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wild combination of words, cold war edition. if you read it literally, the headline is basically a david lynch script direction.

This week's #ThursDeath is a huge new favorite. The fittingly titled 'IV', the new fourth album from Gulfport, Mississippi's CAVE, starts with an abrasive, rough roar and eventually forms into a pummeling and chugging inferno by the end of the first track and into the second. And then the rest! Cave's drummer is beyond talented, as are the rest of these folks. I dig the walls of gui…

✅ #afterwork #cycling loop

This looks very cool.
'OpenAIRE in collaboration with Area Science Park organizes a hands-on workshop titled “Where LEGO Meets FAIR Data,” designed to introduce the principles of FAIR data through a creative, interactive simulation using LEGO metaphors.'
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"I do not deny scientific medicine’s power—its tools have saved my life and improved my functioning as much as its knowledge allowed. However, faith gives me a way of seeing and understanding the body as God’s good creation and sustained by God’s spirit."
—Hospice chaplain Aaron Klink ’05 M.Div. in his article for the new issue of Reflections, titled "Meds, MRIs, Miracles: A Hospice Chaplain Rereads Genesis"

ESWC 2025 has just started with the presentation of the submission numbers to the individual tracks:
research track: 98 papers
resource track: 36 papers
in-use track: 22 papers
Looking forward to great presentations and discussions!
#eswc2025 #semweb

Saksassa leviää Euroopassa harvinainen, hyönteislevitteinen eläintauti https://www.maaseuduntulevaisuus.fi/maatalous/4a197a0e-7458-49c4-9f4d-0e27d3611694

Saksassa leviää Euroopassa harvinainen, hyönteislevitteinen eläintauti
Saksan karjatilallisia kehotetaan suojamaan eläimensä polttiaisten levittämältä, Eurooppaan levinneeltä EHD-taudilta.

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @…:
"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

#NowPlaying - aw, peaceful departures to cosmic traveler ariel kalma. i wrote notes for this anthology of his '70s recordings. a truly heady & wonder-filled sweetheart, like a french terry riley or something.

Great blog post by @… on the Whatever machine. She talks about why crypto sucks, why LLMs suck, why hyped up clickbait sucks, and why calling writing and art 'content' sucks https://e…

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.