The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:
An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”
An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:
"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"
"The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."
Joseph Fructus, dit Fructus-Rey, est un peintre et dessinateur français (1744-1831) obsédé par son #art. Sous son autoportrait, il déclare :
"Toujours a dessiné je passerois ma vie,
mon amour pour cet art tend presque à la follie".
Les #ArchivesDeLyon conservent 2 albums de vues des environs de #Lyon en 1820 et 1825, qui offrent des paysages inédits à la perspective... fuyante !
(Cote 17Fi 53)
"It is worth getting inside Trump’s head a bit and imagining his mood following an election victory. He will have spent the previous year, and more, fighting to stay out of jail, plagued by myriad persecutors and helpless to do what he likes to do best: exact revenge. Think of the fury that will have built up inside him, a fury that, from his point of view, he has worked hard to contain. ..."
Why do people believe that Trump’s revenge would not be like proscriptions of Marius or Sulla, but with the power of the surveillance state and tactical precision of drones?
My whole life I’ve been into geography and yet — after 50+ trips around the Sun — it was like two weeks ago that I learned that Appalachia is pronounced Appa-LATCH-ia … not Appa-LAY-chia 🤦🏾♂️
Also, Y’ALL (Young Appalachian Leaders and Learners) apparently got issues with JD Vance’s best-selling #book “Hillbilly Elegy”
@seanalan I read Hillbilly Elegy several years ago. I am interested in your thoughts on the response. On my TBR list! Thanks for posting about it! @bookstodon#books
I pretty much 100% recovered from my bout with the COVID. Slight sniffle, but then again, I spend pretty much the entire winter with one, so who knows? Seems like the rest of the family, even the unboosted one, has avoided my fate, which is great. Probably shouldn't go back to hockey tomorrow though, at least if I'm reading the CDC guidelines correctly. I'll just wait until next Tuesday to get back on the ice.
I've been playing the Guardians of the Galaxy computer game. It's a strange one. 🤔 It has a bit of combat and some character progression, but it really is more about puzzle-solving and plot(!) than a real RPG. It even has quicktime events, which I thought disappeared years ago. Still fun though. And 4 Guys Co-op had a long session of Serious Sam 4 but we couldn't get level 3 finished. I may have to ease the difficulty a bit. @videogames#videogames
Also been getting plenty of reading done in my last week of freedom. I finished The Swerve, which was a fascinating (no really!) look at a medieval humanist and his efforts to uncover ancient texts, including a pivotal book by the Roman philosopher Lucretius, On The Nature Of Things, which the author posits as "How The World Became Modern". No really, it's great stuff! I've started on the 2nd Cormoran Strike book, The Silkworm. @bookstodon#books#AmReading
Le 5 mars 1535, le consulat de #Lyon décide de remplacer le médecin François Rabelais du fait de ses absences dans ses fonctions à l'Hôtel-Dieu.
Arrivé en 1532 à Lyon alias "Myrelingues la brumeuse", l'écrivain y publie Pantagruel (1532) puis Gargantua (1534) sous le pseudonyme d'Alcofribas Nasier.
Extr. du registre de délibérations consulaires conservé aux #ArchivesDeLyon (cote BB 25, folio 23r).
This week's #TidyTuesday is about Doctor Who :tardis: and in this screencast I show how to use empirical Bayes to estimate the rating for different episode writers:
I try to be very positive and cheerful about my profession: teaching. It's a fluffing tough job and you have to see the best in it - every lesson, every day, every student. And it can be the most rewarding and important job a person could do. But, my goodness, today was a challenge. When your leaders don't seem to care about their staff and are actively making it more difficult for you, you just get worn down. But. Tomorrow is a new day. Always. #Teaching#Education#edutooter@edutooters
@edutooters@hlseward
I’m not a teacher but close family members have been, so I offer this:
On particularly bad days when you’re sure you can't possibly cope, it can sometimes help to remind yourself that your track record for getting through bad days so far is 100%.
@michaelcymro@edutooters@hlseward @actuallyautistic @bookstodon
I added this message, to actually my actually autistic group and book group for relevancy of book by Fred Roger’s.
The message may seem ableist to some in my group, but at the end of the day, “We are in all this together”. ♾️❤️
Question: what books are really effective at body language or the different little beats in long stretches of dialogue? My current novel is dialogue-heavy, and I'm looking for more examples of how other writers make these scenes memorable.