Posts by Daniel Probst
... so neither 😉
Bist du sicher, dass es nicht Fribourg ist?
Tarkovsky's Solaris, The Man Who Fell to Earth
8h? A few Ultima games released on SNES 😉
Hollywood's role as a tool for cultural imperialism/hegemony, e.g. for pushing consumerism, is obvious. But what I find currently interesting to observe here is the way in which many Americans themselves only view political events through a Disneyfied lens (quite literally in the case of e.g. Andor)
A star chart as seen from Alpha Centauri. The sun is a part of the constellation Cassiopeia.
The location of the sun as seen from Alpha Centauri. I guess we'd be Cassiopeia's foot?
(Source: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-bl...)
Plus, not having to live in the US is worth at least 60k a year
TIL: Chinese astronomical records report that in 365 BC, Gan De detected what might have been a moon of Jupiter, probably Ganymede, with the naked eye.
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981BAAS...
Gunboat diplomacy:
"The term originated in the 19th century, during the age of imperialism, when Western powers [...] would use their superior military capabilities, particularly their naval assets, to intimidate less powerful nations into granting concessions."
Ne... voll mit Blagen...
Rocknpop museum
So, mal schauen @andyrage.bsky.social 😁
Interesting name of the pub, given Franklin had pretty much the opposite opinion regarding what is written on the poster in the second image...
Nlw that's what I call cool! I discovered them after the Genoa G8 protests
Luca Persico for me...
You mean Nirvana? 😉
Something by Ion Maiden?
A couple of years ago I introduced PhD students to Cypress Hill...
Glaub’ ich nicht, wenn er’s sogar an Journalisten verzapft …
They used to call these crimes punitive expeditions ...
... or it might be the AI rewrite feature at this point
Just did my bi-weekly check for new messages on LinkedIn and I really would like to know what sequence of events brings a person to type the words "I'm thrilled ...".
You mean: You're too busy to think about these things? ;-)
Also Lagerhallen mit halb-ausgepackten Paletten 😁
When reading about the 10s and 100s of billions being spent/wasted on "AI" infrastructure or the military, remember this:
"Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year"
(news.un.org/en/story/202...)
Du @andyrage.bsky.social, ist Kaufland mehr Aldi oder EDEKA?
Die haben Verschwörungstheoretikerin und Quacksalberin falsch geschrieben...
Ich bin vor allem enttäuscht, dass es niemand aus dem Team oder Staff geleakt hat.