day two hundred nineteen

As Trump issues apologetics for China and Russia over helping Iran, Kyiv sustains blows from Moscow without the usual pre-warnings from NATO. Houthi rebels report attacks in Sanaa on Yemeni petroleum infrastructure from Saudi-led forces—more airports and oil installations came under fire as the US leans on Ankara for protection. After a Bulgarian tanker was sunk in the Black Sea by a Russian submarine drone, Sophia recalls its ambassador.

sonnenobservatorium goseck und naumburg

synchronoptica

one year ago:  reprogramming government funding to dull the public pain of the US government shutdown (with synchronoptica), penmanship instruction plus more oblique strategies 

two years ago: university commas, Peabody visual aides, an out-of-season bloom plus Dungeons & Dragons as group therapy 

three years ago: assorted links to revisit plus unlucky thirteen  

four years ago: another MST3K classic,  the world’s first personal data protection law plus assorted links to revisit

five years ago: your daily demon: Focalor, The Style Council plus a psychedelic design collective

six years ago: a fashion show with puppets plus Witchtok community doing the Lord’s Work

seven years ago: the introduction of the Ampelmännchen (1961), more links to enjoy plus more mushroom finds

eight years ago: democracy by lottery, vintage Sainsbury’s packaging plus a music video from Bob Sinclar

 

day two hundred eighteen

Ignoring Trump“s unilateral truce (which the American president admits to fabricating) on energy infrastructure, Russian immediately strikes nuclear facilities at Kharkiv and Ukraine continues to lob missiles and drones at Russian oil fields and refineries. Kyiv also targets Yandex data centres, reportedly blunting disinformation bots’ activity with noticeably less campaign engineering than usual. Houthi rebels shut down Saudi airspace again and Iran, reputedly, disables Qatari natural gas exports. Ship-spotting suggests that Moscow is buying diesel from Tehran and selling it to America

bad kösen, schulpforte, freyburg (unstrut), an der poststraße

synchronoptica

one year ago: a never-ending, generative Wikipedia (with synchronoptica) plus Edwardian scrapbooking

two years ago: assorted links worth the revisit 

three years ago: macroscopic seeds plus first kindergarten in the United States and its pedagogical method

four years ago: the lingua cosma of SETI, assorted links to revisit plus building the fake, composite bridges shown on euro bill

five years ago: typographical ornament, a plan for Italy to be annexed by the US plus Jesus Christ Superstar

six years ago: an AI makes memes, Free-Thought Day and other celebrations, a Khrushchev colouring book plus foliage studies

seven years ago: Étienne de Silhouette,  the founding of Iran plus social media’s sins of omission 

eight years ago: more links to enjoy, mapping returns on solar panels plus the miniature world Tatsuya Takana

 

day two hundred seventeen

Shrugging off resounding criticism over his diesel deal with Russia—which is only for about two days worth of consumption—by allies and even members of his own party, Trump elevates his stab in the back for Zelenskyy, threatening to stop intelligence sharing with Ukraine if they don’t stop destroying Russian refineries and suggesting that the country needs a leadership change. At a campaign rally in Tennessee—in what should be a GOP stronghold but has come into play with the disastrous administration—the American president tells the crowd , „I could say the dumbest thing and you would still clap,“ to thunderous applause. The original MoU having expired on Monday, negotiations between Washington and Tehran remain deadlocked, Trump falsely claiming that direct talks are occurring with the Revolutionary Guards regarding surrender. Hurricane Isaiah batters the US gulf coast, leaving hundreds of thousands without electricity and threatening to severely disrupt US petroleum production in the corridor corresponding to the cone of predictably.

rudelsburg und berg saaleck

synchronoptica

one year ago: Je t’aime... moi non plus (with synchronoptica), slowing light speed,  more esoteric programming languages, artistic idioms, assorted links to revisit plus the many anniversaries of SNL

two years ago: Texas Chainsaw Massacre plus a last day on the Havel 

three years ago: the death of Pope Pius XII plus more links to enjoy

four years ago: Barbarella (1968), ancient animation, a Coming Out simulator plus a declassified map of nuclear targets

five years ago: the micronation of Rose Island

six years ago: an appreciation of the Smiley Face, a system for coding emotional facial reactions,  St Gummarus plus the debut of Saturday Night Live (1975)

seven years ago: more on the moons of Jupiter plus the better letterer’s corner

eight years ago: päntsdrunk,  more on Coming Out Day, the technical mastery of chindōgu, a moon moon plus The Secret Life of Plants

 

latino sine flexione (13. 876)

Though best known for his contribution to mathematical logic and set theory, standardising the axioms deductive structure for natural numbers, Sardinian professor and glottologist (one who studies how languages evolve and change over time) Giuseppe Peano was also an advocate for international auxiliary languages, like Esperanto and Volapük, and even invented one of his own. Recognising that Latin was already esteemed as the lingua franca among certain communities, Peano pared down the declinations and inflections as much as possible to simplify its grammar whilst retaining its familiar vocabulary. Starting in 1903, Latino minimo was a gradual process and whilst disfavoured by purists and others in Interlingua circles promoting their own conlangs, with only Peano and a few colleagues publishing in simplified Latin, as recently as 2017, Latino sine flexione applied for inclusion under the International Organisation for Standardisation to be assigned the language code ISO 639-2. More from Futility Closet at the link up topp.