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Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

#3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful and Live Your Life”

https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/archaeologists-discover-a-2400-year-old-skeleton-mosaic.html

Prediction: Trump's lackeys in the DOJ will get Ghislaine Maxwell to implicate Bill Clinton. Ghislaine will get pardoned or her sentence commuted. This will all be part of an attempt to remove the focus from Trump and get the MAGA base focused on democrats again. It will probably work like a charm.

Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, dies at 76

Very sorry to see this. We're glad that he got to experience his final show and the love of his fans. Makes it all the more poignant.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/ozzy-osbourne-pioneering-heavy-metal-singer-black-sabbath-frontman-die-rcna42423?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=687fd5ef04821f0001156fc7&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

How Well Can You Move in Medieval Armor?: Medievalist Daniel Jaquet Gives It a Try in Real Life

https://www.openculture.com/2021/12/how-well-can-you-move-in-medieval-armour.html

Watch Metallica Play "Enter Sandman" Before a Crowd of 1.6 Million in Moscow, During the Final Days of the Soviet Union (1991)

https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/watch-metallica-play-enter-sandman-before-a-crowd-of-1-6-million-in-moscow.html

In 1964, Isaac Asimov Predicts What the World Will Look Like Today: Self-Driving Cars, Video Calls, Fake Meats & More

https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/in-1964-isaac-asimov-predicts-what-the-world-will-look-like-today.html

A Curious Herbal: 500 Beautiful Illustrations of Medicinal Plants Drawn by Elizabeth Blackwell in 1737 (to Save Her Family from Financial Ruin)

https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/a-curious-herbal.html