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Enterprise Architect, increasing transparency in government. Former art conservator, translator, and metal-working craftsman. Fifer. All about transformation.

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.”

― Henri Barbusse

[Distracted Film @distractedfilm]

“When people are enjoying a film they say ‘I didn’t see the time go by’… but I think that when time flies and you don’t see time passing by you are robbed of an hour and a half or two hours of your life. Because all you have in life is time. With my films you’re aware of every second passing through your body.”

Happy birthday Chantal Akerman! 🎂

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

Whoever is and remains true to themselves and to others
possesses the most beautiful quality of the greatest talents.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Berliner Philharmoniker @BerlinPhil]

🎹🎶🎶✨Happy 85th Birthday to the wonderful Martha Argerich!
We celebrate today with her performance of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, recorded in 2023 with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of her close friend and musical partner Daniel Barenboim.
Watch the full performance in the Digital Concert Hall: https://t.co/yx5FM6Kr05

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

During World War II, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr co-invented a frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technology with composer George Antheil to prevent the jamming of radio-guided torpedoes.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Ghost Riders in the Sky” wasn’t originally a guitar instrumental at all. It was a 1948 cowboy ballad written by Stan Jones.

Neil LeVang’s 1961 version transformed it into a guitar showcase.

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“There are a few great souls in my life. They are not many. They are few. You are one.”

— Anne Sexton

[Jerry Garcia @jerrygarcia]

Happy anniversary to Compliments, released June 6, 1974. It’s a covers record on paper, and the fun is hearing Jerry turn each track into something unmistakably his. Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson, Irving Berlin, Van Morrison, the Stones, Peter Rowan, and one Kahn/Hunter original all get pulled into Jerry’s orbit. Which song do you come back to most?

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

BBC Radio newsreader John Snagge gives the first news of the D-Day landing at 9:32 AM to the British public.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real first-hand footage of D-Day.

On a single morning, on a fifty-mile stretch of French coast, the largest invasion in human history began...

It was the 6th of June, 1944. By the end of that one day, around 160,000 Allied soldiers had crossed the English Channel and landed in Normandy.

They were carried by more than 5,000 ships and supported by some 13,000 aircraft, a fleet so vast that, to the men who saw it from the water, the horizon itself seemed to be made of steel.

The plan was almost insane in its ambition...

In the darkness after midnight, 23,400 paratroopers were dropped behind enemy lines to seize bridges and roads. At dawn, after a bombardment from sea and air, the infantry went in across five beaches, code-named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.

What you are watching was filmed in those hours.

It is worth remembering what it actually shows. Each of those small landing craft held a few dozen men. When the ramps dropped, they stepped out into water and onto open sand, into machine-gun fire from concrete bunkers that had been built and ranged for exactly this.

On Omaha Beach, the worst of the five, the fighting was so severe that American forces alone suffered around 2,400 casualties in that single sector.

By the end of the day, at least 4,400 Allied soldiers were confirmed dead. Most of them were very young. Many had never been in combat before that morning, and would never see another.

What makes the day almost impossible to comprehend is not only its scale but its uncertainty. No one watching the boats go in knew it would work. Eisenhower had written a short note the night before, to be released if the invasion failed, taking the entire blame upon himself. He kept it folded in his wallet but he never had to use it...

Within a year, the war was over.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

5 June 1933 | Dutch Jewish girl, Hilde Münz, was born in Heerlen.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://t.co/KArryHBbea

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

Luis Buñuel’s ‘Un Chien Andalou’ premiered in Paris on this day in 1929.

The surrealist film was a collaboration between Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, sparked by the perfect alignment of dreams the two artists had. The result was a unique cult classic: dreamlike, anti-narrative, and deeply provocative, and built entirely to shatter the norms of bourgeois logic and mainstream cinema at the time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

German singer Anna-Maria Hefele stunned the world with a viral video showcasing polyphonic overtone singing.

[Hal4🌺 @Hal4]

Voices https://t.co/fuHDUnPBRH

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.”

— Aldous Huxley

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

5 June 1935 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Herman Eljakim Vleeschhouwer, was born in Rotterdam.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 February 1944 in a transport of 1,015 Jews deported from Rotterdam. He was among 800 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Remembering the great Astrud Gilberto, who passed away 3 years ago today.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Astrud Gilberto had the voice of an angel.

[Laetitia Portal @LaetitiaWilfert]

Carnations,
Léon Spilliaert
1922

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The past eleven years have been the hottest on record.

Every fraction of a degree brings greater harm – especially to the most vulnerable.

This #WorldEnvironmentDay, warning signals are everywhere.

This is the moment to act for our environment & for our future.