Not only does Alex Karp of Palantir misunderstand Tolkien, he also fails to grasp the most basic mechanics of sword arts. Also, that weapon looks like a cheap, bad wallhanger, even on a tiny screen.
More than a million German renters are generating their own clean electricity — not with rooftop solar, but with two panels plugged into a regular wall outlet on their balcony. No electrician. No permits. No landlord permission required.
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Some Toronto back laneways are galleries.
The towers of Mimico rising from a bank of mist, seen from the north east.
Mimico looking mysterious in the mist. I think it’s coming off the Humber River.
We could all use a WTF filter these days.
Here it is. The story of Hungary's democratic development is first the collapse of the incumbents who failed to become a capable opposition AND the intense work to develop a party that could challenge Fidez
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau at Coachella
Orbán Viktor @PM_ViktorOrban Had a great meeting today with @IDUAlliance Chairman @stephenharper. International cooperation between right-wing, conservative parties is more important than ever. Chairman Harper is a great ally in this respect. Thank you for your support, Mr. Chairman! Orbán Viktor
It's kinda interesting to think about how differently Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper have spent their retirement years
Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"
The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
This one appears to be disc-shaped, with four circles cut out, which is a little bit different from the shape of an iron cross, although young Republicans may indeed not be fussy about the distinction. I’m also looking at the chunky signet ring and suspecting that it’s a historical reproduction.
The brooch on the right-hand guy looks like a pendant found in Leeds last year and may indicate some kind of ”Anglo-Saxon” identity thing. The RenFaire crowd may know him. #MedievalSky, have you taught this person?
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Þæs ofereode, þisses Swa mæg not.
I did a tour of U of T before I went there in 1996, but I lived only an hour away. My father and I also drove out to Kingston to tour Queen’s.
Techbro Georg is a cave-dwelling outlier and should not have been counted.
I feel like the Liberal riding association in Sarnia-Lambton may not be quick to accept this. I really wonder if she can win a nomination meeting. When three more years in your job, followed by the abrupt termination of your career, looks like the best deal, it certainly says a lot.
It speaks to just how bad PP is at his job that so many Conservative MPs no longer see a future in their party.
The Letter of the Zaporozhian Cossacks could be a sort of apocryphal precedent, but that one was profane because it was supposed to be the response of plucky barbarians to a threatening empire. In this case, the US is not supposed to be the underdog—and the tweet just isn’t that clever or funny.
I'm thinking that now would be a good time for historians to jump in and give us a history of the etiquette of written threats by heads of state. Being a medievalist (but not a historian of war), I can't think of any that top today's threat from POTUS in their complete lack of diplomatic skill. 🗃️
Well, for one thing, letters of defiance are supposed to come before the fighting starts, not after.
#ArchivesAtoZ:
D is for digitization: it's more complicated than you'd think, meaning we need to be selective and strategic:
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An archway of vermiculated stonework leading to large wooden doors.
The only other example I know if is the front facade of Osgoode Hall in Toronto. It’s also a legal institution, and this bit was built in 1860. (Pic by Toronto Journey 416)
Drinking and staring at your tablet, sixteenth-century style.
It always frustrates me when politicians and candidates flub a question in French at town halls. In deepest Toronto, it’s always the same q: What will you do to protect Francophone rights and culture? You can prepare the answer ahead of time! You can get native speakers to help you! It’s a freebie!
As of right now, 9:45 pm, it’s still the top story on the sites of CBC News, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, CNN, and Fox News.
Desideratissimo et reverendissimo patri Albino, Beda Christi famulus, salutem. Dedicatio Gratantissime suscepi munuscula tuae dilectionis, quae per venerabilem fratrem nostrum Nothelmum presbyterum mittere dignatus es, et maxime litteras, quibus me iam secunda vice in ecclesiastica gentis nostrae historia, ad quam me scribendam iamdudum instigaveras, creber adiuvare atque instituere curasti. Propter quod et ipse tibi rectissime eandem historiam, mox ut consummare potui, ad transcribendum remisi. Sed et aliud, quod te partim desiderare comperi, volumen tibi vice remunerationis aeque ad transcribendum destinavi, videlicet, illud quod de structura templi Salomonis atque allegorica eius interpretatione nuper edidi. Teque, amantissime pater, supplex obsecro, ut pro mea fragilitate cum his, qui tecum sunt, famulis Christi, apud pium Iudicem sedulus intercedere memineris: sed et eos, ad quos eadem nostra opuscula pervenire feceris, hoc idem facere monueris. Bene vale, semper amantissime in Christo pater optime.
I HAVE thankfully received the testimonies of your love which you have condescended to send me by the hands of our venerable brother Nothelm the priest, and especially your letter, in which you have shown so much solicitude, this second time, to give me aid and information for my Ecclesiastical History, a work which I first undertook at your instigation. Wherefore also I have with great propriety sent it to you, as I was able to finish it, to be copied.* But I intend to repay you by forwarding to you another volume for the same purpose, as I find, also, is consistent with your own wishes, namely, that which I have lately published on the building of Solomon's temple, and its allegorical signification. And I humbly beseech you, most loving father, and Christ's servants who are with you, to intercede fervently with the righteous in behalf of my frailty; and to admonish those, to whom you shall show my work, to do the same. Fare you well, my good and ever loving father in Christ.
Bede, servant of Christ and priest, to the most reverend and learned Abbot Albinus, greetings. The Ecclesiastical History is complete, or at least I have completed it as fully as my sources allow — and here I must thank you, whose generosity in sharing the Canterbury archives has made a large part of the work possible. The history of the southern English church — the Augustinian mission, the archbishops of Canterbury, the councils and controversies of the seventh century — is documented in your archives in ways it is not documented anywhere in Northumbria. Without your assistance in providing copies of documents, narrative accounts from knowledgeable informants, and the episcopal lists that I needed for the chronology, I would have been writing the history of the north only and leaving the south as a shadow. What I still lack — and I write partly to acknowledge the gap and to ask whether anything can be done about it — is reliable documentation for certain events in the history of the East Anglian and Middle English churches. The informants I have consulted have been helpful but incomplete, and I am aware that what I have written about those regions is thinner than I would like. If you know of any further sources — letters, narrative accounts, episcopal records — that bear on those churches and that could be shared, I would be grateful to receive them even if the History is already complete. They could inform a revised edition if the work is widely enough copied to justify one. With all gratitude, Bede
Update: it gets so much worse. All of Bede's letters have no basis in the original Latin at all. This one reads like a modern email!
(Original Latin, real translation, fake "translation")
Billions of people, possibly including you reading this, are alive today because you can run natural gas into a reactor and spit out ammonia (Haber Bosch).
A large % of the installed base for that process is shut in or exploded. It’s northern hemisphere spring.
AI has some uses for transcribing and translating historical documents, but without a knowledgeable human editor, it’s just spewing slop into the world.
Controversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.
Toronto vibes in 50 photos.
The art to what Mamdani does is that he doesn't assume you know anything of the story he's telling. But he also doesn't assume you don't know. He tells it in a way that is a compelling retelling to those that know and a compelling first telling to those that don't.
(hint: this is very hard)