A skull with partly long hair.

Made in 1510 for the Iron Maiden LPs of the 1980s. #IronMaiden

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Who spotted the fly on the skull?

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It is truly stunning. Agreed

A skull with partly long hair.

Made in 1510 for the Iron Maiden LPs of the 1980s. #IronMaiden

By the way, the print is a #xylographica. That means it is one of few examples left of the art of European block printing (in the second half of the 15th century). Basically a woodcut with blocks carved to include both text and image. #bookhistory

Oh, vanity!

Thanks for this!

This is a wonderful source for cultural history!

Recently I delved into the cultural history of the mirror and found this great blog on this image of Marcia from Giovanni Boccaccio’s book, De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women, ca. 1404).
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She is holding the mirror like nowadays kids hold their smartphones. A true memento mori influencer …

You may access a digitized copy of this #earlymodern print with the title "Ich gfall mir billich wol ..." with a flap over here:

www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b...

The print with the woman holding a mirror.

The print with the woman holding the mirror, but this time her head is a skull.

The paper flap is doing the show. #bookhistory

This was both a powerful and artful memento mori: an elegant woman looking into the mirror, and rapidly aging with the paper flap. This was printed in 1510 Germany, #skystorians

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.

Luna

#llebeDoro

Macaroni Monitoring

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Agreed

Trolling #genAI wherever possible, is a conscious choice.

Glosse aus der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung von heute: Stussgebet Das wird nie wieder vorkommen! Pete Hegseth, der tiefgläubige Kriegsminis-ter, hat versehentlich einen Fake-Bi-belvers aus „Pulp Fiction" rezitiert. Auf Weisung des Maga-Vatikan ist ab so-fort weltweit nur noch ein Gebet er-laubt. Mit den Worten, die Trump uns gelehrt hat: Potus unser im Weißen Haus. Geheiligt werde dein Ballsaal. Dein No-belpreis komme. Dein Wille geschehe, wie im Iran, so in Venezuela. Unseren täglichen Social-Media-Wutausbruch gib uns heute. Und vergib uns unsere niedrigen Verteidigungsausgaben, wie auch wir vergeben unseren fanatisch linken Woke-Regierungen. Und führe uns nicht in den Atomkrieg, sondern er-löse uns von den Mullahs. Denn dein ist der Reichtum, und der Zoll und die Großartigkeit in Ewigkeit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"Die Ecke" in der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung ist der Hauptgrund für mein Abo.

„Die privilegirte Köchin Kahlfelden in Wolfenbüttel, macht hiedurch bekannt, daß sie in allen Arten von Essenmachen bekanntermaßen geschickt ist, auch wohlschmeckendes Backwerk zu machen versteht, und serviret sie zugleich die Tafel, weil sie …

As you can see on Jupiters hand (5 fingers), the image was not made by AI.

That’s a like a scene from #lotr or #totk

The printed sheet with the image details and a text part (GW 1549).

And here is the page in full glory for #earlymodern #astrology and #astronomy fun: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb0...

Three figures from the almanac: a knight (Mars) is on the left with a lance, and on the right is Jupiter.

While being attacked with a lance by Mars, Jupiter is clearly holding his ground very confidently. Someone even drew a protection sphere into the printed scene! Wow.

A printed figure with a hat, titles "Jupiter" in an almanac from 1500 (GW 1549).

What a badass! #Jupiter owns his place in this almanac from 1500. #skystorians

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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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