Catalonia, Keanu on Broadway, task management, AI risk hunger strike
"In October 2018, Sagrada Família trustees agreed to pay city authorities €36 million for a building permit, after 136 years of unlicensed construction."
On 7 June 1926, Gaudí took his daily walk to the Sant Felip Neri church for his habitual prayer and confession. While walking along the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes between Girona and Bailén streets, he was struck by a passing number 30 tram and lost consciousness.[16]: 415 [30]: 351 Assumed to be a beggar, the unconscious Gaudí did not receive immediate aid...
By the time that the chaplain of the Sagrada Família, Mosén Gil Parés, recognised him on the following day, Gaudí's condition had deteriorated too severely to benefit from additional treatment.
Tragic Week "was a series of violent confrontations between the Spanish army and anarchists, freemasons, socialists and republicans of Barcelona and other cities in Catalonia, Spain, during the last week of July 1909."
Keanu Reeves will be making his Broadway debut (a) with a new production of Waiting for Godot.
Sophie Scholl was a German university student who was executed for her anti-Nazi organizing activities. In a 2003 nationwide poll to rank the top ten most important Germans of all time, Scholl ranked fourth, "above Bach, Goethe, Gutenberg, Bismarck, Willy Brandt, and Albert Einstein."
A presentation i gave at Casa Tilo's "Ship It" week: Task management, or how i learned to stop worrying and embrace the borg (slides, recording)
The masculine urge to walk away.
There is currently a hunger striker outside of Anthropic's offices (entering Day 6), and two outside of Google DeepMind's offices (entering Day 4 and Day 2).