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Untitled , Venice 2 - Anna Krammig , 2023.

German , b. 1981 -

Oil on canvas , 100 x 75 cm.

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Brassaï • Paris de Nuit (4 étages à louer) 1932

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One of many wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations in a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica (ca. 80 AD). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/watercolours-from-a-16th-century-de-materia-medica

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Now abandoned, La Petite Centure is a 19th century railway that loops over 30km around Paris

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Yuxiao Ran — Ignorance Buried Here (oil on calico fabric, 2022)

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Faeq Hassan - Street scene (1968)

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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Power plant in Hirschfelde (Zittau), Germany.

(Europeana)

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Is this the third time I've posted a picture of this frog on a lily pad? Yes. Is it slightly different than the last two, but it's still the same frog and lily? Yes. Do I care? No. I just thought it was neat. Me and Marge Simpson, shaking hands while she's holding a potato and I'm holding this frog and lily.

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Jean Giraud, aka Moebius

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Hungária (formerly and now New York) cafe, Budapest, 1974. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Brown’s Hotel of the Catskills, Fallsburg, New York, 1970′s

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Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris), family Alcedinidae, order Coraciiformes, Singapore

photograph by Steven Kang