Ben Fleuss

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No idea what the legal basis there is. According to the RW Foundation's deed, 4 out of 24 board seats are reserved for family members, but AFAIK the other institutions also tend to appoint Wagners. Perhaps the BRD + State of Bavaria are simply too invested in the Wagner family drama to interfere 😂

Nah that started earlier, IIRC because of a court ruling that their previous practise was illegal given the public funding they receive

Judging by people's reactions to the amazing 2019 Tannhäuser (which featured drag and techno performances outside the theatre during the intervals), I think if you tried that during Parsifal of all things there would be bloodshed on the Hill ...

You tend to see a fair number of people in Bavarian folk costume. Personally, I think you wanna wear shorts and a t-shirt for anything longer than, say, Dutchman ... I saw Parsifal there in 2018 and it was unbearably hot.

I love all the scenes that don't have Norns or Rhinemaidens in them but the overall plot never made much sense to me. You'd think Gunther and Brünhilde could sort out their entire gripe with Siegfried in a couple sentences.

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Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing In this paper we present a new method for automatic transliteration and segmentation of Unicode cuneiform glyphs using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Cuneiform is one of the earliest kn...

The classical corpus is relatively small and well-studied. New finds do happen, but I get the impression that there's no major publication backlog. That said, there's exciting work being done in Assyriology on character recognition and automatic transliteration! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

as the Emperor intended

That makes sense, thanks!

How sure are we that this is about lodging? The spelling {jesz}ná kind of has me thinking this might just be about the physical bedframe and / or bedding. I remember similar arrangements in the middle ages, where beds were the most valuable household items most people owned.

It is true that there's more where they come from, but there should still be consequences for crimes and incompetence both from an ethical and a political standpoint.

I could've sworn there's a couple of Italian and Spanish articles, too, but I might be misremembering

Probably fair to say that most of this misogyny was aimed not specifically at Kamala (though there was plenty of that) but more generally the D party / the liberal project as a whole. A male nominee would still have lost male votes to misogyny even if leaning into lib masculinity (like Walz did).

Feels like these things always end up involving Civil -- the man did so much amazing work that will likely never see the light of day again because it was never properly published ...

Would also be very interested in this! I think the translation I read at Oxford in 2017 was the one by Victor Watts which seemed quite accessible but didn't have much of an apparatus if I recall correctly

especially stings in the concept of Knights of the Nine which just plain does not work if you're playing any kind of mer

The thing I missed most in Oblivion was the religious and cultural diversity Cyrodiil / the IC is supposed to be famous for -- instead of thousands of cults with unique perspectives on the nature of the Aurbis, we got Fantasy Catholicism and that's it

Oh yeah fuck the Trial of Vivec fr. The only Tribune I vibe with is Almalexia, largely because despite being an immortal dictator she at least bothered to actually run the country rather than fucking off to play with gears / write drug-fuelled poetry

This is probably largely MK's influence, but I feel like the out-of-universe message of The Elder Scrolls lore is "the Velothi / Psijjic Endeavour is objectively good and everyone not pursuing it is on a cosmological dead end". Which would make Boethiah / Lorkhan the big goods of the franchise.

MEA was a major improvement upon DAI because it made the filler content feel like it actually mattered in some small way, I will die on that hill.

(You'll also have to scrape me off the "DA2 is the best-written game in the series" hill)

That's SAA 16/28, Sherua-etirat scolding Liballi-sharrat, right? So her sister-in-law. It's interesting that Sherua-etirat's status was higher than the future queen's, given how she's dressing down a woman who isn't even a part of her own household. Do we know what she got up to under Ashurbanipal?

The problem of being CC'd in long email chains that have nothing to do with you is a lot older than we thought.

The Trump administration is staffed half by Molag Bal, half by Mehrunes Dagon, but for some reason all of them think they're either Boethiah or Vivec.

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Makes sense, thank you!

@ringwiss.bsky.social Given current events, do you think you could ELI5 whether Cory's speech was or wasn't technically a filibuster and if not, what category it falls under in terms of procedure? Thanks!

What are ork AWACS officers called tho

In order to get to a liberalism that builds we need to first have a liberalism that fights.

Not counting dictionaries/glossaries, it's probably tied between the Reallexikon der Assyriologie, the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia series, and Jagersma's Descriptive Grammar of Sumerian.