18 February 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Lida Kropveld, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Apeldoorn on 22 January 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
@Hypnagogist the one I have is a ReMarkable. the digitizer is alright, you have to change the nibs often or the tip stops reliably lining up with the page. the thing that got me really fed up with it though is they keep changing the UI, and it's hard to get stuff off of it. it is surprisingly good for drawing, but you really have to treat it as its own medium.
@Hypnagogist tbh I'd stick with what you've got. if you're using good materials and keep them safe, those books will still be just fine in a few decades. I don't think the same can be said of any tablet you buy today.
@aeva I’ve always been tempted by an e-ink tablet, they look really cool! I always find myself bouncing off drawing on a screen, but I’d like to try one
@Hypnagogist the one I have is a ReMarkable. the digitizer is alright, you have to change the nibs often or the tip stops reliably lining up with the page. the thing that got me really fed up with it though is they keep changing the UI, and it's hard to get stuff off of it. it is surprisingly good for drawing, but you really have to treat it as its own medium.
People really can’t get their head around the idea that you can look at more than one possible scenario in an argument and that you can analyse the theoretical impact of outcomes you don’t believe are likely, huh?
@baldur Those "people" should watch a game of Curling ...
Also, maybe those "people" are actually talking about their own diminished capacity 😎
*I wonder if there's a "post-history" that is the dark twin of "the prehistoric"
*Events long after the extinction of mankind, with no one intelligent to bear any witness to them
The post-futurity, just as real as Earth before the rise-of-mammals
*How could you study it, what does it mean
@bruces or that the super-intelligent species that replace us would be as interested in our history as we are in amoeba history.
Why is the UK (still) dependent on a migrant workforce?
Well, a key contributing factor is employers' attachment to low pay & dismal terms & conditions of employment.
So, let's not blame migrants for seeking out jobs in their new country; lets be clear, its the UK's employers, their labour cost-focussed management mind-set & their continuing rubbish management practices that are the real problem here.
We need a sea change in employment practice(s)!
#workers #business
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/18/training-more-uk-workers-may-not-cut-net-migration-report--
The UK & USA deliberately gave up manufacturing capability & sent it to Asia.
Why?
Good wages enable economic mobility. Middle class kids got post-secondary education.
The Moneyed could not tolerate desegregation in society.
The bigotry is too useful a tool for divide & conquer.
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/what-caused-the-student-debt-crisis/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/12/29/history-student-loan-debt/
Domestic policies to create politically handy immiseration ensued.
Dissatisfaction feeds Fascism.
18 February 1911 | Polish man, Tadeusz Osiński, was born in Brzeziny. A worker.
In #Auschwitz from 20 November 1941
Camp no. 23089
He was murdered with a phenol heart injection on 9 January 1943.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
@auschwitzmuseum I have always been beholden and so so sad about what had happened to the jews during the holocaust , But im getting a bit sick of seeing these posts while Israel it doing the same thing to others, Its really quite disgusting and shows how you are are just the same as them.
I did something really bizarre and set the unit scale to 1/30 in the blend file a ways back and I do not remember why. This made getting the wheels back on the car more complicated than it needed to be.
I'm going to have to figure out later how to undo the unit scale without changing any of the measurements 💀
Anyways, here's the car now with wheels!
just in time for me to realize it's 3am and I need to go to bed and get up in time for an MRI tomorrow woo
The world is feeling especially grim lately.
What’s a good thing that has happened in your world lately?
@Ashedryden got a video of my 94yo grandmother cracking coconuts with a machete. 💪🏽
@foone what's a "prevert" ?!?
@otte_homan it's an advanced form of pervert
@TomF @0xabad1dea a day where you have to move odin sounds more like a forklift day
@JamesWidman @0xabad1dea Two legs bad, four legs good?
@[email protected] i’m 25
@charlotte I know, I checked your bio
I got the sky dome and most of the 🚗 rendering via OpenGL ES2 today
I did something really bizarre and set the unit scale to 1/30 in the blend file a ways back and I do not remember why. This made getting the wheels back on the car more complicated than it needed to be.
I'm going to have to figure out later how to undo the unit scale without changing any of the measurements 💀
Anyways, here's the car now with wheels!
Friends & followers, I'm away today so if you engage with anything I have posted I'm afraid there will be a delay in any response... apologies.
I am away being filmed for the Foundations of International Political Economy project & I hope in due course to be posting a link to the (long-form) interview for those of you interested in my background, and previous academic career & research.
Normal service will be resumed early evening, until then - have a great day
@ChrisMayLA6 Same!
The downsides of the LLM industry are actually fine because other industries also have downsides and nobody has ever pointed this out before is certainly a take.
@aeva i seem to recall saying the same thing in your replies not even a week ago
The OSI was so busy trying to define what open source AI means that they totally missed the existential threat that LLMs and agents pose to open source itself.
Hello and a good meowing everyone! 
Have a most wonderful day and stay safe 😸♥️
