M. Laser

I wrote this long post about people caring too much about who their ancestors were. But it became too personal so I deleted it. The moral of the story is that you are you, & your ancestors (both close & distant) shouldn't define who YOU are & people who define you based on your ancestors are idiots.

I was in the book store.
Kid runs pasts me to the kids' book section yelling "Yaaaayyy books!" Then proceeds to open a book and says "Wait I have to read?" 🤣

(The kid looked quite young so I think he was expecting like a picture book but in the moment it sounded so funny)

Next time you see a particularly outrageous thing on the internet. Just remember it's probably a person who's just trying to rage bait you to get interaction and revenue. Don't give them that satisfaction. Just ignore them or block them.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Is the video monetized?

p.s. I put browser & suggested together because they are both based on YouTube algorithm. Suggested is when youtube suggests the video next to other videos. Browser traffic is when youtube suggests the video on the home page or subscription. Hence, both rely on YouTube algorithm to promote the video

The only reason why the video is doing above average is because more than 70% of the viewers actually searched for this topic and watched my video. There is clearly a demand but YouTube is unwilling to cater to it because "eeeuuuuu sex, why should anyone learn about that?"

If there was any doubt that YouTube is suppressing certain content the numbers clearly show that it is. It is not bothering to suggest my sexuality video (presumably because it's demonetized and got me a channel strike) despite it performing above average compared to my other videos.

History of Ice Hockey Video: 80% views come from Brows/Suggested (1.7% from YouTube search)
Athenian Empire Video: 73% Brows/Suggested (1% YouTube search)
Slavic Paganism: 79% Brows/Suggested (7% YouTube Search)
Roman Sexuality: 71% come from YouTube search (12% from Brows/Suggested)

A lot of debate can be had about why X opinion is the majority & to what extent is this wrongly or rightly affected by media, politicians, the news, etc. But one cannot have that conversation when you only yell at people/politicians for X opinion without internalising that X opinion is the majority.

I implore you to look up polling on political issues you're interested in because you might be surprised with what you find. Also, certain decisions by politicians will make more sense to you. Bubbles are a thing, & I find it annoying when people choose to ignore it when they're in one.

A lot of people seem to find it hard to internalise that their opinion is not the majority. Only once you internalise that the things which you hold to be self evident may not be so for many other people will you be able to formulate a better picture of your country, & a plan for how to change it.

'Laptop' spotted in Ancient Greek statue leaving experts puzzled An ancient Greek statue of a woman seemingly using a laptop has sparked time travel theories online. "Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant" is a 37-inch marble statue created around 1...

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

I believe they just had it for that temporary exhibition, and originally, it is stored somewhere in the Warsaw History museum.

It's from the Gniezno Museum exhibition on Slavic paganism I mentioned in the video.
www.muzeumgniezno.pl/wystawa,56,-...

Few things better represent American culture right now than showing women's cleavage on the thumbnail in order to get people to watch an AI-generated video about the Monroe Doctrine.

Reading a book you don't understand (often philosophy for me) can be still useful. Many times have I read something which I didn't get at the time only for it to click later on as I encounter or read other things. You're preparing yourself to be able to think about & deal with things in the future.

Orlando being 4th is criminal. It should be last at best. Terrible layout, terrible over time parking area, terrible pick up and drop off area, and it always feels claustrophobic because it's packed with too many tourists.

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.

🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

I can guarantee you anyone who has ever worked in academia has a bunch of tea to spill. The amount of petty academic politicking that happens, and the gossip that comes out of it, is astounding.

The AI authorship issue is real. We've caught papers that looked OK but had references to works by the *journal editors* that *do not exist*. Like, don't send us papers citing papers we know we didn't write, right?

You got to love when Universities use graduate students as a source of free or almost free (paying someone $25 to give multiple undergrad presentations is a joke) labour.

Today is offering another reminder for why I have far more respect for people willing to admit they haven't read something (whether because of time or failure to realise it) than those who either try to pretend they have or invent another reason why a given text didn't make it into their own work.

What would you say is one of the most influential (just give me one) historical book in your field of history? Even if the book is outdated now it can still count as being 'the most influential' because of how it affected your field at the time of its writing.

Hahaha. No.

Because we have public transport.

It makes most of us immune to cheap techbro tricks that solve nothing.

My channel is performing poorly likely because of innumerable episodes getting blocked by "restricted mode." As you can see from these screenshots, many episodes have become invisible to anyone with that mode enabled. Please disable this malfunctioning feature

Yes

So, I recently visited the Swedish Army (History) Museum, and there was a video presentation about the Great Northern War, which was mostly AI generated. This is my first time seeing AI generated slop in a state run museum.

4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot