Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Probably still better than jagermeister

'The drinkability all depends on how well it was sealed, said David T. Smith, a British drinks writer and consultant who once tasted a shipwrecked gin — with unexpected seawater notes. (“Disgusting.”)'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/world/europe/baltic-shipwreck-champagne.html

@BenjaminHimes My first reading was veri•kive; I think they are going for veri archive.

Primitive Baptist?

'Bryan and William Bell Riley both urged the state of Tennessee to enact a law against teaching evolution in the schools. In January 1925, John W. Butler, a Democratic farmer-legislator and Primitive Baptist lay leader, introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor punishable by a fine for any public school teacher “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man had descended from a lower order of animal.”'

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1998/11/19/darwin-in-dayton/

@BenjaminHimes Truthsocial was already taken

'The (Gates) foundation has partnered with the publisher F1000—which is known for carrying out postpublication peer review—to launch VeriXiv, a new platform of verified preprints. VeriXiv promises to conduct 20 ethics and integrity checks to ensure that papers meet basic quality requirements.'

https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/future-science-publishing/102/i23

'One drunken night, a superb painter let me take a brush to a canvas that she said she was abandoning. I tried to continue a simple black stroke that she had started. The contrast between the controlled pressure of her touch and my flaccid smear shocked me, physically. It was like shaking hands with a small person who flips you across a room.'

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/23/the-art-of-dying-peter-schjeldahl

'A dazzled Congress gave Netanyahu fifty-eight standing ovations, lasting about half of the speech’s duration and marking a record in US history, or perhaps any country’s history, at more than 400 percent the number Kim Jong Un receives in North Korea, thus breaking Netanyahu’s own record from 2015, when his forty-three-minute speech received forty-three standing ovations and rounds of applause from nearly every single US lawmaker. After a long, torturous hour of cheering and clapping, lawmakers scrambled on the House floor to shake Netanyahu’s hand.'

https://jacobin.com/2024/07/benjamin-netanyahu-address-us-congress/

'Brazil’s national intelligence agency created a parallel structure to spy on Bolsonaro’s political opponents during his administration. Among dozens allegedly targeted were supreme court justices, the speaker of the lower house of Congress, and prominent journalists.'

https://www.ft.com/content/daf3a1f6-6374-4456-b704-b946c9577bae

'Upworthy was a venture-capital funded startup “that explicitly intended to bend the algorithmic logic of Facebook and other platforms toward socially responsible things.” Pariser is proud of much of Upworthy’s work, he added, “but at the end of the day our impact was constrained by algorithmic choices that prioritized the company’s engagement metrics and the limits of what is possible in a VC backed business.” Now, “New_ Public picks up where that leaves off, in my mind, by attempting to meet some of the same goals — a healthy digital public sphere — through more fundamentally public-spirited ends.”
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/could-social-media-support-healthy-online-conversations-new_public-is-working-on-it/