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18+ AimeeMaroux , 4 months ago to antiquidons

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"There is also #Hermes bringing to Alexandros [Paris], the son of Priamos, the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being: Here is Hermes, who is showing to Alexandros, that he may arbitrate concerning their beauty, #Hera, #Athena, and #Aphrodite."
Description of Greece 5.19.5

🏛 Roman Judgement of Paris #Mosaic from Casariche

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt

mina , 4 months ago

@AimeeMaroux

Apparently, pubic hair removal was already a thing in Roman times.

@mythology @antiquidons

mina , 4 months ago

@AimeeMaroux

Well, a culture is never uniform.

There are always different ideas of what is considered beautiful.

People are different. We know this today, but too often we forget that about people of the past.

@mythology @antiquidons

Tim_McTuffty , 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 114 , Monday 19/02/2024

TL:DR Me too !

My brain is not working well today, details of the day vanish like ‘tears in the rain ‘, to quote from ‘Blade Runner’ .

I remember doing chores , tidying up after herself, redoing stuff that she had partly done.

I remember playing co-op with @PlaystationPixy.

I remember playing on ESO , although don’t ask me details.

But the rest of the day has vanished in the haze of mundane existence.

Final Thoughts.

Oh if only I had a thought in my head I would be rich beyond the dreams of avarice!

I learned of Hilbert’s Hotel today - I have news for you @mina - they would run out of rooms if I needed one !

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@actuallyautistic
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #TheMammutMoves

mina , 5 months ago

@Tim_McTuffty

Just never forget that we're always here, be it with a cuddle, a stupid joke, nuts or with just an ear for you.

@PlaystationPixy @actuallyautistic

billmason , 6 months ago to startrek

‘Star Trek: Picard’ Wins 4 Saturn Awards, ‘Strange New Worlds’ Wins 1

https://trekmovie.com/2024/02/04/star-trek-picard-wins-4-saturn-awards-strange-new-worlds-wins-1/

@startrek #StarTrek

mina , 6 months ago

@RootBeerGuy

Picard was, IMO, not a TV series, but pure fan service. If it hadn't been for Jeri Ryan, it wouldn't have been watchable. The third season was the worst.

SNW was clearly made to not offend anybody. Solidly made, no experiments.

Just the right thing to keep an extremely conservative fan base happy.

Discovery had one (big) flaw:

Unnecessary dialogues!

Except for the episodes directed by Jonathan Frakes, they totally ignored the "Show, don't tell" rule.

1/2

@Evilcoleslaw

mina , 6 months ago

@RootBeerGuy

Otherwise, Discovery isn't bad.

It has quite good characters, good actors and a compelling story arc.

I didn't like the overload of visual effects, but this seems to be a thing of our time.

2/2

@Evilcoleslaw

ajsadauskas , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to technology

My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

mina , 6 months ago

@ajsadauskas

That's actually a problem.

There is no backup for this collective memory outside the servers of this company.

@pluralistic @technology