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  1. Why is everyone pulling their #AprilFools pranks so soon? It’s only the 19th day of March. What did we miss?

    #OldStyle #JulianCalendar

  2. Why is everyone pulling their #AprilFools pranks so soon? It’s only the 19th day of March. What did we miss?

    #OldStyle #JulianCalendar

  3. Why is everyone pulling their #AprilFools pranks so soon? It’s only the 19th day of March. What did we miss?

    #OldStyle #JulianCalendar

  4. Why is everyone pulling their #AprilFools pranks so soon? It’s only the 19th day of March. What did we miss?

    #OldStyle #JulianCalendar

  5. Der vermisste Angler aus Alsdorf ist tot. Seine Leiche wurde am Samstag am Julianakanal in der Nähe von Geleen gefunden.

    Ein 37-jähriger Mann aus Alsdorf wird seit Tagen vermisst. Er war mit einem Boot auf der Maas in den Niederlanden unterwegs.#Regio-Beitrag #17102024 #Angler #Alsdorf #Maas #Suchaktion #VermisstePerson #Niederlande #RegionAachen
    Private Suchaktion nach vermisstem Angler aus Alsdorf

  6. As I’ve written before, sometimes I find something that just makes me raise my eyebrows… and back away slowly… and, okay, lots more people should actually see this. Thus I present to you everything you never even thought to wonder about how the Athenians process-ified Democracy.

    The Athenians had to keep those bodies flowing smoothly, then, and that was largely a matter of keeping track of who belonged where and when. They also had to maintain a smooth and dependable flow of the information generated by those bodies — the votes, the decrees, the endless speechifying. They had, in short, to do a lot of stuff that modern information technology would have helped them tremendously to do, and nonetheless they managed pretty well, with the materials at hand, to build the tools they needed to make their system work.

    Those tools — the info tech of ancient Athenian democracy — are the subject of the following Notes. I present them now without further ado.

    ~ Julian Dibbell from, https://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.html

    I’m at a loss for words here. o_O

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    https://constantine.name/2024/05/24/technology-of-societies/

    #7ForSunday #Democracy #JulianDibbell

  7. As I’ve written before, sometimes I find something that just makes me raise my eyebrows… and back away slowly… and, okay, lots more people should actually see this. Thus I present to you everything you never even thought to wonder about how the Athenians process-ified Democracy.

    The Athenians had to keep those bodies flowing smoothly, then, and that was largely a matter of keeping track of who belonged where and when. They also had to maintain a smooth and dependable flow of the information generated by those bodies — the votes, the decrees, the endless speechifying. They had, in short, to do a lot of stuff that modern information technology would have helped them tremendously to do, and nonetheless they managed pretty well, with the materials at hand, to build the tools they needed to make their system work.

    Those tools — the info tech of ancient Athenian democracy — are the subject of the following Notes. I present them now without further ado.

    ~ Julian Dibbell from, https://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.html

    I’m at a loss for words here. o_O

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    https://constantine.name/2024/05/24/technology-of-societies/

    #7ForSunday #Democracy #JulianDibbell

  8. Technology of societies

    As I’ve written before, sometimes I find something that just makes me raise my eyebrows… and back away slowly… and, okay, lots more people should actually see this. Thus I present to you everything you never even thought to wonder about how the Athenians process-ified Democracy.

    The Athenians had to keep those bodies flowing smoothly, then, and that was largely a matter of keeping track of who belonged where and when. They also had to maintain a smooth and dependable flow of the information generated by those bodies — the votes, the decrees, the endless speechifying. They had, in short, to do a lot of stuff that modern information technology would have helped them tremendously to do, and nonetheless they managed pretty well, with the materials at hand, to build the tools they needed to make their system work.

    Those tools — the info tech of ancient Athenian democracy — are the subject of the following Notes. I present them now without further ado.

    ~ Julian Dibbell from, Info Tech of Ancient Democracy

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    I’m at a loss for words here. o_O

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    #7ForSunday #Democracy #JulianDibbell
  9. #NowPlaying
    There are a few folks on FB who post billboard charts from the 80s. The top modern rock tracks from this week in 1989 were pretty great so I made a playlist. I'll be skipping Little Miss S. by Edie Brickell because I still don't like it, but the rest? Dang...
    open.spotify.com/playlist/7EZG

    #Erasure #JulianCope #REM #DeadMilkmen #SonicYouth

  10. The #EasternOrthodox Churches never adopted the Gregorian calendar (except in #Finland). While Orthodox-majority countries use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes, many still use the #JulianCalendar for religious purposes. You have probably heard about #UkrainianRefugees celebrating #Easter and #Christmas on different dates to those of #Catholics and #Protestants; this is because the Ukrainian Orthodox Church still uses the Julian Calendar (for now).

  11. But, as we now know, the #JulianCalendar's mean year is about 11 minutes 15 seconds longer than the #TropicalYear, and by the 4th century AD, the dates of the #solstices and #equinoxes had drifted from their official dates by several days.

    In the 16th century, #Pope Gregory XIII used his authority as #PontifexMaximus to reform the calendar again, because that is something #popes can do.

  12. As everyone's got comfy and it's dark outside, here are a couple of book posts for #StandingStoneSunday. These were my spirit guides, leading me so *very* far astray in the pre-internet world.

    #JulianCope #TheModernAntiquarian #AubreyBurl