#technical history

[hydralisk98]

Turbochannel Symbolics (0x1E/?)

The hints towards our well-deserved future lies right behind us... on this reality rendition of our planet that is...

As the avid sidestream software & overall copyleft movement enthusiast I am, I can't help myself but think of ways to introduce & show to people around copyleft technologies, which given my growing presentation and vulgarization skills seems like a decent career option coming after me aside from data archival & "system administration"?.

I also had several inspiring dreams & situations as of the last few weeks so I am planning to revamp my Itch.io, DeviantArt and other mainstream platforms (as well as get the word across in sight of moving the main content threads towards Mastodon, PeerTube, NeoCities, Landchad.net ...) quite soon to reach new audiences.

For example, I have chatted some about copyleft software in healthcare when I went to my dentist clinic as to pitch alternate solutions in copyleft forms & probably adapt according to insightful feedback. Or also how I got many ideas floating by around my constructed world that should be formalized through proper writing eventually.

Here are a curated selection of my latest ideas among many more I generated in the past week...

Cladograms (new demo about navigating the ocean of clades & the Turing-complete tree of glyphs as Ava, the ENFP synthetic-tier android syndicalist ally)

Maskoch (demo revamp on woodland bear-hunting vision quest as Kate, the autistic INTJ-T Green self-insertee)

Vanguard (new demo about benevolent power escalation in a data library during the iron stars-period aka dusk of time as Tano, the distant future benevolent hypervisor mothfolk lady)

Symbolic Union (curated collection of the previous titles + longer game on the senatorial hearings & overall Shoshoni Union's courtroom case towards Ava as the Progressives party wins the elections & ends the case in favor of her)

Nucleus (copyleft 12x12p tilesheet package with interactive demo as revamp of the OpenBSD software toy)

More information to come around soon onto how I plan forth to get started the Pflaumen brand as far as what I wanna do up to this late August in a later article? (probably by the time we hit Thursday midnight*);

[clumsypuppy]

who is your favorite AA character? 👁️👁️

ziska… I hope capcom brings her back someday

[oliveroctavius]

In Plagiarism and You(Tube), Hbomb says "If you consider something so obscure you can get away with stealing it, you do not respect it." Save that line for the next time someone tries to tell you that Roy Lichtenstein brought respect to comics as art.

It's since been pointed out that while Lichtenstein did copy one of Russ Heath's drawings of an airplane getting hit, the painting depicted above was actually copied off Irv Norvick, because Lichtenstein did this so many times to so many comic artists.

In Lichtenstein's defense, he was doing this in a time when comic artists frequently weren't even credited in the issues themselves. In his condemnation, he never even tried to check, nor has he made any move to pay or credit any of the comic artists who recognized their own work later on. Rather than elevating the "low art" of comics, he was widening the gap of financial success and respect even further.

The Hbomberguy of this story is art historian David Barsalou, who has now spent decades tracking down the original art and the names of the original artists used in Lichtenstein's most famous output. Here's the flickr gallery for the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein project. Frequently copied were Tony Abruzzo, Ted Galindo, Mike Sekowsky, Joe Kubert, Jerry Grandenetti, and dozens more Golden Age artists who aren't very well known in comics circles, let alone art history books. Many of them died in poverty. That's something that the Hero Initiative, mentioned in Russ Heath's comic above, aims to prevent.

Also, Lichtenstein didn't even paint Ben-Day dots. That's a specific thing.

[stars-obsession-pit]

Fridged (but only half successfully)

Danny awoke in a cramped, pitch-dark box with the taste of blood in his mouth. It took his brain a few moments to boot up, but then he jerked forward in a panic.

And promptly collapsed unceremoniously to the ground as a side of the box swung open.

A fridge. He had woken up in a fridge.

What hell happened to him last night?

Pushing himself around to sit upright, he grimaced at the sensation of wet fabric clinging to his skin. Glancing downwards at his clothes, he froze. The crimson stains covering the entire front of his body were impossible to misidentify. He was soaked in blood.

Fuck, this wasn’t gonna be something he could just ignore, was it. He let his head thunk back against the fridge, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath as he cast his mind backwards.

The last thing he remembered was flopping into bed in his shitty Gotham apartment after finishing a voice call with his significant other. An apartment he was definitely no longer in. So what the hell had happened to get him here?

Suddenly, his introspection was interrupted by a figure crashing in through the window. One of the bats, who then completely froze up upon taking in Danny’s slumped form.

A horrified whisper left their lips. “Danny…?”

[my-darling-boy]

Oh to be a loyal knight and serve my lord (we are fucking)

[howisthepope]

WHILE I HAVE EVERYONE'S ATTENTION

the birth rate of the Vatican is zero

Aka no one has ever given birth in the Vatican

Mostly because even if someone was going into labour, they would move the person to the nearest hospital in Rome

So

Who is gonna do it?

[facts-i-just-made-up]

quick i have a test tomorrow can you give me the rundown on american history

American History (Abridged):

Earth forms

Ice age fades

People thrive

Colonialists fuck up everything

The 2005 NHL contracts expire, resulting in the 2012-2013 season having only 48 games per team

[efemmera-archive]

Early Lesbian Film: A female bandit (Asta Nielsen), protects a young woman from a fellow bandit, then kisses her in Zapata's Gang (1914), Dir. Urban Gad

[rexwrendraws]

heartbreak weather!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

hero/villain showdown but one of them has a spontaneous medical emergency and the battle gets put on hold while their archnemesis drives them to Urgent Care

[businesstiramisu]

This person has a more expansive definition of plagiarism than me, and I think some of the translation problems likely are more of a problem in their specific domains. But the points about re-wording the sources to be less accurate and just incorrectly citing sources altogether (using them as references for things those sources don't even say!!) seem likely to affect Wikipedia in general. I've certainly notice plenty of poorly written, confusing sentences on Wikipedia just in my casual browsing.

And the "cascading errors" -- arising from multiple editors trying "improve" articles without checking the sources, thus making the Wikipedia article *more* incorrect -- seems like an intrinsic property of how wikipedia works.

[historical-fashion-polls]

[psychotrenny]

Socio-economic conditions in mid-17th century England were largely pretty miserable to live through, but government attempts to mitigate them through laws to ensure full employment could have some pretty funny results. Being legally compelled to keep your useless fail maid around sounds like the plot of a comedy GL, but for some citizens of Stuart England it was just the reality that they had to face

By requiring masters to engage apprentices for seven-year terms and servants (in agriculture and in most trades) for the whole year rather than the day, it prevented employers from hiring labor only when there was work to be done and prevented the diligent and effective worker from replacing the ineffective. The intention to spread work is apparent in the observation of the Essex justices that labor by the day caused "the great depauperization of other labourers.' But labor by the year meant that work could be strung out to occupy an unnecessary amount of time, because whether or not a master had enough work to occupy his servants they had to stay and he had to keep them. The records show many instances of masters attempting to turn away a servant or apprentice before the stipulated term was up, only to have him sent back by the courts with orders that the master "entertain" him for the full period'. We even have the extraordinary spectacle of the runaway master, the man who illegally fled from his servants and thus evaded his responsibility to employ and support them

Edmund Morgan (1971) The Labor Problem at Jamestown, 1607-18. The American Historical Review Volume 76 Issue 3

[nectorbruise]

So, I’ve had the thought of “what if Max never intercepted the bullet, and Peter did die.” Because I’ve never been happy a day in my life. This image of Peter shot and the LIB coming in and possessing his body to take Max and Peter away has been haunting me for a few weeks now, sooo….

I did this on Medibang pro, which I haven’t touched in years, but yknow what, I had a good time! Sorry about this one.

[inkyami]

As a foreigner, I am curious. What are the main differences between kokoshniks and other types of headresses?

Why thank you for asking!1 First and foremost, kokoshnik is a festive headdress of a married woman. It is essentially a hat and is meant to cover the hair — a huge difference in status (unmarried girls wear a single braid, married women pin hair around the head in two braids and cover it). It comes in an amazing variety of shapes depending on a region, though the south of Russia had their own amazing thing for most of history. We're used to see the ornate arch of kokoshnik, but the back was also very rich.

All the headdresses that have just a front piece and don't cover the top&back of the head would be a venets/koruna etc (wreath/crown) — a headband, a young woman's festive and wedding headgear. Those can also get ridiculously high and wide, but don't provide full coverage. They could also be paired with a braid decoration.

Now, the mixing up starts as early as late XVIII for aristocracy and XIX for everyone else. Thanks to Peter I's "embrace Europe, reject tradition" policy the upper class was pretty much entirely cut from Russian traditional culture. When the "slavic" style came back in trend (several times during wars) it ignored all original symbolism and was heavily changed to fit international beauty standards of the time. By the time of Nicholas II (and yet another wave of slavomania pre-revolution) every court headdress we see is clearly a headband/diadem in its structure but every description states "kokoshnik".

Important note: in 1830s court dress regulations there is still a clear difference between kokoshnik and a headband for married and unmarried ladies accordingly. However, every history text elects to call every headpiece a "modernized kokoshnik" In the latest years the "kokoshnik" (BUT ACTUALLY A VENETS/HEADBAND) became an insanely popular accessory in Russia and is made in tons of materials but in a very limited number of shapes. The results vary from beautiful to silly to atrocious (I'll spare you from looking at patriotic take on the mater). I'd love to wear one, but, to quote marquis de Custine, "it flatters beautiful faces and makes ugly ones even more so"

In short (HA) — kokoshnik is a full-covering headdress for married women. Every young heroine wearing what looks like a kokoshik from the front but sports a braid — wears a venets. Thankfully there are also a lot of artists dedicated to keeping the traditional crafts and garments alive, like Johann Nikadimus who does both replicas and modern designs and never fails to call things accordingly. Its breathtaking and very expensive, just like it was before. About southern kichka headdress

[solarg0blin]

I redrew some Merlin characters to be more historically and culturally accurate! The text is their original names in a later Latin script, yoinked from a display in the Corinium Museum, Cirencester. (Sneaky edit to add: Y'all are incredibly welcome to use this in any way you want, I would love to see more of my home's culture being represented more accurately in media!!) (Also on Instagram)

Unlabelled version under the cut!!