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A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: A Free Course That Explores Philosophy from Ancient Greece to Modern Times

https://www.openculture.com/a-history-of-philosophy-in-81-video-lectures

A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: A Free Course That Explores Philosophy from Ancient Greece to Modern Times

Above, you can watch 81 video lectures tracing the history of philosophy, moving from Ancient Greece to modern times. Arthur Holmes presented this influential course at Wheaton College for decades, and now it's online for you.

Open Culture

To better days…

The original iPod was released closer to the launch of Voyager 1, the original run of Star Wars, and sales of the Apple 1 than to today.

athanasios Oct 22

Mastodon Oct 22

The Return of the #Plushtodon! (at the end of November, anyway...)

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/plushtodon-mini/

Plushtodon Mini

For the first time, the #Plushtodon will be available in two flavourful colors, and half the size, making it much easier to fit within every household or mode of transport, while maintaining the delightful softness and squishiness that it’s come to be known for.

Mastodon Blog

athanasios Sep 20, 2025

Mitchell Hashimoto Sep 15, 2025

Ghostty 1.2 is now released! macOS Tahoe support, command palette, graphical progress bars, custom cursor shaders, terminal background images, massive font and rederer improvements, quick terminal on Linux, global keybinds on Linux, localization to almost two dozen languages on Linux, and so much more. https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0

1.3.0 - Release Notes

Release notes for Ghostty 1.3.0, released on March 9, 2026.

Ghostty

athanasios May 23, 2025

Artemisia Vulgaris May 17, 2025

#CatsOfAthens #Caturday

athanasios Apr 23, 2025

Antonis Chariton Apr 23, 2025

rpki-client broke today after creating 876’552 inodes and filling up the entire FS. A 16 GB FS is plenty data-wise, but the default inode limit is reached much faster than expected, requiring either a new VM with a higher percentage reserved, or more GBs.

It's all /var/cache/rpki-client .

athanasios Mar 28, 2025

Chris Heilmann Mar 27, 2025

Thanks, I hate it…

athanasios Mar 28, 2025

benjojo Mar 27, 2025

Spring!

(Maybe not fake spring this time)

athanasios Mar 28, 2025

Nicole Rust Mar 28, 2025

Wonderful, awe-inspiring science at its best.

Butterfly wing color is linked to mate preference. In this paper, they show how those are linked genetically and how that changes how butterfly eyes work. WOW.

Kudos to Steph Palmer and team.

Friendly breakdown:
https://biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/butterfly-romance-written-their-genes

Paper:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002989

Butterfly romance is written in their genes

Scientists at UChicago reveal how simple genetic tweaks and changes in the visual system can reshape butterfly perception and shape evolution.