Australian author Thomas Alexander Browne died #OTD in 1915.
Boldrewood is best known for his novel "Robbery Under Arms," which was published in 1882. This novel is considered one of the greatest Australian colonial novels and is a classic in Australian literature. Boldrewood wrote other novels and stories as well, many of which depicted life in the Australian bush and frontier during the 19th century.
Stop going to Harry Potter land and Harry Potter on Broadway and the Harry Potter store. When brands collaborate with Harry Potter, complain to them. Make it uncomfortable to stoke and celebrate violence against us.
Stupid and arrogant move by Tesla, removing the turn signal stalks in new cars and forcing drivers to fumble around with buttons.
A physical example of how the tech industry constantly changes the UX in software -- like breaking into your house, rearranging your living room, and not allowing you to put it back the way you liked it in the first place.
History teaching is not popular at schools lately, some people even think it's not necessary. However understanding current events around Ukraine, in Russia, around Gaza, for all of that is knowledge of history a necessity otherwise you are totally ignorant and you can't understand current events. #education#history#geopolitics
@ErikJonker But who shall write it? That is the problem. Short of reading everything, we get a limited approximation to "what hapoened" and even less of the more important "what was happening".
Perhaps AI will come to the rescue? I am not holding my breath.
March 1872. Serialisation of Sheridan Le Fanu's Gothic vampire novella Carmilla ends in the monthly The Dark Blue. Later this year it appears in his collection In a Glass Darkly. Set in the Duchy of Styria, it helps to introduce the lesbian vampire genre. Comparing the work of 2 illustrators of the story, D. H. Friston and M. Fitzgerald, reveals inconsistencies in the characters' depictions. Consequently, confusion has arisen relating the pictures to the plot.
With 13 Oscar nominations, all signs point to #Oppenheimer as the star of the 96th #AcademyAwards. But a historian – whose research has revolved around the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing – explains why they are disappointed by the award-winning film.
“Yet again, the dominant narrative of the bombs chugs along,” writes Naoko Wake of Michigan State University. And the victims aren’t shown.
@TheConversationUS@histodons The movie whatever its merits or otherwise is not about the bomb or its deployment. It is about Oppenheimer as the title suggests to the discerning.
He's a rapist, which should disqualifying.
He mishandled top secret documents, which should disqualifying.
He encouraged a violent insurrection and continues to lie about the 2020 election, which should disqualifying.
He defrauded customers and workers at his businesses, which should disqualifying.
He torpedoed a bill to protect the border, which should disqualifying.
He cheated on all three of his wives, which should disqualifying.
Every election. Every race. Every Democrat. #VoteBlue
Some recent drystone work. A complete strip out and rebuild of this garden retaining wall which failed after only 30 years due to traced stone. All stone reused and we brought in some local fieldstone too.
Super sustainable, beautiful, lasts for generations. What's not to like?
Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of people who thought I did a great job delivering the Republican response to the State of the Union. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.
Some of the most eminent scientific women. Top row, lefth to right: Émilie du Châtelet, Ada Lovelace, Maria Mitchell, Elisabetha Koopman Hevelius, Laura Bassi, Marie Curie. Bottow row, left to right: Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamarr, Jane Goodall, Katherine Johnson, Lise Meitner.
The New York Times is now visibly working -- from the "news" side of the operation -- to undermine Biden's re-election.
More than most of Big Journalism, it has been thumping the right-wing-generated "he's too old" drum even before the 2020 election. The poll published today, from my perspective, is designed to further a narrative that the so-called Paper of Record has done so much to create.
I thought a new top editor might be an improvement. Kahn has been, in fact, a disaster.
@dangillmor Biden has been unwise and is jeopardising a Democratic victory. Is there yet time for him to announce he will not run and anoint a younger candidate?
AOS is probably too young
This year
And, sadly, a bridge too far.
I'm tired of hearing about AI, to be honest. I never cared for it. I don't respect people who use generative AI, and I despise companies that sell out people's data to train it. Yes, people will lose jobs to it, but the world will not be better for it. It's just that consequences are rarely immediately apparent in such complex systems.
@GottaLaff Let's hope they don't train yet more of the currently obsolete model of physician. AI is coming and we need new types of clinician who will be comfortable being guided by it and who will provide better care as a consequence.
@GottaLaff You won't want to consult the doctors they produce. Medical schools have walked away from the traditional albeit now obsolete model yet have not embraced it's replacement, AI assisted practice. The current medical graduate is unfit having neither the traditional depth of knowledge nor the tools to access modern data. Lose lose in fact.
#OTD 1616. Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
In 1610, he published his Sidereus Nuncius, describing the observations that he had made with his new, much stronger telescope, amongst them, the Galilean moons of Jupiter. With these observations and additional observations that followed, he promoted the heliocentric theory of Copernicus published in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
