Peter Thiel's invitation-only society, two decades of careful silence, undone because someone left a directory sitting in the source code of a webpage. The men who want to surveil all of us couldn't be bothered to surveil their own website.
113 names spilled into the open. A Treasury secretary. A senator. A NATO commander. https://twp.ai/4hrjus
#Surveillance #Privacy #Politics #Thiel #Palantir #Oligarchy #Tech #Accountability #DataBrokers #News #PowerAndMoney
Bi ciùin. Bi treun. Bi beò.
Be still. Be brave. Be alive.
The river does not ask the sea for directions. It simply goes, carrying everything it gathered on the way down.
#Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Blessing #Druid #Paganism #Mindfulness #EarthBased #Poetry #Solstice #Folklore #Celtic
The ancient builders of Stonehenge placed the giant stones with such precision that each year on the summer solstice, you can see pictures of them all over social media.
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#Solstice reading: Frederick Cook’s Through the First Antarctic Night (1900), a remarkable journal recounting a year stuck in the Antarctica ice as part of the ill-fated Belgica expedition, including a night which lasted more than 2 months: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/through-the-first-antarctic-night-1900
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Tha an samhradh a' tighinn le theine — summer arrives carrying its fire.
This is solstice week. The hinge of the year, the longest light before the slow tilt back toward dark. The mother of the earth tips her face full into the sun now.
Mark it.
#Solstice #Summer #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #Paganism #WheelOfTheYear #EarthBased #Nature #Phenology #Litha
Bob Jamieson
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Happy Solstice! Here's the Sun putting on its best happy shining face for the special occasion, from the Splendor Solis, a 16th-century alchemical treatise.
More art from the history of alchemy here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-surreal-art-of-alchemical-diagrams?utm_content=buffer0457a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
#SummerSolstice #Solstice #Midsummer #longestday
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Bob Jamieson
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A cusp. The exact point of transition between two states. Not one thing, not the other, the moment of change itself. No way to inhabit it. A threshold.
Happy Solstice.
A cusp. The exact point of transition between two states. Not one thing, not the other, the moment of change itself. No way to inhabit it. A threshold.
Happy Solstice.