It would help us a LOT if you were to read and share this; we're trying our best to demonstrate that well-sourced history and archaeology news can be popular, and also to normalise the foregrounding of the peer-reviewed papers that are so often behind the (often sensationalised) stories we see.
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I imagine we need this kind of passion if we're going to claw our way out of this disaster, but it smacks of a kind of privileged parochialism on the part of Americans, indeed a subset of Americans, who seem to have no idea how much worse this could be.
I hear "democracy is over in America" or some such far too often from people who I expected to have a clearer understanding of what real despotism looks like. I don't want to undercut how bad things are right now, or that we need to fight like hell to prevent worse, but I hate the hyperbole.
Also if you're only doing good for the reward/to avoid punishment, and would otherwise be awful, then you're not a good person, you're just a sociopath playing nice. And your cosmology is brutally bleak at best.
It's a solid take.
Consciousness ultimately makes no sense, with or without a brain. It's the only thing in the universe that gives me pause, theologically speaking.
I don't know whether there's an afterlife, of any kind, or not. But that doesn't matter, because either way, I live my life the same. That's my point.
Didn't like him before, was less than surprised by the past week.
I've actually worked really hard to avoid them 😝
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
That is really stunning
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I live here and I would absolutely tell you not to visit now. Please, do not contribute to our economy if you can help it. That's the only thing these @**holes understand.
A beautiful window and intricately carved panelling in the solar at Stokesay Castle, Shropshire 💕
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
Letting AI determine how effectively AI is performing is just such a blatantly terrible idea.
Which is why it is obviously what will happen.
For a long time I just moved every few years and that effectively did the same thing.
Obviously not Whedon.
Honestly I'm only interested if it's the same characters. The setting was fine. The chemistry of the crew is what made that show.
Picard's problem was not bringing back the whole gang until season three and trying too hard NOT to be TNG in every way.
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Trump is not conventionally intelligent, & it's very clear that he is beginning to deteriorate mentally. But he is demonstrably one of the cleverest people on the planet when it comes to scheming & manipulation, & everyone who has dismissed his supremacy in that particular talent has lost to him.
I assumed you meant a Wire reference! It's the first thing anyone who has watched it thinks of when then see a nail gun forever after.
Exploitable, certainly. Weak? I think that underestimates him the way we've been underestimating him consistently for the past decade, to our cost. That Trump is happy to be exploited by a long-term ally does not mean he isn't running his own grift at the same time.
Is the front page of any major outlet talking about Epstein?
Then as far as Trump is concerned, he's already won the war in Iran.
There was always going to be a war this presidency. Bibi just got to pick where it starts.
I'm not sure it's that simple. Trump has been looking for and building to a war for this whole presidency. The timing is good because it has successfully distracted from Epstein. I don't think he particularly cares that it was with Iran, but Bibi basically got to pick where the inevitable war went.
10. If I were the commander-in-chief, and if I allowed a foreign head of state to lead me around by the nose, I'd also come up with a dozen reasons for going to war, no matter how unconvincing, because I'd be motivated to draw attention away from the view that I’m not entirely in command.
You clearly have not watched The Wire 😂
IIRC, Darwin only published when he heard someone else had made the same observation and was planning to publish, which somewhat undercuts the nobility of the decision.
"Galileo prayed each time he sat down with The Almagest." I like this idea that, when assessing the universe & the centuries of human endeavors to understand it, we are in the presence of something that is itself miraculous.
People don't go to the gym because those freeweights can only be lifted by human arms.
Asking AI to do your thinking for you will make you stupid.
