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🗃️ The whole history of this is super interesting - the 2016 book 'The Legacy of the Japanese Bluestocking Society (Seitosha)' is a pretty great writeup (one of those books you start reading and just keep going), and I'd also like to share their manifesto that was published in this first issue:
In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now, woman is the moon. Living dependent on others, reflecting their brilliance. She has the moon’s face, and its unhealthy pallor. And now, Seitō cries, newly born. Created by the brains and hands of today’s Japanese women. Seitō cries, newly born. Women’s undertaking is only sneered at, but I am convinced that there is hidden potential there… Make us continue ceaselessly with our ardent prayer and spiritual concentration. Make us do these to the best of our ability until the day when we will bring hidden female talent into the open, until the day when the hidden sun begins to shine again. On that day we will rule everything, the entire world will fall into our hands. On that day woman will no longer be the moon. On that day she will become the sun, as in the beginning. She will become an authentic person.
September 1, 2024 at 5:24 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
Wasn't kidding lol - this is from March this year and that's not 20 mins a day, it's 20 mins a MONTH. For advertisers that's... pathetic numbers lmao.
A graph showing how much time users spend on average on different social media apps every month. TikTok is at the top with 31 hours and 43 mins, followed by YouTube at 28 hours and 41 mins, and Facebook and Instagram with 18+ and 16+ hours. At the bottom is Threads, with 20 mins per month.
September 1, 2024 at 4:27 AM
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📷 Cannon Beach, Oregon, taken in Spring 2023

Chilly but fun seeing it in the off season!
A photograph of a beach on a cloudy, foggy day. The sky is white and gray, and so is the water. In the distance, large rocks loom in the fog.
September 1, 2024 at 2:28 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
reputation and legitimacy is absolutely what Forbes and similar places sell, but it's also totally grifting corps too, which is funny.

like, if you get on a top whatever list with them, they then urge you to pay thousands for merch and the license to DISPLAY the award on your website and comms.
Screenshot of Forbes' Award Store, selling digital logo rights for $3,500, and a wall display, framed reprint and reprint plaque for $595 each.
August 31, 2024 at 6:42 PM
ccorone.bsky.social
Also I find it incredibly funny that the quoted article just BLITHELY waves away the impact of the world wars and the abolition of monarchies in the 20th century as a 'fascinating and mysterious story' that 'cannot be told here'. Those ornaments and aesthetics meant something, lol.
Screenshot of text: the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Between the 1920s and the 1950s, modernist approaches to architecture were adopted for virtually all public buildings and many private ones. Most architectural modernists mistrusted ornament and largely excluded it from their designs. The immense and sophisticated industries that had served the architectural aspirations of the nineteenth century withered in full flower. The fascinating and mysterious story of how this happened cannot be told here. But it is a story of cultural choice, not of technological destiny. It was within our collective power to choose differently. It still is.
August 31, 2024 at 6:29 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
it's absolutely that. his whole argument is just 'who cares, I think it's beautiful!' - except advocates for that style are often using it as a neo-Nazi dogwhistle, and I'm not even being hyperbolic.

you can see how the arguments about 'German spirit' align with the author's on patriotism too.
An excerpt from the 1983 book Hitler and the artists, by Henry Grosshans. It covers how classical art was seen by Nazis as a 'refuge from the burden of modern solitude', and for Hitler 'a defense against the turbulence and lack of direction in modern art' that allowed him to dismiss and censure artists with themes he disapproved of (like suggestions of obscenity). It also says how classical art 'pandered to Hitler's anti-Semitism, for he saw Greek and Roman art as uncontaminated by Jewish influences' and modern art as 'aesthetic violence by the Jews against the German spirit'.
August 31, 2024 at 6:04 AM
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he spoke to literally 0 people and read one (1) article lmao - his article he Very Proudly links to at the end has him going 'public building works should ignore expert advice and go full neoclassical because it'd make me feel more patriotic'

...can't say I'd place a lot of stock in his opinions.
In the architectural case, what we have now is a permanent bias toward modern schools that have cycled through various ideological justifications (today, anti-racism, yesterday, Great Society liberalism, the day before that, fascism) for their long-running war on beauty. And I can confidently say that my own patriotism, my own trust in American institutions, would be modestly increased if public architecture tilted toward the wide variety of forms called classical under Republican presidents and then back toward “starchitect” experiments under Democrats. Judging by polling on Americans’ favorite public buildings, I would not be alone.
August 31, 2024 at 5:31 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
I'm somewhat involved in stuff like supplements and things (or at least exposed to) and I'm happy to say that these kinds of ads 100% still exist

the other place it find them is modern day totally unregulated biohacking corps like this one with plasmids lol
Information from a company providing Follistatin-344 Plasmid Therapy. It claims that the therapy 'increased lean mass, decreased fat, decreased inflammation, lengthened telomeres, and dramatically reversed epigenetic age acceleration' in mice. It has a graphic showing a human figure being injected with a plasmid, and Follistatin combining with fat cells. The sheet explains how Follistatin binds to proteins in blood to affect body composition, and lasts about 1.5 years.
August 31, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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This and all the other watercolor paintings in Michele's Algorithm series are SO so good and, honestly, extremely affordable original artwork. Have a look at more: www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...
Screenshot of an Etsy store page. It shows six images of paintings from artist Michele Banks' Algorithm series. The paintings are priced at either $59.95 USD or $109 USD. They have bright, abstract watercolours as the base, with phrases about social media and algorithms printed in capitals on them. The statements are: TAG LIKE SHARE FOLLOW REPEAT, THE ALGORITHM HAS NEVER HEARD OF YOU, THE ALGORITHM KNOWS ALL YOUR SECRETS, LIKE SHARE FOLLOW WEAKEN SUCCUMB CAPITULATE THE ALGORITHM NEEDS LOVE TOO LOVE THE ALGORITHM
August 30, 2024 at 1:28 PM
ccorone.bsky.social
the staring in photo A is also a very important part of their predation - they use those big huge eyes to see whether a shell is clockwise or anticlockwise, which affects the direction they stick their jaw into it.
Two photographs, each showing a Pareas carinatus snakes eating a snail. The snail in the left picture is has a right-coiled shell, and the one on the right picture has a left-coiled shell. Both snakes have their lower jaws inserted into the shells. Beneath the photographs are captions explaining that the snakes' mandibles are inserted into the aperture in reverse relative to the structure of shell whorl. Two paragraphs explain more about the feeding habits of the snake. Researchers ruled out that they were detecting shell direction by smell, since the gene controlling shell direction is unlikely to affect odor. It also notes that snakes in this genus have a developed optical system and large eyes like other nocturnal reptiles, and suggest that they need to use their sight to detect shell-coiling direction.
August 30, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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🐍 Was sharing about the extremely cute keeled slug-eating snake (Pareas carinatus) with my mom. She was very impressed that it wipes its mouth after it eats, and thus has better table manners than me, her horrible child.

To be fair to me, I don't get mucus all over my face when I eat. :/
Seven photographs showing different stages of a small brown snake with large eyes eating a snail. The pictures are labelled A to G. A - The snake stares fixedly at a snail on a branch. B - The snake raises its head up and tilts its neck down, so it is now looking at the snail upside down. C - The snake's head as it eats the snail. Its entire lower jaw is inserted into the snail's shell. A white arrow points to the jaw, which can be faintly seen through the shell. A red arrow points to mucus coming out from the shell into the snake's upper mouth. D - After eating the snail and dropping the shell, the snake gapes open mouthed. E, F, G - All three photos show the snake wiping its head and mouth against a vine, cleaning the mucus off.
August 30, 2024 at 11:20 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
reposting this with alt text / image captions!
A pale white and blue octopus, which has big, sad looking googly eyes. Its eight legs are rather short and curled up inwards, making it look somewhat woeful. The expedition led by the Schmidt Ocean Institute observed a rare octopus species informally named the Casper octopus in the Southern Pacific for the first time. Discovered in 2016 and nicknamed Casper, the species has not been scientifically described or formally named, as no one has collected a specimen yet. A rarely seen Bathyphysa conifera, commonly known as flying spaghetti monster, was filmed while exploring the seamount. It is made up of long, thin, translucent tubes that taper to a point, and have a small pink end. There are also various long filaments, some curly and others straight, hanging out of the bottom. It looks more like a white koosh ball than spagetthi. A bright yellow coral on the dark gray sea floor. The coral is anchored by a round 'foot', from which a single stem sprouts. The stem breaks up into a myriad of smaller 'branches', each with small bumps on them that give it a fuzzy appearance. It looks like a large dead bush painted bright yellow. Some small, unidentified pink things appear to be hanging off a low 'branch'. The ridge was home to deep sea corals such as this large bamboo coral holding benthic ctenophores (comb jellies), barnacles, a sea star, and brittle stars. A fish that is mottled with light-orange and white patterns. It is sitting on the sandy seafloor. The fish has huge, dark eyes on the top of its head, and its two front fins are propping it upright. This scorpion fish (Helicolenus lengerichi) was documented by the expedition to characterize biodiversity along this underwater mountain range in the high seas off the coast of South America.
August 29, 2024 at 6:08 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
ah lime swallowtails, my mom's eternal nemeses

somewhat confusingly - given their name - they DON'T actually have 'tails' on their hindwings

this lady must've egged like 5 or 6 times in a minute or so, it was kind of impressive.

#虫
A lime swallowtail butterfly perched on a leaf of a kaffir lime plant, laying eggs. The butterfly's wings are black with many large, irregular white spots down the sides and centre. The leaf it is on is hourglass shaped, with the bottom half missing a large chunk from swallowtail caterpillars feeding on it. A lime swallowtail butterfly clinging to the underside of a kaffir lime leaf. Its body is curled inwards, with its abdomen pointing at the stem of the plant as it prepares to lay eggs. The butterfly's wings are black with many large, irregular white spots down the sides and centre of the top half. The bottom half of its wings are mostly white with black markings. It lacks the typical swallowtail tail (which is typical of its species). The leaf it is on is hourglass shaped, with distinct top and bottom lobes.
August 29, 2024 at 5:09 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
I....... I actually really wanna see this lol

(I am not immune to propaganda)
Translated article on film.ru, talking about a new Russian TV series on TNT where Dmitry Dyuzhev plays Joe Biden. The plot of the show will be the head of the US President Joe Biden, who undercover flies in Russia to understand the Russian soul and understand why his sanctions do not work. On the first day Biden loses his documents and finds a new friend - a real Russian patriot. Now Biden is forced to live in a regular Khrushchev, to work as an English teacher to save money for new documents and try to return to America. Meanwhile, CIA agents are taken to the United States a very similar to Biden Russian pensioner Ivanych. The article lists other actors and the director (Eugene Nevsky). Season 1 will have 8 episodes.
August 29, 2024 at 4:47 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
and in 2002 researchers tested to see whether rattlesnake moms actively sought out their babies or whether parents/babies were just seen together because they happened to be in the same place or were being spotted soon after birth, and it turns out they did try to stick together.
The researchers tested 16 rattlesnake families by putting the mother in one side of a terrarium and the offspring in the other. To see whether the youngsters were drawn to the mother, the researchers connected the compartments with a tube lined with rows of nails. The little snakes could fit between the rows of nails, but the mothers couldn’t. By the third afternoon, 84 percent of the newborns were in the mother’s compartment, May and his colleagues reported in 2002. To see whether mothers were attracted to their young, May and his colleagues divided a terrarium in two with a cardboard partition low enough for an adult snake to cross but too high for the babies to manage. In the experiment, more than half the adult snakes climbed over to their young. Eight stayed there throughout the experiment, and four others made multiple trips. Of the 23 barrier crossings, 18 went toward the side of the babies.
August 28, 2024 at 5:16 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
Actually went to dig pics up to show what I mean, and the more I look at them the more mildly unnerved I feel, lol.

(also doing the alt text for these was funny)
A photo showing Ruben Gallego from the chest up. Gallego is the Democrat representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district. This shot was taken while he was speaking a recent Harris-Walz rally. Gallego is a fair-skinned man who looks like he could be in his forties. His hair is dark brown, short, and parted on the right. He also has a short moustache and beard streaked with gray. He is wearing a dark coloured suit and an open-collared white shirt. A photo showing JD Vance from the shoulders up. Vance is a junior United States senator from Ohio who is the Republican nominee for vice president in the 2024 presidential election. The photo was taken during Vance's speech at the Republican National Convention. Vance is a fair-skinned man who looks like he could be in his forties. His hair is dark brown, short, and parted on the left.He also has a short moustache and beard streaked with gray. He is wearing a dark coloured suit, a white collared shirt, and a pale yellow tie.
August 26, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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oh geez, I went to read up on this and it gets even more unhinged. from the Forbes article on it: www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
Screenshot of text from an online article: Tuesday’s product launch comes after a year in which reports have raised questions about Axon’s company culture. Reuters reported some staff felt pressured to be tasered in front of other employees and get corporate tattoos as a way of proving their commitment to the company. “The things they were criticizing us for are generally things we are proud of,” Smith said of the culture criticisms. “Our recruiting numbers went up when they ran those recent stories.” Reuters also reported that Smith’s origin story, in which he was inspired to found a police tech company after some high school friends were shot and killed, was largely a myth, claiming that he wasn’t, in fact, close to the victims. He admitted to Forbes he wasn’t close to the victims, but did know them.
August 26, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Did a double-take when I read this study because it's almost EXACTLY the same title, topic and conclusion as another one I linked earlier. How's that for replicable results!

Source: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Screenshot of a paragraph of text. Title: Impact of AI Involvement. Content: AI involvement hints consistently led to negative perceptions and willingness to buy and pay, particularly in terms of authenticity and credibility. Consumers showed reservations about AI- produced content, likely stemming from concerns over the novelty of AI in creative production and its potential implications for quality and reliability. This was evident in both content based products (books, e-books) and art- related products (canvas prints), although the art based nature of canvas prints seemed to mitigate some of the negative perceptions associated with AI involvement, suggesting that art-based product forms might offer a sense of security that deep-content formats lack (Neyazi et al., 2023)
August 26, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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Americans’ descriptions of AI are getting more negative - Ipsos Consumer Tracker

Source: www.ipsos.com/en-us/americ...
Results of a survey 'Many more describe AI negatively'. People were asked what words they would use to describe works of art, books, news stories, movies and TV animations and more created by AI. Responses are displayed in two tables. The left one is dated March 5-6, 2024 and the right is Feb 28-March 1, 2023. The top 5 descriptions in 2023 are Futuristic (29%), Innovative (26%), Creative (24%), Controversial (23%) and Not "real art" (22%). The top 5 descriptions in 2024 are the same, but the order is different. Controversial is top (34%), followed by Not "real art" (28%), Creative (25%), Futuristic (23%) and Innovative (22%).
August 26, 2024 at 7:56 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
From 'Minding the AI perception gap in digital commerce', published Jan 26, 2024.
A recent study found that 91% of businesses feel positive about using AI to engage customers, but only half of consumers feel the same. Amid all the hoopla over artificial intelligence and what it can mean for commerce, businesses are all in for AI, according to a recent survey of 504 executives. 91% of those executives said they “feel positive” about using AI to engage customers. Too bad consumers don’t feel the same. The study also surveyed 1,505 consumers, and only half said they had a positive feeling about using AI to engage with a business.
August 26, 2024 at 2:46 AM
ccorone.bsky.social
From 'The dark side of artificial intelligence in marketing: meta-analytics review', published 6 June 2024.

Source: www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
Findings Adverse effects of AI, including privacy concern, perceived risks, customer alienation, and uniqueness neglect, have a negative and significant effect on customers' cognitive (perceived benefit, trust), affective (attitude and satisfaction) and behavioural responses (purchase, loyalty, well-being). Additionally, moderators in AI (online versus offline), customer (age, male vs. female), product (hedonic vs. utilitarian, high vs. low involvement), and firm level (service vs. manufacturing) and national level (individualism, power distance, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation) moderate these relationships. Practical implications Our findings inform marketing managers about the drawbacks of utilising AI as part of their value proposition and provide recommendations on how to minimise these effects in different contexts. Additionally, policymakers need to consider the dark side of AI, especially among the vulnerable groups.
August 26, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Word cloud of public sentiment towards AI by UK adults from a study taken in 12 Feb, 2024 (visualising the top 50 most often mentioned words). The most prominent word that dominates the centre of the image is scary, followed by worry, unsure, concern, robot, dangerous, and future. Negative sentiments far outweigh the few positive ones.
August 26, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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in comparison have this from an actual professional place - the icons don't match and are distracting or even misleading, and the framing is more 'here's what you might see these people do' (leading to suspicion/distrust) than 'here's why and what it feels like' (helping understanding).
An infographic about bipolar people. Title: WHEN MANIC, A PERSON WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER... Content: Becomes overly elated and energetic (pic of a person with their hands raided) Becomes more irratable (pic of a long-haired person with hands on their head) Requires less sleep (pic of a person browsing their phone in bed) Has racing thoughts (pic of a brain with an outline of a running figure) Talks very quickly (pic of a person in mid conversation) Makes many grand plans (pic of a castle) May believe that he has supernatural powers, or a special mission (pic of a person in a superhero costume) May impulsively engage in potentially dangerous behaviour (pic of a person jumping off a cliff into water)
August 22, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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Reposting a really interesting Kickstarter with alt text (hope that's okay)!

There are so many misconceptions and memes about how historians and archaeologists treat queer and/or trans people that ignore a lot of amazing work being done today, so projects like these really deserve more publicity.
Picture of a book by Gail Jeffe, titled Transgender People Unearthed: What Archeology & Ancient History Teaches us about Transgender People. The cover shows the top right quarter of the Queen of the Night relief, a Mesopotamian plaque depicting a nude, winged, female figure wearing a four-tiered headdress and carrying a rod-and-ring symbol in her left hand.
August 21, 2024 at 3:21 AM
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love reading a book and coming across a paragraph where you can just TELL the author has a much longer rant he wants to go on but has to hold back.
Screenshot of a paragraph of text, which says: To make the steps that I have followed across disciplinary boundaries clear I at times summarize past studies. For some readers this might seem that I am covering familiar ground that has already been reported elsewhere. Scholars in different fields, however, do not always read the work of colleagues in other disciplines or appreciate the significance of findings in other fields for their own work. For example, in Chapter One I revisit critiques of Weberian sociology of religion presented by anthropologists of religion because their world-level importance has not yet been fully appreciated in some other disciplines. Much social research continues to operate on the assumption that disenchantment is the inevitable end point of modern processes, if only we are patient to wait long enough.
August 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM