John

@johnjdt
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The flemish proverbes de Brueghel in 4 lingue:
- Crottin de cheval n'est pas figue.
- Aan de ene voet een schoen, de ander blootvoets. ( Evenwicht is voornaamst )
- To bell the cat. ( To carry out a dangerous or impractical plan )
- Dare rose ai maiali. ( Fare buone azioni per chi non se le merita )
#Bruxelles #België
Profile picture : Narcissus painting by Caravaggio

🍻Bière et femmes dans l’histoire, épisode 2 : le Moyen Age en Angleterre🍻
De l’Antiquité au XVIe siècle, de l’Egypte à l’Angleterre, les femmes sont responsables de la production de bière pour leurs familles. C’est une tache essentielle alors que l’eau est de mauvaise qualité et véhicule des maladies. Elle est aussi importante que le fait de préparer la nourriture. Lorsqu’il y avait du surplus, les femmes pouvaient le vendre.

Mais l’expansion de l’usage de la bière observé à la fin du Moyen Age

“Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/06/03/crypto-collapse-get-in-loser-were-pivoting-to-ai/
Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI

The same grift by the same grifters.

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Qp @jaztrophysicist
Les figures (en anglais) sont trop cool

✨Nouvel artiiiiiicle (bis 😁 et en anglais) !! ♥️✨

Je vous emmène cette fois en Argentine en 1960, avec la psychanalyste Luisa Gambier de Álvarez de Toledo, qui part notamment dans la jungle amazonienne expérimenter l’ayahuasca… Elle est l’une des premières scientifiques occidentales à en documenter l’expérience ! 💪👩‍🔬

https://chacruna.net/lsd-and-ayahuasca-in-argentina-the-pioneering-work-of-a-psychoanalyst-in-the-1950s/

#histmed #psychedelics #ayahuasca #womenhistory #mastomed #histodons

LSD and Ayahuasca in Argentina: The Pioneering Work of a Psychoanalyst in the 1950s

Luisa Rebeca Gambier de Álvarez de Toledo was a pioneer in the field of psychoanalysis in the 1950s in Argentina. Álvarez de Toledo particularly made a mark in LSD and

Chacruna
Finally, the EU's second solar PV boom exceeds the first one, which peaked in 2011. Adding 40 TWh of production last year increases its market share by 1.5% on stable electricity demand (more in 2022, thanks to drop in demand)
Data and graph by @emberclimate

'Nationalisation in full swing: #Putin goes after #Western companies remaining in #Russia

For the first time since the start of the war, Russia has begun to openly #nationalise Western companies — their owners will lose everything', according to Novaya Gazeta Europe

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/04/30/nationalisation-in-full-swing-putin-goes-after-western-companies-remaining-in-russia-en

Nationalisation in full swing: Putin goes after Western companies remaining in Russia - For the first time since the start of the war, Russia has begun to openly nationalise Western companies — their owners will lose everything

For the first time since the start of the war, Russia has begun to openly nationalise Western companies — their owners will lose everything

Novaya Gazeta Europe

As a response to climate change, @pluralistic notes that elites are increasingly turning to guard labor:

"At a certain point, the most cost-effective way to keep guillotines off your lawn isn’t endowing hospitals, it’s building machine-gun turrets."

https://capitalaspower.com/2023/04/maxing-out-our-global-credit-card-with-authoritarian-debt/

Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt – Capital As Power

Originally published at pluralistic.net Cory Doctorow People who fret about the debt we’re taking on to deal with climate change are (half) right. Because there’s two ways of dealing with the climate emergency: either we can avert it, or we can seek high ground and erect high walls. Guess which one we’re doing. Yeah. The […]

Capital As Power
Stuck in a Khartoum bunker while there’s shooting outside | MSF

Camille Marquis, MSF's outgoing Advocacy Manager, recounts what has been happening in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in the days since the conflict in the country escalated.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International

CARDIOLOGY RISK DUJOUR
LDL in preindustrial population seems to be ~85-104, yet some are pushing for <40.
Studies show a lowering of mortality for populations w/risk factors, but to be rigorous one needs to show the effect of lowering on such populations!

#CardioTwitter https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645368077188489218

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Twitter

“CARDIOLOGY RISK DUJOUR LDL in preindustrial population seems to be ~85-104, yet some are pushing for <40. Studies show a lowering of mortality for populations w/risk factors, but to be rigorous one needs to show the effect of lowering on such populations! #CardioTwitter”

Twitter
The winners of Rest of World’s first photography contest

From images of solar cooking to snake radio telemetry, we received 548 entries from around the world.

Rest of World