@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-07-06 06:01:22
Reuters' official X account has been restricted in India following a "legal demand", but other accounts, including Reuters Asia, remain accessible (Livemint)
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/reuters-x-…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-05 13:15:19
"""
In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social2025-07-06 06:31:08
#EroticMusings Week 6 (July 6-12) Setting: Do you prefer to work with constrained settings or expansive? Revisit locations or move on?
Expansive locations, with some recurring. I want to evoke a sense of familiarity and homecoming - describing a place for the second, third, fourth time giving the reader a cozy feeling of having been there so often, that every part of the place is kn…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-08-03 16:57:36
Veteran DB Wants to ‘Retire a Raider’ Following Devastating Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/lonnie-johnson-injury-retire/?adt_ei=[email]
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-06 09:39:14
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11978 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-09-04 23:22:35
Raiders Leak Honest Impressions of Amari Cooper Following Retirement News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/amari-cooper-retirement-leak/?adt_ei=[email]
@adrianco@mastodon.social2025-08-31 08:30:23
From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”
@einzigartiger@chaos.social2025-07-29 14:52:47
The first rider, Nicolas Chatelet, has crossed all of Spain and is now entering France.
https://www2.followmychallenge.com/live/tcrno11/?lat=43.342627&lng=-1.786442&z=12.92&b=0&p=0
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-08-28 06:26:14
This does rather explain why going to the cinema to watch a real film (köln 75 5* huge recommend) last weekend was such a brilliant experience. The streamers have deadened the experience of watching at home...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/28/bland-easy-to-follow-for-fans-of-everything-what-has-the-netflix-algorithm-done-to-our-films
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-06-28 15:00:02
A reader reports that when the patient died, the attending doctor
recorded the following on the patient's chart: "Patient failed to fulfill
his wellness potential."
Another doctor reports that in a recent issue of the *American Journal
of Family Practice* fleas were called "hematophagous arthropod vectors."
A reader reports that the Army calls them "vertically deployed anti-
personnel devices." You probably call them bombs.