a medieval illustration of the virgin mary punching a horned, claw-footed, bestial devil

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

The Prado Museum has been nominated to The Webby Awards for their social media. Listen to what Tim Burton has to say about the only Spanish museum nominated this year, and cast your vote!

vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

The same thing happened in Mexico when AMLO and then Sheinbaum increased the minimum wage there. Also, it didn't have any of the adverse effects feared by theorists. Good job!

Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, The

For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 features Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and so many more — and they're now available on the Internet Archive for free. [kottke.org]

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@ucsb.bsky.social CS Chair & Distinguished Professor Divy Agrawal receives the 2026 ACM
@sigmod2025.bsky.social Contributions Award—the field’s top honor for service & leadership.

Transformative impact on both the conference and the community. Congrats Divy!

Read more: cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a...

Monochrome photograph featuring a landscape with a small house in a dusty field with deep grooves made by tracter lines

Dorothea Lange,
Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, 1938, US photographer #womensart

Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award | Quanta Magazine Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard are this year’s A.M. Turing Award winners. They met in October 1979, when Bennett swam up to Brassard outside a beachfront hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and changed the course of his career.

📢 Ha de ser obligatori acreditar un nivell mínim de català per treballar a Catalunya?

🗣️ Els tertulians Adria Alsina i Marina Fernàndez Torné debaten sobre aquesta qüestió a l'#AltaveuPati.

📲 Ja tens el programa a RTVE Play: www.rtve.es/v/1698787…

#La2Cat

Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

I Am Trapped in the Criterion Closet How long have I been in this place? I cannot say. In the darkness, time has lost meaning. The only days I remember are Days of Heaven (Terrence Mal...

"How long have I been in this place? I cannot say. In the darkness, time has lost meaning. The only days I remember are 'Days of Heaven' (Terrence Malick, 1978), the only nights, 'Nights of Cabiria' (Fellini, 1957)."

"In classical logic, the law of the excluded middle is taken as a tautology. Intuitionistic logic, by contrast, does not affirm the law."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_...

Seu Jorge’s Lovely Tribute to David Bowie For his 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson enlisted Brazilian musical artist Seu Jorge to perform several of David Bowie’s songs in Portuguese. Jorge released an album of the songs about a y

An hour-long set of Seu Jorge singing David Bowie covers in Portuguese (from Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic) to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie's death. "Just an acoustic guitar, a microphone, and the beautiful coastline of São Paulo." [kottke.org]

Science policy education should start on campus UC Santa Barbara professor Alexandra Phillips published a guide to help universities support student engagement in ocean policy.

Climate change, plastic pollution, and overfishing concerns have made it difficult to train scientists in technical skills. UCSB's Alexandra Phillips has put together a helpful guide to help universities support student engagement in ocean policy 🌊🔬

Full story: https://ow.ly/oTKS50Yfrjs

FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...

Q: What time is kickoff?

A: The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. from one group called the “New England Patriots” and another called the “Seattle Seahawks.”

Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.

Groundhog Day Meaning

xkcd.com/3202/

olivia dean - i wanna be your lover (prince cover) none of these audios are mine! full credits are in the descriptions of each track!!😁 comment for removal!

on.soundcloud.com/LDLWDwoLwwBf...

maybe a mini one that could be swung from a string instead might be 3D printable, super portable

one word; vuvuzelas.

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026.

Let's. Go.

Public domain 2026: Betty Boop, Pluto, and Nancy Drew set free Here are the biggest works entering the public domain.

Public domain 2026: Betty Boop, Pluto, and Nancy Drew set free

Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.

It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.

The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.

Do noncitizens have the same free speech rights as citizens? YouTube video by UC Berkeley School of Law

Do noncitizens have the same rights as citizens?
This special episode of 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘸 features Professor Catherine Crump, Robert Glushko Clinical Professor of Practice in Technology Law. https://youtube.com/shorts/xMQeU-FIJHQ?feature=share

#ItstheLaw #BerkeleyLaw @catherinecrump.bsky.social

Germany’s Wind-Energy Surge Damps Power Prices Amid Warm Weather German wind generation is set to climb to a record early next week, meaning renewables may meet almost all the country’s power needs as demand remains subdued.

German wind generation is set to climb to a record early next week, meaning renewables may meet almost all the country’s power needs as demand remains subdued

I was a massive fan when it was on, one of the best shows ever!

Marina Abramović is Your Kid’s New Soccer Coach and the Team is Down by Nine Goals at the Half I face so much jealousy as Marina Abramović. Why are you jealous? Ask. Use your voices to ask and sing it as a question. Now get up. Really? Now si...

"Everyone put down their objects, your infernal orange slices. Everyone come and look into my eyes — one by one, look into my eyes. After I make you cry we will scrub these cow bones and we will weep and sing. This is all I can offer you."

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem

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This is figure 1, which shows meat consumption and carbon hoofprint across the USA.

More than 11 million tonnes of meat is consumed in cities in the US every year, according to an analysis in Nature Climate Change. This equates to 329 million tonnes of carbon emissions, which is comparable to emission levels from US domestic fossil fuel use. go.nature.com/3Jo8DEh 🧪

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.

Congratulations to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social professor Omar M. Yaghi for winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his groundbreaking work, which has already shown promise in yielding drinkable water from desert air. 💙 💛 🏅 www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-berk...