Notices by Abie (temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe), page 2

@Looping @Monolecte je suis vraiment désolée de te contredire.

Tiens, LPG ne connaissait pas les homoncules corticaux.
Jen profite pour faire votre instruction :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonculus_moteur
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonculus_sensitif

"Could the grownups give up their phones? Three writers let their children set the rules"
Cc @Mmedejantee
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/18/when-kids-set-their-parents-screen-time-rules-i-hit-my-limit-before-i-even-get-out-of-bed

Oh bordel.

Je regarde cette image des feux en Californie et je ne comprends pas : elles sont faites en quoi leurs baraques ?
En balsa ?

Mon oncle, qui reste un Breton jusqu'à l'os (pardon : l'arête) malgré son échouage à Paris, m'a appris l'existence de Poiscaille, l'équivalent poissonnerie du panier de légumes AMAP.
https://poiscaille.fr/
Que de la pêche côtière sans chalut, et les pêcheurs bretons avec qui en il a parlé en disent grand bien (ça leur évite la criée de Rennes, une vraie trotte quand on est de Crozon).
Apparemment ça permet aussi de découvrir des poissons moins connus (et donc pas surpêchés).

Je connaissais qq dirigeants dont le décès a provoqué une liesse populaire spontanée (Thatcher, notoirement), mais des foules dans les rues pour la mort de qqn qui n'a jamais été dans l'exécutif national (député, député européen et conseiller régional), je crois que c'est une première pour moi.

Word & Parable of the day: Chesterton's Fence, example presented to defend the view point that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.
"The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. "
via https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/hpv-infections-friend-and-foe
#wordoftheday

My father had a principle that was both opposite and similar: when you think up a great new idea, you must try and understand why it was not put into practice earlier, and the answer can't be "because everyone since time immemorial has been an idiot".
Sometimes there is a satisfying answer, like: buildings couldn't have such a shape before the advent of reinforced concrete. If you really can't find an answer, assume it's a half-baked idea at best, because you're missing something.

"The sensuous dirty old man has learned the fine art of the touch, that of making it so gentle and innocent that the young lady involved can scarcely believe it is happening and therefore ignores it."
Fuuuuuuckin hell, Asimov!
https://lithub.com/what-to-make-of-isaac-asimov-sci-fi-giant-and-dirty-old-man/

Library du jour : PagedJS
"Display paginated content in the browser and generate print books using web technology"
https://pagedjs.org
Une sorte d'alternative libre et WYMIWYG à Indesign.
Merci au copain qui m'en a parlé aujourd'hui !

"If you are addicted to YouTube, you fall into a world of delusion dominated by conspiracy theories... President Yoon watched too much YouTube"
Well this is not terrifying at all... :/
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/inside-south-koreas-right-wing-youtube-world-openly-embraced-by-yoon-2024-12-16/

@TarkabarkaHolgy Sure! Where was it run previously?

@TarkabarkaHolgy do you know Bookwyrm? That would be a good tie in with mastodon!

@TarkabarkaHolgy Couldn't say...
https://joinbookwyrm.com/
Cc @joachim any idea?

LPG a laissé un mot sur la devanture d'un magasin de fringues en bas de chez lui disant en substance
"Il est 1h du matin et votre écran publicitaire lumineux tourne encore, c'est un scandale. Vous devriez avoir honte !"
Le soir suivant, le panneau était éteint.
Not all heroes wear capes. :)

"this is why the HPV vaccines are such a wonderful idea: they protect against a number of the viral types most associated with the cancers mentioned above. A dramatic example of this showed up recently, thanks to records of the Scottish national health service. Their vaccination program began in 2008, and so far the women who were vaccinated as 12- or 13-year-olds have shown not one single case of cervical cancer. And the rate in women who were vaccinated at later ages was 80% lower than the unvaccinated."
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/hpv-infections-friend-and-foe
#vaccine #health #goodnews

800 forced sterilizations in California prisons.
*Between 2005 and 2013*
https://boltsmag.org/forced-sterilizations-california-prisons/

@joachim we live to serve :)

"Victor Hugo souhaitait faire passer de 16 à 10 le nombre d’heures de travail journalier des enfants, ce à quoi Thénard était opposé."
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jacques_Th%C3%A9nard