Was searching for something else and came across this article I wrote exactly a decade ago. Throwback! πΊπ
Was searching for something else and came across this article I wrote exactly a decade ago. Throwback! πΊπ
Generative AI has made Amazonβs knockoff problem more inescapable than ever. Authors tell Rolling Stone itβs leaving them frustratedβ and the internet worse in the process.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
The statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands mid-frolic wasn't the first anti-Trump artwork on the National Mall in recent months. But it was the first to be removed, despite having a permit.
I need a Tylenol after listening to him drone on.
Say what now?
Doll made of linen, with real human hair, real gold jewellery and leather cuffs, 2nd Century CE
Now in the Γgyptisches Museum, Berlin. ΓM 17954
Photograph by S. SteiΓ
#ancientBluesky
I like how they point out that this is the stupidest initiative YET.
Because you know there are so so so many stupider ideas about to be unleashed upon us.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Bloody hell, they're already firing the cheerful satirists
It's so hot that if I heard a thunderclap right now I'm pretty sure I'd cheer it like fireworks
The idea that scholars just repeat what they were taught is anti science BS
The whole point of a PhD dissertation is to train scholars to produce original, critical research
We want to update "the narrative" and improve our understanding of the world around us
Yup. Thatβs the one.
This thread and diagrams are really on point. I've encountered all of these methods, both during my debate with Graham Hancock and online
It's frustrating how this rhetoric works so effectively
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone π§‘)
Steve Bannon is warning that Donald Trump will go βto prisonβ if Democrats win back the White House in 2028.
The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.
florida is the one that got me
wow they really singled out this car
Still better than Excel.
What pigments were used in the frescoes of Pompeii? Study published on the subject
www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...
Private baths at Pompeii β The Past
the-past.com/news/private...
Scarab with Spiral
Scarab with Spiral https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4199
A bronze statue wrapped in tar-paper, lying on a set of wooden packing cases.
Fear not, it's not Imhotep again!
One of my favourite photos: the Artemision Zeus / Poseidon, covered in tar paper before it was hidden during World War Two by the Greek Directorate of Archaeology. #Archaeology πΊ
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Link - namuseum.gr/en/to-moysei...
Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing thatβs happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
especially since his front legs, body, and head donβt seem to connect very well. π
Omg-this is AMAZING!! I love that horse. He seems so confused about how he got there. ππ
A tall, cylindrical ceramic vessel, mostly red with a thick band of black around the top. The inscription is a ladder-shaped glyph scratched into the surface.
#OTD in 2019 I photographed this 23 cm-tall Predynastic black-topped redware vessel with a small glyph inscribed in the centre. Originating from ancient Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), I photographed it for the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social exhibition Before Egypt. Feels so long ago now ...
#AncientBluesky