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Luin aina Imagen kannesta kanteen kirjastossa. Sitten lehti lopetettiin, ja sen sisältö on nyt jossain Apu360-veppiportaalissa, jota minulla ei ole aikomusta tilata. Silloin tällöin joku vinkkaa hyvän jutun, ja samalla pitää klikata auki saman kirjoittajan kaikki vapaasti luettavat jutut puolen vuoden ajalta. Tulee paljon lukemista kerralla.

Samuli Knuuti, #muuten, lienee Suomen paras poppikirjoittaja näinä aikoina.

#Image #Apu #SamuliKnuuti #JKarjalainen

apu.fi/artikkelit/samuli-knuut

Apu360 · J. Karjalaisen uudet kappaleet kuulostavat kaikessa vähäisyydessään varsin joutavilta, kirjoittaa Samuli Knuuti | ImageSamuli Knuutin mielestä J. Karjalaisen uudelle levylle Suomalaista muotoiluu on helppo antaa anteeksi sen olemassaolo.

An #AI #Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For
An unsecured database used by a #generativeAI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.
wired.com/story/genomis-ai-ima
archive.ph/sEmuA

WIRED · An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It ForBy Matt Burgess

Palermo, le carceri di Palazzo Steri Chiaramonte e il tribunale dell'inquisizione

Stasera su Rai Storia alle 20.30 si parlerà del Carcere di Palazzo Steri, utilizzato dall’inizio del ‘600 alla fine del ‘700 dall’inquisizione spagnola per imprigionare tutti i cittadini scomodi per la vita sociale, politica e soprattutto religiosa, dell’antica città di Palermo.

I graffiti riscoperti, durante il restauro del Palazzo, ci comunicano pensieri e stati d’animo struggenti, che arrivano a noi in modo diretto, opere realizzate nel buio per rimanere nel buio, che ci raccontano il dramma della prigionia più infame, perché spesso ingiusta.

Ne ho parlato sul mio blog:
https://www.panormus.blog/stories.php?key=il-carcere-inquisizione-a-palazzo-chiaramonte-steri

#palermo #panormus #sicilia #sicily #italia #italy #europe #world #picoftheday #picture #image #immagine #photo #photography #fotografia #storia #story #cultura #culture #arte #art #aspassoneltempo #aspassonellastoria #memorie #devozioni #credenze #popolari #tradizioni #castello #palazzo #carceri #inquisizione #dominazione #spagnola

🔴 🖋️ **Slow down your writing**

Edwin L. Battistella

“_If you write something confusing once, your reader may be momentarily distracted. If you do it a lot, they will lose confidence in your writing._”

🔗 blog.oup.com/2025/03/slow-down.

#Writing #WritingCommunity

#Image attribution: Bobdog, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil.

🔴 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 **Manifest Destiny**

As a teenager many decades ago I studied 19th century American history at school. My teacher was careful to instil in his students an appreciation of how important the cultural belief of 'manifest destiny' was to American expansion westwards during that century. Little did I know at the time that decades later in 2025 a new wave of American expansion, however this time northwards, would try to envelop Canada and Greenland in a new 'manifest destiny'.

#ManifestDestiny #Canada #Greenland #USA #US #UnitedStates #America

#Image attribution: John Gast, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page:URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

Spent the morning with my amazing friend Diána Laurent. We sat in a café, talked, laughed, plotted a short comic, and she did character sketches for the MCs I came up with. It was inspiring and wonderful. Seeing an artist bring characters to life will always feel like absolute magic to me. ✨

(AI can suck it. It will never replicate this.)

My first two reads for #TransRightsReadathon! One fiction and one nonfic (I always read different books at different times of the day).

Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas is the first YA book I have decided to read in AGES. The world and the concept sounded very cool.

Our Lives, Our Words is a collection of life stories from aravani (hijra) women from Tamil Nadu, compiled by one of them. It is touching read.