ricardo pinto
@hermitabroad.bsky.social
dark fantasy and scifi writer… mostly known for The Stone Dance of the Chameleon series (and trilogy)
My garden just now
March 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My garden just now
Another Polish film poster… this one for Vertigo… perhaps a tad overwrought?
March 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Another Polish film poster… this one for Vertigo… perhaps a tad overwrought?
A Polish poster for #Cabaret
“Blending raw intensity with haunting beauty, these posters reflect the psychological landscape of a society shaped by repression. This poster, inspired by Bob Fosse’s Cabaret (1972), is from the archives”
“Blending raw intensity with haunting beauty, these posters reflect the psychological landscape of a society shaped by repression. This poster, inspired by Bob Fosse’s Cabaret (1972), is from the archives”
March 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A Polish poster for #Cabaret
“Blending raw intensity with haunting beauty, these posters reflect the psychological landscape of a society shaped by repression. This poster, inspired by Bob Fosse’s Cabaret (1972), is from the archives”
“Blending raw intensity with haunting beauty, these posters reflect the psychological landscape of a society shaped by repression. This poster, inspired by Bob Fosse’s Cabaret (1972), is from the archives”
This casts some light on the change in the #worldorder that it seems we are experiencing
‘He who comes too late is punished by life’
Rather than lamenting the perceived irrationality, corruption or indecency of Team Trump, Europeans must recognise what is truly at stake
www.ips-journal.eu
February 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This casts some light on the change in the #worldorder that it seems we are experiencing
The Snow Queen’s hairbrush?
February 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Snow Queen’s hairbrush?
Clever! (By Zez Vaz)
February 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Clever! (By Zez Vaz)
Short, fascinating podcast about #aphantasia: people who don’t have an ‘inner eye’ #imagination
What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images
Podcast Episode · Quanta Science Podcast · 11/12/2024 · 21m
podcasts.apple.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Short, fascinating podcast about #aphantasia: people who don’t have an ‘inner eye’ #imagination
For those of you out there who believe that #LLMs are ‘reasoning’, and thus that #AGI is within reach
Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations | Quanta Magazine
Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.
www.quantamagazine.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Snowdrops, medlar, my house and the moon…
February 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Snowdrops, medlar, my house and the moon…
I find this a convincing view of where things are at, globally: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Special Edition: Glenn Diesen on Trumpism, Ukraine, and the Hegemon's End
Podcast Episode · Multipolarity · 30/01/2025 · 1h 2m
podcasts.apple.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I find this a convincing view of where things are at, globally: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
January 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“photo from Mehmet Karaca, the third-place macro winner, shows that enjoying the morning sun is absolutely not limited to the human race. This baby chameleon, which is evidently no bigger than a flower, is getting a few rays in Turkey’s Kapıçam Nature Park.”
January 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“photo from Mehmet Karaca, the third-place macro winner, shows that enjoying the morning sun is absolutely not limited to the human race. This baby chameleon, which is evidently no bigger than a flower, is getting a few rays in Turkey’s Kapıçam Nature Park.”
Reposted by ricardo pinto
Actually, thinking about it, it's probably cowardice...
No one would be betrayed if it happened. No solemn promises would have been broken.
It's hard to believe that anyone (or any government) can be quite this stupid... Which means it's corruption, grift or brute ideology. I just have no idea which.
It's hard to believe that anyone (or any government) can be quite this stupid... Which means it's corruption, grift or brute ideology. I just have no idea which.
NEW: Rachel Reeves rejects calls to negotiate a UK-EU customs union to boost economic growth
“ We’ve got to move on. There are opportunities outside the EU, opportunities like AI, where we have a very different regulatory approach”, she told Bloomberg in Davos
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
“ We’ve got to move on. There are opportunities outside the EU, opportunities like AI, where we have a very different regulatory approach”, she told Bloomberg in Davos
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
January 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Actually, thinking about it, it's probably cowardice...
Chinese New Year poster
January 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Chinese New Year poster
This has even more bite in a time of AI encroachment
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience – and a connection to history
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This has even more bite in a time of AI encroachment
Reposted by ricardo pinto
A panel from my 12 page SSoC story 'The Wuthering', due out in May...
January 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A panel from my 12 page SSoC story 'The Wuthering', due out in May...
Current view from one of my windows
January 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Current view from one of my windows
“The ordnance being used, they say, create a secondary blast of over-pressure that can injure or kill anyone within a 50-metre radius, with children the most vulnerable. A signoff on the use of such bombs, they say, would carry an understanding they would create a high number of civilian casualties”
‘I realised we’re such hypocrites’: how growing numbers of US veterans were moved to protest over Gaza
As images of the war flooded social media and news reports, disillusioned ex-military personnel increased their efforts to pressurise the administration to stop arming Israel
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“The ordnance being used, they say, create a secondary blast of over-pressure that can injure or kill anyone within a 50-metre radius, with children the most vulnerable. A signoff on the use of such bombs, they say, would carry an understanding they would create a high number of civilian casualties”
A work in progress from Liam Sharp
January 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A work in progress from Liam Sharp
I find this a bit disturbing, though it does show how our minds construct what we ‘see’ out of components
January 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I find this a bit disturbing, though it does show how our minds construct what we ‘see’ out of components
Venus, clouds and twigs
January 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Venus, clouds and twigs
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1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group
British arm of Heartland, which has taken fossil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois Perry
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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