[EN] The Original Thinker

Hamangia culture, Late Neolithic (around 5000 BC)

Several millennia before Rodin, there was a no less talented sculptor on the Lower Danube.

The name of the culture is pronounced /kha-mahn-JEE-ah/.

See also:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinker_of_Hamangia>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamangia_culture>

[EN] The Last of the Windjammers

The Pamir, rounding Cape Horn in 1949.

The last Drake Passage voyage of the world’s last commercial tall ship.

[EN] House of Bears

Photographed by Dmitry Kokh.

An abandoned weather station on an island near Chukotka.

Photographed with a UAV (drone).

Full story from the BBC:

The polar bears living in an abandoned Arctic weather station

<https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250407-the-polar-bears-living-in-an-abandoned-arctic-weather-station>

[EN] Friends Don't Let Friends Hear AI Art's Siren Song

I can see three layers here and I am sure I am missing something.

1. The wordplay on the gener- root.

2. Some nine decades ago the Nationalsocialists effectively made "degenerate" a compliment, though their intent was the opposite.

3. The reference to Duchamp's "Fountain".

[EN] A Simple Rule

When in doubt, think: what would Edsger do?

[EN] N-player Games

It has been noted that Trump seems to view all politics as zero-sum games.

I don't know whether he actually does (or whether he actually knows game theory), but he also does seem to view politics as a solitaire.