#napoleon — Public Fediverse posts
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Ein Foto aus den Zeiten, als die Wiesen noch grün waren und nicht braun. In #schwarzrheindorf befindet sich diese ganz besondere #kirche - auch wenn sie von Außen nichts verrät. Die #bonnGreeters werden diese Woche bei einem Greet etwas Neues lernen.
Übrigens: Eine Glocke ist in der Besetzung des #rheinland durch #napoleon verschwunden. Wiedergefunden in #mirecourt wurde sie 1964 - und seitdem hat #beuel eine weitere Partnerstadt -
Ein Foto aus den Zeiten, als die Wiesen noch grün waren und nicht braun. In #schwarzrheindorf befindet sich diese ganz besondere #kirche - auch wenn sie von Außen nichts verrät. Die #Greeter werden diese Woche bei einem Greet selber Neues lernen.
Übrigens: Eine Glocke ist in der Besetzung des #rheinland durch #napoleon verschwunden. Wiedergefunden in #mirecourt wurde sie 1964 - und seitdem hat #beuel eine weitere Partnerstadt -
“The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior”*…
The geocentric universe illustrated, with the sun and planets revolving around the Earth. Interestingly, the illustration above was created in 1660, a few decades after Galileo popularized the fact that geocentrism was completely inaccurate. (source)Alan Jacobs quotes from Freeman Dyson‘s epic 1998 book, Imagined Worlds…
It often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes.
Jacobs goes on to observe…
The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.
See also: “Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? – Our surprisingly Napoleonic twenty-first century,” in which Erik Larson unpacks Dyson’s thinking and reconciles it to the world of 2022 (when Larson wrote the piece).
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As we contemplate culture, we might spare a thought for Jack Kilby; he died on this date in 2005. An electrical engineer, he made a– if not the— foundational advance that moved us into the age we’re now navigating: the integrated curcuit (or as we know it, the chip).
In mid-1958, as a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, Kilby didn’t yet have the right to a summer vacation. So he spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design known as the “tyranny of numbers” (how to add more and more components, all soldered to all of the others, to improve performance). He finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the management: a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached. Kilby pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave– proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he had solved the problem.
Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later). Kilby has been honored in many ways for his breakthrough, probably most augustly with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby’s first integrated circuit
#AlanJacobs #chip #culture #ErikJLarson #FreemanDyson #history #integratedCircuit #Napoleon #Science #Technology #Tolstoy -
Hype for the Future 229E: Henry County, Ohio
Overview Henry County is a smaller county at lower density located within the northwestern portion of the State of Ohio, though not adjacent to any given state lines, home to the City of Napoleon and the Villages of Deshler, Florida, Hamler, Holgate, Liberty Center, Malinta, McClure, and New Bavaria. Notable highways located within the county include Routes 6, 24, 18, 34, 65, 66, 108, 109, 110, 115, 281, and 425.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/hype-for-the-future-229e-henry-county-ohio/
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Trump’s troops served grey meat and a few boiled carrots on near-empty trays
Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with proclaiming that “an army marches on its stomach”. Yet, the maxim that military…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Americanarmedforces #Americansoldiers #boiledcarrots #DonaldTrump #Iran #MiddleEast #napoleon-bonaparte #UnitedStates #Us #USA #USSAbrahamLincoln #USSTripoli
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #Napoleon #RidleyScott #VanessaKirby Ridley Scott’s Polarizing War Epic Is Rewriting History as New Late-Night Sleeper Hit http://dlvr.it/TRms7H
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Ce ne sont plus les élus qui décident mais des fonctionnaires. La constitution est utilisée pour transformer le citoyen en administré.Le rétablissement se fait avec une réaction coloniale sanglante en Guadeloupe et à Saint-Domingue, accompagnée de la ré-instauration de l’esclavage en 1802.
L’ordre social repose sur le propriétaire qui a le « droit de jouir et disposer des choses de la manière la plus absolue », le patron dominant ses ouvrier·es, le maître ses esclaves, le mari sa femme, le père ses enfants.
Marc Belissa, Yannick Bosc : https://lafabrique.fr/le-consulat-de-bonaparte/
"La Confiscation de la souveraineté : de Bonaparte à Macron" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t-LrpjA1b4
#exécutif #technocratie #technique #bureaucratie #propriété #propriétarisme #extrêmeCentre #histoire #Consulat #Bonaparte #Napoléon #oligarchie #ÉtatFrançais #République #France #livre #LaFabrique #technocratie #esclavage #Haïti #élites #grandesEcoles #CGE #technocritique #souveraineté #Macron
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La Révolution de 1789 était fédérative. Le coup d’État de Bonaparte en 1799 permet un nouveau régime, le Consulat.
Alors que le pouvoir législatif était le cœur de la Révolution française, il est laminé en 1799 et remplacé par un pouvoir exécutif omnipotent, concentré dans les mains d’un homme qui en fait sa chose.
La centralisation administrative, telle que nous nous la représentons aujourd’hui, prend sa source dans la dictature de Bonaparte.Marc Belissa, Yannick Bosc : https://lafabrique.fr/le-consulat-de-bonaparte/
#bureaucratie #propriété #propriétarisme #extrêmeCentre #histoire #Consulat #Révolution #Bonaparte #Napoléon #oligarchie #ÉtatFrançais #République #France #livre #LaFabrique #technocratie
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Kan er ook een #kijkwijzer komen voor films waar de moedertaal geweld aan wordt gedaan?
Gisteravond heb ik 2 uur en 38 minuten lang een Engels sprekende #Napoleon mogen aanhoren. Zo enorm ongeloofwaardig. En zeker in de scenes waar de Fransen met de Engelsen in gevecht zijn, heb je geen idee meer wie-wie is. Tot overmaat van ramp mocht er in Moskou wel even Russisch gesproken worden, maar de Pruisische tsaar moest het weer met een Duits accent in het Engels doen. Brrrr
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijkwijzer#/media/Bestand:Kijkwijzer_AL.svg
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After #Napoleon’s defeat at #Waterloo in 1815 a lack of war news led to an increase in sports reporting. By 1820 reporting Prizefights had grown in popularity as people wanted to associate a pugilists strength & courage with the 'John Bull' fighting spirit of Georgian #England.
#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History
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#AppleTVPlus Week in Review
New releases:
#Schmigadoon 📅
#BoomBoom 📅
#TheBigDoorPrize ⏳
#Extrapolations ⏳
#TedLasso ⏳
#HelloTomorrow 🎉
#MyKindOfCountry 🎉
#TheProblem 🎉📅 Premiere, ⏳ Ongoing, 🎉 Finale
New premieres:
#HighDesert: May 17
#TheCrowdedRoom: Jun 9
#CarpoolKaraoke: Jun 23
#Napoleon: Nov 22 in theatersTrailers:
#DropsOfGod
#Jane
#Silo
#STILL: A #MichaelJFox MovieFilming:
#Foundation S3 🟢
#VinceGilligan show 🔜🟢 Began, 🔜 Upcoming