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ricardo pinto

@hermitabroad.bsky.social
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dark fantasy and scifi writer… mostly known for The Stone Dance of the Chameleon series (and trilogy)

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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My garden just now
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Another Polish film poster… this one for Vertigo… perhaps a tad overwrought?
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A Polish poster for #Cabaret “Blending raw intensity with haunting beauty, these posters reflect the psychological landscape of a society shaped by repression. This poster, inspired by Bob Fosse’s Cabaret (1972), is from the archives”
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This casts some light on the change in the #worldorder that it seems we are experiencing
ips-journal.eu
‘He who comes too late is punished by life’
Rather than lamenting the perceived irrationality, corruption or indecency of Team Trump, Europeans must recognise what is truly at stake
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Snow Queen’s hairbrush?
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
*swoons*
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Clever! (By Zez Vaz)
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Wonderful page from #Druillet book Ygarael
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Short, fascinating podcast about #aphantasia: people who don’t have an ‘inner eye’ #imagination
podcasts.apple.com
What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images
Podcast Episode · Quanta Science Podcast · 11/12/2024 · 21m
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
For those of you out there who believe that #LLMs are ‘reasoning’, and thus that #AGI is within reach
quantamagazine.org
Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations | Quanta Magazine
Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Snowdrops, medlar, my house and the moon…
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I find this a convincing view of where things are at, globally: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com
Special Edition: Glenn Diesen on Trumpism, Ukraine, and the Hegemon's End
Podcast Episode · Multipolarity · 30/01/2025 · 1h 2m
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Dūnhuáng murals ais: Traditional patterns of the Year of the Snake #chineseart
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Yup #artist
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“photo from Mehmet Karaca, the third-place macro winner, shows that enjoying the morning sun is absolutely not limited to the human race. This baby chameleon, which is evidently no bigger than a flower, is getting a few rays in Turkey’s Kapıçam Nature Park.”
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Actually, thinking about it, it's probably cowardice...
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Chinese New Year poster
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This has even more bite in a time of AI encroachment
theguardian.com
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience – and a connection to history
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Liam Sharp @liamsharp.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
A panel from my 12 page SSoC story 'The Wuthering', due out in May...
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Current view from one of my windows
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
“The ordnance being used, they say, create a secondary blast of over-pressure that can injure or kill anyone within a 50-metre radius, with children the most vulnerable. A signoff on the use of such bombs, they say, would carry an understanding they would create a high number of civilian casualties”
theguardian.com
‘I realised we’re such hypocrites’: how growing numbers of US veterans were moved to protest over Gaza
As images of the war flooded social media and news reports, disillusioned ex-military personnel increased their efforts to pressurise the administration to stop arming Israel
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
A work in progress from Liam Sharp
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I find this a bit disturbing, though it does show how our minds construct what we ‘see’ out of components
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Venus, clouds and twigs
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵
theguardian.com
Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group
British arm of Heartland, which has taken fossil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois Perry
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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 15/01/2025
Revealing ancient tattoos with frikkin' lasers! www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
newscientist.com
Intricate ancient tattoos revealed by shining lasers on mummies
The tattoos of 1200-year-old mummies from Peru can now be seen in exquisite detail, showing fine markings that may have been made with cactus needles or animal bones
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Selling Tik Tok to Musk *face palm*
theguardian.com
Chinese officials reportedly discuss sale of TikTok in US to Elon Musk
Tech company rejects as ‘pure fiction’ a report that a deal could take place if it fails to avoid an impending ban
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A mango seed weevil, or perhaps our alien overlord
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
LEGO nautilus by Mitsuru Nikaido
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
by Rosanna Tasker
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Puddle ice
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My friend, a Brit, describing his experiences of living in California for 12 years
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
My dog, Tig
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ricardo pinto @hermitabroad.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
"Aislarse" 2001 By Cuban Artist TomásSanchez 1948
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