Bible stories Part 3

#jollybiscuit #bible #christian #christianity #god #biblestories #biblestory #holy #abraham #isaac #towerofbabel #storyofjob #job #sodom #gamora #drunk #bender #alcoholicsanonymous #humor #funny #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #comicstrip

So.

My sister lives in a small town in the lost countryside of Brazil

While there, her and my BIL met an older gentleman.

The older gentleman is from a Germanic family. Many people in that region of Brazil are. Thus, he has a Germanic surname.

Unfortunately for him. That surname is 'Porn'.

I don't know if that surname means anything somewhere in central #europe -- Doesn't matter for the intents of this silly little story.

Mr. Porn, see, owns a small business that drives people around in busses and vans. — A — Transportation business.

Sometimes. The #towerOfBabel bestows a gift upon humanity.

#languages #trans #funny #wtf #bus #porn

It is god’s ethical command to translate the untranslatable. #Derrida #TheGoldenRule #TowerOfBabel

There are entirely too many people who believe in social constructionism to an extremely stupid degree.
#towerofbabel
#dumbwokemidwits

Quoting Gordon Brander[1]:

"'Act so as to expand the total number of choices now and in future' = resilience and diversification."

Along similar lines, I always thought of the #TowerOfBabel myth not as a cultural punishment, but as #diversification & resilience event... and the same goes for technology, incl. software. E.g. most key design decisions in #ThingUmbrella are about encouraging diversification and avoiding (technical, but also cultural) lock in, at different levels and in different ways. Rather than proclaiming singular/authoritative "ways to do it" and/or arrogantly pretending that everything (i.e. the topics addressed by thi.ng/umbrella) already is a solved problem with a single standard best-practice solution, the key design principles of these packages are about:

- composition
- diversification
- expressiveness
- introspection
- loose bindings & anti-lock-in
- malleability
- performance

Combined these are (of course) first and foremost about solving tasks at hand (hopefully relatively elegantly), but they're also prerequisite to encouraging & helping people (maybe not everyone, though) to look beyond their own "Tellerrand" (German for one's "personal horizon"), to experiment more, mash-up more, combine more and come up with entirely new/different (maybe better) approaches. Bonus: People might even share their findings... Fundamentally this is all _very_ counter to the prevalent culture of optimizing a tool (or an #OpenSource project) for a single purpose (even in the small world of #CreativeCoding to which I count myself at least partially part of). Although, I also think being/becoming an expert is mainly a function of time. Being/becoming a generalist is more spatial and primarily requires growing a wide(r) horizon rather than deepening a niche... Both are rabbit holes of sorts, both require effort, but in different directions, and both are NOT mutually exclusive (i.e. one can strive to be an expert generalist).

[1] https://mastodon.social/@gordon/110143200127714888

The BabelStone blog has been taken down, sadly, but its amazing galleries of hundreds of Towers of Babel across three time spans are archived here:

Medieval: https://web.archive.org/web/20120123045214/https://babelstone.blogspot.com/2007/01/72-views-of-tower-of-babel.html

Post-medieval: https://web.archive.org/web/20120126064738/http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2008/12/72-more-views-of-tower-of-babel.html

Modern: https://web.archive.org/web/20120123164923/https://babelstone.blogspot.com/2009/01/72-modern-views-of-tower-of-babel.html

#art #ArtHistory #painting #medieval #TowerOfBabel #languages #linguistics #Bible #parables

After reading chapter 2 of the Bruegel book, which details his three paintings of the Tower of Babel, I switched to fiction and started on these Ted Chiang stories.

First one just happens to be "Tower of Babylon" – a terrific story in its own right, but after the art book it felt trippily like stepping right into Bruegel's painting.

#books #bookstodon #Bruegel #TowerOfBabel #TedChiang #Taschen #coincidence #painting #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ShortStories

@jrdepriest

"...anybody can send messages to anybody else via standard messaging protocols."

"Here we have the vision of the Fediverse: a set of ActivityPub nodes, scattered across the globe, all speaking a common language."

Machine-to-machine communication is standardized, but we not doing as well with translation services across the Fediverse. (No mention of translation services in article.)

In short, the Tower of Babel is still standing tall and strong.

#LibreTranslate
#TowerOfBabel

@YourAnonNews @igd_news @andrea I don't think it's in any way helpful to dilute the meaning of words to the point that they lose all meaning. Pretty much anything that only slightly goes against the leftist narrative is called "fascist" nowadays. But do it your own way and watch society divide more and more because people will not be able to understand each other anymore.

#TowerofBabel

@clairep @SpockResists
It is #bonesaw Twitter Vulture fund #twitter

The point is to confuse and scatter.

Elon paid with other people's money. People with an agenda. Smarter than him.

We are not in control. #TowerOfBabel

#1899series episode 1

I'm noticing a persistent theme of people not being able to understand each other; all those different languages seems to be a very deliberate choice, and the script keeps calling attention to it.

Very curious where this goes...

#1899Netflix
#TowerOfBabel