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137. Aragorn’s tax policy and other weird shibboleths Yesterday I found myself diverted by people on Bluesky revisiting the issue of Aragorn’s tax policy that George R.R. Martin so memorably quibbled over back in 2014. The vast majority of my wr…

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YouTube video by Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Brno Decorative Tinning on Roman Armour – Revealing Ancient Craftsmanship

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Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed…

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Also no photos from the excavation, just a stock museum photograph.

No citations. No named archaeologists. No excavation dates. A very disappointing link.

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Great photo!

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The Stupidest Trump Move So Far Just kill me now. Or tariff me. Whatever.

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As with mine. I have a breastplate worn over mail, no backplate, late 14C style.

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

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I double checked, and I’m wrong. The sharp edge on the khopesh is the long one. It’s still not a scimitar, though:)

Scimitars curve the opposite way to khopesh. Scimitars are sharp on the long edge, khopesh on the short.

Scimitar or khopesh?

Is Trump going to return his FIFA Peace Prize?

Cat looks at camera from between curtains.

Andy is concerned.

I’ve never seen an iron pin that early. They show up on Anglo-Saxon brooches.

I’ve only seen copper alloy Dragonesque brooches.

The pin would have looped around the top neck by the museum hook. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr...

I don’t think there were any Vikings in the UK that early. 400 to 600 sounds a lot more Saxon than Viking.

The status of plaster casts after antique statues. The German exper... Introduction Public museums have contributed to the development of new scientific paradigms over the course of history. Museum displays should not be considered to be mere applications of new model...

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A free download.

Talking With Paul Kedrosky So, about this AI thing ...

This is the best I’ve yet seen on the AI/LLM bubble: open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...?

That looks to be the case. Some have a tap on the chest of the animal.

Mercury gilding. Not good for the worker.

Mercury gilding.

Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir - Wikipedia

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World-famous brewing institution leaving U.S. for Canada A renowned American beer brewing school is heading north and getting ready to settle in at a new address in Montreal.

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Newspapers work the same way.

I won’t be attending Pennsic this year. Like many other Canadians, I won’t cross the border to the US. I’ll miss the event and the people(but not the weather).