[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.

[bg;EN] Неразумна поговорка *** Unwise Saying

На харизан кон зъбите не се гледат.

Грешка.

Знаете какво станало, когато не погледнали най-известният харизан кон в историята...

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Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Wrong.

You know what happened when they didn't look at the most famous gift horse in history...

[EN] Which Year: 1938 or 1939?

Ribbentrop, Stalin, Molotov.

People have been recalling an event in Munich in 1938.

It is more important to recall an event in Moscow in August 1939.

Specifically, the secret agreement how Berlin and Moscow would divide Europe between themselves.

And then they started with Poland in September.

Next was the Soviet-Finnish War in the winter of 1939–1940.

Later in 1940 came Moscow's capture of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.