Blanco

TheConversationUS, 17 hours ago to history

How do you get cargo and supplies to a shoreline where there are no ports or piers?

That’s the problem the relief effort faced in Gaza, and one that military forces and humanitarian groups have faced countless times in #history.
During World War 2, a navy engineer figured out a solution, using this model of cigar boxes as the prototype to show how a steel pontoon causeway could be made.

https://theconversation.com/how-the-gaza-humanitarian-aid-pier-traces-its-origins-to-discarded-cigar-boxes-before-world-war-ii-230267
#Histodons @histodons

Blanco, 7 days ago to random

End of day during a rainy afternoon. #sunset

purplepadma, 23 days ago to random

Must buy rhubarb tomorrow

Blanco, 29 days ago to random

This year all the bulbs came out with the plant. But only few produced a tulip flower. I think that the 7000 feet is not what the Tulips like. It is too late already. I suspect they will all die without flowering. I am sad.

jann, 1 month ago to random

People who don't make beds freak me the hell out!

ianRobinson, 1 month ago to movies

Anyone But You has passed $216 million at the global box office. Via word of mouth from people seeing it as the critics panned it.

I saw it twice in the cinema (I think) and bought it on VOD. Audience scores is 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. I rated it 8/10. I might up it to 9.😊

#Film #AnyoneButYou

Blanco, 2 months ago to random

Drink before dinner with serenade.

Blanco, 2 months ago to random

Little birding station in Iguazú, Argentina. Lots of birds come to drink and nest around this wooden structure.

Blanco, 2 months ago to random

Oldest Cafe in Buenos Aires.

simplenomad, 3 months ago to fediverse

Hmmm, every server I'm getting spam from has a new user in their public directory named yqqwe, and each one of these users is following mastodon_admin_yggwe on a single-user instance mastodon.tinynews.org. One can look at the 924 followers of this admin and they all are named yqqwe and they are all on servers I've been getting #spam from. #fediverse #moderation #administration

ninokadic, 3 months ago to philosophy

My paper got published in Synthese! 🥲

“Inspired by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics of monads, I will focus on a relational explanation of how simple subjects could constitute complex experiences, without them having to combine in virtue of their subjectivity. I call this view monadic panpsychism.”

You can download it for free here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04464-0

#philosophy #openaccess #academia #panpsychism #consciousness #academicchatter @philosophy @philosophyofmind @academicchatter

LeftistLawyer, 3 months ago to ai

An #AI mania explanation thread:

Consider this:
When the U.S. Constitution was drafted human beings were entirely capable of comprehensively understanding nearly every aspect of how the world around them worked.

How to grow food. Run a business. Understand emerging topics in science, math, philosophy and the arts. The optimism running through the renaissance thinkers is not surprising.

The drafters of the Constitution were masters of their world (to often unfortunately include slaves). They were confident in their direction moving into the future because they could predict the future --- based on their comprehensive knowledge of their present.

/1

#elite #TechBros #technology #future #prediction

Blanco, 3 months ago to random

@ainmosni Computer-whisperer? I am afraid to ask!

Carl Weathers Dies: ‘Rocky’ & ‘Predator’ Star Who Appeared In ‘Happy Gilmore’, ‘The Mandalorian’ & More Was 76 (deadline.com)

Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films and appeared in Predator, The Mandalorian, Happy Gilmore, Action Jackson and dozens of other films and TV shows, died Tuesda…

azforeman, 3 months ago to poetry

Video of me reciting a short poem by Adunis in Arabic and then in English

Prophecy
By Adunis

Out of our thousand-year-old sleep,
Out of our stunted history,
To the country dug grave-like into our lives,
To this drugged, murdered land,
A reverenceless sun arrives
To kill the sheikh of locusts and of sand
And time that grows on its plains
And withers on its plains
Like fungus
Up from behind this bridge comes dawn
Of a death-loving, destroyer sun.

@poetry

https://youtu.be/OX_5fRl-zLc

ninokadic, 3 months ago to academia

Come up with an acronym for PHD! 📚

I'll start:

Pretty
Hectic
Days

@academicchatter #academicchatter #academia #phdlife #phdchat #phd

Blanco, 3 months ago to snowboarding

It did snow during the night, and we woke up to a winter wonderland again. It is a beautiful sunny day and blue sky. Life is good. #snow

A Robin is at the top of the leaveless tree looking at the snowy landscape.

Carolepayne, 4 months ago to architecture

More funky architecture. Tirana.
#architecture #photography #photo #Photomonday #Photos #Travel #travelphotography

A second photo of colourful cubes superimposed. These are oink and fuschia and a small purple one is visible in the back.

Blanco, 4 months ago to animals

I enjoy very much all the photos in #dogsofmastodon but make me think of our sweet Gaspar. This one from 2021 with a little something on his nose. ❤️

Blanco, 4 months ago to random

I think it is pretty end of the day. What do you think? #sunset

ElleGray, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Excuse me, pope, sir, I've got mary on line 2

BeAware, 4 months ago to aiart

Big glowing cock.😏🤣

#AIart #MidJourneyArt #MidjourneyAI #ArtificialIntelligence #MastoArt #FediArt #Art #Artist #GenerativeArt #GenerativeAI #Midjourney

StillIRise1963, 5 months ago to random

The only way to get where ALL OF US want to go, is through using JOE BIDEN to get to the NEXT STEP. There is NO OTHER WAY. The only other candidate who can win, will make everything you want to see happen merely ACADEMIC. You'll NEVER be able to fight for whatever it is, EVER AGAIN. You won't be able to BE IT, DO IT, TALK ABOUT IT without serious problems. There's NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT.

billyjoebowers, 5 months ago to random

Tree's up.

Does it ever end? (lemmy.world)