Carlo Donzella
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Carlo Donzella
@nerissimo
Born analog late 50s, filosofer-geek in 80s, EU officer-entrepreneur in 90s, academic-consultant in 00s, mentor-explorer in 10s, back to hard soft-tech in 20s
S. Europe (Graham Island) Katılım Kasım 2010
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If you're having a bad day, here's the exact moment that Charlie Brown adopted Snoopy 75 years ago.
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@Tullage Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe!
[opening line of Canto VII of Dante Alighieri's Inferno]
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Crow and Reeds by a Stream, by Kawanabe Kyosai, ca. 1887
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@PAHoyeck Even Confucius famously admonished that “if you swim in a cesspool you’re surrounded by turds”
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Is there any way to get Claude to stop the flattery?
I've repeatedly made it clear, in several different ways, and it always steers back to sycophancy.
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The best opening line in any physics textbook ✍️
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🎨🖌️ By Mansur – Mughal, c. 1612, @RCT
Mansur was Jahangir’s leading natural history painter.
Nadir al-Asr (wonder of the age) and unique in his time as the Emperor wrote in his memoirs.
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@dilanesper it's really not much the abstract distance, it's where you board and disembark compared with where you are and where you want to go.
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fun fact: they are actually only 300 miles apart (315 by rail)
That may seem like nothing but one reason the high speed rail movement is bad is they refuse to limit themselves to 3 hour trains, 315 mile trains. They want longer routes where flying is better.
Hayden@the_transit_guy
While domestic airlines gouge passengers, in Spain you can go 400 miles (the distance between SF/LA, Chicago/Minneapolis, or DC/Charlotte) in 3 hours for just $73. We’ll do anything but provide rail service to this country.
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@simonmontefiore @BritishVogue @voguemagazine @CondeNast [Intro]
Blue velvet, woah-woah
[Verse 1]
She wore blue velvet (Woah-woah)
Bluer than velvet was the night (Woah-woah-woah)
Softer than satin was the light
From the stars
[...]
[Outro]
Blue velvet, oo-ooo-oooo-oooo
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Vogue - the now irrelevant organ last noted for praising the mass-murderering couple the Assads for their glamour - returns to relevance in the ugliest way possible.
Is this your view @britishvogue @voguemagazine @CondeNast Anna Wintour. Repulsive if it is.
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen@srodan
.@BritishVogue and the glamorization of antisemitism. Let’s talk about what they chose not to tell you. Albanese is the UN Special Rapporteur who claimed America is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby,” told the BBC “the Israeli lobby is clearly inside your veins,” and- the day after the Charlie Hebdo massacre - shared an Iranian state media article claiming the CIA and Mossad carried it out. She is the official who, when Macron called October 7 “the largest antisemitic massacre of our century,” replied that the victims were not killed because of their Judaism but “in response to Israel’s oppression” - earning her the distinction of being the first UN rapporteur in history condemned for antisemitism by both France and Germany simultaneously. She is the official who told a press conference that 380,000 children under five had been killed in Gaza - a figure that exceeds the entire population of children under five in Gaza, according to Palestinian Authority census data. She is the official who, at an Al Jazeera Forum in Doha where Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and Iran’s foreign minister were also speaking, delivered remarks that the French Foreign Minister subsequently condemned in parliament, saying she “targets not the Israeli government, whose policies can be criticized, but Israel as a people and as a nation.” He added that she “presents herself as a UN independent expert, yet she is neither an expert nor independent - she is a political activist who stirs up hate speech.” She has been condemned by France, Germany, Canada, and the United States. She is the first UN expert in history condemned by all four of those governments. Vogue gave her a shoot. No mention of any of this. The same editorial erasure happened at the Guardian, which ran a fawning profile portraying her as a “rock star” and never once asked why so many governments of such different political persuasions have sought to have her removed. This is what the glamorization of antisemitism looks like in 2026. It arrives in a fashion magazine, dressed in the language of human rights, with a photographer and a stylist.
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People totally take for granted that LM outputs are almost always grammatical and coherent (if not always correct), as if those parts are self-evidently easy to achieve and not an amazing discovery of the impact of scaling
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@Saganismm who created the famous paradox, "can God create a stone so heavy that he himself cannot lift?". Bertrand Russell, early nineteenth century? No, medieval theologians at the Sorbonne.
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"If we are honest — and scientists have to be — we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way."
— Paul Dirac, Remarks made during the Fifth Solvay International Conference
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@PAHoyeck @abachurin sometimes too simplistic, hence the so-called Platotudes
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Philosophers whose English writing skills are absolutely appalling:
• Immanuel Kant
• G.W.F Hegel
• Martin Heidegger
• Jacques Derrida
• Jacques Lacan
Am I missing any?
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@profhistorygeek a very dubious start but hey, per aspera ad astra!
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Update - Have started Duolingo Latin while I wait for the books I ordered to arrive.
Thanks again for all the encouragement and resources links.
Clare Dale, Ph.D.@profhistorygeek
I have an urge to try and learn Latin. I did take it as an undergraduate and used some in my historical research but now find myself oddly motivated to have a better grasp of this dead language. I am already fluent in French and semi-fluent I Spanish. Should I go for it?
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@profhistorygeek It would greatly improve your social life. You’ll be able to entertain direct dialogues with @Pontifex_ln!
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I have an urge to try and learn Latin.
I did take it as an undergraduate and used some in my historical research but now find myself oddly motivated to have a better grasp of this dead language.
I am already fluent in French and semi-fluent I Spanish.
Should I go for it?
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@GaryMarcus Naïf atheists are quite prone to become naïf AI believers. However, these counter arguments are as weak as their arguments. Twelfth century theologians were much more sophisticated.
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Calligram → “beautiful letters/writing” → letters arranged as an image
Calisthenics → “beautiful strength”
Kaleidoscope → Kalos (beautiful) + eidos (shape) + skopein (to look) → instrument for viewing beautiful forms (modelled on “telescope”)
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WORD FACT
Words derived from Greek “kalos” (beautiful, good) and “kallos” (beauty):
Callisto → from Greek “kallistos” (most beautiful), superlative of kalos
Calliope → “beautiful voice”
Calligraphy → “beautiful writing”
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Coming Out of the Bath House, by Torii Kotondo, 1932
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