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Il n'y a aucun remède contre la naissance et la mort, sinon de profiter de la période qui les sépare. La plus grande difficulté de l'éducation, c'est de transformer les idées en expérience. Appeler la guerre le ferment du courage et de la vertu est appeler la débauche le ferment de l’amour. L’histoire n’est qu'un tas de mensonges sur les événements qui ne se sont jamais passés, racontés par des gens qui n’étaient pas là. Un enfant qui ne s’est instruit qu’à l’école n’est p…

We have had the pleasure of visiting the museums and parks containing static displays of the amazing Union Pacific "Big Boy" steam locomotives. In 2024, we were able to view #4012 at Steamtown, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Just this year, 2026, we saw the beautifully maintained 4017 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. That makes it complete, we have seen all 8. In addition to "museum" examples, since the re-start of #4014, we've managed to see this remarkable machine in action. For #4014, see: http://…

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both… The opening lines of Robert Frost’s “ The Road Not Taken ” endure because they capture three of the oldest and most powerful realities of human life: uncertainty, choice, and consequence. Long before writing, the printing press, or the instant communication of the Internet Age, people faced diverging paths and imperfect knowledge. The future has always been partly hidden. What is different now is the speed, scale, and…

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.” –Sun Tzu The most dangerous thing a great power can do is to reveal that it lacks the will, judgment, and seriousness to defend the interests it has declared vital. That is what President Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran has done. It broadcast to allies, adversaries, and wavering states that the United States could be drawn into a contest of endurance…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) The Good News. Slow but determined work gets the job done. We can report that the download to pc, and the creation/change of icon and banner for a user's home page, and for groups, are again working. And that the AI driven content scrapers causing the overload have finally been blocked, (mm/dd below). 2) Progress on our server issues. Please read all of the below carefully The Story Back in April our servers began being…

Work on the Website is scheduled for the following days/times: Friday, May 22 17:00 - 20:00 UTC - COMPLETED Wednesday, May 27 Beginning 14:00 UTC - COMPLETED Thursday, May 28 - COMPLETED Friday, May 29 - COMPLETED ADDITIONAL DAY: Monday, June 1 This is being done to help us investigate solutions to our current issues including: SERVER OVERLOADS DOWNLOAD FAILURES GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL BANNER & ICON UPDATES NOT WORKING ---------------------------------------------…

Einst gab es in den unendlichen Weiten des Internets ein kleines gallisches Dorf. Es war umgeben von zahlreichen römischen Garnisonen. Deren wichtigste waren Flickerion, Instagraf, Facebukus und Smugus Mugus. Die römischen Legionen griffen das Dorf nicht mehr offen an, sie hatten eine neue Taktik. Sie taten, als ob sie das Dorf gar nicht interessieren würde. Allerdings sandten sie Agenten aus, um die Gallier mit List und Versprechen in das Römische Reich zu locken. Die berühmtesten dieser Ag…

Qu'est ce que la Sémantique Générale ? Question qui peut sembler stupide car relevant du jeu des étiquettes, mais je vais tenter néanmoins d'en livrer ici quelques pistes... Je me réfère à la Sémantique Générale de Korzybski (né en1879 à Varsovie Pologne - mort en 1950 dans le Connecticut, USA), père de cette discipline de pensée, auteur notamment de "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics" (1933). Ouvrage traduit depuis lors par Patrick Hug, en français sous le nom "Science et Sanité". www.amazon.fr/Science-Sanit%C3%A9-Introduction-Non-Aristot%C3%A9liciens-S%C3%A9mantique/dp/1970164344 (Les liens ne sont pas nécessairement tous à jour et certains sont protégés.) Cette discipline (philosophie non aristotélicienne ou logique Ã) propose des outils discursifs pour à la fois distinguer et relier le monde "où je pense" d'AVEC le monde "où je vis". Puisque mon attrait pour cette discipline et une diffusion plus moderne de ses idées m'a au départ poussé à créer un blog dédié, voilà une série de liens commentés concernant la Sémantique Générale d'Alfred Korzybski et comment elle est reprise à notre époque (2010).

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Our annual general meeting was held 22 March 2026. A big thank you to all the members who took the time to attend. Summary of important changes voted into place: 1) Our Vice President is now Don Sutherland. 2) Our Treasurer, Corinne Pommerell, is re-elected. 3) Our Cash Auditor, Thomas Reck is re-elected. 4) Membership fees will now be listed only in euros - PayPal and banks used will do any currency adjustments needed. The text…

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STOP !!! Arrêtons de bétonner sans réfléchir aux conséquences.. Arrêtons de polluer les terres cultivables. Arrêtons de polluer aussi les fleuves, les rivières et la mer. Arrêtons de croire que la Nature est faite pour être exploitée sans limite (c'est oublier que nous en faisons partie). Arrêtons de produire toujours plus, juste pour consommer toujours plus. Arrêtons de vouloir posséder les richesses du voisin, quitte à lui faire la guerre. Arrêtons d'étre un inconditionnel d'un parti po…

Real World meetings [EN] [DE] [ES] [FR] [IT] [NL] [PT] Ipernity members not only communicate online but also meet in real life to take photos together and/or exchange ideas. Such meetings are often organised in groups where photos of the meetings are also published. Please look below for a list of groups dedicated to upcoming and past meetings. If you are interested in photos which show participants of former meetings look at the group Iper-Treffen - die Köpfe hinter…

[Edit 8/6/2025: The loading of pages is back to normal speeds] Currently our club’s beloved ipernity website varies in accessibility. You may notice times with basically no access, times with very slow loading times and other times when it works quickly. There doesn’t appear to be any regular pattern to these disruptions. As noted before, these overloads are caused by excessive requests accessing our servers. These may be from the new AI bots that since March 2025 now have software t…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Interruptions to our website. As many of you know, we have been suffering recently from slow response times to actual failure to load a page. When this happens to you, please be patient and wait a minute or two before trying to refresh the page, because the site is not offline, just overloaded. This is due to high demand on our system from outside. This has also been causing other types of issues including interruption of daily news emails an…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Summary of the General Assembly of Members. We thank all of you who attended the online meeting. To summarise, the meeting went well, and the board for the coming year was elected. Of particular note is the exciting news that we now have a Vice President whose position will support promoting ipernity along with other tasks. We welcome Andreas Schindler Arlequin Photographie to the position and look forward to their support. That said, it…

My membership of Ipernity is now in its sixth year. I came to Ipernity at a time when the increasing commercialization of existing photo sites and/or communities was increasingly limiting my creativity. Trendy photos were highlighted, while the real treasures remained hidden. This is not surprising, the operators of these sites are profit-oriented, but they live from our work and our enthusiasm. They create a presentation space – but nothing more than that. I came to Ipernity, a real communit…

... ce 8 mars, aux hommes, à un homme en particulier, infernal, et à son fan club, qui agite notre monde à l'ouest dans le sillon du chef de guerre à l'est, ainsi qu'à tous ceux en France et ailleurs, qui avec constance maintiennent leur emprise sur leurs prochains. Tous ne sont régis que par leurs intérets propres.

Angeregt durch Heidiho habe ich heute morgen die Frage "Was ist ipernity" an Chat GPT gestellt. Das Ergebnis finde ich so erhellend, dass ich es gerne mit euch teile: Was ist "ipernity"? Ipernity ist eine Foto- und Medien-Sharing-Plattform, die als Alternative zu Diensten wie Flickr entwickelt wurde. Sie wurde 2007 von einem französischen Team gegründet und ermöglicht es Nutzern, Fotos, Videos, Audiodateien und Blogeinträge hochzuladen, zu organisieren und zu teilen. Ein besond…

The world’s largest community run online photo and art club Independant and commercial free Member owned and run Come and see .... “we respect the freedom of art” Who are we? • Photographers • Artists • Creators • From all over the world – over 100 countries “ipernity has been my home for more than 10 years. Here are human relationships that move beyond the anonymity of the virtual world” “A lively community of photo amateurs and artists” Exchange and organiz…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Is a group active? In order to support the current efforts by our members to improve the perception of groups, especially to visitors, a new feature has been added to assist them. On a group's homepage, the blue (?) icon beside 'Latest contributions' shows how long ago the most recent image was added to the group. Additionally, this is available via the [ i ] under each image. This is the date that a user agrees to a suggestion, or when a g…