(Agenzia Vista) Venezia, 30 agosto 2025 Michele Riondino, Paolo Strippoli, Giulio Feltri e Romana Maggiora Vergano arrivano al Lido a bordo di un taxi acqueo per presentare il film La valle dei sorrisi diretto da Paolo Strippoli.
(Agenzia Vista) Venezia, 30 agosto 2025 Cristina Parodi arriva al Lido per l'82esima Mostra del Cinema di Venezia. Fonte: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
(Agenzia Vista) Venezia, 30 agosto 2025 Lorena Rae arriva al Lido per l'82esima Mostra del Cinema di Venezia. Fonte: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
(Agenzia Vista) Veneziaa, 30 agosto 2025 Willem Dafoe e Oscar Isaac si abbracciano e scherzano con i fotografi al Lido di Venezia all'82esima Mostra del Cinema. Fonte: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
...urbanisation, rising education levels, and access to digital platforms have given women new scripts. Child freedom, once unthinkable, is quietly gaining momentum.
just devoured #TheTestaments by #MargaretAtwood. it's weird checking my socials after finishing the book, it makes me feel like reality atm is a precursor of how gilead started. this story can so easily become reality, if we don't collectively #educate #organise & #resist the current global status quo & divert from this cul-de-sac. #books #reading #press #media
(Agenzia Vista) Venezia, 30 agosto 2025 Giulio Feltri in posa per i fotografi al Lido per l'82esima Mostra del Cinema di Venezia. Fonte: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
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(Agenzia Vista) Venezia, 30 agosto 2025 Paolo Strippoli in posa per i fotografi al Lido per l'82esima Mostra del Cinema di Venezia. Fonte: Agenzia Vista / Alexander Jakhnagiev
Finland will remove swastikas from its air force flags to avoid 'awkwardness' with Western allies
Blue swastikas on white backgrounds that have featured on the flags of various Finnish Air Force units since 1918, which officials say is in no way connected to Nazi Germany, are being gradually phased out in an effort to enhance integration with Western allies following NATO membership.
Blue swastikas on white backgrounds that have featured on the flags of various Finnish Air Force units since 1918, which officials say is in no way connected to Nazi Germany, are being gradually phased out in an effort to enhance integration with Wes…
Britten's 'Death in Venice' is an opera in two acts, based on Death in Venice, a novella by Thomas Mann. The opera's libretto is by Myfanwy Piper. The boy Tadzio is portrayed by a silent dancer, to gamelan-like percussion accompaniment.
A vibrant green forest scene features a shallow stream winding over numerous moss-covered rocks. Tall evergreen trees densely line the banks and fill the background, with sunlight filtering through their canopy. Lush ferns and undergrowth grow along the stream's edges, contributing to the rich, natural environment.
A natural water spring built into the base of a large, towering evergreen tree stands at the end of a dirt path in a sun-dappled forest. Water continuously flows from a wooden spout near the bottom of the tree trunk into a long, concrete or carved wooden trough. A small, light-colored wooden sign is affixed to the tree trunk just above the spring. The unpaved path, strewn with small stones, leads from the foreground directly to the spring, flanked by lush green undergrowth and other trees that fill the background.
A large, multi-story building with white walls and a stone foundation stands under a clear blue sky. Its grey, multi-gabled roof features a prominent, slender white spire. The front of the building has two levels of dark wooden balconies, both adorned with red flowers in window boxes, with the lower level supported by decorative white pillars. Tall green evergreen trees flank the building and are in the background. A paved area is in the foreground, and part of a dark wooden building is visible on the far right.
A tall, silver-colored metal lattice pylon stands on the left, supporting multiple cables with several wheels at its top. An orange, egg-shaped gondola cabin, with clear windows, is suspended from a cable and appears to be moving from left to right, positioned in the mid-right of the frame. The background is a dense forest of tall, dark green evergreen trees, with sunlight filtering through the canopy.
Mi primera vez en una red descentralizada, luego de huir despavorido de las redes monopolizadas por su efecto dañino en mi atención y productividad. He incursionado dentro y decidí por Mastodon para comenzar.
Mi nombre es Lys, escritor y artista. Profesionalmente docente y entrenador.
Hola a todos soy nuevo en esta red social, principalmente estoy aqui porque busco otros horizontes, compartir mis trabajos e ideas, conocer a otros artistas y profesionales, y conectar con personas que necesiten de mis servicios.
Me llamo Luis De Freitas, licenciado en artes mención diseño gráfico y me he especializado en diseñar logos, ilustración y animación 2D con un enfoque profesional.
Aqui les dejo una animación la cual he hecho con mucho esfuerzo y cariño 🙌🏽 #presentación #krita
A #caturday query for other #cat people. Do you have a herding cat like Xavi here? I have to convince him it's cool to sit in this box in the kitchen for morning cuddles, because he will continually try to herd us into the living room for them. He yells at us to follow him, and doesn't give up easily! #catsofmastodon
I've had many a herding cat. They usual lead me to the foid pantry, some closed door or blinds they want opened, or to a place to sit so I can pet and play with them.
I may sound a little crazy in suggesting this, but I think I may have found the wing feather of a white tailed eagle on a walk yesterday. Is that even possible? I read that they are being introduced in southern UK and Scotland and that there are a very few breeding pairs there. I also read that they have been sighted two counties away from where this feather was found
When I saw this huge feather lying on the scree at the foot of the escarpment, I couldn't quite believe it. It is 20 inches/ 51 cm long and clearly came from a larger bird than I am used to seeing anywhere in the UK. The lack of patterning, I believe, rules out a Red Kite, even if it came from a freakishly large one
So, could I be right? Could it be from a White Tailed Eagle? Or some other large visitor that I had no idea came to these parts of NE Wales?
The size and shape rules out, to me, any wing feathers. They almost exclusively have a thinner leading edge on the primary, while this is quite uniform. Secondary and beyond are more even, but much smaller. To have wing feathers that big would dwarf even a Sea Eagle. Examples here: featherbase.info/en/species/Ha…
This, to me, looks like a tail feather. Take a look at this image of a peacock displaying, from behind. Anyone near you have peacocks?
An even better view of the brown tail feathers of an Indian Peacock, from wikipedia. It looks very alike. Note also the hint of brown dappling pattern showing on the leading edge near the quill, suggesting it's from a patterned bird.
AGCM approva le controdeduzioni del Comune di Palermo su RAP e AMAT pressenza.com/it/2025/08/agcm-… Riprendiamo dal sito “eco dalle città” quella che sembra una buona notizia L’Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato accetta le risposte dell’amministrazione comunale sulle criticità rilevate a giugno nelle due partecipate. Sospesa per ora l’eventuale impugnazione davanti al giudice… Redazione Palermo
Majestic Giants of the Philippines: Whale Sharks in Oslob
In the coastal waters of Oslob, a giant emerges — the whale shark, the ocean’s gentle wanderer.
Oslob is a small coastal town in the Philippines. Fishermen lure young whale sharks close to shore by offering handfuls of small fish. These encounters have made the town world-famous. They give divers and snorkelers a rare chance to see the largest fish in the ocean up close.
Reaching lengths of up to 12 meters, whale sharks hold the title of the largest fish in the sea. Despite their massive size, they are filter feeders, living on plankton, tiny crustaceans, and small fish. When they feed, their cavernous mouths open wide. They draw in thousands of liters of water. This water passes through specialized gill rakers. This ingenious system allows them to extract even the tiniest morsels from the sea.
Each whale shark carries a distinctive pattern across its back and sides. The white spots and stripes form a natural fingerprint, unique to every individual. Researchers use these markings to identify and track them, building a global picture of their movements and migrations.
The practice of feeding whale sharks in Oslob draws them closer to shore than they might otherwise swim. For many visitors, this creates unforgettable encounters. It offers a chance to look into the eye of a giant. Visitors see their gills working in detail and understand their size from experience, not from a book. At the same time, these encounters raise important questions about tourism and conservation. How do humans interact with such extraordinary creatures?
Behind the Film
This short film was a project close to me because it was my first trip to the Philippines. I shot the original footage on a GoProHero 4 in 2015 during my dives in Oslob. Today, on International Whale Shark Day, I revisited the footage and edited the video in Final Cut Pro. The background music was composed in Logic Pro, and the narration was created using ElevenLabs’ text-to-speech feature.
“Arrive as a guest… leave as a friend” Scuba Diving at Atlantis Dive Resorts You come first in everything we do, whether it’s your honeymoon, your first time scuba diving, or your lifetime dream photographing the stunning marine biodiversity of the P…
Sally Carson was not an oracle or a prophet, just a young woman from Dorset, born in 1901. Yet she foresaw a dark and violent future for Europe and gave voice to those fears in a 1934 novel that is now being hailed as “an electrifying masterpiece”. theguardian.com/books/2025/feb…
The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future
This observation by the tech journalist Casey Newton got me thinking about how LLMs are increasingly shaping the visibility of academics:
Thinking models have gotten surprisingly good at identifying potential sources — potentially academic ones. When writing about Grok last month, I wanted to talk to someone who had studied relationships between people and chatbots. ChatGPT led me to Harvard’s Center for Digital Thriving, and suggested someone to talk to, along with their email address. I wound up interviewing them for the piece. The fact that thinking models can quickly analyze the academic literature about any subject and identify prominent researchers on the subject, along with their email addresses and phone numbers, is beginning to save me a lot of Googling.
I realised early on that I was more visible in model responses (ChatGPT and Claude) than other academics of a comparable age, career stage and influence* which I assumed was because 6000 blog posts hosted on wordpress.com were gobbled up in training. It could talk at greater length, with more accuracy, about my work then it could about other academics because my online visibility translated into model visibility.
I suspect this also means I’m more prone to being suggested by the model for a topical discussion in the way that Casey points to when looking for experts to interview, though I’m unsure how to go about establishing this. The value of a long term blog also means that I figure prominently as a source for ChatGPT and software like Perplexity. Interestingly, I don’t recall ever seeing a single referral from Claude. In the last year I’ve had more referrals to this blog from ChatGPT than I have from Facebook or Bluesky, though interestingly LinkedIn drives more traffic.
In other words there’s a complex relationship between online visibility and model visibility. Given that online visibility is the key driver which led social media to be institutionalised into higher education in the UK, this is very significant for academic careers even if it takes a long time for it to consolidate into a widely recognised incentive structure.
What other factors lead to increased model visibility? Ultimately this is a matter of visibility within the training data, but the patterns of visibility produced by this are challenging to conceptualise. What are the positive and negative outcomes of increased model visibility? Casey illustrates one in terms of visibility to journalists but there are many others.
*I did this in a very impressionistic way but it would be interesting to do this as a robust quantitative exercise.
The image depicts a robot seated in a spacecraft control room. The robot has a large, rounded head with a single eye and a helmet-like structure, and its body is covered in a white, padded suit with orange patches. Its mechanical arms are visible, with one hand holding its head and the other holding a small device, possibly a smartphone. The background is filled with various control panels, screens, and buttons, suggesting a high-tech environment. The color palette is dominated by blues and grays, with the robot's orange accents providing contrast. The robot's posture and the way it holds its head suggest a moment of contemplation or concern.
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