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The new era differs from the old one chiefly in that the whip begins to imagine it is a genius
Karl Marx on artificial intelligence
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On 26 January 1522 the city council of Amsterdam decreed:
"…that no one shall throw snowflakes, neither woman nor man, on pain of a fine of one pound."
Faith · Art · Mores · Humour
No more for this one!
In fact, they will pour him another. This Flemish painting, connected with the celebration of Epiphany on 6 January, captures a game that was popular in the seventeenth century. The man in the paper crown is the king of the evening, chosen by lot. For the night, the chosen one
Books · Mores · Humour
Preparing Salad Olivier to the recipe of Elena Molokhovets:
hazel grouse, calf's tongue, pressed black caviar (payusnaya), fresh lettuce, boiled crayfish, lobster, pickles (small marinated vegetables), Kabul soy (an old fermented seasoning made from soya beans), cucumbers, capers, hard-boiled eggs, sauce Provençale, salt. In principle, pressed caviar can be replaced by bottarga, the crayfish and lobster
NB! · Nature · Humour
The Cat Has Read the News and Decided, for the Present, to Make No Sudden Movements
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Russia is a vast, abundant and wealthy state; but the man in it is a fool, and starves to death in the midst of plenty
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Cinema · Observations · Humour
The city of the future in the proto-cyberpunk science-fiction film Metropolis of 1927 is, as it happens, shown precisely in 2026
So what do we see in a futurological picture a hundred years old, apart from colossal skyscrapers, instantly recognisable traffic jams and high-altitude trains? Robotics, artificial intelligence and a sharp deterioration in working conditions. In principle, rather like the world we live in now.
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Xena, Warrior Princess, in the Guise of a Medieval Knight
It turns out that in 2003 Lucy Lawless appeared in the historical television project "Women Warriors", about six female fighters from different historical eras. Besides Joan of Arc, the series features Boudica, Lozen, Hua Mulan and Grace O'Malley. One for the holidays!
Observations · Humour
Heard what they're saying on the television?
Heard what they're saying on the television? Rely on your own strength and everything will work out
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Ladies and Gentlemen!
Ladies and gentlemen! Or, more precisely, my dear Gummi bears, gentlemen and ladies alike! I congratulate you on the New Year! I wish you happiness! May the new year bring you fresh lessons and achievements, may Gummiberries adorn your dwellings, and may good friends come to your aid in foul
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I am trying to work out whether this is the same Ivan Bassov who in 1993 was battling "dogmatic teaching of Marxist-Leninist theory" at the Faculty of Radio Electronics and Informatics in Rybinsk, and who in 2025 is holding forth in Israel on why the Pale
I am trying to work out whether this is the same Ivan Bassov who in 1993 was battling "dogmatic teaching of Marxist-Leninist theory" at the Faculty of Radio Electronics and Informatics in Rybinsk, and who in 2025 is holding forth in Israel on why the Palestinians killed
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A legend has died 😔
Cecilia Giménez Zueco has died at the age of 94. She became famous in 2012 for her amateur restoration of the fresco Ecce Homo, painted in 1930 by Elías García Martínez. When a fresco in the Sanctuary of Mercy in the small Spanish town of Borja, in the province of