Kevin Solez

No. No, he does not. That's precisely why he thinks his bots have "PhD level intelligence." He doesn't really know what that is.

Does Sam Altman have a PhD? This kind of talk usually comes from those who do not know.

Possible Planet Is Spotted Around Neighboring Alpha Centauri Star

Fun news!!! I spent a week in Chile w Debra Fisher exoplanet hunting around Alpha Cen in 2009. She came up empty handed but great to see that there might be something there after all.

"Putting a myth into writing dissociates it from performance, from immediate religious and ritual practice, and emancipates it from its institutional nature ... the repertoires of the early mythographers are abstracted [to] constitute autonomous intellectual objects'."
(Jordi Pámias 2024, 27)

In case anyone has forgotten, you can say what you want about politicians in the US, so long as you don't threaten violence or agitate a mob to commit crimes against them. My speech about "Imperator Bucina" (Emperor Trumpet, for those who don't read Latin), is protected speech. So is yours.

In case anyone has forgotten, you can say what you want about politicians in the US, so long as you don't threaten violence or agitate a mob to commit crimes against them. My speech about "Imperator Bucina" (Emperor Trumpet, for those who don't read Latin), is protected speech. So is yours.

Serious post: Our college/university emails can be FOIPed, as we say in Alberta, i.e. they are subject to freedom of information laws. There is an ideological test being applied to American faculty, where their emails are being searched for the words "Trump" and "fascism." This is the worst news.

There is nothing preventing workplaces and businesses from making us all have #chatGPT subscriptions to access services. I have no need for a subscription because I am an expert writer, researcher, etc. I represent the skills the #AI people think humans don't need. I'll pass them on to students. 2/2

That "path to profitability" is extremely alarming. It passes like a mulcher through all artists' work and everything on social media. Today, it is common to be unable to do something at work or in your city if you don't have a smartphone. #chatGPT #AI 1/2

Excellent advice in all eras.

So that was Thursday August 7th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (almost) here. So it goes.

(Released this very month in 1985, just 40 years ago, Love And Rockets #13, with its cover by the great Jaime Hernandez.)

And so to bed…

One of the nice things about this amazing product is that you can make the last coffee in the container itself. I look forward to spending the rest of my days in the pocket of Big Coffee because of this post.
#cafe #coffee #Kaffee

Good journal.

More of this, please.

Tarantino does a lot of this.

Fragment of an ancient patterned cloak made of lime bast, brown with lighter beige woven designs. The textile is worn and partially damaged, with frayed edges and missing sections, displayed flat on a light gray surface.

For #FindsFriday a rare fragment of a #Neolithic patterned cloak made of lime bast, dating 2700-2500 BC. Found in Maur-Schifflände, Switzerland.

On display at Landesmuseum Zurich.

📷 me

#Archaeology

Pedogate is not going away, until Trump vacates office.

LOL, that's my joke!

Enjoying these immensely!

Over the years, a few people have said that I should try #podcasting. Here is my first shot at it. I'm interviewing a series of #scholars, discussing ancient #epic and related historical matters, and preparing a 12-episode season to be released in 2026. Please get in touch and wish me luck!

DIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Ugh.

LOL!

"slur"?

"SLUR"?

non-sentient autocorrect databases are a protected class now?

gtfoh

Might as well make it yourself. One would not expect an 1805 article to have an English version unless that Francophone scholar included a version of it in a monograph/edited volume, which was then translated into English.

You would profit from a Francophone friend who could give you the gist or doing your own copy-pasting into Google Translate.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-canada-mob-tactics-tariffs-trade-treaty-1235400203/

Texas Dems Give America a Blueprint to Save Democracy The Democratic Party needs to stop trying to save itself and start trying to save democracy itself—TX Dems show the way

www.qasimrashid.com/p/texas-dems...

🗃️ Submission to “Student AI use is inevitable so let’s lean into it” BY HISTORIANS is confounding. Thought we all knew about contingency: nothing is inevitable, the past, present, or future. AI is not a foregone conclusion. As present day historical actors, we can make choices, incl not using AI.

This is a very familiar image to me because the book was on my parents' bookshelves growing up.