Aoi

Birth constitutes an original illness, implants a germ of death in each of us.

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The Orpheus Mosaic before conservation at Paphos, Cyprus

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😔👊👊👊👊🤘

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will never not b so good

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The trend that changes everything: dancing pallbearers in Peru In Peru, there is a tradition of "dancing pallbearers": during funerals, they carry the coffin to music, offering a cheerful alternative to mourning.

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Cusco, Peru. From the book The World of Werner Bischof: A Photographer’s Odyssey, 1959

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Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

National Museum of Uzbekistan (opening in 2028)

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I don’t speak enough Italian/French to be able to do the proper research I’d like to make a post on this, but today is the feast of Our Lady of Mentorella and the pilgrimage site tied to her; the Our Lady of Mentorella’s shrine is one of the oldest Marian devotional shrines in Europe, and legend has it the apparition of the stag to St. Eustace happened at the spot of the shrine. St. Benedict is also said to have taken refuge in the caves there. While the popularity of the pilgrimage site had fallen throughout the centuries, the shrine increased notoriety again after Pope John Paul II took a particular interest in it, and now Pope Leo has taken to visiting as well. It is slowly becoming a major pilgrimage site once again.

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this for semen retention

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kisskiss

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LLM’s are the court eunuch for a lot people.

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After seeing a lot of AI-powered hasbara talking points from a lot of people I’ve come to realize that the primary appeal of LLM’s for these persons (if one can call them that) is the neutered illusion of intellectual opposition. On rare occasion they will say “no, that’s not right” to something widely attested across numerous sources as untrue, but not too often, and any opposition they do mount inevitably folds and retreats at the slightest bit of maneuvering or pushback from the user.

The appeal, for many, is specifically this illusion of feeling like you are convincing a meekly oppositional mind to take up your view, where previously they hadn’t believed in it or held it. (But stripped of all the rigour, discipline, and effort necessary to accomplish this with an actual thinking being.) It’s a very lizard-brain-level appeal.

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LLM’s are the court eunuch for a lot people.

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Extruding pasta