The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity
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The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer's Iliad from Antiquity
Despite its status as one of the most widely known and studied epic poems of all time, Homer's Iliad has proven surprisingly resistant to adaptation.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
We just released version 5.6.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress
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Some features:
* A Mastodon import (beta)
* Improvements to the Welcome-Page
* Basic Move functionality
* A bunch of Outbox improvements
* A ton of smaller changes and fixes
thanks a lot to @obenland, @mattwiebe and all other contributors!
ActivityPub
The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.WordPress.org
A culture critic reflects on the limits of language -- and the magic of silence
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347390/a-culture-critic-reflects-on-the-limits-of-language-and-the-magic-of-silence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr
Updated tool expands access to ancient Hittite texts
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Cuneiforms: New Digital Tool for Researchers
Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.www.uni-wuerzburg.de
A cool 3D Pac Man clone made in #BASIC & #machinecode for #yourcomputer magazine.
You could type it up or write to the author to buy a copy (£2,30), but now you can download it from here:
spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/…
This game by Mark C. Jones was later released as 3D Bat Attack by Cheetah Soft
Albums by Lucy Dacus and Jeffrey Lewis show the range of confessional songwriting
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347400/albums-by-lucy-dacus-and-jeffrey-lewis-show-the-range-of-confessional-songwriting?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Music @music-npr
Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization
‘40 acres and a mule’ never happened. Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia.The Conversation
📣 CORY BOOKER FILIBUSTER!
Sen. Cory Booker, with support from other Democratic Senators is RIGHT NOW conducting a marathon filibuster speech on the Senate floor.
He's speaking out as a protest against the national crisis President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have created, and plans to last "as long as [he is] physically able."
Show him some love at corybooker.com, and also by watching the livestream here: youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwt…
#SenatorBooker #Senate #Filibuster #Resist #Resistance
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has taken the Senate floor and is speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed a...YouTube
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I just counter BS with even more BS.
For instance, did you know that most diseases can make your pecker drop off and make you look like a Ken doll? Vaccinations prevent that.
It is not like you can have an informed debate with someone that believes weird crap from the internet.
@BuckRogers1965
There was an XKCD about this.
Effectively say something even more outlandish to people who make weird outlandish claims.
The example he gave was, "the Moon landing was faked"
"Hah, you believe in the Moon?!"
I have yet to really deploy this at any point, probably because I don't think I can bring myself to that level...
Sometimes #FolkMetal is nice
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Ensiferum - Winter Storm Vigilantes (Official Video)
Buy here: http://www.metalblade.com/ensiferumNew album Winter Storm is out October 18, 2024The Finnish folk-metal melodeath sensation has maintained a prolif...YouTube
Still recovering from adepticon (had a great time)
In the meanwhile, Trans Rights
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TTRPGs for Trans Rights - Ohio by Rue (ilananight) and 225 others
TTRPGs for Trans Rights - Ohio: 467 items for $5.00itch.io
I'm going to have to go next year. I think the time to plan for that is... checks calendar... now?
Will be going to Under the Dice Fest next month, though, looking forward to that!
I understand why people post guillotine memes and I’ve done it myself before. But maybe we should not post guillotine memes because the guillotine was a method of capital punishment that, like all capital punishments, was used overwhelmingly on the poor.
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Against the Logic of the Guillotine
Fetishizing the guillotine is like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us.CrimethInc.
“As a symbol of vengeance, the guillotine tempts us to imagine ourselves standing in judgment, anointed with the blood of the wicked. The Christian economics of righteousness and damnation is essential to this tableau. On the contrary, if we use it to symbolize anything, the guillotine should remind us of the danger of becoming what we hate.”
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“It is possible to be committed to revolutionary struggle by all means necessary without holding life cheap. It is possible to eschew the sanctimonious moralism of pacifism without thereby developing a cynical lust for blood. We need to develop the ability to wield force without ever mistaking power over others for our true objective, which is to collectively create the conditions for the freedom of all.”
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New tool! Meet the iFixit ESD-Safe Hammer.
We hear you: sometimes you need a little more oomph to finish your fix. So, we engineered the world’s first hammer designed for electronics repair. It's built with a non-conductive handle, ESD-safe head, and just enough heft to "persuade" stubborn components.
Perfect for:
🔋 Glued-in batteries
🪛 Stripped screws
🔌Soldered memory
💥 Stress relief
Now unavailable at iFixit.com.
#iFixit #FixWithForce #AprilFools
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More billionaires than ever ranked in Forbes' annual list. Here are the top 10
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5345950/forbes-billionaires-list?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Morning Edition @morning-edition-npr
Everything Is Recorded explores the softer side of electronica on 'Temporary' : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/1241995545/everything-is-recorded-album-temporary?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Music @music-npr
U.S. seeks to ramp up social media data collection. Here’s what to know about Homeland Security’s plans
Officials are proposing to collect social media handles from people who have already been vetted and in the U.S. legally.
fastcompany.com/91308487/u-s-s…
#tech #technology #news #technews #security #privacy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #ethics #corruption
We’ve been producing Unseen Japan for almost seven years now. During that time, the country’s changed a lot – and continues to evolve. Here are a few of the most prominent myths we've spotted, as well as some things that are slowly changing.
#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #travel
Japan Travel: Eight Outdated Myths That Are Rapidly Changing - Unseen Japan
Traveling to Japan? Chances are you've heard one of these eight "facts" about the country that are mostly wrong.Jay Allen (Unseen Japan)
"MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished."
America’s Future Is Hungary
Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do.
As the president’s “Liberation Day” nears, it’s time to liberate ourselves from the vicious cycle of Democrats having to clean up the GOP’s messes.The New Republic
who could have seen *this* coming
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23andMe Is Selling All Your Data, in Largest Sale of Genomes in History
As Nature reports, consumer-genomics company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy — and legal permission to auction off all of that data.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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#Travel #traveltribe #BUCKETLIST #Mexico backpackandsnorkel.com/Isla-Mu…
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for Isla Mujeres - Isla Mujeres Purple Travel Guide
Isla Mujeres is our personal paradise - it has Mexico's best beach, with soft white sand, turquoise water, snokeling right off the beach, authentic Mexican food and lots more.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Philadelphia Maker Faire Returns This Weekend
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Philadelphia Maker Faire Returns This Weekend
While there’s still a vaguely robot-shaped hole in our heart from the loss of the New York World Maker Faire, we do take comfort in the fact that smaller Maker Faire events are still happenin…Hackaday
Incredible reporting from @ProPublica on what it's like aboard ICE's deportation planes. Horrifying. We're the worst country on earth.
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Inside ICE Air: What It’s Like to Be a Deportation Flight Attendant
Flight attendants for GlobalX, a private charter airline used in migrant deportations, say life on board wasn’t what they signed up for.ProPublica
As US Cracks Down, North Koreans Target Europe With Remote Work Scams
Google’s security researchers spot suspected North Koreans looking for employment in Germany and Portugal while using login credentials for European job hiring sites.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Dear Mr. Takei,
I realize you'll probably never see this comment among the many you must receive, but sincerely, thank you for continuing to be the hero in real life that you played so well in shows I loved as a child.
Move to Amend
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, …Move to Amend
When I was young, we called this "Saturday."
lol - Guessing it's an April 1 joke but gotta say, the paper nails it.
Sometimes it is indeed not a syndrome but just a good self-assessment.
#SteveMartin
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King Tut Steve Martin SNL 1978
Steve Martin's big production number of "King Tut" from Saturday Night LIve April 22, 1978YouTube
Intense layoffs have begun at HHS.
The agency “as we’ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed.” — former FDA commissioner Rob Califf
statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs-la… via @STAT
#hhs #fda #cdc #health #publichealth #healthcare #medicine #doge #layoffs
RFK Jr.'s HHS layoffs begin; thousands of FDA, CDC workers axed
As many as 10,000 employees — one-quarter of the department's workforce — are expected to be let go as part of the process.Sarah Owermohle (STAT)
*It's good of Benedict Evans to point this out to his business-centric readership
"I need my phone to do my business," yes indeed you do sir, and it's also a big free gift to the national spooks most any time you cross a border
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In the bottom panel, another character labeled "DM" is shown. The text above him reads "DM," and the text below him reads, "That feels weird but I'll allow it." The DM character is wearing a dark jacket with a red hood and is standing in a snowy outdoor setting. The two panels are juxtaposed to humorously depict a player character's creative idea and the Dungeon Master's (DM) response.
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