Politics Cannot affect Change. Only consciousness Can. Therefore I am Reaching out to a Man of God. Today is my Son Rocco’s birthday. I feel the best gift I can give to him as a Mother - is to ask everyone to do what they can to help save the innocent children caught in the crossfire in Gaza. I am not pointing fingers, placing blame or taking sides. Everyone is suffering. I am merely trying to do what I can to keep these children from dying of starvation. ♥️ If you want to help Please Join me in donating to the following organizations. @WCKitchen @WomenWagePeace #womenofthesun @pontifex Please share and repost .

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"We no longer need to model for when cell prices drop far enough to decarbonize road transport. That day is here." 🔋🔋🔋 ✍️ by @colinmckerrache and team at @BloombergNEF ⚡️⚡️⚡️ @AukeHoekstra @WattisDuurzaam

Met subtiele tactieken als dit probeert AI onze soort uit te roeien

Geniet nog heel even van je social media voordat het een plek wordt waar alleen nog AI bots met elkaar praten.

Respectfully, your proposal does break encryption. I am happy to spend as much time as you need reviewing in as much detail as you are comfortable with exactly how it breaks encryption, and why this is so dangerous.

Stiekem proberen politici wéér om het digitale briefgeheim bij het grof vuil te zetten, dit keer onder een andere naam. En je dan afvragen waarom het vertrouwen in instituties afneemt. Goh.

EU apparatchiks aim to sneak a terrifying mass surveillance measure into law despite UNIVERSAL public opposition (no thinking person wants this) by INVENTING A NEW WORD for it—"upload moderation"—and hoping no one learns what it means until it's too late. Stop them, Europe!

The Royal Game of Ur : For 4600 years, a mysterious game slept in the dust of southern Iraq, largely forgotten. The passion of a museum curator and the hunger of young Iraqis for their cultural history may bring it back... The original name of this ancient game has been lost to time, but it was dubbed the Royal Game of Ur after a British archaeologist named Sir Leonard Woolley uncovered five worn playing boards in 1928 at the Royal Cemetery of the Sumerian city of Ur. Analysts estimated that the highly decorated boards, made of wood, inlaid shell and lapis lazuli, were made between 2600-2400 BC, making the Royal Game of Ur the oldest complete tabletop game ever discovered. Archaeological evidence suggests that the game (Game of 20 Squares) was immensely popular with people of all classes. The boards were carried all over the Middle East and sometimes scratched into clay or rock, if no board was available by soldiers, missionaries, explorers and traders, who introduced it to Iran, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Cyprus and Crete. Variations of the game have been found in King Tutankhamen’s tomb, and etched into pillars in the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II. For at least 1000 years, the Royal Game of Ur was the national game of ancient Mesopotamia, but it waned in popularity as other games were developed, including those that most likely evolved from it, such as backgammon. Mentions of the game disappeared in the Middle Ages, but a variation, called Aasha, was played by the Jewish people of Kochi, in India. Jews of Kochi had migrated from ancient Babylonia and brought a version of the game with them. The 1928 discovery of the Royal Game of Ur gave scholars an important cultural glimpse into how the ancient Mesopotamians entertained themselves, but there was one problem: The boards did not come with an instruction manual, and that meant that modern-day scholars had no idea how the game worked. In 1980s, Dr. Irving Finkel (a curator and Assyriologist at British Museum), translated a cuneiform script on a crumbling clay tablet that had been brought to the museum by an antiquities dealer. The document sounded remarkably like the rules of an ancient game. The clay tablet written in 177-176 BC by a scribe named Itti-Marduk-balatu, tablet was discovered around 1880 in the ruins of Babylon, according to an academic paper written by Dr. Finkel. “The tablet included a grid on one side,” he wrote, “and two columns of closely written text on the other, adding his name and the date at the end of the inscription.” British Museum bought the relic shortly after it was found and cataloged it. Scholars tried to decipher the cuneiform over the years, but it was Dr. Finkel who was able to identify the text on the tablet as instructions on how to play the Royal Game of Ur after comparing it to the other game boards the museum had stored in its archives. Babylonian tablet revealed that the game is race between two players to get their markers around and off the board. Pyramid-shaped dice are used to indicate the number of squares a player can move, but strategy is involved as well: If a player lands on a square occupied by their opponent, they can knock that marker off, and the opponent must start over again with that piece. That can set a player back by quite a bit, and it is almost impossible to predict who will win, even near the end of the game. But there was another aspect of the game that attracted people: It was said to tell a player’s fortune. According to the cuneiform tablet, some of the marked squares on the board were assigned signs of the zodiac and, with them, predictions that a player would win a beer, make a friend, eat well, or perhaps become powerful and wealthy. 🎥© ancientstristan (IG) #archaeohistories

Impressed by the community and knowledge exchange around #unitetofight2024! Testing the waters here: would you like to have a similar crowd sourced online conference, but with a focus on actionable #longcovid treatments and strategies, by healthcare professionals? @LongCovidTool

Heel fijn dat we meer mochten vertellen over de Long Covid Toolkit! Ik hoop dat we straks veel mensen kunnen helpen. Wil je ook je steentje bijdragen? Steun de crowdfunding op geef.nl/nl/actie/long-covid-…