes paid attention. She became known as the Star of Utrecht. She published essays. Sent letters across Europe. Joined the conversation normally reserved for men with titles and power. And she did it all without raising her voice. Later in life, she walked away from the fame. She joined a religious group that treated women as equals. Critics called her foolish. She called it freedom. She didn’t start a revolution. She didn’t lead a protest. But her words did something else. They stayed. Anna van Schurman lit a fire with ink and parchment. And centuries later, it’s still burning. #archaeohistories

Reviewing yet another academic paper full of hallucinated references, odd citation practices, and improperly attributed material. To all academic colleagues out there, literally ruining our profession: thanks for nothing.

@OpinePinAZ i like how it shakes its tail.

Such a pretty Kitty.

the average price of gasoline in America has gone up 30% in the last 3 weeks.

Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses: “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. … I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”

Astrud Gilberto wasn’t even meant to sing on “The Girl from Ipanema.” She stepped in to deliver the English lines and her effortless, unpolished tone became the track’s signature.

Never regret being alive. It’s a gift. It’s our journey, the only one we have. All of it matters.

I've decided that not a single acre of mountain land, agricultural land, forest, or wild desert is worth sacrificing for AI data centers. No river, no lake, no reservoir should be touched to maintain them.

This is little Grace Lehane playing a polka for some very enthusiastic young cows in Kilmichael, Cork, Ireland

Phoenix will likely be ~abandoned within ~30 yrs. Commercial jets can't liftoff >122ºF; summer asphalt now hits 170ºF = 3d degree burns in seconds. It's also running out of water bc of aquifer depletion and bc the Colorado River is dying from drought in the watershed and Rockies.

Been reading a number of books on prehistory and every new fact has me reeling. Whales evolved from land mammals that spent so much time in the water they became whales. Earth might be the only planet with the right oxygen level for fire. Birds are, quite literally, dinosaurs.

These are concentration camps

@aphotomama nope, in fact i prefer trimmed nails.

Question for the hetero men out there: how do you feel about women getting their nails done? Is it important to you for attraction?

The U.S. was the ONLY country to vote against a UN women’s rights measure. Only country.
Against women.
 That’s the post.

Not sure how to feel about this😊