"No, ‘Western society’ has not fallen from some mythic elevated past. But such right-wing views are appealing, and the left needs an answer to them if we want to avoid being pushed back into traditional hierarchies."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/04...
A Colt Is My Passport (1967) - Takashi Nomura
Shigeyoshi Mine (Cinematography)
Byzantium (not Constantinople)
A community of semiretired scholars debating Ancient Greek translation provides a model of dedication in an attention-poor world.
www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2025/f... via @SatPaper
‘Even the sound of the water has changed’: can Bogotá bring its wetlands back from the brink? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Cosas que uno se encuentra en la prensa antigua.
-¿es usted ario?
- No, señor. Yo soy Arias
Periodico "El Bolchevique" Bogotá, julio 17 de 1934
Made in Hong Kong (1997) - Fruit Chan
Wah-Chuen Lam / Sing-Pui O (Cinematography)
Made in Hong Kong (1997) - Fruit Chan
"But the world is moving much too fast. So fast, that when you finally get to fit in with it... it's become another brand new world!"
Le Notti Bianche (1957) - Luchino Visconti
"God bless you for the moment of happiness you gave me. Even a moment's worth can last a lifetime"
"Failures of Kindness"
"Do all the other things, the ambitious things- travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes, swim naked in wild jungle rivers – but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness".
jamesclear.com/great-speech...
The philosopher who warned us about loneliness and totalitarianism
"What makes loneliness so unbearable is the loss of one’s own self, which can be realized in solitude, but confirmed in its identity only by the trusting and trustworthy company of my equals.”
www.vox.com/vox-conversa...
Estoy estrenando sartén de hierro..... e hice un pancake alemán (Dutch Baby).
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) - Tsai Ming-liang
Jesus, I love Bluesky. The replies here kick ass…
The Cranes Are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) - 1957
Mikhail Kalatozov
"That's love, my dear: a mutual giddiness"
Taipei Story (1985) - Edward Yang
I want to feel the Xmas cheer but the overwhelming feeling is this... send help. 😩
![Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist and education specialist, said “the modern hype” of generative AI had led edtech to “plug that word into every aspect of their products — even when, or especially when, it doesn’t belong”.
“Edtech companies are largely composed of engineers, businesspeople and economists,” he said. “Very rarely will you see a practising teacher or educator anywhere in the mix. Their failure to meaningfully impact education is [because] they do not understand the field they are trying to evolve.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/bafkreigcofkesrr4d6ssf7z3ypa6utow3ei7jqtfli2ncq5ncc7pff4mvi)
Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist and education specialist, said “the modern hype” of generative AI had led edtech to “plug that word into every aspect of their products — even when, or especially when, it doesn’t belong”. “Edtech companies are largely composed of engineers, businesspeople and economists,” he said. “Very rarely will you see a practising teacher or educator anywhere in the mix. Their failure to meaningfully impact education is [because] they do not understand the field they are trying to evolve.”
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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais
Dragon Inn (1967)
King Hu
Cinematography by Hui-Ying Hua
"Antes que me hubiera apasionado por mujer alguna, jugué mi corazón al azar y me lo ganó la violencia".
Se cumplen cien años de la publicación de La Vorágine. Rivera quiso que coincidiera con el cumpleaños de su madre, el 24 de noviembre.
Miren la belleza del manuscrito y de la primera edición 🔥❤️
Gracias a las vacunas, el virus de polio se controló en menos de 4 décadas a niveles muy cercanos a la erradicación. Sólo quedan algunos reductos en Pakistán y Afganistán. Podríamos ser la generación que lo termine del todo.
A menos que a alguien se le ocurra desatar una ola mundial anti-vacunas.
Neil deGrasse Tyson tweets: "In school, rarely do we learn how data become facts, how faces become knowledge, and how knowledge becomes wisdom." Matthew Gabriele quote tweets: "Literally, the Humanities."
Skimming through slide decks from my erstwhile "Data Infrastructure" class, I happened upon this treasure from the Old Place:
"“..can we speed run this? Because after the print Revolution, there were 200 years of religious wars, and for a hundred of them, the bestselling book after The Bible was about how to identify and burn witches, and I would just love to avoid that."
"...but at the moment it feels like everything is a target, and the internet is less a machine that devours corruption and more a machine that devours trust. Trust in each other, trust in society, in institutions, in expertise, in tradition, in our ability to do democracy."
A whimsical nighttime illustration of a small village with glowing houses surrounding a circular pool of water. The houses, simple and cozy with illuminated interiors, are scattered among neatly arranged pathways and fences. A person with a box-like head is seen sitting at the edge of the pool, dipping their feet into the reflective water. The background features silhouetted trees under a cloudy, star-speckled sky, creating a serene and dreamlike ambiance. Warm lighting from the houses contrasts beautifully with the cool tones of the night, adding depth and charm to the peaceful scene.
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60 Free Film Noir Movies. Includes films by Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, John Huston & Many More. Have a good weekend.
www.openculture.com/free_film_no...
"El transito: un problema incipiente de Bogotá y ya de proporciones monstruosas"... (Revista Estampa, 21 de enero de 1939)
Revisar prensa antigua, y confirmar los problemas sisificos de Bogotá jajaja. (Esta revista tenía unas fotografias y unas ilustraciones muy bonitas para la epoca)
Gente! ya traje la cuenta de @presuntopodcast.bsky.social
"...many of us respond to our sense of powerlessness before the systems we created by turning to charlatans, who promise complete protection from all danger and limitations."
hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/w...
"Las 6.402 víctimas tienen nombre, apellido, documento de identidad y constatación de la fecha y el lugar en el que fueron asesinadas."
www.elespectador.com/judicial/la-...
