Read the first edition pamphlet of Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” speech. After he finished speaking there was “a universal burst of applause” and 700 copies of the pamphlet were subscribed to on the spot: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #July4th
Novo "guia" para estudantes de história econômica, a partir de uma aula da pós em que mostro a alunos de economia como a área se desenvolveu no Brasil. osf.io/preprints/so...
Kurt Vonnegut: In my book I drew an asshole as a cautionary tale Anthropic: At long last, we have created the Vonnegut Asshole
Micah Lee@micahflee.com · 4mo agoI know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
jic floppy disks, print ad (1983) archive.org/details/loop...
#Onthisday in 1837, Queen Victoria ascended to the throne and so began the Victorian era. Of the vast amounts of Victorian content on our site, this is perhaps our favourite — a dictionary of Victorian slang: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-1909
The HPV vaccine outcome epi just keeps getting better and better. From England, a 100% mortality reduction in the most recent female adult cohort (20-24yo) that had proper high coverage at ~12yo. Still one of the greatest ID AND oncology successes ever observed. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24: an analysis of population-based mortality data
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...
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As a postal carrier, I delivered a banana with the address written on the skin and the postage on a tag tied to the stem. It was still in good enough condition to eat.
Oops, I'm wrong - I DID get a pic. Been almost 15 years now, I forgot, but it was still in my photo albums.
The time the UK told a user in northern ireland that the program was only available in the UK while apologizing for The Troubles is another Irish Twitter classic
@lmonasterio.bsky.social "Se os alemães não conseguiram fazer o socialismo funcionar, então ninguém consegue" www.amazon.com.br/Politics-Eco...
microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war
Apples are one of the most common health pickups in beat 'em up games. Here's a mini collage of apples from various beat 'em ups.
After Alma Mahler married another man, the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka hired a puppet maker to recreate her as a life-size doll, complete with “fine, curly horsehair” on her “parties honteuses”. What he got, instead, was a monster made of swan skin: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
The prophecy cannot be stopped
This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
