Just found this odd little clip lurking on a USB. Orkestra Obsolete recreate New Order's Blue Monday, using only instruments available in 1933 (including a theremin), 50 years before the song's original release.
49 years ago today
Released on this day in 1977, Lust for Life, the second studio album by Iggy Pop, his second solo release and his second collaboration with David Bowie, following The Idiot earlier in the year.
#punkrock #iggypop #lustforlife #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Dildo demonstrations, 10 years later: “Texas has decided it is not at all obnoxious or illegal to allow deadly concealed weapons on campus. But walking around with a dildo could land you in trouble. We’re protesting absurdity with absurdity.” texasobserver.org/cocks-not-gl…
#GunViolence #Texas #history #activism #FreeSpeech
A decade on, the iconic campus protest has come to symbolize a time of relatively free expression.Courtney Thomas (The Texas Observer)
At the crossroads of Armenia and Iran, a father and daughter must overcome war, religion, and geopolitics to establish their wines on the global stage and reclaim a 6,000-year-old tradition of winemaking.The Movie Database
Bronze Age shaman identified as female gold worker – The History Blog
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"The Upton Lovell Shaman, a gold worker who was buried with rich furnishings 4,000 years ago, the period when Stonehenge was constructed, has been identified by DNA analysis as a woman, unpending two centuries of presumed sex. She was also a gold metal worker and a religious leader in her community."
It's a highly transactional, purely material view of history, but worth considering.
The modern state is the product of a long, uneven process of bargaining between various centers of power, such as the owners of capital and commodities, the wielders of political power, and the people. Most fundamentally, political and military power has rested on labor. To hold political power is to possess the monopoly on legitimate force. For all of human history, that monopoly has consisted of soldiers and what we today call “police,” along with a vast civil-military bureaucracy—complemented, to be sure, by many technological tools, but fundamentally operated by human beings whose support was needed to sustain the operation.And the whole apparatus—the soldiers, the tools, the attendant bureaucracy—was funded by taxes collected from the wages or production of human beings who had to be willing to pay. Power, at the core, has depended upon the large-scale cooperation and consent of many human beings. David Hume verbalized this often-implicit assumption succinctly when he observed that political leaders have “nothing to support them but [popular] opinion.”
But perhaps no longer. Advancements in real-world autonomous systems may soon mean that states will be able to project force—domestically and internationally—without relying on cooperative soldiers or police officers. And advancements in machine intelligence may mean that the state can collect the revenue it needs not from the fruit of individual human labor, but from the outputs of data centers. The operation of the bureaucracy itself, too, could be largely automated. Power may therefore no longer require a society-wide bargain to be sustained, and the people, broadly conceived, may have only a small seat at the negotiating table, or perhaps none at all.
Avoiding this outcome is fundamental to the preservation of human freedom. No amount of scientific discovery or technological progress or economic growth is worth the sacrifice of long-run individual autonomy this outcome would entail. Many of the anxieties that rightfully animate the nascent politics of AI relate to this question: Businesses, interest groups, and individuals alike all share the worry: “Will I lose my seat at the table?” To some extent, American politics in the 21st century has been shaped by similar concerns relating to individual and collective agency over the direction of the country and “who” the economy “is for.” AI raises the salience of these pre-existing concerns, appropriately so.
Castle racing, a sport for the extremely patient.
To chants of “so-re, so-re”, about 1,800 people came together in northern Japan over the weekend to pull a 360-tonne castle keep a little more than two metres closer to its original resting place as part of ongoing renovations.The keep – a fortified tower within a castle – had to be moved to repair a wall that was damaged in a major earthquake.
Rotating teams of 80 people heaved on 30-metre ropes as the keep of Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture edged closer to its destination. On Saturday participants towed the building – which has been set on rails – 1.13m, while on Sunday it was shifted another 1.09m.
In order to preserve the historic structure, a technique known as hikiya – whereby buildings are put on rollers and moved rather than dismantled – was used. In 2015 the city put out a call for people to come and participate directly. The result was the first citizen-driven hikiya, and the first time the method has been used in any form to move a castle for a century.
Pulling the keep by hand will continue until the end of August, with about 4,100 people scheduled to move it a total of 5m. It is a symbolic, community-building effort and the rest of the about 73m will be carried out using machinery by the end of the year.
theguardian.com/world/2026/aug…
After repairs to Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture, officials employed a technique known as hikiya to move the structure more than two metresGavin Blair (the Guardian)
The law of the innocents: Ireland’s medieval precursor to the Geneva conventions
How a seventh-century monk drew up a blueprint for modern international humanitarian law.
by Chris Doyle
theconversation.com/the-law-of…
Books about Medieval Ireland at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2…
Happy Beginning of the Internet Age Day!
"The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_R…
#internet #InternetHistory #InternetAge #PacketRadioVan #arpanet #history #OnThisDay #OTD
Unsere Stadtrundgänge im 2. Halbjahr 2026
Unsere beliebten Stadtrundgänge zur Geschichte des Anarchismus in den Berliner Stadtteilen werden mit folgenden Terminen im 2. Halbjahr fortgesetzt:
📆 05.09. um 14 Uhr durch Kreuzberg
gustav-landauer.org/content/st…
📆 03.10. um 15 Uhr durch Wedding
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📆 07.11. um 14 Uhr durch Friedrichshain
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Gerne könnt Ihr die Termine vormerken. Bitte schaut vorher auf unsere Homepage, da Änderungen eintreten können.
#GustavLandauerInitiative #Anarchismus #Geschichte #History
Treffpunkt: Vor Oppelner Straße 45 (nahe U-Bhf. Schlesisches Tor) ● 10997 Berlin - Kreuzberg Für die Entwicklung der deutschen anarchistischen Bewegung bis 1933 fungierte Berlin stets als wichtigesgustav-landauer.org
NEW: In Idaho, prosecutors can't file neglect or manslaughter charges against parents who say their faith prohibited giving lifesaving medical care to their children.
Until the early 1970s, that wasn’t the case.
propublica.org/article/idaho-l…
#News #Idaho #Parenting #Children #Health #History #Medicine #Law
From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.Audrey Dutton (ProPublica)
I love finding a cool project with a proper website! Everyone make a website for your things and don't just post things on social media plzzz
#md #maryland #history #queerhistory #website
TEIL 4/4: 🖥️ Was ist die Herausforderung bei der Z1 mit ihren rund 30.000 Einzelteilen?
💡 Die Z1 von Konrad Zuse, der erste frei programmierbare Computer der Welt (1936–1938), besteht aus rund 30.000 Einzelteilen, wie Bleche, Stifte, Federn und Schrauben. Wenn ein kleines Teil klemmt, kann das System ins Stocken geraten.
Unser Team arbeitet daran, den Nachbau von 1989 im Deutschen Technikmuseum wieder zum Leben zu erwecken.
A lot of planning went into the first robotic lunar Earthrise photo in 1966. Humans saw the same view just two years later...and then another year after that, Armstrong & Aldrin set their boots on lunar soil.
planetary.org/space-images/ear… #space #science #tech #history
On August 23, 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. While a remarkable image at the time, the full resolution of…The Planetary Society
The historic first Earthrise photo from the Moon was received 60 years ago today. It was shot on film, developed onboard the Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft, scanned, transmitted home...and then meticulously restored decades later.
lpi.usra.edu/features/lunarOrb… #space #science #history #tech
My fiction #writing hobby took me down rabbit warrens researching Cornwall’s Black History. Discover my findings, from Joseph Emidy, Britain's first black composer, to John Alice, a common labourer who rescued a man from drowning.
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#BlackHistory #History #Cornwall
From Joseph Emidy, Britain's first black composer, to John Alice, a common labourer who rescued a man from drowning.Emma Cox (An Tir ha'n Mor (The Land and the Sea))
What three female figures in the Bayeux tapestry reveal about medieval women
by Natasha R. Hodgson
The women of the Bayeux tapestry tell a story as compelling and important as the main depiction of the battle.
theconversation.com/what-three…
Books about Bayeux tapestry (including La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde by A. Levé) at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4…
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 324.
Rebecca Perry's May We Feed the King (2026) is a wonderfully sparsely written semi-historical novel; bookended by a tale of a curator preparing an displays in a former royal residence, of a King's life, the main part of the story offers a tale of a King who arrives on the thrown unexpectedly (after both his elder brothers die). This is a wonderful exercise in economic story telling showing sometimes less is very much more!
The victory was a Pyrrhic victory; the celebration, a fatal arrogance.
In his brilliant essay ‘The Inevitability of Collapse in the Age of Financialisation’ substack.com/home/post/p-20877… Ryan Perkins describes how this world, which has now dominated the Earth for 500 years, is coming to an end. The ‘end of history’ proclaimed by Francis Fukuyama after 1989 was portrayed as a victory for colonial liberalism. Yet the victory was a Pyrrhic one, and the celebration a fatal arrogance.
Had one read Marx, one could and should have known this. Financial capitalism only functions as long as there is something left to conquer, as long as there is an ‘outside’, as long as colonisation is possible. With the end of the Cold War, the circle was complete. There is no longer an ‘outside’. This triggered neoliberal self-cannibalisation in the West, the comical culmination of which is the first trillionaire, Elon Musk. His trillion is a bet on a future that will not and cannot exist.
On the other hand, there is the rise of China. In China, you see, people read Karl Marx. My first question to Deepseek (after I’d installed it locally on my laptop) was: ‘Isn’t it the case that whoever owns the means of production also holds the power?’ (one of the core theses in Marx’s Capital) – Deepseek replied, in essence: ‘I don’t need to worry. The Chinese are nice people.’
As nice as people tend to be.
From this perspective, the end of the world seems inevitable. The New World is already in sight … the Old World continues to pave its way with corpses. Cruel and helpless …
word.undead-network.de/2026/08…
#anti-imperialism #china #end #history #imperialism #karlmarx #colonialism #usa
Ryan Perkins beschreibt in seinem brillanten Essay "The Inevitability of Collapse in the Age of Financialization" https://substack.com/home/post/p-208778337 wie diese Welt, die jetzt 500 Jahre die Welt dominierte, zu einem Ende kommt.reverend (Undead Blog)
Vecinos is a new video account about Latin American history (the videos are in English by the way). You can follow the account at:
➡️ @vecinos_latin_american_history_vids
(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)
You can also follow their non-video account at @VecinosHistory
#FeaturedPeerTube #History #LatinAmerica #LatinAmericanHistory #PeerTube
This Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up Out of the Blue. Who Was the Whimsical World War II Soldier Who Wrote Them?
Nobody knows who dropped Speedy Weber’s correspondence at a USO office in 2022. Researchers have finally tracked down two living relatives who remember him
smithsonianmag.com/history/thi…
Nobody knows who dropped Speedy Weber's correspondence at a USO office in 2022. Researchers have finally tracked down two living relatives who remember himEllen Wexler (Smithsonian Magazine)
NETZARCHÄOLOGIE: GEOCITIES – ALS DAS WEB NOCH NACHBARSCHAFTEN HATTE
gadgetchecks.de/netzarchaeolog…
#datenschutz #netzwerk #internet #technology #webdesign #nostalgia #history #gadgetchecks
GeoCities gab Millionen Menschen eine eigene Homepage. Die Geschichte der Webstadt führt von digitalen Nachbarschaften bis zur großen Rettungsaktion 2009.Redaktion (gadgetChecks – Das unabhängige Technikmagazin)
Happy weekend!
I think I've just 'figured it out' (or seen a history article from the future). Can hep possibly do more? TBC...
Season 1: "Fake virus" + "Building the best wall, and Mexico will pay for it".
Season 2: Canceling #history truth, #retribution, #emoluments, & the best #ballroom "you won't pay a dollar" for.
Other key words: #corruption #malignant #narcissism #sedition #Kleptocracy #conspiracy #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup
Drying Danube delivers drowned destroyers.
By 1944, German forces were retreating on the Eastern Front as the Soviets advanced through the region, leaving a fleet of around 200 Nazi Black Sea vessels stranded in what was an area rapidly falling under Soviet control.The Danube offered an escape route, but the Iron Gates – a narrow and historically treacherous stretch of the river – created a bottleneck. In September 1944, German Rear Admiral Paul-Willy Zieb ordered more than 200 vessels scuttled as the Red Army closed in. The ships were deliberately sunk to prevent their capture and obstruct the Soviet advance.
"We never realised that we would sail directly over the sunken German warships," said Suzanna Fulton, who recently cruised on the Viking Honir. "It was humbling and quite honestly, a cool experience."
Reece said seeing evidence of the Danube's wartime history made the beauty and peacefulness of the river feel more poignant.
"Today, you can sit on the deck of a river cruise ship with a glass of wine and watch these beautiful countries pass by, but this same landscape has witnessed war, fascism, oppression and tremendous human suffering," he said. "I think that's what stayed with me most. The Danube wasn't simply taking us through Europe. In many ways, it was taking us through Europe's history."
Wrecks have surfaced during previous droughts, but this summer's extreme heat and drought have brought dozens of vessels back into view. Some are believed to contain weapons and explosives, turning this stretch of one of Europe's great cruising rivers into an eerie, visible battlefield.
bbc.com/travel/article/2026081…
As water levels fall, travellers are getting a rare glimpse of history usually hidden beneath Europe's great river.Lauren Goldenberg (BBC)
Archaeologists unearth remains of 21 German soldiers preserved in WWI Shelter - BIC News bicnews.com/archaeologists-une…
Wow crazy
The remains of 21 German soldiers were found buried in a well-preserved WWI shelter almost a hundred years after their death. The soldiers were members of a unit of 34 who were killed when they were buried alive in the shelter.
What Were the Philosophical Aftershocks of the Devastating 1755 Lisbon Earthquake?
The devastation wrought by the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake changed how Europeans viewed and handled natural disasters.
thecollector.com/1755-lisbon-e…
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TEIL 3/4: Wie funktioniert eigentlich die Zifferneingabe bei der Z1? 🤔 Wie rechnet der erste frei programmierbare Computer? Und wie werden Dezimalzahlen in das duale Zahlensystem übertragen?
💡 Der Nachbau der Z1 von Konrad Zuse besteht aus etwa 30.000 Einzelteilen, darunter Bleche, Stifte, Federn und Schrauben. Unser Team arbeitet aktuell daran, die Nachbildung von 1989 im Deutschen Technikmuseum wieder zum Leben zu erwecken.
@crazyeddie
It is probably about car dependency, car-centered areas. Like in the US where in many towns without a car one would struggle to do anything: getting to the grocery store, getting back from the store, reaching the other river bank as many bridges are motor vehicles only.
People can’t live without cars in such places. Even food banks have huge lines of cars, four "lanes". Some homeless people drive cars as well. Imagine the closest grocery store being 1 hour walking distance away, and the weather may be extremely hot/cold.
Many such areas don’t even have sidewalks or anything for walking at all. At the same time so called "jay-walking" is prohibited by law. The term "jaywalking" actually was invented by the cars lobby in the early 20th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalki…
Moving around by walking is extremely inconvenient, dangerous, taking ridiculous amounts of time, basically incompatible with everyday activities.
Also the parking lots, roads, intersections take up huge chunks of the city. Consider how much longer it takes to walk somewhere compared to what it could be without all these. Urban areas could look very different if they were human-centered and Points Of Interest were packed tightly.
And the bigger the city, the more space car infrastructure takes up. More lanes, wider intersections, parking lots can have up to many thousands spots, highways, freeways, interchanges of ridiculous sizes and shapes.
The topic is huge, what I mentioned is just the tip. Think of what you see around every day. Also all the noise. And danger it brings to everyone, not just drivers. The number of so called "accidents", another convenient term for the horrible things that happen everyday.
The areas which are pedestrian-friendly, bicycle friendly, have public transportation tend to have happier residents, more attraction points, more small businesses, more street life, way better air quality, less noise among other benefits.
Also social connections and interaction happen there and not on a 4-lane highway.
#Cars #Car #City #Urban #Streets
#Cities #CarFree #Roads #CarDependancy #StreetLife #Safety #Bycicles #Walking #UrbanSprawl #OneMoreLane #InducedTraffic #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #Access #PublicTransportation #Accessibility #Accessible #PublicSpaces #Socialization #Capitalism #Subsidies #Lobbying #WordsMatter #History #CarsAreDangerous #FuckCars
Water levels across Europe have plunged to record lows due to the ongoing drought, exposing a host of long-hidden relics; here is a selection. #EuropeNewsJesús Maturana (euronews)
Leni Riefenstahl, The Controversial Filmmaker Behind The Nazis’ Most Notorious Films
With "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia," Leni Riefenstahl celebrated and glorified the Nazi regime in the 1930s, but she always denied that her films were propaganda.
allthatsinteresting.com/leni-r…
Leni Riefenstahl spent the 1930s producing films that glorified the rise of the Nazi regime, but denied that they were propaganda.Genevieve Carlton (All That's Interesting)
"The hope that the internet would obey rules existed at one end of a spectrum; at the other end was the more widely held enthusiasm for the idea that the internet would be a place without rules."
theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/…
via hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1171…
Good essay on what went wrong with computers https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-warnings-computer-history-technologyThomas Fuchs (Hachyderm.io)
A terribly romantic story of an empire lost and found.
After failing to prevent the Spanish conquistadors seizing his capital of Cusco in 1536, the Incan king Manco led his vanquished people into the mountains beyond. There, it was said, a few thousand of them built palaces and temples in Manco's capital in exile, where he had taken his golden treasures, his glittering idols, and the mummies of his ancestors.According to the 16th-Century friar Martín de Murúa, who chronicled the Spanish conquest of Peru, "The Incas enjoyed scarcely less of the luxuries, greatness and splendour of Cusco in that distant or rather exiled land".
Beyond a place of exile, Vilcabama was also a centre for Incan resistance, where they planned guerilla warfare against the Spanish and sparked rebellions further afield. Yet in 1572, facing an invasion, the Incans set the city ablaze and fled.
Enter the famous Hiram Bingham.
"No one now disputes that this was the site of ancient Vilcabamba." So wrote the Yale academic who brought the Peruvian ruins of Machu Picchu to global attention in 1911. Hiram Bingham III was recruited by locals to look for a lost Incan city fabled for its hidden treasures – and he firmly believed that's what he had found.
What I didn't know :
The 34-year-old, who later went on to become a US senator, was an assistant professor in Latin American history who happened to be travelling in the area. He was not an archaeologist, nor was he looking for Inca ruins.But a local government official, Juan José Núñez, the prefect of Apurímac, refused to take no for an answer. "Núñez insisted that as I was a doctor, a PhD, I must know all about archaeology and could tell him how valuable Choquequirao was as a site for buried treasure," wrote Bingham. "My protest that he was mistaken in his estimate of my archaeological knowledge was regarded by him merely as evidence of modesty."
Bingham went on to reveal: "I knew very little about the Incas." He relied instead on a book published by the British Royal Geographical Society, called Hints to Travellers, which contained suggestions as to what to do when confronted by an archaeological site.
What I was vaguely aware of is that Machu Picchu was not the actual lost capital. But Bingham very nearly discovered it !
In fact, guides had taken Bingham to the site identified by Savoy 50 years later, 150 km (93 miles) northeast of Cusco. But plagued by bad weather, running short of food, and with his porters threatening to desert, he swiftly moved on, before claiming to have found the lost city at Machu Picchu.Savoy and Santander found ruins spread across three mountain plateaus, which included a palace, granite and limestone buildings and fountains – the first plateau alone was roughly four times the size of Machu Picchu. Their exploration of the area led Savoy to believe that "the site was a refuge used by the last Incas caught up in the throes of a final struggle against the new conquerors".
Savoy later said: "The city has been rumoured to exist for so long that it had almost passed from history to myth. Now we have turned it back to history." So it seems that in 1911, Bingham had walked within a few feet of the place he had been seeking – the final refuge of the Incan empire.
"The area is fascinating because it still hasn't been disturbed or looted," Javier Fonseca, an archaeologist with Peru's ministry of culture, told The Guardian in 2018. There have even been reports of another city, deeper in the forest.
"We know that the so-called 'lost Inca treasure' has not been found," said Savoy in 1967. "If this treasure exists… then we may speculate as to its whereabouts."
bbc.com/culture/article/202608…
In 1911, a US professor claimed he found the secret mountain stronghold of the last Incan king. 53 years later, a new explorer proved him wrong – and the BBC followed in his footsteps.Fiona Macdonald (BBC)
#haikuinc #haikuoperatingsystems #anniversary #beos #haikuos #haikuosr1beta6 #history #opensource #openbeos #r1beta6
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Haiku turns 25: from OpenBeOS's 2001 birth after BeOS's shutdown to today's Beta6 cycle. Discover the incredible story of this indie OS project.Andrea (Desktop On Fire!)
Der Weltstar lebte auf Burg Weilstein bei Hunoldstal und feierte dort seinen 70. Geburtstag. In der Kelterei hatte er eine besondere Vorliebe.www.usinger-anzeiger.de
