"It very rapidly became the political and ambassadorial district of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, housing the Portuguese embassy among others..
In film, fiction and the media :
The square is the setting of the third part of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, The System of the World
A key scene in A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh , takes place in a nightclub in the fictional Sink Street, "off" Golden Square en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Handful…
" Confessions Of An English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey sees the protagonist part from the square and for the last time from Anne, the prostitute with whom he falls in love"
36 Tavistock , Edgar Allen Poe and the beatniks
Golden Square
In film, fiction and the media :
A verbal tradition was seized upon for the Hulu series Harlots to host the home and business of fictional "bawd" (brothel keeper) Lydia Quigley;..Multiple characters utter the square's name as shorthand to refer to her business.
Golden Square
In film, fiction and the media :
Charles Dickens' works " David Copperfield " and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
In the latter it is the square where Ralph Nickleby lives in a spacious house and has his "establishment."
Golden Square Soho
Current residents
Phonographic Performance Limited and the Absolute Radio stations are based at №1. After acquisition of which station Bauer Radio consolidated there its regional holdings including Planet Rock
Digital Cinema Media (DCM) &the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) simultaneously occupied №12. Most of the cinema advertising in Britain was controlled from this building, until December 2013 ..
The global head- & London offices of M & C Saatchi Group &its subsidiaries -
M&C Saatchi, M&C Saatchi Performance, M&C Saatchi Export, LIDA, Clear, TALK PR, Play*, Studio 36, & 5th Element occupy №36 (formerly known as 34 to 36)
"Monsignor Keith Newton, the ordinary of Our Lady of Walsingham Ordinariate, and Fr. Mark Elliott Smith, rector of Warwick Street church, banned the Rev. Calvin Robinson from filming an Easter special at the Ordinariate's central church after complaints..
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Let's see what Scientific American has to say about that Ishtar meme👆
" it is well known that under the Roman Empire, Christianity did indeed adopt the pagan rituals of conquered peoples..
" in an effort to help convert them. It worked pretty well as a strategy ..However, there are a few things wrong with the Ishtar meme .. Ishtar was the goddess of love and war and sex, as well as protection, fate, childbirth, marriage, and storms..
Her cult practiced sacred prostitution, where women waited at a temple and had sex with a stranger in exchange for a divine blessing (and money to feed hungry children or pay a debt)."
Sacred prostitution? 🤔Do go on..
"Ishtar's symbols were the the lion,
the morning star [aka Venus ],
and eight or sixteen pointed stars—again, symbols of power."..
"The word Easter does not appear to be derived from Ishtar, but from the German Eostre, the goddess of the dawn—a bringer of light...
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Scientific American : "Ancient Egyptians believed in a primeval egg from which the sun god hatched. Alternatively, the sun was sometimes discussed as an egg itself, laid daily by the celestial goose, Seb, the god of the earth. The Phoenix is said to have emerged from this egg. .
"The cosmic egg, according to the Vedic writings, has a spirit living within it which will be born, die, and be born yet again. .
Brahma does likewise, and we find parallels in the ancient legends of Thoth and Ra ..
"The Phoenix was adopted as a Christian symbol in the first century AD. It appears on funeral stones in early Christian art, churches, religious paintings, and stonework. .."..
"Even the act of coloring eggs is tied to the idea of rebirth and resurrection. .. the link between life and eggs was traditionally made by using a red coloring. Among Christians, red symbolizes the blood of Jesus.."
Article ends rather insipidly "I love the Easter traditions at Church. .. blah, blah"
Written by Krystal D'Costa , an anthropologist working in digital media in New York City.
Kinda reminded me of this
Oh wait.. just for fun
as Princess Leia as Ishtar
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"The famous armillary globe sculpture in the Cour d'Honneur (Court of Honour) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva is titled the " Celestial Sphere – Woodrow Wilson Memorial"."
A combination of mythological constellation figures attached to the outer frame and four large bronze tortoises supporting the entire monument at its base ..
" Paul Manship intentionally integrated these specific reptilian and serpentine elements for deep symbolic and astronomical reasons: "
1. 23andMe and Genentech : The Pharmaceutical Firehose
Just as Palantir proved that large data integration could track terrorists or predict supply chain collapses, Thiel-backed biotechnology ventures realized that human DNA is the ultimate unstructured data dataset.
The intersection of the Podesta Group, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and Genentech exposes the foundational lobbying and public relations infrastructure that turned human biological datasets into multi-billion-dollar commercial commodities."..
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was a co-creator of Google's DeepDream in 2015, serving as the second author on its launch while working as a machine learning researcher at Google Brain ..
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Christopher Olah dropped out of the University of Toronto to join the 2012 class of Thiel Fellows receiving a $100,000 grant from billionaire Peter Thiel’s foundation. "..
Anyone noticed the increasing slop on this platform?
Also..
I've been testing the LLMs .. the "hallucinations" have been increasing..
Do you understand what is happening?
Google search will shortly prioritize AI ..
If you think a human programmed AI system by a predominantly neurodivergent leader is delivering you TRUTH , I have an igloo in the desert to sell you.
As for all those in the AI industry currently working for these companies and losing their jobs..
It's like somebody is trying to tell me something. Or at least point me in a particular direction. 🤔
Sir Bradley Fried is the chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He co-founded Grovepoint Capital, prior to which he was chief executive of Investec Bank Plc, and previously served as chairman of the Court of the Bank of England and a a non-executive board member of the FCC.
In 1997 the Brunswick Group formed a joint venture with the Swiss banking giant SBC Warburg, renaming the operation Brunswick Warburg. Shortly after, SBC Warburg merged globally with Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS, making the entity Brunswick UBS Warburg 🎶🐈⬛