@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-08 04:57:00
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-09-09 14:39:01
@anneroth@systemli.social2025-10-08 22:36:35
We did it!
Erstmal. Sie kommt in der nächsten Runde wieder, keine Frage.
#chatkontrolle
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-staaten-erzielen-keine-eini…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-07 17:24:18
Estrogen? Hot drinks will suffice!
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Naturally, cold water cooled. For that reason it was used in mania and frenzy, sicknesses of heat where the spirits were in ebullition, solids tightened and liquids were heated to the point of evaporation, leaving the brain of the patient ‘dry and brittle’, as anatomists regularly demonstrated. Reasonably enough Boissieu includes cold water among his list of refreshing cures: baths were the foremost ‘antiphlogistic’, purifying the body of any excessive igneous particles to be found there. Taken as a drink, it was a ‘dilutive procastinant’ that diminished the resistance of fluids to the action of solids, thereby indirectly lowering the general heat of the body.
But it was also said that cold water brought heat and that hot water cooled. Such at least was the thesis defended by Darut. Cold baths chased the blood from the periphery of the body and pushed it ‘with increased vigour towards the heart’. As the heart was the seat of natural heat, the blood was warmed there, all the more so as “the heart, which struggles alone against all the other parts, makes renewed efforts to expel the blood and overcome capillary resistance. What results is a greater intensity of circulation, the division of the blood, the fluidity of the humours, the destruction of congestions, an increase in the strength of the natural heat, of the appetite of the digestive forces, and the activity of the body and the mind.” A symmetrical paradox operated regarding hot baths: blood was attracted to the extremities of the body, as were the humours, sweat, and all forms of liquid, both beneficial and harmful. The vital centres were therefore deserted, the heart slowed and the organism thus began to cool down. This fact was confirmed by the ‘fainting, lipothymia… weakness, nonchalance, lassitude, and lack of vigour’ that generally accompanied excessive bathing with hot water.
But there was more. So great was the polyvalence of water, so great was its aptitude to submit itself to the qualities that it carried, that it sometimes lost its efficacy as a liquid and acted as a desiccant instead. Water could Prevent dampness. In part, this was the old principle of similia similibus, but in another sense, and by the intermediary of a visible mechanism. For some, it was cold water that brought dryness, as heat kept water humid. Heat dilated the pores of the organism, distended its membranes, and allowed humidity to impregnate them as a secondary effect. Liquids made their way through heat. For that reason, the hot drinks so widely used in the seventeenth century risked becoming a danger, and those who took too many risked relaxation, general dampness and a weakness of the whole organism. As these were traits commonly associated with the feminine body, as opposed to the dry, virile solidity of the male, the abuse of hot drinks could lead to a general feminisation of the human race: “Not without reason, the reproach is made to the majority of men that they have softened and degenerated, taking on the habits and inclinations of women – the only thing lacking is a physical resemblance. The abuse of humectants could accelerate the metamorphosis, and render the two sexes almost identical both physically and morally. Woe betide the human race if this prejudice ever spreads to the masses: there will be no more labourers, artisans or soldiers, as they will have lost the strength and vigour necessary for their profession.” [Pressavin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-09 04:45:52
South Korean AI chip design firm DeepX partners with Baidu on industrial AI projects, as sources say it is preparing to raise a round above its $79M Series C (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-08 11:46:01
40 Jahre Amiga: Das Quiz rund um die Kult-Maschine
Der Commodore Amiga erschien 1985 und begeisterte eine Dekade lang mit seiner damalis innovativen Technik (nicht nur) die Gamer. Wir feiern mit einem Quiz!
https:/…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-09 08:16:01
Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-hate-my-ai-friend/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-07-09 00:24:31
“Wie der Herr, so’s Gescherr“*
*German expression that often children emulate negative character traits of their parents
https://gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok-praises-hitler-as-elon-musks-ai-tool-goes-full-nazi-2000626156
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-09 10:22:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-09 14:59:00
Vier Raumfahrer von der ISS abgedockt
Rund eine Woche nach der Ankunft ihrer Ablöse-Crew haben sich vier Raumfahrer von der ISS auf den Weg zurück zur Erde gemacht.
https://www.heise.de/news/Vier-Raumfah…