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13d

Cybersecurity Is About to Be the Biggest Problem in Tech https://lobste.rs/s/esit9r #culture #security
https://projectautonomy.substack.com/p/cybersecurity-is-about-to-be-the

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14d

A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress via @nemin https://lobste.rs/s/t8epqj #culture #netbsd #web
https://brennan.day/a-love-letter-to-the-super-dimension-fortress/

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14d

An Abbey in France Discovered Previously Unknown Wall Sketches by Odilon Redon

by Maximilíano Durón

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/abbaye-de-fontfroide-rediscovered-odilon-redon-sketches-1234803456/

Books illustrated by Odilon Redon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44994

#books #literature #books_illustration #art #culture

Odilon Redon
Self-Portrait, 1880, Musée d'Orsay

A moody oil portrait of a bearded man in a gray-green skullcap, shown close up and slightly turned, with a steady gaze. His face glows in warm red-orange tones against a dark blue-green background, and a white collar edge shows beneath his dark coat.

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44d

Expert asterisks https://lobste.rs/s/0knxvq #culture #practices
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202609/expert_asterisks

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13d

CFP: Women in Long Eighteenth-Century Scotland & Beyond
6–9 July, Sorbonne, Paris

Exploring the roles, agency, representations, constraints, & historical memory of women in Scottish society, culture, politics, religion, & everyday life, c.1660 to c.1830

@litstudies

https://ecsss.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/PARIS-2027-CFP-DEF.pdf

#Scottish #Scotland #literature #history #culture #politics #religion #18thcentury #long18thcentury #callforpapers #litstudies #culturalstudies #womensstudies

CALL FOR PAPERS

Women in Long Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Beyond
41st Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
6–9 July 2027
Sorbonne University – Paris
Hosted by the Centre Roland Mousnier – UMR 8596 CNRS

Illustration: detail from “Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray” a 1778 portrait painting by the British artist David Martin. On the left, Dido Elizabeth Belle, a Black woman wearing a gown and a turban, both of white silk, leans to the left. She is smiling and touching one finger to her face, and carries an array of fruit in her arms. On hte right, her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, a white woman in a pink-and-white gown with flowers in her hair, is more conventionally posed. She is also smiling.

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I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here https://lobste.rs/s/4ehrkn #culture
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/10/08/idle/

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11d

Miss Amy Sacker’s School of Decorative Design: Book Cover

Designs by Amy Maria Sacker (1872-1965)

by Meg Gray

https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2026/10/miss-amy-sackers-school-of-decorative-design-book-cover-designs-by-amy-maria-sacker-1872-1965/

Books illustrated by Amy Sacher at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9242

#books #literature #bookcovers #illustration #art #culture

1902 book binding designed by Amy Sacker; original held by the University of North Carolina Greensboro Library, Special Collections and Archives.

Red and black art on olive cloth shows a young man and woman in a frame, flanked by laurel branches and open books, with an oil lamp below. A library label is on the spine.

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11d

Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist Halloween

Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film

—via the National Trust for Scotland

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidhche-shamhna-a-south-uist-halloween

#Scottish #Scotland #culture #Halloween #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Hebrides #20thcentury #SouthUist #ethnology

A black and white image of two children dressed for Halloween, standing on a flat patch of scrubby ground with a rocky hillside rising behind them. The children are wearing multiple layers of outsized clothes, bundled and knotted around them. Their hands are hidden within their sleeves, and they have huge adult work-boots on their feet. The figure on the left is wearing a crude mask with tiny eyeholes and a mouth hole; tufts of dried grass have been added to create a beard and moustache. The figure on the right doesn't seem to have a mask – just a large clump of heather for a head, protruding from a jacket collar swathed in scarves.

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44d

It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs https://lobste.rs/s/ir1emf #ai #culture
https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/

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10d

Julie de Graag and her Charming Cats

Dutch printmaker Julie de Graag transformed ordinary cats into gorgeous works of art

by ByKaren Strike

https://flashbak.com/julie-de-graag-485805/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=julie-de-graag

Books about Cats at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/16673

#books #literature #cats #art #bookillustration #culture

Title: Millions of cats

Author: Wanda Gág

A charming black-and-white woodcut-style vignette of a cat curled up asleep, nestled before a fan of large feathery leaves. A tall, curving stem with a small fuzzy flower arches overhead, with scroll flourishes at each end of the base and “WG” initials at right.

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9d

Virtual Art Museum built with Three js https://lobste.rs/s/c8ayyw #art #culture #javascript
https://dostoynikov.bearblog.dev/virtual-museum-for-my-wifes-artworks/

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10d

Dead Internet theory https://lobste.rs/s/uia6c3 #culture #philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

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9d

Tomb Raider’s creators on how the game changed their lives: ‘Skint staff were suddenly pulling up in sports cars’ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/nov/02/tomb-raider-creators-lara-croft #Culture #TombRaider #Games #AdventureGames #PlatformGames

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10d

How H. P. Lovecraft Shaped the Horror That Still Dominates Pop Culture

H.P. Lovecraft’s legacy endures as the writer who turned personal tragedy into cosmic horror and transformed genre storytelling.

by Greg Beyer

https://www.thecollector.com/hp-lovecraft-shaped-horror/

Books by Lovecraft at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34724

#books #literature #horror #pop #culture

This is a photograph of H. P. Lovecraft that was probably taken in 1930.

A stark black-and-white photograph of a man in a dark suit and tie sitting in an armchair, hands resting on the arms, staring at the camera. Harsh lighting casts his shadow on the curtained wall behind him, beside a radiator and a patterned rug.

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8d

7 Best Museums for Renaissance Art Around the World

The Renaissance revolutionized the way the West looked at the world and created its art. Check out the seven museums where its greatest masterpieces live.

by Laura Pattara

https://www.thecollector.com/renaissance-art-museums/

Books about Renaissance at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1534

#books #art #history #renaissance #museum #culture

The Arnolfini Portrait, by Jan van Eyck, 1434.

A man in a dark fur-trimmed robe and wide hat clasps hands with a woman in a green gown. A small dog stands between them, with a convex mirror, chandelier and red bed behind.

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Galerie d'Apollon du Louvre déserte (Paris).

A grand, ornate gallery hall with a gilded, frescoed vaulted ceiling. Carved panels and framed portraits line the walls, and glass display cases sit behind rope barriers on a polished parquet floor, with tall windows at left.

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6d

A Syllabus for Attention: Megan Mayhew on John Elder’s Reading Life

What will I read? What ideas will I live beside? What deserves rereading? What will I memorize? What will I allow to alter me?

https://lithub.com/a-syllabus-for-attention-megan-mayhew-on-john-elders-reading-life/

Books about Syllabus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=syllabus

#books #literature #education #syllabus #culture

Title: Middlemarch

Author: George Eliot

A green cloth cover of George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” published by William Blackwood & Sons of Edinburgh and London. Black ornamental lettering sits under a banner of ivy, with a circular woodland vignette of a house and leafy vine borders down both sides.

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Title: The Brothers Karamazov

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Translator: Constance Garnett

A book cover for “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in Constance Garnett’s translation. The title sits on white above brown-and-tan bands, with a portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat at center and a dark brown strip at the bottom.

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8d

Ideas for social networks via @robalex https://lobste.rs/s/yes2hc #culture
https://raphaelkabo.com/blog/social-network-ideas

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42d

State of Devs 2026 via @jak2k@mastodontech.de https://lobste.rs/s/ysiw3t #culture #practices
https://2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US

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41d

EU KIDS Act https://lobste.rs/s/bbi3w9 #culture #law #privacy
https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/eu-kids-act-helping-children-navigate-safer-online-world-2026-09-17_en

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6d

Building a living, ethical network in 2026 https://lobste.rs/s/cjwi3v #culture

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33d

The importance of communities around software https://lobste.rs/s/o8xo9z #culture
https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/software-community.html

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7d

A New Search Engine Lets You Explore 4 Million Works of Art & Historical Photographs from Museums and Libraries Around the World

https://www.openculture.com/2026/11/a-new-search-engine-lets-you-explore-4-million-works-of-art.html

About Arkivism:
https://arkivism.com/about

#art #culture #publicdomain #archive #museum

“Sleeping Cat” by Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889)

A Japanese woodblock print of a sleeping white cat with orange and black tabby patches, curled up with eyes closed and a contented smile. Fine whiskers and soft fur lines stand out on a cream background, with an artist’s signature and red seal at lower right.

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7d

Hamish Henderson Memorial Lecture
14 November, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. Free

Dr Stephanie Smith, former Archives Director at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage in Washington DC, recalls a lifetime of learning from & alongside Hamish Henderson, & reflects on his impact across her life & career.

https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:6916/913:30818/

#Scottish #literature #culture #folklore #folklife #HamishHenderson

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40d

GIMP - Interview with LiamQuin https://lobste.rs/s/1eukia #culture #graphics
https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/10/01/liam-quin-interview-lgm2017/

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Women of the Saltire Society
20 October, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

Join the Saltire Society for a special event celebrating the women whose contributions have helped shape the Saltire Society & Scotland’s cultural life

The event will also offer a unique opportunity to view archival material especially on display for the day, & to visit the Saltire Society’s 90th anniversary exhibition

https://events.humanitix.com/women-of-the-saltire-society

#Scottish #Scotland #literature #culture #20thcentury

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