Thinking again of Jane Grey, a royal of Tudor times, and how the world was robbed of her brilliance when she was beheaded on orders of Queen Mary, when Jane was only seventeen. Most people focus on the history around her short time wearing the crown of England (the first woman, or girl, to do so in her own right), but to me her life before is much more fascinating.
The writings of her tutor and of philosophers in Europe, where you can feel how much in awe they were of her intellect while knowing she was a fifteen year old girl, are spine tingling. Her translating a book into ancient Greek from another ancient language and giving it to her father as his birthday present, at that same age, indicates she was indeed super smart but also a total show-off.
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Of course it's Aimee Carrero who has the best words, as always. Actors are on strike and of course they deserve to be paid properly for their work, even if it's on streaming, and deserve guarantees against misuse of AI, like the writers do.
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StrikeFor the first time in over 40 years, union film
and television actors are on strike.I'm reflecting on the importance of unions.
Though *never* above reproach or
improvement, unions harness the power of
the collective.Together, we can alleviate the crushing
weight of unfettered capitalism.Together, we can slow the terminal spread of
endless consumption and growth-at-all-cost.At their best, unions represent the hope that
the worker is not a pawn, that The Man is not
invincible, and that the fight for human
dignity cannot and will not be deterred.Unions are the ever-rare reminder that
power is really in the hands of the people.See you on the picket line.
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Rewatching We Hunt Together one episode per week, now they are finally showing it on the BBC (One) after I had previously seen it on the BBC (First) and caught up with the repeat on the BBC (Entertainment).
Hermione Corfield and Eve Myles, double the reason to watch.
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Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Pixelfed, PeerTube, dare I say it even Twitter, all have websites that work perfectly fine on mobile. I don't understand this obsession with 'I'm on mobile so I should select an app' or 'I want to see the website so I should use a computer'. The sites may even work better than the app. Often you can save them to your home screen too.
You may consider the feature that apps of mainstream social media provided of extra tracking and snooping to be a nice bonus, but you're not going to get that anyway in fediverse apps.
Great to see Prof Francesca back. Reshared, not because of the tech advice request, looks like she got a lot of answers already, but this is of course a very serious and important archaeological photo.
I like the grin...
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The fair is in town!
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The lead role of Charlotte in Sanditon is played by Rose Williams. I may not like how the scenes are edited and filmed, but she is certainly the good thing about this series. I'll keep watching it.
Here some photos of her from Imdb.
Also, supposedly the amount of Twitter posts you can see without an account is zero, which they say breaks the Twitter embed functionality. So far that seems untrue, I can see the embeds just fine on my own site even in an incognito window. E.g. this one where Chloë Grace Moretz answered my question.
When I removed the wallpaper from the bedroom walls, I found the walls to be quite uneven, too much to paint over. I finally applied the material that is supposed to smooth it out (don't know the English word and neither does Google) to half the wall, since the remainder I can't reach yet. I'm not that happy with the result, it's still a bit uneven.
It's drying now so I have time to think about it.
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SPOF: very good for performance.
My sites are so much faster now that I introduced a single point of failure. Can highly recommend.
It also gets rid of $30 on my Amazon bill. The storage I was using may be only 6 dollarcents (using intelligent tiering) and accessing the data normally only around one dollar (a month), but I had an extra $30 cost because I was using an inefficient setting and was too lazy too figure out how to access the data properly.
(Something was doing more than 100 metadata calls per second to NFS, likely directory listings or date checks, and I still don't know what. Only figured out it's something in php, even after I set opcache to only check every 15 minutes. This is just above the allowed throughput baseline, so I set 'elastic throughput' which scales throughput automatically, but you pay for that too.)
Two titbits from yesterday's Tudum, Netflix's fan event, that I gather from clips posted:
Wednesday season 2 is going to introduce another Addams Family character. Many people have asked for Cousin Itt to appear, but the cast say they don't know yet who it will be. Also, from the fact that the cast announcing this was Jenna, Emma, Joy and Hunter, you can guess their characters are back.
You is going to be the final season, as announced earlier, and there was no news. Just the suggestion that Joe is going to face (an) opponent(s) related to the many loose ends. The clips to illustrate these loose ends included Jenna Ortega as Ellie. My favourite story would be where Ellie and Nadia team up to take Joe down.
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •There's this story where this tutor came to visit Jane and her family (again around her age of 15), only to find the family had gone out for a hunt (bad thing, but that's what they did in those days). But only the father, mother and the two other daughters had gone out, Jane was still in the house, so the servants let him in to the main room. There he found her reading a book, sitting in the window to catch enough light. He asked why she was still inside and hadn't gone with her family and enjoy the pleasures of the hunt. She replied, with complete earnest surprise, that she didn't understand why they had gone outside while instead they could be sitting here in the window enjoying the pleasures of reading Plato in the original Greek.
If there's anything that defines a character...
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •The last months of her life, when she was sixteen and seventeen years old, Jane Grey was locked up in The Tower, which is the normal prison for royalty (it's a castle and royal people were there under house arrest, or castle arrest, not in dungeons). But because she was a kid, she wasn't in the inner Black Castle part, but in the outer ring with the Head Yeoman and his family. They were under strict instructions from Queen Mary on pain of death, to not let any of her writing get out. There was a thing Mary feared most of all: Jane's words. Jane had already become a fierce fighter for the Protestant religion and Mary was fiercely Catholic.
When Jane was taken to be executed, 17, she carried with her her Book of Hours, which at the time was the most precious and most personal possession a religious person had. Especially for a royal person, this would have been made and illustrated especially for her. Nothing out of the ordinary with her grasping that in her hands. Along the way she asked someone to make sure this book was given to her father. The soldier or servant she gave i
... show moreThe last months of her life, when she was sixteen and seventeen years old, Jane Grey was locked up in The Tower, which is the normal prison for royalty (it's a castle and royal people were there under house arrest, or castle arrest, not in dungeons). But because she was a kid, she wasn't in the inner Black Castle part, but in the outer ring with the Head Yeoman and his family. They were under strict instructions from Queen Mary on pain of death, to not let any of her writing get out. There was a thing Mary feared most of all: Jane's words. Jane had already become a fierce fighter for the Protestant religion and Mary was fiercely Catholic.
When Jane was taken to be executed, 17, she carried with her her Book of Hours, which at the time was the most precious and most personal possession a religious person had. Especially for a royal person, this would have been made and illustrated especially for her. Nothing out of the ordinary with her grasping that in her hands. Along the way she asked someone to make sure this book was given to her father. The soldier or servant she gave it to thought it was nothing more than normal that a girl on her way to her execution would want her most prized possession to be given to her father, so he did and thought nothing more about it. Her father discovered she had hidden a whole lot of her writing in the book, which he smuggled to printers in Italy, since England was too dangerous. From there her printed manifests were distributed over England, kept the Protestant flame going during Mary's Catholic reign, so the next Queen could be a Protestant again, Elizabeth I.
In the end, she won after all. (And the trio succeeded)
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •During her months in The Tower, Mary sent her own chaplain, the most learned Catholic in the country, to Jane every single day to try and convert her. Every day he reported back to Mary that he had not succeeded in converting Jane to Catholicism. His private writings in his journals have been preserved. In it he says that not only did he not succeed in converting her, but many days Jane almost succeeded in converting him.
She could argue like the best. And she would never give in.
(She was aware that the deal was that if she converted to Catholicism, she would be let out and not executed. It says quite something that she didn't take that deal.)
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •In those days science wasn't some people together doing experiments, but it was a network all over Europe of individual people, usually old gray men, at home thinking about stuff and writing their thoughts down in letters to each other. What blows my mind is that 15 year old Jane Grey was part of that network. Not by trickery, writing under her father's name, or them only replying out of politeness. No, they fully knew who she was and they accepted her as an equal. It's a shame her letters have not been preserved.
What could she have achieved had she been able to live into adulthood. I believe she would have become an important scientist whose name we'd remember. Can you imagine that an earlier scientist even than Isaac Newton would have been a woman, rather than us having to wait centuries later for Marie Curie? I think our whole perception of gender in science would be different.