In Kyiv, mysterious underground passages were discovered during repair and restoration work on the grounds of the National Conservation Area St. Sophia of Kyiv. These passages are believed to lead to St. Sophia Cathedral, however, there is very little known about them in the historical record. (Photo: Vadym Kyrylenko).
Today is the #WorldWetlandsDay. I can only hope that this place, which I pass many times on my way to work, will still be so wet in the coming years.
Ava, Mo. man delivers flowers to frontline workers around the Ozarks
I reluctantly agreed to this interview because a friend really wanted to do it. She is on weather so this is like extra credit. As you can see, I almost melted down and nobody was asking hard questions.
https://www.ky3.com/2021/09/15/ava-mo-man-delivers-flowers-frontline-workers-around-ozarks/
'The whole thing cost $5': The simple tool that helps my kid through stressful moments
Future ICS News - Multiple Ransomware Attacks on Artillery Contractors - #futurenews - https://tinyurl.com/uw8n2dkk
Rep. Nancy Mace has done this performance every week with the media, framing herself as a reasonable center and getting all the press... and then she votes with the rest of them every single time.
Mace did it this week with Omar, on the Foreign Affairs Committee I wonder what next weeks performance will be, and how Our Failed Political Press ™ will fall for her again?
#BlackHistoryMonth
Look for patterns when you learn about Black History.
"This thing that happened here" is part of a larger pattern of those same issues happening in many places.
If you hear about a Black inventor, go read about Black Inventors. A community is destroyed? Look at how, and look for other places those mechanisms have been used to do the same thing.
Look into #EnvironmentalRacism
A lot of issues haven't gone away, just some ways they're enforced have changed.
Here’s the thing; #god knew men were too lazy to pick their own fruit, so he created woman knowing (see below). Talk about a set up.
AI-art discourse
Besides more urgent problems centralized models like #DALLE and #Midjourney winning over open-source-models like #StableDiffusion everyone can further train, merge and generally fork at home would also mean a much sadder more generic far less diverse stage for AI-art in the future.
The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well in US Schools — Here’s Why That Matters
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/reconstruction-era-not-taught-schools
The GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee “has disbanded the Subcommittee on #CivilRights and #CivilLiberties, which focused on #VotingRights, freedom of assembly and #CriminalJusticeReform policies….
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is urging the committee to reinstate the subcommittee, saying that the loss of it sends an ‘unmistakable message to the American people that their civil rights and civil liberties are no longer a priority to the 118th Congress.’” https://t.co/mZIqcQNaaG #Fascism
I could listen to Ta-Nehisi Coates & Chris Hayes converse all day. #msnbc #inners #thisiswhyiwatch
Harvard is shutting down prominent social media influence scholar Joan Donovan's project at a time when such research is getting both more essential and more difficult. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/misinformation-harvard-donovan-close/
Hilarious, a Windows 98 user found a real OpenSSH remote 😂
Imagine all the bugs we can find if we install OS/2 lol #retrocomputing
https://social.treehouse.systems/@grawity/109689295609404907
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