there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
38% of airline passengers vote to open plane door midflight because that bitch stewardess said not to
My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.
Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
On this day in 1965, peaceful marchers in Selma, including my friend John Lewis, were beaten by state troopers for demanding the right to vote.
The violence of Bloody Sunday shocked the nation and helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act just months later.
I do not think the police have ever raided the Quakers and been on the correct side of history
And don't tell the kids, but I'm making brownies to celebrate us all making it to Spring Break. A treat for those who come to class today!
Tupperware with beef fried rice, made by a student for an Anthropology of Food course.
More amazing creations from my Anthropology of Food students! Here, beef fried rice from a student becoming a rice expert!
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
Everytime I come home to barking dogs: "Guys. I *live* here."
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
The proper response to “what is a woman?” for the rest of time is now, “what is a war?”
So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.
This photo shows the graves of schoolchildren killed by airstrikes in Minab, Iran — not grave sites in Indonesia or Brazil, contrary to claims from Grok and others online. Here's how we verified its authenticity. 👇
www.snopes.com/fact-check/i...
USAID’s Emergency Food Security Program spent $4 billion in FY2022 to feed 114 million people in 55 countries. We just blew that much money in four days of this war.
I had a student who very obviously used AI to write a paper and when I pointed this out she replied "I didn't use AI, I used Grammarly"
I've now printed and shipped over 20,000 whistles, sent across the country to groups that need em. That's 20,000 off a single 3d printer that has basically run continuously in my basement since about mid-January. The crew I print with has sent out over 1M now, and we can send to you too. toot.supply
friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh
Screenshot of an X post by BRICS News reading, “JUST IN: Iran strikes Saudi Arabia's Aramco Ras Tanura oil refinery.” Below is an image of an industrial oil facility with a large spherical storage tank and thick black smoke billowing into the sky, suggesting a major fire or explosion at the site.
This is a troubling escalation with potentially devastating consequences for global stability and the world economy.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Donald Trump ran on a platform of no more wars.
But here’s the reality: no president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:
you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.
Want to know how the Nazi party performed unethical medical experiments on vulnerable populations?
This is how.
This is a really weird fantasia of Edinburgh (and its geography) as it never was and is *full* to the brim of the sorts of simple yet glaring errors and anachronisms you would never have gotten if you hadn't left it to a computer to just barf out an averagised slop answer.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
"Her release follows months of advocacy from community members and political leaders of both parties.
Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurants for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness. She has no criminal record."
www.12news.com/article/news...
The US invasion and occupation of Haiti in 1914 also comes to mind.
The notion you can change the world by buying one product over another is the biggest scam of late stage capitalism. It locks the comfortable bourgeois class into believing donations, consumerism & a few clicks on an app does the same work of civil disobedience, strikes, and protest.
These children died for Trump's greed and literally nothing else
