Quobna Ottobah Cugoano était un esclave affranchi d’origine ghanéenne, figure de la lutte abolitionniste.
Son ouvrage "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery" (1787) ferait de lui le premier auteur anti-esclavagiste noir.
Conférence de Jennifer Pitts, Collège de France, 14 mai 2024 :
"Les Lumières et l’esclavage : Cugoano, Condorcet et les débats sur l’abolition à la veille de la Révolution"
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todayilearned@noc.social - TIL Ronald Reagan was nearly killed during his acting career when the chimpanzee actor in Bedtime for Bonzo started strangling him with his necktie. He had to be cut free by a crewmember.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_for_Bonzo#Production](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_for_Bonzo#Production)
#til #todayilearned
[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c7h2ze/til_ronald_reagan_was_nearly_killed_during_his/](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c7h2ze/til_ronald_reagan_was_nearly_killed_during_his/)
i've got an oldie iPad 2 running iOS 9.3.5. this has some expired root certificates which results in several apps not working properly. Plex will load, but it won't be able to negotiate with your plex server, for instance.
since apple doesn't offer new iOS updates for it (with refreshed certificates).. it seemed like i was kinda stuck.
as it turns out, and is documented nowhere aside from a post on reddit, you can manually download your own root certificate - and iOS lets you install it without complaint.
@vga256
If anyone is curious as I was why the URL of that certificate has "groot" in it. It's the ISRG ROOT x10 certificate and ISRG is Internet Security Research Group.
Which is 3 #TIL#TodayILearned for me in a row (including VGA256's original post).
Despite that, I will continue to think of it as the certificate that says, "I AM GROOT".
#TodayILearned: You can't change other people's actions because they already happened. All you have left is your reaction. Approach it practically: does it help you to get depressed? No? Let it go. Does it help you to get angry or despair? No? Let it go. #mindfulness #psychology#mentalwellness
#TodayILearned that the question of what would happen if you placed a sprinkler underwater and sucked water through it has been unsolved for 140 years. Finally, someone has experimentally demonstrated what actually happens.
“How Physicists FINALLY Solved the Feynman Sprinkler Problem”
#TodayILearned#TIL Samuel L. Jackson has made around $357,161,000 from his movies. He averages around 2200 words per movie in 156 movies. That's about $1040 per word.
"Motherfker" was 1116 of those words.
Samuel L. Jackson has made roughly $1,160,640 from saying "Motherfker"
I’m in the Norwegian woods;
reading ‘Norwegian Wood’.
So, of course (?) I played the Beatles’ song on a lark and now can’t stop thinking about the Droster effect.
If you were wondering why #whisky production isn't outlawed all over the world, along with other #alcohol ic beverages: it might be due to whiskey being the #UK 's 5th largest export product, with the UK being the largest exporter in the world. Its market share is valued at £6.25 billion, and its industry supports 42,000 jobs. Ain't nobody gonna take that #spirit away!
#British diplomats had known about #Hitler as a character, & the likely consequences of National Socialism about a decade before his ascent to Chancellor.
Wow. I grew up in 1970s #Indonesia reading Bobo, a magazine for kindergarteners and elementary kids. It was a magazine published by Gramedia, an Indonesian publisher, and featured the adventures of a blue bunny named Bobo and his extended family, as well as a collection of recurring characters like a pink elephant (Bona) and her cat friend (Rong Rong), and other articles.
#TodayILearned that Indonesian Bobo was likely translated from an English magazine called Bobo Bunny, featuring the same cast of characters (the pink elephant is Pinky Puff, and the cat is Purr). That magazine, in turn, was translated from a Dutch magazine called Bobo, which was founded by an Italian cartoonist, Sergio Cavina, who created the blue bunny in 1968 and drew every edition until 1994.
Anyway, Bobo lives on to this day on https://bobo.grid.id, though he looks way more modern.
TIL about git add -N for when I want to start tracking files but only want to include part of their content in the commit:
git add -N file.txt
git add -p file.txt
(I actually generally use git citool rather than git add -p, but the result is the same: you can now add only parts of the file, rather than an all-or-nothing)
Effectively, the voltage on ships is often evenly split at the socket so protectors may trip on what they think is the hot wire surging but leave the other still live to potentially overheat and start a fire. Which is bad, m'kay.
apropos of nothing, just have to get this off my chest: call it victim-blaming if you must, but even a simple maritime fisherman should suspect that anyone who tells you you're gonna be getting american gold without firing a shot is a straight up scammer
#TodayILearned that the Kingston Trio were still recording in 2012, and there's a group performing with the name even today, because the name has been passed around and handed down like a musical version of "The Dread Pirate Roberts."