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Someone showed me that we have a yaml pipeline definition in our Jobs postings (see here: https://xpirit.com/team/to-be-announced-9/)?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon and I just had to make sure this example works! So.... there now is an "Do Epic Shit" action in the GitHub Actions marketplace!
Find it here: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/do-epic-shit-at-xpirit?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon and let me know when you implement it!
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Since March, stovetop cooking hasn’t sounded the same in our kitchen. Instead of the click-click-click-poof of a gas burner igniting, turning recipe ingredients in a pan or pot into a meal begins with the beeps of buttons on a touch-sensitive display and then the pulsing buzz of an induction coil.
Replacing the gas range that had come with our house when we moved in 20 years ago, and which had become increasingly iffy about having two of its burners light, was an unquestionable part of finally getting the kitchen redone. Getting an induction range did not seem as obvious until some contemplation about how we’d want to end the need to burn fossil fuels in the house every day1 and learning more about the health risks of gas burners in unventilated kitchens.
Five months into cooking with the Bosch induction range2 we picked out, several impressions stand out:
- The cooking surfaces really do heat up quickly–I almost botched one of the first pots of rice I cooked when I didn’t realize the water was already boiling. If you cook pasta with any regularity, an induction cooktop is your new friend.
- Induction surfaces are also responsive in a way no gas burner is, almost immediately cooling down when you turn down or turn off the heat. They also let you keep a pan on minimal heat without worrying about gas flames blowing out.
- That buzzing noise can sound weird, especially when it’s louder with particular pieces of cookware for reasons that I have yet to figure out. On the other hand, I’ve decided that I like the beeps the touch controls make as I tap them; the experience feels a little like cooking on the bridge of NCC-1701-D.
- Not every pot or pan heats up as quickly. The All-Clad stainless-steel cookware we got with our wedding works great, as does the Wirecutter-endorsed nonstick pan we bought to replace one that wasn’t induction compatible (determined by a magnet not sticking to its underside). But the griddle pan we bought to retire another induction-incompatible model takes longer to heat up than I’d like.
- Because the cooktop is so smooth, a pot or pan will spin around or slide away from the induction element very easily. That unbroken surface, however, is also super-easy to clean.
- As you might expect with any stove swap, it takes some time to adjust muscle memory for one range’s output for another’s, which can be a issue for particularly temperature-sensitive recipes.
- The embedded electronics in an induction cooktop may make fussy moments possible, and I may have seen one happen after our kid left the oven on for too long after baking cookies. That apparently heated up the cooktop enough for it to balk at turning on a cooktop coil for a few minutes.
After those five months, I not only don’t miss cooking with gas but have been reminded of what I don’t miss when I’ve used other people’s gas stovetops where some burners don’t light up reliably. But it’s also easy for me to say that when we still have a gas grill on the back patio for the not-everyday experience of cooking with fire.
- Replacing the 2018-vintage gas furnace and water heater with more efficient heat-pump units will be a task for another year. ↩︎
- Yes, that is an expensive piece of hardware. And well worth it considering all of the time I spend in the kitchen! ↩︎
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/16/home-on-the-induction-range/
#Bosch #cookingWithGas #decarbonization #hob #homeElectrification #induction #inductionCooktop #inductionRange #inductionStove #magnetic #stovetop
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Several times last week, prosecutors painted #Trump as a micromanager. They used custodial witnesses to read passages of his books that depicted him as a boss who distrusted his employees for a fear they will "rob you blind." This is a continuation of that theme.
#Hoffinger, the prosecutor, lingers on the back-&-forth between #MichaelCohen & #KeithDavidson ensuring that the wire transfer of Daniels's money & the NDA were in place.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #ElectionInterference
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The agenda for this years #GitHub Universe is live! I am thrilled to have a session this year on the “lessons learned rolling out #GitHubCopilot at scale, for thousands of developers: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bosrob_universe-2024-activity-7237513101330321408-g54a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
If you are going let me know and talk to me while we are there! I’ll also be at the #Xebia booth of course!
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This is huge! I know several customers who are looking forward to this feature for a long time (we run into this a lot during trainings Xebia!), so worth a little demo! Link to our tutorial videos in the comments 😍💜.
I already shared this internally at #Xebia and folks already called me to get a live demo 🥰. With this video I'll share this at my current customer as well.
Watch it here:
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The Seashore Trolley Museum never disappoints.
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Lazy Caturday Reads: Trump’s Racism and Epstein Fallout
Good Afternoon!!
Yesterday, Dakinikat wrote about Trump’s disgusting Truth Social post of a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Trump left it up for at least 12 hours before someone at the White House finally deleted it. Of course Trump, who is a hateful and repulsive racist, won’t apologize.
The Washington Post: Trump refuses to apologize over video showing the Obamas as apes.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump declined to apologize for sharing a social media video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, saying he did not realize the image of the former president and first lady was tacked on to the end of the clip.
The president said Friday that he had watched and passed along the video — which focused on claims of voter fraud until the final seconds of the clip — to unidentified “people” to post to his Truth Social account, but that he “didn’t see the whole thing,” including the brief portion that showed the heads of the Obamas edited onto the bodies of apes.
In response to a question from The Washington Post about whether he would heed the calls of some Republicans to apologize for posting the video, which was widely condemned as racist and offensive, Trump said he would not.
“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” Trump said on his way to Palm Beach, Florida, for the weekend. “I look at a lot of — thousands of things. And I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”
Trump referred to the controversial video, which was online for about 12 hours before being deleted, as “a very strong post in terms of voter fraud.” [….]
…[T]he pushback was swift, including from Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), the chamber’s only Black Republican, who also serves as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Scott called the post “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” Several other GOP senators and House members joined Scott in condemning the video, with some calling on Trump to apologize….
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday, Trump dismissed the notion that the post and his handling of it could hurt him with the minority voters he had made gains with during the 2024 election. He touted criminal justice reform legislation passed during his first term, as well as his efforts to ensure funding to historically Black colleges and universities.
We’ll see. I think Trump expects to be able to rig the 2026 election anyway.
Hanna Kiros at The Atlantic (gift link): The Obama Meme on Trump’s Truth Social Was Exactly What It Looked Like.
Donald Trump supercharged his political career by claiming that Barack Obama wasn’t American. Yesterday, 16 minutes before midnight, the president’s account on Truth Social posted a video that suggests Obama isn’t even human. It briefly shows the head of the first Black president and that of his wife superimposed onto the bodies of apes. They dance along to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
The video, which Trump’s account shared twice, seems to be a screen recording. Its first minute shows a clip promoting the lie that voting-machine tampering handed Joe Biden the presidency in 2020. Then, someone seems to swipe up, and the clip depicting the Obamas as apes flashes into focus. [The post was removed after about 12 hours.]….
In the interim, hundreds if not thousands of people responded to the clip with enthusiasm. Immediately after the video was first posted on Truth Social, the memecoin $APEBAMA was minted. Within 12 hours, more than $4 million worth of $APEBAMA had been traded back and forth. In an X group with the same name that now has hundreds of members, the pinned tweet implies that the meme stock will succeed because of how outrageous the video is: “this is pretty much on par with him calling Obama a nigga.” Some members posted their own depictions of Obama as a monkey or ape. The ape video’s apparent creator, the X user @xerias_x, reposted the full video to their X account early this morning. Besides the Obamas, the video shows a menagerie of Democratic politicians as animals, bowing down to Trump, who appears as a lion. It now has more than 1 million views. (@xerias_x also seems to be the originator of an AI-generated video Trump reposted in October that shows the president raining down what appears to be excrement on protesters from the sky.)
The “joke” that Trump’s account spread is plainly sinister. The idea that Black people sit somewhere between white people and apes has long been used to justify cruelty. In 1377, a historian wrote that Africans “have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals,” meaning they “are, as a whole, submissive to slavery.” Cartoons circulated during the Civil War were printed with images similar to the one Trump posted: One labels a monkey holding a book upside down as a NEGRO-MAN; another depicts a Black man on all fours, accompanied by the words WHAR’S JEFF DAVIS. In 1906, a man born in what was then the Belgian Congo, Ota Benga, was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in a cage with an orangutan. In 1975, white teenagers harassed Black students desegregating a Boston public school with the chant “Two, four, six, eight, assassinate the nigger apes.”
The ape caricature still colors how Black people are received in America. But this morning, the administration played the video off for laughs. “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in response to a comment request before the Truth Social posts were removed. (The Lion King features a monkey named Rafiki, but no apes appear in the film.)
There is absolutely no question that Trump is a vicious racist.
In other news, there are so many fascinating revelations coming out of the latest release from the FBI’s Epstein files. I haven’t had the patience to actually try searching through them myself, but I’ve been following what reporters are finding. Some of the latest examples:
Allison Quinn at The Daily Beast: Epstein’s Top Secret Relationship With Trained Russian Spy Revealed.
Jeffrey Epstein had a years-long relationship with an FSB-trained Russian official who sought his help connecting with a well-known hacker in 2016.
The late sex trafficker’s corresponJeffrdence with Sergei Belyakov is among the strangest revelations in the millions of case files released by the Justice Department last month.
Belyakov, a former deputy economic minister, helped Epstein secure visas to visit Russia, provided him with a dossier on a Russian woman Epstein had complained was trying to blackmail “a group of powerful businessmen,” and reported to Epstein about his work for the Russian government.
Epstein’s frequent bids to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov feature heavily in the newly released files—his assistant reminds him in one September 2011 email that he’d told his bodyguard he “had an appointment with Putin” coming up—but he appears to have had Belyakov at his beck and call.
In one January 2016 email under the subject, “My new position,” Belyakov told Epstein he’d started working at the Russian Direct Investment Fund–now led by Kirill Dmitriev, one of Vladimir Putin’s most trusted envoys, and a key player in ongoing peace talks with the Trump administration to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Much of their correspondence focused on investment opportunities and potential investors, though it’s unclear to what extent Belyakov involved Epstein in his work beyond the emails documented in the latest files.
The pair met several times in person over the years. In numerous email exchanges from 2014 through 2018, they reference personal meetings they had together, along with sporadic phone calls.
Epstein described Belyakov as a “very good friend” in a 2015 email to billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel as he tried to arrange for the pair to meet. Belyakov also apparently put Epstein in touch with other Russian officials, with emails showing he helped Epstein apply for a Russian visa in 2014 to meet with then-Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and Alexei Simanovsky, the deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank at the time.
There’s more interesting stuff at the link.
J Oliver Conroy at The Guardian: The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of.
The millions of Jeffrey Epstein files dumped last Friday by the US Department of Justice will provide journalists, conspiracy theorists and interested members of the public with months of reading. And what they will read is enraging.
What makes these files so infuriating, however, is not just Epstein’s horrific predatory behavior, which is well-known, but the more mundane examples of elite conduct that the documents continue to expose. They vividly illustrate a world whose existence many everyday people, whether fevered with visions of the Illuminati or just jaundiced by banal anti-establishment cynicism, already suspected exists: an informal global club of powerful, ultra-rich people who all seemingly know each other, help one another out, and protect each other from the consequences of their depravity.
The new files will probably not provide satisfying answers to questions about, say, whether any of Epstein’s famous friends participated in his sex trafficking, or if his death in custody in 2019 was truly a suicide, as authorities have said. But conspiracy theorists may still feel vindicated – and to some extent they should, Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University, said.
Although the documents may not expose an actual criminal conspiracy, he said, they confirm the belief behind most conspiracy theories: that elites “get special treatment, that they’re shielded from the rules that are supposed to apply to everyone equally, and that there is a kind of corruption in the broadest sense of the word”.
The new material is the largest, and possibly last, tranche of the so-called Epstein files, though the government is keeping as many as 3m more pages under wraps. Yet even the initial revelations of these files deepen the astonishing constellation of ties between Epstein and members of the global elite – including tech billionaires; a former US president; British, Norwegian and Saudi royalty or royal courtiers; current and former US cabinet secretaries and governors; and prominent business executives and academics….
[T]he files, especially Epstein’s typo-filled email and text-message correspondences, are fascinating – and ultimately grim – in what they show of how elites act in private, among themselves. At the least, many of Epstein’s powerful acquaintances remained friendly with him years after the notoriously lenient sweetheart bargain, in 2008, in which he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, and as survivors continued to accuse Epstein of further crimes.
Again, there is lots more enraging material at the link.
AP: Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted.
LONDON (AP) — A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.
The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.
Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.
Apart from the former Prince Andrew, none of them faces claims of sexual wrongdoing. They have been toppled for maintaining friendly relationships with Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender.
“Epstein collected powerful people the way others collect frequent flyer points,” said Mark Stephens, a specialist in international and human rights law at Howard Kennedy in London. “But the receipts are now in public, and some might wish they’d traveled less.”
The documents were published after a public frenzy over Epstein became a crisis for President Donald Trump’s administration and led to a rare bipartisan effort to force the government to open its investigative files. But in the U.S., the long-sought publication has not brought the same public reckoning with Epstein’s associates — at least so far.
Rob Ford, a professor of political science at the University of Manchester, said that in Britain, “if you’re in those files, it’s immediately a big story.”
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure, that there is still a degree of shame in politics, in terms of people will say: ‘This is just not acceptable, this is just not done,’” he said.
In other words, our media sucks and many of our politicians are shameless. I can’t argue with that.
A couple of Trump cabinet members captured in the files:
CBS News: Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had “limited interactions” with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.
Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of limited liability companies that agreed on Dec. 28, 2012, to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising technology company called Adfin, documents released among the so-called Epstein files show.
Epstein and Lutnick’s signatures appear on neighboring pages in the contract, with Epstein signing for his Southern Trust Company, Inc. and Lutnick for a limited liability company called CVAFH I. The documents list nine shareholders in total.
Lutnick, the former chairman of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald who at one point lived next door to Epstein, told the New York Post in October that he and his wife Allison had cut ties with Epstein in 2005, deciding after taking a tour of Epstein’s New York townhouse, “I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.”
However, it appears Epstein and Lutnick continued to maintain contact and emails show they arranged calls and planned to have drinks in 2011.
The following year, the couple and their four children planned a visit to Epstein’s island, Little St. James, emails show. Lutnick was invited for lunch on Dec. 24, 2012, and later, Epstein’s assistant wrote on behalf of Epstein, “it was nice seeing you.”
Their Adfin deal was signed four days later.
Lutnick is such a fucking liar.
Farah Tomazin at The Daily Beast: RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the latest tranche of documents released by the Justice Department.
As the fallout over the Epstein files continues, an email exchange between the two sex predators centers on the now-Trump Cabinet secretary, one of the many prominent people whose friendship the pair cultivated over the years.
The exchange took place in 2012, seven years before Epstein died in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial.
In one email, Epstein writes to Maxwell about a trip involving “dinosaur and fossill hunitng (sic) with jack horner on the ranch, found 90 million year old clams and fossils.”
“Right up your alley,” he adds.
The following day, Maxwell replies: “Love that – didn’t we go fossil hunting with him and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?”
“Yes,” Epstein replies.
Maxwell, a former British socialite now serving 20 years for her crimes, also disclosed the fossil hunt during an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last year, apparently catching him off guard when she said of Epstein: “Bobby Kennedy knew him.”
One more from Amelia Gentleman at The Guardian on women in the Epstein files: Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club.
Pluck an email at random from the millions in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. It is a Saturday evening in February 2013, and Jeffrey Epstein is messaging Bill Gates’s assistant about guests for a dinner he wants to organise.’
“People for Bill,” the email begins. Epstein starts listing possible candidates: the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, the film director Woody Allen, the prime minister of Qatar, a couple of Harvard academics, the billionaire CEO of Hyatt hotels, a White House communications director, a former US secretary of defence.
He names 10 powerful men, before suggesting “Anne Hathaway (really)”. Epstein has to make it clear, with the bracketed word, that he is not joking when he proposes that a woman might join them at the table. The lists ends tentatively: “victoria secret models?” Epstein wonders: “Who on the list do you think he would enjoy the most?”
The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information. Women exist at the periphery, tolerated because they organise the diaries of the busy men, they arrange food, they grace a table, they provide sex.
A typical email from Epstein to a woman might say: “Take a selfie of your pussy and send.”
Spend three days rummaging through the chaotic, sprawling, sordid pit of information contained in the Epstein files, and you learn valuable lessons about how this modern global patriarchy operates: through flattery, the exchange of favours and occasional curt reminders of who owes what to whom.
For women, these files offer an unprecedented chance to eavesdrop on conversations from which they are usually excluded. They provide salutary insights into what a set of distinguished global figures think and say about women when they assume the women aren’t listening.
Read the rest at The Guardian.
I’ll end with a few tales of Trump idiocy:
Jonathan Karl at ABC News: Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say.
President Donald Trump last month told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that he would be willing to unfreeze $16 billion in funding for a major infrastructure project in New York if Schumer would agree to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles Airport after him, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News.
The Hudson Tunnel Project — which would connect New York City and New Jersey — had already started. The project includes building nine miles of new passenger rail track and rehabilitating the North River Tunnel, according to the commission responsible for it.
Officials in New York and New Jersey said if the money isn’t freed-up by Friday, the project would stop, leaving approximately 1,000 construction jobs in jeopardy.
Sources told ABC that Schumer rejected Trump’s offer.
Daniel Dale at CNN: ‘I did that’: Trump takes credit for a prisoner release that happened before he even ran for president.
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump spoke from prepared remarks as he discussed the persecution of Mariam Ibrahim. Ibrahim was unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to death in Sudan in 2014, in a case centered on her Christian faith, until she was released that same year following a global outcry.
Trump correctly said: “Believers all over the planet rallied to Mariam’s cause, prayed for her protection, and successfully pressured for her release.”
But then the president appeared to ad-lib – and claimed that he was the one who got Ibrahim freed.
“I did that. I did that. I did that with one phone call, actually,” he said. “And she had such support, it was so easy. And when I explained it to the powers that be: ‘Yes, sir, we will do it right away.’ I just wish I knew earlier. But it’s a big world with a lot of people.”
For years, Trump has told fictional stories that feature unnamed people referring to him as “sir.” This was another one.
Ibrahim was released in 2014, during the Obama administration. Trump did not become president until January 2017. He was not even a presidential candidate until June 2015. There has never been the slightest indication that a private citizen in the US, a businessman and celebrity at the time, was the person who convinced Sudanese authorities to let her out of prison.
A former Obama administration official who served on the National Security Council in 2014 told CNN on Friday: “I neither had at the time nor have now any knowledge of Trump’s involvement whatsoever. It’d be very surprising if he were.”
Jack Jenkins, a reporter for Religion News Service, first raised skepticism about Trump’s story on Thursday.
Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor who is a prominent conservative legal scholar, said in a Friday email: “As Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2014, I advocated for Mariam Ibrahim. I do not recall Donald Trump being involved in the case or assisting our Commission’s efforts. Of course, he was not President at the time.
Jack Revell at The Daily Beast: Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will.
Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been “pressured” into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned.
The $75 million Amazon film opened last week to $7 million at the box office—despite universally terrible reviews.
According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, those numbers have been artificially inflated by pressure from MAGA-aligned officers leaning on their troops to buy tickets.
“People are scared,” Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the MRFF, said. Weinstein said he has received letters from members of the U.S. military at eight facilities worldwide, complaining that their superiors encouraged or pressured them to see the film.
He told Business Insider. “They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.”
The MRFF, a non-profit founded in 2005 to promote the separation of church and state within the military, has roughly 100,000 members.
“Nobody that I know wanted to go except for those that did not want to get jacked up by our unit commander for not attending,” one of those members told Weinstein in a letter seen by journalist Jonathan Larsen.
That’s it for me today. What stories have you been following?
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#AnnaBrzezińska #Uwolnione z FB #Kaos #Bogowie #Ludie #Mity
Zanim porządnie obejrzałam „Kaos”, Netflix zdążył go skasować (Edit: czyli nie będzie 2 sezonu, 1. nadal można spokojnie oglądać), co mnie nie dziwi, bo losy „Firefly”, „Rzymu” oraz jogurtów cytrynowych – czy jestem jedyną osobą w tym kraju, która lubi porządnie kwaśne jogurt cytrynowy? – zaświadczają, że świat nie podziela mojego gustu. Szkoda. „Kaosu” też szkoda.
Cała zabawa w tym serialu polega na tym, że jesteśmy na Krecie wkrótce po zakończeniu wojny trojańskiej, ale technologicznie jakoś w końcówce XX wieku. Pod rządami króla Minosa, upozowanego na szefa wojskowej dyktatury, ale tak naprawdę pod butem olimpijskich bogów. Prawdziwych, nie wyobrażonych. Ale spoglądamy na olimpijski panteon szeroko rozwartymi ze zdumienia oczętami widza z XXI wieku, czyli bez tych wszystkich filtrów, nałożonych na opowieści o barbarzyńskich Achajach przez niezliczone dzieła kultury, które przyzwyczaiły nas, że tak to już jest, że Zeus folguje sobie z nie zawsze chętnymi śmiertelniczkami, i zobojętniły na ich los, kiedy już wpadną w łapy zazdrosnej Hery.
W „Kaosie” nie ma toposów literackich o obłych krawędziach. Na pierwszy plan wydobyto ostre jak brzytwa, konstytutywne okrucieństwo greckiej mitologii. Jak mówi jeden z bohaterów, bogowie zrywają wszelkie więzi i niszczą wszelką miłość.
No więc to jest serial o miłości i o wolności. Oraz ich braku.
W „Kaosie” władza bogów jest szersza niż w oryginalnej greckiej mitologii. Rozciąga się nad życiem, śmiercią i samą materią mitu. Razem napisaliśmy mity i reguły obowiązujące we wszechświecie – mówi do Zeusa jego siostra-małżonka Hera. Oni stworzyli ten świat. I wraz z Prometeuszem spętali całą ludzkość.
Nie zawsze za postępkami olimpijczyków stoi jakaś wyrafinowana kalkulacja. Nie wszyscy są zresztą do niej zdolni. W zasadzie w mitologicznej familii „Kaosu” intelektem dysponują głównie boginie, Persefona – która podkreśla, że nie została porwana przez Hadesa, tylko się w nim zakochała, na granaty ma alergię i wszystko to zostało wymyślone – i Hera, przy czym w przypadku Hery nie jest to komplement. Zeus, brawurowo zagrany przez Jeffa Goldbluma, jest z kolei durniem. Megalomanem, który na podobieństwo oligarchy-multimiliardera z naszych czasów jest przekonany o własnej wyższości, zasłużonej oczywiście, wygłasza idiotyczne frazesy, terroryzuje wszystkich, nawet własną rodzinę, by zaraz potem zarzucać bliskim niewdzięczność i snuje się w dresach i szlafrokach po ociekających złotem i bezguściem pałacowych wnętrzach. Zeus nie zmusza się do głębokich refleksji. Coś tam czasami pojękuje o trudnym dzieciństwie. Generalnie jednak preferuje proste rozrywki. Na przykład kiedy jest sfrustrowany, morduje personel w swojej posiadłości.
Każe im skakać i strzela do nich jak do rzutków.
Nie da się od okrucieństwa bogów „Kaosu” zdystansować prostymi mantrami w rodzaju „takie to były straszne czasy”, bo czasy są prawie współczesne. Technologia istnieje i przyjemnie działa, lecz nie niesie ocalenia. Media, owszem, zmieniają świat, ale chyba na lepsze, skoro dzięki nim bogowie mogą obserwować mordy, wygodnie rozparci na kanapie przed telwizorem. Popkultura jest bezwzględna, wszak Mojry – boginie losu, cudownie przekoszone w podejrzanym barze – mają własny reality show, pozwalający na bieżąco śledzić losy Orfeusza, kiedy ten usiłuje wydobyć z zaświatów Eurydykę. Zbiurokratyzowane, kapitalistyczne przedsiębiorstwo, jakim jest Hades, drapieżnie eksploatuje cały świat i wysysa z niego (niemetaforycznie) dusze, nieuchronnie popychając wszystko ku zagładzie, a jego kadra, jak długo się da, ignoruje i ukrywa prawdę.
Oczywiście Zeus wcale nie chce o słuchać o katastrofie. Zresztą kto by chciał?
Dla równowagi ludzie nie chcą słuchać Kasandry.
Tak czy inaczej Zeus i reszta olimpijskiej ferajny realnie panują nad ludźmi. Bariera pomiędzy nieśmiertelnymi i śmiertelnikami jest nie do przebycia. Bogowie nie krwawią, nie umierają i nie kochają słabszych od siebie. Baw się z ludźmi, jedz z nimi, kochaj się, zaplataj im warkoczyki i rób co chcesz, ale pamiętaj, że nie jesteś jednym z nich, dobrze? – przestrzega Zeus swojego syna Dionizosa.
Notabene, Dionizos, uroczo i po młodzieńczemu nierozgarnięty, zdaniem taty ma w sobie nieco za dużo z człowieka. Przywiązuje się do kociaka i chciałby się zakochać. Sami rozumiecie, w tym świecie to kłopot. Ale cóż, synowie nieuchronnie buntują się przeciwko ojcom. Kto jak kto, ale Zeus powinien o tym wiedzieć.
Natomiast poddani króla Minosa niezbyt chętnie przeciwstawiają się bogom. Ostatecznie wojna trojańska się skończyła, na Krecie panuje spokój i dobrobyt, po prostu od czasu do czasu trzeba złożyć ofiarę z człowieka. Albo zabić własne dziecko. Ale co oni, biedni, mogą? Nie podejmujesz decyzji, bo ja mówię, co masz robić – tłumaczy królowi Minosowi Posejdon. Cóż za ulga. Większość śmiertelników zatem całkiem wygodnie mości się w tym świecie. Chodzą na zakupy do supermarketów i na koncerty rockowe, bo Orfeusz jest przecież gwiazdą popu. No, może uciekinierzy z Troi nie pałają zadowoleniem, bo oni są akurat traktowani jak uchodźcy.
Znaczy, jak podludzie.
Aż raptem grupka smarkatych niedobitków z Troi pod przywództwem królewicza Astyanaksa – wbrew pogłoskom nie został zrzucony z murów Troi – wpada na szczeniacki pomysł, żeby zamanifestować swoje niezadowolenie i stertą gówna popsuć podniosłe święto Olimpii.
A Zeus nie ma poczucia humoru.
W rzeczywistości jednak boska wszechmoc jest pozorna. Światem rządzi bowiem fatum ubrane w szaty przepowiedni. Każdy, bóg czy człowiek, ma własną przepowiednię i nie jest w stanie od niej uciec.
Choć oczywiście wielu próbuje.
Zeus na przykład usiłuje powstrzymać przepowiednię obiecującą upadek bogów i nadejście chaosu, co relacjonuje nam Prometeusz, zazwyczaj wprawdzie rzetelnie przykuty do swojej skały, ale okazjonalnie uwalniany przez Zeusa na pogawędkę i udzielający mu pokrzepiających, acz fałszywych porad. Zanim jednak bogowie upadną, przepowiednia rujnuje życie jeszcze paru ludzi. Przede wszystkim Eurydyki i Kajneusa. Po trochu także Ariadny i Orfeusza.
Wychowywałam się na mitologii greckiej, czytano mi Homera, zanim nauczyłam się składać litery, więc czułam się w „Kaosie” jak wśród starych przyjaciół. Trudno mi ocenić, czy niektóre z serialowych wątków są zarysowane w wystarczająco wyraźny sposób. Nie chodzi mi o takie drobiazgi, jak Dionizos, na widok Ariadny na ekranie telewizora mówiący: „Zakochałem się!”, czy Hera dzwoniąca z przydrożnego aparatu telefonicznego do synka z poleceniem, by zbierał wojska. Można się bez tego obejść. Ale na przykład tło dramatu Kajneusa vel Kajnis w społeczności Amazonek wydało mi się potraktowane nieco zbyt pobieżnie. Może ten świat z założenia miał być fragmentaryczny – stąd nieobecność całej masy bogów – i odsłaniany stopniowo, w kolejnych sezonach.
Tym bardziej szkoda, że ich nie będzie. Tymczasem jednak im więcej wiecie o mitologii, tym lepiej będziecie się bawili.
I wiecie, nie porwały mnie odniesienia do naszego świata. Zachwyciła mnie zabawa mitologią, żonglowanie motywami, przekształcanie ich, osadzanie w nowym kontekście i dodawanie elementów, o których się starożytnym Grekom nie śniło. Na przykład przemysłowe zabawy duszami. Albo tacytki, niema służba bezpieczeństwa Hery.
Choć bohaterowie też mi się podobali. Także ludzie. Nawet narcystyczny Orfeusz i łajzowata Eurydyka, swoją drogą warci siebie. Ich mit też „Kaos” wywraca na nice, pozwalając obydwojgu bohaterów jednej z najstarszych opowieści o miłości silniejszej niż śmierć odkryć, że w gruncie rzeczy nie definiuje ich miłość.
To zaskakujące, ale są w tym serialu prawdziwe emocje. Rozpacz i – jakże nieoczekiwanie – nadzieja. Bo Orfeusz ratuje i traci Eurydykę w najpiękniejszy możliwy sposób. Dając jej wolność.
Bardzo przyjemny, inteligentnie zrobiony serial.
Aż się prosił, żeby go skasować.
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Winni (Winston) hugging his Winni.
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Koning Willem-Alexander, koningin Máxima en premier Rob Jetten zijn in het Witte Huis voor een besloten diner met de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump. Het koningspaar blijft ook slapen. Vorig jaar overnachtte Trump tijdens de NAVO-top in paleis Huis ten Bosch.
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Council boss quits, leaving 18-year-old in charge
The recently elected leader of Warwickshire County Council has resigned, leaving his 18-year-old deputy in charge.
Reform UK councillor Rob Howard, who was in power for 41 days, said he had made the decision with “much regret”, citing health reasons were behind his departure.
#GeorgeFinch #Quiting #ReformInefficiencyDepartment #RobHoward #Warwickshire #InTheNews
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Dropped my friend off at the airport (10 am flight to ATL). It was the smoothest, easiest trip to the airport I have experience during holiday week. She reports no lines at TSA and empty seats on her Delta flight. I guess everyone hedged their bets that the government shut down would’ve extended through the holiday. So no one’s flying???
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Wonderful news, @hankgreen and @johngreen are going to be doing their podcast again. Just recorded their first episode.
So much for being able to catch up on it before they start up again. Dangit!
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EXILE: ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA @ Bossa Nova Civic Club - 17 Aug feat. Chung, Fabiola, Rob Seurat
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SWANSEA: Council announces £11m investment in play areas and wheeled sports facilities
The investment was highlighted during a visit by Dawn Bowden, Welsh Government Minister for Children and Social Care, to Coed Gwilym Park in Clydach, which has benefited from both schemes.
£8m Play Area Programme Since Pandemic
The council says it has invested around £8 million in creating or refurbishing over 80 community play areas since 2021. The project was supported by an additional £5 million in Welsh Government funding this year to help create inclusive and accessible play spaces, according to the council.
At Coed Gwilym Park, the funding has helped secure a wheelchair seesaw and a wheelchair trampoline, which are currently under construction. A new natural play area and a zipwire are also being added.
Children enjoying the new play equipment at Coed Gwilym Park in Clydach, which has been upgraded as part of Swansea Council’s £8 million play area investment programme. Image: Swansea CouncilWelsh Government Minister Dawn Bowden said:
Welsh Government Minister for Children and Social Care Dawn Bowden (background left) and Swansea Council Cabinet Member for Community Services Cllr Hayley Gwilliam (background right) with local schoolchildren at the upgraded play area at Coed Gwilym Park in Clydach. Image: Swansea Council“It was great to visit Coed Gwilym Park and see how the local authority has been listening to the voices of children in developing play spaces. These improvements, supported by Welsh Government funding, will make a real difference to children and their families, providing opportunities to play and be active with friends.”
Andrew Stevens, Swansea Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Infrastructure, said the programme was inspired by the pandemic.
“When we came out of the pandemic, the council made a commitment to modernise community play areas that’s seen more than 80 of them improved over the last five years. It means no child is far from a local, safe place to play outdoors with their friends.”
£3m Wheeled Sports Investment
The council has also announced a £3 million investment to upgrade facilities for BMX, skateboarding, and other wheeled sports.
New plans announced by the council include:
- Coed Gwilym Park, Clydach: Dirt track and jumps
- Coed Bach Park, Pontarddulais: Dirt track
- Morriston Park: Pump track
- Heol Las Park, Birchgrove: Pump track
- Maesteg Park, St Thomas: Pump track
- Ynystawe Park: Skate park
- SA1 Prince of Wales Docks: Pump track
- A new regional skate park (location to be confirmed)
The council says upgrade work has already been completed on a new skatepark at Coed Bach in Pontarddulais and a skatepark at Parc Melin Mynach in Gorseinon.
Cai Bosch, Manager of the West French Skate Shop in Mumbles at Mumbles Skatepark (Image: Rob Kenning)Cllr Andrew Stevens said:
“We’re determined to make Swansea one of the best places in Wales for wheeled sports, and today’s announcement of further new locations shows the scale of our ambition. Our long-term aim is to create a connected, inclusive and high-quality network of wheeled sports facilities that support healthier lifestyles, youth engagement and stronger communities across Swansea.”
A public forum to discuss the plans will be held at the Guildhall on Wednesday, February 25, from 5pm to 6.30pm, according to the council.
Hayley Gwilliam, Cabinet Member for Community Services, said:
#BMX #CllrAndrewStevens #CllrHayleyGwilliam #Clydach #CoedBachPark #CoedGwilymPark #DawnBowdenMS #Gorseinon #HeolLasPark #MaestegPark #MorristonPark #ParcMelinMynach #Parks #playground #playgroundUpgrade #Pontarddulais #PrinceOfWalesDock #pumpTrack #SkatePark #skatepark #StThomas #Swansea #YnystawePark“The feedback we’ve had from children, their families and communities has been tremendous. The investment is one of the largest and most sustained commitments to outdoor play areas of this kind anywhere in the UK.”
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Cupboard isn’t bare for Raiders’ defensive boss Rob Leonard
I cannot tell a lie: Considering the shape of the Las Vegas Raiders roster whe…
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Cupboard isn’t bare for Raiders’ defensive boss Rob Leonard
I cannot tell a lie: Considering the shape of the Las Vegas Raiders roster whe…
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Cupboard isn’t bare for Raiders’ defensive boss Rob Leonard https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/825731/ #ArizonaCardinals #BaltimoreRavens #DefensiveBacks #DefensiveCoordinator #DefensiveLine #EricStokes #Football #JalenNailor #JohnSpytek #KlintKubiak #KwityPaye #LasVegas #LasVegasRaiders #LasVegas #LasVegasRaiders #MalcolmKoonce #MaxxCrosby #Miami #NakobeDean #NFL #QuayWalker #Raiders #RobLeonard #Steelers #TaronJohnson #TheRaiders #TylerLinderbaum
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Disney Boss Rob Mills on Restarting ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Filming, the Future of the Bachelor Franchise and Casting Ciara on ‘DWTS’ After ‘Summer House’ Scandal
#Variety #News #RobMills #TheSecretLivesofMormonWiveshttps://variety.com/2026/tv/news/rob-mills-mormon-wives-ciara-dwts-bachelor-1236727888/
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I have enabled GitHub's Secret scanning for 14k forked repositories from the Actions Marketplace. Here is what I have found (and why you should make sure you have this enabled)!
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In 1970 Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni made the counterculture film Zabriskie Point starring Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin. The film was a huge box office flop and was panned by critics, yet it fascinates today for it’s cinematography, soundtrack and the use of inexperienced actors.
Mark Frechette was discovered by Antonioni's casting director, while in the middle of a shouting match with a person on the third floor of an apartment building at a Charles Street bus-stop in Boston. "He's twenty and he hates", she told Antonioni. The director immediately cast Frechette.
Daria Halprin had previously appeared in one documentary film before Antonioni cast her for the lead in his film.
Despite the film being a flop, the pair, who became an actual couple, were symbols of the clash between the establishment and the disillusioned youth of America, appearing on the covers of Look and Rolling Stone magazines and appearing on TV talk shows. Eventually the couple split after Frechette joined the Lyman's Fort Hill Commune in Boston and Halprin refused to join.
In 1973, Frechette and 2 members of the Fort Hill community attempted to rob the New England Merchant's Bank in Roxbury, a Boston neighborhood. One of the trio was killed by police while the other 2 were arrested and pleaded guilty. Frechette was sentenced to six to fifteen years in prison where he died in 1975, during a weightlifting accident when a 150-pound barbell fell on his neck and he suffocated. He was 27.
Halprin made one more film before developing an interest in creative arts therapy. In 1972 she married actor Dennis Hopper and they divorced in 1978.#michelangeloantonioni #zabriskiepoint #markfrechette #dariahalprin #actors #counterculture #film #cinema #cinéma #cultfilm #kino #filmworld #italiandirector #angryyoungman #malebeauty #beauty #femalebeauty #beautifulcouple #handsome #rebel #beautiful #couples #bello #guapo #schönheit
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Teddy bear picnic with my nephew.
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Teddy bear picnic with my nephew.
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Teddy bear picnic with my nephew.
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Teddy bear picnic with my nephew.
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Teddy bear picnic with my nephew.
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Tonight was Rob's #Blackjack Night at the office. The boss bought dinner, I taught everyone how to play, and two of us ran tables. Everyone had a blast and asked to do it again, which is great, but I imagine the person who had the best time was Sophie. She started with us this week, and within 4 days she's being fed dinner and playing blackjack. Tomorrow is pizza for lunch, and everyone is wearing their NFL team's jersey. She must be thinking, "I accepted the right #job." She'd be right.