Sarah Emily Duff
Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
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- “A statue of Ramses II, eleven metres tall and 75 tonnes, is dwarfed by the massive space and its many attractions, which include a number of chain restaurants (Starbucks as well as Zooba, which sells gentrified Egyptian street food).”
- ‘Back in 2013, Bill Gates remarked that it would take a decade to know whether education technology really worked. More than ten years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the answer is increasingly clear. …“Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead.”’
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffA gentle joyousness—a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale.
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- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffThis photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffOne important bit of context missing from all the tales of Silicon Valley workaholism during the AI boom: Everyone in this game knows it's not sustainable. Companies are churning through engineers (who can easily hop to new jobs) and knowingly burning them out.
- www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.
- ‘Silicon Valley inadvisably takes its cues from the machines it builds.’
- ‘In balancing emotional and cognitive responses to art, attuning themselves to language and learning… students …cultivate their own distinct sensibilities, and … cultivate minds whose activity is an end in itself. This process … is always a kind of liberation.’ By @annieabrams.bsky.social
- ‘Even as the opioid crisis appears to be on a downswing, it continues to be a major public health challenge. Drug overdose deaths are only now approaching prepandemic levels, and are still more than 3 times higher than they were at the start of the millennium.’
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffRussian poet-futurist Vladimir Golzschmidt hypnotizing a chicken. 1923
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffEdvard Munch, The Sun (1909).
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffI have ever found your plain things the knottiest of all.
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- ‘It can happen, you know, when politics becomes a bloodsport. The legislator must vote absolutely: aye or nay, life or death. But the painter — here is his power, and also his tragedy — can give a third answer: I just don’t know.’
- “Baya and he went on to have six children together. For eight years – from 1954 to 1962 – she didn’t paint. She might have been thought to have enough on her plate. Kaplan leaves the question open, quoting a gnomic remark of Baya’s that there was not enough green paint.”
- “Queneau published Zazie dans le métro in 1959. Its tale of a ten-year-old girl with a strong will and a foul mouth who spends a wild weekend in Paris should be taken, according to Kojève, as a ‘summary of the Phenomenology of Spirit’.”
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffKeith Vaughan painted just twenty still life oil paintings over the course of his career. This work 'Pomegranate, Lemon, Cup,' painted in 1948, consists of a tabletop with a striped tablecloth and angular forms.
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- “During the … Gordon Riots …, George III ordered that troops should fire on the … rioters. In Parliament … Burke thundered that the king and his ministers had established a ‘military on the ruins of a civil government’; Fox added … he would ‘much rather be governed by a mob than a standing army’.”
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffWonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...
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- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffMinotaur in the labyrinth, Roman mosaic at Conímbriga, Portugal Frank Stella, Labyrinth, 1960
- ‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’ By @mattseybold.bsky.social
- “what we want in life is not just to satisfy our own desires, but to submit ourselves ‘to needs and requirements we did not invent, whether these are the needs of other people or groups or the requirements of worldly activities in which we wish to participate or at which we wish to excel.’“
- “Asked later in life to confirm whether the bond with her sisters had ‘stood between her and life’s cruel circumstances’, Decca replied: ‘Sisters were life’s cruel circumstances.’”
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- ‘the weak job market means they feel more pressure to hold onto their jobs at all costs, accepting more shifts and vocalizing fewer complaints. In this precarious situation, middle managers often appease leadership requests to implement AI automation even when there is limited value in it’
- ‘We start walking and Van Niekerk points upward to show the solar lighting – a first step in making a city safe and walkable. Across the inner city, for more than 12 blocks these lights are up, tapping the daylight sun to light up the city from dusk to dawn.’
- ‘other known psychedelic compounds also usually produce idiosyncratic trips that vary not only from person to person but also from one experience to the next within the same individual. With L. asiatica, though, "the perception of little people is very reliably and repeatedly reported"’
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffCall me Ishmael.
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffA Dull Afternoon — Edward Gorey, 1974
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- “Henry James, who visited in 1873, put it well: ‘You may be as little of a formal Christian as Fra Angelico was much of one, you yet feel admonished by spiritual decency to let so yearning a view of the Christian story work its utmost will on you.’”
- ‘It’s the people talking. It’s us. So, you know the drill. Don’t talk to Chat. Mourn the dead blogs. Fight like hell for the living.’
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- ‘Graham Granger, a student in the school’s film and performing arts program, came upon some AI-generated art by MFA student Nick Dwyer and promptly ate it in protest’
- Truly our time has come
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffFor years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon
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- ‘It takes a special kind of imagination to conjure a singing clod and a warbling pebble, belting out their theories of romance from underfoot and underwater.’
- ‘Soon, Jane filled her spare bedroom and dining room with hedgehogs, and even nursed a swan back to health in her bathtub. Penny’s conservatory and shed were similarly filled with injured hedgehogs, which she’d get up at 5.30am to clean and feed before leaving for work at 7am.’
- ‘“It’s on the order of a couple of millimeters… which doesn’t sound like a big number, but when you’re talking about brain movement, it really is.” … However, what surprised Seidler was the lack of any serious symptoms, including headaches or cognitive impairment, both during or after spaceflight.’
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- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffSomething lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology
- ‘There was once a country where everyone was a thief.’ A short story by Italo Calvino in @grantamag.bsky.social
- ‘The massive buildout is happening across the country… “From the ground, it’s hard to grasp the scale of these power plants… But when you rise into the air, you can see the geometry, the rhythm — and their relationship with the mountains, the desert, the sea.”’
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- See also this excellent piece from @dailymaverick.co.za:
- ‘Most of the conditions we worry about … stem from a complex interaction between our genes and our environment. … Rather than revealing the genetic origins of disease, genomics has done the opposite. … The primary driver of disease is considerably more terrestrial: It’s the environment, stupid.’
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- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffJean Arp, Objects Arranged According to the Law of Chance, 1930 botfrens.com/collections/14377/c…
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- ‘As the population steadily grows, so too does the issue of where to put the birds. “We are actually running out of space for kākāpō and predator-free, good-quality habitat”… “It’s an exciting turning point for the programme – how do we keep growing the population, but … where do we put them?”’
- ‘As one student told the researchers, "It's easy. You don't need to (use) your brain." The report offers a surfeit of evidence to suggest that students who use generative AI are already seeing declines in content knowledge, critical thinking and even creativity.’
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffMy review of 'Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894–1899' is now in the Business History Review. This book is the first to seriously examine speculation and fraud in South Africa's early gold industry. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Sarah Emily DuffWe’ve got a stellar lineup for this term’s Modern British History Seminar in Oxford. Do come along if you’re around! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...
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