What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
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What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
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What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
@NanoRaptor My tenement flat. It was built some time in the 1820s, so it's been up and running and inhabited for a couple of centuries now. (Per Le Corbusier, "a house is a machine for living in".)
I have some books that are a bit older, though.
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@NanoRaptor My tenement flat. It was built some time in the 1820s, so it's been up and running and inhabited for a couple of centuries now. (Per Le Corbusier, "a house is a machine for living in".)
I have some books that are a bit older, though.
@cstross 1860 is about as far as I can go with my living-in-machine. 1820 would pre-date my *city* (but that’s much of australia for you)
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@cstross 1860 is about as far as I can go with my living-in-machine. 1820 would pre-date my *city* (but that’s much of australia for you)
@NanoRaptor @cstross Enter the shimmering arc! https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/contrafactuals/
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@NanoRaptor @cstross Enter the shimmering arc! https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/contrafactuals/
@jwz @NanoRaptor Entirely true, but also: have you noticed when someone tells you they remember their previous incarnation they always mean someone like Julius Caesar or Cleopatra—not some poor nameless grunt worked to death in a latifunda, or harvesting rice in bronze-age China?
We remember the highlights. But the pervasive homophobia of the 1980s, the ghastly death toll from AIDS extending into the 1990s, PTSD from fear of nuclear war—these all get filtered out by the rosy glow of nostalgia.
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@Fabio Platone era un idiota che invidiava chi amava o era amato, entrambe cose evidentemente a lui negate.
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@TomF I was surprised by how astute this take is. I watch him for music stuff, his interviews with some of my favorite jazz musicians, e.g. Pat Metheny, who Beato obviously loves, are among the best that have ever been done. But, he understands a fundamental aspect of big expensive computers that a lot of people are somehow still missing about AI. There is an assumption that we'll need big data centers forever...or at least for the next decade or two so they can pay for themselves.
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Ingredienti per ottenere un predatore sessuale di minorenni:
Prendere un giovane trentenne
Aggiungere qualche centinaio di milioni di dollari statunitensi degli anni 80
Lasciare riposare per qualche decina di anni, rabboccando regolarmente la quantità di milioni man mano che quelli precedenti evaporano.
Condire a piacere con abbondanti applausi, asservimento e leccate di culo a mezzo stampa e in TV, come i cortigiani che applaudivano l’imperatore nudo.
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Amore platonico (?)
Amore platonico è un modo usuale di definire una forma di amore priva della dimensione passionale (romantica) e sessuale. Infatti Platone considera l'attrazione fra i corpi il primo dei vari livelli di amore, benché egli aggiunga che questo livello vada abbandonato per giungere a quelli superiori (amore per l'anima, per le leggi e le istituzioni, per le scienze, assoluto)...
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amore_platonico?wprov=sfla1
🔁 condivisione gradita
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Quattro zaini, forse ho esagerato :-)
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@colorblindcowboy wandering shop? I don't know their CW policy though
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@salvatorelasorella @computer e anche con 350 milioni in tasca non si è mai voluto cambiare quegli occhiali Telefunken… 😜
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Ritorna «El loco» del maestro Alberto Manzi | il manifesto
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> (Cultura) Un sassolino lanciato in un barattolo lascerebbe presagire un tempo sempre uguale a sé stesso, una monotonia da esorcizzare. Invece quel tempo lento, rarefatto, immagine classica di piccole località dell’America Latina, contrasta inesorabilmente con un movimento di tensione tra rivoluzione e oppressione che Alberto Manzi fa emergere ne El Loco (pp. 224, euro 18), suo
