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teledyn, to random

"This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
A cat was paid a penny each week, to keep down the rats and mice in the north tower, and a cat flap was cut into the door below the astronomical clock to allow the cat to carry out its duties.
Records of payments were entered in the Cathedral archives from 1305 to 1467, the penny a week being enough to buy food to supplement a heavy diet of rodents."

sundogplanets, to random
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social avatar

Apparently within Hinduism, some consider eclipses to be pretty terrible events and take great pains to not see them. I learned this from a student, who was worried because I had given an extra credit assignment to observe the lunar eclipse and the upcoming solar eclipse.

I'm not religious myself, but I teach at a Catholic school, so I feel like if we're talking about one religion, we should talk about all of them. I"ll have to think about how to deal with this respectfully in the future...

teledyn,

@sundogplanets could they observe using a pin hole camera?

teledyn, to random

"This post is not shared." 😾

teledyn, to random

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, spearheaded by @gbhnews in Boston to preserve and make available public funded programming from around the country, now hosts more than 7000 public television and radio programs available to stream through the website, with more than 40000 hours of programming archived and available to researchers and educators through the Library of Congress and GBH itself.

https://americanarchive.org/

teledyn, to random

RIP Peter Schickele, a classmate and friend of Philip Glass, unsurprisingly

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NpL0J5l5qEE&si=cGnfNizXJvFRZZxf

golgaloth, to movies
@golgaloth@writing.exchange avatar

No, no. Hear me out. I have a great idea for the next Muppet movie.

teledyn,

@golgaloth @Susan60

teledyn, to random

Fang would like to remind you that there are only 3 shopping days left before

teledyn, to Astro

The Big Bang theory tells the story of the beginning of the Universe, our cosmic home for the last 13.8 billion years. But how does the story end?

@AstroKatie shares what modern astrophysics tells us about the ultimate fate of the cosmos, and what the catastrophic destruction of all reality would look like to anyone still around to see it.

Aug 24, 8pm (after booksigning)

http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/astrotours/

teledyn, to Spotify

These reports bug me. Yes, steals 87% of the tracks it lists and pays US $0.003 per listen HOWEVER if you adjust the ~$20 in 1975 USD paid to stream to CHUM's two million (mostly involuntary and captive) listeners, that's $0.00057 per stream in today's money, and ONLY the chart toppers (and payola-backed) were played, the other 87% got stopped at the front desk.

As for downloads, in 1975 a 45 might net a band 10¢ (57¢ today) to split.

https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/a-pyramid-of-inequality

teledyn, to random

"In an AI generated statement from his party…" — BBC world news

First occurrence of the phrase in my experience. YMMV.

teledyn, to random

Let's see if I have this straight. Instead of deploying affordable housing, folks can stay in their broken tents, and 'someday' we will have more of the shelters they won't go to because they are awful places with no privacy or security, AND rather than reducing rents, we will hand the poor more taxpayer's money they can instantly hand to greedy landlords so the gov't isn't accused of just giving tax money to their rich land-hoarding friends directly, because that's icky?

teledyn, to random

5 second rule for fridge doors:

If you still don't know what you wanted, what you wanted was water.

#fivesecondrule

teledyn, to random

“What would you be communicating if you had to become someone else to communicate it? I mean, what is that?”

— Anthony Braxton (1985)

teledyn, to random

Weekend reads: More retractions at Columbia; ‘an epidemic of scientific fraud’; when articles cite retracted papers – Retraction Watch

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/03/23/weekend-reads-more-retractions-at-columbia-an-epidemic-of-scientific-fraud-when-articles-cite-retracted-papers/

teledyn, to random

#SunRa #MrRa #Mystery #MrMystery #ihavemanynames #namesofglory #namesofshame #ihavemanynames

https://www.tumblr.com/defjux/745352118208217088

teledyn, to random

teledyn, to random

It doesn't cost a million dollars to house a human, and if this was for soldiers in a war zone, there would be shelter built within the day.

https://www.tumblr.com/theehabitual/743330166054567936/danismm-dymaxion-house-by-buckminster?source=share

teledyn, to random

It's a very big elephant. And it’s not just energy. Generative AI systems need enormous amounts of fresh water…

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

#butitissomuchFUN #burningdownthehouse

teledyn, to television

I should explain, for those not into vintage tech electronics, 'television' was like, well, imagine a YouTube influencer livestream channel that shows whole episodes 24hrs a day, the tv was a device to play any of three such channels…

https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/741082506469801984/how-television-works-1977?source=share

teledyn, to Economics

Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology offers a stark choice for humanity | The Week

> Capital and Ideology is a work of political economy in the broadest sense — a staggeringly ambitious effort attempting to synthesize centuries of history, economics, and politics into one grand picture.

https://theweek.com/articles/906013/worlds-dominant-ideology-breaking-what-replace

teledyn, to random

Japan’s Moon lander publishes statement: "rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00260-z

thepoliticalcat, to random
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    teledyn,

    @thepoliticalcat

    "Stay out of churches, son. All they got is the key to the shit house. And swear to me you'll never wear a lawman's badge."

    — Wm S Burroughs, Place of Dead Roads (1983)

    teledyn, to random

    @JohanEmpa @teledyn @tml @Fabimaru @wikiyu @gerrymcgovern

    Is it true still that just one data centre uses as much power as a town with 50,000 homes?

    teledyn,

    @gerrymcgovern @JohanEmpa @tml @Fabimaru @wikiyu

    This is tangental, and I wish I could find it again, but some months ago I read a blog post from an engineer who wanted to throw the alarm about our near-constant 3% annual growth in energy requirements. That's a compound interest.

    In the paper his napkin estimates show us that, at this rate, and assuming we get PERFECT 100% efficient E=mc² within this year, humans will have consumed the entire mantle of Earth in a few centuries. 😅

    ai6yr, to random
    @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org avatar

    Take your bees to work day? I''ll bee in my office? Bee careful about those co-workers?

    teledyn,

    @ai6yr that seems risky. Certainly the English beheaded a few monarchs and one might argue the replacements were 'better', but look what happened in France and Russia! Are we prepared for a Republic of Socialist Bees? 😟

    65dBnoise, to Israel
    @65dBnoise@mastodon.social avatar

    There is an ancient Greek word that fits perfectly the cynical US position in :

    Όνειδος

    The US kept vetoing a ceasefire agreement in the UN when thousands of children and civilians were butchered by Israelis, who in their genocidal menace killed even freed Israeli hostages; it keeps pouring tons of weapons to to this day.

    The Guardian makes no connection of the sudden change of heart in the US position to the coming in November.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/us-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-with-draft-un-resolution

    teledyn,

    @65dBnoise

    It's odd that no one mentions Smedley Butler much anymore. Has he been cancelled?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

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