Detenebrate

Detenebrate: v; To free from darkness or obscurity

[afurioushawk]

[eebie]

I just ate one

[eebie]

You can lie when you name things

[philosophybits]

“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”

— Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia

[philosophybits]

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Journals

[memories-of-ancients]

Gilded bronze funerary mask, China, Liao Dynasty, 907-1125 AD

from The Cernuschi Museum

[tridentandtales]

Greek statue of a dog gnawing a bone

3rd - 2nd century BCE

Metropolitan Museum of Art 36.11.12

[nemfrog]

Prairie dog sketches in a naturalist’s field notebook. 1892.

[memories-of-ancients]

Jade figurine, Olmec, 800-300 BC

from Dumbarton Oaks

[nemfrog]

"Maxim's lamp." Modern applications of electricity. 1883.

Hiram Maxim, who held seventeen patents on incandescent lamps, considered himself to be the inventor of the commercial light bulb.

Internet Archive

[philosophybits]

“When a rhetorician who does not know good from bad addresses a city which knows no better and attempts to sway it, not praising a miserable donkey as if it were a horse, but bad as if it were good, and, having studied what the people believe, persuades them to do something bad instead of good — with that as its seed, what sort of crop do you think rhetoric can harvest?”

— Plato, Phaedrus

[philosophybits]

“Scrutinizing ever so carefully, crafty in wisdom, parading your arrogance — all this invites mistrust.”

— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 13)

[victusinveritas]

[detenebrate]

We have long ago seized all of the low-hanging fruit from the tree of technological advancement. We have built our economy on the sole element of eternal growth and development, and there just isn’t much left to do. Nothing is built for sustained capacity. Nothing is built to reward predictable, steady delivery of high-quality, low-cost goods and services by a well-compensated workforce. Everything is built to scale until one can hand the broken, exhausted wreck of a company off to a large private equity firm or an ipo. Everything is built for cash grabs and gold-rushes, and there is just not much gold left.

[detenebrate]

“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”

- William James, The Principles of Psychology, p. 4

[detenebrate]

Interior of the kitchen

[swamp-spirit]

The real horror of a Stepford Wives situation isn't 'the suburbs are creepy' or even 'conformity is creepy' or 'I don't wanna be replaced by a robot'

The horror is the idea that you might choose to spend your life with somebody only to realize they don't actually want a partner and friend, somebody with ambitions and thoughts and joy. They want somebody productive, compliant, and sexually available, and all your internal life is nothing but a barrier to that. That the person you love only loves what you do for them, and the less of the an actual person you are, the happier they are.

[kremlin]

this is so fucking funny

[kremlin]

i can't stop thinking about this. this kind of shit is not like milsim plane nerds with their own super-expensive desktop cockpit recreations. that kind of hardware makes sense to exist.

this does not. they're playing world of tanks which is like the "call of duty" of tank games (casual, players only slightly bad-smelling). it also doesn't have support for tank peripherals. no game does. no trainers do afaik. which means that (assuming this isn't just a video editing) all of that shit they are fucking with translates into mouse/keyboard inputs that the game understands. that's weird/hard and perplexing, uh, and considering that "tank peripherals" aren't a thing that exist i can only guess they built them theirselves

which is fucking hilarious because why are they so good. why does the fucking cannon breech have a little dry ice smoke effect when the breech opens like they just shot a shell. what. manual turret traverse crank?? did they build a fucking ready rack!! they're even using the correct phraseology which means one of these mofos read a PDF file

[gay-jesus-probably]

Oh yeah, these guys. Yeah, that's. That's one of their older builds. They've upgraded a bit since then.

To be perfectly clear, this is all still just for the sole purpose of playing a video game.

[lionofchaeronea]

Marble relief of the goddess Nemesis. Nemesis, whose name is related to a verbal root meaning "to apportion" "or to give one one's due," was a deity who punished acts of hubris -- overweening arrogance, a key moral failing in ancient Greek thought. She had a cult from a very early period in the Attic deme of Rhamnous, where a beautiful Roman-era statue of her has been found (now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples). Nemesis gained in importance in the Hellenistic period, when she was connected with the goddess Tyche (Fortune): Nemesis could be seen as one who balanced out the uneven gifts of Tyche.

This marble relief dates to the 3rd century BCE (early Hellenistic period) and was found at Brindisi (=ancient Brundisium), Italy. In it, Nemesis is shown wearing the polos, a cylindrical headdress that came to Greece from mother-goddesses of the ancient Near East, and holding a phiale, a flat dish used for pouring libations. She tramples on a defeated enemy, perhaps representing hubris. Two winged figures of Nike (Victory) flank her headdress, while six others attend her, three to a side.

Now in the Museo archeologico provinciale "Francesco Ribezzo" (MAPRI), Brindisi, Italy. Photo credit: Mark Landon | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International