free mask

-- Just got my 4th vaccine jab. Only one more to go before I’ll be fully protected.
-- With your 10th you get a free mask

@jneeley78

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see also Another COVID Myth Dies The Death:

The demonization of surfaces and rooms stemmed not just from active imaginations; it was also recommended and even mandated by the CDC. It offered a huge page of instructions on the need constantly to fear, scrub, and fumigate.

On April 5, however, the CDC page was replaced by a much-simplified set of instructions, which includes now this discreet note: “In most situations, the risk of infection from touching a surface is low.” Oh is that so?

and more:

Fortunately the New York Times did some accurate reporting on the CDC update, quoting all kinds of experts who claim to have known this all along.

“Finally,” said Linsey Marr, an expert on airborne viruses at Virginia Tech. “We’ve known this for a long time and yet people are still focusing so much on surface cleaning.” She added, “There’s really no evidence that anyone has ever gotten Covid-19 by touching a contaminated surface.”

и заодно Man in hospital with COVID-19 after receiving Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Talent vs Luck

Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure - познавательная статья.

...those with earlier surname initials are significantly more likely to receive tenure at top departments ... middle name initials enhance evaluations of intellectual performance ... people with easy-to-pronounce names are judged more positively than those with difficult-to-pronounce names ... that individuals with noble-sounding surnames are found to work more often as managers than as employees ...

там еще много, со ссылками на обширную литературу.

обсуждение

может быть не очень кстати, но вот вспомнилось New Study Destroys Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Hour Rule

Тотальное равновесие

One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank epitomises the best of the New York-based artist. It is deceptively simple, painstakingly executed, and intellectually ambitious: a well-balanced combination of new ideas and art historical influences. - Jeff Koons review

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Jeff Koons’ One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series) realised $17,189,000 during the Bound to Fail auction on 8 May 2016 in New York. - christies.com

see also Jeff Koons on blowup dogs

А. Дейнека

«За занавеской», 1933                 «Зима», 1931

Эротика кисти Дейнеки бьет рекорды - a потом про этот случай раструбят по BBC

@kapuchin - много винтажных фотографий

Rabbis and gay love

Rabbis at odds in dispute over gay love

трудная любовь...

ну и, штоб два раза не вставать, Jewish leaders condemn Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi for calling black people ‘monkeys’ [это 21 марта 2018]

ну и еще: Israeli Diplomat, Shai Masot, Tried To Set Up Groups To Undermine 'Crazy' Corbyn And 'Weirdo' Supporters [это к теме Russian election/Brexit meddling]

и еще одно трогательное обсуждение у messala: Таки в Израиле приняли закон "Израиль - для евреев!" Молодцы, чоуж.… как много занудного вранья

alien civilisation is eating stars

Possible an alien civilisation is eating stars of a certain size...

> neither confirmed nor denied by researchers

neither confirmed nor denied by alien civilisation either © yhs

поразительно

sexual harassment redux

- Ради аллаха, что у вас творится здесь, в Бухаре?
- Базар, - кратко ответил Ходжа Насреддин.
- Что же, у вас, в Бухаре, всегда такие базары?

@ настоящие новости

день такой

Укусишь бублик с пылу-с жару и демонстрируешь восторг, когда посмотришь Вохеншау, где танки едут на восток.

@ День такой

© labas

см. также Игорь Петров

corridors of power

Nor was the Nazi regime, in a time before its concentration camps and wartime atrocities, seen in such a monstrous light. It commanded sympathy within the corridors of power in Britain and in the United States, which was even more aggressively trying to avoid Europe's simmering maelstrom than the British under Chamberlain. - In defense of Neville Chamberlain

this is The Washington Post

It commanded sympathy within the corridors of power in Britain and in the United States - this is in 1938, after The Nuremberg Laws were introduced in 1935

see also @ prof-yura

also here:

At the beginning of 1938, most English people sympathised with German grievances, however much they disliked Hitler’s way of voicing them. The Sudeten Germans had a good case: they did not possess national equality, or anything like it.

unnatural fear

Unnatural fear of alligators sounds like an oxymoron. © emdrone

Isn't thinking always wishful? © i-shmael

it sure is

east west

see also

U.S. should support Israel

Republicans by a ratio of more than 2-to-1 say the U.S. should support Israel even when its stances diverge with American interests, a new Bloomberg Politics poll finds. Democrats, by roughly the same ratio, say the opposite is true and that the U.S. must pursue its own interests over Israel's. - bloomberg.com

Интересно, а в самом Израиле хоть кто нибудь считает что "интересы США должны перевешивать интересы Израиля"? - интересуется rms1

ах какой антисемит

Uncanny valley

искусственный интеллект @ shvarz

...bright children are in fact generally quite the most fearful, since they are clearer about the boundaries of their own orientational abilities than more limited children are – although, as must of course be added, the latter can become particularly impertinent and cheeky once they have managed to achieve a certain intellectual mastery over a particular area.

...

...whether he has a human person or rather an automaton before him in the case of a particular character. This is done in such a way that the uncertainty does not appear directly at the focal point of his attention, so that he is not given the occasion to investigate and clarify the matter straight away; for the particular emotional effect, as we said, would hereby be quickly dissipated. In his works of fantasy, E. T. A. Hoffmann has repeatedly made use of this psychological artifice with
success.

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...then the dark knowledge dawns on the unschooled observer that mechanical processes are taking place in that which he was
previously used to regarding as a unified psyche. ... In the case of an expert, the corresponding emotion will occur only rarely or perhaps be completely lacking, for to him the mechanical processes in the human mind are no longer a novelty;

...

The human desire for the intellectual mastery of one’s environment is a strong one. Intellectual certainty provides psychical shelter in the struggle for existence. However it came to be, it signifies a defensive position against the assault of hostile forces, and the lack of such certainty is equivalent to lack of cover in the episodes of that never-ending war of the human and organic world for the sake of which the strongest and most impregnable bastions of science were erected.

- On the Psychology of the Uncanny by Ernst Jentsch

см. также Uncanny valley

Ivy League

Deresiewicz and Pinker on Ivy League

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Pale Flower

crime thriller, местами смотрится как документальное кино, необыкновенно познавательно. Горбатый Джигарханян и все европейские криминальные авторитеты вроде Жана Габена отдыхают по сравнению с целой галереей аутентичных японских товарищей. игра в японские карты (много), городские пейзажи...

необыкновенная Марико Кага, как может японская женщина быть так похожа на Марину Неёлову - загадка природы. причем не просто внешне похожа, но и повадкой. Ryo Ikebe (Muraki) тоже замечательно хорош. автомобильные гонки на спортивных машинах, уличные сцены, чего там только нет.

эссе Pale Flower: Loser Take All by Chuck Stephens - энциклопедия японского кино, и написано замечательно. читать нелегко, однако. умный очень Chuck Stephens. это он и про Crazed Fruit написал. в эссе он назвал Pale Flower 1964 squid-ink noir.

see also Self-Destruction to Impress a Girl

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Anti-balaka

Учебная подготовка бойцов христианского движения Anti-balaka в Центрально-Африканской Республике @ tipolog

антишагал

Вильям Розенсон

забавно, что кроме как у haspar-arnery этих картинок нигде не найти.

Don't flirt: those who flirt in haste oft repent in leisure.

осень со всех сторон

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