▽Futility Closet - An idler's miscellany of compendious amusementsFutility Closet ●02/03 00:08 Some Lost SnowmenIn his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550), Giorgio Vasari notes that in January 1494, while Michelangelo was working on his first full-scale stone figure, “there was a heavy snowfall in Florence and Piero de’ Medici, Lorenzo’s eldest son … wanting, in his youthfulness, to have a statue made of snow in the middle of his courtyard, remembered and
▽Richard Stallman’s Personal Page ●02/02 23:00 State universities' academic freedom, FL2 February 2025DeMentis iswiping out a second Florida state university that is liberal-leaning.The first one still exists in name, but the old facilty and studentsleft and what remains is an ideoloical right-wing propaganda mill.Other right-wing states may imitate this.About that ceasefire, ISR2 February 2025Israel is planning to shutdown all UN ai
