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@GanzeGeschichte Jan Ingen-Housz hat die von Priestley erfundenen "spitzigen" Blitzableiter in Wien in Mode gebracht. Er ist maßgeblich am Blitzschutzsystem in Ö beteiligt.

Ich will demnächst einen ganzen Tag ausschließlich zur österreichischen Geschichte machen. Was weißt Du zur österreichischen Geschichte, das auch wirklich nur Du weißt?

@luiscalleo Uriah Heep - Paradise/The Spell

What’s one guitar solo you never skip no matter how many times you’ve heard it?

@rmathematicus @MichalYouDoing Anonymous question via Zoom. They even had the chance to fact check beforr asking. Church hate runs deep...

@astro_doris @MichalYouDoing Well, it’s an original take. Totally wrong but original 🙄

You'll like this, @rmathematicus and @MichalYouDoing. Had my Copernicus talk today and somebody commented that he delayed publication because he knew about what happened to Giordano Bruno. 😄🤗

Author copies arrived! Thanks @mitpress

here's a new version of "what we talk to when we talk to language models", with an added section (pp. 16-23) on LLM interlocutors as characters, personas, or simulacra. philarchive.org/rec/CHAWWT-8 the new version discusses role-playing vs realization, the simulators framework, the persona selection hypothesis, and more -- in addition to the existing discussion of quasi-mental states, LLM identity, personal identity in severance, LLM welfare, and related topics. this version was mostly written before recent discussions of these issues on X and in NYC, but i've updated it a little in light of those discussions. any thoughts are welcome.

The pope has a now having a chance to do a hilarious thing and invite Trump to a reconciliation summit in Canossa, Italy.

Okay, who did this? 😂

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

@disclosetv The Art of war ~ Don Tzu

the fact that issac was 37 years old when abraham tried to sacrifice him changes the tone of the story somewhat

There's a slight catch: NASA doesn't have a say in this ;-)

AI’s hardest problems — retrieval, ground truth, alignment — aren’t just technical. They’re historical. Historians have spent centuries learning how to assemble incomplete archives, weigh disagreement, and preserve plurality. That’s exactly what AI needs now. The future of trustworthy AI may depend on historical methods. computationalhistory.substack.com/p/ai-needs-his…

A short article about putting together the new 3-volume edition of Leibniz's Philosophical Papers: "Editing Leibniz’s Manuscripts: Three Decisions": lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/lloyd_strickla… The volumes will be published on 30 April by @OUPAcademic

@Clemanns1984 Ich musste sehr alt werden, um herauszufinden, dass es erstens nicht nur einen gab und zweitens, dass die überlebt haben... so viel zu Schulbildung 😉

Mein voriges Posting mit diesem Bild wurde gesperrt. Ihr wisst eh was an diesem Fenster in Prag passiert ist.

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it! Ever since, I've been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until now bertspaan.nl/buildings

I've been offline for 4 hours. What happened to the ceasefire???

Even wars have rules. The Geneva Conventions protect civilians in conflict and help ensure assistance reaches those in need, without discrimination. ohchr.org/en/instruments…

Vance distancing himself from Trump?

Where are the adults in the room????