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Evgeny Sedukhin - “Symphony of the sixth blast furnace” (1979)
By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!
This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.
This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.
On the one hand I would prefer a functional government, but on the other, the sheer comedy and Schadenfreude of the House Republicans descending into petty, humiliating chaos while the Dem folks are showing up with literal popcorn and chanting for their own Speaker nominee like this is a high school sports game is filling me with manic glee.
This is the current state of American politics
I'm gonna lose it
scenes from my animated thesis film, “THE OLYMPIANS”, which you can watch here! it’s about greek mythology, 70s disco, and being gay
hello! do you know if you still have the post you reblogged a while ago about learning how to read books? ive tried searching your blog to no avail. thank you
How to read an academic text
How to respond critically to a text
How to improve reading comprehension, with a focus on parsing syntax
DEPLOY THE BOY
ALL BOYS DEPLOYED
The History of the Compass Rose
Before the invention of the compass rose, direction was measured differently in different parts of the world. The Chinese orientated themselves by the 12 signs of the zodiac, the Arabs by the stars and constellations and the Europeans by the winds in the Mediterranean. Hence the name wind rose, which indicated the wind directions, with 8 main winds, 8 half winds and 16 quarter winds. Originally, no distinction was made between a direction point and the wind that emanated from that direction. In much of Europe during the Middle Ages, the names of the 8 main winds were based on the Mediterranean lingua franca spoken between sailors from different countries around the Mediterranean: Tramontana (north), Greco (north-east), Levante (east), Sirocco (south-east), Ostro (south), Libeccio (south-west), Ponente (west) and Maestro (north-west).
This chart was published as plate 1 in Jansson’s’ 1650 Atlas Maritimus or volume 5 in his Atlantis Majoris and shows the wind names in six different languages (x)
The names of the half-winds and quarter-winds were formed by combining the names of the main winds. All medieval sailors were expected to be able to name all 32 winds, which was called “boxing in the compass”.
Wind Rose by Adam Friedrich Zurner / Johann Christoph Weigel 1739 (x)
The first compass roses or wind roses appeared in the late 1300s on portolan charts (these were nautical atlas with entries such as ports, bays and currents). The compass roses, together with the radiating and intersecting rhumb lines, were the basic elements of the portolan charts. The rhumb lines also called Loxodromen followed a single cardinal direction on a compass, and the compass roses were depicted at the intersections of the rhumb lines, often with multiple roses on a single map.
Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St. Vaast. 1544, here the Black Sea (x)
The rhumb lines formed a grid that helped the cartographer measure distances and plot various points on the map more accurately. Thus, compass roses and rhumb lines not only helped mariners navigate, but also enabled cartographers to duplicate and refine their maps. With the increasing use of magnetic compasses, the wind roses became compass roses, the direction were now used as a reference, and for sailors in the Mediterranean, the direction names initially retained their original wind names.
A highly important map regarding the early search for a Northeast Passage. This remarkable map with two compass roses was drawn in 1601 by Theodore de Bry (x)
Later, the names of the cardinal directions changed. Many cartographers of the 16th and 17th centuries used Latin names - Septentrio, Oriens, Meridies, Occidens - which are often found on maps. In the 16th century, some cartographers began to use the cardinal designations now common in most Western European languages - North, East, South and West. These were based on Carolingian names, probably created by the Frankish king Charlemagne (c. 800 AD), who renamed the main winds in his own language. The North was based on Nord (which probably means “wet” or from the rainy lands), the East on Ost (which means “shiny place” or “sunrise”), the South on Sund (sunny lands) and the West on Vuest (which means “dwelling place” or “place to go in the evening”).
Compass rose, from a nautical chart, 1588 (x)
From the 1500s onwards, the first compass roses with a fleur de lis appeared, which could have been an allusion to Christianity or as a political symbol, indicating the nobility and royalty of Europe. All in all, however, it was the symbol of the North.
Vintage Nautical Chart - The British Channel and The Bay of Biscay with a part of The North Sea and the entrance of St George’s Channel, 1780 - here are just simple compass roses to see (x)
The east was marked by a cross. It was only in the 19th century that it changed to a simple designation for the North. However, already in the 17th century the rose slowly began to disappear from maps and was only indicated by longitude and latitude. If compass roses were still used, they were only simple in design.
Tides are coming to the lower Halls. I've read 'Piranesi' and I don't want to leave.
"Terror guacamole!"
Gay USA (1977) dir. Arthur J. Bressan Jr.
The text is from a poem by Black Lesbian poet Pat Parker (pictured) . My copy is from Naming The Waves Contemporary Lesbian Poetry - ed Christian McEwan 1988.
✩✩ 𝖧𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗒 𝖭𝖾𝗐 𝖸𝖾𝖺𝗋!! 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟥 ✩✩
You can only reblog this on the 3st of January
the 3st huh?
the 3st
Nothing can slake the 3st of January.
They come after months of anti-drag rhetoric on the right.
The TLDR: violent bigots have created a site that anyone can use to report the location of a drag event.
Just to be clear: their form is at a page called Defend Texas Kids and any concerned citizens could click the report button and give the address of anywhere hosting a drag event. There doesn’t appear to be any filtering, so in theory anyone could enter any location.
They really should have a way of validating the data people enter, to stop enterprising people entering fictitious events at, say, conservative sites. The site could easily be overloaded with erroneous data making their system unusable…
I would NEVER suggest someone fill in data from any kind of list that may already exist in the wild and just needs a search or two for the right addresses. That kind of thing would definitely prevent anyone from easily sorting junk data from the database.
That’s correct. Think of it like this:
Say I’m the intern in charge of compiling the responses from a form like this. I have a database/spreadsheet with entries for everything people send. It’s full of troll responses, and I want to find the real reports.
The first thing I do is search for the phrase “All known laws of aviation” and delete anything that comes up. This takes me like two seconds and removes every single person who pasted in the Bee Movie script. Any other copypasta memes are equally easy to banish. My time wasted: basically nil.
The next thing I do is search for anything that I can easily rule out from my data set- for instance, since this is “supposed” to be addresses in Texas, I’d search for reports where the “State” field isn’t “TX”. Again, I can throw those out en masse without looking at them. My time wasted: still not much. (If I have good tech support, I might even be able to throw out all reports from IP addresses outside Texas, which would render most of the spam campaign moot.)
If a lot of people are calling the evil people I work for names, I search for some swear words and insults and delete all those. This will take a little longer because I’ll need to look at some of them to see what search terms would work best, but it’s still likely that I can delete dozens of reports with only a couple of searches. My time wasted: 5-10 minutes.
I might start looking at the reports individually now. If I see something that has obviously fake information, I delete it. My time wasted: a few seconds each.
Alternately, I might search for which information occurs the most and start checking those. For instance, if I plug an address that 200 people sent in into Google Earth and it turns out to be Ted Cruz’s office, I can delete those 200 reports. This is why I don’t recommend using the megachurch list. If those 10 addresses appear repeatedly in the reports and it takes me a minute or two to plug each of them into a search engine, at best everyone submitting them will have collectively wasted about 20 minutes of my time.
But what is a nightmare to remove is normal-looking garbage data. If I get a report from “Vivian Anderson,” and her IP address is in Texas, and emails to the address she entered don’t bounce, and she says that there’s going to be a drag show on December 16th at 7:30 pm at 343 Maple Hill Road in Harris, TX, I can’t identify that as a made-up name and address without actually checking. A real but random address would be even harder- sure, Google might think there’s a Dollar Tree there, but what if it’s just out of date?
Source: Entirely too much time working with voter rolls and political mailing lists.
[image: Tumblr tag: #my understanding is that legit-sounding reports take up more of their time than obvious joke reports]
i've been meaning to write something for a while now about how misinformation is not a partisan issue, it's just an issue in general. i was mulling over writing something about how infowars waterboards statistics into saying whatever alex jones wants – i'll still probably do that in the future – but it's not something that exactly supports my thesis here.
but, lucky me, i had a perfect example fall into my lap this week.
so, was andrew tate taken into custody over twitter beef with greta thunberg? the short answer is "no" but i'll elaborate.
here's the primary romanian news report about the cops taking the tate brothers into custody. the way that this has been reported in US news media has basically been that a pizza box in andrew tate's video response to thunberg helped romanian authorities confirm his location. here's a daily beast article that insinuates this:
In a video rant he uploaded to Twitter, in which he smoked a cigar and tried to brush off the online spat, he unwittingly displayed a pizza box from a local pizza chain—alerting authorities looking for him to his presence in the country.
here's the problem with that, though – none of the romanian journalists who reported on this story said anything about the pizza box thing. there's also a huge problem with these stories just... citing each other.
if you dig through the citation loop long enough, you end on this daily star article that cites tweets (jurnelism!) from, of course, alejandra caraballo
According to Alejandra Caraballo, a writer and clinical instructor posting on Twitter: “Romanian authorities needed proof that Andrew Tate was in the country so they reportedly used his social media posts.
(as an aside, if you follow her on twt, i'd heavily recommend against doing that. she spews bullshit like her life depends on it and i think this is inexcusable.)
these are caraballo's tweets in question:
the source for this is the romanian article i linked to earlier in this post. it doesn't say any of this. at least, the english translated version of it doesn't. for what it's worth, i'm not a romanian speaker, and i don't have any benchmark for judging if google's translation service is missing linguistic nuances. here's what it actually says:
Sources close to the investigation stated, for Gândul , that shortly after the completion of the computer expertise, the authorities waited for the right moment to catch the Tate brothers, who were always out of the country.
After seeing, including on social networks, that they were together in Romania, the DIICOT prosecutors mobilized the special troops of the Gendarmerie and descended, by force, on their villa in Pipera, but also on other addresses.
it's also probably worth pointing out that tate's villa was previously searched in april. while the article does say that social media was used to help confirm their location, it doesn't say anything about pizza boxes. and, like, given that tate is a prolific social media poster and was tweeting out videos of romania on sunday, i think it's safe to assume they had a wealth of other information to go off.
and if you don't want to take my word for it, nyt and wapo both reported that the spokesperson for the romanian prosecutor presiding over the case denied the pizza box thing:
Speculation online centered on whether a distinctive pizza box featured in one of Mr. Tate’s tweets to Ms. Thunberg had helped lead the authorities to him, but Ramona Bolla, a spokeswoman for the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism, told The New York Times on Friday that that was not the case.
anyway, ain't it funny how caraballo's made the fuck up pizza tweet got 76 million views, 97k retweets, and 525k likes, while her appended correction got 78k views, 100 retweets, and 820 likes. her initial "source: my mind" tweet is still up. ain't. it. funny.
Could we get a fairy bread bun for the Australians here?
Gashadokuro in Town by Jocelin Carmes
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year of the rabbit 🐇💫